He struck a blow to the front, quickly finding a weak point in Tom's defense. That punch hit Tom in the chest, knocking him away sharply.
'What the hell?' Tom thought. The blow he had just felt was strange, so he didn't dare to look away from Klaus.
The latter looked down at his hands and covered them with positive energy. Although he had very little of it, its density was good.
"If Understanding is just that, Realization must be the ability to wield energy on a whim, right? To make a weapon, a shield, or something similar. Understanding and Realization are related subjects and could even be the same, but they are divided because using energy in the Understanding phase is not the same as using it in the Realization phase. Realization is the final part of basic training for precisely the same reason: although it is a basic phase, it gives us the results for everything we need going forward."
These words were heard by Tom as well. He frowned. 'Could it be that this guy is truly crazy, or did they send him here without even teaching him basic subjects? Although I feel that what he knows is better than what I knew about those phases...'
Klaus looked up at that moment. "Hahaha, I got it. Well, time to end this, you little traitor." After finishing these words, Klaus moved his tiny but dense positive energy into his arms, focusing on the fists and the knife.
He did nothing more than that. Still, he looked different this time, but Tom didn't notice.
He ran to where Klaus was and attacked him with all his might, wanting to kill him in one attack.
Klaus also ran to meet him. Just before the attack hit, he raised his left arm to stop it and then raised his right hand vertically, wanting to hit Tom, who was a little further away than he should be.
Both attacks hit at the same time, but Tom's attack remained stuck in place, unable to advance, while Klaus' attack, even though it was a bit far away and shouldn't reach, did.
And it did so in the form of a dense and powerful attack, which hit Tom's left shoulder.
The attack was so powerful that Tom felt a sudden jerking motion and then staggered backward.
'Cold? And why did he pull and push me at the same time?' he thought, in shock, and a gush of blood inside him rushed to his mouth, and he couldn't hold it in; he had to vomit it up.
"You..."
Klaus grinned widely.
"Hahahaha, so this is the realization... Hahahaha, interesting, interesting. So the basis of the basics are skills." His voice sounded really cheerful. He couldn't hide the happiness he felt, and he didn't need to either.
He was happy to be able to test his spontaneous little theories about this world and his abilities.
Tom could understand his words. He stared at him as if he was some kind of monster. "You... Did you reach realization as you fought with me?"
Klaus looked back at him and nodded.
"I'm not like you. I only received basic training before I came here. When our fight started, I was barely in Adaptation. I didn't expect our battle to be so productive in helping me reach Realization in such a short time."
"Impossible..." Tom tightened his grip on his sword once more and looked at her for a moment.
'It took me so long to cross over from Adaptation to Realization, but I was always considered an outstanding genius. But this guy did it in... So few days? There's no way...' For a moment, he felt as if his body was trembling.
It wasn't that he didn't believe him. In fact, if he had thought about it carefully, only one person among the Reared in the Mist had reached Adaptation before entering this place in the last batch. He knew this because he had met that person before. That being the case, until a few days ago, Klaus had not even reached Adaptation.
But now he was at Realization... One step away from entering the Sorcerer World, just like him.
'Got a treasure?' He thought. He raised his eyes and looked at Klaus' level 2 weapon. His eyes sparkled at that moment.
'True... There are many treasures in this world that can make him so powerful in such a short time. If I were to get it...' He smiled broadly and tightened his grip on his sword.
"You are dangerous... But you have made a mistake. And that mistake will cost you your life." Tom said, growling fiercely.
At the same time, he threw himself to the ground and slammed his hands against it.
Klaus couldn't understand what he was planning to do, but when he thought about moving, his heart pounded again in the same way.
That shocked Tom, who still thought that sound came from the beast, so he looked at it.
'Is it still alive!?' He thought.
Suddenly, he saw the beast's body shaking, and a massive wave of cursed energy from the surroundings rushed toward Klaus' body.
At the same time, the sound of throbbing sounded again.
A 2nd and a 3rd time... Suddenly all those times turned into 5, into 10, into 20, into 100 times in a moment.
The beast that was dead suddenly shook itself and got up. This time it was surrounded by a sticky cursed energy, which even overflowed from its body.
At the same time, the massive energy wave hit Klaus fiercely, but he felt nothing. Klaus was stunned.
The system was sending him several messages, one after another, that left him stunned.
[The Cursed Energy had never been this angry before]
[But Cursed Energy doesn't understand. It is clearly angry and feels hatred. But it can't and won't kill you]
[It is the Beloved of the Cursed Energy who has just incarnated.]
[Your inner power awakened]
[Your body and abilities awakened]
[Welcome, Little Incarnation]
[Your Bath has just entered its Final Phase. The timer is locked; take your time, but don't break anything]
[Your Endless Bath has ended]
[You have become a Survivor of the Endless Bath]