"Why?" Adam muttered coldly.
His gaze laced with killing intent drilled into the elf, Mira, whom he had grabbed by the neck and pressed against a mushroom tree.
He had already torn her arms off of her shoulders and shattered her kneecaps. Moreover, he had even used healing potions so she didn't die immediately from blood loss. The youth wasn't done with her yet.
He needed answers.
"Why?" He repeated.
Mira looked back at Adam, tears streaming down her face and her body trembling from sheer pain. She couldn't help but curse her misfortune for crossing paths with this monster in front of him.
She knew that Adam wouldn't let her live. Moreover, even if she somehow managed to survive this encounter, she would forever be a cripple and never be able to pick up her bow again. But that wouldn't happen, for death was a forgone conclusion.
Realizing this, Mira's eyes turned bloodshot from anger and she gritted her teeth. "You human scum… I hate you!"
Adam didn't reply. Instead, he stabbed his hand inside the wound on her shoulder—the area where he had torn her arm. And then he twisted it.
"AHHHH!!" Mira screamed in pain.
She had never been through so much pain in her life. However, that still didn't diminish the hatred and loathing she felt for Adam deep in her heart.
Her eyes rolled back and she was about to lose consciousness. But right at that moment, Adam force-fed her some more healing potion and slapped her awake.
"Why?" He asked again.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})As soon as Mira came to, she glared at Adam, her eyes spewing venom. "You human trash! You wanna know why I came after you? It's because you refused to help me that day! For scum like you, it should be an honor to help someone from a noble race like me!"
Hearing her reply, Adam was silent.
Seeing him speechless, Mira laughed maniacally. "Do you get it now?! You humans are beneath us! And you always will be! Hahahaha!"
Adam replied after a very long time. "All this… for such a stupid reason?"
If Valerian wasn't a dragon and didn't have such strong defenses, he would have surely died from that arrow. Adam couldn't comprehend the fact that a young dragon, who had nothing to do with all of this, could have died today because of something so petty.
The youth never thought that the elf would go so far for something so trivial. He couldn't help but wonder, were all elves like this?
But then he shook his head.
Daneli and Atiel weren't like this at all.
But then, another thought popped into his mind. Would they have acted the same way if I had met them under the same circumstances?
He didn't know.
Right at that moment, the youth realized something that some people would take their entire lives to understand.
He couldn't discriminate against people based on their race. The only way to judge a person was through their actions. But wasn't that easier said than done? For a moment, he felt lost.
Adam then looked her in the eye and said sincerely, "If it was something I could have done, perhaps I might have."
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})He paused for a moment after having come to another realization. If he left people like Mira alive, they would surely become a hindrance to him in the future. Jeffrey and Kevin were the perfect examples.
Adam's eyes narrowed and his voice turned cold.
"But I won't go out of my way to save a bunch of strangers.
"You came after me because I refused to help?
"Why should I help?
"I have no obligation to help you at all!"
Mira's eyes flashed with insanity. "You trash should—"
"I've had enough of you." Adam interrupted her.
With lightning speed, he grabbed the arrows from the quiver on Mira's back, then he ruthlessly stabbed her with them.
"AAAAHHHH!!" Mira's body was riddled with arrows.
She screamed for a long time and then the madness in her eyes was replaced with desperation. She looked at Adam and pleaded, "Please… please… kill me! Just kill me! I beg you... Please..."
However, Adam didn't even cast a glance at her. He turned around and left without saying another word, leaving Mira to die a slow and painful death.
"KILL ME!!" Mira screamed.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})The dozens of arrows had viciously pinned her to the tree, moreover, she didn't even have hands left to remove the arrows and free herself. The arrows stabbed her vital organs and slowly drained the life out of her.
"Aaahhh…." She screamed for a long time.
Eventually, her screams turned feeble and her vision became blurry. The light in her eyes slowly dimmed and the last thing she was Adam's departing back.
…
More than fifteen minutes after Adam had left, a youth wearing a hooded, orange cloak that had the Murphy Academy's insignia on it, appeared in front of the mushroom tree where Mira had been pinned.
The youth removed his hood and looked at Mira's corpse in terror. As he looked at the state of the elf, he involuntarily gulped and muttered under his breath, "How vicious and cruel, that guy."
For a moment he hesitated, Do I really need to get involved in this?
But the next moment, his eyes flashed with resolve and he clenched his fists. "No, I must take this risk! Kevin promised me that his family would write me a recommendation letter for a transfer to the Clover Academy."
Kevin had been planning to take down Adam for a very long time. He had chosen this secret plane as his hunting ground. Naturally, he had made his arrangements.
Moreover, after having learned that Adam managed to live through the assassination attempts of two Organ Stage Magi, he had made enough preparations to gather a large number of Magi by promising them benefits. All this just to take down Adam.
And this teenager from the Murphy Academy was one of those many Magi.
The orange-cloaked youth cast one last glance at the corpse of the elf and then started to examine the battlefield, looking for something that would help him track down Adam's whereabouts.
About another twenty minutes later, the teenager found two arrows in the near distance. His eyes lit up as he picked them up and examined them. These were the only arrows that Mira had managed to shoot at Adam.
Seeing its arrowheads smeared with blood, he smiled confidently.
"Yes, this should do!"
