Star Hunter.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Star Who Emerged from the Darkness

As Knight asked the question, he bent his knees slightly, shifted his weight to his toes, and clenched his fists in front of him, ready to fight at any moment.

Xilin lifted his leg, took a step to the side, and casually placed his arms on both sides, making his movements appear full of flaws.

When he finished saying "Let's begin," the emotions in Xilin's eyes gradually calmed down, showing no fluctuation, which contrasted sharply with the strong fighting spirit in Knight's eyes.

A former instructor had once said that you could tell someone's next move just by looking into their eyes, but in Sirin's eyes, Knight only saw calmness, an abyssal calmness. Knight had seen calmness in the eyes of many people, but those were all senior instructors or figures like his own father. Among his peers, Knight had never encountered anything like it!

This side of Xilin gave Knight a strange feeling, like a quiet hunter waiting for its prey to fall into its net.

Prey? Knight chuckled at his own thought. Who's the hunter and who's the prey? Let's see who's the hunter first!

boom--

Taking the initiative, Knight's figure vanished from his spot in an instant, the air in his original location making a bang due to the instantaneous compression and collision.

Knight charged forward, his fist tensing instantly as it reached Xilin, moving several times faster than before, its power amplified to its peak. Just as Knight thought he was about to strike Xilin, he found his elbow sinking, pulled away from his target as if caught in a whirlpool. At the same time, Xilin's other hand shot through the gap towards Knight's neck.

  

Knight raised his hand to block, but instead of retreating, he advanced further, throwing another punch at Xilin's face. This time, the punch was much faster, and Xilin could hear the sound of Knight's fist rubbing against the air, a crackling sound.

Xilin dodged, shifted his position, used his feet to gain momentum, and twisted forward at the same time.

A head-on confrontation?

No, it's not!

That strange, vortex-like force reappeared, pulling Knight's fist in and "sticking" to it, dragging it away from its original attack line. This time, Knight saw clearly that the source of that strange force was the vortex of air created by the movement of Xilin's palm and even his entire arm.

Overcoming strength with softness?

Knight's instructors and father had mentioned the concept of "using softness to overcome hardness" during his training, because the Fegler family was almost entirely composed of strong and aggressive individuals. To avoid being taken advantage of in the future, Knight learned many ways to deal with such situations, but his favorite was to be absolutely hard and unyielding.

Although he had a plan in mind, his hands were not slow at all. His hand chopped straight at Xilin's throat. The next moment, his palm, which had been blocked, did not completely retract. Instead, it quickly flipped down and struck Xilin's chest.

Without stopping for a moment, the speed continued to increase.

Eyes, behind the ears, neck, throat, ribs, stomach, shins, tailbone... Every strike was aimed precisely at the target, but each time the force of the vortex would "stick" it off course, causing it to hit the wall, floor, ceiling instead...

So far, Xilin hasn't really been on offense, focusing mostly on defense. Every time he faces a different opponent, he always first assesses their skill level and fighting style, then works to counter and neutralize their attacks while improving his own weaknesses and learning new techniques.

Xilin had never seen Knight's boxing style before. Although he could handle it for now, Xilin knew that Knight was gradually changing. At first, Xilin could still deflect Knight's fists to one side, but slowly, the attacks became more and more fierce and faster. The vortex force could no longer control the attacks; instead, it could only throw them away. This indicated that Knight had gradually reached the limits of this vortex.

The training room was filled with constant thuds, and dents appeared on the walls, floor, and ceiling. The fact that the specially made walls and ceiling of the training room could be dented shows how powerful the punch was.

Ci Jincheng and Long felt the vibrations from the training room in the isolation area, and sighed with emotion.

"That's incredible! Jin Cheng, is Xilin's genotype really only grade B?"

Ci Jincheng nodded.

Xilin's admission records show his genotype as B, but Knight is a genuine A-grade genotype. How can an A-grade genotype unleash such overwhelming firepower against a B-grade genotype right from the start? And yet, Xilin has managed to withstand Knight's attacks so far. To be precise, Xilin is leveraging Knight's strength to his advantage, while his attempt to recruit Knight has failed.

Looking at the constantly shaking training room, Long sighed, "Those people in the management department are probably starting to take notice."

