A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 253: The confession

- Immovable Mountain Academy -

In a hall...

Many people, both male and female, could be sitting on a large round table. Then before them could be seen a young and extremely beautiful girl who wore an immaculate white gown.

This girl was Olivia. She had been summoned to these place to be interrogated.

At the moment, although her face looked like she was calm within, but that wasn't so. Her heart was greatly frothing with worries.

"Olivia, the rumor going around... about you being d-deflowered, is it true?" A tall, middle-aged man asked in a sad and morose tone.

When this question was asked, the entire hall which was large, became as quiet as a graveyard at night.

With exceedingly harsh and overly curious gazes, they all waited for Olivia to respond to the question that the principal of the school asked.

Few minutes later...

"Can't you answer? How dare you keep the principal waiting for your response to his question!" A female instructor who looked forty said angrily.

However, Olivia still didn't respond.

Not that she didn't want to respond, she just didn't know how to respond to his question.

At this point in time, her heart was engulfed by boundless worry. She simply didn't know whether to lie or not. But it wasn't her type of person to lie. Since they wanted the truth, she would tell them. However, the only thing preventing her from doing so now, was the shame and embarrassment that she would be made to go through. They would look upon her as a whore and treat her like scum. Her days in the academy would simply be full of sadness and sorrow that she would have to leave, as she surely wouldn't be able to cope with it.

"Olivia, I am waiting for your reply. Just tell us the truth. And we would try to work something out so our names won't be ruined" The principal calmly and softly said.

Olivia closed her eyes. Her body was shaky and this was very noticeable. Also, sweat began to form on her body.

Then she recalled when she first met Alex, which was at the Red Lotus cave. Then, he was young, naive but very powerful for his age and cultivation level. He was like the genius that would grow up to become a terrifying cultivator in the nearest future. Then meeting him again at that village and seeing all that he did; like killing Earth Adept stage cultivators, Sky Lord stage cultivators, Heaven Adept stage cultivators, fighting Saint stage cultivators to a stalemate, and ultimately, withstanding series of Beyonder-type tribulations, had cemented the fact in her heart that he would certainly become one of the greatest and most fearsome cultivator ever. And due to what she had witnessed, she believed that he was one who would bath in the enormous storms of tribulations like he was taking an ordinary refreshing shower. He would definitely become the strongest expert that any cultivator has ever seen or heard about. So she felt. But she actually felt that way due to his insane aspiration of becoming an hegemonic entity. 

Then she remembered Alex's uncle. A caring but at the same time, an extremely ruthless person. His strength alone was something that should surpass the combined strengths of more than hundred academies. So she reasoned. 

'Why am I even scared of telling these people that I have been deflowered? It's not as if the person that deflowered me is some useless person that can't stand in the face of great danger. My lover is an all-around battle genius whose strength and prowess is vastly incomparable to all the geniuses that they have at the academy. He even has an uncle who is a force that should be totally reckoned with' She said inwardly.

When her train of thought ended, she opened her eyes which then shone with brilliancy and unyielding resolution.

With a smile in her face and an unfathomable calmness in her heart, she said to them "Yes, I have been deflowered"

What?!

It was like they didn't hear well.

Besides, their hearts shook greatly because of the response that Olivia provided to the question which she was asked by the principal.

Recollecting themselves after a long while of being terribly astonished, a man said with great wrath in his tone "And you have the guts to give such a filthy and annoying reply?"

"Yes, why not? It's not that I am exactly proud of being deflowered. It was only due to some unknown elements that came into play, which then caused me to lose my purity." Olivia said. Then she continued "It wasn't his fault, and neither was it mine. It was just simply unexpected. And I have long forgiven him for it, and have even totally forgotten about it" Olivia replied.

After Olivia mentioned this, everyone that were here had their eyes glow with great surprise, which then changed to anger.

"From the way that you sound, I am totally sure you are proud of being deflowered. What a great shame and disgrace that you have brought upon us. Aiii" The principal said.

"I know, and I am sorry for the disgrace and embarrassment that I have brought upon this school by my deed. I will accept any punishment that you would mete out to me" Olivia said.

