IN VERSION

"Of the hundred and five thousand Advanced Ability Users, most worked at International Ability Agencies, as well as National security officers, mostly guarding public figures and diplomatic gatherings, leaving the lesser skilled Ability Users to work in the lower tiered occupations."

TIME PASSED: Approximately 717 hrs 23 mins

LOCATION: Valeria (Ruined World)

"What? Less than 3 hours left? How?!" Tenny asked unbelievably.

"Two hours and thirty six minutes to be exact." Darey said smiling. "And as for how... Well, blame it on the both of you getting careless and passing out."

"I didn't think that was ever a problem. You've never had an issue healing us before." Tenny said, visibly upset.

"Well, yes... That was because you were still conscious. A condition for the use of my Ability is that my patients need to be conscious." Darey answered calmly.

"What?! You never told us that before!" Tenny protested.

"Well, will you look at that, you have 2 hours and 35 minutes left." Darey reminded Tenny, which forced him to keep shut and go with the process.

"Well, let's make this quick." Tenny said as he looked at Kyron, who was quietly observing the situation.

"Yeah!" Kyron replied, ready for his tag game with Tenny. "Here goes!"

TIME PASSED: 718 hrs 15 mins

TIME LEFT: 1 hr 45 mins

Tenny and Kyron gasped as they caught their breath, while sitting on the floor. The final brawl between the both of them was tougher than the previous ones, and the fact that they had to end it quickly made them push themselves to their limits.

"You ready?" Tenny asked Kyron, while still gasping for air.

"You bet." Kyron answered back.

They both immediately jumped up, declaring they were ready to face Darey.

"Are you guys sure?" Darey asked, with a tinge of disbelief. "You should rest a bit more. I know you're pressed for time, but it won't do you any good to come at me exhausted." Darey tried to reason with the two boys.

"We're good... Let's start." Tenny said, standing upright.

"Fine, but be warned..." Darey said as he stared at the two of them. "I won't be holding back!" He warned.

"We wouldn't like to have it any other way." Tenny answered.

As the three boys faced one another, with Kyron and Tenny on one end, and Darey on the other, the battle started.

Darey braced himself, expecting one or both of them to launch an attack against him, but they both remained still. Suddenly Tenny raised three of his fingers as he smiled confidently.

"This will be over... In 30 minutes." Tenny stated.

"Well, we'll see about that." Darey smiled, raising his level of alertness, prepared for what to come.

Before Darey could move Kyron was already in front of him. As Kyron's fists approached his face, he quickly repelled the attack with his pulse, which pushed Kyron into the air. Before Darey knew it, he was floating in the air, as Kyron was staring at him, on the ground. Darey was confused, but before he could think, Kyron's eyes glowed crimson, and fired a quick shot of his energy blast, which Darey managed to block with his shield.

While still recoiling from the surprises that were occurring, a portal opened beside him, and a punch came through it, landing a solid hit on Darey's cheek, causing a momentary instance of confusion for Darey, who was too shocked for words.

Darey immediately snapped out of his momentary shock and leaped a few meters away from his opponents. He had been hit once, leaving two more tries for the opposition to win, but what bothered him most was that he had no idea how they managed to do so.

"It has to do with Tenny's ability... But how?" Darey asked himself.

"It seems you're a bit confused at the moment." Darey heard Tenny's voice.

"What did you just do?" Darey asked, regaining his composure and smiling calmly. Even if Tenny refused to tell him the truth, he would just use his COMPLETE INVESTIGATION to figure out the truth.

Tenny smiled, and then he just shook his head. Darey gasped, taken aback by Tenny's sudden display, and then he realized.

"He's being wary of my COMPLETE INVESTIGATION isn't he?" Darey said to himself. " "Smart kid."

Tenny's heart was racing, he landed a hit... At long last. They had landed the first hit. In just two more tries, victory would be theirs. As long as Darey didn't figure out the trick before they were done, it was certain victory. This was... Plan Y!

Darey did not want to waste any more time than he already had, so he decided to end things quickly. He lifted his hands as he said 'AURORA NEBULIUM.'

Suddenly, a small blue ball of light appeared and then tiny particles started getting attracted to it, and it started growing larger. Darey ascended to the sky as he looked down on Tenny and Kyron.

"By flying higher than Tenny's range, I can escape his troublesome ability, and then by hitting them with this, even if they evade, they'll be too exhausted, and it'll be my win." Darey reasoned. "Fall" Darey said, letting go of the ball, which was already almost as large as the previous one he had used before.

As the ball descended, it picked up speed, and in a matter of seconds it would make impact. As Darey saw the ball fall, he decided to analyze what had occurred at the start of the match, and how he was hit the first time. But he did not have the luxury to do so.

Before Darey could raise any question, he was on the ground, watching the Aurora Nebulum draw close to him, about to make contact.

"What the...?" Before Darey could complete his puzzled statement, the ball of light crashed and caused a massive explosion. The light expanded and the pressure shook the surrounding vicinity, before it eventually dissipated. Smoke and dust sizzled from the crater caused by the massive power surge, and within it... Was Darey.

