When Ethan released the huge flame ball, it affected everyone in the room except for Instructor Wu.
Wu Chen stood closest to the fighters, so he saw the attack first-hand.
However, even he can't pinpoint Kai's landing point.
The students, on the other hand, looked even more confused, so they didn't see anything.
They saw Kai extending his hands out to crush Ethan's neck, but the next moment, the bright light left them blind.
Furthermore, the loud sound that accompanied the light made a piercing noise in their ears.
"I hope he's alive." The referee furrowed his brows as he looked around the hall.
Wu Chen knew that he would be held responsible if anything happened to Kai, but that was the least of his worries because he feared the boulder family and the countless assassins that would be hunting him.
The students spectating the fight now stood on their feet. The entire hall had now become silent as a graveyard; the level of quiet reached a point where a pin drop would echo across the entire hall.
For a moment, they became startled, and it felt as though time stood still.
Ethan gazed around the hall. He looked stunned himself. He didn't expect that attack to be this powerful, but he knew it seemed possible after his training inside the VR world.
In his dazed state, a metal particle abruptly fell and resounded all over the hall.
The students focused their attention on the ceiling, and a large portion of it was missing, with a few cracks visible.
Ethan stared at the ceiling. Confusion crossed his face, and he muttered under his breath, "Did I—"
"Ethan, behind you!" Ethan heard a loud voice. He spun around, but two black fists greeted his face.
*BANG *BANG
Ethan saw stars for a moment as he flew upward. The continuous punches left him in mid-air.
Ethan's eyelid twitched, and he managed to open it.
"When did he? How? " Ethan thought after seeing Kai's black, burnt, and disfigured skin.
"Surprised?" He flashed a smile, showed his black teeth, and said, "You got me there for a moment, you know?"
"Please, can you stop smiling? You look more hideous," Ethan said in an exaggerated tone.
Kai's face darkened, his nose flared, and he grabbed Ethan by the leg, whacked him on the metal ring like a rag doll, and threw him.
Ethan rolled several times across the ring. He used his hands, elongated his claws, dug into the metal ring, penetrated like butter, and stopped.
Kai's large hands enabled him to clutch Ethan's legs with ease, and with his enhanced strength, he whacked Ethan from left to right.
Ethan used his hands to stagger back to his feet, but his legs wobbled, as though they would give out at any moment now.
Blood trickled down from his nose, formed a trail on his cheeks, and traveled down to his lips. Ethan used his hands to shield his face when Kai smashed him across the ring.
The blood finally siped into his mouth, and images of his brothers torturing him played over in his head, like a video in fast forward.
" I wouldn't allow this to repeat itself. I refuse to be weak. " Ethan clenched his fist, his elongated nails sank into his palm, and blood dropped to the ground like a raindrop.
[ FORCEFUL TRANSFORMATION WOULD BEGIN][CONFIRM YES/NO]
Ethan fixed his gaze on the large capital letters in front of him.
He raised his head and stared at Kai, who seemed to be having the best time of his life. "NO!" Ethan screamed, his gold eyes narrowed into predator slits, and he dashed at Kai.
"Hahaha!" Kai laughed madly after seeing Ethan's determined expression.
Anger, they say, makes you irrational, brainless, and stupid at times, but the same anger can awaken the titan in you.
"Wake up. This is real life, not a motivational movie. Do you think you would get a sort of emotional—"
Ethan dashed in a zigzag pattern, and when he got closer, he leaped up into the air. His hair fluttered in the air, and he raised his hands above his head and said aloud, "WITNESS THE MIGHT OF A DRAGON."
He pointed his hands outward, and a large tunnel of flame burst out.
The flame engulfed Kai, and his scream echoed.
" Arghhhhh! I'll pay you back, you jerk! " Kai's scream made the crack on the ceiling shatter into numerous pieces, and it rained on the students.
Heina's eyes widened with surprise, her chest heaved up and down, and she looked at her side. Helen stood there with a wide smile plastered across her face.
After some time, Ethan stopped the fire and revealed Kai's thoroughly burnt skin, and a smell of roasted flesh wafted through the hall.
Kai looked around the hall and noticed all the gazes on him. He slumped forward and fell. His vision blurred, and he heard Ethan's footsteps approaching.
Ethan kicked Kai, flipping him back to the front. "Are you still a demi-god?" Ethan said as he stared at Kai's black face.
Although Ethan won the fight, he still felt fear. If teenage pure blood could do this, what about adults?
Ethan knew he would definitely have multiple fallouts with the purebloods, and now he had officially trashed his first pure blood, although just a minor count.
Since the deed had been done, he raised his legs to finish the work, but a loud hand clap resounded.
"Ethan Hawk, that's enough." A woman in a black suit walked into the hall.
Ethan looked at the woman and raised an eyebrow. "And who are you?"
"That's not important. I would advise you to kindly place your leg back where it belongs. "
The hall became quiet as the students watched the exchange of words between Ethan and the strange woman.
"And if I don't"
"You would be erased from the face of the Earth."
Several gasps echoed inside the hall after the student heard what the strange woman said. But come to think of it, Kai is a member of the pure blood family, so it would be as easy as taking candy from a kid.
Ethan hated to be dared. He hated that more than his brothers. This reason made him suffer more torture at the hands of his brothers.
After a full long minute, Ethan looked at Kai, and the latter smirked, which made him more hideous, and he shifted his gaze to the woman who had a taunting smile on her face.
Ethan hung his legs in mid-air, seemed to be dropping them, and the next moment, he drilled them into Kai's face.
Several gasps echoed again, and the woman swiftly turned, like a robot, and walked towards the door.
She pulled out a transparent glass screen, which looked like a phone, and, after dialing a number, made a phone call.
"Hello?" She walked farther away from the door, and a feminine voice came from the other side.
(manhunt on the line). Who do you wish to eliminate?
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