Boe spent next two months to learn all rank 1 techniques he got from SV, train in archery, read through all books on alchemy and even tried experimenting.
“Shadow Clone”, “Shadow Hand” and “Blinding darkness” didn’t even take a day for him to master, since he already had a foundation from their lower level copies. It took him only three days to completely grasp “Amplification” technique, when he used it first time on his hands, he saw how shadow attribute battle aura condensed on his hands. This scene reminded him how his older brother used the same technique to cover his blade with flames to fight wild beasts, Boe thought his brother was invincible at the moment. How foolish was he back then?
“Vitality devourer” turned out to be the only one hard to learn for Boe. Boe spent two weeks comprehending it, and only then did he start to understand how to use it in theory, the only way to use it on practice was to use it on people who already had a battle aura inside of their bodies.
All remaining time Boe was practicing archery and learning alchemy. Alchemy was one of the hardest professions in the world of wizards, so even though Boe spent almost one and a half months on learning it and even used a lot of his precious herbs from Thomas’ mansion, he didn’t really progress much. After finishing almost one hundred experiments, he only succeeded once, and the potion he created was one of the easiest to brew even amongst the lowest level of potions. It was “Basic external healing potion”, it could only heal minor external injuries. Only now did Boe understand how precious were all those potions that Alfred used on him while he was training in the inner garden.
‘It seems that I don’t have a talent for alchemy, but I will still try to learn it at least to the beginners’ level. I can’t always depend on buying healing potions, there is always a possibility that I will somehow end up in an uninhabited place or will be surrounded by enemies.’ Boe decided not to focus his attention on alchemy too much, but couldn’t drop it forever either.
When Boe was using his bow in Thomas’ inner garden, he could only hit his target if it wasn’t moving one out of five times, but after practicing in archery at school for some time he was now confident in dealing a killing blow to any motionless target. As for moving targets, he still had no certainty in hitting them even one out of ten times.
Apart from all that, he started training in second level of his battle technique “Demon Emperor”, which consisted of five steps. First step was to somehow link up twenty-six moves into thirteen moves. Second step was to practice these thirteen moves in demonification form until they would each be able to send a little amount of shadow attribute battle aura five meters away out of his body. Third step was to establish some kind of mental connection with his inner demon. Fourth step was to be able to borrow his inner demon’s power without activating demonification. And final step to breakthrough to rank 2 was to use a power of his inner demon with his thirteen moves without activating his demonification form.
But even though he tried to combine all twenty-six moves with each other while training, he couldn’t combine any of them together. He felt like they were each separated moves and had no links to each other. Boe was very frustrated that he couldn’t accomplish anything in this field so he tried to ask for his master’s help a few times, but The Strongest ignored all Boe’s attempts to contact him.
*BANG-BANG*
Someone was banging on Boe’s door even though it was only 6 in the morning, without even asking or looking, Boe already knew it was his only friend in this school, Kamys Tad. For the last two months, every time Boe was going to cafeteria, Kamys was appearing out of nowhere and would walk with Boe and talk non-stop about all the things that happened to him. Few days ago Kamys managed to breakthrough and become rank 1 fire attribute wizard, so he decided to participate in a competition with Boe. Apart from Kamys, Ella was now the third person in their group, she didn’t want to become part of Boe’s and Kamys’ group, but Kamys would always sit next to her and take Boe with him. Kamys was very persistent and would always call her “my love” or “my future wife”, she was arguing and shouting at Kamys first few times, but eventually had to give up and just ignore Kamys’ pestering. Because of that, Harson Vito hated Kamys even more than he hated Boe, he was trying to make Ella to like him for years, but she always ignored and detested him and now she was sitting with Kamys every day and he even told everyone that was Ella’s future husband already.
“Brother Boe, you have to wake up already and come out or I’ll have to break this door and bring you out myself.” Even though Boe liked to be alone and train, he really enjoyed Kamys’ company for some reason. All other student of the school didn’t understand why would such a bright and cheerful person as Kamys become friend of a gloomy and cold Boe.
“Don’t break my door, let me dress up and I will come out.”
