Eyeball scoffed and looked away from Xenon, the mannequin started to regenerate rapidly.

Xenon closed and stretched his fingers repeatedly to relief stiffness as he waited for the mannequin to regenerate.

'If this goes well, I just might unlock a new skill.' Xenon said to himself.

Xenon had gotten his first Astrapokinesis' skill from trying something new and pushing to his limits in battle, and although he isn't planning to go into a near death state again, he believes combining his abilities and trying something new again should be enough push for a new skill to surface.

While Xenon was in deep thought, the regenerating mannequin somersaulted to its feet and immediately ran towards Xenon. Eyeball was trying to catch Xenon off guard and make him regret looking down on his mannequin.

Xenon noticed the mannequin running towards him but feigned ignorance, he intentionally pretended to not notice anything till the mannequin was about a metre and half away from him.

Once the mannequin entered Xenon's comfortable range, – about a metre and half from him – white lightning spread out from his feet and snaked all around his body.

Xenon put his left leg in front of the other and the next thing everyone saw was a white blur streaking past the mannequin, followed by a loud thunderclap. Dust rose where the mannequin stood.

Xenon had activated both Astrapokinesis' Augmentation and Hypercelerity at the same time, thereby boosting his abnormal speed even further. With both abilities activated simultaneously, coupled with his immediate dash over a small area, he had almost broken the sound barrier.

The moment Xenon moved, he had extended his lightning onto his sword and tried to cut the mannequin cleanly while trying not to go too far – as the immediate boost in speed was overwhelming and not something he was used to – and making sure to contain the raging lightning around his body – any stray bolt could more-than-moderately injure an unsuspecting classmate.

Obviously he couldn't do everything together at once and so the lightning around the sword went out of control just as the sword dug into the mannequin. The lightning around the sword combined into one large bolt which struck heavenward, tearing the mannequin apart in the process, it was the source of the thunderclap.

Xenon appeared a few metres behind the cloud of dust and the after image which he left at his starting point vanished. The dust settled to reveal the scattered parts of the mannequin.

°Ding

°Ding

Xenon walked away from the sparring space into the crowd of students. He exhaled heavily and looked at his feet, his shoes were tattered, he kicked what remained off and walked barefoot.

His shirt sleeves and trousers were filled with burnt holes and his body was hot from the heat generated by the lightning, his feet and palms especially were red.

'This ability is such a pain.' Xenon said as he checked his status in the system. 'Even my àse has plummeted! Just that one move took out this much!?'

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Àse: 150/300

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'Using Astrapokinesis is too expensive, I need to break through to stage 3 soon if I'm going to continue using it.' Xenon muttered. 'Now let's see what the system sent, did I really get a skill?' Xenon hurriedly opened up the system's notification.

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You defeated an Apex Spirit's low level spawn. 2000 exp rewarded.

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You survived a battle (indirectly, -90% of reward)with an Apex grade spirit. 10,000,000 exp rewarded.

99.9% of reward deducted under the account that the Apex grade spirit was unharmed and barely unleashed 1% of its power.

Final reward, 10,000 exp.

[You aren't allowed to be overpowered yet]

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Exp: 26641/51200

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'What the fuck! You freaking AI bastard! You dare cheat me of my hard earned exp! How shameless can you be!' Xenon raged internally as a large amount of exp to last him ages was just drained away by the system, leaving him with scraps.

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Who's the shameless one here?

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'You motherf... ah! I'll kill you one day, I swear!' Steam was rising from Xenon's ears now.

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You should stop using swear words, you're a kid now you know.

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'F-off. By the way, where's my new skill, I definitely felt something when I made that move earlier, wanna steal that too!?'

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Condition to learn skill [???] triggered

Mastery of ability [Astrapokinesis] increased by 1%.

Skill [???] requires 50% ability mastery to unlock. Progress, 2%

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You need more understanding of your ability and nature of the lightning element to unlock the new skill, goodluck.

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'I feel cheated.' Xenon muttered.

"Nice finish!" Jason said to Xenon and jolted him back to his surroundings.

