The eyes of the second-year students and first-year students opened wide in surprise, and they looked at Adrian and Shawn with an expression of disbelief on their faces as they were unable to understand why he had obediently followed Adrian’s command and suddenly kneeled in front of him. Not just them, but even Lisa and John stood speechless and awed.Except for Finn, who knew everything about Adrian’s special eyes, and a few others that knew a tidbit about his special powers, everyone else was surprised.“Knock yourself out!” Adrian said in a majestical voice, almost as if he was a royalty of some sort, and Shawn followed his command unwillingly,He raised his hands before wisps of fire swirled around them, setting them on fire, then he repeatedly punched himself in the face and the stomach, burning his skin, disfiguring his face, and badly mutilating himself. Shawn hit himself without holding back, giving it his all in inflicting harm on his body, wincing not even once as the flame

Shawn was taken off the stage by a few members of the medical faculty. Adrian went down the stage and regrouped with his friends. Lisa and John congratulated him with a smile, showing that they are happy that he won against one of the strongest magicians in the channel opening stage. Finn, on the other hand, looked at him with eyes that were trying to convey something.Adrian didn’t understand the meaning behind his gaze, so he asked, “Is there something on my face?”Finn’s eyes closed as he shook his head, signifying that there is nothing wrong with his face, and then he sighed, almost as if something heavy was weighing on his mind.Lisa and John felt weirded out by his behavior, while Adrian felt that he might be the reason behind his sigh, and thus, he said, “If you want to tell me something, then just say it.”Finn moved his head to look at him in the eyes, then asked in a calm voice tinged with sadness, “Did you have to go that far?”“I had to do that, not only because it will de

What just happened? How come John is beating his opponent, even though he lost initially!! How come a magician gets his ass handed over to him by a hollow?! Just how?!!Not only the first-year students and the second-year students, but also the instructors, staff, and the headmaster of the academy speechlessly spectated the fight between John and Lucas, perplexed by the fact that the hollow was dodging all of his opponent’s attacks, almost as if he could predict his attacks.“Is this really John? How is he performing so well?” Lisa’s eyes widened, and her mouth gaped as she watched the combat between her groupie and an unawakened magician with an expression of disbelief plastered on her cute face.“Has he been hiding his strength?”“I think it isn’t as simple as you think. He is at the same stage as his opponent, and they are of equal strength, but the reason he is winning is probably due to the magic eyes hovering around them,” Adrian said while looking at the arena.“You’re correct.

An instant after instructor Varyn said those words, Finn, Adrian, and Quinn moved, appearing on the arena in the blink of an eye. Finn looked at Quinn, and he greeted him with a slight nod of his head. Seeing that they were already there, John also hurriedly stepped past the participants walking up the stairways to the arena and grouped up with Finn and Adrian.“Some of you guys might be wondering why I called you all up here, right?” Varyn said, “Well, since we are running out of time and there are still eighty participants left, I have decided to host a battle royale! The rules of this matchup are the same as the battles before. Just that, your rankings will be based on when you get disqualified. The last fifty participants will get a life-saving item and the chance to explore the unexplored settlement of the ancient civilization. The last one standing on this stage will be the winner of this bout, and he will get an additional reward.”Most of the first-year students felt that it i

Finn’s gaze swept past the participants on stage, giving them a warning that they will be eating the last cake of their life if they dared to make even a single move. The other participants didn’t dare to make a move as the ball in Finn’s hand could kill any one of them, and they didn’t want to attract his ire, after all. Although it was shameful for them to silently follow the command of a magician in the magical realm, their pride, arrogance, and shame meant nothing compared to their life. They weren’t willing to act out, just to lose their life as not only were they too young to die, but they believed that they would be able to teach Finn a lesson after the ball of obliteration leaves his side.After waning them, Finn moved his gaze to the target of his craziness.The targets of his black-gold gaze felt an overbearing pressure crashing down on their backs, and they felt horrified, suppressed, and intimidated to the point where their legs gave up.Linda and her friends collapsed to