AN: sorry guys, been swarmed with requirements lately, we have tests next week. Just recieved my student progress report... and i had tons of "D"s so... yea. i've been having headaches these past few days so sorry if this chap isn't that much to your liking. I apologize for any screw-ups within this chapter... well onto the chapter

“You’re on!”

Kimura spoke as he dashed over to Theo. Gripping his wooden sword which came from who-knows-where. Seeing the wooden sword, Theo reluctantly discarded the other one he took for Kimura.

Standing on each side of the platform, Theo readied his battle stance, same with Kimura, but Kimura still had no battle experience whatsoever. Because of this, Theo can easily spot many errors regarding Kimura’s stance.

Around these two competitors were the classmates, each of them, having discussions of their own.

“Are they really going to do this?”

“Well then, Good luck… GUINEA PIG”

“Wanna bet on who wins this little spar of theirs?”

Theo ignored them as he spoke with a hint of arrogance hidden within his tone. “Are you ready?”

Sweating a bit, Kimura nodded. As soon as Kimura looked in front of him, Theo was there… just a few more metres in front of him. Theo’s wooden sword suddenly flashed as Kimura sensed a feeling of danger.

Instinctively, Kimura slashed down with his wooden sword, meeting with Theo’s sword. Just then, Kimura felt a strange energy being drained from him.

‘Strange’ he thought

*CRACK*

A loud cracking noise resounded as every onlooker held their breath, staring at the platform. Their eyes, as wide as can be.

Kimura had actually snapped Theo’s wooden sword in half!

Just now, when Theo neared him. Kimura had actually utilized mana and hardened the woodened sword. Naturally his control over mana wasn’t as strong, thus, being unable to sharpen the wooden sword’s edge.

Theo was shocked as well. Even though they had been here for almost a week now, none of these kids should have any knowledge how to manipulate mana at all.

‘Interesting’ he thought, ‘even though I only used less than 1% of my power, that much should at least be enough to kill a normal human’ with this, Kimura should be able to withstand 5% right?

Using Creation magic, Theo had made two more wooden swords, during his free time, Theo had been studying the Creation magic his father imparted to him, and right now, his mastery over the technique would be 80%.

Naturally these two wooden swords were more durable, probably even harder than iron swords.

Theo threw the wooden sword towards kimura as he brandished his sword once more. Kimura as well, caught the sword. Yet as soon as he gripped it, the sword felt heavier, much more durable and it was as if the sword’s grip was tailor made for his hand… and he wasn’t wrong, Theo made this one for Kimura.

Once again, Theo dashed towards Kimura. Slashing downwards, Theo used 5% of his strength. Kimura once more met his blade, yet this time, Theo’s blade was much heavier. Slowly kimura’s arms were giving up on him.

Just as he was about to let Theo hit him, a sudden surge of power hit him, yet accompanying this power was a eerie voice. “Kill him.”

‘Who are you?’ Kimura said. The voice didn’t answer his question, but still kept speaking. “Boy, if you want to win, Embrace the darkness and kill him.” the voice faded as the surge of power stopped, slowly his head became dizzy has his eyes lost their light.

Truly he wanted to win. He wanted to prove that he just wasn’t a “guinea pig”. ‘I want power, I want to win, I want to be peerless under the heavens’ these were his last words as his eyes grew distant and lifeless.

Theo was once again startled. As soon as he found Kimura’s arm loosening, Kimura once again released a baleful aura. Aura so dense one could almost grab onto it.

Immediately, Theo grew more wary. Stepping back a few meters, Theo gazed at Kimura’s eyes. These eyes terrified him as he found them to be cold and lifeless and didn’t contain a hint of Kimura’s usual lively and bright eyes.

This time, Kimura was the one who charged towards Theo. Theo raised his sword as he fended off Kimura’s sword. Theo once again increased his power output to 50% as he noticed that this cold and distant Kimura had a huge boost in power.

Theo was knocked a few meters back and tried to regain his balance. Only after fixing himself has he noticed that Kimura was about to land another hit on him. Theo immediately raised his sword to block. Yet with this block, he noticed that kimura was once again becoming more powerful, activating mana sense, he noticed that kimura had actually Increased his bodily strength using mana.

Theo instantly raised his power output to max as his pupils instantly contracted, comparable to that of a needle’s head. Kimura once more dashed towards him, but this time much slower. Theo now had more confidence as he sprinted towards him and enhanced himself further with C.E.

Kimura, slashed with his sword, but was met with an extremely overbearing force. Retreating a few steps backwards, he noticed Theo was once more in front of him.

‘I have to end it here’ thought Theo as he thought he should probably question him about this later.

*BANG*

With one smack of Theo’s sword, Kimura was sent flying. Theo immediately ran over, finding kimura knocked unconscious, laying sprawled on the floor.

*sigh* lifting up Kimura, he brought him towards his room and waited.

“Today was quite exhilarating. I should rest for now, with the amount of force I put in that hit, he should be out for a couple of hours.”

And with that he fell asleep on his chair. Awakening to a space very familiar to him, along with an annoying carefree voice.

“Yo! It’s been a while!”

“We have got lots of things to talk about…” he clearly had to question him about this “only one of his kind” claim, where he had embarrassed himself in front of his own spirit

HEYYY... just proofread this chapter... at 6:00.... well,

Since im too lazy to make another thread for an announcement, i'll just put it here.

Thank you guys for reading this fiction. This story is nearly at it's end... (i think... i have no idea... previously the supposed length of this fic was 40 chapters. But who knows)