The battle thus began. I sent a message to my Battle Beasts to take as many alive as possible, since dead ones were worthless. Having given my instructions, I locked onto my opponent, As, and closed in rapidly, throwing a punch. Our fists collided, and a massive force surged through the impact.
We both stepped back to dissipate the force of the punch. As remarked, "Not bad! To possess such strength at your age—your striking power is not much inferior to mine. Impressive! Someone so young with this kind of ability, whose lineage are you from? An ordinary family could hardly cultivate someone like you!"
Since we had both rebounded by roughly the same distance, the gap in our strength was clearly minimal. I hadn't gone all out, and he likely hadn't either. "I'll spare you my background; I'm afraid if you knew, you'd turn tail and run, and what would we do then? Take this!"
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