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He avoided what could be avoided and blocked what couldn’t be avoided with the help of his fellow teachers.

That’s how they reached the top. It was natural to feel a sense of achievement.

The Sword Saint looked at Ethan and then at the Ivecar teachers.

“What happened to our branch family kids?”

As Ethan expected, the Sword Saint seemed most curious about the safety of the branch family.

Traps could be identified and avoided easily with the power of Sleeping Dragon’s Sight.

But the Ramsdale branch family members weren’t opponents that could be avoided just because you wanted to.

“A head-on confrontation would have taken too long, so we ambushed them.”

“What?”

The Sword Saint made a bewildered expression. An ambush?

“You’re saying you ambushed the kids who were hiding to ambush you?”

The Sword Saint asked again with a dumbfounded expression, wondering if he had heard wrong.

“Yes.”

But Ethan nodded calmly.

Since he could see all the places where they were hiding, it wasn’t that difficult to ambush them in reverse.

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Moreover, Ciron’s swordsmanship skills and the magic skills of the three Magic Department teachers were excellent.

No matter how strong the Ramsdale branch was, there was no way they could handle the Ivecar teachers attacking according to Ethan’s timing.

That’s how Ethan brought out the best in his fellow teachers, and they were able to easily handle the Ramsdale branch family members who were hiding in a row all the way to the top.

“Huhu, huhuhuhuh-!”

The Sword Saint felt caught off guard. He never thought they could reach the top by making the first move in this way.

“To think you’d ambush them. I never even considered it. Excellent, excellent. I suppose Ethan was the guide?”

“Yes, he was really amazing!”

Ciron answered with an elated expression.

“And the other teachers must have excellently carried out Ethan’s instructions. Hmm, you’re certainly worthy of first place.”

He had some inner concerns since they had climbed to the top via a different route than the set one. But the Sword Saint actually valued that point highly.

“If you think a path is right, then that’s the right path. You’ve worked hard climbing to the top.”

The Sword Saint gestured behind him. Behind were makeshift tents and food prepared for comfortable rest.

Having climbed up quite breathlessly, the teachers, including Ethan, went to the tents to rest.

The Sword Saint looked at the artifacts again.

“Second place has been decided too.”

***

“Huff… Huff…”

Freya Academy, having overcome various traps, was fighting with the Ramsdale branch family members.

When they first encountered them, they weren’t too worried.

They were members of the Ramsdale branch, not the main family.

In contrast, they were Freya’s elite teachers.

Moreover, they thought the other side wouldn’t try to inflict wounds unless absolutely necessary. That’s why they planned to quickly subdue them and move up.

There was even no pursuit from behind.

Goode and Covington would obviously be beaten, and the problem was Ivecar Academy. But there was no sense of movement from that Ivecar.

Luthe, a Freya Academy teacher, thought they had fallen for this illusion magic.

It was certainly a tricky magic. To think it could stimulate trauma in an instant.

But Luthe wasn’t someone who would fall for such mental magic. He broke free in an instant, and Kai and Heris also broke free from the illusion magic simultaneously.

Thanks to that, they were able to widen the gap with other academies even more.

In that state, they thought they would quickly overcome these people and climb to the top.

They thought they might even be able to surprise the Sword Saint.

But it wasn’t easy. They were just uninjured, but their stamina was severely depleted.

The Ramsdale branch wasn’t something to be ignored.

These were people who had accumulated a lot of practical experience and worked together for a long time.

No matter how elite the Freya teachers were, being outnumbered and outexperienced, they couldn’t see a way to break through.

That’s when Kai stepped forward.

“Teacher Kai.”

“I’ll break through. I’ll create an opening, so follow behind me.”

But unlike Luthe and Heris, Kai Felix had quite a bit of energy left.

As Kai gripped his sword, the Ramsdale branch members tensed.

In fact, they hadn’t intended to press this hard.

Originally, they planned to deplete their stamina moderately, raise the tension, and then retreat, but the situation changed oddly due to Kai Felix stepping forward.

“If we go easy, we’ll get hurt. We need to be thorough.”

The branch team leader said.

The rumored Kai Felix was a member of the Twelve Stars Families and Freya’s great elite teacher.

But those who had seen him directly in this training session said his skills were lacking compared to the rumors.

They said he had an overwhelmingly lethargic feeling, and although he clearly had skills, there was something unsettling about him.

But Kai’s skills when directly confronted were extremely excellent.

Skills lacking compared to the rumors?

If these were lacking skills, just how much more excellent did they have to be to be considered great skills?

