The punch sent Kiernan flying to the edge of the ring.
However, luckily the ring was bigger than the smaller ones, and he was barely able to stop himself before falling off.
Kiernan fell on one knee and touched his stomach. He could feel the pain throbbing through his body.
All the air had left his lungs, and he could barely breathe!
"Ragh… shit!" Kiernan coughed out in pain, and with a grunt of pain, he barely stood back up.
"I-Impossible!" Timothy cried out. "Kiernan's defense was broken!"
"So, that's his weakness." Jin's expression was very ugly. "Overwhelming power. If he can't redirect the punch away, then his defense is worthless."
The heavy blanket of defeat settled over the group as they realized their chances of winning were slim.
This was different from when Kasimir seemed to be able to break through his defenses.
This was just utter and absolute power displayed by Johan.
At Tiamut High's bench, smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
"Good." Marquise, the coach, twirled his mustache. "Don't allow him to do his techniques, and just break through with your absolute strength."
"Johan…" Kara, with a smile, clapped her hands. "You've got this!"
"…" Yves stayed quiet, but he knew better than anyone how strong Johan's punches were.
Since there wasn't anyone else in their school that could spar with Johan as they would go down with a single punch, Yves ended up being his sparring partner because of his impressive durability.
He had taken more than a thousand of those punches.
Most of the time he wasn't able to stand back up.
Near the ring, the referee was about to start the countdown if Kiernan didn't move soon, but at that moment, the young man sprang back up on his feet, surprising everyone in the audience.
"Huh?" Yves looked surprised. "He is actually able to stand back up even though he was hit by Johan's full power punch?"
"Good!" Johan shouted. "If that was everything you had, I would've been very disappointed!"
"Hah!" Kiernan wiped the drool off his lips. "You almost had me!"
At the moment when the punch contacted, Kiernan used Iron Human to tighten his muscles to absorb the impact of the punch.
However, since his previous self hadn't conditioned his body that well, his Iron Human was quite weak, but still, it helped him to survive that punch.
If he hadn't done that, the punch might've knocked him out!
"Heh!" Johan outstretched his hand and motioned for his opponent to come at him again.
"Iron Style, Fire Rush!"
With explosive acceleration, Kiernan exploded off the ground and headed towards Johan, but before he reached the attacking range, he kept changing his trajectory to confuse Johan.
The footwork was very strange as he kept moving in zigzagging patterns.
Johan kept moving his head back and forth, trying to keep an eye on Kiernan.
However, at that moment, Kiernan reached the attacking range, and Johan immediately swept his arm towards him with wild haymaker punches.
As soon as the haymaker punches were about to land, Kiernan vanished from his sight with his strange footwork that didn't really make any sense to him.
"Where?" Johan turned his head to the front and saw Kiernan standing right in front of him.
Kiernan's fist slammed deep into Johan's gut and pushed him back a couple of steps.
"Urgh!" Johan coughed in pain and smirked. "That punch was not too bad!"
"I-Impossible!" Yves cried out. "His punch managed to push Johan back? He has Superhuman physique, and I've never been able to push him back with my punches!"
Marquise stopped twirling his mustache as his eyes turned serious.
"This kid can't possibly be equal to Johan. I don't believe it."
Johan cracked a smile and punched ahead with such force that it was beyond what a high schooler should be capable of doing.
Kiernan clumsily dodged the punch, weaving to the side barely, but then Johan kicked his leg up and followed up with a roundhouse towards his face.
"World Equilibrium!" Kiernan pulled his entire body back while the roundhouse kick missed his face barely.
The roundhouse kick landed on the ground and created a small crevice across the ring.
'What the hell is that kick?!' The referee thought with a pale face. 'If that had landed, would that cut off Kiernan's head?!'
"That was close!" Kiernan thought, feeling a rush of relief.
"Interesting technique!" Johan admitted. "I thought your stance was so poor that you wouldn't be able to dodge, but with that technique, you balanced yourself out perfectly."
"Yeah!" Kiernan raised his leg. "Roundhouse!"
Johan also whipped his leg out and smashed his leg against Kiernan's with his very own roundhouse kick.
The two roundhouse kicks collided with a loud smacking sound, echoing through the stadium.
"?!" Kiernan's face morphed into pain. 'I think a part of my leg just broke!'
"Your technique is superior, but your strength is way below mine." Johan said, then grabbed Kiernan by his collar and tossed him across the ring.
"Also, don't forget, I am also Natural Fighter!" Johan jumped off the ground.
Kiernan, after rolling across the ring, came to a stop and then turned his head to the air above him. There he saw Johan falling towards him.
Johan formed a fist with his right and punched down to the ground.
Kiernan rolled out of the way as Johan's fist landed with a thud, creating a small crater in the ring.
The crowd's jaws opened wide. They had never seen a high schooler do such immense damage to the ring like Johan had just done!
"This is insanity!" Nathaniel cried out. "How can his strength be so insane?!"
"A monster…" Jin looked serious.
Johan grabbed a handful of broken pieces of the ground and hurled them straight at Kiernan.
Those broken pieces flew with speed that could rival a bullet!
"Sweeping Catch!" Kiernan caught them from the air and crushed them under his grip. "Nice try."
"Heh!" Johan lifted his leg and stomped on the ground.
The whole ring started shaking.
At that moment, Johan kicked himself off the ground and extended his arm into a powerful punch.
"…" Kiernan stood still and steeled his body for the impact.
He was planning to tank the punch.
"Don't, Kiernan!" Jin screamed. "That is suicide. Please dodge!"
"Oh?" Johan laughed and smashed his fist into Kiernan's chest.
A look of pain flashed across Kiernan's face, but at that moment, he smashed his palms at Johan's chest.