"Mech Pilot?" The person looked at Leo with an amused face. Here in Gloria people usually used the term Mech Knight so it was very uncommon for him to hear the word 'Mech Pilot' which humans usually referred to.
"I mean Mech Knight," Leo corrected himself while sighing inwardly.
"Are you a newly admitted first year?" The person suddenly asked looking at Leo who was clearly lacking some solid basic knowledge here.
"A person with a White Rank Skill needs to be Lv 21 to pilot a Mech, while one with a Silver Rank Skill need to be on Lv 11. As for people with Golden Rank Skills, they don't have any such limitation like other people. They can pilot a Mech from the very moment they awaken. These people are not called the Favored ones for no reason after all." He further said while explaining it to Leo.
Leo couldn't believe his ears. He clearly had no idea about this. Wasn't this ridiculous? This people were clearly gaining much more than others here. No wonder they had potential to reach such higher levels.
"Clang!"
A metallic noise interrupted their conversation and the two turned their headed towards the field. The two people had finally boarded their knights and the two metallic giants began to move.
These was the first time that Leo had seen combat type Mechs up close in action.
Three Projections screens lit up above in the sky each showing a different statistics in them.
The two to the side showed Mech and Pilot's condition. The mock battles with Mechs were obviously done in a controlled environment and stopped before it could harm either of the two students.
The main screen showed the points tally in between as well as the inside of two Pilot's cabin showing their live maneuvering ability to the audience.
At this moment, a person got up onto the referees platform and it lifted him up a few meters above the ground.
"Select your weapons, you have 30 seconds to choose." He then commanded the two person and the giant body of Mech's suddenly turned towards the giant weapon rack towards the side of the stadium.
Aaron didn't hesitated and immediately pulled out a long blade from the rack and then swung it around showing his excellent maneuvering ability of the Mecha before pointing his blade towards his opponent.
The people around cheered in support as the wind from the Mech's movement brushed past their faces.
It seemed that Aaron was quite famous among his juniors for some reason.
The opponent on the other hand picked up a lance in one hand a shield in another. It was a smart choice against Aaron's aggressive style. If he could hold on until Aaron exhausted himself, the win was his.
"Prepare yourself!" The instructor spoke and a countdown appeared on the projection above while a transparent barrier like dome appeared covering the battle field to protect the people in audience from any kind of harm from the shocks of the battle.
"3…"
"2.."
"1.."
A buzzer seemed to ring as soon as the the countdown hit zero and the two Mechs moved.
Aaron was extremely fast on his feet. His Mech moved like lightning and the next second he was already half the way towards his opponent and his hands which were grabbing onto the hilt of the blade suddenly moved.
People could feel the trembling on the ground and even hear the loud tearing sound of the blade gliding through the air.
"Clang!"
Sparks emerged as the blade and shield collided. Aaron took a step forward and overpowered his opponent who began to get pushed away and the screen above added that to a point on Aaron's side. But it wasn't ending yet, the opponent immediately send his lance piercing towards Aaron who swiftly dodged it and was forced to retreat behind.
When the exchange ended, the people around cheered in excitement and Leo seemed to have forgotten about his earlier worries and was enjoying the show without a care of anything else in the world.
"Flare!"
The opponent's green colored energy erupted before turning into green colored flames. It was clear that this person wasn't a Titled as well and had some kind of high ranked flame control skill.
The Mech with green flames rushed towards Aaron who released his energy as well and activated his skill letting out a green colored lightning which covered the entire Mech.
"Clang!"
The two Mech's clashed and got engaged in a fierce struggle. Aaron was fast and attacked aggressively and in the eyes of onlookers he was almost dominating the match. But his opponent was definitely not simple, he stood there like mountain and with the shield continued take hits like a tank waiting for the right moment to strike.
"The guy fighting against Senior Aaron is Belfred Lionel," The Human guy seeing Leo's face once again decided to explain it to him.
Leo had already done a bit of research and knew the names of important people at least.
Lionel was a similar Aristocratic Family like Silver and the Right Marshal who was the head of the Lionel Family was in same position as Edgar as one of the three Highest Commanding Authorities in Gloria's Military.
But as for who this guy with a similar title was, Leo had a bit of difficulty in remembering that.
"Aish! You don't know a single thing! Were you living in caves until now?" He couldn't help but ask Leo with a weird look on his face. "Your face seems a bit familiar but I am sure that I have never heard about a person with only one arm in the Academy."
Leo didn't know how to tell him who he was. If he told he was Aiden won't that make it awkward since he didn't even know about his own brother. Then in order to clear all the misunderstanding he would have to go all over the story.
Too troublesome..
"I am Leo," Leo threw out his real name as an alias.
For now this was fine, after all, the matter couldn't be hidden for long.
"Leo? Never heard of that…" The person tried to remember but than shook his head after failing to remember him.
"Anyway, I am Yuji Miwa." He introduced himself as well.
"How do you write it? I mean which is your name?" Leo asked as he looked at him.
Yuji on the other hand was taken back. This had indeed been a problem to him hence he started to spell his name first and then his surname. And there hasn't been a single instance of people ask him about this. But for some reason, this guy in front of him seem to be a lot familiar with human culture.
"Yuji is my name. But just call me Doc, everyone does that.." Yuji replied clarifying it.
Leo could clearly understand why people called him that. The dude was freaking roaming around in a lab coat.
"Crang!"
A heavy metallic noise rang in the stadium as Aaron's Mech managed to disarm his opponent's shield leaving him with only a lance covered in a green flames but it didn't come at an easy cost, Belfred's spear landed on the shoulder of Aaron's Mech leaving a heavy damage which almost made its arm to lose its movements.
It was definitely a close call.
But the battle had definitely come to its final stage..
"Buzz!"
People's faces turned ugly when they heard the buzzer signalling the time up and they let out sighs and shouted for them to continue. But the instructors weren't having it.
And hence the match ended there and the results were declared as a tie as both contestants did almost equal damage to each other.