With the end of the first week of class I finally understood why my mother said that the resource dispute would not be easy, on Sunday I went to the task room to see the tasks available to earn points to buy elementary resources to strengthen my elementary seed, I chose this path because I realized during this week that the element of fire and wind is my strongest weapon and with them strengthened my cultivation will advance faster.
As I have a level two badge I had a greater variety of options to choose from I saw simple tasks like harvesting resources, cleaning, maintenance and few on hunting I realized that performing tasks with very specific goals is not worth my time the task that most what caught my attention was about gathering herbs in the institute's field of cultivation .
From what I understand, the cultivation field is not a vegetable garden, but a patch of forest that was isolated by the institute where various types of magic herbs appear on the ground, more like they are wild then and a laborious task to harvest them, at least for ordinary people for me this is a very lucrative task the more herbs harvested and the higher the quality of them the more points i earn, i spent my sunday afternoon i spent harvesting herbs and earning eighty-five points .
When I went to see the resources I can find I saw some interesting items I had some medicines that can save my life for the next time I get into a forest, I saw some medicines to strengthen my core, but I will not take any chances consuming this type of drug. But I found two drugs that I am thinking of buying the first and a type of eye to pass on the body that accelerates the absorption of mana from the air, but the negative effect is that after using it your body will enter a state weakened by about four hours, but the remedy of the remedy says no to other negative effects besides weakness.
As for the second drug and to ingest before using elemental energy to temper the body, the drug serves to accelerate your body's absorption process, the negative effect and that the pain you feel during elemental absorption will become more intense .
Spending my points to buy medicine to assist my training during the month, I went after buying weapons and a better maturity.
I bought an equipment made with minerals and parts of magical animals of level two, they will improve my offensive and defensive abilities, unfortunately they are not equipment with elementary improvement .
The second week of class was quiet, I focused on my elementary control and devoted my time to mastering the runic alphabet, but my peace came to an end when I was ambushed by a group of idiots.
"You must be Ulric Ferris who is in first place in the rank I am William Vernos and I challenge you to a duel today for the first place in the rank."
The moment I feared has come if I lose I will lose my free points income more after I win I will be challenged every day, my peaceful life is over.
"Well since you came without warning to challenge me to a duel today I will have to refuse and reschedule you for another day."
"You are afraid to face me Ulric ! Such a cowardly attitude does not match the honor that the first place in the rank should have, you must duel today! "
"I am obliged to accept your challenge but not the rule that forces me to miss my classes to entertain you. I accept your challenge, but it won't be done until next Sunday morning. "
"Cowardice! I declare that you are not worthy of waiting, our duel will be held immediately!
I already expected that the first challenge would be made by an idiot but I didn't think he would be so annoying and noisy because all this shouting sounds like a banshee.
I ignored his screams when I made my way to my class, believe that the idiot drags me while shouting about time and accusing me of cowardice. This guy is very persistent.
The silence was only recovered when the banshee was expelled by the teacher.
At dinner I realized that all the students I passed were looking at me.
When I joined the brothers, Erick couldn't help himself and asked me why I refused a duel.
"I don't know what kind of lie the idiot has spread I didn't refuse to duel with him and I already scheduled the duel on Sunday."
"Well. William has spread throughout the school that you are a coward who refuses to duel with him. According to him, you ran desperately like a coward without honor when he challenged you. "
When Erick told me the various versions of my cowardly acts and without honor he could not hide his joy at my disgrace.
"The idiot can scream for the whole school I have Professor Liv as a witness that I already accepted duels with him on Sunday she chased him away when he shouted at the classroom door about me being a coward."
"When I explained to her about the challenge she said that she would inform the deputy director about the event. No matter how absurd the stories the idiot makes up, they will be disproved on Sunday or even earlier. "
As the days went by Erick informed me how the rumors about my duel changed from my cowardly attitude to becoming a closer version of the truth that basically I am still a coward and I postponed my duel until Sunday because I was afraid of the idiot.
When Sunday came to the wild madness that this duel caused was reflected when the arena of the duel was with so many students that there were not enough seats in the stands for all of them.
Even after two weeks of class, I hadn't seen as many students in the halls or in the school cafeteria as I saw the moment I entered the arena. Where so many people came from.
The idiot had a heavy maturity and a two-handed sword waiting for me inside the arena. I used my new equipment made of level two materials, but as my maturing style was more made of leather with a few pieces of metal I looked naked compared to my opponent's matured plates .
Before starting the fight I saw my opponent's core he was at my level one and has an elementary seed of fire, but what caught my attention was the amount of energy of the fire element that his sword has this sword must be very high quality equipment and it must be the reason for him to have the courage to challenge me when he doesn't know my capabilities.
When I entered the arena, I had already decided that my strategy will be focused on the use of my wind element.
With the students' shouting, Professor Balder entered the arena to start the duel.
"Today we are here for the duel between Ulric Ferris who is first in the rank and William Vernos who is in the twelfth place, if Ulric loses his rank it will be exchanged with that of William, but if William loses he will have to pay 200 points and 500 gold coins for Ulric . "
"Let the duel begin!"
With the start of the duel I increased my distance from William and he started running after me since he has no way to attack me from a distance. I used very little of my wind element and my aura to increase my speed and keep my distance from William.
While the idiot ran after me I studied his maturity with his movement I could see the unprotected parts.
When the idiot realized that my strategy was to drain his resistance he started screaming furiously .
"You coward!"
"Come and face your garbage without honor!"
"I'm going to kill you, your commoner!"
Even though he realized my strategy, he still came towards me while shouting insults. For me nothing has changed and he was still getting tired I think the speed of this only increased when he spent his breath screaming.
I don't think he figured out my strategy and he's just reacting furiously.
When his patience ended, he started using his aura to strengthen his body and with that increase his speed the faster he got more my consumption and the aura and elemental energy increased.
This fight must be extremely disappointing for the audience, they must be expecting a direct fight, not me running away from my opponent, but I don't give a shit about them. I'm eating from that sword. I am absolutely sure that if I get hit by it, I can end it. dead.
When the aura and the breath of my diversion came to an end he had already stopped chasing me, I still had a little more than half of my aura.
When he stopped I advanced on him in a straight line, I used my aura and elemental energy to the fullest, but I was already prepared to dodge the moment I got within reach of him.
When he reached a meter of the idiot he blew it up with the end of his aura and with the maximum energy of the fire element that he can summon when the energy went to his sword she joined with the energy already stored in the sword.
I swerved using a blast of wind to further increase my speed, I dodged a hair from the idiot's attack.
When the idiot's attack missed the flames that surrounded his sword exploded against the ground, creating a crater about forty centimeters deep was a beautiful explosion .
This attack would have broken me in the middle if I had hit the force generated by the magic sword was with the strength of a level two peak warrior. I showed no pity when I cut at the junction of his maturity.
I cut it until I got to his bones but I couldn't separate his legs. I cut as many times as I could before Professor Balder declared the end of the fight.
When I stopped William I fell in the hole that he created, blood was leaving through the junction of his maturity the only place that is not bleeding was his neck.
I was as cruel as possible without being in the face that I tried to take the idiot's life so I didn't cut him in the neck.
With the end of the duel, two instructors and a magician from the element of life and light began to heal the idiot and take him to the infirmary.
As I didn't get hurt so I went to my room to rest and escape from the public .