Awarding Ceremony

"…You did amazing, Valyr!"

As those words left Thomas' mouth, he and the other three looked at him with excitement and awe in their faces.

"Although you were unlucky at the start of the ninth round, you were still able to turn the tables around near the end!"

"I was just lucky," replied the young man with a bit of laughter. "After all, all of them are at least one class rank above me in strength."

"Yet you have a skill that allows you to close that gap," answered Lucques in return, to which Thomas and the others nodded in agreement. "Speaking of which, what kind of quest did you do to get a skill like that?"

"Let's just say it took me a lot of effort to get it," said Valyr, subtly avoiding any further talk about [Soul Fusion] as much as possible.

"But then again…" However, when he thought about how it was a good idea to teach them a skill that allowed them to boost their stats even further, the young man decided to double down on that idea.