As the dust in my surrounding cleared up, I let out coughs and fanned the dust away. Looking around, I dispelled the fire wall that I conjured to lessen the damage that I received from the explosion and let fell down on my knees.
'Damn it. I was careless. I will get that girl later, for now....'
Wiping a blood off the corner of my mouth, I took heavy breaths and activated my Life Bracelet to look at my current health.
[ LUCAS GARVEL: 8%
Points: 274 ]
Seems like I survived with a little bit of hp left in me. Thank the heavens.
I was surprised at that sudden trap, if I manifested the flame wall a second later, then I would have been out of the game now....on the first day at that. Many people might have become disappointed in me if I had died on the first day.
'Can't have the Sword Saint's disciple and the Chosen One, look like a weakling...can I?'
With a little last breath, I gathered up my strength to get up and walk towards the wall as I soon then lean my back on it and take a rest while I heal myself up with my blessing.
'Fortunately for me, her blessing seems to have not worked against me now that I am covered in starlight, but she is still very crafty....I should have asked for her name.'
To be honest, my blessing in this exam is truly like a cheat. I got the stars making me immune to any attack and also the life healing.
Speaking of healing, I just realized this when I tanked that explosion from earlier but....doesn't the life bracelet truly connect to my body's condition? I mean, I thought it only provides a barrier or something to lessen the damages and prevent deaths but now that I experienced it, I truly think that it is connected to my body condition.
I truly feel like my body is at its limit now and any second, I could die.
'So what happens if I receive an overwhelming damage at 1% hp? Will I get teleported before I die and be safe like what they told us or will my life really end?'
Closing the Life Bracelet, I meditated and then activated my blessing of life.
'If the bracelet is really connected to my body condition, then if I heal myself...will the HP also increase?'
As the greenish energy of mana start to wrap around me. The fractured bones, the organs, the wounds and the pain all over my body started to soothe out. When I finally opened my eyes, I found the state of my body in a whole new feeling. I feel so healthy now.
Tapping onto my Life Bracelet, I looked at my HP and was amused at what I witnessed.
[ LUCAS GARVEL: 78%
Points: 274 ]
Oh? Seems like my HP really increases if I heal myself....the side effect though is that I feel weaker, like the whole energy in my body has depleted and I am weaker now.
Makes sense, I just used mana to heal myself so of course I will feel weaker and vulnerable now. But that is alright, with my current hiding spot in this Eye cave, I can take a rest here.
Getting up from the ground and walking towards the cliff of the cavern, I overlooked everything from below.
There are a lot of people fighting at a distance, and at a very far distance too I can see a group of students fighting monsters. They seem like they are having a hard time.
They are fighting a large Owlbear and others are fighting a Stone Golem and other shits. Ah yeah right, after observing the monsters from afar and the darkened skies on the top, I actually found out that those monsters are just illusions made by that barrier surrounding the entire island, so this island is truly like a survival game.
'There is only one who can conjure such powerful Illusion....it's the Dean of our school, Bairon Nelfhem the well known Illusion Master of the Luvaxia Continent'
Not minding the students fighting monsters from afar below, I put my attention back to the east direction and saw explosions occur in there.
The explosions are unlike any normal fights, they aren't just small explosions. They are also very large and I can even feel the tremble from on top.
I narrowed my eyes in that direction and saw that it was coming from the arm mountain ridge of this large dragon. Not just far from me.
Climbing down the Eye Cave, I decided to take a look at that explosion and took off with the hunting steps as I left fiery embers on my wake.
Arriving at my destination which was the dragon arm mountain ridge, I hid while catching my breath and then took a peek at the source of the explosions.
Once my eyes landed upon the source of explosions, I saw a Brawny man with a Lion's mane for a hair. Meaning, a long orange hair that looked like a Lion's mane and is wearing tattered Chinese Kung Fu clothes was fighting a white haired woman with jeweled blue eyes.
That seems to be Yuri Arghain and a person from the Astrea Continent. Yuri Arghain was wielding a rapier, while her adversary was wielding only hist fist.
I must say, despite their difference in weight class with Yuri as the petite one and the Astrea guy as the giant...they looked like they are on even footing.
Yuri continued to deliver onslaught of freezing thrusts with her rapier, whereas the bigger guy just smiled maniacally and meet the tip of Yuri's rapier with his fists. Despite the rapier being enforced with mana and blessing, The guy still manage to parry it without hurting his hand.
While watching that fight, I just couldn't reallt help but open my mouth in awe as a word came into my mind.
'Monster'
Both of them are. I mean, I already knew how much of a Monster, Yuri was. Her swordsmanship was on par with Rauke Enidryll's swordsmanship, and now that she had her blessing...she always remain at first place and be undefeated, not even I can defeat her in a sparring. She was a monster....but the lion mane guy? It was truly surprising to see that he was keeping up with the [ Undefeated Ice Princess ] Yuri Arghain.
But Should I start calling her Empress now?
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Jinsung had always remained at the top, Just like Yuri Arghain. He was the pinnacle of the Students in [ Blue Dragon Academy ], even when he was up against his Senior Brothers, he still remained as one of the strongest. He is not the strongest of all, but in the Juniors....he is the strongest.
He always wanted to spar with the bosses of the Seniors, but they are always in missions...that is why he is bored out of his mind in that school. So, he resorted to picking fights outside the school until he was reprimanded and banned outside of the Academy.
When he heard that he was going to be participating on a tournament in the other continent, to be honest he was bored and did not have any expectations.
But now that he was facing a woman in this place, He was thrilled. Exchanging blows with someone on even footing has thrilled him and made him very excited.
The same goes for Yuri as well, although it was not as exciting as sparring with 'That guy', she was still finding the exchange of blows as something fun, as a faint smile couldn't help but form on the corners of her lips.
"MY NAME IS CHA JINSUNG FROM BLUE DRAGON ACADEMY, HEIR OF THE FIRE FIST! TELL ME YOUR NAME! WOMAN OF THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT!"
Cried out Jinsung with a hearty laugh as he performed one of the techniques of his Martial Art to Yuri.
"[ Seven Meteor Fist ]"
As Jinsung zoomed closer towards Yuri, He raised his fists as he coated it with the heat of the magma and then threw every seven blows on Yuri's petite figure.
"..."
With silence, Yuri's eyes focused on the Seven Large Fists coming to crush her. Then in a swift motion, she moved closer and easily dodged through the devastating blows of Jinsung.
"[ Ballad on the Frozen Lake ]"
As the White Haired Lady performed that footwork technique, she left cracks of ice on her wake as it froze the ground beneath her. Then the meteor fists came crashing on the ground and left a large crater.
"Name is Yuri Arghain, 1st Daughter of Duke Arghain, The White Knight from Eldian Kingdom."
By the distance behind Jinsung, he turned around with a smile as the lady wielding a rapier also turned to look at him and then took up a stance.
"[ Fiery Orbitting Meteors ]"
"[ Chilling Beauty of the Winter Rose ]"
By those techniques, the two of them engaged unto one another as one delivered a jab, while the other one prepared a powerful thrust with her rapier towards her large enemy.