'Why did he suddenly become this arrogant? he was not like this before.'
Sandra, who was getting ready to stand in fighting pose, could not help but to think of Alex's sudden change in behavior.
He loved teasing and all but he was never arrogant like this, He did not even hold her in his eyes, As if for him she was nothing but a nuisance than a challenge to deal with her.
How can he be like this? It's one to have confidence in their own technique and it's another to outright insult someone without holding them nor their power in one's eyes.
He didn't even know how powerful is she, What kinda technique she had learned nor did he know about what and how much experience she had and yet he was still looking down at her.
'No, I have show tough love to him now, If not he will get himself into trouble later.'
So Sandra decided to teach Alex that there is woman above woman, heaven beyond heaven.
The world he sees is just a fraction of it. She who walked on that dark path knows to what extent huwoman desire feeds the hunger of power struggle.
How come the foe who looked strong sometimes was nothing like what she imagined but the one who was neglected tagging them as weak wreak havoc nearly costing her life, She didn't want this to happen with Alex too.
Hence why she decided to drop the plan to go easy on Alex, she was not going to do too much but at least enough to make him desperate to figure out he was not as good as he thinks in his mind.
S-class trained him or not, The fact remains that he is not invincible, he would lose if some actual warrior fought with him, She is decided to be that person to break his dilution.
"If you're done preparing, Can we start now?"
Very stern words of Alex broke the thought process of Sandra as he asked her whether or not she was done daydreaming, Well it's midnight but anyway.
He wants to be done with this thing. There is still a mess he has to deal with when he returns to his college dormitory, So he did not have much time. Asura field would going break out there if he did not reach there early.
"Yes, I, Sandra Gomez is ready to start this trial to get a chance to explain myself."
Sandra did not say anything about his arrogant tone, She knew it is better to show it in action than to waste saliva explaining it, So she just spoke and stood in front of Alex in a relaxed pose giving off the same careless energy as Alex.
"Okay then, Let's begin."
Alex just smirked as if what Sandra said was just a joke not taking even least bit seriously.
He even go one step closer then Sandra, He was not only in off guard standing carelessly in front of her but after he said to begin the task, He did not even at her but looking down at his watch as if telling her he can't wait for this to get over, Without any bit of care.
This is a forbidden move to do in any battle, it's an iron rule in martial arts that never ever moves your gaze away from your target. This movement can decide the fate of not even fighting but the person.
But Alex did not even bother with her, He was just wanted to start this quickly and be done with it.
To be honest this pissed her off to the extreme not only because of the safety concern of his but also that she has never been this insulated, Even those people who dance on the edge of the blade give respect to her and yet here she was being humiliated to this degree.
Her blood started to boil in rage and her eyes became bloodshot ready to each Alex a lesson which he would never forgets for his own safety, As one should always be aware that action has consequences.
She even started to be tempted by the idea that hitting once was the bare minimum requirement, She can hit more than one time if she wants.
Alex saw all this with his side eye, Of course he didn't do this just to be arrogant, Well he did actually is acting like this to be arrogant but not because he wanted to.
This is exactly what ML would have done if he was here, he is just fulfilling that role of his for the things to go smoothly.
So when he saw he was successful in pissing off Sandra he was happy, He then just gave the look to Grace asking her to announce the start of the task.
"Now both of you are ready then your time starts….NOW!!!"
Grace understood what she has to do in an instant, So she gave both of them space before pulling the phone handed to her by Alex front as she announced the start of the fight and hit the start button on the timer on the phone.
This was what Sandra was eager to hear all this time, So when she heard the announcement she didn't waste any second standing around.
She bolted towards Alex like an arrow shot from the bow decreasing the little distance left between them instantly standing directly face-to-face with Alex, Then without even missing a beat, She shot her palm towards the chest of Alex.
She was sure that there is no way Alex can dodge her this move from this distance, This is her tried and tested move, That because even though she thinks Alex can't beat her, She didn't want to take any risk.
This is advance level technique, If this landed though there would be no permanent damage but it would hurt but that is good, As Alex would remember that main anytime he starts to forget that there are many strongwomen out there.
"That's all you can do? It's sad."
Sandra was ready to hear a surprise desperate shriek of Alex but what she just heard was disappointed words of his before her vision turned upside down.
'What just happened?'
