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While someone might be in a dangerous situation or fighting bitterly. Luke was actually now lying on the sand with his eyes almost closed. After experiencing two battles consecutively, all he wanted to do now is grab a pillow and go to sleep. Unfortunately, the competition still yet end and the fact his whole body soaked in sweat made him so uncomfortable that he couldn't fall asleep no matter what.

After lying for about 20 minutes, he saw himself get coated by a white light. He didn't retaliate and let himself get enveloped fully by it. In a blink of an eye, he got teleported to another area. This time the scene in front of him was a tree with many vines entangling with each other.

"It still hasn't ended? Oh, come on!" Luke complained as he lazily rose up from his laying position.

Surveyed his surroundings, Luke cautiously strode over to one of the trees and jumped on its branch.

'It's better for me to observe from above than on the ground.'

With that thought, Luke began jumped agilely from branch to branch. Suddenly, an ominous feeling surfaced within his body. He didn't know why this feeling appeared, but he already survived many times due to this sense. Hence, Luke quickly jumped to another tree again to avoid any kind of surprise attack about to befall him. But Luke got miscalculated by not thinking his opponent probably waited for this movement.

While in the middle air, Luke felt his body being pulled by mysterious power toward the ground. Unprepared Luke couldn't act in time and immediately get dragged facing the ground.

*BAM*

On the ground, a crack appeared while Luke figure buried miserable on it. The impact was hard enough to create such a massive hole carved as Luke's body.

"Asshole!" Luke cursed after feeling an immense amount of pain.

'If I could, I wouldn't definitely be lying here!' Luke cursed the system silently while his hand began propped his body out from the hole.

But it ended up as a failed attempt due to force that continuously attracts him from below the ground.

"What's this?" Although he was currently in a threatening situation, his brain still worked at a fast pace trying to find the way out. As his eyes kept searching for an opportunity, his eyes spotted a somewhat tiny ball that exists below the ground he buried at.

He tried to grab it but the pressure that caged him grew stronger. Sensing with this method his strength would go depleted first, Luke with his hand forwarded spoke, "Control,"

An invisible layer of white start to form, trapping the black ball inside of it. Luke then clenched his palm. As Luke clenched his palm, the white layer became crumpled with the black ball inside crushed.

*Cough*

A cough broke out from near Luke position. As the black ball destroyed, the pressure that caged Luke evaporated in an instant. His eyes quickly shifted to his left side, and in the next moment, he exclaimed, "Time Manipulation: Double Accel."

Like a roaring engine, Luke heartbeat began thumping furiously while his legs already start moving toward the cough direction. The wind seems slowed down. The leaves are floating in slow motion. All things moved at a snail pace with only the exception of Luke itself.

--Stadium--

"That guy over there is Alex, right?" One of the students pointed his finger upon the hologram screen that displayed a man hiding behind a tree.

"Yeah, I wouldn't ever forget that guy face after he defeated me with his petty trick." Another student scoffed from the side. Albeit saying that, his eyes still contain fear while watching Alex performance on the screen.

Although Rank 9 and 8 were apart about one rank. They don't differ so much that even Rank 9 with an S ability could beat Rank 8 with low ability. The only requirement needed to upgrade your rank was to take another test. The tester would then compare your past record with your current ability burst. If the result is satisfying and your ability is indeed improving, then your rank would be upgraded.

When Alex figure was highlighted on the screen, the particular figure from Drofore Academy that initially didn't take a glance onward the screen finally shifted his eyes when his gaze saw a black ball that emerged from Alex's palm. Afterward, Alex tossed the black ball onto the ground. He then formed another ball and threw it in another direction. A moment later, a figure streaked across the forest could be seen from Alex perspective.

That figure was about to cross the land in which the ball Alex planted before. But the man suddenly stopped in mid-air and descended on the ground at rapid speed. Like a meteor, the man's body dived directly toward the ground and before everyone fathom what's happening, a loud boom sound resounded.

"Poor guy, that must be hurt." One of the audience couldn't help but pity the unlucky guy.

From the accident place, dust starts accumulated and filling the whole area by it. As the dust blocked their view, everyone began anticipating the crash outcome.

'Would that guy survive?' Everyone thought almost simultaneously.

It didn't take a lot of time before they know the answer. In the process of the dust starting to settle down, the man tattered clothes slowly revealed into everyone's eyes. When the smoke finally cleared up, everyone gaped at how bloody the man backs are.

Seeing his miserable condition, one of the young women audiences start shouted, "Get up! Don't surrender!"

"Don't give up!"

"It's that shit Alex who assaults you! Beat him back!"

Many kinds of cheering reverberated across the stadium, lifting the audiences mood into full of spirit.

Weak people tend to get more support when fighting against a stronger opponent. Thus, it was that phenomenon that currently occurred in the stadium.

Luke couldn't hear them, but it's no good either to only stay without doing anything. Therefore, he struggled badly and finally managed to grasp a chance of revenge.