A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 9: Students of the Scarlet Flame Academy

Not very long, they heard sounds of unbridled laughter in the distance. These seemed like laughter of humans. This was their first time coming across humans.

Then they became wary, everyone knew of some type of cultivators that would come into this cave from time to time, and they knew of their nefariousness.

They were rapists, fun killers, kidnappers and robbers.

Very soon, the laughter abated and footsteps seemed to be approaching them from the distance.

When Michael and his group saw the scarlet uniform this group of people wore, their faces turned grave.

These set of people were from the Scarlet Fire Academy.

It was an academy that boys mostly went to, girls were very scarce in here. While the few ones found were very ruthless. 

This academy would have been wiped out but they had a powerful expert overseeing the school. This person's location couldn't be locked on. So, no one could make a move against the academy as they were terrified of reprisals by this person.

The training the academy made their students undergo had turned them into dangerous people.

They could kill for pleasure.

Students from this academy have covertly committed several vices in the society.

They had raped, killed, assaulted and robbed people, especially wealthy ones.

These students came to them with ferocious looks. The arrogance emitting from them knew no bounds as they looked at the Immovable Mountain academy students with complete disdain.

This group was made up of only boys. They were all in the peak-phase entry stage and were twenty in number. They looked to be about fifteen to seventeen.

Scars could be seen on their faces and on their bodies which marred them and made them look malevolent, they looked like a group of evil bandits.

"Now, what do we have here? Oh, it's the puny brats of the Immovable Mountain academy." one of them said.

"Haha" The Scarlet Fire academy students laughed raucously.

" Worms of the Scarlet Fire academy. What do you spawns want from us?" Michael braved up and asked.

"Haha. Looking to die. eh? I don't think so" another said while grinning evilly.

The older one in the group looked at Olivia and his eyes shone with great, unrestrained lust.

His blood begun to boil and they rushed to his private part. "You asked us what we want. This is what we want." This person smiled and pointed at Olivia.

Olivia's heart shook in terror.

Although she was a genius, she wouldn't be able to put up a lasting fight with this people.

They were more than them and all had a cultivation base at the peak-phase. They would also wield powerful weapons.

The person that spoke last laughed and shook his head "Are you trying to refute my request? Anything we say is the rule, the rule of the world. Now, give her to all of us to enjoy for the time being and we would return her to you in one piece. No, in less than half a piece." He said in a sinister and lustful tone.

The Immovable Mountain Academy students' faces turned graver.

Olivia's face was pale from fear. Then she looked at Alex. She felt he was the only one who could possibly repel this sinister guys.

She had long wholeheartedly accepted that he was one of those legendary geniuses who exhibits great cultivation power from little.

Alex at the moment was fuming inside, it was the apex of beauty he adored so much that this people profaned.

He detested the way they looked at her.

Their eyes shone with unbridled lust and their manhood were conspicuously erect.

These boys were without shame.

All their gazes were on her and they licked their lips lasciviously, seemingly imagining the sensual pleasure they would derive from her.

They scanned her entire dazzling goddess-like figure for sometime before their gazes stopped at her chest region.

Alex's face then turned red from anger, he was about to act when Michael whose face had also twisted to become ugly due to anger shouted, "You would dare do this to the Great Daughter of our academy?!!"

The Scarlet Fire Academy students simply laughed raucously. "Just surrender her to us, there's nothing that you can do. Be fast about it or we would simply kill all of you." one of them said.

Suddenly, a voice rang out. "Actually, there's something they can do. Run!" this was Alex's voice.

The Immovable Mountain academy disciples were first surprised, but it didn't take more than that second to recover from their dumbfounded states.

They took to their heels and ran with all the speed they could muster. Only Alex remained behind.

He wanted to hold back this people by himself so that the students from the immovable mountain academy would escape.

He gazed at them disgustingly.

They were nothing but eyesores to him. He saw them as living embodiments of debauchery and calamity.

But he knew it would be tough and taxing to hold them back.

To others, it might be impossible. But to him, he felt it would only take much more from him. With all that he had witnessed about his ability, he now believed he was stronger than his peers.

Why he felt it would take a whole lot from him was that human cultivators weren't like beasts that hadn't fully awakened their bloodline powers.

They could produce energy-attacks and they were smart and intelligent and, could sometimes be crafty or cunning.

