PengPeng followed beside her, a bit slow, gliding in mid-air, while summoning blades made out of icy wind and bolted them at Cayden, who were taken aback.

Nevertheless, he quickly reacted. He evaded most of the icy blades while instructing his Cinderclaw Lynx to evade some and dashed towards Krisha.

At the same time, he instructed the Cindercoil Snake to intercept PengPeng.

While Krisha and the Cinderclaw Lynx got closer, the Cindercoil Snake swiftly arrived at PengPeng first.

As the Cindercoil Snake was about to strike and executed her skill, Heat Coil, which would coil around PengPeng and burned his body slowly, PengPeng performed his skill, Snowfall Veil, creating a light snowfall that obscured the Cindercoil Snake’s vision.

At the same time, the Cinderclaw Lynx swung his right claw at Krisha, but the latter didn’t even parry it. She executed the second sword technique in the Stage 2 of her sword art called Cold Mist Guard.

At Level 2, it was able to form a defensive layer of chilling Qi, which weakened the Cinderclaw Lynx’s momentum on his claws upon contact, leaving Krisha a chance to run past the beast.

Cayden was utterly surprised. He hastily took a defensive stance and prepared to parry Krisha’s wooden sword.

However, Krisha didn’t hold back at all. Using the momentum of her speed, she pulled her sword to her chest, manifested her sword qi and gathered them at the sword tip, and thrust it towards Cayden.

Glacial Pierce!

Cayden was taken aback. He immediately parried Krisha’s wooden sword by summoning his own sword qi.

He could not evade Krisha’s wooden sword, but his wooden sword, already in place, could still react in time and parried it.

Once their wooden swords grew closer, Krisha’s concentrated ice energy freezes the impact point, causing Cayden’s wooden sword to be freeze.

Their wooden swords collided and Cayden’s frozen wooden sword instantly shattered.

Krisha’s wooden sword pushed forward and stopped an inch away from Cayden’s throat.

Cayden glanced at Krisha with face painted with horror. He was filled in disbelief.

Krisha, who wore a solemn expression, waited for Instructor Albert to announce the conclusion of the duel.

Thankfully, he was quite faster than earlier, but he stammered.

"D-Duel ended! Krisha wins. She’ll be replacing Cayden on Top 14. Congratulations!"

He managed to beam a smile in the end.

Krisha pulled her sword and turned around, glancing at PengPeng, who satisfyingly stood atop the Cindercoil Snake. The latter was partly frozen, unable to generate fire energy.

Krisha walked towards PengPeng and walked past the Cindercoil Snake once she grabbed him in her embrace.

She glanced at Felix and her solemn expression finally shifted to a mischievous smirk.

Felix grinned, as well, clearly surprised by Krisha’s performance.

After their brief exchange of subtle interactions, the outer disciples exploded into deafening cheers.

They were as boisterous as before, including Felix to their cheers, too.

It was a phenomenal event worth to celebrate. Even the inner disciples forced a smile and clap on Krisha’s performance.

Not that they hated Krisha that they appeared forced, but the fact that their position in the ranking might be shaken not once but twice due to the presence of two monsters.

Instructor Frank, on the other hand, had a mix reaction, gazing at Krisha.

He moved his gaze and landed them at Felix. His face was difficult to read.

Both two monsters defeated an inner disciple with ease.

An inner disciple!

To become an inner disciple, even a genius talent would take half a year. In the history of even other dojos, the fastest was five months.

He currently held the highest position in the army after becoming a Beast Tamer Lord.

Yet, two monsters broke the record.

At the same day.

His hands were trembling, his heart was racing, he couldn’t believe it.

Sure, Felix became an inner disciple after defeating Nicholas in the Mist Courtyard Ramble, but a duel in the beast sync arena was more official as it involved their beasts participating.

Nicholas became an official inner disciple, proven that he was already qualified enough to hold such position.

Yet, Felix never granted him the chance to take it again.

He was defeated easily.

Cayden was overwhelmed by Krisha, too.

Not only that, even his famous Cindercoil Snake, known for turning the tide in the battle, was conquered by a mere penguin.

They failed to observe their battle earlier as it occurred simultaneously when Cayden and Krisha exchanged their wooden sword.

But one thing was certain, PengPeng’s strength was closer to Moon.

Instructor Frank was having a hard time believing what he had just seen.

Even as far as pinching his cheeks to confirm if he was not a dream.

Every disciple had the same reaction as him.

Master Shen himself, who was observing from above using his beast’s vision, was astonished.

Felix and Krisha weren’t aware of the absurdity of what they had just shown.

Felix and Krisha, on the other hand, were facing each other. They wore smugly expression, as though showing each other their achievements.

Krisha said, "I’m Top 14 now."

"2-0. That’s our current match record. Want to go at it?"

Krisha shook her head. "Let’s fight again for the position of Top 1."

She grinned. "Once you get that position, I’ll take that away from you."

Felix was surprised. He had not expected Krisha to contend for Top 1, too. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"That’s make it even more exciting."

The outer disciples, who listening attentively, from their conversation exploded into thunderous applause.

It was a shocking announcement from them.

Before Felix and Krisha would leave the dojo, they would battle against each other to prove who was stronger.

Ben, himself, who was listening closer to them, trembled in excitement.

He thought. This is worthy to be a flash news!

He already planned to convince the head of the multi-media team to announce what had transpired today.

While they were cheering and the inner disciples forming resentment on their heart, Instructor Frank announced the continuation of another round of battle.

There was still fifteen minutes left before the modular terrain floor would change, so he decided to commence another battle for only fifteen minutes...

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