Astralea-9: one minute and thirteen seconds.
Veyralis-3: one minute and eleven seconds.
That's the leaderboard Professor Selunara leaked to us.
Two seconds… two fucking seconds!
No. This can't be — it's a nightmare, a damned nightmare!
«Shit! Shit! Shit!» I explode, punching the bedroom wall.
We went through the entire exam without a single mistake — every attack, every movement was planned down to the tiniest detail to hit maximum efficiency in minimum time. We missed nothing. Nothing, damn it!
So how is this possible? How the hell did someone beat us?
And of all teams, a Veyralis squad… who the hell are they? Veyralis is some tiny academy lost in the countryside — there's no way we lost to a bunch of farmers!
We did everything perfectly… everything perfectly… except me. If I'd been faster cutting the wyvern's throat, we'd be the ones at the top of the ranking right now. It's all my fault.
