Xenon arrived back in class shortly, the trip to the infirmary and back had took him less than a minute. He had made sure to avoid Jeage as he still felt awkward about what happened yesterday evening.

"Here you go." Xenon tossed the bottle filled with a silvery liquid he held in his hand to Rogue, it was a bottle of Haeplever.

"Thank you very much, Xenon." Rogue who was sitting on a log of wood and resting against the wooden building caught the bottle in her hand and thanked Xenon.

"Uh... you're welcome." Xenon replied awkwardly and walked out to the open field to spar with the mannequin.

"Xenon, you are not allowed to use your enhanced speed in this spar." Herman announced as Xenon was preparing to pounce on the newly constructed mannequin in front of him.

"What? Why!?" Xenon was astounded. He felt like he'd been drenched in cold water as his plan of disas​sem​bling the mannequin in seconds was just thrown out the roof.

"You are only allowed to use your other ability. If you engage the mannequin with your enhanced speed, I and Eyeball will not be able to come up with accurate information." Herman explained.

"Speak for yourself!" Eyeball retorted as he deemed himself capable enough to follow the speed of a mere human child even though it's enhanced.

"Okay." Xenon said sullenly.

"You can pick any wooden weapon of your choice to aid your sparring." Herman said to Xenon while instructing some other students to bring the stash of wooden weapons from the storeroom in the wooden house.

"It's useless." Xenon replied, Herman looked at him with a questioning expression.

Xenon didn't bother to answer and just went ahead to demonstrate. He grabbed a large wooden sword from the stash the students brought back, released lightning from his arms which coiled around the wooden sword and reduced it to ashes within a minute.

"Oh..." Herman said.

"See, Xenon! This is why you need me!" Jason walked out if the crowd of students with his hands on his waist, his chest pushed out and his head held high.

Jason walked to the stash of wooden swords and picked up a random double edged sword that was about a metre in length. He ran his fingers along the sword and it changed from being wooden to something the looked like a mixture of metal, stone and crystal.

Jason passed the sword to Xenon. The sword was now white with a metallic sheen and light bounced off it intrinsically, separating into spectrums. If the sword was hung from the ceiling of a night club it could serve as a disco bulb, provided that it was continuously exposed to light.

"What do you think?" Jason asked with a smug face and his chest pushed out.

Xenon ran his hand over the sword, it was very much more strong, sharp and durable than its wooden version, it could probably take the force of a genuine lightning strike.

Xenon looked at Jason and saw that although he was acting smug and tough, he was exhausted. He had undoubtedly used up a lot of his spiritual energy in modifying the sword.

"It's cool! The mannequin will be a piece of cake now!" Xenon grinned at Jason who returned it wholeheartedly.

"To your position, Xenon." Herman instructed and Xenon obeyed. "Remember, no abnormal speeds. Are you ready?" Xenon nodded. "Proceed!"

Xenon ran at the mannequin – without activating his ability, Hypercelerity – and the mannequin responded by also doing the same.

Xenon swung his sword at the mannequin who raised its arms to block the blow. The sword cut halfway through the mannequin's left arm before it got stuck. Xenon withdrew the sword and struck out again, depriving the mannequin of the chance to neither retreat, nor attack.

Xenon swung his sword at the mannequin continuously, the mannequin could do nothing but raise it arms in defence and before long its forearms were battered.

Once the mannequin's arms were completely battered and on the brink of splitting to pieces, Xenon stopped and stepped back. He struck his sword on floor, rooting it to the ground and started to perform stretching exercises.

"Heal up while you can now mannequin, you might not get the chance again." Xenon said amidst a yawn as he stretched. 'Although I'm not allowed to use Hypercelerity, I still have a way around it.' Xenon muttered to himself.

The mannequin stood still as its arms began to regenerate. Eyeball has seen and was now wise enough not to underestimate this peculiar set of first years, so he took Xenon's words into account and healed up the mannequin.

