I rely on myself

Chapter 20 Passed
Because of the 'Seven Star Sword Fighting Competition Qualification Competition', the curriculum of Pojun Academy was changed to normal classes in the morning and selection competitions in the afternoon.

Such a match is currently taking place inside a training ground in Pojun Academy, and the Pojun Academy's 'Broadcasting Agency' is providing commentary for the match.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting! The most anticipated match of the first day of the selection tournament! B-class freshmen! The descendant of the legendary hero, Kurogane Ryoma, Kurogane Shizuku's first match!"

"Now that she has stepped onto the ring, let's look forward to her performance."

After introducing the eye-catching new students, the 'Announcer Club' began to introduce its opponents.

"And on the other side is her opponent - the Seven Stars Sword Festival representative player, Azuchiyama Michiyuki, who defeated Tanlang in the exchange competition held together with Tanlang Academy last winter. Everyone is also very optimistic about his participation in this year's Seven Stars Sword Festival: the third-year C-class knight, Guan Maoxin!"

"Will the senior students with rich combat experience give the young knights a warning? Or will the new generation supernova show her strength! Now, the alarm bell for the start of the battle rings - oh!? The contestant rushed out at the same time as the bell rang!"

Guan's inherent spiritual equipment - the twin swords were bursting with lightning and crackling, and he said, "Sorry, Supernova! My ability is the natural enemy of 'water', 'thunder'! If you want to hate someone, just hate yourself for having such bad luck! - 'White Thunder Blade'!"

Just when Guan thought she had the upper hand, Zhu Shizuku looked at the opponent rushing towards her with an expressionless face, and the next moment she activated her sword-cutting skill "Block Wave Water Lotus", intending to defend with this water barrier.

Normally this is impossible. After all, water is conductive under normal circumstances and cannot defend against lightning.

But under Shizuku's superb magic control, this water barrier is made of pure water and is completely unable to conduct electricity.

Faced with such a defense, Guan had no way out at all, and was eventually suffocated by Zhu Shizuku's launched 'Water Prison Bullet', thus winning the game. The entire process, from the start to the end of the game, took less than 5 minutes.

At the same time that Shizuku was competing, a competition was also taking place in another training ground.

The number of spectators here is more than four times that of the training ground where Shizuku is, and it is not difficult to guess why so many people come.

Because one of the contestants on the ring is Stella Famillion, the top freshman who is hailed as a rare genius princess from a foreign country in ten years and has a "title" in her first year, and this is her public debut.

At the same time, her opponent is no ordinary person. He is a senior student with the same title, "Heavy Tank" Taogu Wushi, a sturdy man with a height of nearly 190 meters. He uses the rare armor-type inherent spiritual outfit "Goliath" to perform gravity collision, and has knocked countless knights out of the field so far! He is ranked in the top ten in popularity in the school.

Now that the race had begun, Tao Gu, wearing a suit of armor made of overlapping layers of heavy armor, lowered his body behind the starting line, ready to charge his opponent—but he stopped where he was, motionless.

The audience around was very puzzled by this.

"What's wrong with Taogu? Just knock her away like you always do!"

"That guy even lost to an F-rank opponent! It's a piece of cake for you!"

Among them, his classmates and friends continued to voice their support.

But Taogu was now unable to respond to his classmates and friends because he felt an extremely powerful force.

Although he had long known that the other party was a genius knight with the strongest magic power in history, Taogu had never had a real feeling about it. But now that he was really standing in front of the other party, Taogu felt fear of this strongest magic power.

Although Stella just stood there quietly, the blazing flame dress wrapped around her body, the flames spread to the entire arena with her as the center, and the spiritual outfit 'Fei Long Zui Sword' scattered phosphorescent flames and burned the air.

Even though they were more than ten meters apart, this heat still penetrated the flesh wrapped in the armor. "Knock her away? That's impossible. Doing so is like jumping directly into the crater of a volcano." This thought flashed through Taogu's mind.

At this time, Stella, who had been watching her opponent not daring to attack, suddenly said, "It seems that you have realized the gap between us. So what should we do? Surrender?"

After hearing this, Tao Gu thought about it and said dejectedly: "I, I give up."

Seeing Taoya admit defeat without launching a single attack, the spectators were very surprised. After all, although they saw Stella ignite a sea of ​​fire on the ring, they were far away from the ring, so they could not feel the burning sensation.

After the explanation by 'Yashahime' Nishikyo Ningyin, the audience around finally understood why.

"Uh~ I just received the latest news. In the 15th training match, the runner-up freshman, Kurogane Shushizuku, also defeated the third-year player Kan Maoxin!"

The girl who was doing the live broadcast suddenly said a piece of news and expressed her thoughts on it.

"This year's freshmen are so strong in actual combat! Whether they are the first or second place, the senior students in the school can't even get close to them! It's an overwhelming victory! They won a perfect victory without any injury, and won the first battle in the public battle! As expected, this year's freshmen are different! Maybe this year our school can finally win the Seven Stars championship!?"

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After the game, Stella and Shizuku came to a place, and Arisuin and Hayashimoto, who had been waiting for a long time, congratulated them.

"Congratulations, Stella and Shizuku, you both passed the preliminary round successfully. I hope everything will go smoothly for you from now on."

"Well, victory is a given. After all, although our opponents are seniors, they are inferior to you two in every aspect."

Stella and Shizuku were very happy when they heard Arisuin's congratulations, but after hearing Lin Yuan's words, they felt like a bucket of cold water was poured on them.

Stella was the first to complain: "I'm telling you, can't you just say something nice? If you continue like this, I suspect you'll be punished by someone one day."

"That's right." Zhu Shizuku also agreed with this.

After she finished speaking, Stella noticed that Qianyin was not here.

"Where's Qianyin? Where did she go?"

"Don't worry about Qianyin. It's just that her game is about to start, so she went to the competition venue by herself. By the way, her game has also ended. Although it was very difficult, she still won the victory just like you two."

Arisuin answered Stella's questions and mentioned his own competition situation.

"Great, congratulations Alice, in that case let's go and help Qianyin."

"If we weren't waiting for you two, Alice and I would have been there a long time ago. Let's go."

After saying that, Lin Yuan turned around and walked towards Qianyin's competition venue. Stella and the other three looked at each other, suddenly understood something, burst into laughter, and followed Lin Yuan's footsteps.

(End of this chapter)