Enrico looked at Alenya with determined eyes while she herself was nervous, all the students around had sweat dripping down their foreheads.
"I really want to have this today"
"That's too fast, isn't it? Today is the first day"
"Sorry but I couldn't hold back after seeing you"
Everyone had serious looks, because even though they were talking about fighting, since Enrico had already approached and invited her for a rank battle, the sentences they were saying didn't help their thoughts, especially those who arrived after that invitation. Kai right behind was confused seeing the expressions of the students who had arrived.
"This is weird, don't you think Valença?"
"Even if it's a mistake on their part, I'll be the next to fight her"
"This is going too far"
Liam, who had arrived, looked at Valença's deadly gaze and when he looked behind her the other girls seemed to agree with her statement. He might have wanted to help along with the other boys like Caelan, but neither could say anything or they'd be thrown to the wolves.
'I feel sorry for Miss Alenya but I'd rather stay alive'
"Accept me and I'll make sure you'll have fun"
"Alright I get it, just stop saying those words and let's go to the arena already"
It seemed that Alenya realized how she was being watched by the students and immediately embarrassed, she ran to the arena with Enrico following right behind her.
"I think he beat her with pure pressure"
"I hope she'll be fine"
Liam and Caelan shook their heads in pity, regardless, afterwards they saw how everyone ran wanting to follow that fight, because for a long time since the beginning of classes almost none of the top 10 of the first year wanted to fight.
"Isn't that Klaus? He seems to want to see this fight too even if he doesn't look excited"
"Of course, he'll be the next one to have to fight if Enrico beats Alenya, so he must want to see weaknesses to use in the battle"
"Besides, he was rank four before being defeated by me, so it's quite possible he doesn't want to drop rank since he's already in the eliminations"
Hearing Elaris's voice, they both saw her walking fast to follow the fight too. It would be good to note down interesting things from those two so she could use it to help her reclaim her kingdom.
'Today I'll convince Enrico to be my subordinate, that way he'll bring all that potential to my side. Besides, I can help him with the fire cancer so there's no way he'll refuse'
The two behind looked at each other and ran past her, maybe the fight was about to begin so they had to get there quickly. Entering through the door they sat in the stands seeing Enrico on one side of the arena and Alenya on the other.
"We got here in time"
"Yes we did, but we're in the last row"
Elaris entered and went straight to the front row that was being guarded by the vice-president of the student council. In the middle, the judge was Professor Zenaria whom they seemed to have met along the way.
"If you're ready you can start"
"Ray of Light"
Immediately after Zenaria's words, Alenya was the first to attack not wanting to give her opponent time. Enrico dodged to the side seeing her pass by his shoulder.
'As I thought, just because it's light doesn't mean it has that speed'
[That's because it's still a circle two spell]
Since it was a spell where she needed to move her arms, conjure the magic and launch it, Enrico could predict it because it was still a very weak spell. Stepping on the ground he disappeared and appeared behind her, surprising her.
"This is the same level—"
Being hit on the shoulder without being able to defend herself, she was sent to the side, his strength was the same as his speed, being absurd.
[His physical abilities are on the same level as rank 1 but his body is better than hers mainly after receiving that increment after sacrificing his circle]
'Don't even mention it, I still feel the pain… well it's good to know I surpassed all the others physically but I'm still below her level'
Victoria, the rank 1, was the peak of everything in humanity, always having both her magic and physicality at the maximum a human with the same circle as hers could have, being stronger and more powerful than anyone else and now Enrico had at least his body at the same level and even being better than hers.
'No, I have to make my body even more than that'
Several blades of light were launched at him and seeing that Enrico moved between them managing to come out unscathed. Feeling something coming from the side he saw a kick of light from Alenya approaching, then he grabbed it with his hand and spun, throwing her to the ground completely breaking her stance.
'As judge I'll have to adjust this…'
Raising a punch Alenya tried to hit Enrico while he dodged, using his hand he countered the punch which was defended but still dragged her back.
'These are the movements of the combat saint, looks like she awakened before her time'
[Who in this academy isn't awakening something before their time?]
'You have a point'
What Enrico was talking about was the unique ability that only appears in the saint chosen at that time where all the saints are stored in her body through the sacred sword where they sacrificed their lives to increase the power of the sword and that would someday happen with Alenya.
'Of course if I'm not here'
[How confident]
Channeling his magic into his body Enrico decided to end it by surprising her with his fire clone forming behind her.
'I won't give her time to counterattack'
Appearing behind her, Alenya looked back nervous, especially seeing several punches coming close to her, that would definitely hurt her a lot, so she raised both hands while closing her eyes.
"I give up"
Immediately Enrico stopped and Zenaria ended the match right there, Alenya sat down breathing heavily, she didn't want to lose that rank, which was exactly why she didn't want to fight Danyana, but it was impossible to refuse a candidate for the church's plans that seemed to have become interested in him for some reason.
"Alright then let's go to the next… you up there your name is Klaus, the rank 5, so I'd like to ask for a fight"
Klaus's eyes were staring fixedly at Enrico looking serious, standing up he waved accepting the fight. Sighing, Zenaria returned to her position and began the next match.
"I forfeit, you can have my rank"
"I gladly accept, thank you"
"I thank you"
Everyone went silent and then increasingly incredulous, this was unbelievable because Klaus seemed like someone who wouldn't give up his rank so easily and to make matters worse Enrico didn't look surprised, simply having a neutral face as if he already knew and understood.