Leaving the meditation state, Leon opened his eyes to reality, not knowing how much time had passed.

Getting up from the ground, "System, how much time is left until the next wave?" Leon asked.

[REMAINING TIME <3> MINUTES]

"Good. System, open my status," Leon commanded to know how much of his MP and HP have recovered.

[HP: 1034↑/1050]

[MP: 670↑/960]

After checking his reserves, as there was nothing to do, Leon started silently waiting for the next wave to start. Before falling into his dreamworld, the notification sounds woke him up to remind him he has a wave to complete.

[THIRD WAVE IS STARTING WITHIN 3 SECONDS]

[<3>]

[<2>]

[<1>]

[!<0>!]

"It seems my time to shine has come," Leon declared while the light started its regular job to create Leon's enemy.

The light trembled while focusing on all of its brightness, forming an enemy directly opposite of Leon.

"What is the meaning of defining this as a wave if I fight with just one enemy?" Leon asked himself.

The light had faded away after finishing its creation within seconds before revealing Leon's foe.

What emerged from the creation was a slender figure that was wearing a plain cloth which revealed his muscles behind it. There was neither no armor nor a thing to protect him from anything sharp. Yet, his skin was shining like an armor itself.

His slant eyes were revealing his Asian origin, but since all the enemies that emerge in the trials are from different places and cultures, it's impossible to know where he exactly is from. Revealing his sharp blue eyes, his long hair was gathered in a bun behind him so that they wouldn't block his view during the fight.

But the most notable thing, even though he had a non-threatening looking figure, his aura said the opposite. He had no weapon on him. At least Leon couldn't see one on him. He had just his clothes and his body to fight in this battle.

"Analyze."

[Yinhaipai (Hidden Sea Sect) Disciple Lv.22]

[Name: Tao Boqin The Silent Storm]

[Race: Human]

[STR: 155]

[AGI: 157]

[VIT: 120]

[INT: 0]

[IN: 170]

'What is this absurd amount of Qi? Is this even fair?' Leon complained while looking at his stats.

As crying and complaining about fairness won't help him, Leon started walking towards his foe.

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"How admirable! Coming here with no weapon nor with protection, you truly believe in yourself, I guess." Leon complemented while getting closer to his foe with each step.

Starting running before unsheathing the Torchlight, "But, only one will have the victory!" Leon stated the facts.

Drawing up his sword, Leon sends a vertical slash. His sword lowered as the time grew on. Unfortunately, the man seems to expect this attack as he just raises his right hand, catches the Torchlight's blade with between of his two fingers, stops its momentum amid of its move before the blade touches to his body.

Not losing even a second, raising his right leg quickly, the man sends a powerful axe kick that aims at Leon's lower chin.

*Bam!*

*Crack!*

[-200 HP] [HP: 834/1050]

As the power behind the kick shakes Leon's brain while breaking his jaw upon its impact, unintentionally letting the Torchlight slip away from his hand, Leon finds himself in the air for a second before falling onto the ground back.

Getting back to himself with an immense headache, plus feeling his broken jaw's pain, Leon finds himself on the ground before trying to stand up again.

"Fuwk, my jav," Leon breathed in pain.

Seeing a kick that was coming to him with the intention of crushing his skull, Leon instinctively rolled on the ground to dodge it before a foot shook the ground with its impact where his head was located a second ago.

[-120 MP] [MP: 550/960]

After dodging it, to gain time, "Go wo vell! Fivewall!" Leon said with his broken jaw before a fireball bursted out from the magic circle.

Before the fireball hit him, the man used some kind of technique that covered his palm with Qi to fend off the damage of the fireball like it was just a fly.

Of course, Leon knew that a simple fireball wasn't enough to end this monster. The real reason was for gaining time to reach his weapon.

And fortunately, he succeeded with this simple plan.

Getting back his sword on the ground, "Wou will bay fohr dis!" Leon hissed in anger.

'Activate [SPRINT], activate [FASTER REFLEXES], activate [VENOMOUS STRIKES]' Leon commanded in his mind.

[-170 MP] [MP: 380/960]

[ACTIVATED]

[VENOMOUS STRIKES: <2> MINUTES]

[SPRINT: <2> MINUTES]

[FASTER REFLEXES: <60> SECONDS]

As the world slowed down in his eyes, with every step, Leon enjoyed his newly gained speed that came from the buff of [SPRINT] skill.

[-100 Qi] [Qi: 860/960]

To gain more speed and strength, Leon even used his Qi.

With an incredible speed, Leon appeared in front of his foe in a second, sending an upper slash, started his attacks.

Unexpecting a power increase like this, the man tries to dash backwards to evade Leon's attack.

The Torchlight's blade missed the man by just opening a slight scar on his face. But it is enough for the [VENOMOUS STRIKES] to spread its poison through his body. To not give his enemy even a moment to rest, Leon dashes forward with him to continue his attacks.

Coming near again, this time, Leon makes a spinning horizontal slash while cutting the air and opening a deeper wound on the man's arm. While blood drips on the floor from the man's arm, not showing any mercy, and holding the Torchlight with his two hands, Leon makes a strong vertical slash.

As there was no time to dodge this attack, the man used the same technique when he used to fend off the fireball. Bending his knees a little and putting one hand behind his waist before covering his other hand's palm with Qi, he finally raised his arm to block this frantic attack by completing his stance.

That was the time a smile bloomed on Leon's messed face.

'Activate [RUTHLESS BLADE]' Leon commanded in his mind as his sword lowered as the time grew on.

[-350 MP] [MP: 30/960]

[ACTIVATED]

As the panel had appeared, the Torchlight's blade started abnormally glowing in red before it sent a powerful killing intent to everything around it.

When the man realized the danger, it was already too late for him.

*Slash!*

The technique could only resist for a few milliseconds against the Torchlight before it started cutting his arm into two like a paper, like there was nothing that resisted against it.

As an immense amount of blood started splashing onto the ground, the part from his elbow to his hand had been cut into half perfectly.

His pain was immeasurable, yet because of the system's control, he couldn't scream or talk.

But Leon didn't care about these things. He had just one job, and that is killing anything that he encounters in the trials.

*Swing!*

To finish him, Leon swung the Torchlight again, and with this, a headless body fell onto the ground.

"Huff!" Leon exhaled while releasing his tiredness in the form of vapor.

[WAVE-3 HAS BEEN COMPLETED]

[REMAINING TIME UNTIL THE NEXT WAVE: 30 Minutes]

Sitting on the ground to rest and to take care of his injuries, he took out a few HP potions from his inventory, hoping they could fix his broken jaw.

After looking at his MP bar, remembering he has 7 other waves to complete, "Fuwk! I spewt all ov my mavna," Leon spoke with his broken jaw.

-CHAPTER 33 END-