1 hour has passed since the start of the third exam.

  "What match is this?," asked Noa who was still reading the book.

  "I don't know exactly, but it seems like this is the 50th match, the total participants are 500, 500 participants will compete against each other so it's 250 vs 250, because the Arena is divided into 2, it means there will be 125 matches, there are still 75 matches left," said Charles who was still watching the match.

  "Uhh, it's so hard to combine magic. I can already cast two different magic in both of my hands, but to combine them is so hard," said Chloe who was trying to practice.

  Chloe could already cast a water ball in her left hand and a fire arrow in her right hand

  "Why are you using 2 magic with different elements Chloe? You can try it with the same element first," I said.

  "You said earlier, if it's easier with the same element, so I'll choose the difficult one, if I can do the difficult one then I can definitely do the easy one," said Chloe.

  "I see," I said.

  "Chloe is really diligent in training, does she also want to be like her mother who is the strongest person in this kingdom?," I thought while looking at Chloe.

  "Watch me again Chloe, I will make another magic combination slowly. I will make it on my right hand, so I will focus on flowing mana to my right hand. Since I will be making a combination of both magic, so I need two different mana flows that will merge in my hand. You can directly merge your two mana flows in the palm of your hand, or you can separate them and flow them to your fingers and let them merge slowly. This time, I will try to merge them in my fingers," I explained.

  I also flowed my mana to the fingers on my right hand, Mana to create Water Ball I directed to my thumb and to create Fire Arrow I directed to the remaining 4 fingers. Water Ball was created on my thumb and Fire Arrow was also created on the remaining 4 fingers.

  "You see right? These two magics still haven't merged because the flow of mana flowing from the magic hasn't merged either. Now I will focus on flowing the mana," I explained.

  I also slowly merged the different mana flows, Water Ball and Fire Arrow touched each other.

  "Now I have to choose the form that will be the combination, for the impact I will choose Fire Arrow because Fire Arrow has more impact than Water Ball, for the form I will use the basis of Fire Arrow, when you start merging them, you have to concentrate to unite the two mana flows and to imagine the results of the combination of these two magics in your mind. Logically, water and fire cannot merge, but you have to focus on imagining that water and fire can merge. If you even imagine that water and fire cannot merge, the merger of these two magics will fail and the two magics will weaken each other like the fire will go out and the water will evaporate," I explained.

  I had already imagined what form I would form and its impact, I slowly brought the two mana streams closer together. The two magics began to rub against each other until they finally merged. Hot Water Arrow a fire arrow surrounded by water that became hot due to the fire on the arrow. The fire on the arrow was not extinguished by the water surrounding it, and the water surrounding the arrow did not evaporate from the fire that burned it.

  "And it became like this," I said to Chloe.

  "Wow, that's really cool, earlier you made Hot Water Ball and now you make Hot Water Arrow, okay I'll try it again, Thank you, Teacher Rid," said Chloe.

  "Why did you also call me Teacher?," I asked.

  "Hehe," Chloe laughed.

  "You seem very familiar with Chloe, Teacher?," Charles asked.

  "I told you why I was called Teacher, and what's wrong with you Charles, are you jealous as her older brother?," I asked.

  ”Hahaha no no, I'm actually happy if Chloe can get along with other people. She's a shy person, especially with strangers, seeing her get along with you and Noa so quickly makes me happy,” Charles said.

  ”You're a really caring big brother,” I said.

  ”And the reason I call you Teacher is because you've taught us, Rid. Aren't you afraid of teaching us who might be your opponents in this exam?,” Charles asked.

  ”Relax, I enjoy teaching other people about the knowledge I have,” I said.

  ”I see,” Charles said.

  -

  A few moments later.

  "Next match, please come forward, participants Noa Sigisbert and Alfred Tarski," said the supervisor Nora.

  "Finally, it's time for me to compete, I've been bored for a while," Noa said as he closed his book.

  "How can you feel bored when you've been reading books all this time, if you're bored you should stop reading the books," I said.

