Evil Scheme!

Ruelle didn't make any unnecessary moves and was thinking about what she should do.

Zero didn't want to waste too much mana trying to defeat Ruelle, so he immediately went and used his sword to confront Ruelle. With the dark Ice Armor, he had an advantage over her and knew that she would be defeated if they fought using a sword.

Ruelle also has not much choice but to rely on her sword.

-CLANG! -CLANG!

They were again in a stalemate. This time, they didn't use strong attacks and fairly relied on their strength and sword techniques. Ruelle's strength was higher than Zero's but Zero was better with the sword than Ruelle.

-CLANG! -CLANK! -SLASH!

But then Ruelle started feeling weak, which gave Zero a chance to overwhelm her for a second and slash her arm.

-THUD!

Of the 8 students, the weakest one had collapsed and the formation was weakened. It was only a matter of time before the formation fell as the burden to other students drastically increased from having one of them fall.