The Scarlet Fire Academy students were taken aback by what just happened. But then, they coldly snorted after they recovered from their astoundment.

Then some of them moved to chase after the Immovable Mountain Academy students to bring back Olivia and the others remained behind to deal with Alex.

Just as they were about to begin their chase, Alex's eyes turned intense cyan. He deployed his air control power.

Abruptly, strong winds began to howl. The gentle wind around them, under the influence of his wind manipulation power became furious storm-gales that possessed strength to heave a large rock.

The Scarlet Fire academy students quickly produced wide, protective screens of energy to shield themselves from the incoming destructive wind.

Alex saw this and the cyan glow in his eyes intensified. It was so bright his eyes looked like suns.

Immediately the glow in his eyes grew stronger, wind came from every place to this particular route where it rapidly compacted to become very solid.

They moved with astonishing momentum and howled like great primordial beasts from the abyss.

Bang! Bang!...

Multiple explosive sounds rang out as the solidified air smashed hardly with insane momentum into their energy-screens.

The energy-screens shattered in the way glass would shatter when a big stone is thrown through it.

Then the masses of dense air struck the boys in the chest breaking their chest bones and ribs. The air impacted them with the same force that splintered their energy-screens.

The Scarlet Fire Academy students shrieked in pain and coughed out blood when they were struck. Then they fainted. It was like they were hit with a huge baton.

They were carried away in the powerful gale like skin bags in a surging flood to the distance.

The masses of air could achieve a great degree of solidness and denseness because of the windforce energy that erupted from the pores in his body. This energy mixed with the masses of air that he sent at the boys.

The ancient being who was still observing Alex could see how divineforce energy in Alex's windforce energy made the solidifed air become as hard as a wall.

It couldn't help but be astonished.

'Who is this boy?'

.....

Few minutes later, someone came running over. He also wore a scarlet uniform. He was tall and ugly as scars had marred his face. This made him look extremely vicious.

The marks on his face would produce the feeling in anyone that this boy had been involved in so many deadly physical battles. 

This boy that seemed to be about eighteen years of age was also in the condensation stage.

He came running over to see who did that to his juniors. His juniors from the academy had landed where he was. They had fainted and had grievous wounds on their chest.

Their chest had caved in with the bones of their chest jutting out. It was horrifying and gruesome to look at.

Out of rage, after tending to their wounds rushed over to exact retribution at whoever did that.

Alex was just about to leave this route and go search for the Immovable Mountain academy students when he heard a shout "Don't you dare move, you piece of shit!"

He was surprised. Then turned to see who yelled that. When he saw the red uniform, he frowned. He now greatly disliked anything in this uniform.

He looked at this person's face and saw how ugly it was, decorated with scars.

It gave him the chills. "Who the hell is this? This person shouldn't show his face in public at all. So ugly and vicious." Alex shook his head. Then he yelled back "And how do you intend to stop me if i want to leave?!"

On hearing Alex's response, this person's sinister gaze intensified.

Before he could send out an energy-attack, winds howled and unexpectedly wrapped around Alex into a column that swirled at extreme speed.

The speed of the twirling column of air increased every second and more air came in from the distance infusing into it.

The vortex of air grew constantly. Anyone who saw this would marvel at Alex's fine ability to control the wind.

Alex's new opponent was bewildered.

He couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing.

Alex's entire body at the moment glowed brilliantly in cyan light.

He was enclosed in a thin sphere of air that floated very high within the towering air column.

The intense cyan hue emitting from him dyed everywhere in it color.

He was using the wind elixir technique again to gain tremendous burst of power but at a certain risk to his cultivation to finish the battle that was about to start.

After he had absorbed windforce energy to his limits, he discharged the energy from his body.

He was like a geyser of energy. Energy shot out from his body in tremendous quantities.

Following the steps for "Wind Dragon Stamp", he sent his palm out and the windforce energy erupting continuously from his body abruptly condensed and shaped into an enormous dragon that shot out at extreme speed towards this person.

As it shot out, it carried strong currents of air that howled like an enraged primitive beast from the fathomless pit of hell.

This person from the Scarlet Fire academy, Arnold by name, became badly shocked.

The attack fired at him possessed the strength of an offensive which can only be produced by someone in the middle-phase condensation stage, yet this person could, with his middle-phase entry-stage.

Also, this young boy in front of him could float in the air and this was an ability that was only available to people in the Skylord cultivation stage and above, the ability to either float or fly.

