Chapter 64: The tournament’s burning atmosphere (2/2)
“Ah…”
Kybaver struggled to flip his body over. He lay on the ground, sprawled on his back. He didn’t even have the strength to lift a single finger anymore, ventilation box-like sounds coming from his chest.
“Four times the amount of training…Bastard, no matter how hard I struggle, I can only reach three times the amount of training at most.”
“No, I have to continue!”
“I already fell behind a guy like you. Even with a monster momentum like yours, you still have to persevere with four times the amount of training. I absolutely have to surpass your fourfold training amount before I can catch up to you!”
“I don’t know what kind of training you’re doing now… I won’t admit defeat, I definitely have to grasp ‘Quicksilver Flash Kill!’”
“Next time, I absolutely have to win in the selection and become a member of the team!”
After panting heavily for a long time, Kybaver deeply shouted nonstop to himself and once again dragged his body up with everything he had, his body trembling from head to toe even as he started punching again!
One day turned into another.
This second year student of Holy Dawn Academy also constantly challenged his own limits. Every day seemed incomparably rich, filled with meaning afresh.
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As time went by day by day, as the main qualifier of the Cup of Starry Skies Braves neared ever closer, the atmosphere in every academy became different from what it used to be. Even the air seemed to burn with a shred of scorching hot atmosphere.
This was after all a tournament the entire country, every clan, every powerful arcane team paid attention to. It was equivalent to a showdown between the future elite arcane masters of the kingdom.
Many people who distinguished themselves in it would even be immediately tasked with important tasks.
Iron Forest Academy.
In front of an iron wall, a strong and sturdy boy brandished his arm, his face filled with a desire for war. Countless hotblooded Iron Forest students were gathered in front of him.
“Our Iron Forest Academy has to win!”
“We can’t become members of the team, can’t fight together with captain Ferguillo, but we still have to let people from other academies see our fighting spirit, see our power!”
“Before the day of the match arrives, we’re going to leave ten thousand fist imprints on this iron wall!”
“Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!”…
Under this boy’s incitement, every Iron Forest student gathered there charged toward the iron wall like madmen, and used their own fists to strike at this iron wall!
“Stop!” Once again inside the sevenfold gravity gym, every members of team Iron Forest converged around Ferguillo. Ferguillo pointed at Wilde and faintly said, “You made a mistake again with your attack just now, I already told you so many times, you have to vary your rhythm, you can’t do the three successive instant movements all at the same frequency, at the same speed. This way it’s very easy for the opponent to grasp the pattern. Using your flash attack will instead lead you to the underworld! Even if you can’t make your first flash strike faster, you still have to pay attention and moderate it, to cause misperception for your opponent.”
Wilde rearranged the hair covering one side of his face, wiped his sweat, and solemnly said, “I understand, this is the last time I make a mistake like this.”
“There are still fifteen days left before our confrontation with Golden Lion Academy. Stingham will definitely have made giant strides forward with a bloodline like his!” Ferguillo faintly said, “But as long as none of us makes a mistake, we’ll certainly fight our way to the great national tournament!”
“Do you hear the voices of these people outside?” His finger pointed outside the gym after a slight pause. “Do you have the heart to make these men outside who idolize us, who are shouting and clamoring, do you have the heart to disappoint them?”
“We have to win!”
At this instant, every members of Iron Forest’s team screamed out at the top of their lungs, letting out mad roars just like wild beasts!
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Divine Shield Academy.
A one-eyed teacher wearing an eye-patch quietly stood for a long while. Every member of team Divine Shield, Ivan and Charlotte included, all stood in front of him, straight as ramrods, just like a small army regiment waiting for inspection.
“I don’t have so much patience, I won’t insult and humiliate you, or provoke you, like your captain Ivan does. In a real battlefield, success and failure are determined by life and death, by the final result.”
This one-eyed teacher with a very ferocious outer appearance coldly swept his eyes over everyone standing in front of him. “That’s why, if you can’t even defeat a small team like Holy Dawn Academy, then Ivan and Charlotte, you’ll join the army one year later than originally planned. As to the others, you might not even have the rights to come to the attention of clan Lannister!”
“What!”
Even Charlotte’s face paled a little.
“Only pressure will give you the drive to move forward. There’s no harm in telling you, the reason I’m so strict is because I’m old rivals with Carter, the teacher leading Holy Dawn Academy’s team. Confronting him this time makes a lot of memories resurface.” This one-eyed teacher started laughing like a maniac. “Also, you definitely can’t look down on him. He already had the Wise Commander nickname back in our times. Back then, when the elite teams from Holy Dawn Academy went out on missions, he was always the one leading them.”