CHAPTER 86: COMBAT TEST [4]

With short black hair, piercing red eyes, and a black outfit, he had a wide smile that screamed arrogance on his face.

But I couldn’t underestimate him. Since he entered the arena my sense of danger kept screaming all the time.

I didn’t know anything about him, but he knew almost everything about me. Fortunately, I kept a hidden card.

With his hands in his pocket, he suddenly spoke: "Don’t worry, I’ll end this quickly."

I raised an eyebrow at his statement then a soft chuckle escaped my mouth. "Haha, sure buddy. Just don’t surrender too."

No one of us spoke after that as we just watched the timer.

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My eyes widened suddenly. Maybe due to my sixth sense, I moved my head to the side.

*Eeeeee!*

My head started ringing and a sharp pain hit me as something passed beside my head.

It was a silver chain that ended with a blade. On the tip of the blade, something was hanging.

It was an ear, my fucking ear!

’FUCK!’

I jumped to the sky immediately, then black spikes erupted from the place I was standing on.

’Darkness? And what was that at the beginning?’

I suddenly felt something materializing in my back. Using a wind sphere, I launched myself far away dodging another chain that disappeared after missing me.

No...

’It isn’t another, that’s the same one!’

It was probably his soul-bound artifact or trait. He seemed to have the ability to summon it in any place!

I twisted my body in the middle of the air, this time not only dodging the chain but also a lightning snake! His casting speed was just too fast!

My eyes landed on him and saw his entire body covered in tungsten, stopping me from even trying to use my radiation.

’Darkness, lightning and maybe metal? Damn!’

Dodging the chain again, I launched 3 invisible wind cleaves at him. It was a significantly sharper, faster and wider evolution from wind slash.

The wind cleaves were aimed at his chest and neck, but suddenly, his smile vanished as he dashed to the side.

A wind cleave cut through his tungsten skin and severed his right arm completely while the other barely scratched the side of his stomach.

"Shit!" He cursed as a water barrier surrounded him, then a golden light covered his severed hand and began to heal him.

’5 affinities?!’

As I dodged the chain again, it didn’t disappear immediately, but gleamed with orange light suddenly then it shot a fire ball at me.

*BOOM!*

I teleported away instantly after the ball hit my head, breaking my mask for the second time today!

"Dogshit!"

With sharp focus, 2 eclipse arrows materialized in my hand, but at the same time, my sense of danger was warning me, but I didn’t care!

I drew and launched them one after the other at Limitless rapidly as his chain got close to me. Without enough time to dodge, I twisted my body slightly making it pierce only my shoulder. It began to glow again but I teleported away before it could do anything.

The first eclipse arrow pierced the water barrier and hit his shoulder. The second one was close to pierce his heart, but suddenly, my eyes widened as he teleported away.

’Space?! How?!’

*BOOM!*

A ball of stone hit me suddenly and shattered BlackHail before sending me crushing into the ground.

Standing up with shaking legs, I sent a barrage of wind cleaves and lightning spears at him.

Screw saving my aether!

A wall of metal appeared in front of him. It stopped all the lightning spears but some wind cleaves passed through it.

Suddenly, strange violet runes gleamed in his eyes, then my wind cleaves vanished before his eyes began to bleed aggressively.

Limitless shook his head and wiped the blood in his eyes. After opening his eyes, the first thing he saw was a gloved fist.

Covered in purple lightning, I punched his ugly metallic face with all my force!

*CRACK!*

A crack sound rang through the air as he flew away and hit the wall. At the same time, the sharp chain pierced my leg.

Limitless tried to stand up, but I teleported and stood in front of him. Then I used my gravity to force my pierced leg to hold the ground firmly and kick his face with my good one.

*Crack!*

"Argh..." He groaned in pain, then a heavy weight began to press on my body.

Instantly, I used my gravity to make an equal force in the opposite direction, making the weight disappear.

I smirked at him. "Trying to use gravity against me?"

He teleported away, but with my spatial awareness I spotted his location.

Using my space affinity, I punched the thin air, then the force behind the punch ignored the space between us and broke Limitless’s jaw.

My power kept increasing as my mask devoured his fear, and surprisingly, he didn’t teleport again!

’Did he drain all his mana?’

Using gravity, I pulled him toward me and dodged the chain again. He rolled on the ground for a moment then stopped before me.

With a missing arm, maybe mental exhaustion and a swollen face, he looked at me with despair.

He suddenly let out a sigh. "Just do it... fucking cockroach!"

"Cockroach? Look at yourself motherfucker!" I shouted as I punched his chest, ignoring the pain from his metallic skin.

"I hope to meet you again in the next ranking test." I smirked at him with bloody teeth before launching another wind cleave.

Before it could cut him in half, he was teleported out of the arena.

*Thud!*

I lay on the ground for the second time as I waited for the healing potion.

I didn’t need to look at the screen. I only had to fight another monster before leaving this place.

Ignoring the colorful ribbons, My thoughts drifted to Limitless.

There was no way that he had all those affinities, so maybe he had a trait to mimic other affinities? But then why didn’t he mimic something like an eclipse spell?

And what was that thing in his eyes? It literally dismantled my spells!

I shook my head and focused on the potions that materialized before me.

I drank them immediately, returning to my peak condition, then stored the empty bottles in my storage and jumped into the air before making an invisible barrier around me.

’I’m not falling for that again!’

I looked ahead without blinking while holding BlackHail and focusing on all my senses including my spatial awareness.

And as expected, the monster of the last fight appeared.

It was....