The Invincible Full-Moon System

Chapter 12: Rex vs Laura

Without the students realizing the sky is starting to get late, a couple of windows in the training hall sparkle with golden light from the noon sun.

ʼNo matter the plan Mr. Joseph is cooking, Iʼll just deliberately lose. The students are clumsy in using handed weapons, but they are way faster and stronger than a normal personʼ, Rex breaks off his eye contact with Mr. Joseph and gets into the arena.

Laura saw Rex gets into the arena, and she has no choice but to get into the arena too.

Knowing that Rex is not an Awakened such as herself, she innately thought that heʼs not an opponent for her. Lauraʼs power can even rival the top of the class and now she has to fight a non-awakened person. It is an unhonorable fight for her, this can be called bullying.

ʼRex should be better in hand-to-hand combat since he has a military background, letʼs just overpower him with my speedʼ, Lauraʼs gaze turns sharp looking at Rex from head to toe.

With the intense and vigorous hand-to-hand combat training in the military, it can be considered an understatement to call Rex good at fighting bare-handed. Back in the military, his abilities can even match that of the veterans. Confidence in hand-to-hand combat is there, but if magic is added to the mix then the favor will tilt to Laura immensely.

Standing face to face inside the ring, Rex remembered their brief encounter before.

ʼAre you worthy enough to approach me?ʼ

ʼA normal person like you should get away from meʼ

ʼFace reality, weʼre on a different levelʼ

Remembering the insult that he suffered in public, Rex clenched his jaw tightly as the words that came out of Lauraʼs mouth greatly hurts him. Itʼs nothing coming from others, but sheʼs a childhood friend of his.

ʼIʼm confident in beating the likes of Poru, but if Laura is stronger than Poru then I probably have a slimmer chance to winʼ, while fixing his battle gloves, Rex analyzes Laura using his eyes. A cloud of pride keeps on prickling his mind, especially when he has the power to potentially win this fight.

ʼWouldnʼt it be nice if I can see the enemyʼs stats, wait, I can!ʼ

Rex looks at Laura with the thought of seeing her stats, a dinging sound was heard. A notification from the system appeared just beside Laura that is standing in front of him with the katana in her hand.

Race: Human

Power: Rank 3 Awakened (Early) - Water Elementalist

Mental: 21

Strength: 9

Agility: 23

Endurance: 12

Intelligence: 30

Upon seeing her stats, Rex started to sweat a little.

ʼIʼm still lagging behind...ʼ, but Rex shakes his head and analyzes her stats, he notices that Laura has a low strength so he decided to use that weakness against her. He becomes determined to beat Laura.

Laura looks at Rex and saw the sudden change in his temper, she unconsciously takes a step back.

Rex lifts his head up and looks at Laura, his eyes staring directly into Lauraʼs. He doesnʼt know why but Laura ignites something within him, it seems to make his eyes burn with blazing fire.

ʼWhat is happening? Why is my body shaking?ʼ, Laura thought as she looks at her trembling legs.

Meanwhile, Mr. Joseph looks at both of them in silence.

The corner of his mouth quirked up seeing the change in Rexʼs demeanor, even the other students seems to also notice the change. But they still look at him with contempt underestimating his abilities as a non-awakened, while Laura who is in the same arena as him canʼt help but become alert.

Then suddenly,

Laura has said some harsh words to the user and hurts the userʼs feelings. Beat Laura fair and square during the fight in the arena to assert the userʼs dominance!

Quest Reward: 400 Exp, Shell of Defense

ʼOkay, it seems I have to go all outʼ

With the sudden quest from the system that requires him to win this fight, Rex goes into his battle stance as he waits for Mr. Josephʼs signal to start the battle. His body is trembling in excitement longing for the fight to start.

Laura also went to her battle stance, but now she didnʼt want to underestimate Rex so she started circulating her elemental properties into her body and her new katana.

A blue aura started to cover her whole body as water vapor comes out of her body,

”START!”

Just exactly when the signal from Mr. Joseph came, both of them exploded with power as they dashed toward each other. The studentsʼ eyes widen in anticipation as both of them launch their first attacks, Laura slashes her katana while Rex sent out a punch with his new battle gloves.

The muscles in his arm bulged as he sent out a punch packed with power, one can even feel the power by just looking at it him throwing the punch.

Clang!

A metallic clanging sound was heard coming from the collision of their attacks. But to the studentʼs surprise, Laura got pushed back a little by the force brought by Rexʼs punch.

