My Level Zero System

Seeing Kain's expression, the smile on Faith's face momentarily disappeared, then he returned to his previous state as if nothing had happened.

Faith's arm moved, Faith's fingers began to move across the board.

He has started to attack.

It turned out that from the beginning of the game until now, Faith had only been playing around and had never actually made a move.

And once he made his move, Kain's hard-won advantage was quickly crushed.

"Checkmate."

Faith's voice rang out softly, knocking over the king on Kain's board.

He frowned, but did not show any dissatisfaction.

Lose is lose.

"Thank you Kain, it's been a long time since I had this much fun."

Faith said, also holding out her hand.

Looking at his somewhat slender arm, Kain was silent for a second, then reached out to take his hand and said.

"Me too."

The two men shook hands and greeted each other warmly, but what they were thinking was known only to them.

Leaving the flower garden, Kain returned to his cold appearance.

He was very clear that this meeting was a show of force by that person named Faith.

The invitation was sent to him, indicating that Faith wanted to invite him as "host" and Kain as "guest".

The flower garden, which was originally a common property for all students to use, turned into Faith's private domain, where he was the one who held the power and took the initiative.

Instead of delivering the letter himself, he sent someone else to do it, and this person also showed a very superficial attitude, regardless of whether this was intentional or not, this still showed as if Kain was someone inferior to him.

Finally, the previous chess game, although it seemed friendly, actually contained a trap and Faith's contempt. He wanted to use the previous game to do two things, first was to probe Kain's way of thinking, second was to suppress Kain in the area he was most confident in, which was intelligence.

But that's not all.

The reason why Faith deliberately suppressed him was... interesting.

"So he has thought that far ahead, huh?"

For them, the hidden knife is the most dangerous knife. But Faith revealed his "knife" before the battle officially started, which means Faith's "knife" isn't really a knife, his "knife" must be something else.

"So then... the thing he was intentionally hiding..."

Kain narrowed his eyes slightly. On the monster side there's "that thing", on the human side there's Zeko, and now there's Faith.

It cannot be denied that this world is so colorful and full of geniuses.

It seemed that this tournament would be much more interesting than he had thought.

Meanwhile, in the flower garden.

Faith still sat with his chin resting on the chessboard, the friendliness and hospitality on his face gone.

Immediately after that, four people appeared.

Including Selena, the girl who had caused trouble with Kain's group before.

Except for Selena, the other three looked at Faith, who was still deep in thought, with surprise.

They had been following Faith for quite some time, some of them had even followed him since they were children.

So they all knew that since the age of twelve, Faith had not played chess with anyone else.

He always plays alone.

So, when they learned that Kain played chess with Faith, everyone was extremely surprised.

"It's him!"

Especially Selena, because she recognized that silver hair.

Remembering how Kain saw through her every detail the first time they met, Selena couldn't help but tremble in fear.

Suddenly, Faith laughed out loud.

An incredibly genuine smile, coming from someone who was used to wearing a fake mask.

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After returning to the dormitory, Kain felt that he still had plenty of time, so he packed his things and went to the weapon shop that Mera had taken him to earlier.

From the last time, he could see that the old man's weapon making skills were relatively high.

Seeing Kain coming alone, the shop owner's boring and unpleasant face immediately cleared up and became a welcoming one.@@novelbin@@

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"Ah! Young man, you..."

"Just call me Kain."

"Kain... ah yes Kain! Have you thought it through? Do you want to become my apprentice?"

"That... please let me think it over, I want to come here to order a weapon."

Seeing him refuse, the shopkeeper's face became even more lifeless, but when he saw the materials Kain took out, his eyes lit up.

"You... where the hell did you get this!"

Looking at this hard, metal-like but sturdy piece of material, the shop owner felt extremely awed.

Because that's Nightcrawler's claw.

"Just a little luck."

Kain laughed and said, then took out another thing that made the shopkeeper panic.

It's Nightcrawler's skin.

He stared at it, trying to judge whether it was real or fake. And of course it was real.

"Damn, someone actually dared to go in there and hunt Nightcrawler..."

The shopkeeper muttered, then took all these things back.

"Tell me, what kind of weapon do you want?"

"For Nightcrawler's skin, I wanted to make it into a cloak that would be easy to wear and resistant to attacks."

"No problem. You can just come and get it tomorrow. This thing is of extremely good quality so I don't need to do too much processing."

"As for Nightcrawler's claw, I want to make this into a dagger. Here's my drawing."

"Drawing?"

The shop owner was surprised, what kind of dagger needed a blueprint?

But, he quickly realized that he was wrong.

What Kain wanted was not just the dagger, but a whole set of equipment to go with the dagger.

Two gloves extend to near the elbow, both serving as a dagger holder that can be pulled out at any time when needed, and as a kind of shield to defend against attacks.

At the same time, the fingertips of the gloves will also be sharpened and reinforced, completely able to be used to attack like a claw even without using a dagger.