Universal Power System

Mako hadn't displayed his resonated ability to anyone in the school yet as he wanted to keep a secret trump card up his sleeve at all times.

However, in such a dire and important time, Mako believed it was time to go all out as he activated his Energy Manipulation ability and gathered a small charge in his hands that he blasted right into the right side of Alexi's abdomen, dealing some real damage.

The blast wasn't very powerful as Mako was only able to charge it for a couple of seconds, but since Alexi wasn't expecting such an attack and had left himself wide open with no protection whatsoever, the damage done by the blast was still able to deal enough damage to make him stagger and limp over as he tried to quickly recover.

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Mentality was an attribute that Mako learned the importance of very quickly after he had obtained his first ability.

It was not only the measure of his mental strength and resilience but also his mental capacity. Storing an ability within one's body requires significant mental capacity, with the required capacity increasing as the ability's level and the number of associated skills grow.

Mako had always made sure that none of his attributes lagged behind because he wanted to grow as balanced in every attribute as possible which wasn't the best strategy as this was the reason that Mako had failed in the past because a specific attribute like Strength or Agility was a high enough level to get the job done. After all, he had wasted his attribute points trying to level up the other attributes as well that didn't play a role in that scenario.

On the other side; however, thanks to Mako investing attribute points in every single attribute, he never had a massive weakness as all of his stats were balanced and complimented each other well.

His Strength, Stamina, and Agility made it so that the opponent couldn't find any weaknesses in his fighting style as his speed matched his strength and he had the stamina to keep fighting at that pace.

His Intelligence and Perception worked together so that he could still calmly process and analyze things while in the heat of the battle to make sure he didn't make any errors.

His ever-growing Mentality allowed him to store 5 different abilities inside his body which include: Fire (Level 5), Lightning (Level 5), Earth (Level 3), Poison (Level 2), and Energy Manipulation (Level 2).

However, since he had obtained so many abilities in such a short amount of time, his Mentality was still not leveled up enough to handle all of their growth.

Sometime after Mako had reached Level 15 and the system went through its third update and introduced the new attribute system, Mako received a notification informing him that his mentality had reached its capacity once more and until he was able to upgrade it further, the progression of all of his abilities would be halted at 99% and would not level up.

This was the reason why even after 3 months of intense training, the level of Mako's abilities had still not increased a bit.

He still had some attribute points left over but he didn't want to spend them on his mentality as he opted to save them for when he needed an intense boost in a certain attribute in a very dire situation.

Since he could now freely level up his attributes from training, the meditation exercise that Rose would often tell him to do not only helped him in learning and mastering mana manipulation but also slowly increased his mentality attribute.

Considering his strength and power level, Mako was satisfied with the current state of his abilities as he opted to focus more on improving in areas in which he was still very much lacking such as learning how to fight properly.

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The fight calmed down for a minute as Alexi and Mako both entered into a staredown. Alexi was breathing heavily as he tried to dissipate the pain from his abdomen and recover. Unlike Mako who had an over-leveled Stamina attribute and a broken amount of Energy for his power level, Alexi had started to get a bit tired as he threw one powerful attack at Mako after the other, but he was still standing strong and appeared unfazed by everything that happened so far.

As he caught his breath and recovered his stamina, the pain in his abdomen slowly began to fade away. He had used close to one-third of his energy pool by constantly pumping his blades with Purple Lightning and using his Magnsitism ability to reinforce their strength and power.

He had no idea how much energy Mako had left in his tank or how many more surprises he had up his sleeve, but the sheer thought of him standing there and actually waiting for him to recover before resuming the fight after he had overpowered every single attack he had thrown at him made him furious beyond belief.

Blinded by his rage and anger by the mere thought of being outdone by a low life like Mako, he had finally had enough and decided to go all out as he thrust his swords into the ground and channeled his Magnetism ability.

The ground around Mako shifted and buckled as metal fragments were pulled from beneath the surface, forming jagged spikes that shot up toward him. Mako somersaulted over the spikes, landing in a crouch position and immediately countering with a sweeping arc of his flaming katana.

[Fire Sword Style: Fiery Surface Slash]

The flame arc was met by a pulse of purple lightning from Alexi's swords. The two forces collided in a spectacular explosion, the shockwave rippling outward and causing the ground to tremble. Both fighters were pushed back, but neither was willing to relent. Mako's eyes glinted with determination as he sheathed his katana momentarily. He brought his hands together and started gathering energy in his palms once again. This time his hands began to glow and fantastic green as he was able to condense a lot more energy than before. Thanks to the big distance created between them from the explosion, Mako knew that this would be the best opportunity to unleash his strongest damage-dealing attack at Alexia as he wouldn't be able to counter and stop him from amassing a sufficient amount of energy in time.

[Energy Stream has been activated]

With a fierce cry, Mako hurled the stream of energy straight at Alexi.

Alexi immediately realized the intensity and power behind the incoming stream and could tell that if he was hit by it, it would deal some real damage.

He quickly planted his swords into the ground, using them as a conduit to influence the ground. In an instant, tens of thick earth slabs were raised from the ground in between Alexi and the blast to protect him.

The blast made contact with the first wall and tore and easily tore through leaving a perfect hole in its center.

The blast continued forward, tearing through the walls one by one, but losing some of its power with each impact. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Alexi was shocked to see the blast being so powerful that it successfully tore through fifteen thick earth slabs and was still coming towards him.

With no more space to raise more earth wall, Alexi gritted his teeth and steeled his resolve as he quickly pulled the swords out of the ground and crossed them in front of him, creating a magnetic barrier to stick them together once again.

The blast made contact with Alexi's blades trying to blow past them as well, but Alexi was strong enough to match the force of the weakened blast and was able to stop it in its tracks. However, the energy stream wasn't over as Mako had continued to release it for 20 seconds. Alexi gritted his teeth with blood started to drip from his nose as he withstood the rest of the blast, his feet digging deep in the ground to stop him from moving back and his swords getting hotter by the second from withstanding the blast but still holding.

The high-tier swords were far tougher and more resilient than the earth walls as even after a continued 20-second blast, they remained intact.

The blast kicked up a lot of dust and smoke making it so that Mako was unable to see whether Alexi was defeated or not.

As the smoke cleared, Mako saw Alexi rushing toward him at top speed, his swords drawn and crackling with lightning once more.

Mako was honestly quite surprised to see Alexi still having the strength to continue fighting after he had poured a good chunk of his energy into that blast to make sure the fight would

end.

He reached to unsheath his katana once again and resume the fight; however, for the first time in this fight, Mako was the one with cold sweats as his hands grabbed nothing but air.

As he quickly looked down, he was left in shock to see the katana missing from his sheath.

Mako gulped down hard as in time he was able to process that he no longer had his katana with him to fight, Alexi was already upon him with mighty fury waiting to be unleashed.