- I can say that the first performance was… demonstrative. So please don't get left behind. Master Omar said with a sly smile that made everyone chill.

- And so the next candidate. At that moment, everyone was silent, not wanting to stand out.

- Hmph, cowards! Reyna called out as she took a step forward. From the battle of Mark, she was all on fire inside. All her life before that, she was praised as an incomparable genius who is born once in a hundred years, such an environment made her very proud. But what she saw now was the strongest slap in the face from reality.

- Let's start then.

- Command - Activation. Reset the last battle, start training from the beginning. Start.

After these words, the golem came to life again. Turning to Reine he took it mindlessly attacked.

The first minute was taken up by the golem trying to keep up with the girl's speed trying to hit the afterimages.

In the second minute, the golem changed its body. Having made the legs thicker, and sharpened the arms, making the edges of the fingers thinner than the needle.

Both at one moment ran to meet in the middle of the field.

The fight began to gain momentum, the golem began to move faster and faster. From time to time using Reina's movement. Because of what, the girl had to take out her knives for a long time to parry or block every blow.

Over time, the girl's screams could be heard, as each missed blow penetrated to the very muscle fibers, forcing the girl to scream and growl with each missed blow.

When the third minute came, instead of getting even bigger, the golem shrunk. Up to the size of a dwarf. Where his height was no more than half a meter.

That's when the hour came when the girl began to press. The golem's speed was intimidating.

The first thing he did when he finished the upgrade was a direct hit. If he had done this in the first minute, then Reina could easily dodge.

This time it was different. The golem, having turned into a cannonball, exploded with speed, leaving a hole behind. Just as Reyna was about to dodge, the golem tilted its neck into a forward somersault, fitting its feet into the girl's face.

Nobody expected this. The whole fight up to this point, the golem had fought like an assassin, aiming for weaknesses and wearing down its opponent. Now he looked more like a master of close combat, as evidenced by his strike.

Heh heh heh. There was a heavy cough as a girl emerged from the dust cloud. Her head was covered in blood, but that didn't diminish her savagery. Now the girl's blue eyes have changed to a golden color.

- Fu-fu-fu, how it was a long time ago that I was forced to give all my best. Reyna said with a slightly crazy smile.

One moment she stood still, and the next the golem was smashed into the ground. Where the girl now stood in his place.

An explosion was heard as Reyna could be seen trampling the golem's face into the ground with her foot with increasing force.

Die

Die

Die

- May you die!

From such savagery, everyone had a frost on the spine. Today everyone could understand one simple thing.

At one point, the fight became one-sided. The golem tried to get up and was trampled into the ground. He tried to use different tricks, but he was pressed to the ground like a cockroach.

Even Master Omar felt sorry for the golem for a moment. After all, he, as a developer, was able to see that Reina Tsuchikado was able to see the main weakness of the golem.

Regardless of the training mode he put in, it was just a way to cover up the golem's main weakness. If the golem makes the wrong decision to upgrade, or if, as in Reyna's case, it fails to take into account the fact that instead of speed it will be a stronger type, then it will have a problem. What is happening now.

Time passed until the fourth upgrade began, at the moment when Reyna saw that the golem was trying to stand up again, he felt a click on his leg. Looking down at her left ankle, she saw the golem's left arm transform into a chain, while the right arm became a shield.

The next moment, the girl flew into the air, starting to rotate in a circle, she began to pick up speed. She would have been sick by now, only at that moment she was imprinted with all the force to the ground. Then she lost consciousness, and the golem was stopped by the teacher Omar.

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- It's commendable. Next?

"I can," Seno said uncertainly, taking a step forward.

Having received a nod, the girl stood in the center of the field. By order of the teacher, the golem reset the old settings, starting the battle from scratch. At first, the fight was standard, the golem attacked and the enemy dodged with minimal effort.

After the first minute, the first changes took place. The golem swelled into an eight-meter giant. From such a girl almost fainted from fear, but biting her lip, she was able to overcome her insecurity.

The golem, although it got bigger, lost a lot in speed, which made its quick movements more easily dodged. That's what Seno thought, and it's almost true.

Exactly before the first blow to the ground was delivered. The aftershock threw the girl a couple of meters.

From one blow, everyone's heart sank. Every time the golem moved to the next stage, everyone's head started to hurt. Since no one could predict the next appeal of the golem.

Hay wiped the blood from her lips and stood up catching her breath.

At that moment, another blow fell on her. He was slow, but that didn't fool her now. Instead of running away, she clenched her knees, gathering all her strength into them. And at the moment when the blow was half a meter away from her, she successfully jumped, grabbing her hand, climbing up it to the very neck of the golem.

Such a tactic paid off, the golem that previously aimed at her could not now hit herself, instead of this he tried to catch her with his giant hands. From the outside, it looked like a man trying to keep up with the speed of a fly.

