Infinite Star - Chapter 27

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*Cough* ‘So, this is how a powerful attack feels like?’ *Cough*

Zayn laid on the floor of the arena, he landed there after his blow exchange with Kayn.

“You are fun…” Kayn’s hoarse and lifeless ringed in Zayn’s ear.

“What???” Zayn slowly stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes.

“You need to get stronger…”

“…” Zayn was confused by his conversation with Kayn. What the hell was he talking about?

“Let’s have fun…”

Zayn looked helplessly around the arena, but he also was only looked at with confused gazes. He didn’t know how to handle such a weird person. Everything he talked about was random and completely non-sense.

After standing up and brushing off the dust, he checked his body for any injuries or anything like that. He didn’t feel anything grave only a bit of pain in some areas. His body sure was tough.

‘I need to get stronger. At least this exchange showed me my weakness.’

The audience was startled about Zayn. Following such a strong attack on his body and being sent flying away a few meters, he just straight up stood up after a few seconds. His body was unbelievable. What kind of training did he absolve to attain this kind of toughness?

Vown was the only one who knew of Zayn’s unimaginable strength, but he didn’t know about his body’s toughness. This left him also astonished, but, after Zayn’s countless feats it wasn’t a big shocker for him.

Although Zayn was laying on the floor for a few seconds and then stood up, Kayn didn’t abuse this time frame. He was merely standing on his previous position, not even moved by a bit.

Analyzing his errors in his previous attacks, Zayn again charged at Kayn.

Many people thought that Zayn was tired of living. He just again charged at Kayn. In their eyes, the first attack should have taught Zayn about their gap. Fighting wasn’t meaningful anymore. The gap between 3-Star was just too big to bridge.

“You are weak… You need to get stronger…”

This time Zayn’s advance was dodged by Kayn. The movement was like in his previous fight, lazy. Zayn directly reacted and again attacked after his failure. This went on for a few a breaths with blow after blow getting dodged, then Zayn jumped back and created some distance between himself and Kayn.

He began to contemplate about his movement while tracking Kayn and any movement of him. But Kayn was again just standing there and doing nothing. He was waiting for Zayn.

Zayn began to think about his movements and instantly tried to apply his theories. He was attacking, then taking a pause for a few breaths, analyzing his movements and Kayn’s movements, and then attacking again.

Blow after blow, analyze after analyze.

Zayn knew that he wouldn’t have much time to always analyze his movements in a fight, so he only took a few breaths of time for the analyzing. He estimated that his opponent would use this time to attack, but who knew that Kayn wasn’t interested in that.

Zayn again attacked Kayn, and it was again dodged by him. But this time Kayn had to put in real movements, which didn’t harbor laziness in it.

“You are getting stronger…”

Zayn was getting annoyed by Kayn’s random jibberish. He didn’t understand at all what Kayn was aiming at in this round.

“Are you always talking that much or is it just for me?”

Kayn only blankly stared at Zayn. He didn’t answer him and again just stood there. His empty eyes were drilling deep into Zayn. It was an uncomfortable feeling.

“Come on! Don’t be like, talk to me. It’s not like you had a problem with it.”

“Let’s have fun…”

Because of frustration, Zayn again charged him. “Do you mean like that?!?”

It was again dodged. “No, not like that… You need to be stronger… Far stronger…”

“It seemed fun what you did… I also tried it… It didn’t work… I thought it was because of me at first… Then I thought it was because of my opponent… I got angry… But, now, I know for sure…”

Zayn, not listening at all again attacked Kayn.

“You are the reason… You are the key to do that…”

Kayn, using his footwork, dodged Zayn’s futile attack. After his fast dodged, he instantly attacked Zayn.

The punch wasn’t expected by Zayn, but through his fast reactions and his whole analysis, during the fight, he could muster a block in front of his chest in the last few seconds.

*BOOM*

Zayn flew off a few meters but safely landed on his feet.

‘That was close… I can’t go in there not expecting a counter from him… I was naive.’

“You are the key for having fun… You are fun…”

Again his jibberish was ignored by Zayn. Zayn somewhat understood that his opponent was having fun with him, even toying with him. That wasn’t a great feeling to have. It only meant one thing for Zayn. He was weak! Too weak.

“Do you have fun? I know how we can have far more fun than right now. You interested?”

“More fun… How?”

“It’s simple. You only need to give me a minute. After the minute is up, we can fight on a whole new level. All right?”

“… A minute… No second longer…”

The conversation was heard by everyone in the audience. They were left startled about Zayn’s proposal. Zayn was speaking confidently about his proposal, but what could a minute do for Zayn. What was he aiming with that?

Vown understood completely. He was excited to see what Zayn could do after the minute was up. The fight was now getting exciting for him.

Ryu also knew about Zayn’s unimaginable intelligence and his monster-like battle talent, so he had a few theories about the minute.

The round had proceeded pretty fast, with the whole fight only going on for two minutes. This meant that after the minute was up they only had seven minutes remaining for the fight, this should normally be enough time for a fight between two Body Refinement Realm Cultivators, but Zayn’s fights were always dragged till the end.

Zayn sat down cross-legged on the arena floor and closed his eyes. This action resembled a cultivator starting to cultivate. Therefore the audience theorized that Zayn was attempting to break through. Similar to what Flint did in a previous round. Everyone started to root for Zayn’s breakthrough. If he was able to enter the 4-Star Body Refinement Realm, he would be able to bridge the gap between his cultivation and Kayn’s 6-Star Body Refinement Realm.

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“Time’s up…”

A minute easily flew by. The crowd was somewhat left impatient to Zayn’s breakthrough. They didn’t notice any qi around him, so he didn’t even start to attempt the breakthrough. What was he doing? Getting his emotions in place for his breakthrough?

Kayn slowly walked up towards Zayn.

The crowd knew Kayn was going for an attack. They started to hysterically scream, trying to warn Zayn, as he still was sitting there cross-legged.

“IDOL!!! WAKE UP!!! YOUR FACE CAN’T GET RUINED!!!”

“Junior student! You have to wake up. A warrior of the light has to-”

“Shut the fuck up! With your non-sense about this warrior. You have to believe in sensei, he knows what he is doing!”

“Sensei?”

“Yes, got a problem with that?!? I am his disciple… Well, not exactly, but… it’s in progress.”

Kayn was now standing in front of Zayn.

“The minute is over… You promised me more fun…”

Zayn’s eyes were still closed, unaffected by everything around him.

Kayn didn’t care anymore. He promised a minute and he delivered a minute.

“It’s not fun anymore…”

And immediately after the words could be heard he swung a kick towards Zayn face.

Right at that time, Zayn’s eyes sprung open. He noticed the incoming kick but didn’t get worried about it.

He only placed his arm right in between the kick and his face.

*BOOM*

The kick landed on Zayn’s arm. The arm was so steady and firm that it didn’t even move an inch. Kayn’s kick was blocked by the iron-like arm of Zayn.

A mischievous smile appeared on Zayn’s face

“I promised you more fun. And I will deliver it!”