'It's a rapier!'
A weapon not many people chose, due to the amount of accuracy and speed you need to have in order to master it properly.
Because the only part of the weapon that can be used to attack is at the tip.
When she turned around after picking her weapon, I can finally see her feature.
'Th- that's...'
It's a girl that I've seen before back in mana control class, but I forgot what's her name.
I didn't realise it back then because of how disheveled she looks like after exhausting herself with mana, but she's quite pretty.
She's small and shorter than me, which added bonus point since she's cute although her eyes looks sharp and intimidating.
After getting into position, they agreed to allow the use of mana in this spar.
'Finally!'
I thought in my head.
Instructor Alex then started the spar.
They both uses mana straight away, which covered their weapon instantly.
"Huh, no body strengthening?"
I asked in surprise, which Adrian answered.
"Of course not. Learning body strengthening is not as easy as controlling mana, you know?"
"Ahh, I see..."
The spar continued with the girl who keeps evading her opponents' attack.
Finally running out of patience, her opponent gathered more mana in his sword trying to make blow her away which creates a lot of opening for her.
Not wasting the chance, she then pierce her rapier multiple times at lighting speed at her opponent's chest area and ended it with a clean thrust which threw him away.
She looks very tired after the match as it seems like she spent quite a huge amount of mana.
When she's nearby, I handed her a mana recovery potion which I got from Adrian.
"Here, use this..."
"Ah... thank you..."
Nodding her head, she accepted the potion while thanking me.
'That's two to two...'
The score is currently 2-2 with the last student from the other group being Frankwell.
Just as instructor Alex was about to ask who was gonna go next, Frankwell started to walk towards our group.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he stood in front of me and pointed his finger at me.
"I challenge you to a spar."
"Huh?"
Everyone is surprised that his challenge and they started assuming that I've done something to this guy before.
Not that they're wrong though, then I asked him.
"Do you really want to do this?"
"Why? are you scared?"
"Is your cheek not hurt anymore?"
"You bastard! Come here if you dare!"
He suddenly shouted and everyone is shocked at his ikemen attitude disappear.
"Okay, okay I'm coming. I hope you guys don't mind me taking the last spar?"
Everyone agreed to let me go, so I walked towards the middle of the field standing against Frankwell.
I picked up a wooden spear, whereas he picked up a sword.
"You just caught me by surprise last time, it won't happen again."
He said with confidence before continuing,
"You'll agree to use mana don't you? if you're scared it's okay though..."
'Oho, look at that provocation... how childish...'
I thought to myself, then I decided to accept his provocation.
"Okay, I agree to the use of mana."
After saying that, instructor Alex declared the start of the spar.
I immediately channeled my mana into my spear straight away and he did the same.
We both dashed forward at the same time and start clashing our weapon against each other.
My spear toward his sword, and his sword towards my spear.
We keep clashing against each other before Frankwell decided to back down.
"Heh, you're going to regret agreeing the use of mana soon."
After saying that, he started to gather mana around his body which surprises me a bit.
"Bo- body strengthening?"
The spectator started to exclaim and whispering to each other.
I then infuse mana into my eyes to see that there's a gap between the mana covering his body and his body, which means it's not body strengthening.
He just spread mana around his body to act as a shield, similar to a barrier.
"Surprised? This is body strengthening! You'll come to know pain soon."
I sighed at his Idiocy at this point.
"Don't you know that all I need to do is give up and you'll be embarrassing yourself after saying that to me?"
"..."
"..."
Blushing, he then shouted,
"Don't you dare give up you coward!"
"That's right, I won't give up anytime soon. So, make sure you don't give up either, okay?
After saying that, I got into position without using my body strengthening, as I think that I've gathered enough attention just by being around Kim Jaesuk and Adrian.
"Hahaha, you must've turned stupid due to fear thinking that I'll give up..."
He dashed towards me after saying that.
'It's time to get serious...'
With that thought in mind, I started to put more power into my arm when swinging my spear.
Frankwell looks shocked at the fact that he's getting pushed back by me and starts to get irritated.
Then suddenly, backed down and concentrated all the mana he has into his sword.
"Hey, that's dangerous!"
I shouted.
"ORAAAAA"
He screamed while charging at me.
Having no choice, I decided to use my attack skill and poured more mana into my spear as well.
-Thrust Edge.
Spear shaped mana then flew towards Frankwell who's charging at me.
Just as the two attack were about to clash, someone appeared right in the middle.
(Boom!)
There was a loud sound and the dust got blown blocking our view.
After the dust disperse, turns out instructor Alex had stepped in with his barrier on a hand to stop my attack, and his other hand is containing Frankwell inside a tight barrier which makes him unable to move.
"That's enough."
"Wha- What are you doing!!"
Frankwell shouted.
"I could've blown him away!"
Just after Frankwell started to shout, instructor Joma appeared behind him and told instructor Alex to release the barrier.
Frankwell was about to start shouting again when instructor Joma put his hand on Frankwell's shoulder.
"That's enough, let's go back."
"With this humiliation?! We can-"
"I said we're going back!"
Instructor Joma started to emit pressure on Frankwell, which shut him up straight away.
"It's our loss, thanks for the spar."
He said, then brought Frankwell away under everyone's eyes.
"Wh- WHOAAAAA"
Cheers started to erupt from our class' side, seems like they're very happy that we're able to win against the nobles' class, not to mention they're the second year.
I looked around the spectator and recognise a few face, including the princess' caretaker, Cecilia.
'The princess is not h-... oh I forgot that she's a third year.'
I wonder why none of the third year showed up.
Probably because they knew first year and second year sparring against each other is just plain boring(?).
Anyway, now that the spar is over, everyone started to disperse and instructor Alex called me out.
"Good job, Alex."
"Thank you, sir."
"Because you won just now, I'll forgive you this time."
"Huh? for what?"
"You actually forgot huh..."
"?"
"I told you to come to the field every night at 9PM, but you never showed up."
"AHH!!"
Yes, I forgot about that.
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(At the second year's training field)
"Why'd you agree on them winning that!?"
I shouted at instructor Joma.
'I can't believe he agreed to the first year winning against us, even though I could've beat the crap out of that guy.'
"Shut up for second will you, Frankwell?"
"Give me a reason and I will! If not for instructor Alex, I could've blocked his attack and counter attacked him."
Everyone around us seemed to disapprove with the instructor's decision as well.
Sighing, instructor Joma finally said.
"Had instructor Alex didn't interfere, you would've been injured badly by your opponent's attack."
"WHAT! bulls-"
"It's the truth."
Instructor Alex cut me off before finishing my sentence.
"I would've said something had I not seen Alex's barrier cracked under your opponent's attack."
"!"
I gasped at that statement.
"No- no way..."
"You know instructor Alex is a barrier master right?"
"Yes..."
"Then you know what cracking his barrier means."
"..."
I can't say anything else to that, so I just kept my mouth shut.
"Then what about our pride and honour?"
Asked one of the student around us.
"Heh... pride? honour? what shit is that?"
"..."
"The fact that we all propose a spar against the first year with the intention of beating them up, none of that exist anymore... and even more so, it's the commoner's class."
After he said that, everyone became quiet. Then he continued,
"Of course, we won't take this lying down. There's a festival coming soon..."
"!"
I came into realisation after that.
"You mean, we'll fight them again?"
"No you idiot... don't you see the first guy who fought and the one that fought against you? Both of them are pretty strong and I'm sure none of you can defeat them."
"Then?"
Smirking, he then said
"I'll train our class representatives very hard, so prepare yourself."
(Gulped)
I swallowed at that statement.