"Just accept your loss and surrender, or you could also wait to be pushed of the stage slowly." Jason said.

Xenon aimed his fist at the shield, throwing several punches, his fist couldn't even reach the shield as they bounced off the compressed air around it.

"No no no no... no! This can't be happening" Xenon increased the frequency of his punches. He continued till his fist were sore, they dropped to his sides, his eyes watering and his body being pushed back slowly towards the edge of the stage which was just a few feet away.

'No no no... this can't happen... I can't afford to lose... If I lose I'll not get admitted, I'll be sent back to the manor... I don't want to go back to the manor' Xenon said to himself, tears threatening to fall. The edge of the stage was just a metre away now..

'No I can't afford to lose... I can't give up now, I can't lose.' Xenon said to himself, gritting his teeth.

'System, add two points to strength and three to endurance.' Xenon instructed, white lightning crackling around his whole body.

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+2 Strength, +3 Endurance

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|Strength: 16| |Agility: 22| |Endurance: 18|

|Intelligence: 20| |Senses: 18|

[Fatigue: 70% | Vitality: 67%]

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'Alright, this is my last stand.' Xenon stood firmly on the ground and took a deep breath, he was just a few inches away from the edge of the stage now and the shield was pressing against him. He swung his fist forward.

"What are you doing? Just give up already!" Jason shouted at Xenon who was delivering salvos of punches to the shield.

Xenon looked at him furiously. "I am incapable of doing that!" Xenon replied as he increased the frequency, lightning streaks swam all over and around him, striking the shield, the arena, unsuspecting people and sizzling through the air.

The frequency of his punches increased again, and again and again penetrating the compressed air and sending ripples through the shield.

"What a pain in the ass you are!" Jason screamed as he shrunk the shield around himself in a little dome. The shield would have gave way under Xenon's barrage of punches if he left it spread out. He sent almost all of his spiritual energy into the shield, thickening it by several folds.

"Ahhhhh!" Xenon screamed as he ran at the shield and continued his barrage of punches. He continued to rain punches on the shield nonstop.

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Xenon ignored the system as well as the pain he felt from overuse of his lightning, he could feel his body heating up and his muscles groaning.

"Just give up. You'll cause more damage to yourself than me if you continue like this!" Jason tried to speak some sense into him, but was met with an unfriendly gaze from Xenon's bloodshot eyes.

"Never!" Xenon stated as he increased the frequency of punches yet again. He screamed as his body's heat increased, his muscles were protested in pain and his lightning was starting to burn his skin.

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HP: 16/35

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•WARNING! Your body heat is rising to dangerous levels, Your muscles are under intense strain, Overuse of ability is inflicting physical (both internal and external) damage.

Your body will collapse if you don't halt your actions.

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HP: 10/35

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'Come on. Just a bit longer' Xenon said in his head while screaming in pain but he held on as he could see cracks on the shield. He was bleeding from multiple sites on his body and his spiritual energy was running out, but he continued his barrage of punches, screaming to keep himself from collapsing from exhaustion.

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The system was saying before the shield shattered. Jason just stared with wide eyes as the shield shattered, the force from Xenon's punches blowing against him.

"Arghhhhhhh!" Xenon screamed as he leaned forward as a result of the shield suddenly shattering. He ran forward, not willing to lose his momentum and delivered one final punch, a gut punch, to Jason, lifting him up with his right fist.

As Xenon's fist connected with Jason's solar plexus, a thunderclap rang throughout the amphitheatre. Jason, still on Xenon's fist spat blood onto the floor and fell down, gritting his teeth and holding his gut in pain.

The lightning around Xenon dissipated immediately, Xenon staggered but managed to turn around to face Jason who was on the floor.

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HP: 2/35

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"Surrender!" Xenon said inna hoarse voice to Jason who was writhing in pain on the floor.

"Nev–e–er" Jason replied weakly.

'Scan'

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NAME: JASON ROGERS

AGE: 16

GENDER: MALE

HP: 2/82

STATE: IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN

[Fatigue: 89% | Vitality: 20%]

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Xenon's palm crackled with white lightning, he knelt down and reached towards Jason head to knock him out.

"Wait... I haven't got your name" Jason whispered with some effort.