While everyone were busy gazing at her angrily and thinking of the best way to deal with her, someone was quietly watching her.

The person saw how calm she was and began to wonder why an atmosphere of great calmness suddenly descended upon her. Earlier, she was shaky and fearful, perhaps because of the reactions of everyone here. But all of a sudden, her trembling vanished, and she became very bold in front of them. It was like she wasn't scared of them anymore, of what they would do do to her. Her voice gave no hints of fearfulness, and one would know with great certainty that she wasn't faking it.

Before the principal could talk, this person who was a middle-aged woman spoke "Olivia, I have been quietly observing you, and from what I have noticed, I can say that, although you don't regret being deflowered, you seem to be proud of the person that destroyed your purity. I know others might associate this to love and that he was the first guy to introduce you to sex, but that's not the case. You seem to be very proud of the qualities that this person may possess. Am I right?"

Olivia smiled.

So someone actually noticed.

"Well, you are right ma'am" Olivia said.

Everyone in the hall were now taken aback.

"I thought as much. So what quality does this guy have to make you so proud of him? I hope he's a matchless battle genius or you would have just let me down" The woman said.

Matchless genius? Exactly!

Which genius from this academy, and even from every other academy would be able to stand for a minute Alex's battle prowess?

Absolutely none of course!

Thinking to here, she nodded her head with a radiant smile in it.

"Yes ma'am. He is exactly what you mentioned. A genius who is matchless in everything"

Everyone's brows furrowed.

"So, you mean that he is better than the geniuses we have in our academy" The principal calmly asked.

"Certainly sir. He is incomparable to any of them" Olivia replied.

"I would like to know who this young man is. Is he in this city?" The principal asked.

"Yes sir. He's in this city." Olivia replied.

"Since you claim that he's matchless. We shall put him to a test." The principal said with a smile.

Olivia's brows furrowed.

"What test is that?" She immediately asked.

"Well, it's certainly not one that would endanger his life. You know, by the time we announce to the world that you are no longer holy, we would become the greatest laughing stock ever. The staff and students of our academy won't be able to raise their heads in pride wherever they are. So, since you feel that he's the strongest genius ever, I will set up a platform. And on this platform, he will battle the best geniuses from all the fifteen academies in the city. He would be made to fight every one of them, regardless of the cultivation phases that they are in. That means, whether they are in the initial, mid, late or peak phase, he would battle all of them. I want to create the grandest competition between geniuses ever." The principal said with a smile.

Then he continued "I hope you know why I said this and can perfectly understand my reason for saying so. This is because the reputation of this school is at stake. Therefore, after we announce the truth to everyone who are seriously waiting to confirm or reject the rumor, we would then announce that we are going to set up a platform where the lover of our Great Holy Daughter, would battle the bests of the bests from every academies in the city. And anyone that can knock him off the platform would get great rewards from me."

Olivia smiled.

"That's a good plan sir. I support it. You can go right ahead with it" She said.

Immediately after Olivia said that, an instructor who had double feelings about this hurriedly spoke "Principal, that's an excellent scheme you just made to remove our name that would soon enter the mud. But we have to plan things carefully so as not to make things very hard for us. My reason for saying that is, would Olivia's lover really show up? What if on that day he doesn't show up. That would be terrible, and the fame and reputation of the academy that we are trying to preserve and build upon would greatly steep. We might not even recover from it again. Besides, how much of a genius is he? I hope it's not that he would get knocked off the platform just in the first battle?"

Olivia smiled.

"I know that there are so many fearsome geniuses out there, but he's way different from them. I have seen him fight many battles and win every single one of them. Till now, I can't fathom his strength. This is because in every battle, his opponents who always appear stronger, would simply be dominated by him in the end. He has never lost a battle to even cultivators that are above his cultivation level. He's superior to every genius I know and don't yet know. That's what my mind tells me." She said.

Then she continued with a radiant and confident smile still in her face "And since it has to do with me, my lover is going to certainly show up on that day. He would show up to prove this academy right, and to the world that he truly deserved to make me his."