Everyone agreed the fourth battle was the longest and most grueling battle they have ever had. Although their attempt resulted in another failure, Magus Xion and Silica were satisfied with the result of their training. The Earth acolytes all started to get used to each other's skills, and their teamwork improved significantly.
Ti kept on ticking, today would be the last day they could train before the gas start. Hence, Ery chose not to take a break after the battle. He grabbed his weapon and returned to the combat puppets.
He checked one of the control panels, activated it.
[Combat puppet level 9]
The others looked at how enthusiastic Ery was, and decided to pick up their own weapons and face the combat puppets once more as well. The sight of the young acolytes trying their best once more brought a satisfied smile to the two magus.
For the whole duration of the three hour break, Ery used his ti to fight the level 9 combat puppet over and over again, only to lose a dozen tis. He was unable to even co close to defeating the level 9 puppets, despite how much he tried, but that did not dampen his spirit, so he decided to continue training afterwards.
Before they realized it, break ti was over. It was ti for their fifth battle. Just like before, they gave everything they had and struggled fiercely, but in the end, once again they had to taste the bitter defeat.
In between each battle attempt, Ery always returned to the combat puppet to train his skills. Finally, on their sixth battle, Ery and his friends managed to snatch a hard-earned victory.
Just like before, Ery, as the mid fighter, played a major part in their victory. His versatile ability, combined with the two battle arts [Weeping Phantom] and [Chain Strike] was able to cover most if not all the sudden situations in battle. In addition, repeated use allowed Ery to find the rhythm between the two techniques. Now none of the knights ever managed to go past him.
Thanks to that, Chumo and Klea didn't have to defend themselves and they could freely use their powerful ranged attacks. Chumo, the Asian prince, was able to concentrate in controlling the maximum amount of shadows he could and produce a rain of arrows. All followed by the fierce blue rain of lightning that crashed throughout the arena and decimated the Terra knights.
The group successfully managed to keep hold of the flag until the last few Terra knights were defeated. They had to face multiple waves and defeat a total of 150 opponents and in the end, they succeeded.
"We did it!!" Shouted the gladiator champion, excited that their efforts finally paid off.
All five shouted and cheered in unison, both for their victory and their teamwork. With this, they were much more confident of their success in the Magus Gas.
With their cheerful victory, the adrenaline left their body almost at the sa ti. Ery and his friends all dropped lying down on the arena, exhausted. The two magus approached them and gave them so last minute advice, before letting them have a good rest.
It was already late in the day, but Ery decided to return to the combat puppets with his weapon in tow. Unlike before, his friends were all unable to follow.
In order to win, they forced all their physical and ntal strength to the limit. Now, all of them were completely drained of energy.
Ery, however, was different from them. He possessed a fey bloodline and had the [Nature Grasp] skill. The two allowed him to recuperate his health and spirit energy much faster than his friends.
As he had recovered most of his energy, he grabbed his weapon and resud training. He decided to keep the lessons he learned in today's battle experience and integrate all of it into his swordplay.
Thrax, with the help of his [9 Sun Divine Technique] was the second fastest to heal aside from Ery. He opened his eyes only to see Ery was absorbed in his swordplay and training. With a gaze full of interest, Thrax took his weapon, the champion once again wished to challenge him.
Before he could call out to Ery, however, Magus Xion stopped him.
"Let him be."
Magus Xion stared at Ery with a proud smile on his face. It appeared his decision to help Ery, despite risking himself by disobeying his own master, was not in vain. From here, he could see that Ery had already made his A-rank skill into sothing else entirely.
Not long afterwards, Klea stood up and approached, watching Ery's practice with a stare full of concentration. Beneath the notice of everyone else, she let out a deep, tired sigh. The boy that had always been in her heart was slowly growing into a different person. Now, he was a man with purpose.
Only nine months had passed, yet Ery beca so much more powerful that she couldn't help but feel worried. She felt that if she lost sight of him for just a re mont, he would leave her behind.
"Privileged class... No, don't you dare! I am supposed to be the genius of the group!" said Klea screaming the words into her thought
For all the Earth acolytes, this night felt much longer and colder.
Chumo did not sleep either, he used the last hours to push his body to the limit in hopes that he would reach the 9th rank, but that never seed to co. He had struggled with it in his whole ti on Earth and here, but breaking through rank 9 was not an easy task.
As for Julian, he couldn't help but think he was at the bottom among the five in terms of strength.
He was not as fortunate as Ery, as talented as Klea, as strong as Thrax, or even co close to Chumo in terms of spirit force and strength.
The Roman commander promised himself he would not let himself be the dead weight of the team and will show his worth tomorrow.
Everyone spent the last few hours rembering their own purpose and holding their own resolve.
When the morning ca everyone was fully equipped and ready for the gas.
All five wearing the black combat suits heading toward the assembly for the biggest event of the academy
[One hour until the start of the Magus Gas, all participants are invited to gather in the great assembly]
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Written by Avans, Published exclusively by W.e.b.n.o.v..e.l,
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