"Arrogant bastard!" Kevin's eyes turned bloodshot from anger.
He hated the look in Adam's eyes. When was the last time anyone had ever looked down on him?
Never!
But at the same time, Kevin couldn't help but come to admire his opponent's talent. As he looked at the raven-haired youth take out a pair of gauntlets and wear them, he couldn't help but wonder why things had to come to this in the first place.
If he hadn't been so insecure about his fiance spending time with Adam, would he find himself in his current circumstance?
Probably not.
However, now that the sword was unsheathed, he had to draw it and finish what he started.
As he was going through these thoughts, a firm hand clasped his shoulder. Kevin turned around and his gaze landed on his long-time, trusted subordinate who was looking back at him in a composed manner.
"Young Master, leave him to me," said Grayson with the utmost confidence.
Kevin deeply gazed at this middle-aged man, and then finally nodded. "Take ten more Magi and buy me some time. I'll finish the restraining runic formation."
He then looked at Jeffrey and said flatly, "You go with him as well."
Jeffrey cursed under his breath, but at this point he could only reluctantly agree. The three of them turned to look at the place where Adam was standing but were stunned.
Adam was no longer there!
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Suddenly, a cold voice drifted into their ears. "You guys are sure looking down on me. Talking with each other while I'm ready to kill… Are you guys stupid?"
All of them turned their heads in the direction of the voice and found Adam standing behind a youth from the Murphy Academy. At the last moment, they could see green strands of wind swirling around Adam's feet.
Curt, who had his eyes on Adam all along, saw him disappear from his spot and the next moment, he heard his voice coming from right behind him.
His body shuddered in terror as realization struck him. But it was too late when he suddenly felt a hand grab his neck from behind.
"You seers are annoying." Adam's grip around Curt's neck slowly tightened. "What a pity. You chose the wrong side."
"N-N-No—" Curt stuttered in panic as tears streamed down his fear-filled eyes. However, the words got stuck in his throat soon after.
CRACK!
Adam effortlessly snapped Curt's neck. The light in his eyes slowly dimmed and he lifelessly fell to the ground.
"You bastard!" The moment Curt's corpse fell to the ground, Grayson had already rushed toward Adam, wielding a long sword augmented with his mana. Behind him, Jeffrey and nine other Magi also dashed toward him, brandishing their weapons.
Seeing the Magi approach him filled with unbridled killing intent, a wide grin formed on Adam's face. He could feel his heart thumping faster and faster.
However, it was not out of fear, but sheer excitement!
With a crazed look in his eyes, Adam got into the fighting stance of the Phantom Dance.
"Yahahaha! Come, I'll dance with you."
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As Adam got into a brutal battle with Grayson, Jeffrey, and nine other Magi, Kevin led the remaining Magi to form a perimeter around their battlefield and began preparations to activate the restraining formation.
From the corner of his eyes, Kevin glanced at the ongoing battle and was filled with disbelief. His whole body shuddered when he witnessed the incredulous scene taking place.
Adam, who was only at Muscle Stage, was going toe-to-toe with Grayson, who was a Neural Stage Magus!
And that was not all. At the same time that Adam was fighting Grayson, he was also fending off against the spells and magic combat techniques of Jeffrey and the other Magi.
"What a monster!" Kevin couldn't help but involuntarily blurt out.
No matter how many times Adam was injured, he continued to step forward and deliver one devastating attack after another, with each attack more tyrannical than the last. The youth's momentum was like a raging tempest that kept on intensifying.
He wasn't even using spells! It was just pure magic combat!
Three Magi had already perished in the last few minutes, and if this continued, all of them would be annihilated. Seeing such a shocking scene, Kevin suddenly realized something.
Adam came from the lowest of mortal backgrounds, but despite that how could he get his hands on such otherworldly magic combat techniques? How could he be so ridiculously strong for his rank?
There was only one plausible reason.
Kevin's eyes narrowed and greed flashed past them. An inheritance!
The more he thought about it, the more it made sense. How else could one explain Adam's monstrous growth and his access to such a number of incredible techniques?
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})Kevin's lips curled into a cold smile. If I kill him and get my hands on those techniques…
The greed in his heart bloomed with each passing second. He hurriedly instructed the Magi to complete the runic formation. He would never get a better chance than today to deal with Adam once and for all.
…
More than minutes had passed and all the Magi except Grayson and Jeffrey had already been brutally killed by Adam.
To say that Grayson was shocked would be a major understatement. He had never thought in his wildest imagination that such a character existed in the Clover Academy. To him, Adam was simply a monster.
The youth in front of him launched a series of attacks from his fists, elbows, knees, and feet. It felt like every part of his body was a weapon.
Moreover, each strike contained such immense penetrative power that the Magi couldn't even take more than two blows before succumbing to their injuries and dying.
And that was not all. Grayson found that Adam's movements were so erratic and unpredictable that they were nigh impossible to defend against.
To him, Adam appeared to be a specter that had broken into a drunken dance.
This was the essence of the Phantom Dance!
As Adam continued to defend against the joint attacks of Grayson and Jeffrey, Kevin suddenly alerted them. "It's ready!"
Hearing his instructions, both Grayson and Jeffrey, who by now were riddled with injuries, hurriedly attempted to retreat.
However, how could Adam allow this?
But he could only go after one of them. So, out of his sheer hatred for Jeffrey, he chose to go after him, completely ignoring Grayson.
"Where do you think you're going, ya bastard?" Adam, who was bathed in blood, rushed toward Jeffrey as he growled.
However, choosing to ignore Grayson, a veteran warrior in his own right, was a big mistake on the youth's part.
Grasping this opportunity, Grayson expended the last bit of mana he had in his reserves, and at lightning speed appeared between Adam and Jeffrey. Then, he raised his sword and slashed down on the approaching Adam with all his might.
Adam couldn't stop his momentum in time. At the last moment, he could only manage to lean his body backward at a weird angle to receive the least amount of damage.
SLASH!
"Aggghh!!" Adam stumbled backward as Grayson's sword cut through his face diagonally, leaving behind a wound so deep that it exposed the youth's flesh and even the skull.
Grayson, on the other hand, cursed under his breath. That attack of his should have cleanly decapitated the youth, but at the last moment, the latter had managed to tilt his body at an absurd angle, escaping death.
What amazing battle instincts! The middle-aged man thought to himself.
The blood from the deep cut on Adam's face momentarily blinded him stop him in his tracks. But that was all it took for Kevin and the rest of the Magi on the perimeter to activate the runic formation.
A bright magic circle lit up on the battlefield. Following that, the shadows of the ten Magi, including Kevin, standing on the perimeter enlarged and shot toward Adam as if they had come alive.
The shadows stretched and curled around Adam's limbs, effectively restricting him on the spot.
"Success!" Kevin clenched his fists victoriously.
Now, Adam's fate was sealed. The youth tried his hardest to free himself, but it was futile.
Jeffrey's eyes gleamed with a vicious light and he stopped retreating. Instead, he rushed toward the bound Adam with his spear coated in mana, while laughing like a madman. "Hahaha, die!"
Before Adam's vision could even return, it was already too late.
STAB!
