Fantasy Library.

Chapter 14 Official Ranking Battle

There is a comprehensive arena in the Xingdaoguan Academy.

This comprehensive arena is huge, especially the largest stage in the center, which is very wide. Even the auditorium is luxuriously furnished, and you can tell at a glance that it was very expensive.

The stage is surrounded by a defensive barrier, which, once opened, will enclose the entire stage. The barrier can not only defend against attacks from Huang-style armed forces, but can also effectively withstand long-range fire bombings, ensuring the safety of the audience, so that the audience does not have to worry about being affected by overly intense duels.

This defensive barrier is not ordinary. Once it is opened, it consumes a large amount of energy and requires an extremely large-scale device to produce it. Therefore, there are only three stages with this barrier in the arena.

Normally, this largest stage is not open to the public.

But on this day, it was open.

Students in uniform walked in one after another, looking very excited along the way, filling the auditorium of the largest stage to capacity.

And it is obvious that they have only one purpose for coming here today.

That's watching the game.

Today, on this stage, the official ranking battle that only takes place once a month in the Seidoukan Academy will be held.

In the official ranking battle, they can not only see the active figures of the twelve members of the First Page who rarely duel with others privately in the past, but also see many powerful people in the rankings show their abilities. It is a rare opportunity.

For this reason, a large number of students come to watch the monthly official ranking battles. Sometimes there are even some high-ranking officials from the academy and special figures from other schools who come to watch the battles. In particular, those in the news industry who lead the reporting projects within Asterisk will arrive on time every time, just like sharks smelling blood.

After all, Asterisk is a dueling city, and students from the six academies are all participants in the Star Martial Arts Festival. As long as they can dig up some new information about famous and powerful contestants, there will definitely be a lot of traffic.

Because of this, not only in the Xingdaoguan Academy, but any academy that holds an event similar to the ranking battle will be overcrowded.

At this time, the audience in the audience seats were waiting for the ranking battle to begin while discussing it with great interest.

"The second ranking battle of this year is finally about to begin. I wonder which duel is the most exciting?"

"Of course it's the last duel of the day, right?"

"The number one duel?"

"Yes, this year's number one is very special. It is said that when she successfully became the number one, even other academies were alarmed."

"It seems that the one who specifically challenges her this time is the tenth-ranked [Kasumi Deep Witch], right?"

"The only two middle-level students among the twelve people in Shi Ye, and they are both female students, are actually going to duel here?"

"…Why do I suddenly feel more excited?"

"There's something wrong with you!"

Conversations like this occurred in various places in the audience, making the entire stage noisy.

In this atmosphere, a young girl sat in a separate seat like a VIP seat.

The girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and seemed to be a student in the advanced department. She had a pair of eyes that were as light blue as new leaves, a strong nose, fair skin, and a very delicate appearance.

The most eye-catching thing about the girl is undoubtedly her gorgeous waist-length hair.

The color of that long hair was very bright, not red, nor peach, but a special rose color.

Before the emergence of the Star Vein Generation, this kind of bright hair color could only be seen by dyeing it specially. But after the emergence of the Star Vein Generation, more and more people were born with overly eye-catching hair colors. Especially in the Star Vein Generation, the frequency of overly eye-catching hair colors was still quite high.

The girl with rose-like hair just sat there, her eyes looked very sharp and serious, and she gave off an aura that kept people at a distance, making people afraid to sit next to her.

until……

"Oh? So you are here too, Julis."

The cold atmosphere around the girl with rose-haired was suddenly broken by a chuckle mixed with surprise.

"...Claudia."

The girl called Julis looked to the side with a slightly unhappy expression, as if she had seen someone she didn’t want to see.

There, Claudia, with dazzling blonde hair and a beauty that was no less beautiful than Julis, but more mature and charming than Julis, slowly walked over. "I didn't expect you to come to watch the game, Julis." Claudia greeted her as if she had met a familiar friend, and said, "I remember that there didn't seem to be any designated challenge from you today, right?"

“You are the same, aren’t you?” Julis frowned, staring at Claudia, and said, “I don’t think that the most feared [Chimi Leader] in our academy will be challenged by someone, or are you finally planning to challenge the top spot?”

“Ranked first…?” Claudia did not answer Julis’ question, but as if she had suddenly realized something, she said, “So you came to watch the battle for [Blade of Thunder]?”

“…You’re still as sharp as ever, you.” Julis’s unhappy expression became more intense, but she still whispered, “It can’t be helped. She’s only been in school for a month, but she’s already defeated the old No. 1 in the first official ranking battle and successfully became the strongest person in the Star Guidance Hall. And the opponent is a first-year student in the middle school. Everyone will be curious whether she can maintain her position in the second official ranking battle, right?”

"Besides that, there must be a lot of people who want to know if that kid is really that strong, right?" Claudia said as she sat down next to Julis. "Especially people outside, there must be a lot of people who don't want to believe that a freshman in the middle school department who just entered school this year could actually get the first place."

“Who told her that the child is only thirteen years old?” Julis crossed her arms and hummed softly, “Even though the video of her duel has been circulated, many people still don’t want to believe that this is the true strength of a thirteen-year-old child.”

“Really?” Claudia tilted her head and chuckled, “Does that include you?”

“…What about you?” Julis glanced at Claudia and asked instead of answering, “Don’t tell me that the student council president, who is usually very busy, came here specially today just to watch the duel between the top ranked students.”

“Well…” Claudia neither denied nor confirmed it, but gave an ambiguous response.

"What?" Julis knew the other party well. Seeing the other party's performance, she was a little surprised and asked: "Are you really not here for the first-ranked duel?"

“It would be a lie to say I’m not interested.” Claudia smiled and said, “But compared to that kid, I want to watch another duel today.”

Julis immediately became curious after hearing what Claudia said.

"There is another duel that is worthy of your attention? It is even more prioritized than the number one duel?" Julis asked directly, "Who is the opponent?"

Claudia did not answer this question, but just chuckled.

"Humph."

Julis snorted coldly, turned her head away, and muttered in her heart.

"I want to see who it is that deserves your special attention."

As Julis muttered, a mechanical speaker appeared in the arena.

"The official ranking battle is about to begin. Please do not leave your seats at will."

"Please invite both parties of the first duel to enter the arena."

Guided by the loudspeaker sound, two figures walked out from the aisles on both sides of the competition stage.

There was a sudden roar of cheers from the audience, officially announcing the start of the official ranking battle.

…………

At the same time, Aize was on standby in the player area of the arena.

He is not the only one here. All those who are ready to duel are here, quietly waiting to go on stage.