<h4>Chapter 22: Proving Ability</h4>


    Immediately, two red dots appeared in the robot''s eyes as it directed his gaze to Khan who also moved in the next second.


    BANG


    A punch tore through the air as Khan lowered his waist, and punched at the robot''s head which quickly dodged his head to the side.


    Immediately, Khan retracted back his right arm before bending to the side as his left hand sted outward delivering a solid punch to the robot''s stomach.


    RIIIP


    A minor shockwave rippled where his fist made contact and the robot was immediately lifted its feet smashing into the wall.


    BANG


    "You have cleared the stage!" The AI voice rang out as he stood upright and turned back to look at Audrey without saying a word.


    Audrey''s eyes shed in shock at what happened as he watched an ordinary mortal easily take care of a third-rank stage robot! It was simply impossible and unheard of.


    Yet his eyes quickly regained his calm as he hmphed instead.


    "Barely worthy enough..." Immediately he inputted some codes into the holographic in front of him as the robot that Khan defeated slowly entered back into the space on the ground and in front of Khan another robot also came out.


    "This one is at the fifth star rank stage. Don''t die quickly, boy..." Audrey said but Khan only snickered as he got into his fighting position.


    Immediately the red dot in its eyes shed as they both moved instantaneously.


    BOOOM


    A robotic leg kicked forward towards Khan who took a step to the side dodging the kick before his right hand punched forward with speed.


    CLANG


    The sound of metallic collision as Khan''s hands jerked backward, but he was quick to regain himself, slipping back to his fighting position.


    The robot managed to block his punch by covering its face with both arms.


    ''It''s tough...''


    BANG


    A punch tore through his face instantly but it was only a mirage as Khan''s head shifted to the side.


    Another punch immediately rippled outward as he took another step to the side, dodging it again.


    BANG


    BANG


    BANG


    BANG


    Punch rippled forward with increasing momentum as the corner of Audrey''s lips shifted slightly upwards.


    "If all he can do is dodge, then this fight already has a winner..." The training robots aren''t justparable to human awakeners but actually are pretty much stronger than normal.


    A couple of reasons include their body which is iron. Due to that, they have greater defensepared to normal human awakeners. Most importantly, is the programming on them that enables them to adapt to a person''s mode ofbat.


    With that programming, their momentum and hitting power will only increase as time goes by and he was well aware as Khan was dodging around, the robot would soon capture its mode and react effectively to it. Soon, he wouldn''t be able to dodge his attack.


    Yet, Audrey''s eyes slowly furrowed as time went by as he noticed none of the robot''s attack worked. Khan effectively dodged every single one of its kicks and punches and soon Audrey''s jaws dropped to the ground as his eyes shed with purple light.


    ''His dodges, they''re never the same. It appears to be in the same pattern but there''s a minute change In every one of it...''


    RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP


    The air patted as the robot mmed his leg towards Khan''s ribs whose eyes shed, as he jumped up into the air, the kick passing below him.


    And mid-air he rotated before mming his leg downwardnding squarely on the robot''s head, which was immediately sted to its knees as Khan skillfully turned andnded gently on the ground.


    "You have cleared the stage..." The AI voice once again rang out as Audrey''s eyes shed in shock and Khan gave him another ''in'' look.


    "You could have finished the fight in the first ten moves, why were you dodging the whole time..." Audrey said as a smirk appeared on Khan''s face.


    "Wrong. I could have destroyed it in the first three moves, but my curiosity was piqued and so I wanted to see its capabilities..." Khan said directing his attention away from the fallen robot and instead turning to look at Audrey who had a look of disbelief.


    But unknown to him what Khan said was the truth. Khan had a single defect and that is his inability to cultivate. Instead, he improves his strength using his system which mainly implemented Nanobots to grow his strength instead of Mana.


    This caused a state of confusion for Khan as he didn''t know what stage his level of strength was. But with the robots, he can slowly tune up their strength and when he arrives at a particr level he can''t defeat them. Then he''ll know his level of strengthpared to gene awakeners.


    "So is this enough to convince you or should I keep destroying them?" Khan asked as he slowly untied the tie from his hand before knotting it back to his neck.


    Honestly, he hated wearing a tie but he had no choice. It was the necessity of business.


    "Ok. I''ll give you the mission, but only under one condition..." Audrey finally conceded as Khan raised his eyebrow.


    "And what is that?"


    "There is a group of four other adventurers who also signed up for the Mission. You''ll be joining their group?" Audrey said but all he got was a questioning look from the young man.


    "The lowest of them is at the D-rank while the highest is at B-rank. I believe you''ll be safer with them..." Audrey finally revealed as Khan nodded.


    "I agree to the condition..." Khan said, not sparing it much thought.


    He could simply abandon the group on arriving in the ruins if they turned out to be a hindrance to his n. Then he''ll simply cut them off.


    "Great..." The duo finally exited the training room as Khan watched Audrey get to work, dipping his device into the different device on the table before passing him his card.


    "You have sessfully been registered for the mission. Don''t forget it''s two days from now at 8:00 in the morning. The location will be sent to you soon."


    "Thank you..." Khan said with a smile as he turned back, his hand reaching for the knob and he unlocked the door, moving out but before he couldpletely step out of the office.


    "So, how did you get those robots?" Khan asked once again.


    "I made them myself. How about a deal? If you survive this mission, I''ll help build a personal training room just like mine in your future house for free, but if you fail, then..."


    "Then what?"


    "Then the dead don''t bite, do they?" Audrey said with a smirk drawing an evenrger smirk from Khan.


    "Deal..."


    And the door zipped to a close, the sound of footsteps rapidly fading away.