Raff seemed to stretch his arms as he smiled, "I happen to be bored." He said as he looked at Mace.

"It turns out that not only is he a pervert, but he also has no brains," Elena muttered in surprise after hearing Raff accept Mace's challenge.

"Alright. Now take your party and come with me to the open practice field," Mace said, looking very annoyed at Raff's words.

"Party? No kidding, I've fought enough of you myself," Raff said confidently.

Mace looked even angrier, his friend even reminding him that they shouldn't break the rules. Mace immediately left the room without responding to Raff's words, and Mace's friend immediately followed. Raff also left the room, whistling casually.

"It seems like he's the one who gets the stage most of the time after the academy," Hayato grumbled as he followed Raff from behind.

"Let's just see them fight, I want to see a kid named Raff get beaten to death," a Rank F student said enthusiastically.

"I'm also curious to see his arrogance," said another.

"That noble boy will definitely not show him mercy, he idiot! Accepting their challenge is the same as choosing death," Elena said as she stood up.

The first year Rank F students now came out of their classrooms to watch Raff and Mace fight, Elena, who was the last to leave, immediately stopped her steps when she saw that a blue-haired girl was still in the classroom.

"Don't you want to see them fight?" asked Elena.

"I'm not interested," the blue-haired girl replied as she looked down at the book she was reading.

"Well," Elena said with a confused look on her face. "She seems very quiet," Elena muttered as she left the classroom.

Mace's party seemed to attract the attention of the other students, who became even more interested when they saw all of the first year Rank F students following them from behind. Some of the second years began to cheer Mace's name.

"What's going on downstairs?" asked Miyura, who had just come out of the third-year Rank B classroom.

"I heard that second-year Mace is going to fight with all the first-year Rank F students," Van Ugo replied.

"Huh? Even though they just took the test today, he is crazy," Miyura said as she walked towards the stairs.

"Where are you going Miyura?" asked Fia.

"Of course I'm going to see his fight, it must be exciting to see those Rank F kids get beat up," Miyura replied with a smile.

"She's like that," Zoa grumbled as he followed Miyura. Fia, Cindy and Van Ugo, who were in the same party as them, also came down to watch Mace fight.

They immediately went to the open training area behind the main hall of the Elexia Academy. There was a large field in front of them, on each side of the field was a wall that was used as a seat, the further back, the higher the wall.

The atmosphere there was like a Colosseum arena. The area of the field seemed to be limited by a thick and high wall, and there were only four ways to get to the field in the form of stairs.

Raff walked down each step, his gaze fixed on the wall that separated the field from the seats, "What do I feel? Why is there such a thick stream of mana flowing within the walls of this field?" Raff muttered softly.

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Mace and six of his friends seemed to be standing on the field, waiting for Raff to enter. As the Rank F students and other classes began to sit on the wall seats, Mace's second-year Rank B friends seemed to begin cheering.

"Bring our weapons over here!" Mace ordered as he looked at his cheering friends in the bleachers.

It wasn't long before several of Mace's classmates began throwing weapons that belonged to Mace and his party mates. Mace quickly grabbed his sword and sheathed it around his waist.

"You quickly choose which of your friends will help you fight us! If necessary, all first year F rank students will come to the field to fight us!" said Mace as he looked at Raff who had just entered the field.

"Hehehe... Didn't I tell you that I'm good enough on my own?" said Raff as he stood up to look at Mace.

"Hahaha... so you want a one-on-one duel with me, huh?" asked Mace.

"Why don't you all come out? Are you afraid of losing?" said Raff as he frowned.

"Tch. I've had enough of your arrogant attitude! I wanted to show you the good manners of a noble!" grumbled Mace as he drew his sword. "Give him a weapon from the Academy's arsenal! Let him choose which one to use!" Mace ordered.

Soon a number of second year students left and returned to the training area, carrying various types of weapons and throwing them onto the field. Spears, wands, knives, swords, shields, and others lay along the sides of the field. But Raff didn't give them a second glance.

"Why didn't you pick them up right away? I've been itching to chop your head off!" Mace asked.

"I don't need a weapon just to hit you," Raff replied.

"You have exhausted my patience!" shouted Mace.

A huge burst of mana began to emanate from where Mace was, the dust and gravel around Mace's body seemed to scatter in different directions. Waves of wind began to hit Raff's body and everyone sitting around the training ground.

"He's going to die," Elena said quietly.

"No, he won't. Don't think of him as weak," Hayato argued, sitting next to Elena.

"I'm not talking to you," Elena grumbled.

"No problem, this is a good start for our interaction," Hayato said while wiping his fringe. "This battle is quite good for me, this way I can observe to what extent Raff's plot armor has an effect in battle," Hayato thought while looking at Raff who was on the field.

"Do you feel it? The difference in strength between the two of us!" asked Mace with a satisfied look on his face.

"You think venting your mana is enough to scare me?" asked Raff casually.

"Tch, you still have a big head. Feel the real desperation!" shouted Mace as he swung his sword forward. "Thunder slash!"

A bolt of lightning shot horizontally in the shape of a sword slash toward Raff, but Raff didn't move from where he stood. He just clenched his right fist, a bolt of lightning slowly began to envelop Raff's right hand, the bolt of lightning began to solidify and form a knife, a small bolt of lightning seemed to flash out of the lightning knife in Raff's right hand.

Raff immediately cut off the lightning bolt that formed a sword slash when it was in front of him, Mace's attack was cut in half and hit the wall behind Raff, the sound of the explosion was clearly heard along with the wind waves coming from the two explosion points.

The ground beneath the blast point began to scatter under the impact, but the wall that bordered the field didn't seem to be damaged in the slightest, instead the blast marks from Mace's attack on the wall seemed to regenerate and recover without a trace.

"Looks like this field is interesting," Raff said as he felt the movement of mana on the wall that had been hit earlier.

"That attack didn't destroy the wall? Even though the ground beneath it was scattered like that," Hayato thought, also noticing something unique in the walls of the entire training field.

"No way, a Rank F student cut off Mace's attack?" several second-year students said with shocked looks on their faces.

"What's going on? How can he cut off my attack? Besides, he also has the element of lightning," Mace muttered with a shocked look on his face.

"Why are you so surprised? Isn't there a big power difference between us?" asked Raff with a grin.

"Don't get excited yet! I was just making an opening attack for you!" shouted Mace as he drew his sword on Raff again. "The real duel is about to begin!" shouted Mace as he lunged at Raff, swinging his sword from above.

"Thunderbolt!" shouted Mace as he slashed his sword through the air.

A much larger bolt of lightning now shot down at Raff from above, this time Raff stomped his feet to avoid Mace's attack. A loud bang was heard as Mace's attack hit the ground where Raff had been standing, dust from the shattered chunks of earth scattering into the air.

Mace tried to slash his sword at Raff as he stomped on the ground, but Raff easily dodged. Mace's sword slash landed just in front of Raff's eyes. The sound of impact was heard as Mace's sword hit the ground, Raff just smiled and then jumped back a few steps to avoid Mace's sword slash coming back.

"Class assassin, apparently," Mace said as his sword slash this time cut through the wind. "No wonder he can dodge my slash from this close."

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