BATTLE ROYALE: You must be my teacher!

" If that is really all you got, am really disappointed"

Derek heart sank in horror as he heard that statement, as he turned round to look at Quill the expression that smeared his face was also on the faces of the spectators. Quill body was healing at a monstrous rate, the irreplaceable bones were visibly growing back, broken bones were aligning back in place. His flesh that was chunked off was growing back, while his wounds was healing. tacking in a deep breadth he felt his body absorbing enlightened energy at an alarming rate.

'this body is amazing' Quill said with a wry smile before facing Gary.

'really cool right? but I have a better news after I made this new discovery' Caspian voice echoed in his head.

'a new discovery, you got to be kidding right. I thought that after the evolution you will change, so what new thing you want to brag about?' Quill sighed inwardly bracing himself to listen to his brazen and shameless words.

'dude chillax, it is about your body I'm talking about' Caspian quickly defended himself making it looks like Quill was on the wrong.

'ok good and fine, what did you discover' Quill sounded unconcerned but it took his all to hide his excitement, since he personally discovered that he can hide the emotions in his ever since the evolution.

'I seem to discover a unique trait in your divine body, it is quite different from the body constitution of the other Zoes' and I know you will ask me what the unique trait is. but I won't tell you, it will be more better if you find out by self' Caspian responded with sly grin. all this happened within a thought.

"h-how is that possible" Derek stuttered as he unconsciously took a step backward. The ones who knew about his healing ability wee shocked to the bones, because his healing this time was unheard of. the VIP stand was filled with gasp and shocked expression, Wayne had a bitter smile on his face because he never expected Quill to pull through.

"how it is possible, I don't know how to answer that myself but I believe nothing can be hidden forever you know. maybe when I find out more about how my enlightened powers improved quickly I will tell you, I promise that to you" Quill said with sincerity in his voice, but he looked thoughtfully at Derek with a deep frown on his face as he had seen through the flaws of Derek techniques and why he couldn't exert the true force of his powers.

'the heck you don't know, this guy is really something else the spectators mistook Quill sincere words for that of him excessively bragging about how strong he had gotten in a blink. seeing the way things played out, Vidaz just sighed at Quills sincerity and promise

'this boy is really naïve on how the world of the enlightened operates, just hope he doesn't lose his innocence and the person who caused it might not live to boast abut it' Vidaz thought with a grin as a sharp glint flashed through his eyes.

Derek gritted his teeth as he lunched a barraged of attack to quickly end the battle because his instinct won't stop tingling, signally that the more this battle drag on the more he will be in danger. Quill saw the attack coming so he quickly side stepped making the attacks land on an empty space where he once stood, but Derek was not deterred I the slightest as he quickly spurned round to him Quill again with his air hammer using the failed attack as a momentum. seeing that he wasn't going stop until he is down Quill increased his speed by a notch, but was slightly surprised that Derek could still keep up with his speed. Derek lips curled into a smile as he hit Quill squarely on the chest but it was quickly replaced with shock as Quill's body just blurred out.

'f**k, it is just an after image' Derek cursed inwardly as he realized he was put in a tight zone, Quill seemed to be everywhere. Derek knew as an experienced enlightened one his senses if sight could he highly deceiving, so he closed his eyes to feel the air.

'there is no air pressure exerting on them, so they are just his after images but how fast is he to do this and he is really annoying. how about me increasing the air resistance and pressure though it will affect me a little but it worth giving it a shot' Derek quickly analyzed and he knew what his next line of attack will be.

Quill saw an opening and quickly exploited it to land an attack but before his punch could connect with Derek's stomach he felt the air resistance increasing in that area making his punch very difficult to go through, looking up at Derek face he saw lips curve into a big smile as his plan had worked. Quickly the air pressure in that particular area seemed to have increase by a hundred fold, making it difficult to breath.

putong!

Quill dropped to his knees as he wasn't expecting Derek to used this kind of tactics, the crowd cheered wildly as the match was way interesting more than the way they had expected. the thrills of the match was so much for their fragile heart to handle, some even began to have nose bleeds but they don't seem to care. the crowd was divided among themselves as they cheered them on calling out to them that they have given them a battle they all desired, unlike the matches that had miscarriages and ended prematurely without any action.

