Arms bent, watching for the right moment, the instant Su Ke approached, he suddenly leaped up.
An extremely powerful force instantly erupted, so strong that even the ground beneath his feet couldn't withstand it and directly cracked apart.
Two fists, without any fancy moves, crashed into each other from above and below.
Because Su Ke was too close, Wang Zhong didn't actually jump up, but he cleverly utilized that force.
The two of them, one above and one below, neither giving an inch, neither willing to retreat a step.
In terms of spectacle, perhaps it wasn't as impressive as the "Song of Ice and Fire" from Su Ke's first match. But in terms of intensity, every spectator in the arena felt their blood boiling!
This was the purest collision, the most direct contest of strength!
Su Ke's flame boost was a continuous force, while Wang Zhong's leap just now, though powerful, had a very limited duration—the force was now completely exhausted.
Gradually, Su Ke began gaining the upper hand, pressing Wang Zhong lower and lower.
Finally, Wang Zhong half-knelt as he fell to the ground, unable to resist this powerful force.
When Wang Zhong's strength began to weaken, Su Ke released his hold and flew to the side.
They had agreed to settle it with one move, and now, the outcome was clear.
"Su Ke wins!"
With the referee's announcement, Su Ke achieved another victory.
The audience immediately erupted in thunderous cheers and applause, celebrating Su Ke's victory once again.
Su Ke: "Sorry buddy, I won."
Wang Zhong: "Good lord, I can't even beat you now."
Su Ke: "I've just developed this form more, knowing how to use tricks. If we purely competed, I might not necessarily win."
Wang Zhong: "A win is a win. Why say all that? First place is definitely yours now."
Su Ke: "Of course!"
Now that Su Ke and Wang Zhong had finished, the winners of the other two groups were also decided.
Su Ke beat them like a father beating his son—taking first place was without suspense, successfully claiming the reward of one crystal core.
After the awards ceremony, the sky was already growing dark. They gathered together for a big feast.
But in the shadows unknown to them, a group of people wearing black robes was gathering, discussing something.
The leader spoke: "Have all the beast-transformation type ability users among the students participating in the competition been investigated?"
This person was a minor leader among that group of black-robed people, with a status much lower than a steward.
A subordinate beside him replied respectfully: "Yes, Captain. It's all ready."
As he spoke, he handed over a stack of lists containing the intelligence they knew.
The information on these lists was very general, basically all already exposed information. Anyone patient enough to watch all the matches could have written most of it.
"Our undercover agents have thoroughly investigated all this information. Here are all the students with beast-transformation abilities."
This large stack of lists contained roughly three thousand plus documents.
The lead black-robed person looked at these materials with a bit of a headache.
It felt like graduating over twenty years ago and still having to do homework.
"You... test yourself. Look, which ones among these are suitable?"
That black-robed subordinate lit up with joy.
Could it be... the Captain wants to promote me!
Excited, he hurried to show off.
"Captain, look. These few are all the suitable candidates I've listed. The vast majority are wolf-type transformations, but their talents are generally quite low—the highest is only Superior grade."
"Only Superior grade."
The Captain's tone showed dissatisfaction.
This was far from what he expected—at minimum, it should be an Outstanding grade.
However, his eyes caught sight of a somewhat out-of-place document.
The person on that document was Su Ke.
He picked up this document, pointing at the information: "This person's ability shows as Materialization type, but the capability is beast transformation—I won't say anything about that. The key is that his transformed form is an elemental lifeform, and humanoid at that. The talent is indeed high, but that has nothing to do with wolves, right?"
The Captain's tone carried some annoyance, feeling like he'd been played by his subordinate.
That subordinate hurriedly explained: "Captain, please calm down. First, listing him naturally has a reason."
"Then tell me what the reason is."
"Captain, look at what's written in the data. This kid's talent is Earth Grade—this is the only Earth Grade talent among beast-transformation type abilities."
"So what? High talent is nice, but his transformation type has nothing to do with wolves. What if our Demonic Transformation Potion can't achieve maximum effect on him?"
"Captain, please keep reading."
That Captain picked up the document again and discovered there was actually another line of text below.
"Suspected to have multiple forms? What does this mean?"
"It means exactly what it says. According to our undercover investigation, this kid doesn't just have the one form called Heatblast that's publicly known. Look at the symbol on his chest—according to investigation, some time ago in the underground arena, a person called 'The Hacker' appeared. He also has beast-transformation abilities. Although their transformation types are different, both have the same symbol on their chests."
"Couldn't they possibly belong to the same organization?"
"If that were really the case, how would they dare to openly display this symbol? Besides, we've never heard of such an organization."
The Captain nodded, finding this very reasonable.
"Is there any other evidence?"
"Yes. According to our investigation, this person has two good friends—one has muscle enhancement ability, the other has rock element armor. Back at the underground arena, these three were also very close together. So we have reason to suspect this is definitely the same person."
The Captain nodded again.
"If that's really the case, then his value is indeed higher than low-talent wolf-type transformation ability users."
Beast-transformation type ability users, though essentially still human, were ultimately transforming in the direction of another species, possessing that creature's abilities. In this process, their fundamental genes wouldn't change, but their blood cells would become those of that creature.
And the Demonic Transformation Potion they researched could completely "evolve" a person into a demonic beast at the genetic level. Therefore, using beast-transformation type ability users for experiments was most suitable.
This was the Evolutionary Church's latest research achievement.
Only because...
Headquarters was being watched too closely by various countries' official forces, making experiments impossible, so they assigned this task to them.
All the people currently selected possessed beast-transformation abilities and were most suitable for injection with the Demonic Transformation Potion.
And now, Su Ke had been targeted by them.
"This kid is only First Stage Level 10. Among us, just Second Stage alone we have three. Capturing him is easy. However, to be safe, we'll act when he's alone."
"Yes!"
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