Rebirth: The Shadow Of Greed

... Odrunn stood up his large stature blocked the crowds as he looked at Z.

"Boss, these people are laughing at you and our school. Can I take his challenge?"

Odrunn asked earnestly, fire burning in his eyes. He had never felt such a feeling before usually preferring to avoid troubles. He couldn't stand people insulting Z and the military academy. Even Soli at the side was clenching her fist.

"Alright Odrunn, but be careful, the guy is stronger than any beast out there, you have to go in full force, a tiger uses its full force to hunt even a rabbit."

"Yes boss, I will be wary and go full force."

Odrunn stepped onto the stage and stretched his body.

"I'm Raizel, I have a strength augment manifest. I specialise in brute force since you look like you train your body as well, I hope we have a good fight and I will use my full force since it seems like your body can take it."

"Odrunn, I have a self-healing manifest."

"HAHAHAHA did you hear that?"

Loud cackling laughter came from the crowd.

"They let the punching bag up!"

"Let's watch a good show, we haven't really seen Raziel's full strength."

The crowd was whispering while pointing at Odrunn, but Odrunn remained calm and steady, he dared not take things lightly because his boss had told him that the man in front of him was really fearful and he had to give it his all.

The referee raised his hands as he looked at both parties. Once he saw that both parties were ready, he shouted.

"Start!"

Odrunn took a step and the ground cracked, with a swift step he ran with such great speed that he became a blur, appearing behind Raziel even before he could react.

Raziel was shocked at the sight of Odrunn vanishing and swung wildly worriedly.

Odrunn who was already behind Raziel immediately went in for a back hug holding his waist, with a swift motion he yanked him up off the ground like a sweet potato and slammed him on his head with a suplex, cracking the floor behind him.

Immediately after the suplex Odrunn immediately recovered and went back into a fighting pose turning to face Raziel waiting for him to recover and fight back.

But the scene was totally different from what he had imagined, the healers ran up to the stage and started to heal him while they moved him on a stretcher to remove him from the stage. The referee recovered from his shock as he declared Odrunn the winner.

"Winner, Odrunn."

Everyone there was at a loss of words, a self-healing manifest user had actually knocked out a tank level combatant? It was unheard of, even if Odrunn was at a tank level, he still wouldn't be able to win just with a self-healing manifest.

"Damn, self-healing manifest and brute force, I wonder if he's related to that guy."

Daymas shook his head as he inspected the damages on the stage.

"Stay right there! I'll take you on next!"

A voice came from the seats,

"I'll redeem my brother's honour! How dare you lie to him, saying you have a self- healing manifest when you actually have a strength augment manifest!"

Rasael went on the stage to replace his brother. Behind him, an aggravated Waldorf turned his head to whisper to a skinny old man at the side of his seat. The old man smiled revealing a row of dirty stained yellow teeth.

Rasael bowed as he stepped up and introduced himself to Odrunn,

"I'm Rasael, I have a strength augment manifest as well, I won't be as careless as my brother and fall for your dastardly tricks."

Odrunn once again bowed and got to an offensive posture, he was ready to sprint at full speed again once the Referee has given the greenlight.

"Are you ready? Fight!"

Odrunn ran at full force once again charging straight towards Rasael, but unlike his brother, Rasael was already prepared and dodged to the side, grabbing hold of Odrunn's hands in a contest of power, the two locked hands as neither was backing down, with Odrunn not losing to him in strength. This was now a battle of Attrition and Odrunn is fighting the battle with his Self-healing manifest supporting his muscles.

In a War of Attrition, it was obvious that Odrunn had the advantage, not only did he have muscles and strength that were built from the ground up, he had an endless supply of stamina and recovery coming from his manifest.

Rasael started slipping, his strength was weakening and he was being pushed back by Odrunn. Suddenly, Odrunn lost his strength, he couldn't move and could only be knocked away by Rasael. Taking the opportunity Rasael threw Odrunn on the floor as he started to beat Odrunn's face in. Without him throwing in the towel the referee basically had to wait until Odrunn was unable to fight. But with his eyes open wide, it seemed that Odrunn was just stunned.

Z who was feasting on a leg of a wild beast broke the bone in half and threw it to the side narrowly missing a few tables before jumping onto the stage and telling the referee that Odrunn gave up on his behalf.

Odrunn recovered from his stunned state and looked at Z in confusion.

"Boss, what happened? Why am I in such pain?"

"Endure it Odrunn, just get off the stage and recover."

Z brought Odrunn off the stage and let him rest in the seats. He once again stepped up on the stage as he pointed towards Waldorf sitting on his seat.

"You want a fight? I'll fight you, come on."

Z wiped his oily fingers onto his top as he waited for Waldorf to come onto the stage.

"Oh, so you finally want to spar? I'll show you what it's like to spar with a real fighter."

Waldorf smirked as he jumped onto the stage, his body facing Z as he got ready to fight.

"I never said we were sparring," Z said, eyes giving off a cruel glint.