When he realized this years ago he knew that it could be a kind of trunk card that he could pull at the time when in a sticky situation. But since his magic, ki, psionics, and spiritual abilities have all been buffed thanks to his new skills; that means that the effect of this combo of abilities should be even more effective. 

Augustus look to his teacher with a expression that asked for more enemies, and his teacher made two of them dash at him this time instead of just one. As they charge forward he shaped the nearby fire coming from the dummy that he punched a hole through into a sword made of flame that then floated in the air next to him. He then grabbed the fire sword and as the dummies got within reach of it he swung in rapid succession at both of them. He watched as the heat made the initial incision and the actual flames helped burn everything within its path. As a result he cleanly carved both dummies into large pieces. 

Just like earlier when he fought the monster and initially buffed himself that morning there was a aftereffect where the heat still caused some destruction in the area around him, but it was much smaller this time. Most likely because all of the buffs that were active this morning were not active now. A visible burn across the grass in the field where he stood could be seen being generated by the heat from the swings stretching out a further 15ft from where the actual flaming blade was swung and hit.

Augustus looked back to his teacher and said, "I want to test my speed now sir. Could you have the rest come at me at once?"

Professor Korrii gave a wide wicked grin of satisfaction hearing that his student that has been with him the longest and has taken the most time to teach finally had that fire in him that he had been trying to stoke and ignite for a long time. Looking at Augustus he could see that the flame in his heart was not just the literal one he could see in that moment but also the metaphorical one that had been lacking in him. Without saying a word he just simply moved his hand, and the rest of the training dummies that were meant for practice charged forward at Augustus.

Augustus then focused his breathing and centered his mind once again. This time he wanted to prove something to himself. He wanted to prove that he was not weak and that he could really become something special. He knew that he had a lot of people supporting him hell his teacher had spent 150 years of time teaching and training him as his pupil. He needed to prove to himself that he was worthy of all that time invested and all that support given. 

Knowing the time constraints that he still had with Lion's Heart he activated another spell known as Electric Slide which temporarily would boost his speed to just under the speed of sound for 30 seconds. Red lightning started arcing around him as the spell activated and he could feel as the enemies that were charging at him all seem to slow down drastically. He took the flaming sword in his hand and then channeled into it magical flame as well by casting Infuse Flame causing the sword to go from a red color to a pure white fire. This was simply to buff it s output even more stacking as much firepower into it as he could. With his speed being enhanced in this way he hoped to achieve something that he could be proud of.

He then started to move, and with his first step towards his targets his eyes seem to change his vision. In an instant he could see the millions of ways that he could defeat each of these training dummies in precise, effective, and efficient ways. They had a glow around them that was green in color which he had seen a few times when he allowed his eyes to really gauge his targets in the past. This meant that he was seeing the magic that was moving them. 

He realized that this must be an effect of his natural racial capabilities being applied alongside his new unique eyes given from the Eyes of the Cinder King ability he got. With this information Augustus smiled and started to pick up his speed as his feet carried him along towards his targets. 

To everyone else's eyes he was just a blur of lightning streaking forward and then in an instant as he leaped up in the air and that momentum slowed just for a second they could see him with the lightning arcing around him. Then he vanished from sight becoming a streak of lightning again that appeared in front of them holding the flaming sword and smiling. 

They watched as all of the dummies instantly are melted down to liquid metal that is then scattered for roughly 50ft. Everything within a 50ft radius of where Augustus was seen before appearing again in front of them ignited into flames as he swung his sword. At the speed he was moving when the swings landed it was just enough for him to temporarily break the sound barrier and give off a sonic boom of force. 

They stood in all and admiration of his skills and abilities. The professor applauded him seeing how far he had come and the confidence that now radiated across his face. He no longer saw the scared little boy that he had known all this time. Instead he saw the man that he had one day hoped would emerge finally for the first time in front of him.

Augustus looked at himself and let all of his abilities that were either barely hanging on or he no longer needed wash away for a moment. As he reverted back to his normal self he slowly sat down in the grass to catch his breath. 

As he got his breathing under control and let the adrenaline and excitement leave him he felt a hand that was familiar place itself on his head. He looked up and he saw his teacher was now 4ft tall again and patting him on the head.

"Professor," Augustus said in a questioning way. 

