Not Like Before

Among them included, him, Susan, Trent, Nathan and another combat mage called Stanley Bennet.

Nathan's group's fight had also ended in a jiffy, with the combat mage easily knocking out all the other participants.

Out of all the last year's top twenty-five students, only 11 managed to qualify for the final stage of this year's ranking event.

Five for eliminated during the first stage of the event, while the remaining nine were eliminated during the free-for-all fight.

Unsurprisingly, all the top ten students in the academy managed to qualify to the final stage, along with two combat mages and other Elementalists.

This was the first time a combat mage would be entering the elite rankings of Vane academy in ten years. Usually, the second stage was where they got eliminated.