Quill gritted his teeth as he forced himself not to succumb to the sheer weight of the air pressure, he refused to be seen as a weakling or fail the faith that his friends and teammates have in him especially the chairlady. he wanted to prove to her that there is more to be an enlightened being, it more than the power you have or the strength you want to prove but it is all about the experiences you have, those you share them with and those who got your back. this thoughts was what was keeping him from blacking out due to the air pressure pressing down on him, and Derek was having a good time either since he had used a lot of enlightened energy to keep the weight of the air pressure for that long.

'he is one tough kid, and is he really an E ranked' Derek thought as he coughed out a mouth full of blood, they both knew that they have reached their limits this time.

Quill was looking for way out as his body suddenly burst in flame and they flames grew hotter and stronger due the rich air around, it was devouring the enlightened energy in the air easing the air pressure. Derek eyes dilated in shock as what was happening had never happened before in the enlightened history, Quill gently stood up with violet flames engulfing his body making him look like a celestial fire god looking down with disdain at the mortal world. the crowd was stumped once again as someone quickly shouted,

"isn't that the third ability he had displayed"

"not just that, have you also noticed that none of the abilities is weaker than the other unlike other dual enlightened ones" someone quickly chipped in causing a chain reaction in the crowd, some were filled with envy, others surprised, a few had joy that the E ranked now had a strong one in their ranks giving them a hope of surviving in the school but there are ones one that wants to clip him out of existence before he grows to become a treat to them. Sitan couldn't down what he is seeing now, he knew that Quill was plenty strong but never expected him to control the flames not just any kind of flames but the violet colored one which was the strongest kind of flame. the ring was melting due to the high intensity of the flame, Gary seem to realize that Quill was oblivious of what was going as his eyes seem to be out of it.

"vacuum dome, air veil" Derek gritted his teeth and shouted as he stacked two of his enlightened skills together not caring about the draw backs of using the two powerful skills together, after activating the skills a translucent dome seemed to be covering Quill keeping the flames within in check but how long? while the air veil seemed to cover the entire ring like a blanket blocking the view of everyone from seeing what is going on inside.

within the veil Derek didn't attack Quill when he was vulnerable, but waited through out the period the flames was savagely burning till it receded back into his body. dropping down to the floor Quill slowly realized himself, due to the air veil he couldn't see outside the ring but as he saw Derek staring at him gently he knew he won't attack him.

"why didn't you attack me when you had the chance of winning" Quill asked curiously as he thought every enlightened will do anything to win not just them but even the mundane humans.

"yeah what you said is true but I have my principles, I can't attack my opponents when their fighting spirit isn't within them", he answered half truthfully the other part was that those raging flames would have killed him any way if he tried to be reckless.

"then why did you veil the area", Quill laid out his next question almost immediately.

"you just let a big secret and don't want you spilling out the next one, you might not know who is against you and it is best to hide your cards well" Derek answered truthfully this time.

after thinking about this for a while not caring about the suspense that was hitting the spectators outside the air veil, Quill bowed his head slightly and thanked him.

"thank you very much, for your kindness receive this", Quill quickly tore the sleeve of his cloth since the flames didn't burn its wielder, using his enlightened energy he wrote everything he had noticed during the battle against Derek. after walking stressfully to Derek he handed it over with a smile.

"take it, it is the little I can do for your sincerity" Quill said before he dozed off on Derek's body as he had stressed his body beyond its limits, since he had had only able to use a fragment of the divine body strength.

Derek held him gently as he looked at the piece of cloth and checked what Quill wrote in it, he was shocked as Quill had written his weakness and how to increase his battle prowess by a notch. he sighed as he realized how he was to give him something that was too valuable and could even use it to quickly defeat. the air veil quickly dissipated revealing Quill in Derek hands, the spectators was was quiet before they cheering Derek's victory while some admired Quill's courage for not giving up but putting his all and best despite the fact he lost. Derek walked out of the ring towards the E ranked team, after handing over Quill who was sleeping heavily to Sitan he turned as faced Vidaz and bowed.

'geez is this guy really sleeping, right after the battle' Sitan thought that he has never seen such an eccentric person before

"please let me be your student for raising a better student among us", Vidaz was stump with his request and before he could say anything Derek added loudly using the air to amplify his voice,

"don't call me a winner because I lost to Quill who is the winner"

"he told me that he was tired from all the battling so he immediately went to sleep", Derek scratched his head embarrassedly as he said that part, before someone clearly shouted

"the heck"