ʼWhat? Is her strength really way lower than mine? How come I can only push her a bit?ʼ

Rex was surprised that he can only push her back a little bit with his superior strength, but then he realizes the water vapor around her body, ʼThis blue aura... it increases her physical abilities just like what Benjamin and Poru did beforeʼ

Despite Rexʼs surprise by the aftermath of their collision, the one that is surprised the most is Laura.

ʼWhat happened... did he just push me back? A non-awakened?!ʼ, Laura exclaimed inside her head with a frown, she then jumps back to create a distance between them and reset the fight.

The students start to snap out of their surprise before their eyes widen in utter shock.

”HOW?!”

”Heʼs a non-awakened but he can match Lauraʼs strength?!”

On the other side of the watching students, Adhara also gasp in shock seeing that Rex managed to be on equal ground against Laura, ʼHeʼs really not simple, but I really canʼt feel any elemental from him so how did he manage to do this...?ʼ

Lowering her stance, the blue water vapor cloaking her body is starting to get more intense.

With the newfound realization that Rex is pretty powerful despite being a non-Awakened, Laura bolted toward Rex as her speed becomes even faster. The increase can be noticeably seen.

Rex steps back and brings his hands up in defense, he canʼt follow Lauraʼs movement!

Out of nowhere, Laura appeared on his right and sent a slash with her katana. Rex brings his hands up to block the slash but then suddenly he felt a solid hit landing on his stomach.

Bam!

”Argh!”, Rex grunted in pain as the punch was a heavy one.

Laura uses the fear of the slash as a fluke before she sent a punch right into Rexʼs guts, he was pushed scrambling to the right a couple of steps.

Utilizing her superior speed, Laura disappears again from his side.

Another slash attempt to threaten Rex that is still recovering from the previous punch, his eyes widened when he saw a katana aiming at him just as he recovers from the blow. It makes a swooshing sound before grazing Rex right on his cheek.

The katana left a bloodied line mark on his cheek boasting its sharpness.

Without any other choice besides defending from Lauraʼs relentless attacks, Rex brings his hands up to his face trying to guard his head the best he could.

Slash!

Slash!

Slash!

ʼShit, I canʼt see her movements! Sheʼs aiming my blindspot!ʼ, Rex thought while he was being slashed again and again by Laura from all angles, it was starting to get overwhelming. And upon seeing this, Laura nodded her head as she kept attacking.

This is the result that she expected of the fight, ʼHe has incredible strength but in the end, heʼs only a non-awakened person. This is his limit...ʼ, she thought as she attack Rex with the dances of her katana.

Lauraʼs speed is overwhelming, everybody knows that.

She is nicknamed the Water Vortex by the students because of her speed, many of her opponents got drowned by her blade work until they finally succumb to her swiftness and nimbleness style of fighting.

”Surrender, thereʼs nothing to prove. Your talent is limited...”,

Rex peeked to his front and saw Laura is already standing there undisturbed with her katana decorated with his own blood, she flicks her katana splattering the blood to the ground. It colored the golden sand into red color.

With a heavy exhales, his eyes spark without any sign of yielding.

Despite the wounds all over his body that is dripping with blood, the fighting spirit is still there. Upon hearing another mock from Laura, anger welled up inside of him out of nowhere.

In the next second after that, a dinging sound seeped into his ears as notifications appear.

Rex glanced at the training hall window, the sky is already dark with a crescent moon decorating it.

After hours of fighting between students in the arena, the day unknowingly turns into night. The corner of Rexʼs mouth curved up realizing that it was night already, and the anger within him started to somewhat feels good. Itʼs started to get addicting.

Laura raises her eyebrows in confusion upon seeing yet another change in Rexʼs demeanor.

ʼWhy is he smiling like that? No matter, letʼs just end this!ʼ

Swoosh!

Vanishing from her spot, Laura appears behind Rex who is standing straight like an arrow with the smile still etched on his face. Her eyes glisten fiercely as she thrust her katana aiming to stab Rexʼs back.

ʼThis is the end...ʼ

Laura closes her eyes knowing that her win is imminent, she only needs to wait for the katana to pierce Rexʼs back or for Mr. Joseph to stop the fight. But despite already stretching her arms fully, the scream of pain that she anticipated never came.

Upon opening her eyes, she gasps in shock as her eyes widen fully.

Not only does she doesnʼt manage to stab Rexʼs back, but her katana was caught by Rex!

The other students also sucked in a cold breath in surprise, the thought of Rex catching the katana by his bare hand never crossed their minds. Mr. Joseph smiles while upon witnessing the shift in the tide of the battle.

Realizing that she failed, Laura intended to jump away to reset the fight again.