The development of events made everyone laugh more and more, so that the girl was able to come up with a non-standard solution. When the second minute passed, Seno quickly descended, pulling away from the golem.

All the air that the golem had taken in instantly went away, creating a cloud of dust that blocked everyone's view.

Seno didn't see the enemy for a while until he emerged from the dust cloud.

He looked like a human, except he didn't have a face. He was one and a half meters tall, with large strong arms, swinging from side to side like a pendulum.

Something told Sena that a real battle was about to begin, from which she unconsciously screamed out.

- Oh oh.

With a confident step, the golem walked towards the girl, when he was in the strike zone, he landed a quick jab, which Seno was able to intercept by redirecting it from her face with a short sword.

Previously, her travels with Mark had taught her that greatswords weren't always comfortable, as by giving them an advantage in attack range they took away comfort in use by constantly dragging air when swinging. And it took a lot of energy.

Ring.

Kling

Jin.

There was a sound of metal pounding.

After a while, the blows began to get faster and faster, and the strength increased after every second.

On the other hand, Seno was now suffocating. Fighting at such a speed was new to her, having previously taken a supporting role in Mark's team, and always got easier opponents whose attacks were predictable and made it possible to bypass them.

Now she felt a pressure never seen before. The enemy pressed her more and more to the limit, not giving her the opportunity to take an extra breath. At the moment when she was already almost on the verge, the girl refused the opportunity to show herself in the fourth minute, deciding to lay everything out now.

– Mirror touch (in a whisper). (Ch. 32. - in short, this is her main skill of her class, which allows her to reflect strength by adding her when returning.)

Everyone could see that the golem was finally able to find the breach of the Seine, and the blow was delivered very cleanly. But what did not fit in the minds of everyone was that, along with receiving damage from the girl, the golem flew off from the place where it had previously stood like a comet.

- Heh heh heh heh. The sound of a girl choking was heard. After receiving the blow, she stood as before, but the tenacious gaze of Omar's teacher did not hide the fact that she began to turn pale. The power she absorbed was beyond her rank. And almost absorbed all the manno reserves.

- When the golem was already five meters away from the girl, the latter raised her hand, - I give up. A clear sound was heard. On the face of Seno read a strong unwillingness. But she knew better than anyone that she was at her limit. Because she tried to bite off more than she could chew.

Her class only gave her one skill, "Mirror Touch" - the point is simple. For a short period of time, she can swallow all the damage she has suffered, and then release it along with the power of her magical or physical attack, depending on the damage taken.

But here's the catch, it doesn't cost nearly anything as long as she absorbs her rank's attack. In the case of a higher rank, there is a penalty in the form of a tenfold increase in costs for each rank higher.

Well done for knowing your limits. If I had continued, I would have woken up in the hospital.

Although not leaving the field, Hay went completely into herself. Today, for the first time, she faced her weakness, which was so easy to ignore earlier when there was someone stronger who took everything upon herself.

Seeing that her friend had gone deep into herself, Reina simply stood next to her, holding the girl by the hand, to which she turned and only smiled, receiving a nod of complete confidence.

***

Mark woke up in a strange place, he found himself in a fetal position, and only darkness surrounded him. When he tried to move, for a moment he felt a resistance, which was gone in a second.

There was a pop, and the next thing he felt was how he fell on the warm floor. Looking around, he saw that he was in a green room filled with black pods. All of them had a common quality, each pod had a flame burning, at times increasing, and at other times shrinking.

As he looked at this enigma in the flesh, he heard footsteps.

Creeip. There was the sound of a door opening.

– Apprentice Mark Plan, your recovery time is over, please leave the recovery rooms. Turning in the direction of the voice, Mark saw a man in a white coat, his hair was slicked down. Sharp look. So he was no different from people. If not for the slit-like golden pupils, and the crocodile tail, which was hard to hide.

Following him, Mark could not bear to ask.

"Um… what were those pods, and… was I really wearing the same one?"

Hmph. There was a snort.

"Are all outsiders so…stupid?"

"For you to know Mark Plan. This is a product of magical engineering, they have only one purpose. Restore the body to the limit of functions. And its price in the market is considerable. If you weren't an accepted student at Wildfire Academy, you wouldn't be able to experience this.

- Uh, clear. Indeed, Mark thought when he noticed that his whole body was full of strength. He did not feel the ache from the overload of the body. There was no headache, he just felt a little airy. Other than that, everything is great.

Walking in silence all the way, they finally came to a glass room.

Entering it at the behest of the man, Mark stood in a circle.

– Activate transfer. Position - Wildfire Academy Hall.

"Good luck, man, I don't know what's wrong with you, but your blood is replenishing faster than normal, don't think it's good. After all, crossing the line here is easier than it seems.

With these words, the two parted ways.