Outcast

"There's no point in fighting defensively with him. Varric is strong enough to break through all of my defense. He's faster, bigger, older, and more knowledgeable. But I will not concede this fight! So just head-on attacks from the start" thinks Valoris as they both readied to start.

"Start!" yelled Shale from the side curious what Valoris was going to do. That he had managed to put pressure on Tala and Shaw was impressive as it was and they were only a class ahead of him.

Valoris was two classes behind Varrick and Varrick was considered to be at the top of his class.

"I think you are going to be in for a little surprise," remarked Gorm "With the others they were close enough in strength that Valoris was a little scared of hurting them. With Varrick, he doesn't have to worry.

Plus there's something you don't know. He is doing both body Refinement methods and managed to finish his both first Refinement right after each other. He isnt going to be knocked out that easily. And judging from how he is looking, that's what it's going to take".

As Gorm was talking Valoris charged straight at Varrick with a deep hiss that had just a hint of a growl. Varrick hesitated for a second surprised by Valoris's move before roaring. The roar caused 3 beams of condensed air to form and shoot at Valoris.

Dodging two of the beams and slashing through the final. Valoris reaches Varrick and slams into him forcing him to stumble back. Learning from fighting Shaw that his claws aren't sharp enough to pierce their scales.

He punches and slams his body against Varrick's ribs. Suddenly he hears a crack and Varrick roars and Valoris is hit in the c.h.e.s.t full-on and knocked back ten feet.

Coughing up blood Valoris stands up and yells to Shale "I'm not done yet!" Before charging again straight at Varrick. Shale who was about to end the fight sighs

"Told you, the kid has a bit of a competitive streak in him"

"You don't have to sound so happy about it"

Wheezing from his broken rib Varrick hears Valoris yell and looks up to see Valoris charging towards him. Blood staining his teeth red, face snarling, eyes with a fierce determination in them.

Varrick feels a hint of fear towards this kobold before roaring and charging as well. Just as it looks like they are both going to slam into each other Valoris ducks underneath the much larger Varrick and attacks his injured ribs again.

Feeling his body getting weaker from his injuries Valoris starts shoving Varrick. Using the fact that Varrick was injured and off-balance. He began pushing to the edge of the sparring arena hoping to push him out of bounds. His vision fading Valoris feels himself about to pass out.

"NO! KEEP MOVING FORWARD, NO MATTER WHAT I WILL NOT YIELD."

Growling Valoris puts all his strength in one last push shoving Varrick out of bounds. Wheezing with blood coming out of his mouth, limbs trembling Valoris raises his head and roars.

While it isnt a very impressive roar if one listened closely one can hear an ancient rage within it. Then Valoris collapses and sends some of his dragon blood in his body to his injuries to help fix them.

"Haha the tempers of youths" laughed Shale

"I will take Valoris to his cave. He has some high tier food that will help heal him and give him a nice little breakthrough" informed Gorm before heading over to Valoris.

" You good Varrick? Haha, what do you think of the Lord's newest student?"

"Lord Mezal? why didn't you say anything? I would have known better than to mess with him. All of Lord Mezals students are demonic monsters that will win at any cost!" yells Varrick.

"You have been slacking a little lately and I wanted to give you a little motivation. That's why you lost, you looked down on your opponent and you think you are unrivaled. You just lost to a one-year-old kobold that hasn't had any training in fighting whatsoever. Now granted Valoris is an exceptional talent in combat but that's still no excuse."

Varrick didn't say anything as listened and contemplated his Teacher's words. Realizing that his teacher was right, he bowed his head in recognition. Wheezing from his healing ribs Varrick shuffled away intending to go to his cave to heal.

"Wake up kid, I'm not gonna wait in this small hole-in-the-wall forever, and I need to tell you something." Yells Gorm startling Valoris making him scramble up and winch from moving too fast.

"Not bad, you got fire I like it. Lord Mezal won't be healed for at least a month so your schedule until he comes out is so. Body refinement in the morning, elemental cultivation after followed by sparring.

Also tomorrow I will show you the library. Your biggest weakness is a lack of formal training and knowledge. So every other day you will go to the library and study various subjects I will decide on.

Finally, before you go pass out again don't forget to grab some meat from that arm. anyways see you tomorrow." said Gorm before leaving.

Excited Valoris quickly tears a large chunk of meat off of the arm and swallows it activating his dragon core to refine it into dragons blood.

Suddenly Valoris feels all his aches disappear and his body starts pulsating as his dragon core starts pumping out dragon blood.