Damien took out his sword - Knightfall and the Darksilver steel gleaned under the moonlight while making everyone feel a sharp sword aura emanating from it.
In Damien's perspective, Drake was just a junior to him who is too full of himself. He didn't want to waste his time by squabbling with someone who isn't even at his level. That is why he didn't even pay Drake much mind when he tried to stir up trouble for his first Alchemy class.
It's not like Drake was his sworn enemy, so he didn't want to create unnecessary hostility and disrupt his own life.
But that doesn't mean he would sit still if someone asks for a beating or tests his patience. Even though Damien didn't have any memory of his mother, he, for some reason, felt irked when Drake ridiculed him. He felt more anger even though the insult was to his mother. At least his mother was the reason he was even born into this world.
Damien wouldn't concern himself if some dogs barked at him, but if they barked at the ones he cared about then, he would silence them.
And now, one such dog was standing before him while slowly taking out a heavy red axe.
"Hahaha, it seems like you at least possess some guts. But to think that you could say such words so easily...let's see who is going to kiss the ground." Drake sneered as he twirled his axe, trying to show off his moves.
'Jeez, what a stupid kid.'
Damien taunted him, "Come...I don't have time to waste with you."
Valentina jumped towards Yara Haley's arms as Damien instructed her to stay with Yara Haley till he is done with Drake.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})No matter how confident Damien was, he wasn't ready to take any chance or risk to put his loved ones in danger.
"You!!" Drake unknowingly even circulated his ethereal energy seeing Damien's contempt for him. But he suppressed and sealed his ethereal energy since he himself called for a spar where no one should use their cultivation.
He readied his weapon and rushed at Damien like a mad bull, stomping the ground.
However, Damien didn't even move an inch and stared lazily at Drake rushing towards him.
"Haaa!!!" Just as Drake neared him, he swung his axe wildly towards Damien's neck.
But just at that moment, the world seemed to stand still for Damien. His eyes were naturally able to follow every single movement of Drake that in his eyes, Drake seemed as slow as a snail.
His body and sword were already projecting his Sword Will that allowed him to see and sense his surroundings in a clear and sharper way.
In his mind, he already calculated at least a thousand ways he could end this silly spar in a single stroke.
His lips curled up as he gripped his sword tighter and saw Drake swinging his axe towards his neck while saliva escaped from his mouth with his shout.
Damien didn't wait to let Drake reach him first. He rushed towards him and ducked while executing a couple of sword strokes in a swift and precise fashion.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})"Damn it!!" Drake missed, and it was too late to change his footwork when he saw Damien easily dodging his axe and going under him.
*THUD*
He stumbled on his feet and fell with his nose planted on the ground. The dust lifted off the ground just as his body fell. His axe also slipped out of his hand and was lying two meters away from him.
Damien skidded a few meters on his feet as he straightened his body after ducking right under Drake's arm.
Damien had a veiled grin as he slowly turned back. Everyone was surprised at the speed at which Damien moved without even using his cultivation. Damien was even standing still till Drake got near to him, yet he was able to react so quickly and avoid his deadly axe.
But most of all, they couldn't believe that Drake fell even without Damien attacking him. He collapsed because of his own move.
The practitioners were able to notice that Damien executed few moves with his sword just before he ducked. They were astonished at the speed at which Damien's hands moved to execute those strokes despite not using his cultivation.
However, they were puzzled when they saw that Damien's sword didn't even touch Drake even once.
They couldn't understand why he even executed those strokes if he wasn't even planning to attack Drake.
Drake banged his fist on the ground, thinking how he lost his balance like an amateur. He felt his pride crushed as he felt a few dozens of gazes of pity and faint ridicule on him. He could even hear the whispers of cripples pitying him.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})When did he, a prominent genius of one of the top five families, ever needed the pity of cripples?
He slowly got up and picked his axe up, and turned towards Damien with an ugly expression, "Hmph, you coward! Do you just know only to run and duck? Fight me like a man!"
However, Drake was perplexed when he saw Damien smiling sardonically with him while others suddenly gasped while looking at him.
He couldn't understand what was going on with everyone and why most of the girls seemed to glance away as if they saw something horrendous.
Damien snickered, "Fight you like a man? Why don't you look down and ask yourself whether you are man enough to fight me?"
Drake felt a bad feeling and his eyes bulged as he looked down.
Buck naked! His clothes magically disappeared, and his body was on complete display along with his 1-inch lizard.
"Fuck!!" Drake dropped his axe as he quickly covered his pitiful manhood.
He was inflamed with anger, shame, and mortified to know that everyone now knows about his weakness which he had taken great measure to hide. He felt graveled, not knowing how he even got naked in the first place.
With a deadly glare of hatred and rage, he looked at Damien, knowing that Damien used some dirty trick to humiliate and make him lose all face.
He quickly took out some clothes from his spatial ring and dressed himself up before everyone. He didn't even have the face to look at the expressions of others or their reactions. His eyes were completely fixated on Damien as rage pumped in his heart.
His darkly expression looked as if Damien massacred his whole family.
Yara Haley let out a sigh of pity as she caught sight of that pitiful thing between his legs. She never knew that her snobbish and arrogant brother had such an imperfection amongst all his other perfect qualities.
Damien snickered, "Say, do you still want to continue? Now everyone here knows that you can't even land a single blow on me. Hell, I was able to even cut your clothes over five times and avoid your attack without you even noticing it."
He continued as he narrowed his gaze, "Doesn't this mean that you already lost over five times? I could have easily put you down any second. But no, you did that yourself for me."
Damien turned away while shaking his head in pity. He walked away without paying any mind to Drake as he knew that next time Drake would think twice before challenging him.
Drake didn't say anything but clenched his fists so tight that blood dripped from his palms. Everyone started to slowly disperse as the show was over, and Yara Haley walked towards Damien.
But Valentina suddenly became alert as she noticed Drake picking his axe up and about to do something suspicious.
"Damien!!! Die!!!" Drake howled like a wild dog as he circulated his ethereal energy to the maximum and threw a blazing axe towards Damien.
Yara Haley was startled as she felt Valentina suddenly jumping off from her arms and towards Drake in a frenzied manner.
"HISSS...GROWLLLLLL..."
Yara Haley, including everyone else's eyes, became wide-eyed as they saw Valentina transforming into a ten-meter tall terrifying tigress in mid-air while releasing a menacing aura from her body that seemed to make everyone stand rooted to the ground.
However, Valentina got worried when she realized that she was a bit late as Drake had already released the blazing axe from his hand, which shot towards Damien. But she relaxed, seeing a certain person rushing towards Damien.
Damien turned around and was about to execute Mirage of Myriad Phantasms but stopped when he saw something spectacular appearing before him.
