"He is an 8th level Expert, not even a tenth level. Are you sure sir, he can defeat, big sis Lian?"
Seeing that Xiao Min frowned. She was a 17 years old tenth-level Expert, another genius of the academy.
"Defeat? I never said he can defeat her. However, I have confidence that he can shut down most of her attacks."
Alex replied to her.
Iskander Zulkarnine slowly stood up on the stage to battle. He was ready to face her.
Chu Lian didn't comment on seeing his strength from the beginning, because she was feeling that on the level of Professor Alex cannot lie blatantly about something.
Her specialty was at the sword. She took out her snow-white sword where she has a butterfly on her hilt. It was the famous snow butterfly sword. On the other hand, Zulkarnine took out an average sword that can be found anywhere.
Alex stood middle of the stage and said,
"Start!"
As soon as he said that, Chu Lian took the initiative to attack him. She swings her sword at him. Zulkarnine's back steps slightly and blocks her attack. She didn't stop attacking, she deliver continuous attacks on him for one minute without using any magic. However, Zulkarnine blocked everything.
She then steps back and again swings her sword. As soon as her sword touched Zulkarnine's sword, the sword including his hand got frozen.
When she was about to deliver the second blow of that attack he steps back with speed.
"Damn! I almost got vanished on everyone."
Saying that he uses fire magic to melt ice on his frozen hand.
"Fire magic."
Seeing that, Chu Lian frowned.
"That guy is good. Especially, good at defense."
Xiao Mei said.
"Have you ever seen him?"
Monora Akter the Vice President of the student council asked Saimond Gray.
"Yes. I have seen him a couple of years ago. He was badly injured by a monster, and after that, he was absent from the academy for a long time. He was also a genius in every curriculum."
Saimond Gray remembers the youth.
"What kind of monster he was hurt by?"
She asked him.
"I don't know. And it is better not to know."
Monora didn't ask anything after that to Saimond because when he say something like that, that's mean it was a confidential matter.
On the other hand, in their second part with magic battle started. Zulkarnine couldn't able to deliver any attacking move, however, he was defending every bit of her attack.
Chu Lian uses one of her trump cards and delivers a slash which made Zulkarnine's sword fly away from him. She didn't give him any room to recover the sword. She delivered one of her high-tier magic.
Zulkarnine got frozen into a huge ice cube.
She sighed. She finally won. She never felt this kind of resistance even from the same level of expertise.
Everyone also thought the same thing. They are thinking if it wasn't her, they may even lose to him. Xiao Mei looked at Alex, she smiled at him, because in the end, her big sis was stronger than his favorite boy. However, what she saw on his face is a smile still lingering on his face. Suddenly she thought that the fight didn't still end there and warned her big sister,
"Big Sis Chu, the fight isn't over yet..."
Broom. The eye cubes blasted. Everyone moves away from the hard shell of the ice. Chu Lian looked at Zulkarnine with a surprised eye. He was still fighting with her. He shoots a fire arrow at her, and she barely dodges it. To her carelessness, he stepped in front of him and delivered a fatal kick. She thought she may get injured at this time.
However, Zulkarnine didn't kick her in the end and looked at Alex.
"I admit my defeat, boss."
Alex nodded and said,
"The winner is Chu Lian."
However, with this win, Chu Lian didn't feel a shred of happiness. In fact, she lost even though she was declared a winner. And that's what Alex wanted. Not only her, everyone was quite surprised when he declared he lost. Everyone thought that she got a stroke of bad luck this time. Well, no one from here wanted to talk about anything, because if they speak up they may have to face Zulkarnine to test their strength, it will be viral if they lost to a lower rank student.
"Can I go now, boss? I have some matter to take care of, you have called without prior notice. I need to go to see the volleyball boys and give them some tips for the upcoming tournament."
Zulkarnine said to Alex. Alex nodded silently. Having a positive signal Zulkarnine was about to leave.
"Stop!!"
"Stop!!"
Both Xiao Mei and Chu Lian called him, and they looked at each other instantly because both of them called him in the rhythm.
Zulkarnine looked at them. Xiao Mei didn't ask him anything, she let Chu Lian talk,
"How did you do this? Despite being weaker you defend a strong opponent."
Chu Lian asked.
"I use skill, strength, and brain. More importantly, I use my heart. You require a big heart to defend something like this."
Saying that he literary vanished from there without giving them chance to talk anymore.