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(13) Time Skip!

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  Two Years Later…

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  "Ggrahh!"

  Alerted by the roar above me, I sidestepped to my left, swinging my wooden sword diagonally upwards, striking down an arrow that aimed for my head.

  "Right flank!" Julian shouted.

  As my right foot touched the ground, I twisted my torso to my right, meeting Gabriel's battle axe with a parry, the wooden axe blade sinking into the hard dirt besides me.

  I grabbed the axe handle with my free left hand and brought Gabriel close, striking my knee into his abdomen.

  "Oohff!"

  I slide my blunt wooden sword across his neck and push him away, eliminating him from the spar.

  "Damn it!" Julian dashed in from behind, but I crouched down and ducked under his feet.

  Before I could stand up, I stopped to catch another wooden arrow, just as Valerie appeared in front of me right after Julian, her hammer held high.

  No time to swing my sword, so I opened my hand and forced her back with a mana push.

  "Darn!"

  Valerie was sent back a hundred meters, but I found myself frozen in place.

  I could feel dense mana around me, preventing me from moving freely by messing with my senses. I look at the perpetrator; Amaranth, holding a wooden staff with a pointed end.

  "Nice idea, Amara…! But I still have more mana than you…!" I expand my mana and break her mana manipulation, just barely jumping back to avoid a volley of arrows from Henry.

  I sprinted towards Henry but was intercepted by Julian. "I won't let you!"

  He met my sword with one of his axes. He swung the other, but I blocked his hand with my arm and punched his liver.

  "Yaaah!"

  I lift the second twin and use his body to block Henry's arrow.

  "Ouch! Henry, watch where you're shooting, damn it!" Julian complained as he was now eliminated by his teammate.

  "Sorry…!"

  "Don't forget about me, Luxa!"

  Valerie shouted out with a wild smile on her face as she sprinted toward me. She's having fun.

  "I'd never!" I shouted back.

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  I dash back and grabbed Henry by the collar of his shirt and enhanced my body further, throwing the boy at Amaranth and running to her right after.

  Henry collided with Amaranth and they were both knocked down but not eliminated.

  I dodged Valerie's swing as she caught up with me, her hammer cratering the ground where I stood.

  "You trying to kill me, Valy?!"

  "Haha~ Of course not!"

  I continue to retreat, dodging all of Valerie's swings as she is now too strong to even attempt to parry her.

  But since she's too focused on me…

  I arrived right next to the recovering Henry and Amaranth, quickly slid my blunt wooden sword against Henry's back, eliminating him, and grabbed Amaranth by the back of her neck.

  Valerie stopped her hammer just before she hit Amaranth's face.

  "Aw, what happened? I thought you said you'd do anything to win this time?" I teased.

  "Grrrr!! Of course, I won't hurt my friends! You she-devil!"

  "That's a good attitude to have~" I stealthily unsheathe my dagger and throw it at Valerie before she could react, hitting her in the forehead and knocking her down onto her butt.

  "Ow!"

  I slid my sword across Amaranth's neck and eliminated both girls simultaneously.

  "Luxanna wins, yet again." Our Teacher nonchalantly announced.

  Valerie rubbed her forehead and pouted while sitting on the ground. "Aw… We lost."

  I patted Amaranth's head and held out my hand to Valerie. "Don't be so down. You were actually pretty close this time around. If I hadn't used Amara as a hostage, I would have lost to you one on one for sure. You're just way too strong to fight without any tricks, Valy."

  "Hmph…! You always say that after you win our group spars!" Valerie grabbed my hand and stood up, still pouting.

  "Then maybe we should just do a one-on-one on our own time? Devin only ever makes you guys work together against me when we train."

  "Really?! Just us two?!"

  Valerie seemed more excited to be alone with me than actually sparing, but I just shrugged my shoulders.

  "Yeah, sure. Just not today. It's no good to overwork."

  Gabriel and Julian interjected between Valerie and me and spoke the same words in unison. ""Hey, how come we don't get one on one time!!""

  "Eh~ Maybe, I'll think about thinking about it."

  The twins grumbled as they started cleaning up the training area. Henry looked like he wanted to say something, but sighed and followed the twins, While Amaranth waved at me with a smile while following Henry close from behind.

  "Come on, Luxa! Let's clean up quickly so that we can eat!"

  I help clean up the training grounds and say my goodbyes to my friends.

  The Affinity Ceremony is in a few weeks, where we'll learn all of our individual affinities.

  All we've been doing for the past two years was growing. Not only physically, but skillfully, as well. According to Devin; Gabriel, Julian, Henry, and Amaranth are equivalent to mid D-Rank Adventurers, while he evaluates Valerie as a low C-Rank, and me a mid C-Rank.

  The highest adventurer rank is S-Rank, while the highest rating within S Rank is an S+4 Rank.

  Imagine that… an Adventurer of Legend being so much stronger than even an SSS Rank that they had to add another ‘S’.

  With the amount of mana I have now, I'm confident in easily achieving A-Rank within a short while, maybe even up to S-Rank within the same year I sign up for the Guild.

  However, just because I have a crazy amount of mana now, doesn't mean I'm gonna stop training for even more mana!

  I run into my home, noticing the smell of delicious wild hare stew wafting out from the kitchen.

  "Hi, Mama! I'll take a shower first!" I run up the stairs and enter the bathroom, ignoring Mother's warning not to run up the stairs.

  In these two years, I've grown considerably. I'm now as tall as Mother, but my breasts are thankfully not even half the size of hers.

  "What is it now? D-cup? Way too big, so I hope they don't grow anymore… but Mama's is at least J-cup. It would be way too big and uncomfortable to swing a sword around with those huge melons on my chest."

  Aw crap, I'm gonna turn into a really sexy woman in the future, aren't I?

  "If only men weren't attracted to me." Gods, please save me from the trouble!

  Puberty is a real bitch! Every time I see women, my thoughts always drift to distracting fantasies!

  "Ugh!! Stop thinking of that, Me! Bad hormones!"

  I can't wait for this goddamned stage in my life to be over!

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