25 Astounding (2/2)

”AS IF!”

”Teacher Yuan, please calm yourself.” The other combat teacher quickly restrained the old man who was ready to jump the shameless thief. He weeped internally, evidently the only mediator among the three.

So while the elders got into a bit of a tussle, Zhu Xing was slowly being suppressed on the arena.

He gritted his teeth. Should he use it?

”Senior, don't hold back.” Hana smiled as she sent a fist of fire his way. ”If you lose focus, you'll regret it.”

She could tell this guy that an ace up his sleeve, and she wanted him to reveal it. Her blood sung to the tune of the battle. She was in her element, in the zone. Her adrenaline was rocketing so high she felt like she could fly.

”Little junior, I look forward to seeing you in class.” Zhu Xing smiled. He had no doubt that this girl would bring storms to his department. She might even skip directly to his year.

”Explode.” His gloved hands lit up with glowing lines as he clapped them together.

BOOOM!

An ear splitting explosion rocked the field.

”Bei Feng, has your student gone mad! If you kill my student, I will petition the principal.” Elder Yuan hollered. His eyes were worriedly staring at the field. His new treasure was down there ah! The next hope of their academic department can not be ruined by these no-brain muscle heads.

”Relax. My student is just having a friendly initiation spar with our new student.” The combat elder didn't hesitate to inject his claim over the girl. He was all smiles. She was definitely the next Leo hahaha!

The two old men, one fuming, and one smiling a cheshire grin turned back to the field.

Dust and sand from the floor permeated the air.

Cough. Hana straighten up, clutching her bruised arm. The explosion had pushed her back several yards. She was merely shocked, but her ears hurt more than her body.

”So it was your gloves.” Hana murmured as she rubbed her ears. ”They are quite an ingenious invention. You must have calibrated the formula specifically.”

Zhu Xing scratched his head. ”Was it that obvious?”

Hana smiled. ”You evidently have fire abilities, a fact that you drew attention to at the start of the battle. While it may distract an opponent from other applications of you ability, the minute you revealed your enhanced agility, I already had suspicions.”

Glancing at his gloves, Hana explained, ”Fire, naturally, has no propulsive power. However, the boost in your speed is caused by concentrated propulsions through you hands. I assumed that you controlled the flame intensity over your palm to manipulate the resulting thrust power. Therefore, you gloves serve as some sort of mechanism that feeds the fire, the fuel source.”

She tapped her nose. ”From the scents of the air, it seems to be a compound that includes hydrogen peroxide, diluted hydrazine, and a modified form of experimental dipolymiricide that was recently extracted from the Hellgate dungeon. It must have caused you quite some trouble for the last ingredient. I heard the extraction procedure is rather . . . volatile. Still, I suppose it does take talent to combine two conflicting reagents like this.”

Zhu Xing gaped. She was a freakish monster! She deduced the key ingredients from just the smell! What the hell! The highly secretive formula his partner painstakingly cultivated for two years was exposed by scent. The universe is unfair ah!

He glanced sadly at his gloves. Should he rethink his so - called trump cards then?

However, two enthusiastic yells interrupted. ”Excellent! Marvelous!”