This was the question reverberating in the mind of Sandra. She is dumbfounded by the thing which happen so fast that she didn't even see how or what event took place.
Right now she was feeling a cold sensation in her body, Which after she took a second she find out the cold floor of the ward.
She is currently laying face first one cold tiles of the ward making her stupefied.
She clearly remember that she was about to land her strong palm on Alex body but just before it could make contact, Her vision turned upside down.
And then she blanked out, The next thing she remember that she was laying face down on the floor.
"How?"
After all this sink in Sandra she quickly stood up in embankment then with a little stern, hard and confused tone asked Alex.
He was close to her when that happen, So he might have seen who did this to her.
"I would be more than happy to answer you but I feel like I should remind you that time is still running, So decide what you wants to do."
Alex did not even look at Sandra, He just checking his watch and nails, not bothered by Sandra even the slightest bit.
Even when he answered her, He didn't look at her, As if he was more concerned about breaking his already short nails than his fight with Sandra.
But that was all on surface, He in his heart barely held himself back from burst out laughing and he would have if not for that would not suit his ML role.
Though sad for that part, he was quite happy with the result, He underestimated Sandra and top of his Immortal level martial art skill.
Before he was still a little uneasy about fighting with skills of FL but when the fight started all that worry vanished.
The fighting instincts took over his body, For others Sandra's speed might be hard to keep up with, Which can seem like as if she moved instantly.
But for Alex, Sandra was as if not slower than a snail, He looked at her and instantly had nearly infinite ways to counter Sandra.
Though most of those ways were restricted for him because of his physical limitations, still there were countess ways for to counter Sandra's simple palm move.
It was so simple that Alex even felt insulted that Sandra chose this childish technique to use against him.
So he didn't do anything, He just let his body react to her offense as it pleased defensively.
Which is exactly what happen, His body by moved itself back by instinct and then tapped on the hand of Sandra heading towards him.
Which made her directly turn 360° in mid air before spamming on the floor.
Of course he made sure that she would not be harmed, Especially in the face part. There was a slight change in her angle, Which prevented her face directly hitting the floor but her face did touch on the floor after the impact, humiliating her.
Compared to physical damage, This emotional danger might hurted her even more.
This is the power of his Immortal martial art skill, He was running on the instincts of his body.
Though he feel things slowing down but at least for now he was not fast enough nor he had gotten the time power from Rebecca.
So things were not slowed down but his perception become so strong that he felt things slowing down just like how system space works.
It's just that he once again find our how broken FL is, He checked it before, Sandra has level 15 martial art skill.
Which in itself was unfathomable as she broke the mortal boundary of level 10 and set into pseudo-immortality.
But level 15 was indeed nothing in front of level 51 immortal level skill, The problem is that Sandra was still perceived as a threat by his body.
Yeah she by level didn't crossed level 15 but her attack pattern, experience far exceeded her level and then there was her halo making her attacks perfect along with her luck.
Alex was sure, If he was not buffed up with all of his title and skills right now he would be the one who was laying on the ground.
"...I'll figure it out later."
Sandra didn't know why she was pissed of by his uncaring tone but she was, She was already confused so these words of his like water sprinkled on the hot pan.
She decided to stop holding back, Now she wanted to land a hint on him as soon as possible and so she once again lunged forward.
Alex was lost in his thoughts wondering how can such a broken being like FL exist in this world, didn't there would be some power to make sure this didn't happen. What about power scaling and all.
He was curious but because of that he didn't pay attention to Sandra but that didn't matter as history just repeated itself.
One moment Sandra was about to land a punch on Alex and the right next moment she was on that familiar cold floor in exactly the same pose as before.
Sandra was in same state right now as she started as, right to the same pose giving her Déjà vu.
'HOW?!!!!'
That's all she could able to ask herself as she once again standing up ready to attack but then she saw it.
Before she didn't paid Alex much attention as she didn't think of him any threat but now that things are different her survival instincts kick in.
And then he finally saw it shcking her to her core, momentary stunning herself in place.
She didn't see it wrong, Even though right now Alex standing uncaringly giving so many opening her instincts were telling her there was none.
There is no place or opening for her to attack him, He look like a impenetrable fort impossible to break in.
"Absolute defence."
Sandra in utter shock muttered this to her in disbelief.