Chapter 50: Facade

"You are quite the tenacious one aren't you?" He hadn't walked three steps when a familiar and tender voice spoke out.

David's body froze visibly, suddenly, he felt his heart skip a beat without him intending it. Strange lights flickered in his eyes. He was thinking at an incredible speed.

He turned around slowly and looked towards the voice. His expression calm.

His eyes couldn't help but twitch by what he saw.

Janeane stood up unsteadily from the floor. Her current situation was quite pitiable as blood flowed down her lips.

Her hair was in disarray, the slight make up she had on her was messed up as dust and sand had settled on her face.

Her expression right now was ugly, borderline sinister.

Most importantly, her shirt had been blasted into oblivion by David but, to David's surprise, she wasn't naked as he expected. No, quite the opposite!

Her innervest was unharmed!

David could see a slight silvery metallic substance fading back inside her body. He could guess a few things and came to a conclusion that it was what had protected her from the power of the Three Fold Technique. If not, she would have at least ended up with a sunken stratum and a row of broken bones.

David's heart uncontrollably clenched in apprehension.

"Oh? I won't fall before you do. You seem quite alright to me. So, you should be able to handle another round." David's expression was nonchalant as he made a motion for them to continue their combat.

He rotated his blood to their limits! His heart beat wildly! like the roar an alternator! Blood surged, like a river as his physical body was strengthened to its limits. His muscles had bulged by quite a bit as he appeared a taller by a few centimeters!

40 Cycle per minute! The winds seemed to be stirred up by the pressure !

His current expression was quite savage as he hated hatefully at her! She was the first person he had ever suffered a loss from. His hate towards her was growing by the second.

Janeane was so angry that she smiled sinisterly when she heard him. But as if she had remembered something, her gaze flickered with a strange light as she glared at him with hatred. It was likely he was angering her on purpose, making her intent on attacking him.

She was currently weak and although her physical strength without blood revolution was nothing to scoff at, judging by the pressure he was exuding, their powers were almost quite at the same level.

If she forcefully rouse her blood velocity, she would definitely injure her internal organs which would in turn lead to at least two months of recuperation.

She had assumed he was also the same, but from his stance, he was either putting on a facade or he was for real

She hesitated, she had been tricked once and she wasn't willing to be tricked for the second time.

She stared intently at him, wanting to figure him out. In the end, she gave an hateful glare that was enough to chill any heart down his way.

"Bastard! I will take that position from you by any means, you just wait and see!" Stomping her foot in anger, she turned away and with a few leaps, she had vanished from sight.

Exactly four seconds later, Cough! Cough!!

David's body crumbled to the floor as he coughed out a mouthful of blood. He was incredibly weakened. He was just putting up a ahow, hoping to to scare her off, his internal organs were almost severely injured. Singlet of tears had appeared in several positions in his veins and blood vessels, they were on the verge of rupturing.

But it wasn't worth mentioning as he could just recuperate in the Energy Room for a few hours, he would be fine again.

He was exceedingly lucky that she had chosen to leave when she had. If not, he would be no different than a chicken in a slaughter house.

He suddenly smiled 'That was a good fight. It was worth it.' he had been hoping to spar with someone to see how strong he had become. Unexpectedly, he was given the chance to compare.

Wiping off the blood in mouth, he limply left the place, the crowds of students and the onlooking workers.

"Congrats on winning your first Forced Duel. Your account will temporarily be protected from any Forced Duel for a week. Afterwhich, the protection would expire. Good luck!" The cybernetic voice faded into thin air.

"What?" stunned, as he wasn't aware it was a Forced Duel.

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He was really tired as he walked through the familiar hallway that lead to the Energy room.

Walking into the large door,

"Eh? It's you!" "Uhn? It's you."

Two voice rang out simultaneously as David glance at the figure behind the counter, directly opposite the expensive chair and desk he had seen the old man sitting on previously.

David's voice was quite casual and weak while the other voice rang out in an accused tone.

It was the blond guy David had an argument with the last time he was in the Energy Room.

And it appears that the other party also recognized him and also held a bit of a grudge against him.

John stared at the rude junior before him with slight annoyance, apparent in his tone.

"Why are you here?" increasingly annoyed, John spoke first.

"To make use of the Energy Room, obviously." He rolled his eyes at the stupid question.

Ignoring him Davis made his way toward the pod that looked Ike a coffin.

The piece of machine looked like the gaming capsules he had read from the fantasy like web novels in his dream. No, not his dream, it was his previous life.

It was a Cryogenic Pod. It's main purposes was to freeze the human's bodily activity. The body freezes, the heart slows down by a lot, the brain cells would also be slightly frozen.

The reason for that is because - for one to enters an energy tank, one would need to be in deep sleep which could only be induced by the Cryogenic pod. In the deep sleep state, one's body would temporary forget to breathe. After a few moments of deep sleep, a mechanism in the Cryogenic Pod would be activated, transporting one's body directly into the Energy Tank.

The fluid in the energy tank contains different kinds of elements. In which it includes oxygen, a massive amount of energy, mercury, protein, carbohydrates etc.

The oxygen element contained in the fluid was to provide the brain and body oxygen. The mercury is to aid the fluid in penetrating the body more easily. The massive amount of energy was to help strengthen, heal and enhance the body. The element containes the crushed Genetic Nucleus of the Rapidly Evolved Beings mixed with special vials and concoction.

The body was the main deciding factor in such cases. As it would readily absorb the fluid since it was beneficial to the body.

There are levels to energy tanks, on a normal circumstances, the first is the Black Grade Energy Tank.

Which was especially meant for those who started just started on their own path to power.