"I heard you were the strongest here before. I'm here to challenge you!"
The girl on her first day of class completely ignored the teacher and immediately challenged Prince Shurein. The surrounding students couldn't help but cheer; regular classes were far too boring, and watching a scene was much more exciting.
The teacher lectured from the front, "Student Keren, this is a magic class, not a practical combat class. If you want to challenge someone, please wait until the practical combat class..."
"Shut up. Do you want to fight me instead?" Sophia pulled out a greatsword and swung it heavily toward the ground. Instantly, the earth cracked, and a blade of sword qi swept past the teacher, the resulting wind blowing away the last of the teacher's dignity and pride.
The teacher was questioning his life; why were students these days like this, each one so strong? What are you even at school to
do? Moreover, there have been too many geniuses lately; first, the Prince and the Duke's Daughter shocked the world at the Appraisal Ceremony, then the Crown Prince of the Empire rushed over to show he was second to none. Then, a monster-level student appeared just a few days ago in this term, and now another one?
Prince Shurein saw the teacher's pleading gaze, nodded, and stepped forward to say to the girl who wanted to challenge him, "I accept your challenge."
The red-haired girl behind him hesitated to speak. She wanted to warn Shurein that the opponent was a bit strange, but remembering how Shurein's words and actions had been very odd lately, as if he were a different person, she suppressed the thought.
Canadia looked at Sue beside her. The other girl wasn't clinging to Shurein like before; instead, she was holding a child-style doll with a strange expression. There was clearly nothing special about that doll; was it just because Shurein gave it to her? But why had her attitude toward Shurein been so cold lately? She couldn't understand why everyone had changed overnight, leaving her as the only one who knew nothing.
Sophia looked at Shurein as he walked forward. She had a slight impression of this guy's face, so the original Shurein was indeed a Reincarnator. It's just that this guy definitely wasn't the original Shurein anymore; her roommate named Bertling had told her this.
"I heard you're also a Summoner. Bring your pet and fight together." Although today's challenge was part of the plan, she felt it would be boring if the opponent was too weak, so she hoped to increase the difficulty.
Shadow Shurein merely drew his sword and said, "No need. I'm not a real Summoner. Bringing it along would only hinder my performance."
"How useless."
Sophia looked mockingly at the Earth Wyrm.
Fei was a bit angry; she felt this person was doing it on purpose.
Sophia really was doing it on purpose because she knew this Earth Wyrm was also a Reincarnator. It was truly laughable; despite having the racial advantage of a high-level species like an Earth Wyrm, she had ended up in such a pathetic state, truly a disgrace to them Reincarnators.
The teacher stepped forward to act as the referee.
"Please both of you get ready. The challenge will begin after I count to three."
"On your marks."
"Three, two, one, start!"
The moment the voice fell.
A violent wind rose, and Sophia's body charged at Shurein like a cannonball. Her greatsword stirred up terrifying waves of wind in the air; there was no sword technique to speak of, just pure power—an overwhelming strength that ignored all logic!
Everyone's eyes widened.
It's over. An expert of this level...
His Highness the Prince will probably be killed instantly!
It wasn't that the students and teacher looked down on Shurein, but they knew that if they faced this blow, they would also be killed instantly. Although Shurein's strength was greater than theirs, it was limited; the strength of the two sides was simply not in the same dimension.
However, in the next moment, Shurein's performance shocked them.
Even facing such terrifying waves of wind, he remained calm. Just before being swept by the sword, he dodged beneath Sophia with a sliding tackle. His composed posture and cold expression were incredibly cool.
He dodged? Sophia was very surprised. With the attribute gap between them, how could that guy possibly dodge her attack? Could it be that he had predicted her attack route and calculated the timing before she even attacked? Was he kidding? Did such a technique really exist in reality? And for a weaker person to use such a technique against a stronger one, the difficulty was astronomical.
Shadow Shurein, who had stood up behind Sophia, didn't recklessly counterattack but quickly tried to create distance. Sophia, who was planning to follow up, saw how vigilant he was and that he didn't fall for the opening she left; she immediately turned and chased after Shadow Shurein.
Sophia gave chase.
Another strike!
Even the ground was split open. Shadow Shurein narrowly dodged with a roll, but even so, he was injured by the aftershock, instantly losing a third of his HP. This demon girl's strength was truly terrifying, considering Shurein's body currently had average attributes of 2000 points.
Just as he got up, Shadow Shurein saw the girl using unreasonable strength to forcibly pull out the sword she had slammed into the ground and swing it toward his face. There was no time to dodge this time; he could only use Magic Combat Act, stack all his buff skills, and block with his sword.
A heavy sound rang out.
Shadow Shurein was sent flying, spinning several times in the air before crashing miserably to the ground. He barely managed to support himself with his hand to keep from collapsing, but due to a strain, he temporarily couldn't use any strength in that hand.
An afterimage flashed before his eyes, and Sophia instantly appeared in front of him.
However, Shadow Shurein seemed to have anticipated this. His sword, radiating holy light, delivered a full-power thrust. It seemed like a finishing blow, but in the face of this strike, Sophia simply reached out her arm to block and easily snapped Shurein's sword. For a moment, the entire scene fell silent.
Shadow Shurein said calmly, "I lose."
Looking at the expressionless Shurein, Sophia couldn't help but think of that mage girl. As expected of that person's sub-
ordinate, even their temperament was so similar.
"To be able to fight me to this extent, you truly deserve to be called the strongest from before."
Hearing Sophia's evaluation, the surrounding students looked embarrassed.
Please, the Prince wasn't this strong before.
They hadn't expected the Prince to improve to this level in such a short time; he truly was the kingdom's most outstanding genius. Everyone deliberately ignored Sophia and that mysterious, demonic girl before them because those two were in a different dimension. They weren't geniuses; they were monsters!
Yugu stood in the back, watching this scene with a dark expression.
"Damn it, why has no one realized that guy is a fake?!"
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