The Seventeenth Ward students watched as the twenty students returned to their barracks with a mud-free floor and clean straw, and Mel to the dungeon where Dark Energy embraced him. The battle in the afternoon was theirs, and judging by their shining eyes, the results were better than Eighteenth Wards.
They wouldn't know how far ahead the opponent was until Baybars told them the difference, but Seventeenth Ward's confident stance was enough to keep someone up. Although this was the case for the twenty disciples, Mel had the highest level of morale possible as he gazed at the battlefield through the golden eyes of the Earth Dragon, which was covered from head to toe with black scales.