Supreme prowess.

Zoro was flabbergasted by his own prowess. He couldn't help but compare it to Jiro's once more.

'For some reason, this doe hasn't sensed me yet. I must fully exploit that.' Zoro immediately activated his chakra katana and held it in a reverse grip, ready to strike.

He leapt into the air and thrusted toward the Doe's greatest weak point prescribed by his [Eyes of Detection] with eerie accuracy. But suddenly, his stubbornness caused him to ask, 'Why?'

He immediately got his answer from his status;

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Main weakness of Earthen Doe: Elemental core.

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This information quite shocked him and made him feel a bit stupid, as elemental cores were of course the most important weak spots of awakened beings.

And surely, with great stupidity comes great penalty...

In that instant of lost focus, Zoro's well concealed aura slipped out causing the doe to finally sense him.

It made a swift 180° turn towards Zoro through its right, using its front hooves to parry his sword away, causing him to uncontrollably spin in a counterclockwise direction mid-air. In that moment, Zoro cursed at his own stubbornness and stupidity.

He couldn't tell which direction was up, down, left or right, that is, until the ground hit him like a speeding truck, breaking a few bones. He couldn't even tell if the ground hit him, or he was the one who hit the ground...

He suddenly felt the urge to puke, but managed to control it. Luckily, he was able to stand up after all.

He realized that the doe was already on the run, and was about 50 metres away. This magical beast was a herbivore after all. He had to thank his luck. Had he met a carnivorous or omnivorous one however, he might have lost a head or two...

Suddenly, an epiphany came to mind. He was able to thrust at the core with extreme accuracy that even he didn't believe. He could only think of one reason...

His eyes.

If it was true that his eyes allowed him to have such great accuracy, then...

Even though the Earthen Doe was behind a great mass of trees, this was displayed on his status;

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Best technique in user's arsenal to strike down elemental core: 'Shape-shifting Spacial Needle' technique.

Reason: Although it is very hard to conjure, it is the best technique for this situation since it can easily thrust the doe and shape-shift into another shape to pluck out the core with minimal damage. It also has great speed and zero viscosity.

Suggested elemental essence points to use:10

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This time Zoro did not forget to ask why.

While all this information became a memory in just an instant, he began making the necessary hand signs for the technique.

Don't get me wrong, hand signs are only needed to control the flow of chakra or elekra through required chakra points. After one truly masters a technique, he or she would no longer need hand signs to conjure it, although it takes a while. The higher ranked the technique, the more difficult it is to master.

Techniques are ranked just like elemental ranks.

More and more information flooded into Zoro's mind, such as the size of the needle required, how sharp it should be, the time to shape-shift it, which shape it should shape-shift into, the increasing distance between him and the doe, the increasing amount of elekra to use, a video of how things should go if executed perfectly, etc.

He didn't know when he had achieved this level of calculative-ness, but after the execution of the technique, he realized it was over-worth it.

- On Jiro's end -

Unlike Zoro, Jiro charged into the forest like a madman, aiming to kill lots of magical beasts and get stronger while also winning the race to Incendium Academy.

If Zoro were here, he would straight up deem this action foolish, and alas, as a wise man once said in one of the previous pages of this chapter, 'With great stupidity comes great penalty'...

After running for about 2 minutes, he finally met someone, or rather, something, to knock some sense into his head.

During all of the twins' days after awakening, they had never activated any of their abilities since they really didn't need to. Their father's weapons gifted to them got got extremely hard after a good amount of chakra or elekra had been infused into them. (I'm talking about the chakra weapons, dirty brains.) Hence, they didn't really need to rely on their abilities until today.

One hundred metres away, he could sense a large magical beast coming towards him quickly and finally activated all his abilities.

'Hello, Master Jiro.' An unknown feminine voice rung in Jiro's head.

'Who are you?! Show yourself now!' Jiro said while trying to pinpoint the source of the voice. Strangely enough, the voice came from all sides.

'Master, I am Tenebris, your humble servant. You have now activated me. I will do my best to be of great service to you.' Immediately after the unknown feminine voice said this, Giro remembered an ability he awakened; [Tenebris Eyes], but instead of calming down,...

'Oh no! I got so disoriented after sensing the beast that I'm even going crazy! I mean, my eyes are talking to me! first my brain, then it turned out to be my eyes, next up will be my ears, nose, mouth, heart, lungs, stomach, and we'll go lower and lower and lower and lower until we reach my d-' Zoro's thoughts were cut off by a high-pitched voice ringing in his head.

(Of course he was gonna say duodenum, what'd you think?)

'Shut the freak up! You dumb little piece of sh**! Listen to me! Get yo' a** moving away from that horny beast, raise your strength to the limit you can using super strength, which is two stages above you! Fuse your body with your elemental essence to increase your strength and gain more speed! Coat your body with fourth dimensional chakra, and try to realize some wings with your manifestation or else we'll get some sense knocked into our heads and our asses handed over to us or the God of death! Or do you want me to take the wheel?!!!!'