  "Well because there's nothing else exciting besides reading books, but reading books all the time also makes me bored but because there's nothing else I want to do I'm forced to keep reading books, enough chatting I have to go to the arena soon, see you later and don't forget to support me, okay," said Noa.

  Noa immediately rushed to the arena.

  "He's very enthusiastic," said Charles.

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  "Yeah, but his shy attitude when talking to a noble like you will make you wonder how he can be sometimes confident and sometimes shy," I said.

  "Well Noa might be shy because it was his first time talking to me, but now try to list him, so confident and talkative. Maybe he's the type of person who talks a lot when he's close to other people. Chloe is the same," said Charles.

  "Why am I being dragged into this? But what my brother said is true," said Chloe.

  "Haha, is that so," I said with a chuckle.

  -

  "Is participant Noa ready?," said supervisor Nora.

  "Ready, ma'am," said Noa.

  "Is participant Alfred ready?," said supervisor Nora again.

  "Ready," said Alfred.

  "Let's do this match fairly," said Noa to Alfred.

  "Huh? Oh, don't worry. I won't go overboard fighting a commoner like you," said Alfred.

  "Commoner? Oh, you're a noble, huh?," asked Noa.

  "Right, a commoner like you should bow down to me," said Alfred.

  "It's good that you're a noble, earlier there was a noble who annoyed me but I couldn't take it out on him, now there's a noble who's the same, how could I let him, I'll beat you," said Noa.

  "You're so arrogant for a commoner, how could a commoner beat a noble," said Alfred.

  "Alright, let's start the game, the game begins!!!," said the supervisor Nora.

  -

  "Alfred Tarski? If I'm not mistaken, he's the son of Count Benito Tarski," said Charles.

  "That's right, Count Benito served in the territory of Marquess Marcelo Buston. You could say that his son, Alfred Tarski, is a subordinate of Javier Buston because of his position and Rovinj which is the territory of Marquess Marcelo is in the territory of the Duke of San Quentine," said Enzo.

  "San Quentine huh?," said Charles who seemed to be contemplating.

  "Brother?," said Chloe.

  ".....,"

  I just kept quiet and listened to their conversation.

  "Ah, it's okay Chloe, it looks like Noa will have a hard time because his opponent is a noble," said Charles.

  "Relax, Charles. Noa will definitely win this match, especially if he knows that his opponent is a subordinate of the Marquess's son," I said.

  "What do you mean, Rid?," asked Charles.

  "You know that I had a feud with Javier earlier?," I asked again.

  "That's right, then I came and stopped your feud," said Charles.

  "Before I fought with Javier, Noa was provoked by Javier's words. Noa almost attacked Javier if I didn't stop him. After I stopped him I continued fighting with Javier," I said.

  "So you mean, if Noa knew his opponent was Javier's subordinate then he would definitely retaliate against Javier's behavior to his subordinates," said Charles.

  "Yes that's right, it's a shame if his opponent wasn't Javier directly but at least Noa could reduce his annoyance because I stopped him earlier, by beating up Javier's subordinates," I said.

  -

  "The match begins," said the supervisor Nora.

  Noa and Alfred immediately advanced towards each other, both using spears as their weapons. Their match began by attacking each other using the weapons they were using. Noa tried to injure Alfred with his spear but was blocked by Alfred's spear, Alfred also tried to injure Noa but was blocked by Noa's spear. Their match was fierce.

  "Noa is also great at using a spear," said Charles.

  "Earlier he said that he had been used to using a spear for a long time," I said.

  "I see, no wonder he's great at using a spear. What about you Rid, are you also great at using a sword that's why you use a sword?," asked Charles.

  "Not so great because I didn't get formal sword training, unlike you, Charles," I said.

  "Even though I did get sword training, I'm not that great at using a sword," said Charles.

  "You two are being modest, huh," said Enzo.

  "Haha," laughed Chloe

  -

  Noa and Alfred were still exchanging blows with their spears.

  "For a commoner, you're pretty good, but...," said Alfred.

