He smiles, sensing the danger from this attack, his heart starts beating rapidly.
He always wanted to know that effect of King Kong Punch if he fuels it with vital power.
Clenching his fist, he charges towards Iron, likewise, the latter also charges towards him.
Iron Beast Impact!
King Kong Punch! + Iron Skin!
ROAR! A giant golden ape appears above Sean, it was roaring at the sky with it's stomp crushing the earth.
His hand shines with a golden glow, seemingly becoming an iron arm.
BOOM! The two clashes and both are blown backwards.
Sean was blown to the stadium, nearly crashing to a couple of audience, if they didn't react quickly, they would feel the blow of the two.
Iron, on the other hand, quickly stabilized his body but he still crashed into the stage's wall.
The result was clear in everyone's eyes but looking at the lying Iron who can't even stand up and Sean who was knocked unconscious, there seems to be no winner.
"I declare Iron Rock as the winner of this spar." Zack's voice descends once again.
Iron can't accept this result, he wanted to shout at Zack, for him, Sean was clearly the winner but when he forced his body, his spat out blood.
Both him and Sean was brought to the infirmary.
Seeing it was him once again, the doctor was taken aback but after knowing what happened, his eyes widens in disbelief.
Knowing how peculiar his body is, he ordered the disciples present, including the available assistants to bring as many meat as they can and one bowl of medicinal soup.
Sean wakes up after the doctor registered some treatment to him, his first thought was to eat.
He spent all his vital power in that one attack, his body now craves food.
The doctor seeing he has woken up, hurriedly brings the medicinal soup towards his mouth.
Absorbing all the soup, his body starts cracking as steam comes out.
He stands up and lounges at the closest disciple carrying a tray of meat.
Not caring about the bones in the meat, he ravenously ate everything.
The people watching him were shocked by his way of eating, only the doctor and the assistants weren't surprised.
Meanwhile, in another bed, Iron's body was now bandaged with green rolls that feels like jelly and leaf.
"Uncle, you should accept the result, Sean doesn't mind it." Reina speaks seeing her uncle is still sulking towards her dad.
"I am a bronze ranker and a high stage one at that, the amount of vital power I have is greater than him and yet during that clash, I didn't even win, if it weren't for my martial arts, I would've fainted too!" The more he speaks, the angrier he gets.
Iron truly feel that Sean deserves the win more than him.
"Mister Iron, please calm down, you need to mitigate your boiling blood." The alchemist admonished.
He can only stop, he needs to recover, he feels that the bottleneck keeping him at the bronze rank was loosening after his fight with Sean.
"Lord Shen, please look after our disciple Sean too, he's the most talented disciples of our dojo."
Hearing his words, Shen looks at him strangely.
"He's already fine, he ate ten kilo of meat, after that, he said that he's going home since he has an appointment, unlike you who can only stay and recover at the bed."
Reina can't help but smile wryly, she was injured slightly in their spar after taking some medicine, she had already recovered.
Unlike her, Sean took a lot more damage but after eating, he already recovered, his vitality and abnormal body is envy-inducing.
Back home, Sean made an excuse of going to work at the Evergreen Family before bringing Wuk and Jasmine with him.
Vital Force: 5/12
It didn't take long for him to recover his vitality.
He just need to continue eating and resting.
Entering the federation headquarters, he went to the mission hall, you can even check it online but you can't accept any mission if you didn't register.
Wearing a hoodie and a mask that looks like a cat, he went to the counter.
"What may I help you with sir?" The clerk professionally ask.
"I want to register." He changed his voice to become hoarse.
Registering is simple, you just need to show enough strength to survive outside.
This lax type of registration because those that hunt mystique creatures would die 8 out of 10.
Rather than wasting time having them register their basic information, let those that wants to hunt show their strength.
"Okay, please pay your fee and you can go to the testing site." The clerk points at the testing area.
She didn't even ask his name, for her, there were hundreds of people like Sean that registered every month and yet only ten or twenty returned and the majority are even injured.
"Please use your strongest attack on this rock." A burly man was standing besides a large black rock instructing those that were in line.
Sean knows this test, they taught this in school and according to the former Sean's memories, this Black rock is a type of measuring device created by some sort of mystique creature.
"Power is 1 MBull, speed doesn't reach wind stage, no bond, unqualified, next!"
Hearing this, the man on the testing site wasn't actually disappointed, many went here to just test their strength.
Most only have 1 MBull in power, in his former works, this is already equivalent of a speeding vehicle.
Normally, newly ascended martial artists doesn't even have 1 Mbull of power, early stage barely has 1, middle to late stage contains 2 Mbull of power, late to peak stage has 3Mbull of power.
After waiting for a while, it's his turn, Wuk was following him.
Taking a stance, he punched using King Kong Punch but doesn't use his vital power.
BOOM! The burly man recording nods his head and gestures to him to start his next test.
After getting his result, everyone finally looks at him but only for a short while.
