Hearing this, Anna's expression became dim and shook her head "No." She then smiled "I'm not far from breaking through, though. I think in a few more days, I'll be able to do it."
"Okay." Max nodded. Then he took out around 200 Mana stones and gave them to her "Here, use these and break through."
"No." Anna shook her head "You also need these to cultivate. I can't take them. So, please do so, okay." She said in a gentle voice while looking into his eyes.
Inwardly, she felt very happy that he cared so much for her and was willing to give all of his Mana stones to her.
Max smiled and was about to say something when Anna suddenly asked "Max, how come you still have Mana stones left? Didn't you use them when you were in the forest? Or did you rob someone?"
Max looked at her in silence for a while. He was thinking whether to tell her about his 'ability' to cultivate without Mana stones or not.
"Anna…" Max finally decided to tell her since he wanted her to be his woman. However, before he could say anything, someone knocked on the door.
Knock! Knock!
"It's disciplinary hall. We have received a complaint. Come out." An arrogant voice sounded out.
Hearing this, Max frowned. Why would disciplinary hall would come here? 'Are they here because they know Anna is staying with me?' He thought.
'No, they don't have so much time to care about an outer sector disciple living with an inner disciple.' He shook his head.
Moreover, he wasn't the only one who was doing this. Many other inner disciples were living with their woman who were outer sector disciple and academy didn't have any rule prohibiting this like in the case of Core disciples.
Just then, Anna who was snuggling in his embrace, jumped out of the bed and her normally smiling face was filled with anger.
"Mm?" Max looked at her in puzzlement and realized that something wasn't right and Anna seemed to know this.
"What is it, Anna?" He asked.
"It's that bastard, Karon. Ever since I first met him, he had become obsessed with me. Today, when I was sparring in the arena, he came and offered to spar with me. Since he is already a two-star mage I thought it would be good to spar with him but he tried to touch me inappropriately. Therefore, I slapped him and beat him up. He threatened to make me pay for the humiliation he suffered and since he knows someone in the disciplinary hall so..." Anna explained.
Before she could complete her statement, she felt a powerful murderous aura radiate from Max.
"Good. Very good." His eyes were flashing with intense killing intent. The one thing he hated most was, someone having bad intentions for his women or him.
Although, Anna wasn't his woman yet, she was someone very special to him. She was among the few people who made him feel comfortable when he transmigrated to this world. Moreover, he had the instinct to protect her because of Maxwell.
Anna was surprised seeing him become angry. She had never seen him angry, let alone to the point where he would radiate such killing intent.
Shua!
Before she could say anything, Max had moved to the door and opened it.
…
Outside Max's door…
Many other disciples from the nearby dorms had come out hearing the shout.
Two men were standing in front of Max's dorm room. In front stood the man in black robes which was the uniform of disciplinary hall. His expression was aloof and arrogant.
The man stood behind him, was wearing white robes of normal disciples and from the emblem on his chest, one could tell that he was an inner disciple.
However, his face looked funny. It was badly bruised and swollen and looked like a pig face. He was Karon, who was beaten up by Anna.
"What's the situation? Why is here a disciplinary hall disciple here?" Disciples started murmuring in confusion.
"Maybe it's because of this pig faced guy. The guy living here must have beaten him up." Someone guessed.
"Tch, after getting beaten up, he went to disciplinary hall to complain. What a coward!" Some disciples snickered in disdain.
…
Hearing this, Karon's already ugly face turned gloomy and he looked toward the disciplinary hall disciple.
"Humph!" The black robed man hurrumphed coldly and released his peak two-star aura which immediately quietened the disciples.
Most of the disciples here were only initial stage or middle stage two-star mages and being a disciple of the disciplinary hall, he was stronger than average peak two-star mages since only outstanding disciples of the academy could join the disciplinary hall.
"Go and knock again or I'll just break this door." The black robed man ordered Karon.
Karon nodded and went to knock on the door again.
Bang!
However, before he could knock, the door was banged opened, and a handsome blue-haired youth appeared in front of him.
He was radiating intense killing intent which made him freeze.
Immediately after opening the door, Max saw Karon and recognized him as he had seen him before when Anna came from the mission.
Suu--
As Max was already angry and seeing the culprit in front of him, he immediately punched toward his chest.
"Wha—" Karon exclaimed in disbelief and however, he couldn't even complete the word 'what' when the punch landed on him.
Crack!
Bang!
His ribs made crackling sound and he flew through the air toward the black robed man as blood burst out from his mouth.
"Mm?" The black robed man was dazed seeing this. He didn't expect someone to be bold enough to fight or precisely attack even after knowing that disciplinary hall disciple was here.
However, seeing Karon flying toward him, he hurriedly raised his hands and two water hands materialized that caught him in mid-air.
He hurriedly checked his injuries and seeing that five or six of his ribs had broken and his internal organ also seemed to be injured, he took out a transparent bottle which had green liquid in it.
He had a painful expression on his face as he made him drink it.
Max stood there looking coldly at them, he didn't use his full strength or he would have died right there.
"Bastard, do you want to die?" The black robed man glared at him and unleashed his aura at full power.
