The man was furious, if it weren't for their mission to capture prodigies alive, he wouldn't let Sean do this to him.
Nima and the others were watching in worry, no one can blame them as what Sean's doing is basically su*cide.
A memory appears on Reina's mind, it was when they were training.
"Why are you so intent in studying mystique creatures?" She can't help but ask him.
"I want to develop a style to counter them, you should know, my martial arts are inexplicably directed to human opponents rather than mystique creatures."
Right now, those words held true, that lock, that arm break, they seem to be directed in fighting humanoids.
Tentacles appears on the gold ranker's back, they exude gloomy sensation.
The tentacles tries to pull Sean away but failed, it can only attack him with multiple strikes, breaking his bones and injuring his vital organs.
"Change of plan! I'll use your body to produce another warrior!" After escaping, the man no longer tries to capture Sean alive.
"I-" He freezes mid sentence as he seems to be charmed by Sean.
Vajra Kong Punch!
A powerful strike hits him in the face, he frowns and snaps out from just daze.
"Foolish!" The man grabs him by his face but once again, he's charmed by Sean and pauses.
Vajra Kong Punch! Sean aims at a different part of the body but still doesn't obtain any reaction from his opponent.
BAM! He was hit in the chest, crashing to a tree again.
"So that skill of yours can only affect those that see your appearance." The gold ranker laughs out loud.
Sean stands back up again, he's growing tougher each time he recovers.
'That part is still recovering! I'll aim there!' He thought.
Cavalry Thrust!
He strikes at the caved in part of the face, piercing through.
"How dare you!?" The golden ranker shouts coupled with unintelligent screeches.
CQC State!
Seeing the incoming tentacles, Sean dodges them all before kicking the man in the stomach.
Hook!
Another strike at the vulnerable part, the man was growing angrier.
His pet beasts are currently preoccupied fighting against the principal, so he can't ask them for help.
He's unaware that all his teammates together with his pet beasts were killed by the principal already.
She doesn't interfere in the battle since this might be the perfect chance for her to see just how strong Sean truly is.
Her trump card is already near the two so if anything happens to Sean, it would quickly react.
Sean doesn't know what's happening but as his CQC State remains active, he seems to be able to perceive the attacks before they arrive.
He dodges and dodges before attacking at the right time.
A hook, a jab, a straight.
His hands would always hit the spot of the broken face.
The gold ranker realizes what he's doing and covers the caved in part.
"What're you going to do now!?" He laughs maniacally.
Uppercut.
Sean doesn't react and attacks with precision.
Low kick! Low kick! Low kick!
The man frowns, he doesn't know why but Sean's attack is actually growing stronger.
He tries to grabs him but he leaps backwards before sending a jab to his face.
"Nuisance!" He opens his mouth and sprays a black corrosive liquid.
Dash
Metal Coating
Tackle
He dodges the attack by charging at his lower body.
He then punches a part that would hurt all men.
Vajra Kong Punch!
The expression of the gold ranker turns pale as he lets go of the covered part.
Vajra Kong Punch!
Another strike to his face.
Using his body as a footstool, he then swings a mean right hook to the face.
One after another, strike after strike, the man let out a piercing scream but it doesn't affect Sean.
Unless your soul and spiritual sense is twi ranks higher than him, harming him with spiritual attack is futile.
Vajra Kong Punch!
'Another one!' Just as he was about to continue pummeling the gold ranker, he feels his vision wobbling.
'Areh?' He then slumps to the ground utterly confused and weak.
[Congratulations! CQC State has now evolved into Flow State.]
Flow State (Unique): A skill empowered by spiritual sense. Enters an extreme focused state in which acts like a domain for the user. Can blend in with any skills, abilities and auras.
It seems that his spiritual sense is drained and he can no longer continue using the skill.
"You created an amazing skill." A voice appears besides him.
It was the principal, realizing that Sean can no longer continue, she decided that it's time to make a move.
All her pet beasts attacks simultaneously, the gold ranker didn't know what hit him and he was killed.
No longer worried, she also killed his unconscious pet beast and stores them in her secret storage item.
"Are you okay?" She asks.
She thinks he paid a great price for using a skill that made him able to go toe to toe with a gold ranker.
"I'm feeling a splitting headache, does anyone of you have any chocolate?" He asks while massaging his temple.
Instantly, Reina, Nima and Hina turns their heads to Chika.
She was dumbfounded, then, she takes out some candies from her small backpack.
Popping the candies to his mouth, his headache seems to recover, albeit slightly.
"I never thought that we would ambushed by three gold rankers before we can even arrive at the inner core." He complains helplessly.
"I'm not surprised, considering that you are filming the exam right now with that fox of yours and the fact that we announced to the public that we would hold it today." The principal states.
"What's surprising is that there would be people from that disgusting place in our city." She says with hatred.
Sean can sense her rage but it seems different from just dislike or disgust, she seems to have some personal hatred towards Genetic Upgrade.
