God's Slave: Reincarnated Into an Academy of Heavenly Descendants

Immediately, the robot stood and instantly dodged its head sideways, but still failed to avoid the dagger completely, causing some metal to chip off its head.

Still, it continued running forth with its fists speeding towards Nolan, who shifted the chains downward.

Instantly, a piercing sound rang out as the robot stopped and swiftly punched behind it.

BOOOOOM

Immediately, fist and dagger clashed together, sending both of them flying backwards.

The robot was unfortunately sent flying toward Nolan, who threw a punch towards the back of the robot's head, but was surprised when a hole suddenly appeared on the robot's neck at the last second.

VROOOOM

A powerful wave of gas erupted, pushing the robot's head to the side, narrowly avoiding Nolan's fist.

In the next moment, Nolan felt a powerful air wave approaching his jaw and swiftly dodged, barely avoiding the kick.

In that same instant, he pulled heavily on the chain, sending his dagger rushing toward him just as the robot mercilessly punched towards his face.

But Nolan didn't make a single move, as the punch came just a few inches from his face.

Yet at the last second, the dagger flew past, blocking the punch, and the shockwave pushed Nolan and the system backwards.

"Hehe…"

An unconscious chuckle escaped Nolan's lips as he took three steps backward, cracks appearing beneath his feet and he passed the momentum into the ground.

He could barely see the robot flashing and speeding toward him once more.

Ihis time, it was actually floating horizontally in a cloud of smoke beneath its feet.

Nolan jumped, slamming his leg into the cracked ground.

Immediately, a large chunk of glass was sent flying off the ground and Nolan spun, slamming his kick toward the chunk of glass, sending it flying toward the robot.

BOOOOOOOOOOM

SHATTER

The sound of the glass exploding rang out, sending shards throughout the entire area as the robot slammed a punch on the glass, shattering it into pieces.

Immediately it appeared before Nolan but git confused when when it found nothing.

Nolan has mysteriously disappeared.

In the next instant...

SHRIIIIIIIING

The sound of a dagger cutting through the air resounded as Nolan instantly appeared above the robot, his dagger digging deep into the robot's head, and the force was powerful enough that the dagger tore out of the robot's head, nailing it into the ground.

Clouds of smoke and electricity covered the area, but quickly settled down, revealing the figure of Nolan who had his chain wrapped around one hand and his dagger rolling between his fingers.

[Hmph, cheap tricks!] The system said with a dissatisfied huff, and Nolan grinned mockingly back.

"It's called Battle IQ!"

[What Battle IQ? You distracted the robot with the glass block on the ground while sneakily gathering energy in your legs and then took off instantly.]

[When the opponent was focused on severing the glass, you appeared behind it and nailed it down.]

[All cheap tricks and planning, any idiot can do that.] the system evaluated what had actually happened, but Nolan only shook his head.

Slowly, he stepped back from the place where he stood and walked towards a place where the glass was still cracked.

He jumped up and counted, "One, two..."

When Nolan slammed his leg into the ground this time, the glass on the floor only trembled but didn't rise up like before.

"You understand now?" Nolan asked the system, which remained silent but quickly the golden notification panel. flickered once more.

[Hmmm, so when you blocked the robot's punch with your dagger, you were pushed back by the force and you passed it to the ground.]

[But while passing it to the ground, you weakened the chunks of glass below, and when you jumped up and slammed your leg into the ground, it lifted up, aided by the power of the force that had already weakened the glass] the system reflected.

[That wouldn't have happened normally.]

[Also, you moved so fast instantly nailing down the robot just after it core through the word of glass.]

[That means you must have released some of that energy from the collision in your feet and used it to explode out more to catch the robot by surprise and deliver the finishing blow.]

The system finished its analysis, and Nolan grinned.

"In other words, every action was toward bringing about the end of the robot."

"None of it was wasted, not even the opponent's own momentum and energy."

"Every single one of its own moves was properly analyzed to bring about the end result—all that while being in a hot battle."

"That's not a cheap trick; it's a combination of perception, intelligence, and belief that your precision will come through."

"Controlling the battle with your mind, and never wavering in your judgment."

"So that's what every average idiot can do hmm?" Nolan asked with a smug tone, before the AI Voice rang out once more.

"Congratulations on completing the challenge. Please choose whether to continue or proceed to the next few floors..." The AI's holographic image appeared, and Nolan quickly moved, tapping on the image.

It had just been about 9 minutes and he had more than a few hours left for training.

Once more, the voice rang out.

"You have chosen to move on. A new opponent with a strength factor of 2.5 is being generated."

"Are you sure you don't want to reconsider?"

"This stage has an impossible level of difficulty."

The AI voice rang out as Nolan cracked his bones in preparation, before standing and readying his dagger.

"Let's begin," he ordered.

"New opponent is now being generated... Match starts in 10...9...8...5..."

"Have any words of 'encouragement' for me, system?" Nolan asked with a smirk as his dagger once more began spinning around him.

[I'll reserve my comment until the end of the fight,]he system replied, trying to maintain its mantle of pride, and Nolan grinned teasingly.

"You're always welcome to underestimate..."

"The match has begun!"