SSS-Ranked Skill in a New Filthy World Chapter 148 Progress

"Did you think I got stronger because of Evelyn? We were friends in the academy, and since the academy days, I have been stronger. I was rank 1 all the way to class 3." Victoria replied with a smile on her face.

"Rank 1?" Roman asked, he had no idea what she ant by that.

"You don’t know about the academy rankings, After the first month of training, you’ll be required to duel with your fellow students and establish a ranking system, You’ll receive bonuses depending on the ranking and a headstart in the kingdom tournant"

"After the first month, so I have to win the Queen’s tournant to get there" Roman muttered.

"Yes, but back to your question, I was ranked 1 and I dueled with Evelyn severally, all of which I won, but then we got to the battlefield in front of actual demons and I found myself taking orders from Evelyn"

"But that wasn’t the turning point, it was when I almost lost my life because of a demon, It’s the reason my hair is covering part of my face"

"You got injured?" Roman asked.

"Injured is a small word. You can heal an injury, but this... After that I managed to survive, Reinforcent arrived and we were sent back ho to rest before we returned to the Frontline"

"When I got ho, I was so angry at myself. I trained to the extent that my body was shutting itself down. Once I trained so hard that I fainted and was taken to my sister, a healer," Victoria mused as she rembered the incident.

"For a month it was just training. After that, I got so strong I couldn’t even recognize myself," Victoria said with a chuckle.

"I didn’t try actual combat after training till I got to the frontline and when I did, I was unstoppable, but soone was right behind , Turns out I wasn’t the only one who was training to death, Evelyn was too, That’s how I got strong"

"What I’m basically saying is that you need that kind of conviction to actually break through, There’ll co a ti you’ll get stuck, that’s when you’ll know if you have what it takes to be as powerful"

"What if I train as hard as you?" Roman replied.

"You can’t to be honest, I can’t advise anyone to train as hard as I did, even Evelyn didn’t train as hard as I did, not all S-ranks would reach the sa height, just like we’re the strongest mages in the world, doesn’t an we’re the only S-rank" Victoria laughed as she finished speaking.

After she said the word strongest, the incident in the cave ca to her mind. That was the reason the capital was under alert, but nothing had happened since then, so she wasn’t that worried.

Still, the leader of the Blood Fang obtaining that sort of power wasn’t sothing she thought about. If it ca down to it, she and Evelyn would fight to the death to protect Avalon.

"Do you think I could be as strong or even stronger than both of you, a male like ?" Roman asked with a smile.

"Normally I can predict how strong a mage can beco, but for you I can’t, maybe because you’re a male, or maybe you’ll be much stronger than , or maybe you won’t amount to anything"

"But that shouldn’t be your focus for now; you should think of winning against the 9 strongest students in your class," Victoria replied.

"9 strongest?"

"We already made arrangents for the tournant. It’ll be announced at the end of the week, where Evelyn and I will make our first appearance to the new students officially," Victoria spoke.

"Ohh, do you know who I’m going to face?" Roman asked.

"The tournant would start a week before the actual tournant, here in the academy. All the class 1 students except you would duel, and the 9 strongest, along with you, would then participate in the Queen’s tournant in the Royal Palace," Victoria replied with a smirk.

"Shit, if I’m facing one of the strongest, what if I lost the first match?"

"Then you’re done, it’s knockout. Once you lose, it’s over... Are you getting scared?" Victoria chuckled.

"A little. What if I face Ava in the first round? There’s no way she would want to lose when I’m sure her family would attend, and the princess, too, and the rest of the other 9." Roman spoke.

"The Queen is also preparing a huge prize for first place, a prize that would make everyone think only about themselves, Good luck"

Victoria stood up and stretched her arms.

"I have sowhere to be. Train on your own. It’s the only chance you have of catching up. 1 hour of training isn’t going to make up for years of hard work," she said.

Roman nodded as he looked up at her.

She gave him one last glance. "Don’t forget what I said, train...when the week is over, you’ll start learning fla spells, it’s the elent with the most spells created in the world"

Then she turned and walked away. She walked slowly till she got to the door and pushed it open. Roman watched her leave until she disappeared behind the doors.

Silence returned to the building as he was now alone.

Roman let out a deep breath and walked slowly toward the wall. His legs felt heavy, and his body still ached from the training earlier. He sat down with his back against the wall and slid to the ground.

He was tired.

Not just his body... even his thoughts felt tired. Yesterday was just him trying to reach Victoria, but today he had to make split-second decisions and take beatings for not doing the right thing.

He closed his eyes and leaned his head back.

Victoria’s words echoed in his mind. Roman wasn’t just in the academy so he could get stronger and fight in the Frontlines; he was aiming for the demon lord.

Roman couldn’t tell how strong Victoria really was, but he had to be stronger than her, much stronger than her to attempt sothing like that.

The biggest issue wasn’t training and all, but how was he supposed to et the demon lord? The demon lord wasn’t soone he could find just like that. No one had really seen the demon lord.

Roman smiled a little.

This wasn’t even the start of his journey. First, he had a boulder in front of him, which was the tournant, before thinking about this.

Roman rested inside the building for around 30 minutes before standing up. This ti, he wasn’t heading back to the dorm; instead, he was going to the library.

He wanted to test sothing.

Now that he could control his Mana better, he was going to make Neia show him an illusion spell circle so he could try to copy and replicate it.

She wouldn’t think anything about it so it was perfect.

Roman exited the building and walked towards the library. He pushed the door open and walked in, and this ti Neia wasn’t behind a book.

She was walking around the library looking at books, probably finding what to read.

Roman walked towards her without saying anything. he could only spot a few students in the library, and they were all busy with books.

Roman walked up behind Neia quietly, and when he was behind her, he tapped her shoulders.

Neia flinched and quickly turned around to see Roman with a smile on his face.

"Why did you do that? Also, I wasn’t scared; I was just surprised." Neia spoke the next mont, and Roman chuckled.

"So what brings you here, If it was books you wouldn’t have tried to scare "

"Can’t I just visit you" Roman spoke.

"You ca to visit ?" Neia replied with a smile.

"Yeah," Roman said. " But I also ca to ask you sothing."

Neia tilted her head. She knew he would just co to see her. "What is it?"

"I want you to show an illusion spell circle, any spell, preferably a low-level spell"

She gave him a suspicious look. "Why?"

"Just curious. You made it look easy, and I’m trying to understand how spell circles are built. I’m having trouble holding it without activating the spell, so I want sothing I can’t do," Roman replied.

Neia stared at him for a second. This was just reinforcing her theory that Roman was an illusion mage.

"Fine. But don’t try anything weird. Illusion magic isn’t as easy as it looks, Also it’ll be better if I draw it"

She left where she was and walked back to the counter where she got a paper to draw on with ink.

A few seconds later, she sketched the illusion spell circle.

The markings were clean and complex, but Roman focused. His eyes followed every line, every curve.

"This is a basic spell called conceal, It’s used to hide things, things hidden with their spell can’t be seen, Also it doesn’t work on a human, only objects"