Chapter 36 - Who pushed me?

Soon, a large crowd gathered—although it was practice time for class eight, their use was occupied by the figure ahead. This also concerned the honor and dignity of the class, so how could they not come?

In addition to class eight, people from other classes came running to watch, as no one wanted to miss out on a fight as consequential as this. After hearing the reason for the match, the students from other classes went into a deep discussion.

“Class eight sure has the stupidest people. How could he possibly be an opponent for one of the top classes?”

“Really, I can’t stand the arrogance of the top classes.”

“I can’t endure it either. Maybe I’ll even have a chance to challenge them… if I want to be humiliated.”

“Well, not our problem. Guess class eight will learn to keep their heads low; protesting will only bring problems.”

Standing in the middle of the field, Ray extended his thumb upwards towards Tom. “I admire your courage; however, you must be quite dumb.”

With that, his thumb turned downward in an insulting gesture.

Already angered, Tom burst forth with his energy, and with a roar, sent out a tearing ball that flew directly at Ray.

“Tsk, tsk.” Ray waved his hands in an admonishing gesture. “4th grade intermediate? Please, this is why you’re all trash. Let me show you the difference between the strong and the weak. I’ll even handicap myself and put you down as a 4th grade intermediate!”

As he spoke, energy formed in his hands and met the ball of energy in the air.

Pop!

With access to expensive elixirs and private tutors, Ray’s energy level was not just higher; his mastery of the techniques was much superior. His energy ball tore through Tom’s but dissipated. The same skills were used on both sides, but the difference was apparent. The large energy ball that Tom had sent out was casually tossed aside by Ray.

Although Ray had lowered himself to a 4th grade intermediate, his abilities were simply better, and everyone could see it.

All of class eight watched grimly in silence; they didn’t want to see the results.

If Tom had been defeated with Ray using his full power, this battle wouldn’t have been that bad. After all, that would be expected. But being defeated while at the same level left class eight with no excuses. With this, the reputation of class eight in a place where strength determined standings would go rock bottom.

Seeing his own skills beat Tom, Ray started to gloat. “Ah, this is too boring. I can’t even consider this a warm-up. Can you at least give me a little bit more fun?”

Tom didn’t bother to reply. Instead, he raised his hands and jerked them forward—a large mass of energy was ready to launch.

2nd grade yellow skill – Energy Crush!

Lazily, Ray sent two Energy Balls flying, but they didn’t manage to break through it. The students of class eight lit up with hope.

Though Tom’s skills were inferior to Ray’s, a 2nd grade skill was sure to overpower a 1st grade skill easily. And true to their thoughts, the Energy Crush didn’t break, nearly half still hurtling towards Ray, as Ray dashed to the side. Tom followed him, knowing that Ray was unable to get rid of the Energy Crush head-on. This was the time to press the advantage and give chase—he could even win. At least, that was his reasoning.

“Ah, Energy Crush. I didn’t expect that.” Ray came to a slight pause. “But pressing the advantage to bring me down? Big guy, you really are stupid.”

Ray bent his knees and threw himself towards the approaching mass. A spiral of energy coursed around his leg, and like a descending drill, broke through the bomb of energy.

4th grade yellow skill – Energy Press!

In moments, Ray appeared in front of Tom. Panicking, Tom tried to materialize an Energy Ball. Two kicks flew out, and Tom’s hands fell to his sides as Ray’s fists struck his chest.

With a dull thump, Tom’s body flew up and collapsed outside the arena.

The victor was clear.

Tom never stood a chance from the start; it was quite obvious that Ray was toying with him, just using him as a practice dummy to display his skills. Ray slowly walked to the struggling figure and put a foot down on his chest. “Oh, poor guy. Next time, think with your brain and learn where you belong.”

Trying to get up, Tom placed his foot and hand against the ground, but it was in vain. He had used all his energy with Energy Crush and the three materialized Energy Balls.

Turning around, Ray waved to the audience. “Hey, you rubbish classes. If you’re not convinced that the bottom is where you belong, you can challenge me—I don’t mind. After all, it’s just throwing away the trash!”

Silent, furious stares faced Ray’s direction. All of class eight felt hate towards this conceited student, but Tom was the strongest of class eight as a 4th grade intermediate with the ability to use Energy Crush. No one from the other classes bothered to stand up to him either; they were either top-class students or regular students at a 5th grade intermediate level.

Spitting out blood, Tom started to clench his fists, his eyes boiling with anger. This was his problem that he had started, so with a sense of responsibility, Tom felt he had to fight on.

At this moment, a person stumbled forward.

In this tense moment, he instantly became the focus of all eyes. Everyone couldn’t help but be shocked when they recognized the figure.

Fang?

While there were many students in class eight, everyone remembered this guy because yesterday, as the last person on the class list, he displayed energy equal to a 2nd grade intermediate.

None of his classmates showed any discrimination towards this weak guy, but no one had thought that the person to stand up at this time would be Fang.

Fang’s face looked confused as well. He was certain that he hadn’t chosen to move forward.

Who pushed me?

Looking back, he saw Blue wink at him.

Fang felt a little dizzy. It was definitely his roommate, no doubt.

It was probably because the last time Blue saw him fight, Fang had defeated Garret at the training camp. So naturally, Blue must have thought he could win against Ray.

Though, Blue, you should ask for my opinion before doing something like this…