Armageddon: Defying Fate

The usefulness of points.

Kiran also received the notice on his transponder as soon as he came out of the virtual pod,

"I can't believe this guy"

Kiran was surprised, the guy was trying to make a double profit off their fight, the points he gained from people streaming the fight weren't enough for him.

Unlike him, Sam was sulky from his loss, he could not believe he had lost to someone weaker than him.

And the most annoying part was that he had been outsmarted, Kiran had used his knowledge of the human body to defeat him, rather than his strength.

Though he was unconvinced, A loss was a loss, he stood up to face Kiran.

"If you had not cheated I would have won"

"How is using my brains cheating, and you, you are stronger than I am and have been in the academy before I was if we are talking about cheating, shouldn't the one cheating be you," Kiran said in disdain.

Sam was speechless, yes it was true, he had been a bit shameless challenging Kiran.

" with your strength, am sure you are, one of the strong old students"

Sam shrugged off, without answering.

As the two of them were having a conversation.

There was an uproar outside, as some of the students, bought the explanation of the entire fight.

They could not believe it.

"Seriously how did that guy know every nerve in the human body" one of the students exclaimed.

The new student was rather disappointed by the video, they had thought Kiran used a kind of secret technique to immobilize Sam, but now that they knew how he did it, they knew they could not replicate it, they didn't have a photographic memory as Kiran did.

The old students were more reassured, at least now they knew the strange way Kiran had won and were sure if they fought him, they would not allow him to use the same method on them.

Kiran walked out of the sparring building,

But immediately after walking out, he saw the old students moving towards him.

He stopped for a bit, were they going to gang up on him since he defeated one of them.

"Hey your name is Kiran right, I challenge you"

"No, I challenge you,

" no me, I challenge you kid"

Kiran was left speechless, all the old students were challenging him.

Since Sam had failed, the task of defeating the top rank new student Kiran, was still up for grabs and after seeing the explanation, they knew Kiran wasn't that strong, they all wanted to challenge him so they would get the points for the task instead.

"They are all shameless people," one of the new students said,

"Don't accept their challenge" the new students shouted

"Well guys, you can see I just finished a battle right now, and I am very tired, so I wouldn't be able to take your challenge"

what about tomorrow, after you have finished resting," one of the students asked"

"As you saw earlier the Battle was very intense, and I have been injured everywhere I don't think I will be able to take any challenge this month," Kiran said smiling.

The fight had happened in a virtual environment how could he be injured physically, he was just toying with them

The old students were rather disappointed, they had thought after defeating Sam, Kiran would be full of confidence and would accept their challenge.

Kiran, left them there and was walking towards the student quarters, he had made a lot of points in this fight, but he could not use them yet, he had to finish all the basic classes first.

As he was walking, the new students, came and congratulated him on the win, the two students Patrick Adams and Leo Richard he got to know, while they were roaming the Academy, invited him to the cafeteria, for a meal.

When they heard Kiran was going to the cafeteria, the other students, also joined them, walking to the cafeteria, the students were thanking Kiran for sharing information about the basic classes, he found out that Leo had sent the message to everyone, and he had told them, it was Kiran who had discovered it.

The students chatted excitedly as they ate, sharing information about all they had learned from the Academy, from them Kiran finally knew the guy, who had recorded their fight and sent information about it, to the students, he was Su Mo one of the older students, he was regarded, as weird by everyone.

No one knew how strong he was, because no one had seen him fight, but most of the older students were afraid of him, he had almost killed one student who had offended him, and he always came out with strange ideas to get students points,

After they ate, everyone exchanged pleasantries, and then everyone went their way, some students still had classes to attend,

Once again Kiran was left by himself, surprisingly on his way to his quarters he met Sam,

"I must have woken up from the bad side of the bed, why do I keep seeing you everywhere I go"

"It was just a match, Sam, why are you acting like a sore loser," Kiran said smiling.

"It's easy for you to say, you got the points"

"Do you know how much stronger I would have gotten if had those points"

Sam said angrily looking at Kiran.

"How many points would you have gotten, If you had won?" Kiran asked, because, he could not yet see his point until he completed the basic classes.

"2000 points, do you know how hard it is to make that, all the time I have spent in the academy, I only managed to save 800 points, with that 2000 points I would have been able to buy the higher version of my technique, and become one of the strongest students but now…."

Kiran looked at Sam as he lamented, he remembered the technique Sam had used, it was able to bypass any defense and attack the body directly, he could imagine how strong Sam would become if he got the higher technique.

"How strong are the other older students, compared to you," Kiran asked

"Well that depends, in terms of level I am the weakest, in a real fight am stronger than most"

"What? You mean at the 8th level of basic evolution you are still the weakest, how strong are they?"

Kiran had expected they would be stronger older students, but he didn't expect their levels to be above Sam's.

"Due to my technique though, I can defeat most of them on the 9th level of basic evolution, only the ones that can counter my technique, will be able to defeat me, and they're not much of them," Sam said with pride.

Now Kiran was speechless, the Academy was ruthless, the older students were far above the new students in levels, and it will probably take some time for them to catch up, they were all going to get beaten by the old students in the monthly tournament.

Kiran himself was the strongest of the new student, and was only in the 5th basic evolution level, how were others going to cope, they were only a few in the 4th level and the majority of the students are just in the 2nd level of basic evolution.

"I have to increase my level fast," Kiran thought aloud,

"Well to do that you need points," Sam said

Kiran was jolted from his thoughts as he heard that,

"How are points going to help?"

"You know how hard it is for us body evolutionists to increase our strength right, ?"

Kiran nodded, though to him leveling up wasn't as hard as others, you could see as he was in the fifth level of basic evolution, after just undergoing cellular evolution some few months ago.

"With the point, you can buy, various types of evolution liquid, which can aid in making breakthroughs faster, you can buy techniques, and also various type of weapons"

Kiran's eyes lit up as he heard that, he had almost forgotten about evolution liquid, Aron had given him an evolution liquid when he was undergoing cellular evolution.

"Can I get a technique like yours?" Kiran asked.

"You wish! my technique is special only if you have some type of element affinity like me, the mutated steel element centered towards penetration, can you use the technique"

"I thought you needed to reach the junior evolution ream before you could use elemental energies"

"I can't use them as the junior evolutionist do, but with my technique, I can tap into it a little"

"The techniques are called the basic elemental control manual, mine is the basic steel penetration manual, they are one the most expensive techniques in the academy, I toiled for 1 year before I could buy one"

"And not anyone manages to master the technique, though, with your level of intelligence, It would not be that hard,"

Kiran now knew what he needed to do, he needed to quickly finish his basic classes, so he could use his points, to buy evolution liquid and an elemental technique,

" how do I get my elemental affinity checked"

He had always wondered what his elemental affinity was, instructor Aron from the bureau had said it was the light element, but Kiran had always felt there was something strange with his elemental affinity.