Utter disbelief, how is such a thing possible.
The power within his body right now is enough to fight toe to toe with a God, however the girl in front of him just shrugged his full powered attack like it was nothing.
Thinking that the girl must have reached her limits as well, he proceeded raining multiple full powered punches into the shield intending to crush it into smithereens.
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From the audience, Adam held up his hands and summoned a few small floating balls out of thin air.
He made some internal modifications to his drones ever since he last used it.
Ten small balls flew around the arena and settled on certain points and started emitting energy.
The energy started to envelope the shield covering the stage until it created another layer of barrier.
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With a final punch, he finally felt the energy within his body dissipating. His time has finally run out and with it his body started crumbling. The once magnificent fire and the benevolent manifestation of buddha on his body is not gone.
He finally realized the futility of this fight. The elders did warn him that his chances are very slim but it still needs to be done if they wish to survive.
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Saying that Beatriz was disappointed is truly an understatement.
Among all the girls, she believes that she is the only one who has not forgotten why Adam came to this world.
Adam wishes to test the mysterious powers that people in this world have. He wishes to know if it is possible to incorporate them into his forces and if it can be replicated by his technology.
She knew for a fact that there are a few hundred invisible drones observing the entire arena and all its occupants at the moment.
No matter how degrading for her to stoop so low as to dirty her own hands fighting, she would still do it since it is what Adam wishes to do.
She has purposely antagonized the brute to force it to show the most powerful technique in its disposal but the reading on her heads up display is showing very disappointing power levels.
She was initially happy when she realized that her opponent is the kind with a destruction skill. One which is geared for attack. It is something that they can study quite easily since they can read the power generation within his body.
But the power output of his final attack was something that their Frigates can easily do with their current technology, so this monk's power is not really going to make their fleet any stronger.
With this realization, she lost interest in the whole fight.
With a wave of her hand she disabled her shield.
The Brute is now kneeling on both knees. He's breathing is laboured and it's clear that he already needs his last breath. Half of his body has already turned to ash.
He was looking at her with unbelieving eyes.
She waved a hand and her shield finally blinked out.
She leisurely took a few steps and stood in front of him.
She reached out and touched his chest causing his body to completely crumble releasing him from his agony.
A few seconds later the Gong of the Arena sounded declaring her the winner.
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Astoria finally stood up and walked towards the stage.
She felt Adam squeeze her thighs as she passed by his seat and she could not help but break her serious look and gave him a smile. She gave Beatriz a nod when she passed her on the way.
She ignored the rest of the onlookers and headed towards the stage.
She waited for a few minutes for her opponent to get up the stage and heard the Gong sounded to start her match.
Her first impression when she saw her opponent walk up the stage was excitement.
The guy was definitely using advanced technology.
The guy is in a combat suit almost similar to what they saw the empire is using, but the head coming out of the suit is clearly not human.
It's quite obvious due to the fins on its head instead of human ears. Also since the guy is blue and its skin is full of translucent scales.
She clearly heard it when it said.
"Greetings! I am Master Sgt. Nimtuk Shayeh. of the United Star Ship (USS) Atlantis."
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Nimtuk watched in fascination as technologies not available in this world were being used by these people left and right.
He is an 8th generation marine and he inherited his father's rank when he retired.
Their ancestors arrived on this planet 700 years ago aboard the USS Atlantis.
Their ship is a science vessel created to explore unknown parts of the universe. During one routine mission, their ship was damaged while traveling through an unstable wormhole and ended up crashing into this planet.
It originally had 200 scientists, 30 marines and 10 bridge crews.
Their first attempts to integrate with the native inhabitants resulted in them losing almost half of their crews.
Due to the planet's inclination to magic, they have no way of repairing their ship to get back to their own world.
It was quite fortunate that their ship crash landed in one of the oceans in this world and at the deepest seabed at that. It gave them their own space in this world without the need to fight for it.
From their history lessons the original crew of the Atlantis are all humans as well. A few generations under the sea made their crew decide to take advantage of their environment and genetically altered their DNA to allow them better access to the sea.
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Being a science vessel, the sensors inside the USS Atlantis started blaring when Adam's Excalbur appeared beyond the moon orbit and they have been observing him ever since.
When they confirmed that Adam is going to accept the challenges from the other nation, they have sent their own challenge as well in the hopes that they will be able to talk to this new interstellar traveler as well.