Defeating two Pink Females wasn't hard; defeating three or four was also easy, as these Pink Females were easy to defeat. Fortunately, my aunt gave me a lot of recovery potions, so it wasn't too exhausting for me.
However, when five Pink Females came into the ring, it became challenging. I had to stay alert all the time, moving my eyes quickly to capture all the movements of these five Pink Females. Where were they? How were they standing? Where were their eyes looking? Where was the gravity of their bodies leaning towards?
I had to look out for these questions, process them, and move my body accordingly. This was tough, exhausting, and gave me a headache.
However, in the middle of fighting these five Pink Females,
[Congratulations! You have been diligently training your swordsmanship.]
[Your Basic Swordsmanship has been promoted to Intermediate Swordsmanship.]
Suddenly, like an enlightenment, my hand moved fluently, and I could see some spaces that I hadn't seen before. In these new spaces, I could swing my sword to create lethal damage to my enemies.
Soon enough, I killed all five Pink Females by cutting their necks in one swift motion. The way I moved my sword, the way the sword felt in my hand, was so much better and more powerful than I had ever expected.
I hadn't trained my swordsmanship because I wasn't planning to fight in close combat. My Mana Thread Skill was for long-range combat, and I intended to focus on that. However, today's experience reminded me that I should also learn some close-range combat.
Since my Mana Thread Skill was useless against opponents of higher rank than me, I could only fight with a sword or fist.
I gulped down a recovery potion as I thought of a new training plan for myself, and before I could fully recover, I saw ten Pink Females coming towards me.
"Is she trying to kill me?" My mouth twitched. However, it was also training for me, so I rushed forward to kill all of these Pink Females.
Gradually, the number increased: fifteen, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, and ninety-nine.
I picked up all the corpses and created a pink and red mountain.
I couldn't even believe that somehow I was able to defeat this mountain of corpses. I spent three days defeating these corpses, but it's not solely my credit. When I got so close to being killed, Kitsuneia saved me, and when my mental capacity reached its lowest, Kitsuneia healed it. Not to mention the bag full of recovery potions my aunt gave me. I forgot to give half of the recovery potions to Ava, so I have a lot of them. It's good that Ava went with Eri. Eri has a lot of recovery potions, even more than me.
So, it's hard, but somehow I was becoming a one-man versus a hundred-army. In the S Class, all students were students who could wipe out hundreds of monsters in the same rank as them. I guess those priceless Mana Pills didn't go to waste.
Right now, leaving only two or three people, I'm invincible in the 5th Mid Rank. Yes, the 5th Mid Rank. I ranked up one state in this three-day battle, and I believe that in the next two days, I could easily reach the 5th High Rank.
I have to thank my aunt. The Mana Pills she gave me are showing their effect. The rise in my rank in just three days in this intense battle simulates the Mana Pill in my body.
However, as I was about to enjoy the victory over a hundred Pink Females, I saw a Blue Man walking into the barrier.
Pink Females were muscular and strong in strength, while Blue Men were skinny and strong in speed, and they used stone knives.
As I looked at this Blue Man, who was the same rank as me, he rushed at me with a knife. I was stunned by its speed, but I moved my body, saving myself from the Blue Man's attack.
However, the Blue Man was stubborn. He didn't even rest and came after me. The knife he was wielding was at a basic level, but with his speed, it became terrifying.
My arms and chest had a lot of scars, and my worn-out clothes got ripped. I had no choice but to run away from this Blue Man. I couldn't do anything to him other than running away.
The speed this Blue Man had was so fast that it made it difficult to counterattack him; I could only dodge.
Cuts appeared all over my body, and blood dripped. It was the first time in three days that blood had dripped on the pinkish land.
No matter how much I moved my sword, no matter how much I tried to dodge, my speed was way too slow compared to the Blue Man. This made my whole body covered in blood. If I had called Kitsuneia, she would have stopped this battle, but I didn't call her.
No matter how much pain my body was suffering, I had to overcome this obstacle. If I didn't raise my strength then I can't save my aunt. To save her I had endure this suffering.
I got new cuts all over my body, my face was also covered in blood, and some cuts were deep. My body was screaming in pain, sweat dripped from my forehead, mixing with blood, and it hurt like hell.
I felt my body getting heavy, eyes were becoming blurry, and as I thought I might pass out, I heard a voice, and a refreshing feeling spread through my body.
[Congratulations! You have been diligently training your Movement Techniques.]
[Your Intermediate Movement Techniques have been promoted to Advanced Movement Techniques.]
Suddenly, my body felt light, my dazed mind became clear. I saw a knife aimed at my eyes, and without thinking, my body moved faster than before, avoiding the Blue Man's knife.
I turned my sword, exhaled a breath as my feet moved. I saw a line, a line that was showing me a way to cut the Blue Man's throat. I had seen this line many times before but everytime disappeared, but this time when I moved my sword to trace it, the line didn't disappear. I moved my sword to trace this line, and this time I was able to trace it, and blood spurted out from the Blue Man's throat.