[Fifteen minutes earlier - Central Training Grounds]
The central training grounds were packed with students.
Word had spread like wildfire through the first-year forums that something big was about to happen.
Multiple ranking challenge matches being issued simultaneously, all targeting Noble students in the top fifty rankings.
Hundreds of students had gathered to watch, forming a massive crowd around the various combat rings that had been set up across the grounds.
The atmosphere was electric with anticipation and tension.
"Did you hear? The Mafia is challenging a bunch of Nobles all at once."
"Are they insane? Those Nobles have way better resources and training! Not everyone is like Damian, you know!"
"I heard most of them already recovered from yesterday using expensive healing potions. Only the SS-rank talents are still injured."
"This is going to be a massacre. The Mafia students are going to get destroyed."
