Beast Evolution

"Yes, I need to rest tomorrow is going to be stressful," Ray said.

"I'm also tired from all the dueling and training so I'm going to walk a little" Ivan said and left the room.

Ray drifted off to sleep a while later.

...

The next day ran by very quickly, maybe because Ray had something to do but fortunately he was done in time.

Bernardo's house was a lot cleaner than Alfred's house, he didn't even waste too much time but when he was done the sun was shining brightly.

Ray quickly ran back to the school hopefully he made it in time, the duels were currently ongoing when he came and he was surprised to see people watching them.

The people watching were all knights, and maybe some were from the medical department but they were all watching as four students battled themself.

They were two rings, two large square was drawn in the center of the training field and two pair of students were currently sparing inside each square.

Ray spotted Ivan and went towards him.

"Hey Ivan, why are people watching?"

"That's how the duels are, to participate you just need to tell that knight over there," Ivan said and pointed to a female knight standing there watching the battle.

Ray went over and talked to the female knight.

"I want to join the duels," Ray said.

"What rank are you?" she asked.

"I don't know, my band was taken away a long time ago," Ray said.

When the students were going for survival training, the watch that monitored their ranks was taken away from them.

"They have been returned, ask the knight over there for yours"

Ray looked at the hands of the other students and all of them were wearing theirs, he went over to the knight he was directed to and asked for his band.

The knight found his band with his name and rank on it and gave it back to Ray. Ray looked at the rank and found out that his rank had been reduced to 75.

Ray went back to the female knight and registered for the duel and he was told to sit that his name would be called.

Ray went back and sat near Ivan.

"I really don't understand this duel?" Ray said.

"Each student is required to duel three times in a day, one of the duels would be with someone above your rank where you will have the chance to rank up"

"And one is with someone below your rank where you would have to defend your rank and the third one is random, either you battle someone above or below you," Ivan said.

"Ohh, I see then what about Leia, only Gabriel is above her"

"Rank 1 to 3 have the choice of participating only once, yesterday Leia battled with Gabriel and lost then she got angry and fought with two other students which she easily defeated," Ivan said.

"Okay, then I should wait for my turn," Ray said and relaxed and watched the ongoing duels.

After several duels had taken place Ray's name was called and he quickly stepped forward.

His first battle was with a guy at rank 67, he was in the martial arts class, he had a medium build, and was also the same height as Ray.

He had short black hair and stood in front of Ray with a large smile on his face, he was very confident about winning the fight.

Ray took a wooden sword and got ready, the guy took a fighting stance with no weapon in his hands, he was in the martial arts class and their weapons are mostly gauntlet.

So he couldn't use a weapon, Ray was fairly confident in his skills and knew he would win but when the battle started everything changed.

Ray was the first to charge toward the guy but when he landed the first hit all his chances of winning faded away.

The guy had mastered Ki and could use it to harden his body, Ray's wooden sword was useless against that and he knew.

Ray swung his sword a few times but still, the attack didn't even faze him, he just used his hands as shields and blocked his face.

Ray got tired of the attacks and went backward to think of a plan, when the guy saw that Ray was not attacking anymore he charged toward Ray.

He swung his fist towards Ray's face but Ray dodged his attacks, both Ray and the guy struggled but they could not deal any powerful strike.

Ray found an opportunity and swung his sword towards the face of the guy but he caught the sword and punched Ray.

Ray couldn't dodge the attack but he used his left hand to block the attack, the impact of the attack pushed Ray and cause him to fall on his back.

Ray didn't expect his attacks to be this heavy, he was definitely using Ki, but none of them in the sword class had learned to use Ki to attack, but this guy in his front had mastered it.

Ray stood up and faced him, Ray's sword was in his hands and he threw the sword out of the ring, everyone's eyes were on Ray's battle, they were surprised at the amount of power the student from the martial arts class was displaying.

The Instructor of the martial arts class held his chin and smile widely as he watched the battle.

Ray needed to calm down and think of a plan or else he was going to lose, Ray's opponent rushed him and he dodged the first attack and maneuvered to the other side so he won't leave the ring by mistake.

Ray had no choice but to dodge all the attacks thrown at him, another one of those powerful attacks may end the match.

The guy stood still after a while, Ray could sense energy gathering in the guy's body, and Ray knew that he wanted to end the match.