Even though it was now incredibly obvious that Solomon was the undisputed winner of the teaching mission, and he had been officially declared as such, Solomon didn't give up on the class. He actually took a strange sense of pride in teaching the proper mechanics of swordsmanship, and he absolutely refused to leave the lesson half-assed for no reason.
He gathered the twenty 'qualified' students he had selected and told them that they could leave the arena anytime they wanted to, and he wouldn't stop them. Naturally, after enduring a few hours of his grueling drills, most of the nobles threw in the towel and trickled out of the training hall one by one.
By the late afternoon, only five students remained behind. Elizabeth, Maximus, and Arthur stayed, alongside another royal boy named Donel and a quiet noble girl named Laufey.
