I went straight to the cafeteria after class, I was hungry and already tired of school already. I only had interest in my mana formation class I couldn't wait to develop my channel.
"It's settled,I'll develop my channel before the contest" I said to my self
"Hey" I greeted Eric I met at the entrance to the cafeteria.
"How's sleeping beauty coping?" Eric said
"When did sleeping beauty become my name"
"This morning"
"seriously"
"Yup"
We went inside,took our food and looked for a vacant sit. The cafeteria was filled with students, both senior and junior student it was hard to find a vacant sit but we finally did. The cafeteria was large, I tried looking for Ella but she was nowhere to be found. One hour passed while we were in the cafeteria it was time for our last class for the day, Combat form 1.
***
Prof. Greg was the one in charge of our combat class, I sat on the floor in the field we were having our class as different student were called to spar with each other by our professor. I had already started meditating trying to fill my core,but it was another failure. Prof. Narine made it sound like it was very simple.
"Xavier"I was drawn back to reality when professor Greg called my name."you are up next".
I took a practice sword and walked into the circle that was drawn on the ground.
My opponent was a third year student,we took combat classes together,his name was Damien and he also wielded a sword.
The rules were simple, first person to be forced outside the circle, or falls to the ground loses, without the help of any spell.
"Begin" Prof. Greg said.
I was never good at magic related stuff but I was pretty good when it came to wielding a sword, after all I was the son of a general, I remembered all the training I had with my dad before he was called to the war front.
Damien was the first to attack,he came at me and thrust his sword in an attempt to stab. I could read from his movements that he was not very skilled.
I quickly avoided his attack with skilled footwork I had practiced with my dad.
Xavier was now close enough to strick back,he started striking and stabbing aggressively like a mad skilled swordsman but Damien was still barely able to defend. Xavier's attack was becoming stronger and more difficult for Damien to defend forcing him to move backwards constantly, he was no longer able to defend himself and was about to get stabbed by Xavier before professor Greg called out.
"that's enough" Prof. Greg called out. Damien wanted to speak up when he closes his mouth as he saw that he was already outside the line. Everyone was stunned as a third year student was defeated so easily by a fresher so easily under a few minutes.