Stable. This was stable now.
Felyn knew he was clinging to powerful support, but he hadn't expected this support to be so strong.
"I suggest we just sign up for the highest level competition. That way we'll get more points too."
Bernice crossed her legs and folded her arms across her chest.
"Our seal levels are good enough anyway."
Seal competitions were also divided into levels. The higher the level, the more points you got for winning, but the higher the average seal level requirements.
If it weren't for Bernice and Viloti having so many high-order seals, relying on the few first-order seals in Felyn's hands, he could only participate in the lowest level competitions, earning only two points per match.
"Then let's discuss tomorrow's battle plan?"
Felyn looked at all the seals on the table, feeling much more relaxed.
Generally speaking, participants didn't have this many seals.
The competition wasn't just one match either—it lasted a full two months.
So before participating, teams had to discuss how many seals to consume in each match and where to use each seal.
Every seal was expensive, and the school wouldn't subsidize them—participants had to pay out of their own pockets.
Participants would predetermine which seals to use in each match to avoid the embarrassing situation of running out of money to buy seals mid-competition.
Of course, there were also civilian students subsidized by the empire, but the grade requirements were very high. Felyn clearly wasn't among them.
"These seals aren't worth much to me. I've been wanting to take this opportunity to destroy them anyway."
For someone who had already mastered divine arts, seals were basically useless.
They couldn't be cast immediately, had low power, and were inconvenient to carry.
Bernice had long wanted to destroy this batch of seals and get new batch of daily-use seals from Truth Divine Church.
Otherwise, these seals would take up quota, and the Truth Divine Church wouldn't give Bernice new seals.
"So let's use mine first. I still have some third and fourth-order seals I haven't brought over. As for tactics, I don't think we need any—just blast our way through."
In the face of absolute power, all tactics were futile.
"Speaking of which, Felyn, I haven't seen you use seals yet. Are you okay?" Bernice put all the seals on the table back into her bag.
Seals weren't something you could just take out and use.
Using seals also required incantation. Only after the seal's patterns fully appeared could you use it.
This process tested the user's control over seals. Otherwise, the seal's power would weaken and might miss its target.
"I'm completely fine."
Felyn took out the seals from his bag and aimed at the other side of the classroom.
In this classroom, seal devices would simulate the entire process of using seals.
The simulated patterns of the seal appeared in Felyn's hand. After a while, the simulated attack emerged from the seal in Felyn's hand. Here you could train seal control and team coordination.
Seeing Felyn use seals, Bernice suddenly remembered something.
Who exactly had defeated that demon they encountered in the dungeon?
The demon that had awakened in the dungeon due to three powerful forces was already on its last breath under her and Viloti's assault, but after the demon's origin transfer magic activated, any seals above third-order would be destroyed during the transfer process.
Only Bernice, Viloti, and Felyn knew that high-order seals would be destroyed.
Bernice had thought the demon was defeated by other adventurers who mastered divine arts, but subsequent investigations found no one had fought the demon.
This matter was then temporarily shelved due to checking whether Daiyi and Felyn were actually a couple.
She suddenly remembered now that when everyone was teleported back, only Viloti and Felyn seemed to have traces of battle.
Neither of them knew divine arts, and they couldn't defeat a demon with the low-order seals in their hands.
Could it be...
"Felyn, can you take off your shirt?"
Hearing Bernice's words, Viloti's previously swinging legs suddenly stopped.
She pretended to focus intently on the seals on the table, but the corner of her eye unconsciously glanced toward Felyn.
"Bernice? Why so suddenly?" Felyn quickly covered his chest.
"This is special training. Let me see your body structure."
"Aren't our bodies the same?"
Although Felyn said this, seeing Bernice's insistent gaze and her saying this was special training, he ultimately compromised.
Viloti quickly turned her head toward the window, one hand supporting her chin while the other gripped her clothing tightly.
The air seemed to suddenly become thin, forcing her to slightly quicken her breathing.
The sound of Felyn removing his clothes was particularly clear in the quiet classroom.
Though Viloti clearly wanted to focus on the scenery outside the window, her gaze seemed to have its own will, sneaking glances at Felyn.
After catching a glimpse of Felyn's bare body, even Viloti's nose tip turned red. She quickly closed her eyes, but found that image was already deeply imprinted in her mind.
"Alright, put your clothes back on."
"Bernice, am I some kind of one-in-a-million genius? Do I have some special ability?"
"No, and no abilities either."
Bernice shattered Felyn's fantasy with one sentence.
She was just checking if Felyn had any contamination markings on his body.
Contaminated people, because they had part of an evil god in their bodies, could use the evil god's divine arts.
But their bodies would correspondingly be contaminated with markings belonging to the evil god. Some people would even have their pupils change. He wasn't contaminated, didn't have high-order seals, and hadn't mastered divine arts.
Could it be that Viloti defeated the demon?
But when Viloti and Felyn were teleported back, Viloti was tightly hugging Felyn—she couldn't have released seals or divine arts.
Then it was still Felyn.
What method did you use to defeat that demon?
Bernice fell into thought.
And Viloti was also lost in thought.
As long as it was in the name of special training, would Felyn do whatever she asked?
And since Felyn would even agree to something like taking off his clothes, he probably wouldn't refuse some of her non-excessive small requests, right?
Thus, with both beautiful girls having their own thoughts, Felyn practiced with them in the seal arts classroom all morning.
They mainly practiced positioning, afraid of accidentally injuring Bernice during the actual event.
Finally, they discussed tomorrow's strategy.
Felyn would stand at the back, Viloti would protect Felyn, and the rest of the fighting would be left to Bernice.
An extremely simple strategy.
"Tomorrow at 3 PM, the competition venue is at Saint Andros Academy."
The school had also sent Felyn a notification through communication seal. Their team would face Lanchester Academy tomorrow, with competition level 5—no restrictions on seal levels or quantities.
Mentioning Lanchester Academy inevitably brought to mind that young lady.
She would also participate in the seal arts competition this year.
Adeline had once sent Felyn an invitation, but Felyn had refused.
After all, Adeline was still an active client—it was best not to meet privately.
"Then we'll see each other tomorrow."
After everything was arranged, Bernice was the first to leave the classroom.
Only Viloti and Felyn remained in the classroom.
Felyn stood up to clean the table. "Viloti, aren't you leaving?"
Viloti looked up at Felyn, her hands clenched tightly together on her knees.
From Felyn's perspective, Viloti still had that expressionless look, but only she knew how fast her heart was beating.
"Felyn, I want to give you special training."
"Special training?"
Again?
(End of Chapter)