Today was the day when power ranking list is going to be released and all participants will start challenging each other, so Kamys wanted to be the first to see the list and challenge Harson to humiliate him. When Boe walked out of his room, Kamys was already too excited to stand still so he took Boe’s arm and ran toward the main hall of the school.
Power ranking list was already on the information board. All 9875 places were already occupied by senior members of the school, while all new participants were in a different list, there were 3218 of them. All you had to do to challenge someone from the list was to press your student token onto the name of a person you wanted to challenge. If you were allowed to challenge that person by the rules, your two names would appear next to each other on main information board together with a time and a place of your battle.
Kamys was currently looking through the list of new participants, and when he found Harson’s name on it, he immediately pressed on it with his student’s token. Second later “KAMYS TAD VS. HARSON VITO 12:00, Black Turtle scene.” appeared on central information board. Their fight was already scheduled and whole school could see it.
“Are you sure you can win? What do you know about Harson’s abilities?” Boe knew that Kamys was a lot stronger than ordinary rank 1 wizard because of his powerful background of physical training. Before Kamys even became a rank 1 wizard, his physical strength and agility were already on the level of a rank 1 wizard, so after he brokethrough, he definitely became one of the strongest rank 1 wizards in school. Kamys also had a lot of combat experience, but all those battles were without any magic in them, so even if his reaction and confidence were understandable he still could greatly underestimate Harson’s power.
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“Are you kidding? He is just a mere spoilt brat from rich family who has never dirtied his hands in a real battle, while I was experiencing life-and-death battles numerous time while I was training in my hometown. I also know that he is training in death attribute battle aura, which means his magic is superior to my fire attribute, but his physical strength is one of the weakest of all wizards while I’m superior to any rank 1 wizard in our school in this aspect.”
“Well, if you’ll be able to win I’ll be happy for both your victory and his humiliation. And even if you’ll lose, I will just have to avenge your pitiful ass.” Boe smiled and patted Kamys’ shoulder as if he was a big brother protecting his weak little brother.
“I always knew that under your cold looks you’re hiding a very arrogant personality!” Kamys started loudly laughing and it attracted a lot of attention to them.
“Alright, enough laughing, let’s go to big sis SV’s office and report about your fight to her or she will scold you again for not informing her about your actions.” Kamys previously didn’t report to SV that he became rank 1 wizard and she scolded him in front of whole school in the cafeteria, all students were laughing at him for two weeks after that.
“What? You challenged Harson Vito to fight? Were you hit in your head in childhood or something?!” SV was furious when she heard Kamys’ report.
“Yes, I did. Have you thought I wouldn’t dare to challenge him just because he is from some kind of rich family of this region, big sis SV?” Kamys was very proud of his actions, he thought he was very brave and righteous.
“Idiot … You are just an idiot. The problem isn’t in his family, but in his strength. You’ve just became a rank 1 wizard and only know one rank 1 technique and a few rank 0 techniques, while he became rank 1 wizard more than half a year ago and already mastered eight death attribute techniques. I know that physically you are a lot stronger than any rank 1 wizard and even most of the rank 2 wizards, but you have no chance against him with just that. And I have told you million times already, never call me big sis SV, call me professor Sky Venom.” SV was now really sure that Kamys’ parents dropped him on his head in his childhood.
“Big sis SV, I’m absolutely certain that I can defeat him with my speed and “Scorching Palm” technique in one blow!” SV now looked even angrier than she has ever been, how could this foolish student of hers be so confident if he has never fought a wizard before?
“Big sis SV, don’t worry about it, when he’ll lose, I will just challenge Harson and regain your lost pride immediately.” Boe chuckled and said it to calm SV and mock Kamys at the same time.
“You are a lot smarter and stronger than Kamys, but you shouldn’t underestimate Harson’s power too. Alright, since Boe will regain what Kamys will lose, you both can go and prepare to fight.” SV was behaving as a loving big sister in front of Boe, she evidently liked this student of hers a lot more than the other one.
When Boe and Kamys walked out of SV’s office, they decided to go to cafeteria to have a breakfast.
