Infinite Star - Chapter 33

Both contestants entered the arena. The audience was excited about the final fight, after their waiting, they now wanted to see a breathtaking fight.

The audience favored Zayn over Flint. He was the dark horse of the tournament and hadn’t a strong backing, like Flint, which cleaned up every mess he made. Zayn’s background was comparable to nearly every student’s background in the audience. They could substitute themselves, better in Zayn shoes than in Flint’s. Zayn gave them hope that they didn’t need a strong family behind them to achieve greatness.

Flint still had many loyal companions cheering for him, but they only acted out of their own selfish intention. They hoped for riches, fame, and power after becoming a loyal companion to Flint. Even if Flint straight out lost against Zayn, he still had his family backing him.

But the one thing, which everyone agreed with, was that Zayn had his raging momentum with him. He won fight after fight against far stronger opponents. And this momentum pressured Flint, that’s at least what they thought.

Flint was constantly sweating after he came out of his one hour break. He started to turn redder and redder. He even didn’t look up once. His head was gazing only at the floor.

Zayn also thought that Flint was scared after their last encounter and didn’t want to fight.

When Teacher Leaf announced that the fight started, Flint’s head straight up shot upwards. He stared Zayn down.

“RAWR!!!” An animalistic scream came from Flint out, as he charged at Zayn.

“Rawr?…” Zayn was only confused by Flint’s scream.

Flint came closer and closer to Zayn.

‘He’s faster! Infinite Star was right! His uncle must have done something to him.”

Zayn dodged, the oncoming charge, to the side and instantly launched a punch at Flint. But what he didn’t expect was that Flint would similarly launch an attack at him, without even letting pass a second after his charge.

What was more confusing was that Flint’s attack wasn’t a kick or a punch, it was a bite.

‘The hell?!? A rawr at the beginning and now a bite? Did he turn stupid???’

Zayn urgently retracted his attack and dodged the attack again. Flint again, without letting pass a breath, send off another attack. This time it was a kick, but his execution of the kick was off this time. His hands were placed on the floor, and he kicked back at Zayn.

*BOOM*

Zayn was able to muster a block but was still hit by the kick. He was pushed a bit back, but nothing major.

The audience was bewildered by Flint’s strength increase and his fighting style. Flint’s Uncle explained that Flint wasn’t able to muster his whole strength in the fight, so Flint’s strength increase was processable, but what about his fighting style? What was the explanation for that?

“You pathetic liar! There was nothing wrong with Flint’s strength! You only needed the time to feed him Blood Qi from a vicious beast.” The principal recognized this kind of strength increase and retaliated at Flint’s Uncle.

“Is that against the rules?” A smirk and mischievous smile was seen on Flint’s Uncle.

“Rules? Are you still sane? Do you know about the consequences of using Blood Qi???”

“Yeah, yeah… You only want to scare me! But I’m not easily deceived. You need to try harder. Flint’s grandpa reassured me that it wasn’t dangerous!”

“… He reassured you that it was safe? I don’t believe that crap!”

“Yeah and I don’t believe your crap!”

Flint’s uncle and the principal were engaged in a heated conversation.

Zayn, on the other hand, didn’t know anything about Blood Qi, similar to the majority of the audience.

“Kid, Blood Qi is the Qi, which is engraved on a beast’s blood. Not all beasts posses Blood Qi. Only those beasts with an ancient bloodline. No matter how faint the ancient bloodline is. It’s true that it’s dangerous to consume Blood Qi, but there exist methods in which one can safely consume it. There are many methods for it, and the most common is refining it to a pill. The higher the amount of ancient bloodline is, and the more powerful that bloodline is, the stronger the Blood Qi will get. In that boy’s case, he probably consumed Blood Qi of the lowest kinds, or else he would have immediately imploded after consuming it without any method. Still, there should be many backlashes to his consumption, even though it’s one of the lowest kinds. Ouh and be careful his strength will only keep rising.”

“All right!”

After hearing Infinite Star’s explanation, the situation became clearer to Zayn. And following that a broad smile appeared on Zayn.

The audiences were confused by Zayn’s reaction. From what they have heard, from Flint’s Uncle and the principal’s conversation, Flint took something dangerous and used it to get stronger and stronger. Why would Zayn smile after that?

For Zayn Flint’s consumption of the Blood Qi was only something advantageous to him. He could use Flint’s strength grow to stimulate his own and finally reach his limits. According to Infinite Star, his current strength was at the 7-Star Body Refinement Realm, slightly higher than that. But the Infinite Star told him that his limit would be in the 8-Star Body Refinement Realm, he was still lacking battle experience to be able to utilize his full strength.

And also the fact that Flint would receive backlashes, because of his consumption, made him joyful.

“I don’t care what you say. I’m still the principal here! Stop the fight!”

After their conversation continued to heat up, the principal had enough. He knew he had to end the fight, or else Zayn would get injured. Flint was now a lost cause. There was nothing the principal could do after Flint’s consumption.

Zayn and Flint’s fight proceeded, with no one clearly having the lead in the fight, when the principal wanted to stop the fight.

Zayn knew he had to prevent the fight’s cancelation. His 200 Qi Pills and, more importantly, his quest were on the line here.

“Principal! Please don’t stop the fight! Trust me!” Zayn shouted at the principal, while he was still fighting against Flint.

Their fight continued, blow by blow, while the principal contemplated Zayn’s plead.

He was constantly getting surprised by Zayn’s performance, so he trusted his judgment. But the fight was still dangerous.

“All right, Zayn! I won’t stop the fight!” The principal called out. He only agreed, because of his plan to rescue Zayn at any sign of grave danger.

“Now, Flint, after everything is cleared up now. What do you say, if we fight for real now?”

“RAWR!!!”

“… Oh right, I forgot about that part… I think that was a yes..”

Zayn immediately charged at Flint, only increasing his speed through the charge. He adjusted every movement he made while he was going at Flint.

The break wasn’t only used solely by Flint. Zayn also had an hour break. After his initial cultivation with his Qi Pills, he began to analyze all his movements and attacks in the previous fights. With the help of Infinite Star’s guidance, he made huge improvements. After the analyzation, he started to learn something new. The thing that made Zayn confident about the fight, no matter what happened. His secret weapon.

As he was going at Flint, Flint also reacted and charged at him. Flint’s charge also only increased in speed throughout. His Blood Qi was turning him redder and redder.

*BAM*

Both charged at each other and created a huge smokescreen. The audience patiently waited which of them had the upper hand in this charge. Only to see Flint flying out of the smokescreen, heavily landing on the border of the arena.

As the smokescreen dissipated, the audience saw Zayn firmly standing there, only being pushed back a few meters. But this time Zayn received an injury. His right arm, with which he was attacking, was bleeding. The blood engulfed his whole arm.

“FLINT! STAND BACK UP! YOU CAN’T LOSE!” Flint’s Uncle screamed at Flint, as Flint started slowly getting up.

Only one thought crossed Flint’s Uncle mind, after this exchange.

‘HOW THE HELL IS HE ABLE TO KEEP UP! HE’S A MONSTER! A MONSTER!