<h4>Chapter 95: Hellish to Abysmal.</h4>


    When the match was signaled to start, golden mes began surging from Luciano''s hands, while Haldor pumped his muscles and awaited the attack.


    When the mes were meters from Haldor, He pped his hands together and surprisingly, an earth wall erupted from below.


    "He is already at the champion realm!!" A student close to ke blurted out in shock.


    ''Seems am not the only one in the champion realm…'' ke was slightly surprised because knew he wasn''t the only one with secrets and trump cards.


    Luciano was unfazed as he kept on pouring in mana, causing the mes to crash into the unmoving moving wall, but before anyone knew what was going on, the mes squirmed and by passed the rock wall heading for Haldor.


    "Like I said you are corky…" Haldor sneered at the iing golden mes and shot out his orange me, causing them to counter each other.


    ''Why do I have a feeling that Luciano''s mes were put out so easily?'' Having gotten a close view of how powerful the golden mes, ke didn''t need his high perception to know something was up.


    [I must say Luciano is one hell of a cunny b*stard, but this Haldor of a kid has more muscles for brains.


    Like the beast boy said it would have been pretty stupid to use the same tactics he had used in the awakening test.


    This time the mes me going around the wall wasn''t to win the match, but for him to show his trump cards and the numbskull brought out everything on disy. Now Luciano knows he is in the champion realm eliminates all surprises and with the knowledge of his second element he can make further ns.] Just like a chess engine the system quickly analyzed the reason for Luciano''s actions.


    "Now, it''s my turn." He said with a smirk on his face as he dashed towards Luciano while casting earth rendering to increase speed as he slid on the slippery floor.


    When he got within range, he cast earth rendering again turning the ground below Luciano into quick sand before conjuring a rock more than a meter thick, before using his momentum to lunch it towards Luciano with a powerful kick.


    Although he mana perception wasn''t as good as that of ke, Luciano didn''t need to look down to see the ground was about to turn to quick sand.


    Without panicking, Luciano used the fire around to increase the surrounding temperature so much that the loose ground was turned ss. Seeing the ming rock was a few moments from mming into him, Luciano employed the same technique used by ke, and cast 2 mini me bursts propelling him out of the way in the nick of time.


    But all this was part of Haldor''s n, when Luciano dodged the ming rock with the mini me bursts, Haldorunched himself forward with a meburst appearing in front of Luciano who was still in mid-air with his right fist enveloped in mes.


    ''Got you now!'' Luciano being in mid-air made it impossible for him to dodge the attack and even if he decided to protect himself with a wall of me, mes weren''t solid and Haldor was ready to getting?burnt to end the fight.


    "Too predictable…" Luciano said with indifferent expression with a hint of disappointment.


    "Gale st…" Luciano said in a t tone as a ball of wind formed in between them, before it exploded sending Haldor flying away while pushing him so meters back.


    Having lost interest in the match, Luciano thought it was high time he ended the match. He raised his igniting the golden mes still lingering on the battle ground.


    The mes heeded the ignitor''s call, as they increased in size before squirming towards the groggy Haldor. When they got to him he had regain his senses but it was already tote.


    "Be gone!" Luciano clenched both fists causing the glow of the golden mes to increase, indicating they were about to blow!


    BOOM!


    The sound of the explosion rang all around the training grounds causing most of the students to gasp in shock as they tries to see past the thick smoke to make sure Haldor wasn''t dead.


    When the smoke had finally settled, they saw Haldor enveloped in a purple ming halo?as he curled up in a ball using his hands to protect his head.


    "Winner Luciano. Minus 300 points from the loser Haldor for wasting both our time, Plus 300 to Luciano." Instructor Zirrack said with a yawn as he stepped into a warp get and left the training grounds.


    "That was quick, but exciting…" ke thought


    [That makes more sense…] The system said in a pondering tone.


    ''What makes sense?'' ke asked.


    [If you noticed the move he used in both the awakening test and now defied thews of realms…] Seeing that ke wasn''t following the system had to continue. [In the warrior realm a cultivator can''t use the power of his will even if he knew everything about it, that means he shouldn''t have been able to make the mes go round the girls water barrier back in the awakening test because it broke the rules of realms.]


    ''That means to achieve that effect he had used the wind element direct the mes… That''s ingenious!'' ke was amazed by the system''s revtion.


    [Exactly, and him keeping his second element a secret will make the enemy unable to handle the situation well. I must say he really is worth to be a member of the royal family.] The system acknowledged Luciano''s strength.


    ''Well theirs no need to keep the secret since he is no able to bend his mes with his will.''


    Just like he had thought, Luciano was already any ignitor, because their was no way the rank 4 will be higher than the rank 2 in realm.


    ''The reason he didn''t want any share of the spoils back in the forest wasn''t fully as a act of goodwill but because he had more than enough. Be it beast cores or gold coins, they were all at his beck and call.'' Right now Luciano was a walking bank.


    "This is to all those trying to get into the top 3, I won''t go easy." Luciano''s short but powerful messy sent chills down the spine of all those below the top 3.


    After he speech he walked up to ke under the gaze of everyone before they both left for the canteen reinforcing the rumors of them being close friends.


    "What was the speech for?" ke asked as he was munching down on the creamy chicken stew.


    "It is scare away those who just want to waste our time and to also instill fear into the hearts of those who are strong enough to face us, their by giving is an edge over them."?Luciano said with a smirk.


    "Mind games, I see…" ke chuckled.


    When they were done with lunch, they waited for sometime before heading to the training ss for advancebat ss.


    Instructor Zirrack''s appearance marked the start of the ss and just like professor Gibson, he told them that the school was disappointed by their performance in the survival test.


    He also brought with him a piece of bad news for the students but good news for him. The news was that the school had given him permission to step up the difficultly of his training and that meant more time was given to his ss and the students training will go from hellish to abysmal.


    After their usual exercises, live beasts were brought to the training grounds. The exercise of the day was for the students to fight against a beast one vs one.


    The aim of the exercise was to get this students ovee the fears of beasts majority had shown in the survival exercise.


    ke and almost all of those in the top 20 passed the exercise with ease and for those who weren''t able to defeat the beast matched up against them had their points deducted for the instructor saving their lives and they were also given more hellish exercises toplete.


    When the ss was finally over, some had fainted and were taken to the light department for healing, while some had to be carried back to their rooms by their friends.


    As for ke, all over his body was aching but he was still able to return to his room, but the problem was that when his body met his bed his mind drifted off to dreand.


    …


    The rest of the days quickly passed by and ke couldn''t help but thank God that it was finally his ss free day.


    The week had been a very difficult one, not only because of instructor Zirrack but all their professors. They all told them the same thing and made their lives more stressful.


    A lot of students had been punished and had gotten their points deducted, while some had broken down due to Zirrack''s torture, but it was finally time for him to rest and hunt beasts.