Chapter 94: You are brave.

[From the moment I saw the way he controlled his golden flames; I knew he had a strong will.] The system had already expected this outcome.

'Seems heh knew a bit about will before all this…' Blake made a mental note.

"Well, this is just the basic of arcane magic hoped you enjoyed it." Professor Gibson said with a smile. "You can keep practicing till you can be able to lift a person. As for the next lesson, we will be moving to something more difficult."

"As for you two…" Professor Gibson said looking at the two girls who were still in mid-air. "Minus 200 points for talking without given permission to speak. You won't get the 50 points for attendance because you didn't take part in the class activities, hence you were as good as absent."

'Damn! That was harsh. Either he is getting strict or it is a change that all I should expect from other professors.' Blake thought as he watched professor Gibson step into the warp gate.

When he turned around to leave the class, he saw Tessie standing behind him. "Wow! You shocked me." Blake lied through his teeth. He was aware of the moment Tessie had stood up from her seat and walked up to him, but he had to act 'normal'.

"Oh, sorry..." Tessie said with an apologetic expression.

"So, what's up?" Blake said as they walked out of the class.

"I wanted to know if you could teach me the levitate spell?" Tessie said with her head lowered and her hands tangling with her hair.

"Well, I can't teach because I am very busy, but I can give you some tips," Blake replied.

"Really?! Thanks a lot."

"Let's talk over launch..." Blake said as his stomach grumbled, causing Tessie to giggle.

While ordering his beef and vegetable casserole, with a beef wellington, he began his explanation.

"So, what part of the spell are you having a problem with?" Blake asked the moment his food appeared.

"Not part of the question, but may I know why always eat a lot of meat-based food?" Tessie asked out of curiosity because everything on his side of the table was practically beef.

"One, to maintain these babies…" Blake said as he flexed his biceps, causing Tessie's face to turn beet red. "… and gives me more energy." Blake gave a simple because he couldn't explain the effects of amino acids in the body.

When Tessie finally regained, she went straight to the question. "I have enough mana control to steadily supply the construct with mana but the problem is that I don't fully understand how one's will work."

'Just like I suspected the difficult question…' Blake sighed but didn't it show on his face.

"Your will is how much you can affect the environment with only your mind and how strong it is, is dependent on one's psyche..." Blake explained.

"So that means my will is not so high?" After seeing Blake nod, she asked. "So, how do I train my will?"

"Well there is no straightforward process, but you should be more open-minded, pass through as many emotions as possible and learn how to restrain them, last but not least train your mind power..." Blake replied.

[You that's a lot of random crap and little information.] The system chuckled at how he was spewing a lot of random stuff that came to his head.

Blake didn't wasn't to be too straight forward so he tossed in some random stuff and two main points, which were mind power and self-control.

If they were on Earth, he would have asked her to play more puzzles like chess and others, but in infinite realm, the only way of improving mind power he knew so far was fighting which made him make split-second decisions and put a lot of stress on his minds when he was always aware of his environment.

After enjoying his lunch, Tessie went for her alchemy class, while Blake went for his forgemastering class where he was taught how to forge other basic items.

"Next class we would be looking at crafting items with special materials and how to prepare those special materials. Class dismissed!" Professor Tacitus announced causing the door of the forge to open letting the students.

He spent the rest of the day training and when it had become late, Blake continued practicing drawing the mana gathering array on the array plate.

He had expended more than half of his stock, but he wasn't complaining because he had more gains than losses. He was now able to perfectly inscribe all the symbols with the help of the array plates and hand gone over to learning how to inscribe with mana.

…

The next day, while they were waiting for Professor Mack, their badges glowed in unison announcing that he would be absent and the class was canceled.

'Well, that gives me a lot of time to do what?' This was his first time having a free period and due to his workaholic nature, he began thinking of what next to do.

(AN: Note, the first-time professor Mack missed his class, they had no idea that he wasn't going to arrive, so they waited for him till the period was over.)

But his chain of thought was soon broken by a commotion coming from the other side of the class.

"I challenge to battle you…" Haldor said with his fingers pointing at Luciano.

Haldor had red-hair with hazel eyes and a roman nose. He had a muscular build; he was hairier than normal and his skin was nowhere near smooth.

Haldor was a commoner and was known in the phoenix dormitory for being a savage. He didn't care if one was a noble or not, as long as they weren't strong, they were trash in his eyes. Haldor wasn't a friend of the commoner nor was he on the side of the nobles, he was just like Blake, a solo player.

'So, this is the rank 4, Haldor the beast boy.' Blake thought as he watched how the scene would unfold. 

"Finally, someone has challenged the number 2."

"His 5 chances of receiving challenges are still full, so the only thing he can do right now is to postpone the fight."

The entire elite class was pumped up from the thought of getting to watch the rank 2 and 4 in battle.

"I have been waiting for this. It's time to show those of you below the top 3 your place." Luciano said with an unchanged expression as he stood up and proceeded to the training grounds for the fight.

"What! He accepted the challenge?!"

The members of the class were stunned by Luciano's actions. Normally when one was challenged, they would wait till the classes for the day were over, but Luciano had the intention of fighting when they had advanced combat class next.

"Don't get corky…" Haldor said with a smirk on his, but Luciano didn't react to his remark as he kept on moving.

Not like being ignored, a deep frown formed on Haldor's face as the thought of trashing him came to his mind, but he decided to save his anger for the battle.

"When this over you will be next..." Haldor said drawing everyone's attention to the direction in which his finger was pointing to, Blake.

"Hmmph!" Blake scoffed at Haldor's wishful thoughts, pissing him off.  

'I would have loved to do something else, but this should be interesting…' Blake stood up and proceeded towards the training grounds.

'Blake is coming to watch!'

The students that saw Blake coming were shocked. Ever since they entered into the main school, except when he was in class, eating or jogging people hardly saw Blake and unlike the other top rankers he had never come to spectate.

'Seems I am already a superstar.' Blake smirked as he overhead their conversations.

[More like a local champion.] The system snorted.

When they finally got to the training grounds and the challenger and challenged took their positions and waited for the referee to come.

Rank battles were very important, and to stop any side from cheating, every battle was meant to be supervised by a professor to ensure fairness and to also save anyone who was in life-threatening danger.

"Alright let's end this quickly, I still have a class in the afternoon." Instructor Zirrack said as he stepped out of a warp gate, but when he saw it was his students he was shocked for a moment.

"Wait… You guys are aware that we have a class later today and you decided to have a rank battle?" Seeing them nod made him shake his head. "You must be brave…"

His words sent chills down the spine of everyone in the elite class, including Blake.

'Why do I feel that is the "You guys are f*cked up' tone.' Blake thinking about the implications of the instructor's words.

"Well, it's too late now to cancel the fight. So, let's get this over with." Instructor Zirrack said with a creepy smile that put that of Professor Gibson to shame.