Xenon stopped stretching and drew the sword from the ground. The previous assault on the mannequin had just been to test the swords weight and durability, Queri had taught him to always get familiar to a weapon before he engaged in battle with it.

'Warm ups over. I'm kinda feeling sorry for Eyeball and the mannequin already.' Xenon said inwardly.

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Just imagine the mannequin is me.

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'Brilliant!' Xenon did as the system suggested and any sympathy he might have felt for the mannequin disappeared as the mannequin's faceless features suddenly sprouted a smug, grinning face as he has always pictured the system to have.

Xenon bent both of his legs with the right on in front of the other. He grabbed the sword with both arms and swung it to his left side. His eyes locked on the mannequin.

'Activate Augmentation.' Xenon said to the system and white lightning sprouted from his feet, spreading rapidly over his body with some jumping erratically into the air around him. His body crackled.

Augmentation was the skill he unlocked for his second ability after the fight with Jason during the entrance examination. The skill had one function only, and that was to augment Xenon's physique temporarily, increasing all of his attributes by 25% for as long as it was activated – and this is still just level 1.

Excluding the stat increase, Xenon's speed was greatly boosted with 'Augmentation' as it allowed him access, albeit a tint bit, to the powers and capabilities of a lightning bolt.

So even though he was forbidden from using his supernatural speed, with Augmentation, Xenon could easily attain twice his base speed and with the addition of a 25% increase in all attributes, Mr. Herman would have to be extremely focused to keep up with Xenon's moves, talk less the mannequin.

Xenon, with white lightning dancing all over his body, ran forward, he reached the side of the mannequin in less than two seconds. The mannequin jerked to the other side awkwardly as it was surprised by Xenon's immediate increase in speed.

Xenon didn't attack the mannequin but ran circles around it continuously until the dust rising from his feet started to obscure him from the mannequin's vision.

Suddenly, something covered in lightning streaked toward the mannequin. The mannequin suddenly jumped sideways, dodging not Xenon, but the sword he threw.

As the sword struck the ground, Xenon's fist connected with the mannequin's skull from the back, sending it out of the cloud of white dust.

The mannequin fell but rolled to its feet swiftly, only to be greeted by the swing of Xenon's sword. The sword caught the mannequin in the chin and split its face halfway in half.

The mannequin was lifted in air by this blow, and before its feet could land, Xenon swung his left fist at the mannequin's gut, throwing it a metre backwards.

The lightning around Xenon's fist had latched unto the mannequin and was now dancing all over its body while trying to devour it. The mannequin stood up with the white lightning crackling around its body and slightly burning it slowly.

To everyone's surprise, the mannequin opened its mouth and started to suck in the lightning too. The lightning although behaving erratic as if in protest, was slowly sucked into the mannequin's mouth.

Xenon stood motionless as the lightning formed a very erratic and chaotic ball in the mannequin's mouth, threatening to burst at any moment.

'Good luck with that, even I can't make it into a ball for more than five seconds.' Xenon sneered and ran towards the mannequin.

The mannequin, seeing Xenon approaching suddenly opened its mouth wide and shot out the ball of lightning from its mouth. But contrary to everyone's – Xenon and Jason excluded – expectations, the ball of lightning exploded the moment it came into contact with air.

Half of the blast took away a chunk of the mannequin's face and neck, and a bit of its chest. Streaks of the exploded lightning ball spread everywhere, some reaching for the group of students but stopped by Jason's force field.

A bolt of lightning went towards Xenon, and not dodging fast enough took a bit of flesh off his left ear. Xenon swung his sword at the injured mannequin three times and it lost its head, left arm and left leg.

Xenon went behind the mannequin and kicked what was left of it away from him. Unfortunately, he couldn't keep Augmentation on for long as his skin would start to heat up and burn after a while.

"Regenerate! I still have one thing I wanna try out." Xenon said while looking at Eyeball as the lightning around his body receded.

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