Once they arrived, the cold only see heads as the place was packed. With no other choice, they had to sit together.
In the Stadium below there was one stage On one side was the MagnoFinch team which included Don and friends, On the other side was the Beach team which was lead by Brian. Everyone had a band on their wrist.
These band would give a basic statement on their fighting style. Red was for strength focused students. Blue was for defense, yellow for agility and green for mana focused students.
As the stood in opposition of each other, President Cruise walked up to the stadium.
"Hello students and teachers. Welcome to the first Challenge of the year!" Everyone cheered as they heard this.
"On the left side, we have team Beach lead by Brian Beach and on the right side we have team MagnoFinch lead by Mark Magnolia and Elijah Finch. Now as set by the rules, The challenger will show their challenge line up and the opposing team will have half an hour to pick their line up. Afterwards the fights will begin. For this fight, the challenger has bargained a class C potion of healing, the challenged side has bargained with an equally potent potion of Stamina." After saying this, Cruise looked to Brian.
"Mr Beach, bring out your fighting order." Brain did not hesitate and gave Cruise the paper with the order. In truth, Brian had not taught much of the team he was challenging. He had challenged many teams before and none were a match for him and his great armour. If it were not for some of the others thinking critically about their strengths and weaknesses, Brian would have made the rounds at random.
"Ok first round will be Rebecca and Miles. The second round is Brian Beach, The third round is Garisson and Derk, the fourth round is Azreal, Jun Li and Jun Yi and the last round is Mason."
After hearing this line, Lisser could not help but sigh.
"Those runts... They made it impossible for those fledglings to gain a advantage. They force two people to fight their strongest and the double team with Derk and Garrisson is also tough. Even if they were to forfeit the two single matches and win the matches with the first years, what are their chances of getting that 3rd crucial win?" Mo sighed as he heard this. He had been thinking of a way for Don's team to win but, the other team did not make it easy.
Don, Elijah and Vivian had already been thinking of how to attack the players. The way the teams ended up was within their predictions. It only took them five minutes to nod back at Cruise.
Cruise then invited Rebecca and Miles to the stage. On Don's side, Lars and Adem came out.
Miles Grumbled a bit. 'Do they underestimate us? They actually sent 8th place and a healer?' Although Miles was a little annoyed he was not going to let it get to him. He had also underestimated Rebecca when he first met her but he got a serious beating which let him realize his place. If he had met Rebecca in the entrance exam, she would have definately out ranked him.
In contrast to Miles who was very evidently annoyed, Rebecca seemed very alert. She seemed to think differently from Miles and was prepared to go all out.
As she readied her staff, Cruise blew the horn and sounded the beginning of the match. Instantly, Adem went for Miles while Lars went for Rebecca.
Although Rebecca was ready to fight, she had not expected this. She had already heard that Lars focused on Support and he also had a green band too.
The moment of shock was enough time for Lars to get close to her. You see, Lars was not only a support, he was also a student of the martial arts.
He had activated a simple strength and agility boost spell as soon as he heard the horn and ran straight for Rebecca. He first went for her abdomen to catch her off balance and stop any incantation mid way.
He quickly set his power to his core and pushed Rebecca backwards with a light shockwave attack. Rebecca was about to hit the edge of the stadium but luckily she was able to stable herself. She held a cold face as she realized that she still underestimated the enemy.
As the battle had easily turned into the others favor, team Beach could not help but frown nervously. Brian was especially unhappy. He knew that losing in the first round could cause a mental attack to all the players. He did not want his teammates losing their self confidence suddenly.
Due to Rebecca's preparations she was still able to bounce back but that could not be said for Miles.
Adem came in with raw power and without much options, Miles could only confront him head on. In terms of pure strenght, there was one that could compare with adem in the first year. Miles was quickly suppressed as they clashed wepons.
Adem quickly gained the overhand and used the back of his axe to hit 5 of the 7 vital points. At this point, Miles' insides were not looking so good. He quickly began to vomit blood as he collapsed to the ground. Through out the whole match, Miles had never gotten the chance to go on offense.
On Lars' side, after Rebecca came back from her shock she made sure to keep a good distance from Lars. His martial arts was deadly and fast. With them fighting using magic, Rebecca was slowly gaining the upper hand. She had finally caught Lars' quick legs with her sinking sand technique.
She was about to smile in triumph when suddenly she saw Lars smirking at her.
"Behind you Rebecca!" Azreal screamed. Before Rebecca could turn around, she lost consciousness as she was hit in the back of the head by Adem's fist.
With the two members of Team Beach KO'ed, Lars and Adem looked to the Principle. Principle Cruise laughed as he saw their performance. 'This years batch is certainly good.' He thought.
The crowd cheered as they saw the match end. Although they were shocked by the strength shown by Lars and Adem, they did not think much of it. What they truly wanted to see was a fight betwen first years and second years.
Lucky for them, that was what they were going to get as the next competitors came down.
One the left side, there was Brian who seemed a little less cheeky that before and on the right side, the ever confident and daring Drew.