With such a commotion, it's no wonder they noticed. However, the four of them turned off all the monitors in the training room when they came in, but surely the management couldn't have been without a backup plan?

Ci Jincheng didn't speak, but took out a device about the size of a finger and pressed a button. Small probes and pinhole cameras appeared on the floor, walls, and ceiling of the training room, and in several places, the surveillance equipment was integrated into the walls, making it impossible to see anything unusual at first glance. At the same time, all displays related to this training room on the management department's monitors went blank, and even the records were erased.

"Check who swiped the card in that training room," said one of the management staff.

"We found it. He didn't delete the card transaction record. The person who made the transaction is named... Ci Jincheng!"

"Surname Ci?" The man thought for a moment, "Never mind, don't worry about that training room. As long as they don't destroy it, let them do whatever they want."

Because the commotion in Xilin's training room was so loud, people who were training in the surrounding training rooms came out to see what was going on. Who was so powerful as to cause such a noise? The vibrations were clearly felt in the nearby training rooms.

A group of people followed the sound to the front of the training room. The door was closed and in a "no onlookers allowed" mode, so they could not go in. They could only gather in front of the door to talk, and more and more people came over to join the discussion.

Neither Xilin nor Knight cared about the reactions from the outside world.

The two fought faster and faster. Before, they could still see afterimages, but now even those afterimages were impossible to catch, and fleeting streaks of lightning began to appear clearly.

"The Fegler family's Thunderstorm Fist," Ci Jincheng said, looking at the lightning bolts.

"I've heard so much about you, but I've never seen you in person." Long had only seen you in videos in electronic publications, but those were just blurry images. Publications generally don't dare to analyze military matters too much.

At this moment, Xilin, who was resisting Knight's attack in the arena, clearly felt the surrounding air beginning to stir, and some particles began to fission and release energy. And these changes were all caused by Knight.

Like a torrential downpour, the punches were dense and carried the force of thunder. Each of Knight's punches was accompanied by flashes of electricity and a constant crackling sound.

This wasn't fancy; it was real electricity. Xilin could already feel the numbing sensation on his skin from the tiny particles, as if he were in an electric field. Moreover, the electric field was intensifying, with more and more fission particles appearing, and the numbing sensation would become stronger with each movement.

Xilin could even smell the burnt smell of clothes; he knew he couldn't hold out much longer. Meanwhile, the bulging veins on Knight's arms and the gradual increase in his punching speed were beginning to plateau, indicating that his strength was nearing its peak.

boom--

Xilin then flew back several steps with the force of the impact.

As Knight pressed forward, he discovered that Sirin's arms suddenly trembled, dispersing the original vortex and replacing it with an aura completely opposite to the previous one—an elusive, immeasurable, and even suffocatingly oppressive force.

At this moment, the restless particles around Xilin began to gradually calm down.

This is the real you... As he pondered this, Knight used his foot to push off the floor again, the momentum of his impact reaching its peak, crackling lightning seemingly about to tear through the space...

Instead of dodging Knight's attack, or using the previously used tactic of drawing the ball away, Xilin met it head-on. He stood there, fist outstretched, and met the attack head-on.

Bang!Bang!

The two sounds rang out almost simultaneously. The recoil from their clashing fists sent Xilin and Knight crashing into the walls on either side.

The trainees, who were engaged in a heated discussion outside the training room, fell into a deathly silence. They had seen a human-shaped protrusion smashed into the wall.

The trainees, having trained in the training room for so long, knew perfectly well how resistant the walls were to impact. They knew that even kicking a wall would likely result in a broken bone without any chance of making a mark. So what was going on here?!

Ci Jincheng and Long's eyelids twitched. Fortunately, the two were not thrown in the direction of the isolation zone, otherwise the isolation layer would have been smashed.

Knight is very strong. Ci Jincheng and Long knew this a long time ago. As people of the same generation, even in different fields, they often heard high praise from their elders.

But what about Sirin? When did the Doons family produce such a prodigy? How could someone who can fight Knight to a draw remain unknown?

He was like a star hidden in the darkness, quietly watching the world, and then revealing his amazing brilliance in places unknown to anyone.

But regardless, this star will soon appear in everyone's sight. Now that he has stepped out of the darkness, his dazzling light can no longer be concealed.