"Do you want to rest? We can return tomorrow." She asks, still thinking that Sean is suffering from a major drawback from his skill.
"No need, I'm just dizzy not really that hurt." He says while continuing to rub his temple.
"A headache? What about your injuries!?" She shouts, only to be dumbfounded to see Sean standing up casually and walking to the girls.
"The situation is much more dangerous than I first thought, maybe you girls should return home." He asks Nima, Chika and Reina.
"No need, with principal here, we'll be safe!" Chika shouts excitedly.
Sean shakes his head thinking that unlike him, Chika is very optimistic.
"Okay, then, let's go." Their group starts walking to the inner core once again, tactically ignoring what the gold ranker had said earlier.
They don't want to talk about it, their minds are currently full of thoughts at the moment.
Sean capable of fighting a gold ranker for an extended amount of time.
Have an immortal-like vitality capable of withstanding attacks from gold rankers and instantly recovering.
The principal capable of killing three gold rankers with ease.
The mutant allegations.
Hina was following him with a frown, her mother is trembling and her sister is fidgeting.
She then shouts. "I can't take it anymore! Are we really mutants!?"
Sean pauses, everything becomes silent, even the principal is curious, she's unlike everyone who is a bit disgusted and afraid from mutants.
Sean was silent for a while before sighing. "Yes and no, your ancestors are mutant but you guys only has a bloodline, you're ultimate humans."
Hina starts trembling, if it was any other person, she wouldn't believe them but this was Sean, he wouldn't lie to them about this.
"What kind of mutants are we?" Asks Yana with a quiet voice.
"Mutant elves, known for being the top tier sex sl*ves, fetched for a high price, this is also the reason why you guys are unable to develop vital force normally." Sean mutters.
The principal was shocked, she freezes like she was hit by a lightning bolt.
"Mutant elves!? You mean that test subject! Known for their extremely large chest and immense life force to be absorbed by the person that takes their virginity!?" She grabs him and asks.
Sean nods his head with a downcast expression, this was a bit sensitive topic for him and his family.
"Yes, I tested their blood and after research from the database of the Federation, there can only be one match and that's the mutant elves, in fact, I continued trying to decipher their bloodlines and find out that they don't have any elf bloodline at all." He shares, lying about some of his findings.
"Yes, the mutant elves are from the old era where the Genetic Upgrade are still developing, now they're giants, they had obtained multiple more bloodlines from other races, including elven bloodline." The principal added.
"Old era?" He's confused, this is the first time they heard this.
"Yes, the old era when humans are still trying to break through gold rank, the Genetic Upgrade was once a member of the Federation, in fact, the creation of the mutant elves is considered an accident." Sean continues to listen, he might be able to find a hint from how to fix the bloodline of his family from their origin.
"The people that belonged to the Genetic Upgrade are extremely loyal to humanity once and even if their experiments are considered inhumane, the Federation still supported them."
"The mutant elves are created to copy pure blood elves and they failed, they wanted to create a warrior but only created sl*ves, the scientists eventually released their test subjects back to society and destroyed all of their research since they deem it a failure, a waste of resource and harmful for humanity."
"Wait! What do you mean they destroyed all their research!? The Genetic Upgrade are still selling them in batches!" He was shocked to hear this.
"Those mutant elves they're selling are actually descendants of the first batch of test subjects, in fact, before they were further modified to be furnaces in order to enhance their partner's strength, they're not considered as goods and more so as heroes that takes up the mantle for humanity's future."
Sean turns to look at his family and they're crying, the principal's words touched them.
They're not sl*ves but descendants of unfortunate heroes that risked everything to find another path for survival.
"That's why the new Genetic Upgrade, one driven by profit and is now considered property of alien races are trying to capture them." Added the principal.
"There are some race that treats them as ultimate delicacies and does horrific things to them for their own pleasure." Sean clenches his fists tightly.
He takes a deep breath to calm himself down, he needs to protect his family from those alien races.
"But still, even their creator mentioned that they're failures, how can you be so sure that they would succeed in becoming Spiritual Tamer?" She asks.
Sean looks at her and was grateful for her help and the information he obtained.
"Because the technique I created is not normal, it's a universal technique that can be learned by all races, including beast-type mystique creatures. A technique to absorb spiritual energy actively."
"Impossible! That's impossible! Beast-type mystique creatures can only learn martial arts technique when they transformed into humanoid forms!"
"You underestimate how much I love and care for my family, for me, as long as they're involved, nothing is impossible." He said with a stern expression radiating intense devotion.
It was all a lie, the system created the technique not him.
The principal pauses and smiles. "Nothing is impossible as long as your family is involved.".
Nima, Reina and Chika looks at him silently, those words touched something in them.
"I don't know when but I'll reach the innate realm, one way or another, if I have strength, no one will touch my family, also, I have a promise I have to keep."
Nima trembles slightly, she knows what he meant, he doesn't know the impact of his words on these girls, he was just trying to find an excuse to hide the system.