Vampire Prince Trapped Into a Hunter

Chapter 51 – FIRST YEAR COMPETITION. 4

The first round of the swordsman competition between freshmen opens with a fight between 1S2 student Arnoria Rosechild against 1B6 student Erna Silverwood.

Both of them simultaneously climbed onto the podium.

In contrast to the general competition, special swordsman freshmen competitions were conducted using wooden swordsmen.

There are three types of sword choices determined by the committee in the field according to what they usually use in the academy swordsmanship class namely the big sword type, balanced type, and bastard type.

It is seen that Arnoria Rosechild chose a shorter but more prickly and slightly curved type of bastard, while Erna Silverwood chose a balanced type harmonizing with the weight of a woman who on average is not as heavy as a man.

With a warning from the referee, the match began.

It feels nostalgic in the mind of Laviar who is currently using Arnoria Rosechild's body how it used to be both Erna and herself were lower-class students in their high school.

They insult each other and their shortcomings lie with each other.

But that does not make them hate each other because thanks to the correction from each other, both can improve each other and develop into a greater swordsman.

Surely for Erna, Laviar is just a memory of her past that has long since died in the disastrous dungeon break at their graduation exam.

That's why Laviar in Arno's body was a little frustrated by the feeling of rivalry with Erna about Erna completely unaware of her feelings.

But now, Laviar was satisfied.

Although Erna did not know that Laviar is actually in the form of Arno, this is a very valuable moment for Laviar as a proving ground for him to break away from his past weaknesses by defeating his first stepping stone, an Erna Silverwood.

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The sound of wooden swords clashing echoed.

Erna was a low-level swordsman so Arnoria Rosechild decided to fight by not relying on her sword aura.

He tried to challenge himself to defeat Erna Silverwood only purely with his sword skills alone.

Both had reached the realm of stat E, but Arnoria Rosechild's stat was slightly higher than Erna Silverwood's.

But even with such a small stat difference, Arnoria Rosechild soon outperformed Erna Silverwood.

The bastard swords made of wood immediately eroded the sharpness of Erna Silverwood's wooden sword.

In just a few beats, the sword broke.

Arnoria Rosechild uses the blunt part of her wooden sword grip to push Erna Silverwood out of the arena.

The victory belongs to Arnoria Rosechild with a difference in ability against opponents who look very clear.

***

I can clearly feel the quality of Viar's body and Arno's body drastically different.

Arno's body was equipped with a star aura skill that made his stats rise more significantly compared to others just with more and more others liking him.

With this handsome face and gentle manners, it would no longer be difficult for me to attract the attention of others so easily like me.

That is why in less than three months, the difference in my ability with Erna who always outperformed me in a thin difference when in the body of Viar, is now very much different.

Of course, I am in a superior position.

My next opponent in the second round in the round of 16 is Evinorth Cladeistein a class A student with the number 8.

He was the same type of big sword wielder as his mother who now worked as the main bodyguard of the presidential palace so I could previously guess that he would choose a large wooden sword as his weapon.

A swordsman wielding a great sword like the original Arnoria Rosechild was an opponent that should not be taken lightly.

His great sword was at once functioning as his shield so that such a swordsman type would attack as well as defend.

That is why a talented swordsman of great swordsmen is very difficult to defeat unless you have more stamina.

In fact Evinorth Cladeistein, a woman standing before me right now, was still very clumsy.

His sword thrust was indeed heavy, but he had yet to master the magnitude of his sword.

That was why he always left a pause of several milliseconds each time after swinging his sword.

He's even still a long way off on the level of Jeremy Rudd and Abel Lundoln who understand well the rhythm of movement to not leave a noticeable gap in your defence.

The fight began.

I let Evinorth Cladeistein attack first to open up that gap.

As soon as the gap appeared, I used it to dodge and bypass his slash attack.

As soon as I got behind him after dodging the slash, the weight of his sword made it too late to turn the sword back to defend.

I also used the gap in the back that was open very wide to give a critical attack.

Skilled wielders of great swords will indeed be defenseless, but once you're the clumsy type that leaves a gap, when your gap is passed, you're done.

This was the main weakness of a great sword-user-type swordsman like I had felt in the beginning I tried to cluckily imitate Arnoria Rosechild's fighting style that was very incompatible with me.

I managed to advance to the third round in the last eight as well with ease.

I witnessed in another group, the other five S class representatives were all able to qualify easily to the last eight.

***

In the last eight, I faced a woman for the third time.

This was not intentional or because more female swordsman fighters than the men in this academy, it was just pure coincidence.

In fact, 5 out of 8 participants who qualify for the third round are men.

My next opponent was Mimika Adasasaja, owner of the A4 sequence number, a swordsman whose abilities were right under Mulyadi Murjahan.

That was because the A2 and A3 massage students were battle mages.

She is a swordswoman of the type of a bastard sword user, just like me.

Seeing that, I also tried to compete with him while keeping my sword aura.

I fought it off by further accentuating my agility.

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The sound of a wooden sword's thump sounded so fast and blaring.

None of us wanted to give up by lowering our attack pace.

At least that was until two minutes later.

Mimika Adasasaja seemed to make a mistake by accidentally tripping over a stone in the arena that broke and protruded out due to the actions of Lisanna Annexia in the previous fight.

He who loses his balance loses his composure and ends up making more mistakes.

My attacks were endless and he was defeated after I gave him a closing strike that sent him bouncing off the arena.

***

After I was officially declared as one of the semifinalists in the race, now it is the turn of other participants who will compete.

This fight will be quite interesting.

The fight between fellow class S, S3 number-holder Julian Gerfinda against S5 number-holder Alvin Hermes.