The first list; Lotus. Refers to the name of the academy. All the academies inside Estia are called Stardust academy, but each academy has a name, most named after the city or district they are in. The lotus ranking depicted the top students of Lotus Academy. Namely: Kailash, Blossom, Xeik, Lili, Aba, in that order.
The Stardust Academy Rankings were a ranking of the top disciples of all the academies combined. The top five were: Kailash, Blossom, Xeik, Lili, and Arora.
Xeik gnashed his teeth and turned his head away from the ranking. He really disliked that guy Kailash, not because he was stronger than himself, but because he was Blossom's rival to the top. He was inferior to Blossom in every metric there was.
But his cheat-like innate ability allowed him to stay ahead of the pack. That and his smug attitude rubbed Xeik the wrong way. To be fair, when you are that good, everything you say sounds like bragging.
