Are we really so...?
Are we really so...?
Jason was dumbfounded while looking at his opponent.
He enveloped his arm with a quarter of his mana to enhance his speed and strengthen his throw as five small throwing knives left Jason´s hand within two seconds.
The first two knives were deflected by the average-looking youth in front of him, while the third hit the hand, holding the shortsword painting it in a neon color.
As for the last two knives, one hit Jason´s opponent's abdomen while the other hit his chest.
Jason felt weird seeing that...
The whole battle was over before it even began and Jason was more than astonished because he thought his opponent would deflect all knives with ease.
But his opponent was apparently not capable of doing that and Jason had to abruptly stop his charge when the AI announced his victory.
Jason didn´t know that his opponent had been hesitating to fight him since the beginning, because of his cold and frightening eyes, causing him to lose the fight before it even started.
Now Jason had to wait for his classmates to finish their battles as he looked around, and saw that Class 74 seemed to be extremely weak compared to his own class.
It was extremely weird because only five minutes later, one could see an astonishing result.
Out of 200 battles, Class 75 won 163 battles, which had never happened before.
The remaining 37 fights were also not entirely won by Class 74, because the AI announced 11 battles to have ended in a tie which meant that both students had 'died'.
Class 74 had only 26 students left and they looked around as if someone had pranked them but sadly there was no hidden camera. All of their participant classmates were splattered with neon-colored paint, indicating their 'injuries'.
A small smile played on Till's lips on seeing the result, while the other teacher next to him was more than a little bit shocked and embarrassed.
His eyes grew as wide as saucers and it was as if he had just witnessed a massacre.
Turning to face Class 75´s teacher with astonishment, he asked to himself
`Why is their combat prowess so high? Almost all of them seemed to train in similar martial art techniques, but it can´t be a Tiered technique already, can it? Aren't we supposed to teach them these techniques in the second half of the year????`
The average-looking teacher stared at Till as if he was a traitor and Till returned the gaze with a simple expression that said "I didn't cheat!" as if he could suddenly read his mind.
Till wasn't really cheating. The classes were supposed to learn tiered martial art techniques half a year later, but one was allowed to do it earlier.
But, that was not everything. Even if Class 75 had learned a tiered martial art technique, the other class shouldn't have suffered such a humiliating defeat.
They were more than overwhelmed….that was not a battle but a slaughter.
What neither Jason nor the average-looking teacher knew, that his fight with Leo Heart had pressured his classmates into giving their best during the last two weeks.
The students who had been slacking off until now changed their mind when Jason almost killed Instructor Brian, as they sensed Jason's killing intent.
This caused them to feel like they were suffocating and would be the next one to die.
This fear, in addition to the assignment outside the city, made all students of Class 75 t conclude that they had to become stronger.
To achieve that they would also need resources like more time within mana gathering circle or elemental stones to improve their proficiency with an affinity if they had one.
Each and every student had given their 150% during the last two weeks, which reflected in their achievements, and unbeknownst to Jason, they worked hard to ascend to higher classes.
Previously they were ridiculed and some of them were even bullied because they had been accepted in the worst class.
Now the situation had changed and they weren't going to back off and fight with their sheer will if needed as Jason did.
Other classes accepted their low rank and played according to the rules of the top few classes but why should they be a part of the herd's mentality?
Their will was firm and they did not only want to receive better resources but also recognition from their peers and teachers.
Jason didn't fight in the second round as the first 26 ranks fought it and unsurprisingly they crushed everyone as their opponent's will to win was completely shattered.
Everyone was more than a little astonished by the unexpected turn of events.
Class 75 was astonished by its own strength or rather how weak their opponents were, while Class 74´s students or the now demoted Class 75 were absolutely gutted due to their subpar performance.
The steep incline of the worst class didn't take longer than 25 minutes, and it was inclusive of the time required to replenish mana.
Their teacher took out an emblem with the number 75 out of the pocket and pressed it into the empty hands of the average-looking teacher whose eyes resembled that of a lost soul.
"Where is my emblem?" Till asked and his question almost made the black-haired teacher fall down from his chair as he shuddered slightly while taking an emblem with the number 74 out of his storage device.
