(A few minutes before Ivelia had run into Caroline…)
"Honestly, I'd expected their fighting prowess to be rock-bottom considering they seem more like alchemists but damn, they're really using everything they've got to stay in the exams and survive till the end" a young man in his late twenties said to his friend who was seated beside him.
"So true man. I'd never expected it either…" his friend responded, his eyes darting away from a section that was showing Ivelia's battle with a golem and onto a section of the holographic screen that was currently showing Ivar's battle with a serpent and a rhinobear that had ganged up on him.
The orange-haired youth had a frown on his face as he watched a robotic rhinobear and and the flaming basilisk ready themselves to attack him and pincer him from both sides after spotting him.