Chapter 307: The Disobedient Dragon Power!
Kyomon Academy's intensive training camp did not have many fixed courses.
Aside from creating training plans for the representative contestants participating in the camp, the coaches invited by Hagun and Kyomon only held separate lessons, allowing the contestants to freely choose whether to attend.
After all, Blazers possessed all kinds of abilities, and each ability, once developed to a high level, could almost form its own independent system.
On top of that, every Blazer had a different type of Device, so the most effective training methods also differed from person to person.
If they tried to force every student into one broad, unified framework, it would only be inefficient.
It was not as though they could make students who used bows and students who used spears follow the exact same training routine.
Because of that, the contestants spent most of their time training independently, or holding mock battles and free training with friends.
At the moment, Luke, Stella, and Ikki were doing a light jog together before dinner.
From the training ground to the city was about ten kilometers, twenty kilometers for a round trip.
For the three of them now, that distance could not even really be called training. At most, it was a way to clear their heads.
Of course, their purpose was not simply to relax. More importantly, they were going to fill their stomachs.
Ikki was still fine. His appetite was normal, so he could have stayed at the training ground. The cafeteria prepared by Kyomon Academy was fairly good too.
However, Stella and Luke were different.
Forget Luke, who was a big eater. Even Stella could only barely eat her fill there.
So, in order to avoid going hungry, the two of them had no choice but to head into the city every day for an extra meal.
Fortunately, that distance was nothing to them.
Aside from Luke and Stella, Ikki, Shizuku, and Arisuin came along as well.
Ikki, who could keep up with them on foot, jogged to the city together with the two of them. Shizuku and Arisuin calculated the time and took a car into the city, where they would choose a restaurant for the five of them.
Over the past few days of training camp, this routine had almost become a habit for them.
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"Aaah! I'm still so frustrated!"
Stella complained while running.
That was because in today's mock battle, she had lost to Touka once again.
More accurately, over the past few days, Stella had not won against Touka even once.
As of today, Crimson Princess VS Raikiri's record was all losses.
Although these were only normal-state mock battles where neither side used their trump cards, it still indirectly reflected the difference in their overall combat ability.
To be honest, Stella herself had already vaguely sensed it.
After witnessing Touka's battle in Okutama and personally watching Luke's match against Touka, she had already been mentally prepared.
'Touka might be stronger than me.'
But a feeling was still just a feeling. Once it became reality right in front of her eyes, Stella inevitably felt frustrated.
"For the current you, if you don't use your trump card, Touka-senpai's Raikiri really is extremely troublesome."
"In your normal state, you don't have a way to defend against Raikiri or break through it head-on."
"It's the same reason you still lose to Ikki's and my Amakakeru-Ryū-no-Hirameki."
Luke listened to Stella's complaints, glanced at Ikki, who looked a little awkward, and then spoke.
That was right. Over the past few days, the girl had not only lost to Touka.
Not counting Luke, who had barely participated in mock battles, Stella had also lost to Ikki more than once.
The reason was exactly as Luke said.
Without an effective defensive method, Stella was completely helpless against ultra-fast killing sword techniques like Raikiri and Amakakeru-Ryū-no-Hirameki, since all of her attack skills could not keep up with their speed.
This did not mean Stella was slow.
On the contrary, Stella was extremely fast.
With her massive mana supply, which she could spend almost freely, her speed under mana enhancement was several times, even more than ten times, greater than that of an ordinary Blazer.
Unfortunately, Luke, Touka, and Ikki were all extremely powerful in terms of speed.
Compared to those three, Stella's speed, which should have been one of her advantages, became an absolute disadvantage.
"Even if you say that… I still haven't won even once. Isn't that gap way too big?"
"Is the difference between Touka-senpai and me really that huge?"
Stella glanced at Luke.
To be honest, at this moment, she was genuinely envious of him, and there was even a tiny hint of jealousy.
She was helpless against Raikiri, yet the man in front of her, who often wore a calm smile, had easily crushed Raikiri.
His battle against Touka, especially that final soundless sword strike that cut through both star and lightning, was still branded deeply in Stella's heart.
Rather than saying she was frustrated because she had lost to Touka, it was more accurate to say Stella had seen the enormous chasm between herself and Luke through that fight.
Along with her frustration, she also realized that she still had a long way to go before reaching the level of a true powerhouse.
"Speaking of which, if you're really that frustrated, how about trying to use that new power?"
"With its help, beating Touka-senpai shouldn't be too difficult."
Luke's sudden suggestion did not receive Stella's approval. Instead, it earned him an annoyed roll of her eyes.
"If I could use it, I would've used it already!"
"I still can't control that power properly… No, rather than that, 'it' refuses to listen to me at all."
"If I actually used it in a match and accidentally hurt Touka-senpai, then what?!"
To outsiders, Stella's words would probably sound a little overconfident.
After all, just a moment ago, she had been saying she could not beat Touka, yet now she was worried about hurting her.
Anyone who did not know the details would definitely laugh at Stella.
However, Luke and Ikki, who had personally seen Stella lose control and had worked together to subdue her, understood very clearly.
Stella was definitely not overestimating herself. In fact, to them, she was already being modest.
If she truly used that power against Touka and failed to control it perfectly, the result would be far worse than the simple "injury" Stella mentioned.
Without a doubt, with just one strike, Touka would be blown into a bloody pulp in an instant.
That description was not exaggerated at all.
Even Luke had not expected that after correcting the mistake in how she used her ability, Stella's strength would leap forward by such an enormous degree.
That was right.
It was a leap.
It could no longer be called mere improvement. It was completely unreasonable, like cheating.
When Stella used the power of the "dragon," she would transform from a top-tier student knight into a genuine world-class powerhouse.
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