Reawakening: SSS-Rank Villain’s POV

As both of their attacks connected, an explosion sounded out from their point of connection and an intense, invincible circular wave of heat dispersed around them.

Instantly, every trees touched by the wave disintegrate into powder and turned black as though their structure had been unstable and had been set ablaze by fire.

"Bam!"

Lucian was sent flying several meters away, crashing into several trees before stopping and finally sinking into a mountain wall.

"That should be enough to take care of him. This is absolute power!" The old man stood in the spot and gently withdrew his arms. Two out of his five claw had been badly damaged by the force from the Axe and the rest had turn red from intense friction, this took him by surprise. But this wasn't the time to dwindle, he wasn't out of danger yet.

As he was about turning around to flee, his expression finally changed a little as he looked as the rubbles of rocks and dust at the location where Lucian had been imbedded into cleared up, revealing what it had been hiding.

Lucian astonishingly jumped out of the human shaped hole and he immediately fell on one kneel weakly with his left arm hold onto hips Axe, propping him up.

He was in a very terrible shape. The small and little blood vessels that had healed a while ago had burst out, spurting out vast amount of blood, covering his entire body including his face dying them red.

His right arm had been dislocated and the muscles within had tore it just hung limply by his side, and swayed with the force of the wind.

"Cough! Cough!!"

Lucian coughed out two mouthfuls of blood and his face turned pale but very quickly, blood rushed into his face again, clearing a bit of his sickly look.

Raising his heads upwards, his bloodshot eyes glared coldly at the old man staring at him from the distance.

But within his mind, a surge of excitement flashed within as his heart beat more ferociously, in conjunction.

He was also a bit puzzled, he felt that although the old man's strength was extremely formidable, it shouldn't have rendered him helpless and sent him flying just like that.

Two-Fold strength strengthened his body by two times. Supreme strength had strengthened further by more than one times and with the explosive effect from practicing Formless Heat to the highest stage which had also amplified the effect by almost two times and not forgetting the enhancement he had gotten from the Combat Suit and the strength amplifier.

The extremely terrifying force he had built by stacking and amplifying different techniques and equipment should have been enough to at most, barely repel the attack from the old man without much injuries since his bronze body had also doubled his defence by a large degree

But as their attacks had met, Lucian felt a very strange and purely destructive force dispelling his attack by almost half and still, invade his body. He couldn't even do anything and could only as the force destroyed his some of his blood vessels and tore up some of his more fragile muscles.

The force was still in his body, it had broken through the barrier of his hardened bronze muscles and was about to enter into his internal organ system in an attempt to destroy it.

Lucian almost panicked and suddenly, an idea instantly flickered in his mind and he rapidly oscillated his muscles in a unique frequency, his muscles buzzed, making Lucian grunt In pain, forming massive amount of force, using that force, he wrapped his own force around the invading force.

But, the force he had created were being destroyed bit by bit by the foreign force but Lucian just replaced the destroyed force by another. His vitality was much enough to keep it going for a while, and if he could recuperate for at least a day, he should be able to expel the force from his body

Then Lucian thought of something. 'Could this be the genetic energy originating from the gene pool?'

Back in the institute, Lucian barely hears anything about Rankers as the professors and instructor tends to discuss sorely on the topic regarding Rankers. But Lucian had been lucky enough to chance upon the an information which states the difference between Ranker and Rankers.

It was the Genetic energy they develop once they open the gene pool. They could transfer the energy into to the bodies of their foes during combat, and it would automatically start to destroy the body part being touched. It won't only destroy it physically, the damage could also be genetic if the difference in power between their strength is too much.

For example, if a normal human got hit by the old man strike without fighting back, assuming the energy touched in apart of the eyes, that particular eye would be damaged and also eradicated from the person's genetic structure without any means of survival. It would be as though the person was born without any eyes to begin with.

Upon this thought, Lucian's face paled in an instant and rapidly, he continued to oscillate and vibrate his muscles at an increasingly high level even at the cost of some slight internal damage. He rapidly directed the force towards the invading force in his body. Attempting to use quantity to fight quality and it seem to be working as the genetic killing force was being reduced.

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"H_he survived?" an exceptionally young professor muttered unexpectedly.

"Eh!?" immediately, slight cries of astonishment rang out. The professors where surprised. The outcome was totally different from their expectations.

They couldn't help but sigh in dissatisfaction and also in slight pride since a student from their institution could survive under the attack from another professor.

Suddenly, a low and dark voice spoke up.

"Use the Laser beam. Blast the intruder." his voice contained a hint of killing intention and he didn't even bother to hide it.

Surprised, a young man who was sitting among various other operators behind the professor stood up and shouted.