Chapter 219
Mei felt that using the power of Herrscher was too unfair, so she didn't use that ability in the exhibition match. She wanted to suppress Sophia and Aisha with her swordsmanship.
Mei didn't expect Sophia and Aisha to be so difficult to deal with.
Aisha was originally a candidate for the Schicksal, and Freya was her classmate for a period of time. However, Otto's plan to use Freya as bait, or more accurately, pretend to use Freya as bait, to actually send Aurora to the Anti-Entropy organization failed. Freya officially announced that she had left her candidate status and become Valkyrie. Not long after, she also became Otto's granddaughter and became the Schicksal Saintess. In the end, although she was promoted, she did not get a raise and became the Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal, embarking on the path of ruling the Schicksal. However, after that, she had less contact with Aisha.
Aisha had a very good foundation; she was the top candidate among the reserve students.
Sophia is a clone of the original leader of the War Knight Order, possessing extremely exaggerated combat talent. Even with the two of them working together, they were unable to defeat Mei quickly. It can only be said that Mei's accumulation over the previous few years was too substantial. Even after three years of neglect, she was still far superior to ordinary people.
When Mei won the exhibition match, the children around her clapped enthusiastically.
Ryoma nodded in satisfaction, then continued to bark "HOMU HOMU".
She explained the weaknesses of the three-person fight to the group of children. After all, Mei, who could crush many sword dojo instructors, was still full of flaws in front of a master swordsman who had passed down all the sword techniques. Three years of neglect was too serious for a martial arts practitioner.
Sophia's performance was very consistent, but I always felt that dual swords couldn't fully utilize her abilities. She wasn't a skill-based player, while Aisha, as a skill-based player, was too conservative.
Ryoma pointed out the two men's shortcomings, then his gaze fell on Aurora.
He certainly had no objection to the Little Princess Anti-Entropy.
Keep in mind that her adoptive mother was Tesla, and Tesla, who doted on his daughter, would definitely give Aurora the best.
Don't assume that just because Aurora is gentle and weak but has excellent grades and is a top student, she can't fight. Tesla arranged for Aurora to fight alongside dozens of top martial artists.
Aurora also has some talent in karate.
The Honkai Energy's enhancement of her body gave her physical abilities comparable to an adult, and most importantly, she carries the blood of the Kaslana Family.
The Kaslana Family possesses superhuman strength that is utterly unreasonable.
Ryoma had seen the petite Aurora lift the car with her two small, white, lotus-root-like hands many times, picking up the little ball that had rolled under the car...
Generally, if a child's ball rolls under a car, the child will crawl under the car. If the car suddenly moves at that moment, it can easily injure the child underneath. However... this normal logic doesn't apply to Aurora at all.
When your car is moving, she can raise both hands directly.
The kind where all four wheels are off the ground!!
Whether it was a 'blessing' brought about by Freya's outburst half a year ago, Aurora seems to have fused with a certain degree of Honkai Energy and is now able to control the power of the Herrscher of the Void.
Even Ryoma couldn't guarantee whether he could beat Aurora.
Yes, Ryoma was absolutely confident that he could defeat his daughter, who had awakened the power of the Herrscher of Thunder, but Ryoma had no way to deal with the Little Princess who had awakened the Anti-Entropy of Herrscher of the Void.
Aurora's primary ability is now called "Phase Shift," which allows her to transfer parts of her body to the subspace, making her immune to all attacks that cannot interfere with the subspace.
Only high-energy attacks can affect the subspace. For Ryoma, who has no control over Honkai Energy, Aurora's move is too effective against him.
He was a master swordsman, not a martial arts expert from the Shenzhou. The swordsmanship of the Hokushin Itto-ryu was completely ineffective against this move. Aurora only strike him; he had no chance to retaliate.
She's smart, a strong fighter, and has superhuman strength; the Herrscher of the Void's abilities are just too overpowered.
Ryoma believes that Aurora should be the top overall performer among the 13th batch of new recruits. As for the ranking of combat power, he thinks Aurora should at least be in the top five.
Of course, on the day of the ranking competition, his daughter will definitely be number one in combat power.
Aurora bowed to her opponent and then switched opponents with the green-haired girl next to her.
Freya's eyes lit up as she stood on the high platform.
The match between Aurora and Bianca looks like it'll be quite interesting.
Although she didn't know why she was so interested in the blonde girl, the combination in front of her was indeed quite interesting.
256. Your younger sister has extraordinary bones.
A cute and charming younger sister VS a little girl she cares about.
Freya wanted to give a thumbs up to the person who arranged this battle combination. Of course, in reality, after the two-on-one battles, the winners who were closer in distance would fight again.
