The cart brimmed with jackets in a vibrant array of colors—red, blue, green, yellow—each hue designating the team the wearer would fight for.

While it wasn’t exactly a solo battle against a multitude, this exercise was the closest approximation for practice, igniting a wave of excitement among the students. After six months of only engaging in one-on-one sparring or practicing against inert dummies, the chance to participate in this more dynamic activity was a welcome change, infusing the atmosphere with a palpable sense of anticipation.

Eagerly, each student selected a jacket. Friends gravitated towards the same colors to align themselves, while rivals deliberately chose opposing hues to underscore their competitive spirit.

To ensure fairness and a balanced challenge, Professor Mae strategically assigned specific colors to certain students, crafting as even a playing field as possible before the exercise commenced.

“What color are you picking Rocky? I suggest you choose Red, I’ll cover your back and together we can take down everyone else-” Sophia suggested as she hoped that Rocky would pick the same color as her, however, Rocky had a completely different plan in mind.

Picking a colorless black jacket from the bottom of the pile, Rocky chose a color that no other student was wearing as he boldly decided to enter this activity solo.

“Student Rocky, have you accidentally chosen the wrong jacket color? That’s a professor’s jacket … not meant for students to wear” Professor Mae said, as she gave Rocky a chance to change his jacket color, however, Rocky refused to do so.

” I’m fine professor, I’m willing to go into this activity solo. Use it as a learning experience, if you permit it” Rocky said, as his unique choice irked many students.

“Hahaha, I don’t mind permitting it, however, I don’t think you will survive even 30 seconds without a team.

All the other teams have at-least 17-20 members each, are you sure you’re willing to take on 80 enemies alone?” Professor Mae joked, hoping that Rocky would notice the stupidity of his decision, however, Rocky only shrugged his shoulders and said “Sure-“

“Oye oye oye, Champion Of Gemini! Don’t underestimate us you cocky bastard. Agreed, you and Sophia were the best students in the class at the start, but while you were missing doing God knows what, we have been working our assess off to catch up.

Don’t look down on us!” Said a very angry student as Rocky only chuckled and decided to ignore his comments.

“Gosh, what a prick. Let’s all agree to eliminate him first!”.

“What a show-off, BOO!”

“This is your first class back! Don’t be too arrogant-“

“I have mastered the sword technique Triple Slash! Do you even know how powerful it is? I can slash through three boulders at once! Can you even slash through two?”

Once the first student took a jibe at Rocky, it was as if the flood gates had opened as everyone began to take jibes at him.

All the students admitted into the university of nourishment for young talents were proudly some of the best talents on their home planets and possibly the top 0.1% planets inside the entire tower.

Yet Rocky viewed them as nothing much, which pissed them off.

“Alright students! Silence-” Professor Mae said, as she threw Rocky one last unsure look but then decided to go ahead with the activity anyways.

“We will fight using wooden swords only! There will be absolutely no injuring or maiming other students and hitting anywhere except the water jackets area is absolutely prohibited” Professor Mae said as she picked up a red jacket from the cart and pricked it with a wooden sword.

“There is colored water filled within the water jacket, whose membrane is pretty easy to rupture.

Once the membrane ruptures, all students must stop fighting immediately and exit the battlefield and no cheating in this regard shall be tolerated-” Professor Mae said, throwing glances towards some specific students who were notorious rule breakers.

“Finally, the team who can survive till the end will win this competition and shall be given a chance to earn 1 bonus point in my subject!” Professor Mae said, introducing a stake for everyone to fight for, making the game even more interesting.

“Go pick your weapons quickly and stand in far corners of the swordsmanship arena based on jacket color.

Rocky, since you chose black you will stand at the center. Perfectly equidistant from all other teams” Professor Mae instructed, as she clapped her hands and signaled for the assistant to bring in the wooden sword cart.

Everyone excitedly chattered amongst one another as they chose the wooden sword that felt like a decent weight in their hands and then rushed to their specific team corners.

Rocky chose the two swords that had identical weight and a good grip as the second he held two swords and began to warm up his muscles, the very aura around him changed.

An imperceivable pressure surrounded him as he stood at the center of the arena as although he was not flexing his aura or expressing his sword intent, there was an aura of superiority and confidence around him that made everyone else nervous of approaching him.

All four teams seemed to have made a unanimous decision in targeting Rocky first as the competition started, as although his demeanor was surprisingly calm, nobody liked his cocky attitude of going solo into this activity.

From the second Professor Mae yelled “Start”

Hordes of students rushed towards Rocky from all sides, as he quickly scanned the speed and trajectory of the front runners and prioritized an initial kill sequence.

A confident smile spreading on his face, Rocky closed his eyes and almost envisioned Lord Ravan giving him tips on crowd control, as after fighting against hordes of high level undead and learning from the literal God Of War, Rocky felt the challenge of fighting children almost too easy at his level.

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/// A/N – Mass Release Chapter 5/5. I hope you enjoyed the mass release!

Thank You so much for your GT support this last month, as with your help we managed to reach rank 27 at the end, for which I’m very grateful.

PS- Doing mass release for two books on the same day is too hard, I’m completely drained. ///

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