  Wind Magic, Apply Magic Weapon, Wind Spear

  "In magic, I'm the best," said Alfred.

  Power Boost

  Magic Boost

  "Take this, Wind Blow," said Alfred.

  Alfred attacked using his spear that had been coated with wind magic, Noa reacted and blocked Alfred's attack with his spear. However, because of his great attack power, Noa was unable to withstand Alfred's attack and ended up being thrown almost hitting the arena wall.

  "Uggghhhhhhhh," said Noa in pain.

  "Hahaha you can hold on quite well, if your strength was weak to withstand my attack earlier. You would have hit the wall," laughed Alfred.

  "It looks like Noa is in a critical situation," said Charles who was a little restless.

  "Relax Charles, Noa hasn't used his magic yet," I said to calm Charles down.

  "You can also use wind magic huh? Even though during the second exam, I paid attention to other wind magic users but you weren't there," said Noa.

  "Earlier I used fire magic during the second exam, isn't it normal to use more than 1 elemental magic?" said Alfred.

  "Huh, that's true," said Noa.

  “Have you given up? Where did your arrogance go when you said you wanted to defeat me? It turns out that this is the strength of a commoner, Sir Javier was annoyed and wanted to teach you both a lesson, but it turns out that your strength is only this much, if your strength is only this much then you shouldn’t mess with the nobles,” said Alfred.

  "The rest is just the person named Rid, I don't know if Mr. Javier will be lucky enough to face him directly in this test or not, even if he doesn't face him, the person named Rid will be targeted by Mr. Javier at the Academy," said Alfred.

  Noa was surprised, and finally started to stand up again.

  "Who said I gave up?," said Noa.

  "Even though it would be better for you to just give up, so you don't get beaten up by my attacks," said Alfred.

  "Earlier you said "Mr. Javier", are you Javier's subordinate?," asked Noa.

  "How dare a commoner like you call Mr. Javier directly by his name," said Alfred.

  "I see, so you are his subordinate, this is really lucky. I was annoyed with Javier's behavior earlier, I haven't had the chance to beat him up. But...," said Noa

  Accelerate

  "...Beating his subordinates will ease my annoyance," continued Noa.

  Noa moved quickly and was suddenly in front of Alfred.

  "So fast," Alfred thought.

  Wind Magic, Apply Magic Weapon, Wind Spear

  Noa attacked using his wind spear. Alfred blocked it with his wind spear. The two spears coated with wind magic collided. A clash of fairly strong magic occurred in the arena. But because between arena 1, arena 2 and the audience seats had been installed with protective magic, the impact of the clash did not reach other places.

  "What is this attack? how can his magic be stronger than mine?," Alfred thought.

  Noa pressed Alfred with his attacks, until finally Noa managed to make Alfred move back several meters from where they had clashed before.

  "How could a commoner like you be able to push me," Alfred said.

  "Are you surprised when someone who is below you managed to push you? I will make you even more surprised when I manage to defeat you," Noa said.

  ”Commoner, b*st*rd. Magic Boost, Double, Mega Fire Ball” Alfred said while casting his magic.

  A fairly large fireball headed towards Noa. Noa prepared to raise his spear and take a stance like someone who wanted to throw a spear. As the fireball got closer, Noa threw the spear that was still flowing with wind magic towards the fireball.

  ”Destroy everything in front of you, Wind Ballista,” Noa said.

  The spear that was flowing with wind magic was thrown. The spear headed towards the large fireball that was heading towards Noa. Immediately after that, the fire spear pierced the fireball and made the fireball spread and slowly disappear. But the spear still didn’t stop because the target the spear was aiming for was not actually the large fireball but the person who threw the large fireball, Alfred.

  ”?!?!?!,” Alfred was shocked.

  "That attack could be the same as the one Noa launched during the second exam?," Charles said in surprise.

  ".....," I was just speechless.

  The spear moved quickly and immediately headed towards Alfred to hit him. After reaching Alfred, the spear exploded and there was a fairly large explosion of wind magic.

  - To be continued