Just like when Wendy and Bianca fought, Bianca won.
So she fought against Aurora had also won, while Wendy fought against Aurora's defeated opponent.
After the exhibition match, Mei and Sophia and the others also looked for opponents to fight.
The exhibition match was supposed to last only five minutes, but today Sophia and Aisha were clearly more difficult to deal with, which is why Mei spent more time than usual to take them down.
Of course, this doesn't mean that Sophia and Aisha are stronger than yesterday. Their raw strength can't be improved in just one or two days. It's just that the two have changed their fighting style and no longer confront Mei head-on. In other words, their fighting style has become more spontaneous.
So the three of them fought together. Sophia fought and retreated at the same time, while Aisha stayed on the periphery and retreated after each attack. Mei was getting a little annoyed.
The three-person exhibition match also provided a lot of experience for the new students with a foundation. Meanwhile, the upcoming match between Aurora and Bianca is also attracting a lot of attention.
Aurora's background is gradually being revealed. Besides her frightening identity as the Little Princess of Anti-Entropy, she is also the sister of Kiana Apocalypse, the Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal.
The other party undoubtedly belongs to the aristocratic class.
While Bianca had Laguna's recommendation, she herself St. Freya Academy through normal examinations. Moreover, Laguna was a representative of the Commoner Faction in the eyes of the Commoner Faction Valkyrie.
From a certain perspective, the clash between Aurora and Bianca can also be seen as a confrontation between the Aristocratic Faction and the Commoner Faction.
However... people are paying attention to the two's match for more than just this reason.
Instead of immediately seeking an opponent, Sophia paid special attention to Bianca's fight against Aurora. She knew very well that her mission was to provide cover for Bianca, which made Sophia very Bianca as to why Bianca would ask Otto to do this.
Freya, who was watching from the second-floor aisle, was surprised to see people appearing in the opposite aisle.
The huge stadium has opened up the space from the first to the third floor, and the spectator seats have been set up in the corners of the second and third floors. Freya originally wanted to find a place to sit down, but at this moment she couldn't help but lean against the railing of the aisle and lean out.
She never expected that Immortal Fu Hua would come to watch the children fight.
Noticing the gaze, Immortal Fu Hua nodded slightly to her, then her gaze fell on the two who had bowed to each other and immediately assumed a fighting stance.
Because Bianca had a wooden sword, Aurora also chose wooden arm armor.
The arm armor, completely covering the back of the hand and forearm, could be used as a shield and fighting weapon. After assuming a karate stance, Aurora immediately charged towards Aurora—
Bianca, gripping her wooden sword tightly, immediately turned to the side, slashing at Aurora with the sword. The training sword was unsharpened, and although being hit would still hurt, the tracksuit Aurora and the others were wearing possessed excellent heat permeability, as well as exceptional resilience and shock absorption elasticity...
However, Aurora is not such an easy target to hit.
She feinted, took a small step back, and then suddenly clamped the wooden sword in Bianca's hand with both hands.
"A feint?"
Mei was somewhat surprised.
Ryoma, under the HOMU puppet, nodded slightly. He had only shown it to Aurora a few times, but he hadn't expected Aurora to have mastered it.
This is a technique he created called Slow Step, derived from the Hokushin Itto-ryu. It creates visual illusions by adjusting the speed, allowing attackers who can predict the target to attack in advance.
Bianca had originally planned to wait for Aurora to run into the wooden sword, was slightly taken aback. The result of her miscalculation was that her wooden sword had already been swung out, and even if she wanted to immediately create distance, she would be half a beat too late.
Aurora a deep breath and launched a spinning kick at Bianca's abdomen, but it was blocked by the hilt of the wooden sword.
Bianca created distance following Aurora's kick.
Immortal Fu Hua in the stands, shook her head.
"The roundhouse kick was too big... I didn't capitalize on the opponent's half-beat slow reaction."
Bianca breathed a sigh of relief after successfully creating some distance. That spinning kick was very powerful. If it had hit her completely, even if her tracksuit could absorb the impact, she would have been kicked... and then Aurora have scored a point.
Whoever scores five points first will be the winner of this match.
An effective attack counts as one point, a vital attack counts as two points...
In the exhibition match just now, Mei took so much time to score five points against Sophia and Aisha because Sophia and Aisha didn't give Mei a chance to launch an effective attack.
"In the end, it is still difficult to cultivate the inch-force technique. Compared to the inch-force technique, Kaslana, who has superhuman strength, is indeed more suitable for that kind of direct attack method."
