This was a long-awaited fight for both parties, hence, they couldn’t afford to not go all out. In fact, Finnian was ahead in that regard. He had seen Caesar fight before, so he more or less knew how recklessly he fought. ‘Caesar packs a lot of strength in his attacks; I can’t afford to take a hit in my state.’ Finnian wasn’t scared of fighting Caesar, but fighting him in his current state. This would be highly disadvantageous to him because Caesar’s ability excelled in defense. Even if a Cyph’s power wasn’t active, their physical enhancement represented it in some ways. For Caesar, even though his ability wasn’t activated, his bodily defense would still be astonishing, and his attacks might almost be as powerful as Benji’s. Finnian might have recovered a bit, but it was far from enough to withstand a hit from Caesar. In this regard, one hit might be enough to take him out! Caesar had long shed any cordiality, if any, from when he sent that boulder flying toward Finnian. If he could a

Taking a few steps back, Caesar’s plan was indeed tricky to read. His last-moment movement would have confused anyone, leaving them momentarily stunned with no time to defend or dodge. The same went for Finnian. He was taken by surprise by the sudden change in Caesar’s movement. Nonetheless, the plan remained the same; attack from his blind side.Finnian had approached his opponent with this thought at the back of his mind and had put forth a lot to stimulate his senses on his left side to react quickly to the threat of attack. What stunned him more wasn’t the pattern of the attack itself, but the proximity with which the attack was executed. For a moment, he’d thought maybe Caesar was indeed going to attack from his field of vision.Alas, it was just as he initially thought. But even Finnian had to admit that with how close Caesar was, he had escaped that kick by only a hair’s length. He ducked low, letting the kick fly over his head, while he struck a punch to his opponent’s other k

Back at headquarters, the females were already assembled in the Centurion headquarters. They had kick-started the counting and recording of the results. As a matter of fact, they were about to conclude. As expected, their elites had the best results. The results were according to the number of communicators collected by a person. As stated by the rule, even if your opponent has claimed many communicators before meeting you, if you win, you’re only expected to claim your opponent’s communicator and nothing else. This made things more challenging for the students, and challenging them was Centurion’s ultimate goal. The students were gathered in the same hall they were in before the trial started. Each of them was to step into a small station and place the communicators they had gathered on a platform in the station. A commissioner stood by the side to take the communicators one after the other and upload their info into the system, then the wide screen monitor in the hall would display

The crowd buzzed again when Evan was called. Another elite was called, what would be his result?As they wondered this, the lad in question stepped forward. A lad with a bandaged nose and swollen chin walked up to the station and emptied his pouch on the platform available.“What in the world happened to him?” This question fell out of a girl’s mouth mistakenly, but it likewise was the question of everyone’s mind.The boy next to her shook his head, “No one knows. In fact, Cruze aside, the other elites look like they fought some kind of wild beast. And they wouldn’t say a word about it to anyone.”Everyone was surprised to see how bedraggled and haggard the boys were looking. One might not help but ask if this was the same trial they’ve conducted over the years or if something added to it. It got to the point where the elites were wounded to this extent.“Could it be Caesar?” the girl asked. It was no private matter that Caesar and Evan never crossed the same path without a fight ensu

The commissioner looked at Finnian, trying to hide his expression but failed in the end. Finnian returned the look with indifference in his eyes as if the commissioner was overreacting. The commissioner, in turn, started counting the devices and uploading the profiles of their owners.Though Finnian wasn’t taken seriously by many, that didn’t mean people thought he was sorely weak and that he would flatly fail to claim some communicators. It was simply that many didn’t think he would perform so well. If the elites performed so poorly, how could a subpar character like him be any better?“I’m much surprised that he could get up to three communicators, he must have had incredible luck in the trial, eh? Haha!” said a boy, laughing lightly. However, when he got zero response from the people around him, he stopped laughing. “Hey, what’s with that expression?”The one beside him happened to be the lad named Gabriel, Finnian’s first opponent and a subsequent opponent in the trial. He, more t