“My love, I knew you would be waiting for me here.” Right after they entered the cafeteria, Kamys noticed Ella and ran to sit with her.
“Hello, Boe, how are you? I heard you already have a fight scheduled in power ranking competition?” Ella ignored Kamys’ words and actions as she spoke to Boe.
“Me? Someone already challenged me?” Boe didn’t expect anyone to challenge him, since Harson was already challenged by Kamys.
“Yep, you’ll fight Loseac Vito at 14:00 on Yellow Snake scene. He’s Harson’s cousin of the same age as you, he became death attribute rank 1 wizard eight months ago and already mastered seven rank 1 techniques.”
“I guess I’ll have to defeat Harson’s cousin before avenging you, Kamys.” Boe looked as calm as ever, as if he didn’t place rank 1 wizard with seven rank 1 techniques in his eyes at all.
“Try not to lose to Harson’s henchman while I’m stomping Harson himself.” Kamys’ only laughed in response.
"KAMYS TAD AND HARSON VITO, PROCEED TO BLACK TURTLE SCENE, YOUR FIGHT STARTS IN ONE MINUTE."
“Good luck, Kamys.” Boe said while smiling and patted Kamys’ shoulder few times.
“I don’t need luck against that trash.” Kamys jumped up to the scene and immediately took out his black sword. Kamys looked like he was a real hero from fairy tales with his perfect looks and the sword in hands.
“I never expected that a filthy dog that runs around my Ella would dare to challenge me.” Harson appeared on stage and laughed while saying that. He was looking like he is a noble prince with his long blonde hair, emerald green eyes and expensive clothes.
“Stop talking and fight.” In a middle of a scene appeared a middle-aged man, he was one of low ranked teachers in school and was a referee of this match.
“Ajal Koochak” Harson immediately chanted his “Death’s embrace” technique, which was a death attribute defensive technique. Whenever user was attacked, he would only receive 25% of attack’s power, while 75% would just drain user’s battle aura. That meant that as long as user had sufficient amount of battle aura he would be protected from 75% of any attacks’ power.
“Kuykalochoo Alakan“ Kamys chanted his “Scorching Palm” technique, which was basically upgraded version of “Amplification” technique. This technique added a layer of battle aura on Kamys’ palm, and in addition added an effect of burning anything it touched for a few seconds.
"Olgon Cheryuu" Harson chanted his “Dead Warrior” technique, which was a summoning attack technique. This technique was able to summon a dead warrior, who already had a bond with a summoner. Harson’s family helped him to create a bond with a powerful warrior that was killed specifically to serve Vito family. This warrior had a physical strength on a level of regular rank 2 wizard and was a very outstanding summoned unit to have for a rank 1 wizard.
When Harson was summoning his warrior, Kamys has already started moving and was close to the dead warrior. Harson commanded his warrior to attack Kamys and already started chanting his next technique. Kamys was moving toward the dead warrior with a very high speed, but when he was just one meter away from the dead warrior, he suddenly jumped to the side and started moving in Harson’s direction twice faster than before. In just a split second, Kamys jumped away from the dead warrior, changed his direction and was already one meter away from Harson. Kamys already swung his blade to attack Harson, but Harson only smiled in response.
“Ajal Kylych” Harson finished chanting his “Death’s sword” technique, which created a very sinister looking powerful black-red sword, and attacked Kamys’ blade with it.
“Hmph, weakling.” When Kamys’ blade and Harson’s technique met each other, Kamys smiled and suddenly attacked Harson with his left hand, which was covered with “Scorching Palm” technique.
*BOOM*
Harson was sent flying off the stage by Kamys’ attack, when he landed he looked to be extremely injured and his stomach was burning with bright red flames.
‘Kamys’ attack was so strong that it sent flying and heavily injured Harson even though he already activated defensive technique, which absorbed 75% of attack’s power. I guess I have to reconsider how I treat that kid…’ SV was very shocked when she saw what happened.
“You saw that, brother Boe? Don’t you dare to lose against this trash’s henchman and we shall see who will be ranked higher by the end of the competition!”