After that, with no other choice, the student began sending punch after punch, while his friend would try to put up some resistance, however whenever that happened the rest of the rank 3's would knock him out cold, making all his attempts to be futile.
The final outcome was the rank 2.5 student being forced against his will to beat them, even if he didn't want to. Though the rank 2.5 students felt extremely bad for them, but then he knew he was helpless just like them moreover he couldn't risk his own life just because of some random students.
Maybe it was because he had finally been given the chance to vent his fit of rage towards a rank 3 student for the first time in his life after being bullied so many times, or maybe because he thought by doing the deeds of the rank 3's student he would be taken under their wings, however, the rank 2 student thought he was finally being seen on a new light by them.
Once he finished sending a punch on Ryan's face, making it impossible for him or his friend to move. Then the rank 2 students stopped and stood up straight as he waited for the rank 3 student's orders.
"And what do you think Barry? How about you show our new buddy how things are being done around here?"
"Okay, no problem." The rank 2 student that was being referred to as Barry, answered with a small smile on his expression as he nodded.
At first, he was starting to feel worried and even guilty, but now he couldn't wait to show those rank 3's students he was tough enough to be in their ranks even if he was just ranked 2.5.
Looking at the kid, while Barry thought Bernard's build was neither good nor bad he still thought Bernard facing him was his bad luck, the rank 1 on his bracelet already spoke volumes to himself.
Barry thought Bernard might not be able to even move from his position because he might be too afraid standing against a higher rank student than himself. Also, he thought that all the pain and bullying he had suffered he was finally relieving them making him excited.
Just then Bernard could see the rank 2 student Barry was gradually walking towards him, he didn't seem like he wanted to fight him until he said the following words with a hiss.
"Kneel!"
At this moment as if something deep inside was gradually taking form, suddenly Bernard felt the thing click inside him, the next moment a notification panel soon materialize in front of him.
[The use of a symbiote ability has been detected in an enemy]
[Initiating Combat mode]
[Skill non-existent]
[Auxiliary skill has been detected| Exp points needed for activation: 55]
[Would You like to activate the auxiliary skill? [Yes/No] It must be noted without skill combat mode will be canceled automatically]
Immediately he got the notification Bernard then noticed they were multiple notifications making him also realize he had no other choice if he wanted a way out.
To the spectators, it looked like Bernard was just standing there with a spaced-out expression on his face mopping. No one knew why he had a spaced-out expression, but all thought he was too afraid that his mind had immediately gone blank.
However, if only they knew the moment his lips mumbled a single word 'Yes', everything would change.
[Skill has been granted. Activation shall commence in 3,2...]
[New Quest: Defeat your first enemy]
[Reward:70 Exp]
Just then, the moment Bernard opened his eyes without even waiting for him to move Barry swung his right hand towards him.
"Piece of sh*t, I said kneel!" Barry said hissing his words out again as his right hand suddenly move in a weirdly looking way, and bite at Bernard.
Bernard on instinct raised his hands towards his face in an X-like format, unfortunately, it seemed like Barry wasn't aiming for his face but his left arm. However, thanks to his stats returning to normal, he only suffered a light injury in the process.
But then looking at Barry's face, he could see he had a slight grin on his expression.
A moment later he got several notifications.
[An enemy user symbiote ability has been used on you]
[A substance has been detected in your arm]
[Resistance +1]
[-2Hp]
[Hp: 8/10]
[Your resistance to the substance has increased]
[Resistance +1]
The moment Bernard looked at his Hp he couldn't help but curse Barry inwardly, as he realized why the b*stard was smiling. Looking at Barry this time, he could see he now had fish scales under his eyes. His two hands were now elongated than usual and dried out a bit.
Looking at how his hands had changed almost as if they were dried barks of woods that had come to life, Bernard was able to make a guess of what type of symbiote beast Barry had.
Even though every symbiote beast had a physical form as a beast and could be summoned by their users during battle, not all symbiote beasts had such traits, because among them were those that could be integrated by their users.
This set of symbiote beasts were referred to as a transformation type of symbiote beast, yet they all had rankings just like the rest and potentials.
Bernard thought Barry's transformation symbiote beast wasn't that strong likely due to their fusion rate and ranking, otherwise, he wouldn't have had such minor changes but a full-body transformation.
At this moment Bernard was still stunned by the pain he was feeling, the pain and the little drop of blood dripping from his arm was like a wake-up call to him shattering his previous mindset.
Realizations finally dawn on him, that whatever that was happening was neither fake, a videogame nor a Webnovel where he had miraculous plot armors to shield him from all harm.