Unlike the awakening test that each student had only one fight, the knockout exam had six stages before a winner was decided and each stage was more tasking than the previous one.
Apart from minimizing their mana usage, they had to make sure they didn't sustain damage that would decrease their fighting ability because no one was to be treated by the school's healers unless they had been eliminated.
'At this point, I really wished I had a friend that awakened the light elent.' Blake sighed when he now realized how useful they were.
[With your rank anyone that isn't your sworn enemy would love to be your friend, but soone decided not to have friends.] The system snorted.
'Well I am not a fan of using people… and don't give that na?ve kid pep talk. As long as I am not in dire need of sothing, I am not using anybody. Besides even if I co second my position as the overall 1st position is still safe as long as I don't flop in the basic magic exam.' Blake rebuked the system's idea.
"By the way who knows about the light pathway and why haven't I seen them in action?" Blake asked.
"That's true, I heard there was a student that awakened the light elent that had won all rounds, but I didn't get to see him..." Brian replied.
Seeing no one had the answer to Blake's question, Luciano decided to speak up. "The warrior level of the light pathway is the Radiant therapist. They have the power to heal injuries, but their fighting is zero or even less because they don't even get buffs, unlike the other elents…"
"That was why we didn't get to see anyone during the awakening test." Blake blurted out.
"Exactly, that was why no there was no radiant therapist in the elite class." Luciano nodded to Blake's words.
"But everything changes when they advance to the champion realm. The champion realm of the light pathway is called Lumomancer and they have the ability to manipulate light to create illusions." Luciano said with a flat tone as he stared at the empty grounds.
"That explains why the radiant therapist rose up in rank after entering the elite class." Brian blurted out in realization.
[The illusion is more deadly than it sounds. With how strong your will has beco you can easily break out of the illusion, but the most troubleso part of a lumomancer's illusion is knowing when one was in an illusion and if you don't know you won't border to break out.] The system's explanation made Blake shudder.
'Beating your opponent without them having an idea of what happened.' Blake had to admit that the ability was overpowered, it was for people who didn't have an idea of its weakness.
After few more minutes of rest, the 3rd round was signaled to start. There were 16 students left, aning 8 matches going on.
Blake was paired against the rank 17, who had awakened the sa elents as him and this attracted more attention to their battle.
"May the best man win." Qadir the rank 17th said to Blake as the match was signaled to start.
"Then that ans I am the winner..." Blake said with a smirk as he took a boxing stance.
"I might not be a top ranker but don't get corky!" Qadir activated the lightning reinforcent and dashed towards Blake with 2 short blades in his hands.
Since both of them had the sa elents and since fire and lightning weren't solid elents, Blake decided to go with his fists.
When Qadir was 5 ters away from, Blake activated his lightning reinforcent which had twice the number of arcs as that of his opponent.
Seeing that Blake had no plans of using his Katana, Qadir couldn't help but smile as he thrust his short sword forward aiming for his heart.
'Hehe...' Blake mind-chuckled when saw that his opponent hadn't noticed the difference between the powers of their lightning reinforcent.
Having no plans of dodging the attack, Blake waited for the last mont before holding Qadir's wrist and delivering a blow that took him off his feet before pulling him back and giving him a second blow to his abdon.
"Ahh!"
The Raiju breathing technique took effect the mont Blake's fist made contact with Qadir's body, sending lightning through his skin and into his organs. The lightning spread to all parts of his body sending him to a world of pain.
'That didn't end it?' Blake thought as he easily dodged Qadir's left strike and in the process releasing his grip on him.
[Don't forget his resistance to lightning is greater than that of that plant girl.] The system gave him a reminder.
If not for Qadir's resistance being high because he awakened the lightning elent, he would have been on the floor twitching from the effects of both the electrode's stun effect and that of the Raiju breathing technique.
'Fuck!' Qadir gritted his teeth in pain as he conjured flas in front of and with the powers of an ignitor, he increased the size and intensity of the flas creating a wall of flas to prevent Blake from chaining his attacks.
Unknown to Qadir his action marked the beginning of the end because he had blocked his line of sight and his wall of flas was useless to soone like Blake.
[They all keep making the sa mistake.] The system shook his head in disappointnt.
Without hesitating, Blake quickly enveloped his entire body with flas with the help of his will and dashed towards the wall of flas before diving right through flas and grabbing shocked Qadir by the neck.
"Ho… how?!" Qadir blurted before getting he was bombarded by multiple blows that made him spasd in pain from excess electricity that made his way into his organs.
Although his resistance to electricity was high, it didn't an he was completely immune to electricity. All Blake needed was to give him enough dose of his blows.
[I must say that was dangerous but Damn!] The system praised his bravery.
Blake had many ways of defeating his opponent, but when the system remaindered him of everyone's resistance to elents and Qadir had conjured the wall of flas a plan that quickly ended the match quickly ford in his head.
That was to use the flas on his body, coupled with his resistance to significantly reduce the damage he took from the flas. It saved him ti, mana and it gave the battle that was ant to be boring a little flare.
"I told you, I am the best man." A smirk was on his face as he walked out of the battleground.
'I must say, I am getting addicted to the thrill that cos with fighting.' Blake thought as he watched Castiel's battle.
…
Back in the principal's office…
"When I first saw that the effects of his lightning elent, I thought it was suspicious because they had gone past the level of an electrode. This match has confird my suspicions, He has the Raiju breathing technique." Principal Lovren said in a pondering tone.
"A kid being in possession of a breathing technique that even the top lightning family is in search of, that is odd. Unless soone had sothing to do with it." Principal Lovren said while looking at prince Bryon's reaction.
"Hehe." Prince Bryon chuckled as he kept his eyes on the battleground.
His laughter had confird his thoughts but he didn't mind less to go too deep into the matter so he decided to drop it and continue watching the students' performance.
…
Castiel's fight had gone on for so ti now and from the way, things were going he knew that he couldn't beat his opponent with on fire elent. He had already decided he would use the darkness elent but the problem was that he was looking for the perfect opportunity.
His opponent was the rank 20 and had awakened the lightning and earth elent. The earth elent made his flas ineffective and the opponent's lightning elent put him in a tight corner.
'How can I lose without showing the darkness elent. I have to do sothing before it's too late.' Castiel was panting as he thought of a plan.
'His flas are ineffective, but that reminds what is Castiel's second elent?' Blake couldn't help but ask because even when he watched the survival exercise replays he had only seen Castiel use fire.
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