The professor looked at him with a kind warm smile, "Looks like the real last night I wanted you to learn all these years has finally sunken in. It took some time but I can see you finally learned it. In life it'll be rare that you'll have the chance to truly rely on others to see you through something. Because of that you need to be able to rely on yourself and your own capabilities. But most importantly you need to have faith in yourself. Because the moment you start to doubt yourself and what you can achieve you will truly lose the battle. Even in a situation where it may seem unwinnable there's always a way to turn the tide in your favor so long as you do not succumb to self-doubt and fear."

Augustus looked at him reflecting on the words as he had heard them from time to time over the last century and a half. Only now did he truly understand that this entire time the only thing stopping him from achieving his desire to let go of his fear of what happened and actually grow as a person was himself. The fear from the trauma he gained that day on the spaceship holding him back from truly becoming the person he wanted to be. He gave the professor a nod and started to smile. He began thinking about how he could have reached this level of strength a long time ago if he actually got out of his own way and had just a little bit of faith.

However that thought was interrupted by his teacher, "Now get up August..... Or have you forgotten that it's time for you to take the graduation test?" 

He could see all of his fellow students smiling at him excited to see how well he does for the test. Many of them quickly rushed over to the instruments that they would need to play and the others got ready to start their singing. They would watch and perform to motivate and encourage him. They wanted to see him succeed as he was considered the master's greatest pupil. Despite his notable weaknesses he had learned from the master the longest and had gained a wide variety of skills making him overall the most experienced at them all. 

Seeing how his fellow students genuinely supported him and hoped for his success, Augustus stood up holding his head up high for once. His professor then reminded him how the grade for the test is considered, "You should know all too well how the test works, but the last one was about three decades ago. So here's a refresher.... In order to pass you simply need to defeat 200 of the dummies. However the more them that you can defeat before they ultimately overwhelm you will count towards a reward that you can be given based on your performance. The better that you do the better the reward." 

The reward that his teacher was talking about was a part of one of his teachers rare skills called Reward the Showman. The skill was pretty weak however it's main function was to create an item based off of how well the person the teacher would observe does in a test like this. The better the person does the better the item that is created by the skill as a reward for them. He remembers the last time he checked his teacher said the grade of the skill was the highest out of all of them that his teacher had which was his teachers only Grade S skill.

As Augustus gave a nod and prepared for the test to begin he got a pop up that displayed as a massive screen for everyone to see. Augustus got a quest from the God of Games himself. This shocked everyone who saw it as this was the first time any of them has seen a special quest up here or even heard of such a thing. Even the professor hasn't had a special quest directly from the God of Games himself; despite having a few special quests over the years.

This quest read as follows: 

Seeing the quest appear and reading it Augustus felt pressured. But seeing that if he could complete the exotic quest he could not only gain a lot of nice benefits himself, but also in a way give back to the teacher who trained him all these time he started to feel motivated.

He looked to his teacher and gave a nod and a look that said to go ahead and start the test. With that the professor gave a quick prayer for his success and wished him luck before using his magic to start the graduation test. 

As the first of the 1000 training dummies started to move Augustus cast Electric Slide on himself once more and activated Lion's Heart. He then used Infuse Flame on his fists and feet.

With that he charged forward meeting them head on and striking them with his bare hands. He knew in order for them to be counted as dead he would need to land a blow that his master would consider fatal. So he started targeting the heads and torsos of his enemies. With his Eyes of the Cinder King showing him the most effective and efficient ways to do so in the shortest amount of time he began following the paths that would lead him to ultimately completing the exotic quest.

Just before he could throw the first punch he cast another spell to buff himself even more. This time it was an augmentation spell called, Boost Muscles. This spell caused him to have his muscles nearly double in size, but despite how bulky he might seem it also boosted his overall agility and stamina as well as his strength and sturdiness. Allowing for his punches and kicks to have much more force behind them than they initially did. 

He knew the duration for the spell was 10 minutes and would last longer than Lion's Heart or Electric Slide. Yet in combination with them it would make him noticeably quicker and stronger. Thus making it worth using in this moment.

It definitely paid off as the first hit landed and the force of it was very similar to the punch he threw that morning against the monster. It punched a sizable hole not only through that training dummy but through several others that were behind it within a roughly 50ft distance. The heat from it left a clear path of burning grass in its wake. But this wasn't enough for him as he needed his attacks to be stronger in order to do what he could to complete the exotic quest.

Realizing he needed to put more into it he cast Infuse Light on himself which functioned almost the exact same way as Infuse Flame did. Except instead of using fire it used concentrated and highly focused light similar to the beams fired from laser weapons.