He wasn't in this state of shock for too long.

He immediately sent out a palm the moment Alex did and a large solid dragon condensed and molded out of scarlet flame, a variant-pyroforce energy shot out at breakneck speed towards the incoming cyan dragon of energy.

The instant it appeared, it caused the temperature of the surrounding to soar to extremely unbearable degrees.

It gave the feeling one was in a furnace.

The waves of heat radiating from it caused the earth below it to fume.

This was a technique of their academy's Variant-Fire Element Battle-Methodology - Devouring Blaze Mono Dragon Seal.

The techniques numbered from Duo to Nona.

Boom!!

The attacks struck each other and a loud explosion sound rang out which was immediately accompanied by a violent release of rampaging energies.

These energies rushed into the surrounding in all directions like a tide, ravaging everything in their path.

A cyan screen of energy immediately surfaced in front of Alex, same was done by Arnold who quickly produced a scarlet screen of energy to shield him from the berserk energies.

When everything returned to normal, a large web-like crack that extended into the distance was seen in the earth.

These cracks in the earth manifested just below the point of impact of the two attacks.

The discharge of energies had caused these cracks to appear.

Although Alex was high up in the air where the blast couldn't reach him, he still created a shield of energy.

He couldn't take any chances that would lead to dire consequences, lest he be killed and he wouldn't know how.

Besides, it was a preventive measurement against bodily injuries.

"You seem pretty powerful, but how long can you last? Look at yourself, you now look very pale. I am a merciful person, give me the manual for this battle-methodology and I would let you leave with only one of your hands and legs intact" Arnold said in a wicked tone.

"Haha. A hand and a leg intact? You are sick and stupid. So what if I look pale? I can still put up a good fight with you" Alex uttered with a grin.

This person's gaze turned evil.

"Very good. Then I would get it from your corpse" Arnold said in annoyance.

His hand began to glow intensely in scarlet light and terrifying heat waves radiated from it in all directions.

He sent his palm out discharging large amounts of energy that rapidly condensed and shaped into two massive scarlet dragons of energy that shot out at extreme speed towards Alex in the air.

The heat emanating from them flash-melted the small rocks around.

This was the second phase of the technique - 'Devouring Blaze Dragon Duo Seal'.

By the time he unleashed this attack, he became extremely pale.

He had put a lot of energy into this attack such that this attack could match that of an offensive produced by a late-phase condensation-stage expert.

Alex, whose body still gave out bright cyan light had his face turn solemn.

This attack could kill or injure him.

With one of the abilities he gained immediately he became a cultivator, he could sense the strength of this attack with it.

He sent his two palms out discharging all the energies his body had accumulated since he began using the Wind Elixir technique in his battle against Arnold.

These astonishing amounts of energy rapidly solidified and formed into hundreds of large blades that shot out at great speed towards Arnold.

They carried with them furious mighty winds.

These blades were pretty massive for someone at his cultivation stage.

By putting everything he has, the strength of his attack had now increased to a degree where it's on par with that of someone in the late-phase condensation stage.

Boom! Boom...!

The earth shook and cracked as several loud explosions occurred at once when the attacks struck each other.

The large amounts of energies that were expelled from the point of their collision wreaked havoc in the directions they moved in.

Not all the blades were destroyed in the mighty explosions.

There were still some blades that pierced through the air, whistling like an arrow towards Arnold.

Now that he had drained himself of energy, he quickly produced a treasure-weapon which was an average-rank Class-2 defensive-type weapon.

He activated it and the shield expanded in front of him blocking all the swords.

But it wasn't that easy to block an energy that contained tiny slivers of divineforce energy.

Bang! Boom!

Several loud explosion sounds rang out as the blades struck the metallic treasure-shield.

Argh!

He screamed in pain when the shield rammed heavily into him.

The shield he put out to protect his body was knocked hardly into him by one of the blades.

The heavy knockback force lifted him off the ground and was then continuously knocked into the distance by the blades as they struck the shield.

The shock received from the collision of the blades with the shield ramming hardly into him rampantly, caused him to shriek in agony and misery.

Then he fainted where he landed far in the distance.

Alex too passed out whilst in the air and plunged to the ground, he bled from his orifices for mentally over-straining himself.

If Alex fell to the ground headfirst from a height of forty feet, his head would burst like a juicy tomato that was stomped by a brute.