The duel begins

Keirin did not have time to respond with a caustic remark that she was not voluntarily associated with him, but kept silent.

Seeing how groups of stufons began to appear nearby, which were pulled to the arena, she could only shake her head. I felt looks on me from disgust to charity, all the students decided that I was jumping much higher than I deserved.

Heading not to the stands, I went to the archway where we entered the test, coming up I saw two guards, one had a strange look directed behind me at Keirin, but did not pay attention to it. Recently, I was tired of reacting to similar views, so I silently approached the guards, who turned their gaze to me.

- Stoufon, this is the duel entrance, turn around with your friend and head to the stands. - Said one of the guards in a bass voice.

- I know, I'm just a stufon trey member. - Answering them in a calm voice, I touched the emblem of the academy, the mana released from the emblem began to be collected in print, providing the guards with irrefutable evidence.

The guards looked at the seal and then back at me for a good couple of seconds, which made me angry. Like any prince, I did not like being held up by especially simple guards, but in this situation I needed to behave like a simple half-elf.

- You can enter stufon trey. - Said the same guard moving aside, his example was followed by his partner who did not take his eyes off Keirin.

Seeing that they had departed, I silently went inside with Keirin. The door leading to the arena was already open and in the distance I could see two figures, both standing in the middle of the arena and looking in my direction, most likely they were told that I was coming and they left earlier to demonstrate that they were confident. Sighing, I looked at Keirin.

- Stay here, you don't need to enter the arena. - I said, heading towards the exit, I felt that someone was pulling me back, turning around, I saw that Keirin was pulling me, raising an eyebrow in surprise, I looked at her.

- Be careful, Samantha has wind magic, don't be careless. - Keirin whispered, she tried to hide the alarm in her voice, but she did not succeed well.

Freeing my hand, I looked into her eyes and nodded words in this situation were superfluous treats the enemy with disdain, only a fool can, and I planned to give it my all.

Coming out of the arch, I could see that all the stands were packed, and two screens hung in the sky on which two beautiful elves were visible, both looked like older images of those who were in the arena, so there was no need to guess who was the matriarch and who was the queen of the light elves.

As I made my way to the center of the arena, I heard all the voices in the stands quiet and the looks directed at me increased until the entire arena began to study me as a monster or an animal.

Along the way, I called on one martyr, thus leveling the confrontation two against two. Even in the hostel, I endowed him with the power of darkness and my blood, so the mana around him immediately began to tingle, he silently began to follow me.

Approaching the center, I could see two elves Samantha and Cassandra, both were dressed in academic uniforms, one had a saber in the hands, the other had a staff.

Standing in front of them, I began to examine, Samantha and Cassandra were both visibly nervous under my gaze, one gripped the saber hilt more tightly, the other put the staff in front of her.

- It looks like the duelists have arrived, then I will announce the duel rules. - I heard the familiar voice of the director looking at us from the other side of the arena.

- Duelists can use any magic, any style of combat other than attempting to take the life of their opponent. Time is not limited, if the enemy destroys your emblem, then you are out or played. This fight will be watched by the matriarch and the queen of the bright ones, and I will be the judge. - The director finished explaining, pointing with his hand to two screens in which there were two elfs looking at me with a gaze.

- Are you ready duelists? - Asked Suga Tin, seeing our nods, he proclaimed the start of the duel.

The arena fell silent, everyone watched who would make the first move, I did not take my eyes off Samantha, I could tell that her saber was not easy, but I did not know her properties.

Like me, Samantha did not take her eyes off me, or rather from the sword and shield, she had an unpleasant feeling when she saw how Trey calmly walked around the arena. Unlike Samantha and me, Cassandra was watching us from the side, she did not understand what was happening so she decided to attack as soon as she decided to direct the attack, chains formed in front of her.

She knew them well, as she had been watching this creature throughout the third trial. Leaping back, Cassandra held out her staff in an attempt to block the blow.

When the chains made contact with the staff, there was a sound of metal on metal and a painful groan was heard, Cassandra flew off a good ten steps and lay on the ground trying to rise. Seeing and taking a hit were different things.

Cassandra understood this, but she did not expect such power from the chains. The entity didn't let her think for long and continued its attacks.

Metallic thumps were heard and Cassandra began to slowly back away, turning her head towards Samantha, ready to break from her mouth, the call stopped when she saw pitch darkness that blocked her view of the place where Samantha and Trey should have been standing.