Immediately, the robot stood and instantly dodged its head sideways, but still failed to avoid the daggerpletely, causing some metal to chip off its head.


    Still, it continued running forth with its fists speeding towards Nn, who shifted the chains downward.


    Instantly, a piercing sound rang out as the robot stopped and swiftly punched behind it.


    BOOOOOM


    Immediately, fist and dagger shed together, sending both of them flying backwards.


    The robot was unfortunately sent flying toward Nn, who threw a punch towards the back of the robot''s head, but was surprised when a hole suddenly appeared on the robot''s neck at thest second.


    VROOOOM


    A powerful wave of gas erupted, pushing the robot''s head to the side, narrowly avoiding Nn''s fist.


    In the next moment, Nn felt a powerful air wave approaching his jaw and swiftly dodged, barely avoiding the kick.


    In that same instant, he pulled heavily on the chain, sending his dagger rushing toward him just as the robot mercilessly punched towards his face.


    But Nn didn''t make a single move, as the punch came just a few inches from his face.


    Yet at thest second, the dagger flew past, blocking the punch, and the shockwave pushed Nn and the system backwards.


    "Hehe…"


    An unconscious chuckle escaped Nn''s lips as he took three steps backward, cracks appearing beneath his feet and he passed the momentum into the ground.


    He could barely see the robot shing and speeding toward him once more.


    Ihis time, it was actually floating horizontally in a cloud of smoke beneath its feet.


    Nn jumped, mming his leg into the cracked ground.


    Immediately, arge chunk of ss was sent flying off the ground and Nn spun, mming his kick toward the chunk of ss, sending it flying toward the robot.


    BOOOOOOOOOOM


    SHATTER


    The sound of the ss exploding rang out, sending shards throughout the entire area as the robot mmed a punch on the ss, shattering it into pieces.


    Immediately it appeared before Nn but git confused when when it found nothing.


    Nn has mysteriously disappeared.


    In the next instant...


    SHRIIIIIIIING


    The sound of a dagger cutting through the air resounded as Nn instantly appeared above the robot, his dagger digging deep into the robot''s head, and the force was powerful enough that the dagger tore out of the robot''s head, nailing it into the ground.


    Clouds of smoke and electricity covered the area, but quickly settled down, revealing the figure of Nn who had his chain wrapped around one hand and his dagger rolling between his fingers.


    [Hmph, cheap tricks!] The system said with a dissatisfied huff, and Nn grinned mockingly back.


    "It''s called Battle IQ!"


    [What Battle IQ? You distracted the robot with the ss block on the ground while sneakily gathering energy in your legs and then took off instantly.]


    [When the opponent was focused on severing the ss, you appeared behind it and nailed it down.]


    [All cheap tricks and nning, any idiot can do that.] the system evaluated what had actually happened, but Nn only shook his head.


    Slowly, he stepped back from the ce where he stood and walked towards a ce where the ss was still cracked.


    He jumped up and counted, "One, two..."


    When Nn mmed his leg into the ground this time, the ss on the floor only trembled but didn''t rise up like before.


    "You understand now?" Nn asked the system, which remained silent but quickly the golden notification panel. flickered once more.


    [Hmmm, so when you blocked the robot''s punch with your dagger, you were pushed back by the force and you passed it to the ground.]


    [But while passing it to the ground, you weakened the chunks of ss below, and when you jumped up and mmed your leg into the ground, it lifted up, aided by the power of the force that had already weakened the ss] the system reflected.


    [That wouldn''t have happened normally.]


    [Also, you moved so fast instantly nailing down the robot just after it core through the word of ss.]


    [That means you must have released some of that energy from the collision in your feet and used it to explode out more to catch the robot by surprise and deliver the finishing blow.]


    The system finished its analysis, and Nn grinned.


    "In other words, every action was toward bringing about the end of the robot."


    "None of it was wasted, not even the opponent''s own momentum and energy."


    "Every single one of its own moves was properly analyzed to bring about the end result—all that while being in a hot battle."


    "That''s not a cheap trick; it''s abination of perception, intelligence, and belief that your precision wille through."


    "Controlling the battle with your mind, and never wavering in your judgment."


    "So that''s what every average idiot can do hmm?" Nn asked with a smug tone, before the AI Voice rang out once more.


    "Congrattions onpleting the challenge. Please choose whether to continue or proceed to the next few floors..." The AI''s holographic image appeared, and Nn quickly moved, tapping on the image.


    It had just been about 9 minutes and he had more than a few hours left for training.


    Once more, the voice rang out.


    "You have chosen to move on. A new opponent with a strength factor of 2.5 is being generated."


    "Are you sure you don''t want to reconsider?"


    "This stage has an impossible level of difficulty."


    The AI voice rang out as Nn cracked his bones in preparation, before standing and readying his dagger.


    "Let''s begin," he ordered.


    "New opponent is now being generated... Match starts in 10...9...8...5..."


    "Have any words of ''encouragement'' for me, system?" Nn asked with a smirk as his dagger once more began spinning around him.


    [I''ll reserve myment until the end of the fight,]he system replied, trying to maintain its mantle of pride, and Nn grinned teasingly.


    "You''re always wee to underestimate..."


    "The match has begun!"