Episode Title:
A Super First-Rate Elite vs an F-Rank Ossan
Episode Description:
As Raster tests Rick in front the Diarmuit siblings and the Orichalcum Fist (and Alisa and Reanette having their own cordial "battle"), he tried angering and annoying Rick with all his gloating, but Rick stuck to Reanette's advice of keeping calm and thinking rationally (as she is one of his trainers). Meanwhile, it is explained that due to Rick's low magical reserves—one of the Fundamental Foundational Faculties, a result of his late start in adventuring (magical reserves must be developed before the age of 30), his trainers honed him in the other three—Physical Strength, Body Control, and Magic Control. This means every attack Raster throws at Rick are nothing more than "trifling" and something he can brush off, as Rick is already deemed at S-Rank level, same as them; although he seems not to realize it. It is also revealed how Rick got to that state in just two years—that is, by literally being trained to death (and he gets healed back to life whenever he dies) using space-time magic. Rick realizes that Raster only has big magical reserves and bad at everything else. He keeps brushing off Raster's Nature Composed Magics, and finally obliterates the unfortunate arrogant noble despite his Yggdrasil God Impact, a Level-Eight Nature Composed Magic, using an Air Shot, a mere Level-One Nature Composed Magic, much to the shock of the rest of the audience. Rick meets Raster and his siblings at the hallway after the examination, who gives a few tips to his "adventuring senpai." Raster vows to be his examiner again. Freed and Raster may still be hostile, but Alice finally recognizes Rick as someone legitimate, as shown by her rather kind treatment of him. As the rest of Orichalcum Fist celebrates ahead, Rick and Reanette listen to the numbers of those who passed, awaiting the announcement of number 4242.
