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Lord Macher, but now its just you and me. I'll kick your sorry ass off this ring in under a minute."
     
     
"You know what? I was thinking exactly the same thing. Except I was thinking that I'd blow you away in under thirty seconds."
     
     
The Guard Knight was infuriated. The bell was rung and Smoke's entrance exam officially begun. He dashed towards the Guard Knight following the same movements he saw from the middle aged Swordsman earlier.
     
     
Letting out a smirk, the Guard Knight burrowed his feet into the ground and awaited Smoke's attack. Smoke was only inches away when the Guard Knight suddenly lost his footing.
     
     
Losing his balance, the Guard Knight was forced to raise his sword and shield up into the air giving Smoke a clear shot at his body. Smoke mimicked the slash of the 'Sword Smite' ability and managed to deal a critical hit at 2516 damage points.
     
     
The Guard Knight was then thrown off the ring as if the stage suddenly turned into a backward moving walkway. Smoke was declared the winner at an elapsed time of only 20 seconds. He stepped off the ring and went to where the Guard Knight had fallen.
     
     
"Oh, I guess I was wrong. It took less than thirty seconds after all."
     
     
"You cheater! What did you do? You didn't knock me off the stage with your sword! Judge?! Judge, I demand a review of the exam?! This Swordsman was cheating."
     
     
Two other Guard Knights swiftly came and took the defeated Guard Knight away. They apologized to Smoke for his unsportsmanlike conduct and assured him that he will be reprimanded by their commander.
     
     
Smoke looked at the main screen and saw the name Ilad added to the passers' list. He also saw that another name was added as well. It was the Swordswoman, Cudny.
     
     
A replay of her battle appeared. Cudny started out with a fast dash to the front and quickly took a side step to the left.
     
     
The Guard Knight responded well and slashed his glaive at the charging Swordswoman. She should have been knocked off the stage but instead of moving forward she took another step back.
     
     
With the Guard Knight's glaive missing its target. The blond Swordswoman ran towards him and used her ability 'Quadruple Lunge', the Guard Knight was pushed off the ring. Each attack inflicted around 2120 damage points.
     
     
Smoke was still staring at the screen and didn't notice that the Swordswoman on the screen was standing beside him.
     
     
"That was quite an interesting fight. How did you manage to push him back and only inflict 2516 damage points?"
     
     
Blastar also came nearer in order to hear their conversation. Smoke knew that they were fishing for his techniques, he was also confused on how to answer them. He only thought that they would ask about his critical hit.
     
     
"What do you mean, How? Of course, I used 'Sword Smite'. How else could have I done it?"
     
     
Blastar couldn't control himself and had to join in on their conversation.
     
     
"You're joking right? That wasn't 'Sword Smite', if it was you should have inflicted at least 4000 damage points, even with your puny gladius."
     
     
"I think that Guard Knight just had an unusually high defense. Well, if you'll all excuse me. I have somewhere else to be."
     
     
Quickly walking away from the them and heading outside the Knight academia but Smoke couldn't leave without hearing Blastar's last words.
     
     
"Ilad! We'll see what you really used when we fight in the district championships!"
     
     
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Smoke followed the directions that Laernea and Gandiva gave him. After thirty minutes of walking. He was out of the second layer and in the farmlands of the first layer.
     
     
He wondered why they brought him there when there were many decent and affordable lodging places in the second layer of the city.
     
     
Laernea and Gandiva greeted him as they were waiting for him outside a farm. They asked him if he could follow them to the back, to meet the owner of the