"Mmm... Good mornin— ha? Why are you on the ground?"
"No reason. The carpet looked too soft today."
Lying on the ground, I answered Selene calmly while staring at the ceiling.
Yesterday, after Glutton returned using the window, I fell into a real sleep to rest.
But maybe because it was her first ti killing a humanoid monster, Selene seed to be having nightmares.
And as the one sleeping beside her, I was kicked brutally outside the bed. Not a simple push, no. She literally threw into the wall!
Since then, I didn’t dare to return to the bed.
"I’ll make breakfast quickly." I said, excitent visible in my voice as I stood up. "Today we will have our first combat class!"
"Mhm!"
•••
At 8 AM. We entered the training grounds for the first ti. And as expected, it was filled with students. They were standing or sitting on the ground while talking casually.
That was the only class where all the students would gather together, and although there were people like who chose their specialities, those things were actually for the second sester.
After walking for a minute, I approached Zephyr who was standing beside Celestia.
"Yo."
Confused, he glared sharply at . "How did you find among the other students?"
I shrugged. "Your scent."
"You fucking dog—!"
All of a sudden, an overwhelming pressure fell upon us.
Looking at its source, we saw a black-haired muscular man with black eyes and black beard, wearing brown leather armor.
"Ahem." He cleared his throat, his voice deep and brutal. "My na is Butto Hugo. From now on, you will see every Sunday as the teacher of the combat mastery class!"
"...."
A chilling silence fell upon us like the calm before the storm. We stared at him with wide eyes and open mouths for a long mont.
"Pfft!"
"BAHAHAHA!"
All of a sudden, the sounds of laughter shattered the silence.
"Butto?! BUTTO?!!"
"I can’t stop, pfft!"
"HAHAHA! Look at his red race!"
"It’s not a joke! His na is really huge butt!"
"O Hugo Butto, please enlighten us with your knowledge."
Without a change in expression, I stared calmly at Butto’s red face as he gritted his teeth.
But inwardly, I... wasn’t that calm.
’Our teacher’s na is Butto! And huge?! HAHAHA.’
[WHAT THE FUCK WAS HIS PARENTS THINKING ABOUT! THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE!]
*BAM!*
Suddenly, Butto clapped loudly, sending a shockwave that surprisingly, pushed only the people who laughed and mocked him away.
Including Zephyr! Hahahah!
"If I heard you even chuckle, I’ll kick you outside the class! Do you understand!"
No one dared to open their mouths again. After making a shockwave that targeted only certain students, we all understood how capable he was.
Butto nodded in satisfaction. "I won’t teach you anything today. I need to see you all fighting first to understand your capabilities."
He then pointed at 10 small fighting arenas at the end of the training grounds. Beside them, there was an area filled with weapons and armors.
"I’ll call your nas and put you with another student to spar with. I’ll choose your opponents myself and make sure that no one would hurt the other brutally."
For a brief mont, I felt his eyes landing on .
’Co on, not you too!’
The next mont, he began to call so students while pointing at which arena they shall go to.
Eventually, 20 students stood on the arenas in fighting positions.
"Don’t hold back! I’ll save your opponent myself if anything goes wrong!"
The students nodded as they began to fight each other after Butto counted to 5.
Their fights were interesting, but they were all Tier-2 and none of them caught my attention.
When any students ended their fights, Butto would instantly call 2 more nas and make them fight.
Sothing noticeable was that the latter fights would always be more intense than the ones before them.
’He is choosing the weakest first. How does he know? Not many people fought for the ranking.’
Finally, the fights began to beco interesting. I ended up seeing so interesting abilities from people who didn’t attend the test.
Especially Elara’s fight. She just held a great hamr and smashed her opponent with only pure strength!
So ti later, only the students in the top 10 remained.
Everyone was excited to see us fight again. All eyes were fixed on Zephyr and Arthur especially.
"Nyxis and Limitless! Go to the empty arena."
Hearing their nas, Limitless and Nyxis began to move to the arena together.
For so reason, Limitless didn’t look at her with an arrogant smile, but sothing between frustration and irritation.
[Isn’t that the guy that almost severed your leg?]
I chuckled inwardly.
’Yeah, he is. I’m interested to see this fight.’
But suddenly, I heard a voice that made my expression turn into disappointnt.
"Raylin Bloodborne and Liora Frost! There is now an empty arena for you."
’Tsk, why now of all ti!’
I teleported to the empty arena directly as Liora entered it soon after.
Her strange soul-bound mask materialized on her face imdiately.
Scanning her, I said: "Just know that I won’t hold back too much."
Liora bowed slightly. "I hope you don’t."
’Glutton, you will fight with today if anything goes wrong.’
[WHAT?]
’But you can only use lightning and space affinity. Lightning isn’t that rare for spirits and you already showed your spatial storage.’
[Haah, fine. I’ll hide inside you for now.]
Butto began to count slowly. When he said 5, I unleashed my pressure imdiately. At the sa ti, 2 lightning daggers, a stiletto and sword breaker, materialized on my hands.
The arena was too small for my usual fighting style. I had to use the old brute way!
Liora ran around silently in a circle, 2 ice chakrams materialized on her hands as she threw them aiming at my neck.
*Clank! Clank!*
I easily parried both of them as Liora froze in her place. At the sa ti, I got so feedback through my mask.
’Is she scared just from this?’
I looked at the supposed class representative in confusion.
"How did he parry it?"
"All the attacks phased through him!"
"Idiot! It’s her illusion."
Hearing the viewers, a smirk tugged at my face as I finally understood — Her illusions were useless against !
Suddenly, tens of snow and ice projectiles flew toward like a barrage, but they suddenly shattered into pieces in the middle of the air, leaving only so beams which I dodged effortlessly.
The next second, I teleported and stood behind her.
"Boo."
Liora turned around instantly, swinging a dagger at , but almost in an instant, I caught it with my sword breaker.
*Snap!*
With a sudden twist of my wrist, the dagger’s blade snapped.
Before she could recover, I stabbed her stomach with the stiletto and used it to raise her with one hand.
"Sorry, bla that butt for putting you against ."
Without letting her talk, I slamd her into the ground and aggressively stomped her face.
*Bam!*
[I did nothing...]
’She wasn’t that strong without her illusions. You can probably beat her even without .’
*Bam!*
With one last kick, her mask shattered under my leg, revealing her beautiful face covered in blood.
"Let this be a painful lesson for you, dear class rep." I spoke loudly, my voice sharp and cold. "Don’t rely too much on your affinity. I don’t even need my main weapon to defeat you."
I raised my leg again, but before I could kick her face, I found myself among the students again.
’Wait, what?’
Confused, I looked at Butto with wide eyes as he carefully carried Liora outside the arena before calling Zephyr and Long Lei.
’Damn, he is really fast!’
The students around began to move away, but I ignored them and looked at Limitless’s fight.
[What the hell?!]
And what I saw made all of us open our mouths in shock.
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