"Begin."
As Nell heard that she instantly attacked, swinging her spear right at Clement as he dodged running with the spear to pierce her.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
They both stabbed at each other continuously blocking attack with attack!
Stabbing, thrusting, swinging.
All of them were done consecutively as the sounds of their clash rang the air.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Neither backing down as they were in a stalemate.
[Quad strike]
Suddenly Clement spear held his spear shaft closer to his side, as he suddenly shot out 4 strikes in a second as Nell's spear got suppressed and brought down.
With the spear reaching close to her she retreated, but then jumped back with a flurry of strikes.
[Quad strike]
Once again Nell was pushed back as Clement went full offensive continuously stabbing Nell. Nell continuously parried as she was being pushed back.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Strike after strike Nell was pushed further and further as she felt behind her the end of the platform. Smirking Clement once more shot out 4 spear strikes.
Nell bit her lip as she lunged at Clement,
SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH
She saw four spear strikes about to hit her as he made a fierce expression and only blocked her vitals
Clang! Clang!
She let the other two spear strikes stab her,
She charged furiously and stabbed at Clement's neck right after the spear strikes were over, while Clement parried,
She swung the spear left and right and suddenly she jumped slamming the tip of her spear against Clement,
CLANG!
The sound rang out sharply in to the surroundings, Nell not letting up took a quick spin once and with the momentum slammed her spear at Clement. Clement once again blocked but Nell suddenly moved as soon as it was parried and changed her attack to pierce.
"Eh?"
Clement let out a surprised sound, because he saw the spear tip right at his neck.
"Congrats" Clement said as he back away.
Soon cheering was heard as sounds arose from the surroundings, Nell looked around to see the maids with clapping and roaring with praise!
"WAY TO GO NELL"
"NICE ONEEEE"
"You did it!!"
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Suddenly Nell fell, then soon noticed the blood leaking from her. She had risked Injuring herself to win this round. Some maids quickly came as they fed her a herb and a healing pills.
Without a second after, her wounds miraculously healed, after all these pills were to heal cultivators. But she was still a mortal so the herb was to lessen the effects so she doesn't explode.
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Raiku cheering for Nell, soon she saw she fell down as he was about to rush to her. The maids beat him to it as he watched they feed her a herb and pill. And suddenly Nell stood up perfectly fine.
He slowed down as he walked while everyone cheered. He looked around as he thought.
He had finally finished the first step to his path to power, he smiled while going next to Nell that was surrounded by the maids.
"Congrats!!! You were so aggressive!!"
"hah..." Nell had an awkward expression when Raiku said aggressive,
Seeing her stop talking Raiku asked "You okay?",
"Yeahhh..." Nell replied a bit exhausted,
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Soon after everyone calmed down, things resumed as they were officially graduated with a unique weapon as proof.
The weapons were spiritual weapons, after being designed by Lubert and Clement after years of observing went to the blacksmith guild. And they Lubert made his unique custom sword for Raiku by making it longer. Raiku's sword was about 3 to 5ft long.
Grabbing the sword Raiku was happy that night when he went to bed. He soon laid down as Nell had already laid.
"We finished finally" Raiku said,
"Mhm, now you get to sleep as much as you want" Nell said smiling,
"Oh that's right haha" Raiku beamed,
Soon there was silence, it wasn't a bad silence. It was a peaceful and comfortable silence. They stared at each other.
Soon Raiku said after a while,
"Well good night, I can't wait for tomorrow. I'm going to sleep till 11!" Raiku turned to his side and closed his eyes to sleep excited to sleep for tomorrow.
"Night!"