As Ursula said, after a while, Noah and Tiu’s sword energy went out at the same time.
Despite their young age, the two possessed the aura and stamina to fight for three days and nights.
But that’s a story when fighting with optimum efficiency.
What was needed to win a one-on-one match was performance, not efficiency.
If the opponent ignored the efficiency and started pouring more auras, this side had to raise the gear as well.
As a result of both gearing up from the start, the aura ran out in just 30 minutes.
“Huh, huh… … .”
Keep a distance and stare at each other.
A situation in which all auras have been consumed.
From now on, how to fight was more important than recklessly raising gears.
It wasn’t like Veronica had filled the arena with cold air, but steam was blooming from the bodies of the two.
The human body regulates body temperature by sweating.
However, the heat generated by the movement of the superman could not be exhausted with only sweat.
The heat that could not be relieved even after pouring out all the auras boiled over, but Tiu’s head was calmer than ever.
‘done. I succeeded in bringing it to the stage I wanted.’
Ever since I first thought I wanted to beat Noah, Tiu has been thinking about how to beat Noah.
It wasn’t good to fight Noah for strength, even with the exception of attribute conversion.
With his innate elasticity and animalistic senses, Noah was able to apply maximum power to his sword in any position.
Noah is much stronger than the others when it comes to the same level of rigid body.
That’s why I couldn’t trust only the intangible sword.
After Noah started practicing with the top Nightray seniors, he was getting stronger at a breakneck speed.
Noah, who was dealing with witches, quickly learned how to deal with humans.
It was difficult to make a stark difference in combat simply with or without an intangible sword.
So, the method I found was Aura Zero.
Realm of pure swordsmanship.
In this place, he himself can gain the upper hand against Noah.
“Goes.”
The sword fight that followed was so slow that a sigh came out compared to the previous battle, and it was a weak fight.
I was just about to see a fight in which the players with at least the top ranker level were accelerating by squeezing all their auras.
There was no eye-catching confrontation in which even the weakest outside of the top 10,000 could easily follow.
However, the level of Noah and Tiu’s swordsmanship had risen by one step, no, by more than two steps.
The body, which had lost strength close to exhaustion, naturally found the best sword path.
It became as efficient as it was slow.
My thoughts accelerated instead of my body, which could no longer be accelerated.
An extreme number-reading battle.
Shiva admired Noah’s ability to read numbers.
But if Noah could read 200, Tiu could read 400 in the same amount of time.
‘If it’s pure number reading, I’m stronger!’
Number 78.
Tiu pushed Noah to the procedure leading to the single shot.
‘I won… … !’
There is no way for Noah to come out anymore.
The moment he thought that, Noah laughed.
“I knew you would come out like this.”
“I knew… … ?”
“If you are the person who knows me best in this school, I am the person who knows you best in this school.”
“… … !”
In an instant, Noah’s posture changed.
If the posture so far was faithful to the basics, the changed posture is a complete natural body.
Break what Sif said.
From there, he went one step further, throwing away the form of swordsmanship he had learned so far and reaching an intangible state.
The movement that broke the formality made all the readings of numbers up to now disappear.
Noah dug in in an instant and grabbed Tiu’s sword with his bare hands.
“This… … !”
“I learned it by asking Shiba-senpai. I thought you would definitely drive me this far.”
Noah’s sword pierced the net of countless numbers.
And, the game is over.
* * *
When Noah’s sword landed in front of Tiu’s throat, the audience in the arena were speechless.
Following the insane speed fight in the beginning, to a pure swordsmanship showdown that puts everything down.
Regardless of the high and low level, it was undoubtedly one of the best games to count on.
When the match was decided, Noah put his sword in.
Tiu couldn’t get up from sitting on the floor.
‘I know that feeling well.’
When you lose even with all your might.
The harder you worked, the bigger the impact.
Noah approached Tiu and crouched down to meet her at eye level.
Tiu then looked at Noah.
“From the first time I entered this school, I thought it would be fun to hang out with you. As expected, it was fun. Best ever.”
“what… … ?”
“You carefully prepared and executed the way to beat me. Nevertheless, do you know well why the result was like this?”
It was a fight that had been prepared for almost three months while hiding the intangible sword.
In fact, the contents of the game proceeded as planned.
The reason Thiu was defeated nonetheless.
Ironically, it was because of carelessness.
“You’re right.”
Tiu said self-deprecatingly.
“I could have expected that you would want to beat me as much as I wanted to beat you.”
Tiu prepared a lot to beat Noah, who was stronger than himself.
However, I forgot the fact that Noah, the top dog, can also prepare because he is in the position of an underdog.
Even though Tiu knew Noah’s personality better than anyone else.
A game that went all the way to zero.
It was that small difference that decided the game.
“It’s unfortunate. I want to lie down to do it again right now.”
“Good. Let’s meet again tonight in Dalian in the middle of the night. I’ll stick with you 10 times or 100 times until you’re satisfied.”
