"This guy… who the hell is he?" Someone from the crowd couldn't help but ask when he saw him killing three-star Elders one after another.
"I don't know who is he but he is both crazy and strong."
"Wasn't the Elder Raina a high-stage three-star mage and famed for his mastery over the wind element? But he died so… easily? It was as if he walked into his punch."
"You fool! Didn't you notice this guy instantly cast that burning fist spell of his? The Elder was taken off guard. If not, the one who would have died would have been this kid."
"Now that you mention it, it's really strange. Wasn't the instant cast something only mages beyond the mortal boundary could do?"
"Who knows how he did that, but fuck! This guy is insane. He has killed four people right inside the disciplinary hall and the fifth's condition is unknown."
"…"
The crowd broke out in an uproar.
Meanwhile, standing in the corner, Elder Adrienne and the middle-aged man gaped at Max in shock.
"Hall master, did he instantly cast a spell?" Adrienne asked in confusion.
The middle-aged man shook his head. "No, he didn't."
"Then what exactly happened?"
"I don't know how, but this kid managed to hide the circulation and condensing of his mana as he prepared the spell. He only needed to activate it. That's why it seemed as though he had instantly cast. But I have to admit, this kid is a monster even among monstrous geniuses."
The middle-aged sighed and then added, "Unfortunately, he is too reckless and is bound to die."
Hearing this, Adrienne frowned and asked, "Are you going to take action, hall master?"
The middle-aged man glanced at her and grinned. "You seem to take up for him quite a lot. What is the reason? Do you like him or something?"
"You sure like to talk nonsense, hall master." Adrienne coldly said before adding, "It's just that… I was the one who recruited him to the academy and I don't like the fact that his life is being… traded."
The middle-aged man sighed. "You don't need to feel bad about it. It's the higher ups' decision."
"Besides, even if the academy was wrong at the beginning, it doesn't matter anymore because killing two three-star Elders, two disciples and crippling the other is already a sin punishable by death."
"I'm sure even you wouldn't forgive someone who has killed the people from the academy, right?"
Adrienne didn't respond, a complicated look flashing in her eyes as she thought, 'Wasn't he forced to do so? If the academy hadn't mistreated him and his sister, things wouldn't have come to this point.'
The man glanced at her and didn't speak again.
Max looked at Raina's corpse with an icy expression on his face and scoffed, "Tricked you? That's true, but why did you fall for it?"
If Raina was still alive and heard this, he would've spit blood in anger.
Max then glanced at his hand. Although he had put it through Raina's body, there wasn't even a single drop of blood on it as all of it was burnt away by the flames.
'Why did I feel that strange, addictive feeling when I killed him?' He frowned as he recalled the strange excitement coursing through his body the moment he put his hand through Raina's body and watched him slowly die.
It was addictive, and he wanted to keep killing.
'Now that I think about it, I felt the same when I killed Luo, the pot-bellied Elder and that woman, though the feeling was subdued and not as potent as it was now.' His frown deepened.
Just then, he noticed the system messages flashing in the corner of his retina.
[Ding! You've killed a two-star mage. +100 Kill points.]
[Ding! You've killed a three-star mage. +1000 Kill points.]
[Ding! You've killed a two-star mage. +70 Kill points.]
[Ding! You've killed a three-star mage. +3000 Kill points.]
'Right? The system has started to reward me kill points, too.' He remembered, and the corner of his lips curled up into a grin.
Now, he didn't have to rely only on sex to become stronger. Of course, it wasn't that he didn't enjoy having sex — he did, a lot in fact — which should be clear by his actions until now.
However, this method of getting stronger was slow, in his opinion. This was especially true when he thought of his enemies. Be it the Daltons, or the Arasia family, or count Wiley, everyone was a lot stronger than him.
But with the imminent war and this new kill point system, he could grow at terrifying speeds.
He wanted to open his status and convert the KPs (Kill points) into LPs and increase his physical attributes, but this wasn't the place to do so.
'Let's first leave the academy.' He thought and turned around to walk out of the hall, but just then, a voice sounded from deeper into the hall.
"You are going to leave after killing so many people? Do you think we'll let you?"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Following the voice, three men in disciplinary hall Elder's uniforms rushed out toward him and surrounded him immediately.
Max stared at them with narrowed eyes and said in a rather calm voice, "I've already killed those I needed to and don't want to continue. But if you block my way again, I will kill you."
The three men shivered when they heard this.
Although they hadn't seen him kill the pot-bellied Elder and others, they had witnessed Elder Raina's death.
They could argue that he used trickery to kill him, but there was no denying that he was almost as strong as a high-stage three-star mage while they were only early-stage three-star mages. If they fought, the outcome was obvious.
Max glanced at them before walking away. The crowd of disciples parted to give him a way out. Some looked at him in awe, some in dread, and some with pity.
Max ignored them all and gradually disappeared from their sight.
In the corner, Elder Adrienne glanced at the middle-aged man and asked, "Why didn't you stop him?"
"Why should I?" The man shrugged and said,
"If I'm not wrong, he will leave the academy now but the moment he steps outside the academy's gate, he will die. So why would I stop him?"
"How will he die?" Adrienne frowned.
"Let's go and find out."
