Gradually, night fell, and the stars gathered in the night sky, forming one dazzling galaxy after another.
Carlotta, in her dorm room, couldn't help but marvel at the sky outside. In her previous world, due to atmospheric pollution, such a brilliant starry sky was no longer visible, which stirred so emotions in her heart.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Suddenly, a knocking sound ca from the door.
Carlotta turned around to open it and couldn't help but show a look of surprise when she saw who was outside.
"Miss Clarke? What's the matter?" Carlotta asked curiously, looking at the rchant's daughter in front of her.
Although Avery Clarke was her classmate, they didn't have much interaction.
The closest they had ever been was when Avery, controlled by Soren, attacked her, and Carlotta had knocked her down with a single sword strike. However, Avery no longer rembers that incident.
Having grown up in privilege, Avery had intelligent eyes, giving off a clever vibe.
She spoke quickly, "Miss White, co with quickly. Morholt, who just entered the academy, has challenged Fenwick to a duel, and Fenwick has accepted. They've already gone to the dueling arena, and many people have gone to watch."
Carlotta was montarily stunned, then rembered Morholt, Beatrice Morholt, the first noble child to enter the academy today.
Her father, Count Morholt, was a powerful Count with control over the military, making his status quite distinguished.
This person actually challenges Alia to a duel?
Carlotta did want to go and see, but as she was about to move, she couldn't help but asked, "Miss Clarke, why did you specifically co to tell this?"
Avery smiled and said, "I thought you and Fenwick were quite close, so I felt it necessary to let you know. I saw you two having als together and even sharing food."
She thought only people with a certain level of closeness would display such intimacy.
Carlotta knew Avery had misunderstood; she and Alia were re acquaintances, not particularly close.
But there was no need to explain. She walked out of the dorm and closed the door, saying, "Let's go to the dueling arena."
...
The dueling arena wasn't too far from the dorm; it was a vast building with many areas for duels.
By the ti Carlotta arrived with Avery, the place was already packed with people.
Not only were there first-year students, but also many from the second and third years.
The largest dueling area was surrounded by layers of onlookers, and the duel in the center had already begun.
The two combatants were naturally Alia and Beatrice.
With just one glance, Carlotta couldn't help but show a strange expression because she saw a bow floating in front of Alia, continuously shooting arrows at Beatrice.
She felt this thod of attack was sowhat familiar, had Alia replicated Soren's magic through mory?
Carlotta found mory magic quite fascinating; it allows one to fight using the enemy's own techniques. If you used your opponent's thods against them, wouldn't it drive them mad?
She didn't know that Soren had already been angered many tis by such things.
Beatrice had long, wavy golden hair and a tall figure, exuding a heroic aura.
She was a knight-class transcendent, wielding a sword that shimred with fiery light, dazzling and brilliant.
After a few glances, Carlotta recognized it as the Fla Knight Path, a famous but difficult-to-master path. Only those with certain status and position were allowed to practice it.
It was said that Count Morholt was highly skilled in the Fla Knight Path, dominating the battlefield and earning the title of "Fla Count."
As the daughter of the Fla Count, Beatrice naturally inherited her father's expertise in the Fla Knight Path.
She continuously blocked the attacks from the mory clone of Soren and steadily closed the distance.
In a short ti, she was upon Alia, delivering a dazzling, fiery slash that shattered the floating bow on the spot.
But by then, Alia had already withdrawn, and a sword wreathed in flas appeared in front of her. No matter how you looked at it, it seed like Beatrice's Fla Knight Path at work.
This made Beatrice's chest heave with anger as she shouted, "Alia, is this the only way you know how to fight? Aren't you afraid of bringing sha to Viscount Fenwick?"
Alia replied unhurriedly, "Are you suggesting that I, a practitioner of mory magic, should engage in close combat with you, a practitioner of the Fla Knight Technique? I hope you're the only shaless one in the Morholt family."
Beatrice was furious and imdiately charged forward.
...
Carlotta watched the battle with great interest. She could see that Alia remained composed and was unlikely to be at a disadvantage in this duel.
At the sa ti, she noticed that the focus wasn't solely on the two duelists in the arena.
Among the crowd, there were many noble children with significant conflicts between them, also drawing a lot of attention.
For example, a pair of young n nearby had a dissent and were about to duel, but since the nearby arena was occupied by Alia and Beatrice, they had to go to another area for their duel.
In this building, there were many arenas of various sizes suitable for dueling.
Avery also noticed the situation and whispered, "That's Ramsey and Nelson. They're about to duel too. That makes the seventh pair to duel today."
Hearing this, Carlotta couldn't help but ask, "So many people are dueling? Are there really that many grudges?"
In the Wendell Empire, people of status and position generally didn't engage in random fights; they usually agreed on a ti and place for a duel.
Duels didn't have to be the death; it was enough to determine a winner.
The victor gained face, and that was all. When Carlotta first heard about this popular dueling culture in the empire, she could only think of how inefficient it was.
Not only were they not fighting to the death, but there wasn't even a wager. Whoever wanted to duel could go ahead; she certainly wouldn't get involved.
"You didn't know, Miss White?" Avery gave her a surprised look and then explained, "Due to so political reasons, the nobles in the academy are roughly divided into two factions. Those duels belong to different factions. For example, Fenwick and the new student Morholt are dueling because of these factional reasons."
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