Blood Assimilation

After thinking of all these, Jeremiah immediately gathered his compatible energy, which was mana, from his body to enhance his flame ability that gathered around his hand hands. 

The reason why he was his energy was mana and not magical energy was because he was an evolved human that awakened an innate fire ability and not a magician that uses the mana as magical energy when they use their spells. 

Although the names could be interchangeable depending on the group of people or type of world one visited in the future. 

That was because, in some worlds, the concept of mana itself was defined as the energy of their planet and when humans or other creatures absorbed that energy into their bodies, it becomes a conduit to conduct magical spells or supernal phenomena.

And thus, it was called magical energy instead of mana since mana was the raw energy without being cultivated and magical energy was the cultivated mana. 

Mostly, mages or those that use magic are the ones that refer to mana as magical energy, and the other classes or ability users refer to the energy as simply mana. 

Jeremiah was not a mage or sorcerer, but he could use the mana in his body to perform flame techniques that were way stronger than an actual magician's flame spells and this was his advantage when it comes to the flame attribute.

At this point, he continued to gather more mana into his arms to enhance his conjured flame further, causing the vicinity surrounding him to be filled with scorching heat.

This then caused the students behind him to back off further away from him, afraid that they would be caught up in his flame technique. 

After a while, when he judged that the intensity of the flame and the size was enough, he muttered: "Blazing Flame!"

Whoosh! 

At that moment, he threw a giant flame that was around two to three meters in diameter at the doll in the distance. 

A moment later…

"Boom!!"

Siss—

The giant flame had hit its target, the doll was engulfed in an intense flame for a while and soon, a sound came from the doll, seemingly not damaged from Jeremiah's flame attack just now.

[Ding! 450 Attack Damage!]

Immediately there was an uproar as everyone was shocked by the amount of damage that Jeremiah's attack had caused to the doll. 

That was because, at this moment, Jeremiah was only a C-rank Middle State thus his attacking power should be within 300 to 400 at most. 

However, just now, his flame attack had caused 450 damage to the doll, which was an unbelievable feat considering his rank was only C and also only those with a B-rank or higher can unleash this kind of attack power. 

"S-So terrifying, he actually surpassed the threshold of 400 attack power of a C-rank ability user!"

A male student said in disbelief.

"So amazing~ Jeremiah really is handsome when he is serious!" 

A female student praised, barely able to hold herself back from approaching him. 

Randy on the other hand watched all these with a look of indifference and he silently thought to himself.

'This is nothing, compared to Li Weisheng's sword attacks and even that destructive lightning attack that he unleashed at the last minute, this attack was only subpar in comparison. This was only a flame technique with a lot of magical energy infused into it without essence.'

Due to comprehending the Void Rippling Punch, Randy's understanding of techniques had increased slightly. 

And so, he could tell that attack might have used too much energy to unleash despite the technique itself being of a lower rank, which means the technique should not be capable of unleashing this kind of attack in the first place, thus without essence and only a waste of energy. 

If Jeremiah had a higher rank technique instead of this lower rank technique, perhaps the attack damage would have increased compared to what it is now. 

And since the attack damage was proportional to the physical damage after calculation, his 450 attack damage should be equivalent to 450 pounds of physical damage to a human body. 

And if there was a chance to increase his attack damage higher than what it is now, then he could potentially have 500 attack damage with a proper technique that matches his energy level rather than using lower rank techniques. 

This was one of the reasons why the human physical strength's damage was nothing when compared to the damage that having an ability or compatible energy could inflict. 

At this point, the instructor Yang who was overseeing the first doll suddenly announced: "Jeremiah Zhang, B-rank Low State attack power. However, this should have used up most of your energy, so this should be considered your all-out attack. Well done, you pass this test. You can take your leave now and proceed to wait for the second test; in that time, you should try to recover your expended energy."

Jeremiah walked away as he immediately took out a potion from his storage ring and popped it into his mouth, gulping it all down.

That was a mana recovery potion, and it seems to be a high-quality potion which means a very expensive product, but to someone like him, it was nothing since his family was rich.

The instructor Yang was momentarily surprised, however, he continued to announce once again: "Next, Gu Yang, him? Are you okay? I heard that you were badly hurt yesterday."

The instructor suddenly asked the next student, seemingly concerned about his health. 

"Thanks to nurse Yao, I was able to recover quickly, teacher!" The student named Gu Yang bowed and responded to him. 

This was the student that Randy had fought against during the registration process for the university entrance examination in their instructor's office.

"Hmm… It seems like you really are okay. Alright, go ahead and take your test." The instructor Yang said to him after checking and seeing that he really was okay.

"Yes!" Gu Yang respectfully responded. 

He then stood in front of the first doll that seemed to have recovered from the earlier attack. 

Shortly after, he assumed a stance with legs, one in front and the other behind as he clenched his fist powering it with his vital energy that had been strengthened with his life energy. 

He took a deep breath at this moment, and then suddenly threw a punch at the doll with all his might. 

"Bang!"

A loud impactful sound resounded in the vicinity and shortly after the doll announced for everyone to hear: [Ding! 300 Attack Damage!]