Darey's outfit was already damaged, and he had lacerations on some part of his body. His face, however, was unscathed, except for his busted lip, which was as a result of a self inflicted injury induced by him to snap out of his shock. Blood dripped from his hand as he glanced at it. He used his other hand to hold it, and the bleeding stopped, however, the lacerations remained.

"Tch... I didn't expect that one." Darey said, looking at his destroyed surrounding.

Suddenly, a hand appeared through a portal beneath him, and gave him an uppercut. He stumbled a bit, before regaining balance. The hand disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. Initially, Darey had been speculating on how they had landed one, now two, hits on him... however now he had a theory. He just had to test if he was right.

"Well, I guess I'll have to get a little bit serious." Darey said to himself, licking his lips.

He raised his head up as he closed his eyes. "Northeast... 88 degrees, 145 feet... here we go!" He said, readying himself as though ready to sprint as he spoke "GOODSPEED OF LIGHT"

Tenny was already gasping for breath at this point. The new variation of his ability sapped too much energy from him. Taking the reaction time into account as well, he was already pushing himself to his limit. He could only last a few more minutes at his current pace before he passed out. The fact that they had almost no rest before facing Darey didn't help matters. They had to wrap up the battle and get the last hit as soon as possible.

A flash of light caught Tenny's eyes, but before his mind could process what it was Darey was already standing behind Kyron, shrouded in white light. As soon as Tenny saw this, his mind automatically told him 'SWITCH'.

Immediately, Darey was at Tenny's previous location, a few meters away from Kyron, and there Tenny stood, exactly where Darey was before. There was no longer any doubt on Darey's mind, his theory had been confirmed... Tenny's ability allowed him to swap the locations of two individuals, including himself. That was how he kept finding himself in different locations, and was able to be hit twice... However since he had figured out the trick, he could easily counter it, or so he thought.

"He knows!" Kyron quickly told Tenny.

"Then you know what's next..." Tenny quickly responded.

"U-Understood." Kyron spoke hesitantly.

Darey listened in on their conversation, not that he could not stop them whenever he wished, but he was curious about their reactions. The only problem was that they were speaking in codes, and so Darey could not tell what their next move would be. Since this was training, it would be meaningless to just one shot them. As much as it was a pain to him, he had to sequentially defeat them.

As Darey looked to their location, he saw only Tenny, but Kyron had vanished. He was nowhere to be seen. Darey extended his search range a few miles, but could not sense Kyron. Now he was confused. Was this the plan? According to Darey's theory, Tenny had to be able to see the person, before he could switch locations with said person. Now that Kyron was nowhere to be seen for miles, what was Tenny planning on doing.

"It's time!" Tenny said smiling.

Suddenly a bright red light shone, illuminating the whole sky as if it was dawn. Darey looked up, though his attention was on Tenny, who didn't seem to be making any move. Darey realized why he couldn't sense Kyron. Tenny had transported him miles ahead into the sky. As Kyron was descending he must have fired his crimson blast, intending for it to fall from the sky and hit him. From the looks of the red light, Darey could tell, this blast was bigger than any Kyron had ever used, and it was definitely exponentially more dangerous. However, the plan was flawed.

Firstly, the red light of Kyron's crimson beam was too conspicuous which revealed the attack. Even when fighting Kyron, one could tell when he would use his beam attack by the color of his eyes, so it failed as a surprise attack. Secondly, Kyron could not fly, and so after the attack, he would descend from the sky, and crash, severely injuring himself. Even if Tenny managed to escape the blast radius, if Kyron passed out, it was Darey's automatic win, and it was not like Tenny could simultaneously escape the blast and save Kyron at the same time.

The final flaw was the speed of Darey. In his current form, using GODSPEED OF LIGHT, he could travel as fast as light, which was over 299 million meters per second. He could escape Kyron's light beam with plenty time to spare. And that was what he would do. He had already won this match. He looked at Tenny, who was smiling at him, while kneeling... as he was already very exhausted.

"You both did good, more than I expected... But I've won this fight." Darey said to Tenny with a soft smile.

"Thanks for the compliment... But..." Tenny paused as he took a deep breath and looked into Darey's eyes "It isn't over YET!"

"Southwest, 268 degrees, 500 feet" Darey said, as he was ready for lift off. Darey watched Tenny smile pause as time froze and he took flight. As he flew away from the descending blast, he saw the trajectory, and that was when he realized... The blast was never aimed at him... But Tenny!

"This is it..." Tenny whispered under his breath. "The last option and final plan... Plan Z"

The red blast descended from the sky in seconds and obliterated everything for the next 490 meters. The blast was huge, and the heat sizzled, as the charred ground melted to magma. As the smoke cleared, and the dust began to dissipate. As Tenny lost consciousness a few meters away from the explosion, and as Kyron fell from the air, about to crash on the hard ground... at the center of the entire wreckage and mass of destruction, was Darey.

He raised his voice as he laughed crazily... "Well, I'll be damned... They actually pulled it off. I guess we can call it your win then." Darey smiled as blood oozed from his body. "You had three hits... You WIN!"

TIME PASSED: 718 hrs 45 mins

TIME LEFT: 1 hr 15 mins

PROGRESS: VICTORY!

DURATION: 30 mins

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