Bab 28: Hiding His True Strength
Editor: Atlas Studios
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Su Hei continued walking forward and broke another 10 war drums. Gradually, he lost his patience.
He was annoyed at how he had to keep stopping to break the drums.
He preferred breaking all the drums at once.
A thought suddenly occurred to him. "That's right!" he thought.
"It'll be more fun to see how many drums I can break with a single punch."
The next second, Su Hei casually threw out a punch.
He utilized his Fire Elemental power, and flames enveloped his fist. There was a loud roar of crackling sounds as the fire burned, showing the explosive power of his Fire Elemental power.
Boom!
The nearest war drum exploded and pieces of it were strewn in all directions. The drum fragments were burned to ashes in midair.
Following that, the second, third, and fourth war drums also exploded.
A series of explosions sounded rapidly. In a matter of seconds, 30 war drums were reduced to ashes and the ashes vanished.
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In the monitoring room.
Sikou Nanbo and Fang Dongjin were watching the surveillance footage of the war drums training ground.
They got all stirred up inside when they saw Su Hei smashing 30 war drums.
"There's no doubt about it. This guy is definitely a beginner-level Grandmaster."
Fang Dongjin felt abashed with shame at the fact that Su Hei was so powerful despite his young age.
As for Sikou Nanbo, he was overjoyed and shocked at the same time.
"A beginner-level Grandmaster has around 200,000 combat strength. I've never heard of everyone who can become so powerful during boot camp!"
"Then… should we find someone to publicize this to boost everyone's morale?"
Fang Dongjin asked tentatively.
However, Sikou Nanbo rejected him.
"The fact that he chose to hide his actual strength means that he is quite shrewd. It's not appropriate for us to expose him. We have to let him decide for himself. We cannot tell him what to do."
Sikou Nanbo picked up his teacup and took a few sips from it.
He looked at Su Hei on the screen with admiration and joy.
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At the same time.
Li Burou, Bai Tiantian, Zhang Xiaofan, and Cao Guangning also entered the war drum training ground.
Mighty drumbeats sounded in all five passageways at the same time, including the one that Su Hei was in.
At first, Li Burou and the other three team leaders broke the drums at the same speed.
Starting from the 21st drum, the distance between them began to widen.
Cao Guangning was the first to stop.
He was the most competitive yet weakest one out of the five team leaders.
Cao Guangning's fist landed on the 23rd drum.
However, the drums reflected the force of his punch with a counterattack that was similar to or even slightly stronger than his.
Boom!
The force hit Cao Guangning right in the center of his chest and sent him flying backward into the wall.
"The drums have around 9,000 pounds of power. I've miscalculated," murmured Cao Guangning.
Cao Guangning wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his fingers. A look of surprise flashed across his face.
He already got a breakthrough to the Perfected Realm, and his combat strength was at 10,000.
He could easily break the 23rd drum.
However, he had been careless. The rebound of the war drum had already reached an unexpected extent, which was why he would fail miserably at what seemed like an easy task.
Fortunately, this was not the War Drums Cliff. He had only suffered minor internal injuries.
Cao Guangning stood up again and clenched his fist, gathering all the strength in his body into his fist.
With one punch, the war drum shattered.
He looked at the next war drum with a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
"The further I go, the more effective the rebound from the war drums. It's already an accomplishment for me to have walked to the 23rd drum," thought Cao Guangning.
"If I use my full strength, I can still smash another two or three drums, but there is a certain danger to doing that."
"In any case, today's mission has been completed. Why don't I retreat first and try again another day?"
He felt that everyone else also had the same thought as him.
Cao Guangning hesitated for a moment before turning around and walking out of the passageway.
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In another passageway, Li Burou moved swiftly and decisively. He smashed every war drum he saw.
In less than ten minutes, he stood in front of the 31st war drum.
"The rebound efficiency of this war drum should be at 30 percent. It needs at least 13,000 pounds of force to break it."
Li Burou mused over the probability of successfully breaking the war drum.
He had smashed all the drums before this one, but his increase in strength was no more than 400 pounds. He deduced that his current strength should be lesser than 16,000 pounds.
"It should be easy for me to break this drum," he thought.
With that, he did not hesitate to throw out a punch.
His punch was well-aimed and powerfully delivered.
"Break!"
Li Burou let out a loud roar.
The next instant, Li Burou sensed that something was amiss.
A look of startled dismay crossed his face.
Right on the heels of that, a ripple of energy traveled across the surface of the drum and crashed into Li Burou's body with an unexpected force.
A dull thud sounded.
The same thing happened to Li Burou as it did to Cao Guangning. Li Burou rammed straight into the wall and dropped to the ground.
He cursed, "F*ck, I made a mistake in my calculations. The rebound efficiency is more than 40 percent!"
"The 31st war drum is considered okay, but the rebound efficiency will increase exponentially if I continue."
"Even for Su Hei, the number of war drums that he breaks should not exceed me by much," thought Li Burou.
At that thought, he stood up and patted his clothes to take any dust off. With that, he slowly left the passageway.
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Over to Bai Tiantian.
"Bloodline awakening!"
A feminine voice bellowed.
That was the core ability of the Beast Tamer. After she shouted that, Ice Cream underwent an unbelievable change in appearance.
Its body originally occupied a little less than half the length of Bai Tiantian's arm. However, it was now as tall as Bai Tiantian, and over two meters long.
It had blood-red eyes, and its mouth was full of long sharp teeth. At that moment, it was roaring furiously.
"Go!"
At Bai Tiantian's command, Ice Cream shot out like a missile.
Thud!
The war drum vibrated, and only half of the drumbeat could be heard.
In an instant, the war drum was smashed into pieces by a black shadow that was almost impossible to spot with the naked eye.
"What an achievement! We have broken the 29th battle drum! Well done, Ice Cream!" praised Bai Tiantian.
The gigantic Ice Cream returned to Bai Tiantian's side, enjoying having its head rubbed by her.
"Let's stop for today. Come on, Mommy will take you to eat delicious dire beast bone," cooed Bai Tiantian.
Woof!
Ice Cream stared in the direction of the war drums further inward and barked loudly.
Bai Tiantian's eyes twinkled merrily, and she smiled dotingly at Ice Cream.
"If we continue, it'll be even more difficult. Mommy can't bear the thought of you getting hurt. After some time, when I have increased my combat strength, we will come back again to break the drums," said Bai Tiantian.
"It's already the 29th war drum. No matter how powerful those two guys are, they won't surpass us by much."
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Unlike Li Burou, Bai Tiantian, and Cao Guangning, Zhang Xiaofan firmly believed that Su He would achieve great results at the war drums training ground.
"I'm only at the 28th drum, but I'm already in such a pathetic state. I'm so weak in comparison to Leader Su!" thought Zhang Xiaofan.
"I wonder where has Leader Su progressed to? Maybe he has already broken the 40th drum!"
Zhang Xiaofan looked at the war drums in the depths of the training ground in an unresigned manner before turning to leave.
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Li Burou had the best results among the other four team leaders, excluding Su Hei. However, he had only broken 30 war drums.
This did not mean that the four of them were weak. Ordinary martial artists were required to break 20 war drums before the boot camp ended.
But the four of them could do that in a day. That was already something only achievable by geniuses.
However, if they were compared to Su Hei, they would be seen as ordinary martial artists.
That was how invincible Su Hei's summation system was.
-- Hadiah diterima