Final placement
Final placement
Until then, both of them would stay in Cyro-City and play teacher and student, while Seron would improve his strength and mana core rank.
Mr.Greil would most likely just continue playing a teacher because he asked Jason to keep their identity a secret.
Jason didn't mind that and getting to know how long the two of them would stay on Astrix gave him the chance to receive more benefits from them.
Considering the fact that he had already received a unique skill that was more difficult to obtain than most tier-3 techniques and was equivalent to Blessed Skills without much effort made Jason eager to learn more.
The fact that Mr.Greil had handed him resources worth multiple hundred star-notes was neglected by Jason because he had endured 60 hours of pure, unadulterated torture which felt like years to him.
It was not like he was holding a grudge but he felt that the cultivation resources that he had received from his teacher to perform the first level of the splitting mind technique were more of a compensation for the torture he had endured. Mr.Greil hadn't been thorough in his explanations leading him to almost die of pain.
Maybe this mindset was wrong, but there was nothing he could do against it.
He was not an exceptionally greedy person, but after figuring out how important movement techniques were, he was obsessed with the thought of obtaining such a technique.
"Teacher! Is there a way for me to receive tiered skills for movement, defense, attack, support, and so on without achieving a certain number of human glory points? I heard that schools give out missions and reward students with merit points.
I think they're called [Lace point] in the case of Vanguard-school... How can we obtain them? I need a movement technique as soon as possible to improve my strength!"
Jason had tasted blood and he wanted to get stronger! Who cared about the big families with their wealth and prodigies from great backgrounds?
He certainly didn't, and the only thing he wanted was to get stronger in order to live freely without anyone obstructing him.
Furthermore, he had a hunch that he might even be able to change something about humanity's current obnoxious society that disgusted him.
While Jason was deep in thoughts, his teacher answered him, causing him to come back to his senses.
"Ohh. I probably forgot to tell everyone that each promoted class rank will give you guys 2 lace points while each win after a streak of 10 will award an additional 5 lace points.
Because you guys won against Class 54 which is 21 wins in a row, 75 lace points will be added to your school profile.
Lace points can be exchanged with credits, and one Lace point is worth around 20,000 Credits, but I don't recommend you to do so.
You can't convert credits into Lace points, and in my opinion, they are worth much more, a fact you will realise when you take a look at the school shop later."
Sighing, their teacher added,
"It's already a wonder that you guys have come so far, but I think Class 53 will end our winning streak.
Class 53 has some quite unique students, while their teacher is sly.
Nevertheless, the students here have astonished me and it has changed my view of Astrix's top schools, quite a bit."
Getting to know that they already obtained some lace points made Jason feel happy.
Maybe he would be able to purchase a movement technique soon.
It was now time for the three of them to leave because their battle against Class 53 would start soon.
When Jason went into the combat arena, he could already see Class 53 with their teacher and the sight was quite shocking.
Out of 200 students, more than half of them looked like bulldozers to Jason.
Their physique was sheer muscle and they didn't look like bodybuilders but rather mountains of muscles to him.
Jason questioned himself if they consumed steroids or other drugs to pump their muscles.
Looking at their mana core, he was astonished to see that their mana core was only at the 1st or 2nd Adept rank. The core's size was slightly larger, probably between the 2nd and 3rd Adept rank, but there was no transmuted mana, which indicated that they had formed a soulbond with a physical beast.
Physical enhancing beasts amplify mana though not as much as other beasts and seeing that their mana core size was two ranks above their initial rank, indicated that all of them had formed contracts with evolved beasts.
Their strength was probably the same strength as Greg´s with his reinforced horned bull.
This shocked Jason, but he wasn't the only one in a daze because his classmates were looking at the 1.8+ meter tall human bulldozers as if they were monsters.
He wondered how so many of the same kind could be together in a class, and it was only later that he found out that initially these bulky youths were placed in different classes.
However, the teacher had accepted their request and put them together.
All of these bulky youths came from the same city and it was rare to see so many youths from the same school having roughly the same amount of soul energy.
To add another odd fact, all of them had formed a contract with the exact same beast, that was a fierce mountain ape, an intermediate evolved beast.
Apes were considered to be the perfect beasts to share physical strength because they enhanced every body part, while other beasts focussed their amplification on a certain area. Thinking about it, Jason immediately got a premonition.