Tiu then stood up from his seat.
She reached out to Noah.
“You said that playing against me today was the funniest match since coming to this school?”
“… … ?”
“I’m sorry, but the future will be more fun.”
Noah smiled and took his hand.
While the two warmly finished the match, a man stepped onto the field.
“uh? me, that… … .”
“Aslan? Aslan is number 1 in the rankings!”
“Wait, Ophelia, who is ranked 15th behind, has high rankers!”
Strictly speaking, Shiva was no longer a high ranker, but they remembered Shiva’s face.
“Why did they suddenly appear?”
“what? What is going on?”
Even in the midst of doubts, the audience did not dare to ask Aslan directly.
Even so, Aslan was the pinnacle of Nightray, who had defeated Mayer’s young swordsman, Allen, who had been considered the strongest before.
Due to the nature of living in the Black Moon Dormitory, he rarely interacted with people.
Thanks to this, the rumors that grew were describing Aslan as something heinous and not to be approached.
‘Should I ask you a question?’
‘Arthur, he said he might die if he gets filmed.’
Aslan, whether aware of this reaction or not, approached Noah with a smile.
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“Congratulations, Noah.”
“thank you. But if you congratulate me here, Tiu will get angry.”
“Isn’t it? I congratulated you, Noah, not because you won, but because you made a new friend.”
It was an unexpected word.
“It’s nice to have friends you can seriously compete with. He is a precious friend who is hard to find anywhere, so please take care of him.”
Meanwhile, Shiva was secretly teasing Ursula, and Ursula was angry with her smiling eyes.
After training Tiu with his own swordsmanship, he was defeated by Noah, who practiced with Shiva.
Considering Shiba’s personality, it was clear that he would make fun of this for a year.
On the other hand, while no one was able to talk to the Black Moon Dormitory students, there was an audience that didn’t mind that.
“Aslan? How do you know Noah?”
Veronica, who had already been confirmed to advance to the finals due to her opponent’s injury, was also watching this match from another VIP room.
Not knowing that Noah had entered the Black Moon Dormitory, she was also surprised by the sudden appearance of Aslan.
“what? Noah, didn’t you tell me you live in the black moon?”
“I never had to explain where I live. No, more than that, Mia knew where I lived.”
When Veronica sighed and looked back, Mia jumped out of there and slightly bowed her head.
“Because you never asked.”
“Kuhmm, then you’re saying that both of the semi-finalists were freshmen at the Black Moon Dormitory?”
When Aslan nodded, the audience started to murmur.
“Black moon? What is it?”
“Is there a dormitory like that? Is this a dormitory for high rankers?”
“There’s no way freshmen can enter a dormitory for high rankers.”
“Isn’t it on the map? Is it like a nickname?”
Few students knew about the Black Moon Dormitory on campus.
If you’ve been in your 4th year or more, you’ll probably remember, but at that time, you were already busy preparing for graduation or graduating.
In the end, most of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students, who make up the majority, had never heard of it.
Aslan introduced the Black Moon Dormitory to those students.
“The Black Moon is a dormitory where Noah, Tiu, Nana, Ophelia, Ursula, and Shiva belong. We have decided to receive additional tenants from this year, so we hope for your interest. It’s a place for dorm students to teach and learn swordsmanship from each other regardless of ranking, so if you’re interested, apply!”
“You want to accept more people on a black moon? what is that all of a sudden… … .”
Veronica was taken aback by the sudden advertisement, but the students’ reactions were enthusiastic.
“Wait, you can learn swordsmanship from the number one?”
“Isn’t there Ophelia, another immovable 15?”
“Apart from the two freshmen, the rest are at least high rankers? I want to go in too!”
For those who wanted to rise in the rankings, this was nothing short of a chance.
In fact, it was all the more so when I heard that the two freshmen who just showed an amazing game were from there.
Tiu and Noah were strong in the beginning, but looking at the current situation, it was enough to appear stronger after entering the black moon.
Someone who overcame the fear of rumors with a passion for swordsmanship asked Aslan.
“Hey, are there any conditions for moving in?”
“Ah, I can’t accept all of them, so I have to beat the youngest to enter.”
For a moment, everyone’s eyes focused on Tiu and Noah.
There were few people who could be confident that they could beat the two players who had just shown a great game.
“Maybe I’m having a hard time… … .”
“Do you think I can try?”
However, Aslan shook his head.
“Oh, the youngest is someone else.”
“Whew.”
“So it is. He’s that strong, but he can’t be the youngest.”
“If there was a separate youngest, he would be weaker than that.”
“So who is the youngest?”
Aslan answered the question silently and pointed to the entrance of the arena.
Rogelia and Linaria, who had applied for 48 credits this semester, had arrived late because they were rushing through the overdue liberal arts.
“uh? what. is the game over? Did Noah win?”
“It is a strange atmosphere. Why is everyone looking at us?”
Nightray ranking 12th, 13th.
The strongest youngest of all time was standing there with a bewildered expression.