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Chapter 558 Competition

Clink!

Clink!

Clink!

A series of clicking sounds echoed continuously for the next several minutes until they were replaced by the sound of heavy breathing.

"Ha... Ha..." Christina furrowed her eyebrows. "Have you gotten used to it?"

"My mind was blank earlier, but it felt like I could get a part of my consciousness to stay." Clovis nodded.

"I see. It seems we can gradually unlock the full potential of your unique ability." Christina nodded.

"Sorry. It just feels like I can only do that when fighting you. I have tried sparring with other people, but no one is able to do it." Clovis shook his head helplessly.

"It's fine." Christina thought for a moment. "Once you are able to unlock your full potential, make sure you don't forget my family."

"What is this? Your family is also quite strong." Clovis smiled wryly.

"You precisely know what that means. Our meeting has been arranged by our grandfathers. You should understand what it means, right?" Christina sighed.

"Oh." Clovis looked away. Clovis sighed before asking, "Then, why don't you join my group?"

"Huh?" Christina frowned. "Are you implying that my people are inferior to you guys?"

"No. I don't mean that." Clovis shrugged. "I just can't trust anyone outside my group right now, even if it's my grandfather's arrangement."

"Trust? What next? Are you going to reveal your secret if I join your group?"

"Yeah." Clovis nodded.

Christina frowned. "How about this? You know that we're going to a tropical island for hunting training, right?"

"Yes."

"What is this? Unique ability is a trump card. You're telling me about it?"

"I just believe it is only fair if I do that." Christina pointed at the pillar in front of them. "Why don't you try striking that pillar?"

"Huh?"

"Just do it."

Although confused, Clovis still did it. To his surprise, the next thing he realized, his sword was already in front of Christina's neck instead of the pillar. "This is..."

"There are a lot of reasons for my unique ability, but I'm able to subconsciously make you focus on me.

"That's probably including your unique ability. This might be the reason I'm able to bring out your full potential during our sparring.

"If I want to get stronger, I will provoke the ground so that I can gain more strength when I step on it. You know, the foundation of strength starts from the lower body, like how we're using horse stance as the first practice.

"By provoking the ground, I am able to get the surge of strength, which allows me to withstand all kinds of attacks. In addition, beasts will come to me subconsciously. That's why I don't really want you to challenge me when I clearly outnumber you. I can bring the beasts to me quickly.

"By telling my unique ability to you, it can be considered fair... a little bit?"

Clovis chuckled. "I call my unique ability Perfect State. Whenever I activate it, I will have all five affinities. My senses from Brain Affinity, my vision from Blood Affinity, my defense from the Bones Affinity, my regeneration from the Heart Affinity, and my strength from the Muscle Affinity... all of them increase drastically."

"Why are you telling me this? I told you about my unique ability because it was fair for the competition. Now that you have told me about your secret, what's the point of the competition?"

Clovis shrugged. "I have more secrets than you think. Why am I even saying these things to you? Don't tell me. You are using your Provoke to subconsciously influence me to say these things?"

"Who needs to do that? Anyway, we'll be competing. Will that be fine?" Christina extended her hand.

"Sure." Clovis nodded and shook her hand.

"In that case, I will continue training." Christina smiled. "Womanizer."

"Wo-What?" Clovis raised his eyebrows.

Christina immediately escaped.