But when she wanted to pull the katana away, she realized that she canʼt pull it out of Rexʼs hand. No matter how much she tried, the katana didnʼt budge as if it was held by god himself.

Inhaling a deep breath of the night air, Rex steps closer and towers in front of Laura.

Rexʼs bearing intimidated her so much that her legs turns into jelly, she was frozen in place as she heard a leathery sound from Rex gripping the katana tighter by the second.

”Ground Splinter!”

With nothing but a light chant, Rex launches his other fist toward Laura.

Now that his body is enhanced by the moonlight, the muscles and veins start to bulge and contract with might as the fist gets closer and closer. Rex now looks like a demigod sent by god himself with his towering figure shadowed over Lauraʼs body.

Swoosh!!

Rexʼs punch travels like a jet, itʼs so fast that only some students saw its trajectory.

BAM!!

Just before the punch collides with Laura, the students look away in fright. Even they canʼt help but be fearful upon feeling the impact and force Rexʼs punch brings despite not being inside the ring with him.

It was horrifying and they canʼt believe that it was a force coming from a non-Awakened person.

ʼNo way, heʼs not normal!ʼ

This thought travels into every studentʼs head as they canʼt believe what they are witnessing, a non-Awakened beating an Awakened shouldnʼt be possible. But they canʼt help but feel that Rex already won the fight.

Whooshh!

With the powerful force Rexʼs fist brings, the sand was blown and hinders the studentsʼ visions.

Slowly but surely, the last particle of sand that blocks their vision fades away. Rexʼs shadowy figure started to emerge with another person in front of him, and the person blocks Rexʼs punch.

Upon seeing the person in front of him, Rex was surprised.

Mr. Joseph steps in and blocks Rexʼs attack, his hands are covered by rocks as he grips Rexʼs fist.

”Rex, this is a spar. I already assessed both of your capabilities and youʼve won the fight, so get down from the arena now”, Mr. Joseph said with a genuine smile on his face.

On Mr. Josephʼs back, Laura fell to the ground with a dumbfounded expression.

She knelt on the ground because her legs turned into jelly from fear.

Rex looks at Laura without any expression and decided to ignore her, he walks down from the arena under the other studentsʼ gazes. Everybody makes way for him, they are all scared of him now. No matter how anyone looks at it, Rex is not normal.

ʼWell if heʼs really a normal person, thereʼs no way he could get those medalsʼ.

They all nodded in realization, trying to make sense of what they have just witnessed just now.

While Rex walks through the students leisurely, a shout suddenly came from the side attracting his attention, ”REX! How dare you... HOW DARE YOU TRY TO HIT MY SISTER?!”

Rex turns his body to look at the source of the voice, turns out it was Tom Frostbrand, Lauraʼs brother.

In a fit of anger seeing that her sister was about to be punched brutally by Rex, Tom steps forward with his body emitting the same water vapor as Laura, ”Eat my magic! Basic Spell, Water Spike!”

Just after the chant, rows of spikes made of water burst from the ground aiming at Rex.

Laura noticed that her brother is trying to defend her, she glanced to the side before she screamed trying to warn her brother to not do anything rash to Rex, ”Tom! DONʼT!!”, but she was too late as Tom already attacked.

With ease, Rex dodged the water spike by stepping to the sides.

Tom leaped toward Rex with clear anger etched on his face, he clench his hand into a fist before sending out a punch aiming at Rexʼs face. But Rex caught Tomʼs fist and stopped it midtrack rather easily.

Despite trying to pull his fist away, Tom canʼt do anything under Rexʼs grip.

”YOU BASTARD! LET GO!”

Even with him struggling to break free with all his might, Rexʼs grip is too strong for him. Tom is just a rank two awakened, even his sister Laura canʼt beat Rex in terms of strength so how can a measly rank two Awakened stand a chance in front of Rex?

”Piss off!”

Rex sent a kick that landed solidly on Tomʼs stomach, it sends him screeching away.

Blood leaked out from the corner of Tomʼs mouth while he holds his throbbing stomach in pain, he raises his gaze exposing his eyes burning with hatred. But seeing that Rex turns around and left Tom alone, Mr. Joseph didnʼt interfere.

While looking at Rexʼs back, Mr. Joseph canʼt help but smile.

Although heʼs smiling, his hand that is covered by rocks has a crack on it from blocking Rexʼs punch earlier, ʼHe really is not a normal man, thereʼs more into him...ʼ

Meanwhile, a smile crept onto Rexʼs face while he was walking away.

The smile, of course, comes from seeing the notifications from the system that appeared in front of him, it delights him that the system acknowledges the fight as a win for him.