Immortal Fu Hua also knew that unarmed combat techniques such as karate, taekwondo, Muay Thai, Jeet Kune Do, and Sanda were far more effective than the unpredictable method of generating power.
Immortal Fu Hua sighed, but quickly came to terms with it.
"But that makes sense. She's only been taking Combat Class for a week, and her adoptive mother has already arranged for her to have more than a dozen expert instructors. I've also taught her some techniques for generating power, so it's understandable that she can't keep up with all of them."
In fact, many people who followed this fight were unaware that the white-haired little girl had been practicing martial arts for a long time.
Her adoptive mother was willing to give her the best environment, and even the swordsman who wore the HOMU jacket was one of the white-haired little girl's teachers.
Aurora couldn't help but feel regretful. In order to get a point for an effective attack, she used a kick with extremely powerful force. You should know that the Kaslana Family's superhuman strength is not just manifested in their arms.
The legs are three times stronger than the arms. If that kick had hit the target, even if it didn't get the two points for a vital attack, it would definitely have gotten the one point for an effective attack.
"..."
Bianca gasped as she looked at the broken sword hilt.
If she hadn't parried well, and even jumped back while the opponent turned to perform a spinning kick, that kick might have landed on her... she might not have been able to get up for several seconds.
If that kick hadn't been delivered with a piece of sportswear that could absorb the impact, it would have been a deadly attack!
"One point!"
The teacher acting as referee raised a small white flag and pointed it at Aurora.
"Bianca blocked the HOMU just now, so... this point HOMU."
Although to outsiders it appeared that Bianca was kicked six meters away, in reality, Bianca had used the momentum, Ryoma would not allow Aurora to score a point so easily.
As one of Aurora's teachers, seeing Aurora lose a crucial point due to greed, he always makes things more difficult for her.
Immortal Fu Hua highly praised Ryoma's approach.
"Yes, Mr. HOMU, one point is invalid."
The teacher who had just given Aurora a point immediately invalidated his previous judgment.
"How could it be ineffective? Aurora is so pitiful."
"Exactly, exactly, it was kicked that far."
"Teacher HOMU, wasn't Aurora's attack very effective just now?"
The matches in many areas of the stadium were suspended, as Aurora's status and position meant that her every move attracted a lot of attention.
In the eyes of both the Aristocratic Faction and Commoner Faction who wanted to curry favor with Aurora was clearly being treated unfairly.
As Ryoma, playing the role of Teacher HOMU, was about to analyze the situation amidst the outpouring of opinions from the new students watching, a majestic voice came from above.
"One point is invalid, the battle continues..."
The freshmen noticed Freya in the second-floor corridor, and immediately suppressed all the opinions that had just come up.
They never expected Freya to pay attention to their Combat Class.
Aurora turned to look at her sister, pursed her lips, and then turned to look at Bianca.
"Bianca! Let's continue!"
Aurora felt like she had inexhaustible energy.
Thinking that her second sister had been watching her just now, Aurora felt that her energy had reached its peak.
"..."
Bianca glanced at her opponent, and seeing that the opponent's morale had suddenly become full of energy, she felt a sense of helplessness that she couldn't express.
She glanced at Freya, who stood in the second-floor corridor with an air of superiority, and couldn't help but lick her lips with pleasure.
This was the closest she had ever come to that evil dragon princess.
As she realized that she was getting closer and closer to the evil dragon princess, Bianca finally looked serious.
If she goes easy on her opponent because she resembles the evil dragon princess, or even gets defeated by her by accident, then the time she spent training with Laguna would be meaningless.
Bianca, wielding a wooden sword, charged toward Aurora like a warrior.
This time, Aurora was immediately overwhelmed by her opponent, who attacked with thrusts, parries, and slashes... Bianca and Aurora clashed at extremely close range.
Wearing arm armor, Aurora parried Bianca's wooden sword with both hands, but Bianca's swing was too fast, even disrupting Aurora's attack rhythm...
"... Immortal Fu Hua, I never expected you to choose my sister."
Freya immediately spoke upon arriving at Immortal Fu Hua's side.
Immortal Fu Hua glanced at her and gave a wry smile, "That's because my skills are not suitable for the Grand Bishop to learn... and the Grand Bishop doesn't care about the monkey tricks of a mere monk."
"Oh? The immortal's Immortal Technique has turned into monkey acrobatics?" Freya continued watching her younger sister's battle.
"I am not an omnipotent deity, but merely a cultivator who can live a long life. The so-called Immortal Technique of the Grand Bishop are nothing more than methods to strengthen the body. And to the Grand Bishop, aren't these methods just monkey tricks?"
Immortal Fu Hua could sense that Freya was not interested in her 'body strengthening techniques'.