Academy days (Book 2 of IA)

[11] ORAORAORA!!!

"Ugh...you're the little human from last time..." the small giant sneered.

"Yeah. And it's time to fulfill my promise from last time." I said, cracking my knuckles.

"What promise?" he raised a curious brow.

"That I'm going to woop your ass."

Dead silence. A moment later the small giant let out an exploding laughter.

"You? Woop my ass? Do you have any idea who I am?"

"A side note villain that gets rekt by the main protagonist in an anime?"

"Shut up! I don't know what you are talking about, and I don't like it."

"Well, at least you have the brain to sense the insult." I shrugged carelessly.

"Fine! I will tell you who I am! I am Balthazar Bear! Eldest son of House Bear! U level threat and currently ranked top 300 in the academy!"

U-level threat huh? That's about the same as Isa inside an MS suit...

Though his title and name were meaningless to me, his threat level and rank had to be taken seriously. But I knew that if I let myself show any fear, it would all be over. As a famous tactician once said: 'A battle is won before it is fought.' And my attitude would be the whole determining factor to the outcome of this fight.
So with stuffed confidence, I stood straight and replied:

"So if I beat you now in a 1v1, does that mean I get to be rank 300?"

"No." his voice deepened, "It's impossible for you to defeat me in the first place."

"Yeah, that's what the stereotypical villains all say before they get their asses single handily served by the main protagonist."

"You amuse me underling." He let out a bellowing chuckle before continuing, "before I beat you to the point your own mother wouldn't recognize you, let me tell you a good news...For me, of course." He let out a dark chuckle.
I stood still there and waited for him to continue.

"Lady Amare offered to take a bath to whomever defeats the human boy with metal limbs." He said with drool flooding from his mouth.

"Does that mean I get to take a bath with her if I defeat myself?" I jested.

Silence.

And after what felt like an eternity of stare down and humorless eye contact, Balthazar finally releases a roar as he pounded his chest rapidly in fury.

"Armis petram!" he roared.

Rocks from all angles began to fly towards him, like a bunch of small magnets being attracted to super magnet.
I watched with cold anticipation, as he added further height to his already gargantuan size. By the time his transformation was complete, he was standing at a towering height of 10ft, while being completely wrapped around in his new armor of stone.

"Don't...run..." Balthazar said, his voice deeper and more distant than before.

"Only dumbasses would listen." I sneered. Then without hesitation, I quickly closed the gap between me and him using the booster pad and charged my punch.

"BURST IMPACT!" I yelled, as the forearm part of my uniform was ripped open by the expanded mini thrusters inside arm. Blue flames spew out from my thruster, with whole entire right arm igniting up in blue flames.
The moment my fist connected with the golem dude, shards and bits of rock flew in all directions, as he stumbled back a few steps from the impact.

"Cursed underlings and their filthy tricks..." the golem dude spat out a few rocks, as I watched in stunned belief at the dent I made in his armor just moments ago, was now self-repairing, with several small stones around hovering towards the hole and filling in its place.