The battles started and the bulldozer youth's eyes turned red as they entered some kind of berserk state, which was apparently an ability they had inherited from their soulbond.
It didn't take long for Jason's classmates to be defeated while only 90+ students were left standing on their feet after a single minute.
Meanwhile, Jason fought with a water affinity user, who seemed to act rather defensively with a small shield around her.
Sometimes she shot water bullets, but their strength was rather weak.
Thanks to Jason's exceptional eyesight he could avoid them very easily without much effort.
Jason wasn't concerned about his mana consumption while he pressured the female water practitioner whose mana core was extremely large compared to her physical strength.
It wasn´t rare to see someone utilizing the passive mana replenishing technique and Jason was aware of that fact.
As such, he pressured his opponent even more and she had to completely concentrate on the fight against Jason in order to prevent getting overwhelmed within a second.
Losing focus for a short moment would make all the difference between a victory and a loss, which the water practitioner noticed after fighting Jason for a short time.
Throwing knives would be easily deflected by a thin water shield, but she hadn't taken her mana consumption into account which had been a big mistake.
After Jason threw all of his knives, he was already at an advantage.
He used a quarter of his mana to enhance his lower body and circled around her while stabbing and slashing at various angles and different velocities.
Jason could have ended the battle sooner, but he decided to drag the fight and save mana when the female water user could not continue fighting after four minutes.
Emerging victorious, he left the combat arena, only to see that only slightly more than 40 classmates were left 'alive'.
Because they could decide who to fight, Jason looked around to find some weaker students of class 53. He decided to pick another water user with a 2nd Adept mana core rank while the core's size seemed slightly smaller compared to his previous opponent.
The female water user probably had contracted a 'better' soulbond which amplified more of her mana core size.
While fighting, Jason found out that his opponent was not playing defensive while operating his water affinity, rather he attacked Jason using brute force, with an axe in his hand.
Jason sneered, thinking about the stupidity of some students.
`Fighting a dagger wielder with a heavy axe? Okay…`
Jason smiled on the inside as he predicted that the water affinity user would most likely try to prevent him from avoiding the axe with water bullets or some thin walls.
To nobody's surprise, Jason´s prediction was correct, as a thin water wall erupted next to him, while he faced a frontal attack from two water bullets.
His opponent was about to turn to the left side, thinking that Jason would do the same. He pulled his axe back ready to ram into Jason, who did the exact opposite.
The water wall next to him was roughly two or three centimeters thick and not even stable enough to block frontal attacks...
It had only been a decoy to force Jason into doing something stupid such as jumping straight towards the attacking axe-wielder.
But Jason had been well aware of his opponent's scheme and the fact that he had most likely used up roughly half of his mana in order to erupt the water wall and shot 2 water bullets at the same time. His opponent's tactic played into his hands because the focus one had to use to do all of this at the same time didn't leave room to do anything else.
In his mind, Jason praised his opponent.
However, that didn't change his decision, as he sliced through the water wall before he jumped through it while getting a little bit wet.
Some water got into his eyes but he forced them to stay open and saw the blurry outlines of his opponent who probably looked at him in shock with his axe already raised high.
Throwing three knives in a row, Jason went into an attack mode and the water user could deflect the first knife with another water bullet.
However, his focus was completely in disarray as he had to lower his axe as fast as possible to deflect the remaining two knives that flew straight towards him.
This gave Jason enough time to enhance his lower body and appear behind his opponent to 'kill' him with ease, as the dagger pierced his neck which ended the whole battle.
However, Jason was dissatisfied with his own speed after he remembered what kind of acceleration the floating sky techniques provided even at the most initial proficiency.
Staring in the direction of Seron's combat arena, he felt a little jealous.
Seron was already done and seeing Jason's gloomy face, caused him to smile dryly as he figured out why Jason looked so sad.
In his opinion, it was completely understandable.
Had he been in Jason's place, he would probably feel the same. He felt a little bit guilty after indirectly taking away a treasure from right under Jason´s nose.
The third round was a little embarrassing for Class 54 as Jason was overwhelmed by a 3rd Adept rank with a 5th Adept physique. Only eight students from Class 54 had 'survived' with one of them being Seron.
The first Class battles had ended for their Class after the first week but their achievements were nothing to be ashamed of.
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