"Power is 5 Mbull, speed is in the initial wind stage, bond is unknown, qualified for a bronze rank licence."
The burly man throws a card to him and he quickly thanked him before quickly leaving.
With this card, he can come out of the city to hunt, he can also check the hunter website for any mission he can take.
"I want to register my hunter license." Hearing this, the clerk takes his card and registered him.
"What should your name be?" From his getup, she immediately knows that he won't be using his real identity.
She doesn't care nor the federation, with him registering his license, even without using his real identity as long as he can keep interacting at the website, the federation can still keep tabs on him.
"Ape Fist." He casually came up with a name.
"Sorry, that name is already taken."
"Berserker."
"That too."
"Fist Master."
"Also that."
Sean's eyebro is twitching, he doesn't know how many hunters there is but considering most names are taken that must mean that the number is far greater than he can imagine.
"Nameless Fighter."
Registering his name, she gave him back his licence as he quickly escapes her gaze.
'Time to visit the marketplace.' He already has something in plan.
Buy pills that replenishes or boost vitality, both can be used for training or resting.
He brought 5,000 gold coins with him, he's confident that he can at least buy some medicines.
When he arrives at the market reserved only for martial artists, he's taken aback by what he sees.
Multiple stalls is erected at the side of the road, many were selling unknown martial arts and body parts of different mystique creatures.
This wasn't what he had imagined, he gestures Wuk to follow him quietly.
Their getup seems to be the norm at the market so they didn't really garner any attention which relieved Sean.
'If I can find another suitable mystique creature after Jasmine, I should search for martial arts here.' He thought.
Walking calmly, he's copying how the others act.
"Selling my ancestor great martial art, buy it before it's gone!"
"I have a mysterious infant of a powerful mystique creature, buy now or least regret it!"
"Great dragon spear pill! Taking one would keep you going all night!"
All sorts of things are sold in this marketplace, it's not easy to regulate unruly martial artists, especially ones that frequently hunt at the outside.
The things they saw, the horrors they encounter and the depravation they witnessed is something not many can recover from.
'Is this what I think it is? But from what I know, this marketplace is forbidden for those below the Vital Realm.' He was gobsmacked by the large red building with videos of females in scantly clothings.
If he's a martial artist, he wouldn't think about selling his body when one can take a lot of jobs that can earn money.
Hurriedly taking his gaze away, he decided that he needs more knowledge before interacting with the big shops in this place.
His shallow knowledge would make it easy for others to take advantage of him.
He was searching for an alchemist shop, especially famous ones so that he wouldn't buy something fake.
'There is a lot of people going there, maybe the pill shop is in that location.' He thought.
Following a tide of people, he stealthily went along the ride, not catching any attention.
'What the hell is that!?' He was shocked to see multiple people chained and is paraded in front of him.
"The number of evil powers transferring here is increasing."
"What!? Another batch is captured just how many has it been since last week!?"
"From what I heard, this time, it was a group of madmen from the Genetic Upgrade."
Sean's expression changes when he heard the name of the group.
Genetic Upgrade, an organization hell-bent on using just science to perform genetic experiments.
If that's the case, the federation wouldn't labeled as one of the evil powers but the people in this organization doesn't conform to any human morales.
Without holding back, they experimented on their test subjects with cruel indifference and even if they are successful, their test subjects would become deranged beings nine out of ten.
The amount of deaths they caused is to millions and they are involved in all major forms of drug and human trafficking.
They are hated throughout all the cities and all of them have death warrants.
When the people wearing a green suit lifts the curtains hiding the people's appearance, everyone immediately knows that they are members of Genetic Upgrade.
People with scales on their bodies, tails and mismatched hands.
Seeing them like this, he frowns, shaking his head, he decided to leave, his main task is to buy medicines for his hunt.
Sure, he's interested to know more but that's less important than growing stronger.
The man in suit seeing Sean shaking his head gestures to one of his men to follow Sean silently.
The latter doesn't know this and spends the entire time searching for an alchemy shop.
Fortunately he found one, the only thing that he's reluctant is that, it was one of the major power.
Entering the shop, he was greeted by a large number of people browsing pills.
Fortunately, you can read the information from the screen in front of the bottles.
Basic vitality pill (10 silver coins per bottle): boost consumer's vital force, perfect for iron skin rankers.
Basic replenishing pill (12 silver coins per bottle): Replenish consumer's vitality by at least 3 veins per pill.
Berserker pill (8 silver coins per bottle): Boost consumer's muscle power for ten minutes.
Basic detoxifying pill (7 silver coins per bottle): Detoxify any poison (iron rank) in consumer's body.
These are the basic pills, without hesitation, he bought 20 bottles of basic replenishing pill, 10 bottles basic vitality pill and 5 bottles of basic detoxifying pill.
Surprisingly, he only spent 3 gold coins and 75 gold coins.
The amount he bought was just too many, finally, his gaze settled on the bag he's carrying.