There was nothing more to say after that.
After Luo Zhen and Attila's special training, both Ikki and Stella had overcome the greatest difficulties of their lives. They had successfully grown at an astonishing speed and become unimaginably powerful.
An ordinary student knight could no longer be a match for either of them.
At least, an ordinary student knight certainly couldn't.
Thus, from then on, Ikki, Stella, and even Shizuku kept breaking through their selection matches with a perfect winning record. Regardless of who their opponents were, they could secure victory within a few seconds or a few dozen seconds, often without even getting serious, defeating their opponents cleanly and decisively without leaving them the slightest chance.
During this period, Ikki, Stella, and Shizuku all encountered representative contestants from last year's Seven Star Sword Festival, facing opponents far stronger than those before.
Yet against these powerful opponents, let alone Ikki and Stella—even Shizuku won with ease, proving just how formidable the three of them were.
Ikki and Stella went without saying, but even Shizuku defeating last year's representative contestants so cleanly was honestly somewhat surprising to both Ikki and Stella.
However, on closer thought, although Shizuku had not undergone training and hardships as harsh as those Ikki and Stella had endured, she had said before that, in order to help Ikki, she had employed every means at her disposal to heal all kinds of injuries he suffered. As a result, her control over water had risen by countless levels. Otherwise, with Shizuku's former abilities, she absolutely could not have saved even Ikki after he had suffered fatal injuries.
It was clear that, in order to do her part for Ikki, Shizuku had also grown in her own way. Even if the extent of her growth was inferior to Ikki's and