No.1 Student

'This is interesting, to say the least.' Anna thought as she watched Jake switch from using force field magic to using poison magic during the fight.

'I need to end this fight soon, I can feel my mana is already getting low.' Jake thought and using Kyle's current state of perplexity, Jake checked his system screen to be sure he was correct.

[Jake Cayden]

[Level: 4]

[Health:140/140]

[Species:Human*]

[Strength:30]

[Speed: 25]

[Endurance:38]

[Mental Moxie:16]

[Mana:10/22]

[Magic:23]

[Element: None]

[Ability: Magic mimicry]

[Exp: 325/800]

Moving steadily towards Kyle, Jake was shooting streams of his green poison at Kyle while Kyle was doing his best to evade it.

'If his poison magic is as strong as mine, then I must not let it touch me. I know how hard I worked to make my magic as strong as it is, but I can use the fact that he's still new to using the poison magic to my advantage.' Kyle thought while jumping away to avoid getting hit by a stream of poison. 'And how can he still be using magic like that? Isn't his mana low?'

Now running to meet Kyle, Jake stopped using the poison magic and jumped into the air while pulling his hand back for a punch.

Seeing Jake coming down with a punch, Kyle put both of his hands in an 'X' format above his head and after Jake hit his hands, he immediately lifted his knee which hit Jake in the stomach.

When he got hit in the stomach by Kyle's knee, Jake gave Kyle an uppercut from below his crossed hands which put a bit of distance between the two of them.

'Maybe I should increase the amount of strength I'm using, I'm holding back a lot and I think right now I'm using strength and speed equal to his.' Jake thought while running forward again.

Jake and Kyle had been fighting for close to an hour and Jake wasn't tired, he felt like he could still keep fighting for another hour but looking at Kyle, it seemed like he was running out of stamina. Kyle was taking deep slow breaths and was also running towards Jake.

Reaching each other, Kyle threw out a left hook aiming for Jake's head which Jake didn't pay attention to. Letting the attack hit him, Jake retaliated by giving Kyle another front kick which hit him on the chin and made him totter back a little.

Steadying himself, Kyle moved forward quickly and threw a punch at Jake. Already knowing Jake will block his fist and retaliate, Kyle sent a kick towards Jake which hit him squarely on his kneecap.

Reeling back after Jake retaliated with a punch to the side of his jaw, Kyle spat out a tooth followed by some blood with his eyes still on Jake. 'What's going on here? With the position I was in and with how I kicked his knee, he shouldn't be standing, he should be on the ground.'

'The strength behind that kick should have dislocated a person's knee, he's probably wondering why and how I'm still standing. This fight has gone on for longer than I thought it would. I didn't want to do this but I have to, I don't want to use more of my strength and speed.'

Running closer towards Kyle, Jake threw a punch at his head but Kyle dodged it and hit Jake on his elbow. Using the hand Kyle dodged to hold him from the back of his neck, Jake moved even closer to Kyle and threw a hook with his palm wide open. Not bothering to try aiming at Kyle, Jake released as much poison as he could from his fingers and made sure Kyle couldn't escape from his grip.

"What are you doing? You'll kill both of us?" Kyle shouted while struggling to break free from Jake's hold as he saw the amount of poison coming towards himself and Jake.

With the poison splattering all over himself and Jake, Kyle could not help but shout in pain as he watched his body begin disintegrating a little bit slowly. Looking at Jake, his body was also disintegrating but it was at a very slow rate and he wasn't shouting.

Groaning in pain, Jake watched his green poison slowly disintegrate his skin. 'Now I know the system actually helps me with all those quests it gives me. If I didn't do the quest about holding an object of hundred degrees, I would have been shouting in pain like Kyle. But that's also thanks to my endurance, this poison is damaging my body slowly so in a real fight I can still be able to fight even after getting hit by the poison.'

Looking at his front, Jake saw Kyle's legs with a small part of his torso fall to the ground. 'The rest of his body has already disintegrated. I used up a lot of mana just for that last attack, let me see how much is left.'

[Jake Cayden]

[Level: 4]

[Health:140/140]

[Species:Human*]

[Strength:30]

[Speed: 25]

[Endurance:38]

[Mental Moxie:16]

[Mana:01/22]

[Magic:23]

[Element: None]

[Ability: Magic mimicry]

[Exp: 325/800]

'That was close, if I had used a little bit more magic my mana would have depleted completely. But that's not really a problem for me, I can still continue to use my magic for at least a minute after my mana is depleted while bearing the pain.'

With the arena fading away, Jake saw himself in the training room after his vision went blank for only a second.

"The winner of the tournament, Jake Cayden!" Anna shouted to the students. "We now have our number one student, let's take a look at the leaderboard to see the rankings and what positions you all got."