Slowly stepping forth, Nn climbed back up onto the battle stage.


    He watched as Adrian slowly took off his shirt and jeans, leaving only his dark shorts on.


    What was revealed to Nn was a body that wouldn''t even pale to his at all—defined to the maximum level Nn had ever seen a body defined to.


    Adrian was a lot bulkier than Nn, resembling an heavyweight champion,pared to Nn, who seemed like an extreme athlete.


    CREEEAAAK


    CRAAACKK


    The sound of bones twisting and cracking forth resonated as Adrian worked all of his muscles together before shing a psychopathic smile at Nn, who simply stood there, watching him.


    Adrian was 1.8 meters tall, and Nn was 1.9 meters tall—about a head taller—and that made it look like Nn was looking down on him, but Adrian didn''t seem to mind at all.


    "You seem oddly confident fighting me, a Godly Ten. Can''t even be bothered to take off your clothes?" Adrian said as he bent his body to the ground.


    Once more, an intense purple divine essence began flowing like water around him as his intense transformation began again.


    But this time, it was slightly different.


    The Adrian before Nn was a muscr figure with bulging veins that snaked out of his body and covered him like clothes.


    He possessed an exaggerated muscture. He wore a menacing grin that spread to his ears, his eyespletely crimson like his hair, giving him an ominous, almost demonic appearance.


    His skin had be a purplish-dark shade, covered in irregr jagged veins that resembled scars.


    Revolving around him was a purplish aura, radiating from his body in wisps of energy, enhancing the raw power and danger oozing from him.


    The overall atmosphere around Adrian had changed in a blink, bing intense and chaotic.


    Nn furrowed his eyebrows, his eyes shing with realization. If he had any doubt before, now he had none.


    This wasn''t a power any student in the academy could possess, and Nn''s senses were finally screaming danger.


    Adrian before him was undoubtedly a Godly Ten, just from his aura alone. At least, he definately couldn''t be some ordinary random student judging from how powerful it was.


    "Heheheh..." Once more, the strange devilishughter began ringing out from Adrian''s lips, almost reflexively, as he looked at Nn with predatory eyes.


    "Do you know what my nickname is among the Godly Ten?" he asked Nn, who had a lost expression.


    "The Devil..." hepleted as a loud snort rang through the battle stage.


    Slowly, Nn raised his hands, and a dagger appeared, twisting a few times around his fingers before resting in his palm.


    He pointed it toward Adrian.


    "You talk too much..."


    "DIIIIIEEEE!!!" A devilish roar sted out as Adrian shot forth with horrific speed, appearing before Nn.


    His body jerked backward, gathering colossal power and then...


    BAAAAANG


    A shockwave undted forth as Adrian punched toward Nn''s face with brutal strength, causing Nn''s white hair to blow back behind him, and then...


    RIIIIIIP


    The punch tore through the face, yet it did nothing but tear apart an afterimage.


    A punch coated in green squirming veins mmed onto Adrian''s cheek, sending him rolling across the tform beforeing to a stop, crouched on the ground. He had yet to rise when the air before him shook, and he instantly dodged his head to the side.


    RIIIIIP


    The sound of a dagger slicing through the air rang out as the edge of the de weaved past Adrian''s face by a simple inch.


    Yet, Nn wasn''t done as he stopped his vertical motion, twisted the dagger in his hand, and then shed to the side.


    In less than a split secondter, his dagger cleaved toward Adrian''s neck.


    His moves were cold, each with a single mission, and that was to take his opponent''s life as quickly as possible.


    But Nn felt a powerful reverberation as he was sent shooting to the side, carving a massive gorge on the ground beforeing to a stop.


    "Not even a minute, and you''re already revealing your second ability. How disappointing..." Nn called out with a disappointed expression as he looked at Adrian, or more specifically, at his hands, and discovered there were now two strange crimson-red gauntlets that covered them both, oozing with a strange blood-like aura.


    It was what had sent Nn flying to the side when he had collided with Adrian.


    "Tch," Adrian clicked his tongue at Nn''s disappointed expression as he moved, appearing instantly before Nn. In the next instant...


    BAAAAAANG


    BAAAAAANG


    BAAAAAANG


    BAAAAAANG


    Four fist phantoms appeared in the air before Nn as Adrian punched forth seemingly one time, yet four fists were now before Nn, who could only sh forth, knocking back two.


    But the remaining two mmed onto his chest and shoulder, knocking him further backward.


    It was only the beginning of the battering as Adrian began picking up speed, repeatedly knocking Nn backward, even when he shed at Adrian''s hand with his intensely sharp dagger.


    It failed to cut through the red gauntlets, and a mini-explosion would result, sending Nn crashing further backward.


    Less than a minuteter, and he was now in a clear disadvantage, getting knocked around the battle stage with cuts on his face and hands.


    "You''re not talking any longer, piece of trash..." Adrian called out to him as he repeatedly knocked Nn around the stage, yet even though he was starting to lose, Nn''s eyes were as calm and indifferent as ever.


    ''His gauntlets are his second ability, and they have three special traits.''


    ''Firstly, they increase his punching speed. If it formerly took him a second to punch, now he can punch twice in a single second with the gauntlets on.''


    ''Secondly, the power of the gauntlets increased his punching strength by double, and thirdly, every time our fists meet, there''s a mini-explosion that goes off, further knocking the opponent backward...''


    Nn analyzed with furrowed eyebrows, and in the next instant, he reacted...