Chapter 12: Rex vs Laura (1/2)

The sky is getting dark, the windows in the training hall show the noon sun shone a golden light.

'Whatever Mr. Joseph is planning, I'll just deliberately lose. Although the students are clumsy with weapons, they should be way faster and stronger than a normal person”, Rex thought after breaking off his eye contact with Mr. Joseph and get into the arena.

Laura saw Rex gets into the arena,

She then helplessly get on the arena too,

Laura thinks that Rex is not even an opponent for her, Her power can even rival the top of the class and now she has to fight a non-awakened person. It is an unhonorable fight for her, this can be called bullying.

'He's probably better in hand-to-hand combat judging from his military background, let's just overpower him with speed' She thought after hawking Rex from head to toe.

Rex has trained in hand-to-hand combat in the military before, His abilities can even match the veterans. He is confident to win in hand-to-hand combat but if magic added to the mix, The favor will turn on him.

After they both stand face to face inside the ring, Rex suddenly has a flashback.

'Are you worthy enough to approach me?'

'A normal person like you should get away from me'

'Face reality, we're on a different level'

Rex gritted his teeth, the words that came out of Laura's mouth hurt him so much.

'I'm confident in beating the likes of Poru, If Laura is stronger than Poru then I probably have a slimmer chance to win', Rex thought.

His mind is clouded by his pride that keeps prickling him to not let it slide especially when he has the power to do so.

'Wouldn't it be nice if I can see the enemy's stats, wait, I can!', Rex thought. He looks at Laura with the thought of seeing her stats when suddenly a dinging sound was heard and a notification appeared just beside Laura.

<laura frostbrand=””></laura>

Race: Human

Power: Rank 3 Awakened (Early) - Water Elementalist

Mental: 21

Strength: 9

Agility: 23

Endurance: 12

Intelligence: 30

When Rex saw Laura's status he started to sweat, 'I'm still lagging behind', Rex notices Laura's low strength and decided to use it.

Laura looks at Rex and saw the sudden change in his temper, She unconsciously takes a step back.

Rex lifts his head up and looks at Laura, Rex's eyes stare right into Laura's. He doesn't know why but Laura ignites something within him, his eyes seem to lit up like a fire.

'What is happening? Why is my body shaking?', Laura thought as she looks at her trembling legs.

Meanwhile, Mr. Joseph looks at both of them in silence. The corner of his mouth quirked up.

Other students also noticed the change in Rex,

But they still look at him with contempt underestimating Rex's abilities as a non-awakened, while Laura who is in the same arena as him can't help but become alert.

Suddenly,

<ding!!></ding!!>

<sudden quest=””></sudden>

<take revenge=”” on=”” laura=””></take>

The user needs to beat Laura fair and square during the fight in the arena

Quest Reward: 400 Exp, Shell of Defense>

'Okay, it seems I have to go all out', Rex goes into his battle stance as he waits for Mr. Joseph's signal to start the battle.

The same goes for Laura, She didn't want to underestimate Rex so she started circulating his elemental properties into her body and her new katana.

Blue aura started to cover her whole body as water vapor comes out of her body,

”START!”

After the signal from Mr. Joseph both of them dash to each other.

Laura slashes her katana while Rex sent out a punch with his new battle gloves, Rex arms bulge as he sent out his punch.

One can even feel the power by just looking at it,

CLANG!

The sound of metal colliding was heard from the collision, Laura is pushed back a little by the impact.

'What? Is her strength really way lower than mine? How come I can only push her a bit?', Rex thought in surprise.

Rex then realizes, 'It's this blue aura that is covering her, It increases her physical abilities just like what Benjamin and Poru do before'

While Rex is deep in thought Laura was also surprised, 'Did he just push me back? A non-awakened?!' she frowns and jumps back to make the distance between them.

The students that are watching widened their eyes,

”HOW?!”, exclaimed one of the students.

”He's a non-awakened but he can match Laura?!”

Adhara also gasp in shock, 'He's really not simple, But I really can't feel any elemental from him so how?'

Laura snaps out of her shock, the blue glow on her body is getting intense as she bolted towards Rex vanishing from her spot.

Rex steps back and brings his hands up in defense, he can't follow Laura's movement!

Laura appeared on his right and sent a slash with her katana,

Rex brings his hands up to block the slash when suddenly,

BAM!

”Argh!”, Rex grunted in pain.

The slash was a fluke! Rex got punched on his guts, He was pushed back a couple of steps to the right.

Laura vanished once again from her spot and sent another slash while Rex is recovering from the previous punch,

Rex's eyes widened when he saw a katana aiming at him just as he recovers from the blow.

The katana makes a swooshing sound as it grazed Rex's cheeks, Blood came out of his grazed cheek.

Rex brings his hands up to his face trying to guard his head,