"I know right," Xenon grinned. "Nice sword you made, can I keep it?" Xenon asked Jason as he raised the sword and checked it for cracks.

"Yeah, sure." Jason replied and collected the sword from Xenon, he placed it on his right shoulder. "From today onwards," Jason moved the sword to Xenon's left shoulder. "I declare you..." he moved it to his head. "The bearer of my first masterpiece."

"Cut the crap!" Xenon yanked the sword off Jason and checked it for cracks again.

The was a thin crack on one side in the middle of the blade, it was the result of the unprecedented thunder strike at the end of the spar.

"Aoi, aren't you going next?" Jason turned to Aoi.

"No-nope. I'll go last." Aoi said with a nervous smile.

"Seems it's my turn then." Belladonna who was eavesdropping on the trio yawned and walked out.

She stopped at the stack of wooden weapons, glanced at the pile briefly, then continued on without taking anything.

Belladonna walked to the open space, the white sand rustling beneath her feet as she passed. A sudden cool breeze blew over the class as she stood, the breeze stirred up some dust, but the sand around her stayed still and the stirred up dust didn't dare to touch her.

She stood motionlessly as the mannequin's split parts began to join together and regenerate slowly. After about a minute, a newly made mannequin stood to its feet, a few metres away from Belladonna.

"These grounds are parched." Belladonna sighed and raised both her arms.

The mannequin stiffened as Belladonna raised her arms, but no attack came for him, instead large amounts of a colourless, viscous liquid dropped from her hands to the floor.

The sticky, slimy substance spread out on the dry white sand a metre in front of Belladonna and the usually desert-like soil of the combat class absorbed the liquid hungrily and became like the wet, freshly ploughed soil of a farm.

The mannequin looked at the now wet soil and seemed to contemplate whether it would be wise to move forward and engage this student, it hesitated.

Belladonna looked at the mannequin and smiled lightly. The mannequin not moving was just perfect as she was weak in close range combat and would prefer to take it out from a distance.

'Just stay right there while I toss this at you.' Belladonna said to herself as some of the liquid she spread on the ground was formed into a thick ball which hovered over her palm.

The mannequin, as if reading Belladonna's mind immediately lunged forward, but before it could move far, the thick ball of slime in Belladonna's hand shot out and caught the mannequin by the feet, rooting it to the ground.

The mannequin tried to pull its leg out of the slime but struggled, and just as it feet started to separate from the drawing ball of slime, another landed on its other foot.

If the mannequin could talk, it would have cursed out Belladonna by now as its whole body was covered in slime and it could barely move at all. Everytime the mannequin attempted to break out of her restriction, another highly adhesive ball of Slime would hit it, bringing the mannequin to the state it is in now.

The mannequin – Eyeball – couldn't take it anymore, the familiar slit appeared on its lower face, it's mouth opened.

The slime that had seemed invincible was sucked into the mannequin's mouth with minimum effort, it was as if the mannequin's mouth itself was a black hole.

'Well, it was nice while it lasted.' Belladonna said to herself as the mannequin sucked in the slime. She stood upright and relaxed, waiting for the mannequin to shoot it back at her.

The mannequin drew back its head, and as expected, shot out all of the slime in one go. The slime shot out of the mannequin's mouth like one large icicle.

Belladonna immediately raised her right arm forward the moment the mannequin shot its attack, and the mannequin dashed forward immediately after shooting out all that slime from its mouth.

Eyeball grinned, the timing of the attacks were perfect. Belladonna would not be able to guard against the large ball of slime and the mannequin at the same time, and no matter which one she chooses to tank, it would still be in the mannequin's favour.

'Finally, my first win.' Eyeball thought.

The slime was two seconds faster than the mannequin, and at the time the slime reached Belladonna, the mannequin was just on the edge of the rejuvenated soil.

The slime struck Belladonna, but contrary to everyone's expectations, it lost its adhesion and splashed over her body like water would. At this time, Belladonna smiled, the mannequin was within the metre of the transformed soil.

Immediately Belladonna smiled, thick, green vines sprouted from the ground and wrapped around the mannequin. There was a loud creak and the mannequin was pulled apart.

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