While handing out the emblem, he was lamenting about his bad teaching `If I had only taught my students a tiered martial art technique and not focussed so much on the tactics...ARGHHH`
But even if the former 74th class would have learned the same technique as them, Till wondered if they would be as good as his students, who gave 150% after witnessing Jason's power and the brute strength and cruelty of beasts in the wilderness.
A single-stage was already a huge obstacle for most of the students to overcome and his assignment of defeating beasts two stages above one's rank pushed them to their limits if not through!
The new 75th Class rushed out of the arena, followed by their teacher who was way too embarrassed to face the ridicule from the opposite class.
Only five minutes later, only the newly advanced 74th Class could be seen occupying the entire floor.
Suddenly the first few students began to clap and soon the other students joined them, their cheers echoing through the entire arena.
Even Jason's face broke into a pearly smile while he remained silent.
Till only observed everything from the side and he didn't say anything about their cheering because it was well deserved.
It wouldn't take long for them to get accustomed to their victories, as he believed in them and he almost forgot the reason why they were on Astrix, as he looked at his students.
That reminded him of his task, and Till didn't know how to feel as Jason felt a sudden but almost imperceptible disturbance behind him.
The mana fluctuations were disturbed for a second and Jason turned around to see his teacher's conflicted facial expression as he wondered what was going on.
After five minutes everyone fell silent, as Till snapped with his fingers.
The trauma of their teacher snapping his fingers on the very first day and it worked fine without mana enhancing the effect.
"Everyone did a great job, but we are still far from achieving our goal, RIGHT?"
He stopped for a second before everyone roared "YES"
"There is still at least an hour left until the other classes finish their battle and replenished their mana.
Let's not waste our time and work on the flaws I saw during the fights instead! Aren't you guys embarrassed to still make so many mistakes with such a simple technique?? Not a single one reached the basic mastery except Jason and Seron.
Don't even dare to think that I couldn't notice the mistakes everyone did….It's a wonder that you guys won this battle!"
Everyone had been under the impression that they had done a good job and after getting praised it was obvious to them that there was nothing bad to say but sadly that was not the case.
That praise had only been a facade!
`Are we really that bad?`
But before they could begin to lament, they were matched against each other while Till individually picked one student at a time to fix his flaws.
Jason wanted to improve his mastery over the Weaponry Knight technique, as such, he decided to take on Seron as his opponent.
Seron Gier was at the 2nd Adept rank while his soul was only slightly bigger than common Adept ranks with amplification of more than one rank.
This meant his soulbond was rather weak which caused Jason to have sympathy with him.
Seron´s accomplishment with the Weaponry Knight technique was almost as good as his own though Seron couldn't see the mana flow and copy that.
In the end, Jason had to accept that Seron´s comprehension ability was stronger than his own, which surprised him because his mind was slightly enhanced after he had refined his brain.
Jason wondered how that could be and he found another thing to be weird about Seron.
Seron´s mana was transmuted and different from normal mana, but Jason couldn't detect what kind of affinity or ability it was that Seron had received.
This made Jason curious and he questioned himself what kind of background Seron had. Based on his extremely expensive clothes, accessories, and weapons Jason's mana eyes also detected that Seron owned a Soul-weapon.
It was the first time for Jason to see a soul thread of someone else but when Seron took his weapon out for the first time, he was stunned as if he had been hit by a bolt of lightning.
A thread connecting both Seron and the longsword could be seen with his mana eyes, even if it was relatively thin and Jason became curious.
Nobody else knew about this and his classmates probably thought Seron only owned an exquisite weapon but he knew the truth.
Well, maybe his teacher knew about it because he almost knew everything, but Jason couldn´t be sure about that.
After Jason got to know that Seron had a soul weapon, he concluded that his soulbond would probably not be an ordinary one but some special beast.
When that thought came into his mind, he pondered for a long time before questioning himself, if it was possible for soulbonds to enhance one's brain. There could only be one answer to that- a definite 'YES'.
Why shouldn't it be possible, if everything else could be amplified by soulbonds?
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