"I hadn't expected so few people to be watching, but it made sense. In many people's eyes, this match had nothing worth watching."
When Shen Fei headed to Po Jun Academy's Fourth Training Ground, he found that there were fewer than twenty people in the surrounding stands. After giving it some thought, he roughly understood why. On the surface, this match held no suspense at all. One was an F-rank knight, while the other was an A-rank knight. The students had gathered to gossip purely because it was juicy news.
From the conversations Shen Fei had overheard along the way, he could tell how most students felt about Stella and Kurogane Ikki. Toward Stella, it was envy, jealousy, and resentment. Born into royalty and blessed with such immense magic power, she was practically born lucky. None of them knew what price Stella had paid for that world-class magic power.
As for Kurogane Ikki, it was much simpler: pure mockery. After all, he was the first F-rank knight in history. By International Magic Knight League standards, the lowest rank a knight could hold was E. An F-rank knight was merely a title, because no such knight should have existed.
"The two of them came personally to watch the match? It's simulated training... Looks like I'll have to find a way to understand and reconstruct a Device, or I really won't be able to take part in simulated training."
Seeing both Chairwoman Nikyoji Kurono and Saikyo Nene present, Shen Fei could not help considering what he would do if he encountered real combat in the future. Devices in this world had a very useful mode: fantasy form. In that form, Devices would not harm the body and would only drain stamina, avoiding many dangers.
However, Shen Fei did not have a fantasy