Chapter 214: The Kidnapping [4]
Chapter 214: The Kidnapping [4]
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Amon tilted his head, narrowly dodging a sound bullet that crashed into a tree behind him.
Unfazed, he shot his arm forward, grabbing a crystal hand coming toward his face.
A gasp escaped the boy's face as Amon locked his blood coated on his wrist.
And then...
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Amon clenched his wrist, breaking the crystal easily and grabbing the wrist underneath.
Without any emotion in his eyes, he twisted the boy's wrist a complete 360 degrees, forcing him on his knees.
Before delivering a punch straight to his brain, killing him.
Amon let go of his disintegrating body, not caring anymore and focusing ahead.
His neck suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke.
And in the next moment, a hardened water spear passed through the smoke from behind.
Amon was completely uninjured.
The smoke solidified, placing his neck back to where he was.
However, his face turned back as his eyes glowed in a violet shade.
The female student, who was about to attack him with more water spears was suddenly halted in her place.
Amon exerted more power into [Void Eyes] and the intricate dials inside his eyes moved.
The world around him slowed and the lock around the girl's body was further tightened. Threads looped around his hands as they shot forward, coiling around the water girl's limbs. The hair on his back suddenly stood up as he widened a little.
Without hesitating, he pulled the strings, throwing the girl's body in the air.
Right behind him, where a multitude of attacks that were about to hit him collided with the girl's body.
Her limbs separated from her now dissolving body because of the threads and a blood shower erupted mid-air, raining down on Amon.
Using the smoke to his advantage, Amon dissolved his half-body into a cloud of smoke as well.
But as he was sneakily traveling through the smoke, he heard Zephyra call out from his shoulder.
[To your right!]
Amon's eyes widened as he turned his whole body to smoke to evade the attack.
Unfortunately, to his immense surprise the incoming blade cleanly pierced through the smoke, eliciting a whimper of pain from him.
"Urgh!"
He canceled his art. But rather than retreating, he glared at the woman with [Void Eyes], halting her movements.
Without hesitation, he shot a lightning bullet right at her forehead to kill her.
But he was once again taken by surprise when a part of her head turned into smoke at the last second.
The bullet passed harmlessly through while exposing his location.
'She was able to resist my [Void Eyes]!?' Amon was surprised.
He quickly delivered a lightning-clad kick to her abdomen, sending her crashing sideways through the smoke.
It was only after the smoke parted that a look of recognition passed through his eyes.
With short chestnut hair and light blue eyes, Amon knew who she was.
Although she wasn't anyone important in the story, she was still mentioned in 1 or 2 lines in the novel.
She was the strongest student in one of the academies and her element was apparently [Smoke].
'This was why she was able to strike my body huh?' Amon realized.
It was also why he had been unable to notice her earlier. She had used the smoke of the attack
as an advantage.
Her name was...
Mia? Or something. He didn't remember.
She had given Michael a tough time in the single matches apparently in the novel.
Because the smoke produced from his [Fire] element was being used to her advantage.
Just like [Energy], [Smoke] was also a special case. These types of elements were called [Omnistatial] elements.
Because the user could both form and manipulate them, while also applying them to their own bodies.
Like how the girl had just turned herself into smoke and could travel.
The same for Energy as well, where Nadia was able to turn herself into energy later on and teleport over short distances.
In certain cases, elements like [Lightning] could also be Omnistatial.
There was much more on these elements as well but these were the basic characteristics.
Amon swept a gaze around him.
He had killed a lot of students till now. Only a group of them was left.
About 15 to 17.
'I should end this quickly.' He concluded.
He had other fights to do as well after all. This wasn't the first one.
But there was one thing he was sure about.
This was definitely the easiest one he was going to face.
Looking back at Mia or whoever she was, he saw her giving a nod to the teammates around
her.
Immediately, they started attacking him once more as multiple water spears and balls of fire were hurled at him.
Amon was about to move when he suddenly felt the earth beneath him erupt.
Two earth constraints formed as they latched around his feet, preventing him from moving.
'Huh? This is dumb.'
He immediately formed his feet into smoke, getting out of the shackles.
Multiple wind blades sliced through the air toward him, but Amon snapped his fingers.