"It's Xenon, Xenon Prasedymum" Xenon replied with a smile before put an end to his pain – he just knocked him out. : >

°Ding

°Ding

°Ding

The system notified Xenon of messages which he simply ignored and released his body to the control of the healer.

"I deserve an applause too" Xenon said faintly as he floated on air going up to the 5th floor and drifted into sleep from intense fatigue.

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Xenon woke up to blinding light, his eyes adjusted to the light and he could see a white stone ceiling above him. He sat up swiftly, regretting it immediately as his sore muscles throbbed in pain, in protest to his sudden movement.

Xenon looked around and remembered how he got here. He realized he was on the fifth floor after being healed and stood to his feet with some effort.

'I thought I had died again' He said to himself as he stretched tenderly. He went forward to the stone railing and looked down at the contestants climbing onto their stages all over the arena. He heard Professor Arkham announce it was the last round and his eyes widened in shock.

"Nooooo. I missed the rest of the matches. How long was I out for?" Xenon exclaimed sadly.

"You were out for a considerably long time. You put a lot of strain on your body that I was worried you would be out till tomorrow, but you managed to recover in a tenth of the time I estimated." The healer, Miss Felicity replied.

"M... miss Felicity... thanks for your care" Xenon stammered as his eyes met hers. He was the only one left with her in the infirmary on the fifth floor.

"I apologise for my disturbance, I shall take my leave now" Xenon added, backing away.

"No, it's okay, you can stay to watch the last match" She smiled at him.

"Ah, thank you miss" Xenon leaned back on the stone railing grinning bitterly. He had wanted to leave to check the system's rewards, not because he thought he was disturbing her. He couldn't do that anymore now. He decided to focus on the last round of battles.

A few seconds later his attention was turned to a certain person on one of the stages.

'Isn't that Jeage, hmmm... let's see what he's capable of.' Xenon thought to himself.

Jeage stared at his opponent whose skin had transformed to stone as soon as the matches were ordered to begin. 'Perfect' He muttered.

"Do you know what I ate this morning?" Jeage asked his opponent.

"No?" He answered, bewildered by the strange question.

"I don't know it's exact name either, but i heard it's called a boxing shrimp." Jeage said moving closer to his opponent.

"What does this have to do with me?" His opponent asked.

"Oh, it has everything to do with you" Jeage said as his fist burst into flames.

His opponent ran towards him and he delivered about five punches to his torso. Xenon didn't know the exact amount as his cousin's fist moved extremely fast and carrying immense force with each blow.

The speed and force the punches carried with the flames on his arms caused numerous clumps of flames to implode into themselves all around his opponent's torso. Jeage drew his right fist back which burst into flames which swirled around his arm like a tornado.

"Solar Impact!" Jeage screamed as he threw his right fist at a speed too fast to be seem by the naked eye. The flames left his arm, sucked in by the force of the punch and the imploding blast.

Jeage's feet spurt flames which propelled him backwards as all the mini implosions combined and exploded in one great blast that sent tremors throughout the amphitheatre.

The poor opponent couldn't even lift a finger as everything happened too fast for him to react. One second he was running towards his opponent, the next second numerous fist hit him in his gut knocking the wind out of him, the second after that there was a large, bright red explosion around his torso, and the next second he was flying through the amphitheatre his stone skin withered and his real skin burning while he fainted.

"You have gotta be kidding me!" Xenon said to himself as he struggled to comprehend what just happened before him.

"Now I see why they use less force on land, compared to underwater." Jeage said looking at his right palm which was bending at an abnormal angle and his fingers were broken and also stuck out at different unnatural angles.

Jeage arrived on the fifth floor where his arm was healed. He turned to leave before seeing someone familiar.

"Xenon, thank goodness I saw you here, I was just thinking of how to search for you!" Jeage said heaving a relieved sigh.

"Nice to see you too" Xenon was confused as to why he was searching for him as they never once spoke to each other.

"Yeah. Um, uncle Mycel is married now, the wedding was yesterday." Jeage said as he walked, aiming to descended the fifth floor. Xenon nodded to his words as it didn't really concern him.

"Elsa sends her regards" He continued. "And also told me to wish you a Happy Birthday!" He smiled as he patted Xenon on the shoulder.

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