Chapter 54: First Fight (2/2)

“It’s my turn to fight?” He finally understood.

“Ayrin against Taigel.”

“Taigel is a second year student, an outstanding student who can already condense arcane particles. I heard he learned ‘Spider Web,’ it’s very easy to find yourself bound as soon as you’re careless when you fight him.”

“He met someone so powerful for his first match?”

“What are you saying… Anyone who’s confident enough to participate in the selection is someone powerful.”

“There are eight people in every group. You have to win three fights in total to come out of the group.”

Kybaver rubbed his scalding chest and looked at Aryin entering the field amidst the waggling tongues. “This guy was shouting so loud earlier, now it’d be dead embarrassing if he can’t even win the first match.”

“Ayrin, do your best!”

Tremendous cheers rose from the stands. After challenging Divine Shield Academy’s Ringel, Ayrin had become the object of worship of every freshman. Many freshman had also taken example on Ayrin and trained with everything they had. Added to the fact Ayrin was the only freshman participating in this selection, all the freshmen started shouting at the top of their lungs as soon as they saw him come into the field.

“Hm? Rinloran’s so strong, why didn’t he come and participate?”

Ayrin was really slow on the uptake. He only thought at this moment that Rinloran would very possibly stand out in this selection with his real strength. After all, even a powerful character like Dyfer couldn’t even hit back when facing Rinloran.

“I wonder, if I fought with Rinloran right now, who would be the stronger one?”

Ayrin couldn’t resist thinking about this question when walking into the field.

“Wait, what are you doing?”

A voice suddenly came to his ears.

“Ah?” Ayrin only realized then that he thought too seriously about how to handle Rowan and why Rinloran didn’t come to participate, so he walked with his head down, walked and walked and almost crashed into his opponent.

Slightly dumbfounded, Ayrin felt very embarrassed. He retreated back a few steps, crestfallen.

“What the hell is in this guy’s head.” Kybaver thought his vision was going to go black when looking at Ayrin’s embarrassing appearance.

“Looks like there’s no need for me to take him seriously. With his level, he can’t even go through the barrier that is Taigel.” Rowan let out a heavy, cold snicker in another corner of the rest area.

“Are both sides ready?”

“I must win!”

Ayrin’s body went into an unprecedented hot-blooded state of excitement when the voice of the referee teacher rose, standing in the center of the field, looking at the densely packed crowd all around him, hearing the rumble of yells and cheers.

He looked at the senior student in front of him, his skin tanned and his face cold. An unprecedented raging lust for war ignited inside his chest.

“He doesn’t have the slightest fear or nervousness. On the contrary, the bigger the field the more hotblooded and excited he is… This little guy Liszt and Ciaran have their eyes on is actually someone born for competition and war…” The Holy Dawn teacher acting as referee lifted his eyebrows when he saw the lust for war ignite in Ayrin’s eyes, such a thought appearing in his mind all of a sudden.

“Alright! Begin!”

With the referee teacher’s loud shout, Ayrin’s opponent, Taigel, sucking in a deep breath, his lust for war also surging all over his body.

“Hm?”

“What?”

However, what made him and almost the entire crowd present at the scene fall into disbelief was, in this instant when the flames of war could ignite at any moment, Ayrin suddenly turned around, his back facing his way, unsteady on his feet, and started to fall down face forward.

“…”

Up in the stand in the contestants’ rest area, Kybaver’s eyes stared wide open.

It seemed Ayrin was about to heavily land on the ground when, suddenly, his two hands fiercely propped themselves on the ground, pushed fiercely, and made his body shoot backward, his head down and his feet up, flying backward at an alarming speed.

“Pa!”

Taigel didn’t even have time to react yet that the two feet and the blurs trailing behind them violently struck his chest. His whole body flipped backward, flipped round and round several times in the air, then fiercely hit the ground with a bang.

“What!”

Half the Holy Dawn students in the stands couldn’t resist leaping up from their seats and exclaming in disbelief.

“Reverse Pile!”

Kybaver also jumped up with a “Ah.” He had the urge to spit out blood.

What Ayrin had used was actually his own technique!

Ayrin actually used his own move right in front of him, and struck Taigel down in one hit!

Sweat densely covered Kybaver’s forehead and his back one second later, when even louder exclamations and shouts of disbelief rang up in the arena.

“What a powerful strength and explosiveness… His current body…”

Kybaver was certain that even if he were to use the same trick himself, he couldn’t move as fast as Ayrin or be as explosive.

Not long ago, Ayrin’s strength and speed were still far beneath his, but now, Ayrin’s physical strength was clearly even superior than his, superior to one who’d already condensed arcane particles like him!

“Impossible!”

At the same time, many senior students had a sudden change of expression in the contestant area.

Everyone watched on as Taigel could only make painful groans on the ground. He didn’t even have the strength to push his hands on the ground. It was simply impossible for him to stand up.

Taigel had acted a little neglectful because he hadn’t expected Ayrin to have such a move. But, not leaving him any time to react with a single move, hitting him down, unable to stand up, this was definitely a matter of instant explosiveness!