18 Unknown limits.

A new man walked, Ryujin, who used almost 3/4 of his capacity, proceeds to look for new targets. He walked along the woody paths, instantly defeating those you dare cross his path. Just 30 minutes after, the number of students was down to 590. From a 5-digit number to a 3-digit, It simply is unbelievable.

Ryo watched on his map as the red dot slowly approached their location. He doesn't know why Ryujin had a change of mind in terms of targets, But one thing is for sure, now, he is back, he is in danger, and he knows this.

He mindfully took every step as he walked away, putting some space between them. But, in the blink of an eye, the dot disappeared and when it reappeared, Again, it was behind them.

Airi, Kyouko, and Ryo quickly turned around, and there he was... Ryujin, just a few inches away from them.

"Prepare yourselves!" Ryujin exclaimed as he slashed diagonally, leaving traces of water from his blade.

The three of them jumped back.

"So you revealed yourself..." Kyouko mumbled.

"Well, I can't put an unpleasant display to our council members. I would be a disgrace to the council and most probably, Ayako-san will do me with her 5-hour lectures."

His usual smile was still there, but, he was different, A different person that none can explain.

"Well... From 10,000 students, I can't believe in just 4 hrs and 50 minutes, you made that number into 590." Kyouko said quite surprised,

"No need to be surprised, if you were me, you would find this a walk in the park. Just one, one single, one gentle touch, and bam... Your opponent falls down, that's how weak most of the students are here. I am disappointed, If Shiouru-san was the one in charge, he'd be utterly disappointed too." He said as he shrugged off his shoulders.

"Ryo-kun, I have a favor to ask."

"What is it?" Ryo replied with the mixed feeling of doubt and nervousness,

"I want you to make me enjoy this, enjoy this to the fullest, I haven't fought someone with my full capacity yet, I want you to make me use it." Ryujin then pointed his sword toward Ryo, declaring war between them. Of course, nonetheless, Ryo accepted.

He unsheathed his sword and assumed a one-handed stance before he merged his amplitude onto the blade.

"Kyouko, Airi, don't fail me as well!!" With that loud scream of excitement, he dashed towards them and swung his dagger in full force, then, another set of slashes manifested from nowhere, it seems like whenever he slashes, it will be followed by another slash but not from his sword, but instead, from his other hand.

With half of his amplitude on his hand, and the other half on his sword, he can manifest slashes in the air using his amplitude-embedded hand.

Ryo parried his weapon, a huge shockwave emerged from around them. While Ryujin is distracted by Ryo, Kyouko takes the chance and ran around him, aiming to knock him on the back, specifically on his blind-side.

"Kyouko-chan, I'm afraid, that's too simple,"

Then, Ryujin slightly tilted his body to the side while maintaining his and Ryo's blade in contact. Then using the amplitude on his hand, he summoned a series of water-implied-slashes behind Kyouko. She noticed and was able to quickly turn around and deflect each and every one of them.

Ryujin's stance is slightly off, therefore, Ryo took this time and chance to counter. He pushed away his sword and from his hand, he summoned a ball of fire and proceeds to lunge it towards him.

"Don't be naive, Ryo!! You know yourself that you can't hit me with that!!"

Ryujin breaks contact with everything around him, then, he spun horizontally in a circular motion along with his sword, manifesting a circular slash around him. A watery, horizontal slash around him pushed everything away from him, wind, incoming attacks, everything.

Now that he is free of space, he is able to move around freely. He assumed a distinct stance, where he puts his arm holding the sword in front horizontally and curved to the left, then, his other arm hanging on his right side, prepared in case he needs to manifest his amplitude.

"Now, let the grand feast begin!!!"

He slightly lowered his back and extended both of his foot then, as flowing like a water stream should be and as smooth as the movements should be, he leaped out of his position and dashed towards Ryo, leaving traces of flowing water splashes along his tracks,

As he got near, he unleashed a barrage of slashes over a wide area in front of him, followed by another set of slashes, now around him, which cut all the trees within a 10m radius away from him.

The forces were enough to slice a person in half. Ryo swung his arm upward to form a wall made of fire, which blocked the slashes, and luckily, his badge was not affected. The same goes for Airi and Kyouko.

"That's nice... very nice indeed."

Ryujin then followed by shooting a beam of water from his other hand towards Ryo. Ryo dodged to the side but after that, Ryujin quickly goes up in front of him, only using the beam as a distraction.

"Got you!" Ryujin exclaimed, He thought that he got him... when in fact, it was the other way around.

He swung his sword fiercely, again, releasing a barrage of slashes in front and all around him. This time, he cut through Ryo's badge ever-so smoothly.

"That was... fast." He mumbled in disappointment.

"It isn't." A distinct voice said behind Ryujin's ear. Startled, He quickly turned around and there was Ryo, the tip of his blade pointed right at Ryujin's face.

"Bam." As soon as Ryujin turned around, he blasted energy of fire right at his face, sending him flying away from them.

"It won't last long, do what you need to do, Kyouko, Airi."

"Disperse." Kyouko dashed at light speed towards Ryujin, while Airi from a distance, summoned crystals of ices all over him, trapping him frozen while Kyouko proceeds to further trap him.

"Seal!" Kyouko puts a ring of electricity around him, which will electrocute him if he moves.

"I'm amazed you survived that powerful ball of fire, even a scratch isn't present on your face."

"What can I say? That's no more than an ant bite, I can take it any time." He replied with a smug look on his face.

"How arrogant of you. Well, 8 minutes into the clock."

"I'll be nice enough to give you a minute to escape." Ryujin said, with that arrogant smile of his.

"Is that so? Then thank you since you can easily escape from there, that'll help me."

"You're flattering me....."

Using an invisible force, Ryujin was able to escape from Kyouko's electric trap. He stretched out his arms and moaned slightly,

7 Minutes left.

"Now then... let's pour down a rain shall we?" He raised his hand high in the air, then, gray clouds formed inside the forest's atmosphere.

"Fall on this land..." He chanted and in the snap of his fingers, the gray clouds began pouring heavy rain.

In Ryo's position, he covered his head and looked above, quite surprised.

"It rained? How unexpected." He mumbled to himself. Then, he looked back at Ryujin, seeing that he did some action, Ryo guessed that Ryujin was the blame for the heavy rain.

"Now then... Kyouko-chan, you can run now. You still have 30 seconds." Ryujin says as he lowers his hand and crosses his arms.

"I thank you. I wish you the worst of luck" She coldly says as she backs away from him and landed beside Ryo.

"How harsh. Can't anybody cheer for me? *sigh*... 20... 10... 5..."

He counts, then the clock ticks at exactly 00:06:00. With 6 minutes remaining, he wastes no time in catching up to them. Finally, he caught up to them. He came face to face with three students side by side... Ryo, Kyouko, and Airi. a cold atmosphere filled the void around them...