Chapter 295: Watching Other Fights

When Julius exited the field, he was greeted by Lily and Aubrey.

“Not how I expected it would go down,” Aubrey commented.

“What do you mean?” He asked, confused.

“I thought you would have just used that same stupid immobilization technique you used on me,” she said.

He couldn’t help but let loose a smirk at her words. After his fight with Edgar, and seeing Julius beat him. Aubrey had wanted to know how he was able to stop Edgar from moving. This was why he had demonstrated the skill on her and she got pissed off when she wasn’t able to fight it off as easily as she had been thinking she could.

To her credit, when she knew it was coming, she was able to prevent it from completely immobilizing her. But if she wasn’t using her entire attention to fight it, she was done for.

It was better than Edgar at the very least. The guy had never been the best with aura and the recent loss to Julius lit a fire underneath the large fourth-year’s ass.

He was now taking aura lessons and willpower training very seriously.

Lily, on the other hand, had also wanted to experience it for herself. But Julius was amazed at how well she managed to fend off his willpower. He had known that she was really good at aura control, but that didn’t always transfer to a powerful willpower.

However, she had one of the most impressive willpowers he had seen from someone not at Tier 4. It was actually more impressive than that Tier 4 assassin he had beaten up.

“What about you? Did you find out who you are fighting? He asked Aubrey, knowing that if she was here then she already went ahead and checked who she was scheduled to fight.

She gave him a confident smirk. “I ended up getting paired up against this guy in his third year,” she informed him.

“Don’t get cocky just because he’s a third-year,” he tried to remind her.

She slapped him on the shoulder a couple of times. “Bah! You are an exception, don’t be thinking that I am going to run into many people like you anytime soon.”

“You never can know for certain,” he pointed out.

He saw the gears start to shift in her head. “Good point. Then I will make sure to be safe and bury the poor sod into the ground immediately.”

He turned to look at her with a disbelieving look at the complete change in attitude. “Okay, maybe you don’t have to go that far.”

“Nope, you are right. I can’t know for certain, and I really don’t want to be like that kid you just murdered in there,” she said to him, looking over at where his recent opponent was walking away.

Julius followed her eyes, and his gaze inevitably came across the other boy’s. Feras was the boy’s name, if Julius recalled correctly.

Feras was now intensely looking at him like he had just been beaten up and mugged by Julius. His friend was trying to cheer the other boy up, but it seemed futile. Aubrey winced as she saw the look on Feras’s face.

“Yeah, see what I mean?” She said, shamelessly pointing at Feras, quickly receiving the boy’s attention.

“I did not murder him,” he defended himself. He actually thought he did pretty well, all things considered.

He had established some ground rules for himself. If he was going to fight, he was going to continue with the story he had established when he first arrived.

He was a close combat fighter with affinities in fire and kinetic energy. He thought this was a good opportunity to hone his close combat skills against a wide variety of people.

It was a big reason why he hadn’t fought that hard against participating after they signed him up on their own.

He was fine with showing off his new enhancement skill and the occasional fire construct if need be, but he didn’t see the need to show his dangerous aura ability or other skills like [Phoenix Renewal].

Plus, he didn’t know if his aura skill was prohibited, and he didn’t really want to find out. Because if he did, then it would mean he was forced to use it, and he didn’t need people to start creating even more nasty rumors about him.

He already had enough rumors about him and Reinera being ‘together’ from the other first years. Even his other first-year friends couldn’t help but tease him about it.

“No, you definitely brutalized the poor boy. He didn’t stand a chance even if you were holding back,” Lily said to him with an apologetic grimace.

“Yeah, and he was actually pretty good. He had solid fundamentals and instincts, using his skills with impressive control. He might be toward the top of the third year,” Aubrey commented.

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“You think so?” He asked.

She nodded her head. “There’s a good chance he will make it decently far for a third year. I’m sure there will be some eyes on you now,” she said while looking around at the handful of eyes watching their small group of three.

“They’re just looking because you two are here,” he reminded her.

“For now, at the very least,” Lily said to him.

“What do you mean?”

“Well, until they start to see you rack up a flawless record. I am going to guess that their attention will quickly shift over to you,” Lily explained.