Kai Felix’s sword was so rough that even the branch members couldn’t handle him carelessly.

As the leader said, if they went easy, they’d get badly hurt.

“……”

Meanwhile, his two colleague teachers were greatly surprised by Kai’s sword, which was clearly different from before.

The two teachers had experience observing Kai’s classes a few times.

Also, since Freya had several separate trainings for new teachers, they had seen Kai Felix’s sword up close quite a few times.

Even then, Kai Felix had displayed highly refined swordsmanship.

Of course, Luthe wasn’t a swordsman, so he couldn’t tell how great Kai’s swordsmanship was. But even at a glance, he could feel a different quality from other swordsmen.

But the sword Kai was wielding now was completely different from then.

“……”

Why was that? It clearly looked much rougher than before, but now it seemed stronger.

Kai suddenly stepped strongly on the ground and plunged between the Ramsdale branch members.

It was an action the previous Kai would never have taken.

Clang-!

Kai instantly sent the sword of the branch member in front flying and broke through.

“Run!”

As Kai took the lead and ran, the two teachers followed. This was the right time. The Ramsdale branch members who had just let the three teachers go stared blankly at them.

“This is completely different from what we were reported?”

“What! We could have gotten hurt if we weren’t careful!”

“Seems like there’s been some change of heart… Beyond being different from what we were told, it felt like… he was venting some frustration.”

***

“Huff… Huff…”

The Freya Academy teachers arrived at the top, breathing heavily.

“We, we must be first.”

“We’re first!”

Unlike the two teachers who were completely sprawled out, Kai frowned slightly as he looked ahead.

“I don’t think so.”

“What?”

“We’re not!?”

The two shocked teachers hastily got up. Kai pointed as if telling them to look behind.

“Yes, there’s an academy that arrived before us.”

Kai wore a sour expression as if he had expected this.

Behind, under the makeshift tent, the Ivecar Academy teachers were resting.

Ciron Ramsdale was grinning at the late-arriving Freya teachers.

“You arrived faster than expected?”

“H-How…”

“We clearly weren’t being chased from behind…!”

Luthe gritted his teeth in frustration.

Seeing this, the Ivecar teachers smiled slightly.

For a moment, Kai and Ethan’s eyes met.

‘His eyes look better. Seems like he’s made up his mind.’

It was clear that the things that had been suppressing him for a long time were breaking.

“Rest in that tent over there. Let’s wait for the remaining academies.”

After quite some time had passed, Goode Academy and Covington Academy arrived.

Goode was third, Covington fourth.

“Huff… Huff…”

The two academies were completely ragged, but their eyes were alive. It seemed they had become rivals and competed while climbing up.

“With this, everyone has excellently climbed to the top.”

The teachers of the two academies also wore puzzled expressions. Ivecar Academy clearly hadn’t overtaken them.

“Could it be…”

“The first place in this physical training class is Ivecar Academy. They arrived much faster than Freya Academy, who came in second.”

Everyone seemed curious about how exactly Ivecar had taken first place.

“Ivecar came by their own path.”

“B-But that’s…”

“I told you guys to reach the top.”

The Sword Saint looked at the academy teachers.

“And Ivecar reached the top. Faster than anyone else. There were no unfair methods. I was watching everything from the top.”

“……”

At the Sword Saint’s words, everyone had to close their mouths.

“As promised, I’ll give the prize to Ivecar Academy, who came in first in this class.”

As he said this, the Sword Saint stomped his foot strongly.

“First, let’s thank our Ramsdale knights who worked hard for this class.”

The Ramsdale branch members, who had been somewhere, suddenly appeared and lined up behind the Sword Saint.

About twenty of them were glaring at the Ivecar Academy side.

These were the ones who had been thoroughly caught off guard by Ethan’s ambush.

In fact, some of them couldn’t even properly remember the situation.

They had fainted before they could even recognize what was happening.

“Thank you very much!”

“Thank you!”

The Ramsdale branch members all bowed their heads at once.

“With this, the first class is over.”

The Sword Saint said.

“Let’s start the second class. The second class will be sparring. Through sparring, I’ll check your practical sense and correct your problems. I’ll make sure swordsmen learn how to deal with mages, and mages learn how to deal with swordsmen.”

As the Ramsdale branch members moved busily, a match table was quickly created.

“You’re most curious about one thing, right? Who will be the strongest in this training session?”

The Sword Saint looked at Ethan and Kai.

“Teacher Ethan Whiskers, and Teacher Kai Felix. Please come forward.”

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