CHAPTER 37: THE REAL FIGHT BEGINS!

' This might be more of a hassle than I thought... this guy's raw growth-rate during battle far outclasses mine... it won't be easy for me if he gets even angrier. His growth is connected to his wrath, even if he passively adapts mid battle without it, that growth becomes exponential due to his wrath, if it takes over, ' Zane thought. A bit annoyed at the situation.

" One more thing. My ikari state is the form I am currently in... with its multiplier being 2500! times my base. Try to figure out the rest. If you live long enough to tell the tale. " Barmis said sadistically.

" The name is Zane. I want you to remember it before you end up erased from existence, " Zane responded sarcastically, with a deadpanned face.

" Oh, and by the way, I haven't even transformed yet, far from my ultimate form, too, " Zane stated, leaving Barmis with a visibly puzzled look.

' Interesting... he doesn't seem like the type to have transformations... But that doesn't matter, he won't make it past my first form, much less its true state. ' Barmis thought.

Without much time passing, they both clashed again. This time zane was on the back foot of the assault. Barmis' power was growing far faster this time. It proved his initial thought correct, the more agitated or battle hungry Barmis gets, the faster his overall development in battle will be. It was troublesome, as much as it was expected. But it being this fast was surprising to experience.

The only edge zane had in battle was his martial mastery, which was now instant due to his arcosian bloodline boosting it to said degree. Barmis realized this. He couldn't use the same moves twice against zane. This annoyed him greatly, especially when his opponents were super prodigies when it came to fighting. But it was fun as well. It pushed him to his limits, but it made the insect's fights all the more meaningless. It was the same debacle with him.

With minutes passing while both continued to exchange blows, Barmis rushed back from the battle, curious about something.

" Zane was it? What exactly are you? No normal 'human', which I doubt you even are, has ever kept up with my power growth like you have... " Barmis asked, slightly curious about zane's history.

Visibly thinking. Zane then smirked, responding. " One of my race is that of an arcosian... that's all you need to know. "

Barmis looked with one of his brows up, thinking of zane said. ' He clearly doesn't match the description of one, other than his questionable aura and chi... could it be that he is lying? It is possible, I have no reason to believe he is telling the truth, but I have get the feeling he isn't deceiving me either. Well... It's not like I was entirely truthful too... ' Barmis thought, charging towards Zane once more.

' It doesn't matter either way, at least he's doing batter than the past opponents I had to face here before... FAR, better. Most stopped at my true ikari state, but zane is lasting even longer than that. I might even need to go to a higher level to defeat him. ' Barmis thought once more. The fight continuing. With the exchange going on for a little over half an hour more. With now clear winner in sight.

Currently, both were dead even, with zane having the edge in raw skill to make up for Barmis' growing power. He wanted to keep his forms to himself as much as possible. He could take that risk, but not for much longer.

Looking around, there were lots of samples to take from Barmis' blood, because he had it all over the arena. But absorbing that blood is a whole other issue itself. Zane knew the risk would be better if he had the 'black-light' instead of the red-light, but he didn't have it. He still has instability defects with his more powerful transformations. And adding that new freak of nature hybrid specie wasn't a good idea. He would only take that risk if he was definitely losing.

Zane realized Barmis was now smiling once more, before suddenly going into his Super Saiyan state. Hs eyes were now an ash orange color, while his hair was pale gold instead of the yellow-gold the normal Super Saiyan had. It had a green tint when looked at different angles, but his power spiked up even more. It had grown hundreds of times larger than before, and it was skyrocketing each moment that passed. Seemingly to no. end.

Responding to this outburst, Zane quickly transformed into his Dragon form to match Barmis' growth of power, but barely. Barmis' power was rising even faster now, at an even greater rate. This was troublesome. Zane was now contemplating whether to use his ultimate form to end the fight, but the power he was gaining each moment with fighting Barmis was making him think to not bother at all. It was addicting.

Seeing this change, Barmis started laughing, the crowd showing a semblance of excitement. They were just watching the fight with minor interest, and they were somewhat bored before, but ever since Barmis transformed. They started to get excited again. No one had lasted this long against him. He was the all-time champion in the arena, and for a new underdog, having the potential to contest in his transformed state, much less to kill him, brought them excitement.

They screamed " Show him my new champion!!! " and " WINNN!!!!!! "

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The process kept repeating. With Barmis going into his regular ssjs states, he wasn't going to bother using the lssj states, Zane realized this and had to transform into his 6th arcosian form to handle the rise in power of Barmis Super Saiyan 4 form. And it wasn't good. With each transformation that took place, the crowd grew larger and louder than before.

Everyone could feel the battle drawing closer to its end. Zane was getting cornered and barely hanging on, while Barmis no longer had the look of satisfaction he wore earlier. Barmis suddenly pausing for a bit to say something. " Zane, I think I have had enough fun... I'm sure you've realized that I haven't been going all out... not with these forms, but you get the gist. Any last words before I end your pathetic career? "

Pausing for a bit, zane smiled. " Yeah... though, I just want one more demonstration before I go. " He said. De-transforming. Puzzling Barmis. " You see, Barmis... This fight was done with ever since you drew blood. Actually my friend, I already won. " Hearing this puzzled Barmis even more.

" What you talking about, fool? Was the last punch I gave you that hard? " Barmis stated, now confused at Zane's random act of sudden madness. He wasn't even using his legendary stages or his true legendary states, much less the god forms.

Barmis didn't even use all his abilities other than basic chi attacks, or even his other bloodline abilities? Much less his magical abilities. Knowing this, he looked on, curious at the prospect of something different happening for once.

Zane, looking at his knuckles, seeing Barmi's blood. With a small tendril morphing out from his finger, that was willed into action. Consuming Barmis' essence in a moment. In the next instant, Zane's body started convulsing drastically. As if his very being was being changed at that very moment, glowing ever brighter with each second that passed. He was screaming, with them becoming more monstrous, wild and louder with every second that passed by. While his Chi growing to heights unprecedented...

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