Michael was shocked to see Kona unscathed and a boy younger than himself standing between the two royals. "And who exactly are you??", Michael asked in annoyance. Adam didn't bother responding and turned to Kona turning his back on Michael. "Princess Kona are you alright??", Adam asked with genuine concern while he was able to negate the blast itself the shockwave was no joke, even for him.
"y-yeah I'm fine", Kona replied in slight confusion and mild relief. Adam smiled with similar relief and turned back to meet Michael's gaze. Michael currently stood with his palm stretched out at Adam but Liam stood there with his swords resting on Michael's throat, he glared at Michael's escorts threatening to decapitate the young prince if need be. "I remember you saying that our kingdom does nothing but eat up resources right?? In that case I will challenge you after the recruitment to prove exactly how much stronger our kingdom is", Adam said without mincing words. "Why wait?? If your nanny over here didn't stop me I would have humbled you personally", Michael mocked with a conceited grin.
"If memory serves this gala is to mix with both academy students and recruits so there is no boycotting upon resumption, our little run-in is killing the vibe so let's take this elsewhere", Adam said while staring at Michael expressionlessly. Michael channeled mana through his dormant hand and gently placed it on Liam's body, without anyone noticing he then coated his arm in fire and immediately combusted it creating another explosion giving rise to a dust cloud.
Liam skidded to Adam's side before finally stopping and Michael emerged from the debree without a scratch, his own five escorts surrounded him with Their weapons drawn. "Do you really think the opinion of common trash like you matters?? When royals are speaking dogs like yourself need to remain silent", Michael said with a disgusted glare. Two of Michael's escorts rushed at Adam both wielding swords. Adam remained motionless as the two rapidly closed in on him, unlike Liam both of these guards were mages but seemed to have the impression that they wouldn't need magic overpower Adam.
Liam suddenly appeared infront of Michael and both of Michael's guards lost their heads as their bodies slumped lifelessly to the ground never reaching Adam, Liam had his blade to Michael's throat once more but would not kill the boy until Adam ordered it. "We will deal with you once i have secured admission into the academy, if you dare to approach princess Kona or myself before then I will take your head off your shoulders personally", Adam warned indifferently before beckoning for Liam to back off.
Adam's P.O.V
I'm sure many would start to see me as some naïve hero type from now on and underestimate my shrewdness because of how directly i attempted to handle The Veras brat, now it's just to wait for the schemers to scheme, after all they all just witnessed not one but two murders. "Hold it!!", I heard a deep voice call out as a figure appeared behind me. whoever this might be is an Advanced Space mage, my earlier assessment was right as of right now multiple advanced mages were watching me from a distance. I turned to see a blonde woman looking to be in her mid thirties frowning down at me. She wore a white battle uniform and had a longsword sheathed at her waist, she had blue armor covering her torso and limbs as well as a tiara with a mana recovery stone embowed in it's centre.
"Might there be a problem, miss??", I ask without all that much care for respect. "I initially intended to applaud your attempts at diffusing that situation earlier, but you then went on to kill two escorts despite the situation not involving you initially", not a bad assessment, however, "what do you mean doesn't involve me?? If you were to catch a man pissing on a portrait of your countries image would you remain silent and let it unfold?? and even if it didn't I thought this academy didn't allow for one to throw their status around, that earlier situation was your responsibility but you neglected it.... as a result I spilled some blood to send a clear cut message", I say without trying to burst out in fury, while I have no attachment to this place, I am sure this body's previous owner would.
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"Oh really?? and what might that message be??", She asked with an almost annoyed tone, trust me, I would be annoyed too if some no name brat suddenly started throwing his weight around for no reason. "Don't fuck with the Azuri Kingdom... Do you have a problem with that??".
Reader's P.O.V
The blonde lady clenched a fist and could feel her anger rising at Adam's 'message' but decided to remain calm for now. "And what makes you think an uncouth brat like yourself has the right to make such a bold declaration??", she asked suppressing the urge to flood this boy with her aura. "For now I am unimportant, however in the near future I will be a household name in this academy", Adam responded with a look of indifference as if it was set in stone from the get go and he was stating a fact as obvious as people needing air to breathe.
"Is that so??", The blonde muttered before prodding to see if she could see his cultivation base. she looked surprised to see that he was already a rank 1 intermediate mage without even being a part of the academy yet, it was common knowledge that the only reason Michael was so strong was because his brother forced Kona to give up most of her resources for him yet this no name brat with little to no support had a comparable level of strength. "introduce yourself, name, age and household", the blonde lady demanded with little patience.
"I am Adam Marlow, second so of the Marlow dukedom, I turned 10 a few months ago and came to attend this academy for one purpose... to grow", Adam stated in a matter of fact tone and waited for the lady's response. "I am Cybil Sterling of the Sterling clan in Olympia, I will only ask this once so listen well... How did a brat like you who was comatose three years ago, recover to full health and even go as far as reaching the 1st intermediate rank in meagerly three years of time with no support from your family or the Azuri royal family??", Cybil asked, watching Adam's every breath with caution as she may have to kill him if he was lying.
Adam blinked twice before chuckling lightly at her poor attempt at interrogating him, "Is that any of your business?? assuming I don't get in to the academy, I would have given away a vital secret of mine and would be left in the dust by everyone in the academy, why would I ever answer that??", Adam asked in tandem this time releasing a thick wave of killing intent to fill the hall. If people were only mildly interested in what was going on with Adam and Michael before, everyone was watching now, to see how the academy would respond to such a blatant and unapologetic threat, most escorts had already taken up arms at this point to ensure the safety of their masters if violence should ever break out.
Cybil had to admit that this level of intent was suffocating even for someone like her who had always been renowned for her talent in magic, awakening the rare space element along with both lightning and paladin magic, and yet in all of her years of experience she had never felt killing intent this thick before, not even from the numerous captain rank demonic beasts she had encountered in her life. This type of killing intent was the type that could cause a normal person to bleed out just by getting caught in it, talk less of Adam learning to channel this intent. the only reason students and candidates weren't on the floor already was because the intent was focused only Cybil, Implying that Adam was more than familiar with channeling of intent.
"S-Stop", Cybil said weakly as blood leaked streamed down her nose and she fell to one knee, Cybil tried releasing intent to protect herself but she had already taken in too much of Adam's intent to bring forth any of her own, she was hardly able to focus and now she was going to pass out if something was done. Despite not even being the target the intent started to cause harm to the surrounding students eve throwing some of the teachers off guard, they wanted to intervene but if they got in the range of Adam's intent they knew they would be as helpless as Cybil currently was. "I s-said stop!!!", Cybil yelled as the blood started to gush even more violently from both her nose and ears, but she forced herself to her feet. Adam knew that releasing intent wasn't necessary, but he wasn't going to tolerate that little interrogation a second longer than he did and wanted everyone to be aware of the fact that they had no power in the situation.
"For your answer, I am simply a monster who's talent is too much for a mediocre academy like this to nurture, I only showed up to throw the credit elsewhere and avoid unnecessary attention if ask about my growth in the future", Adam stated indifferently, only retrieving his intent when he saw even Liam was starting to struggle a bit. "Anything else???", Adam asked Cybil with a cold gaze.