"Dark Whirpool!"

  The Dark Water Apeman had remained shocked only for a moment before a powerful aura blasted off its body, and a huge whirlpool formed on the face of its hammer, which it is now bringing down on my shields.

  The attack made me gulp down my saliva in fear; the attack earlier was nothing in front of it. In the last attack, it had underestimated me, thinking its attack was enough to break my shields, but this time, it is not making that mistake.

  BAANNNG!

  The huge whirlpool of the dark of water crashed down on my shields before completely enveloping them inside.

  Everywhere around, we could only see water that was spinning at a fast speed, and at every spin, it would press my shields with more and more power. It had seemed like this attack was specifically tailored for my shields.

  Crack Crack Crack!

  My shields lit up resplendently, but soon the cracks began to appear on them. The whirlpool is crushing them with absolute strength with each second; the pressure is getting bigger and bigger, making one believe the shields would be crushed within a few seconds.

  The Grandmasters behind me begins to activate their defensive abilities to cushion the pressure. Though it will not help my shields, I appreciate the gesture.

  "We are dead," said Grandmaster Jenkins with a sigh, but he also activated his defensive ability, which had formed another later around the other defensive ability.

  I have kept the fourth boost on hold; the only reason I haven't activated it is that the condition is not as bad as it looked. While the pressure is getting stronger, my shields are also getting stronger, and they are getting stronger at a much faster rate.

  The shields are made of my strings, and strings are part of me; as I get stronger by the strengthening energy, the strings also get stronger automatically, and they will continue to get stronger as I absorb the strengthening energy.

  It had been barely ten seconds since the strengthening energy was released, and it would take minutes for it to be fully absorbed by me. At that time, the Apeman could forget about breaking through my shields, even if it burned its power core.

  Seconds passed, and for the first few seconds, my shields continued to crack, making one feel they would shatter within a few seconds as pressure increased, but six seconds ago, the cracks had stopped spreading.

  Now, to everyone's surprise, the cracks have begun healing, and three seconds later, there was not a single crack on my shields.

  It took ten more seconds for Apeman to understand that its attack was not working and dispel the attack.

  It again appeared in front of my eyes, and this time, it looked visibly angry; ragin would be the right word for it given how dark steam is boiling up from its body, especially its eyes, which have become so dark, that I felt like they could suck me up.

  "They are right; you are full of tricks, Zaar. I would be making a huge mistake if I held anything back against you," It said; an explosive aura burst out of its body; it was so powerful that my expressions changed immediately.

  It is using its full strength, it had only used it only one time, and that is earlier when breaking through the Grandmasters Atkins waterwall.

  Feeling such a powerful aura, I begin to circulate the supreme combat exercise to quickly digest the strengthening energy.

  Earlier, I did not do that as its circulation makes it really hard for me to concentrate; seeing the pain and efforts it took to circulate it but now seeing it bursting out of its full strength, I have no choice but to take the risk.

  I gripped the control of the shields at one hand and circulated the strengthening energy other. The result of it obvious, I have begun to digest the strengthening energy at twice pace.

  "Nine Waves Of Dark Tsunami!" Roared the Apeman as it lifted its hammer up, and behind it, huge dark waves materialized.

  I have read about this attack of the Apeman, and it is extremely powerful.

  It gets stronger with every attack, and the ninth attack is even beyond its limit, and if its not for its obvious disadvantage, this move posses, this move would have given the Apeman chances of victory over the Grandmaster Atkins.

  "First Wave!" It roared and brought down its hammer, containing the power of the tsunami.

  BAANNG!

  Its hammer crashed down, creating a defeaning sound and powerful shockwave that created a tsunami below the oceans. It did not crack my shields like the previous attack, but this is just the beginning.

  I know what is to come, and fearing that, I begin to circulate the supreme combat exercise faster and even end up creating the seal.

  "Second Wave!" "Third Wave!" "Fourth Wave!" "Fifth Wave!"

  One after another, it attacked, and not a single attack was able to break my shields which were getting stronger by the second.

  I am circulating the energy so fast that my body has begun absorbing it is four-time the normal rate, and it is quite painful, but I do not have the time to care about the pain when I am dealing with the life and death situation here.

  "Sixth Wave!"

  Another hammer came down, and this time my shields shook, but the reaction of them was nothing compared to what was about to come.

  I had just thought that when the powerful energies of the world begin to gather around the hammer, rapidly increasing its power.

  The last three waves of it are the most powerful; these three waves use a huge amount of worldly energy to boost their power, and the attack that came out of it is immensely powerful; these attacks go beyond the strength of the user.

  "Seventh Wave!" It roared and brought down its hammer; this time, its roar was especially powerful but still dwarfed the effect its hammer is having, which is covered in extremely dense dark energies that made it look even scarier than it already is.