To be honest, these four matches posed no pressure at all for Lu Yuan.
After all, he'd been selected as a seeded contestant by the organizers. Not making it into the top four would be downright unreasonable.
Unless Lu Yuan had a screw loose and deliberately let someone beat him.
But no matter how easy the matches seemed, Lu Yuan wouldn't let his guard down.
The first match: Lu Yuan vs. Maclin.
Maclin was an ability user who had awakened an S-rank light-type ability.
Unlike the many light-type ability users who were usually assigned to support roles,
Maclin was a bona fide damage dealer.
His weapon, however, wasn't a melee weapon, but a staff!
Of course, this staff was different from a mage's staff.
It released ordinary skills, not spells!
Just like Xu Lu from the Fire Fox Team back then, who also used a staff.
Incidentally, the Blue Star Genius Battle had been underway for so long, yet Lu Yuan still hadn't seen a single person use a spell.
After all, the first thing you had to do to cast spells was comprehend the Mage's Basic Compendium.
So these people were more inclined to spend their time advancing their rank, practicing the Body Tempering Art, or learning the Spirit Refining Technique,
and only considered studying the Mage's Basic Compendium once they'd hit bottlenecks in all three and truly couldn't make any further progress.
Although people chose between the path of a mage and that of a martial artist at the fifth rank,
most didn't actually become mages capable of casting spells proficiently until the sixth rank.
The sixth rank was only one step away from the Seventh-rank Grandmaster, yet crossing that gap was as difficult as scaling a wall to the heavens.
Why had seventh-rank ability users been