Max panicked when he heard him, and his mind raced to salvage the situation somehow.
It wouldn't be that bad if a few peak three-star mages wanted to kill them because of their enmity, but if Amara's identity was exposed, that would be much more horrifying because they would be hunted down by everyone.
Even his family would suffer because of his association with a demon, which Max didn't want at all.
Suddenly, he found the man in front of him rather familiar looking and it didn't take him much time to realise his identity.
'He is most likely Jack's father.'
Realising this, he calmed down, put on a sarcastic expression on his face and scoffed mockingly,
"What? After the useless son died, the parents have come to take revenge? Tch! What else can we expect from the parents of such a filthy scum?"
Speaking until here, he put on a thoughtful expression, and said, "Perhaps he was such a filthy scum because he had parents like you? Yeah, this makes more sense."
It seemed his little trick worked as the faces of the duo turned dark when they heard him.
Boom!
Their aura burst forth and enveloped him simultaneously. But it didn't affect him one bit because the defensive talisman was still working.
Even so, when he felt the intensity of their auras, Max was surprised to find that both of them were at the peak of the three-star realm.
"Argh!"
Although he was fine, Amara was strong enough to disregard their aura, but the same wasn't the case for Anna. As soon as their aura's enveloped them, her face twisted in a grimace and she started perspiring heavily.
He quickly gave Anna the last grade four talisman and infused it with his own mana since she couldn't use it as a two-star mage.
Swoosh!
The talisman burst and a wave of powerful four-star mana enveloped her protectively. Following this, Anna's expression gradually turned to normal.
"I'M GOING TO RIP YOU TO SHREDS! YOU BASTARD!" Jack's mother roared in madness.
She loved her son the most in this world and always indulged him, no matter what he wanted. She was even willing to kill Dalton when her son told her he wanted to be the young master of the Dalton family.
In short, her love for her son knew no bounds. So, when she found out someone had killed her lovely kid, she had almost gone mad because of her overwhelming sadness and anger. From that day, she had been itching to kill the murderous of her son with her own hands.
When she arrived here and saw Max walking out of the academy, she could barely contain her anger. The moment they stepped outside the academy's gate, she forcefully brought them away in case they tried to re-enter the academy so save their hides.
So, when she heard Max be so disdainful and mock her son, she couldn't contain her boiling anger any longer.
Boom!
Her mana burst forth along with her aura and,
Whoosh!
She rushed at him. Her speed, although not as fast as Raina's, because he had mastered his wind element to a certain level, was still blindingly fast. Max couldn't even blink when she had arrived in front of him and had thrown a punch at his face.
Boom!
A loud boom resounded as her fist collided heavily against the Mana shroud around him.
'How strong!' Max exclaimed in shock in his mind.
Although he didn't receive any damage thanks to the Mana shroud's protection, he could feel how strong her seeming normal punch was.
Well… it wasn't normal because right before her fist collied with the Mana shroud, a faint violet light had enveloped it.
Whizz!
The Mana shroud trembled lightly, and it seemed to have lost some mana, becoming slightly transparent.
'Fuck! Just how powerful this woman is. She can even harm it.' Max cursed.
Although he didn't know how powerful the defensive talisman he used was since he bought it in a hurry, but since it was in the same category as the grade four offensive talisman which could kill an early-stage four-star mage and harm mid-stage four-star mage if taken off guard, the protection provided by it shouldn't be something that a peak three-star mage could damage with just a punch, right?
But here it was, losing some of its effectiveness after a single hit.
"You think you are safe just because you have this turtle shell?" The woman asked chillingly. She then raised her fist again and started punching.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Outside the academy gate, Adrienne and the middle-aged man she called hall master were standing, watching the happenings.
"That violet light. It's the bloodline power of the Hobson family?" Adrienne asked, a wisp of seriousness appearing in her eyes as she watched her punches raining down on the Mana shroud around Max.
"That's right." The middle-aged man nodded. "It's as strong as the rumours make it out to be."
"However, this kid is full of surprises. He even has something like grade-four defensive talismans which we, as the Elders of one of the top academies of the kingdom, don't have."
Adrienne nodded in acknowledgement before sighing, "But what is the use of having it? It will only delay his death."
"We never know. Maybe he still has some trump cards. That's why he isn't panicking." The middle-aged man said, surprising her. He then asked, "By the way, I heard three of our inner disciples are his women? Is that girl who used blood red energy one of them?"
Adrienne's eyes narrowed when she heard this and asked in somewhat cold voice, "Why do you ask?"
"Nothing. I'm just curious. I've never seen such strange energy." The man shrugged, but his eyes flickered with a cold light.
Adrienne looked at him in silence for a moment before shaking her head. "No, she isn't one of them. As far as I know, she isn't even from our academy."
"As for those three… no, two disciples because one has gone missing over months ago, they aren't in the academy right now and even though they have a relationship with him, they didn't do anything wrong, so I hope you won't try to harm them or tell the Daltons about them."
"Alright." The man nodded and then took out a communication crystal and said something in it before putting it away.
This made Adrienne frown because she didn't know what he was doing. She then glanced at Amara and thought, 'Is there something special about her?'
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Jack's mother continued to punch Max's Mana shroud. After over a dozen punches, it had turned almost transparent.
Seeing this, Max's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he clenched his right fist into a punch.
Right then, Jack's father frowned and hurriedly shouted,
"Watch out!"
"Hm?" The woman was confused by the sudden warning but then she noticed a seemingly normal punch coming toward her.
Seeing this, she ignored her husband's warning and laughed coldly, "You want to retaliate? How ridiculous!"
She then raised her hand to block his punch and readied to throw a punch of her own at the Mana shroud.
However,
Swoosh!
Suddenly, a crimson flame blazed around his fist, covering it completely.
BANG!
The blazing fist collied against her hand, which she had raised to block his attack, and continued forward, pushing her hand back with it before landing on her chest.
Crack! Crack!
Two crisp sounds of bone breaking sounded. One came from her hand and the other from her chest.
Boom!
As soon as his punch connected with her chest, she flew backwards, a burst of blood coming out from her mouth and the area around her chest was burnt by the flames, revealing her milky white globes.
Whoosh!
Jack's father appeared behind her and stopped her.
"Are you alright?" He asked worriedly.
Cough!
She coughed out another mouthful of blood before looking at her mangled palm and burnt chest.
"Apart from a few broken bones, I'm alright." She said, taking out a few healing pills and throwing them in her mouth.
Max looked at the woman in surprise and laughed bitterly, "So, I'm not a match for a peak three-star mage even after taking them off guard."
Thud!
As he said this, his body swayed. He had exhausted more than half of his mana in the disciplinary hall and this [Calidus Brachium] had exhausted the remaining. With all his mana gone, he felt a sense of emptiness and couldn't stop himself from falling to his knees.
"Heh! What else did you expect?" Jack's mother laughed coldly when she heard him. She didn't bother to cover her exposed chest and slowly walked over to him.
Whoosh!
Anna and Amara appeared in front of him, looking at the woman warily.
"Hm?" Jack's mother frowned and asked coldly, "You are his women, aren't you?"
"So what if we are?" Amara asked, her blue eyes slowly turning blood red.
"Since you are, you also deserve to die?" The woman said, raising her hand to attack them.
Seeing this, Max's eyes narrowed as he took out one of the grade four offensive talismans.
Right at that moment, an icy voice sounded from the sky.
"No, they don't."
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A/N: Please read the author's thoughts for information regarding mass release and daily chapter increase. Thank you and have a good day/night~!