A concentrated shockwave of sound erupted forward, colliding with the blades of wind and
cancelling them.
The student's eyes widened. They weren't expecting it to turn out like this.
Blades of wind had wind concentrated to the point that it was almost impossible to cancel
them with sound.
Unless you could also make the sound of such a concentrated frequency and intense vibrations
that it canceled the wind.
Which was exactly what Amon had done.
Amon didn't waste any time.
Using the surprise of the students to his advantage, he quickly shot blood spears at them.
Simultaneously, he clenched his fists, causing structures similar to the earth ones to form on
their feet.
The only difference was that they were made of [Crystal] making them much harder.
And then, he used [Void Eyes], locking their whole body in place.
The spears of blood arched through the air, cleanly piercing their heads, killing all 6 of them.
At the same time, multiple notifications flashed in Amon's vision.
[Your [Blood] element has leveled up!]
[Your [Sound] element has leveled up!] [Your [Crystal] element has leveled up!] [Your [Lightning] element has leveled up!]
A smirk spread through Amon's face. His [Crystal] and [Sound] were Level 2 now.
'About time. Let's test you two out.'
Amon immediately used [Voidstep], appearing before a female student.
She was just about to attack him with her ice chains but was taken by surprise when the black-
haired boy appeared in front of her.
Amon didn't care though.
He punched her straight in the stomach, with a sound mana coating.
As he did, her mouth opened wide, blood gushing out of it on his clothes.
But that wasn't the end as a shockwave suddenly pushed into her body, through the spot
where he had just punched.
And her flesh split open, leaving a wide gaping hole in her body while simultaneously killing
her.
'Holy...' Amon stared at his hand with widened eyes.
But he didn't stand there wasting time.
There were still some students to take care of.
He turned back, seeing a barrage of fire and water attacks heading toward him.
But as he was about to try a new combination of [Blood] and [Void] on the attacks, his eyes
widened.
Rather than the attacks heading toward him, they crashed into each other.
And the result was a large vapor cloud that overtook the whole area, covering Amon's vision.
He could have used [Void's Eyes] but chose to refrain from doing so now.
He had already wasted enough mana for this fight.
Amon knew what their plan was.
It was to give that Mia girl full space to defeat him.
Or at least fight him. Since right now, she was the only girl who could keep up with him.
In the smoke domain at least.
Amon's hair suddenly stood up as his senses blared.
His eyes glanced to the side, where the vapor around him suddenly changed.
He took a light step back, evading a sharp blade to his neck where he was previously standing.
Amon heard a clicking of the tongue, indicating it was Mia.
A smirk spread upon his lips as he dodged another blade, grabbing her wrist in the process.
But before she could turn back into smoke, he snapped his finger.
Her man flow was completely disrupted, breaking her transformation.
"Too bad though." He looked in her sky-blue eyes.
"You forgot one thing while doing this." He raised his arm.
Small crackles of lightning suddenly started to erupt around his arm.
But then, they started erupting in the air around him as well.
Mia's gaze trembled as her eyes widened.
"Vapor is a very good conductor of electricity," Amon said as lightning covered his whole
form.
And then....
CRACKLE! BZZZZZZZZZZT! BOOOM!
A large explosion of electricity erupted in the area, making the ground rumble.
Smoke covered the whole area as the sound died out slowly, letting silence take over.
And as the smoke started to part, a figure walked out with a cold gaze.
His black bodysuit was torn at some places while blood covered his whole form.
Drip!...Drip!...Drip!
Light crackles of lightning could be heard in the air. But alongside, a dripping sound could
also be heard. Right in his two hands were two bloody dead heads of Mia and another student.
He let go of their hair, throwing their heads into the air as they also disintegrated away.
Slow gasps erupted out of Amon's mouth as he stood alone in the destroyed clearing while the
smoke started to subside.
But suddenly, the hair on his back stood up.
A clean piercing sound was heard in the air as something came from behind.
But suddenly, it stopped and silence took over once again. Amon finally moved, taking a step to the side and turning his body around.
His eyes glowed in a violent shade through his messy air as he looked at the floating arrow in
front of him with a smirk.
His raised arm grabbed the arrow before clenching his hand, breaking the arrow.
"I was waiting for you to come out. About time." Amon spoke, grinning.