Born OP

Part Three

Chapter 85: Mana Zone

"Have you decided to stop hiding" Romulus said as he looked at Anthony with an expressionless face.

"I was never hiding, just wanted to watch this like a movie like a certain someone" Anthony said as he glanced at a particular direction with his deep blue eyes as he peered through space.

"Watching these fights from animes and reading them in manhwa and novels are really interesting, but a live version is a different kind of feeling" Anthony said with a smile.

Anthony stood up from the seat he was initially sitting on and the seat disappeared, then he cancelled his concealment skill.

While floating in the sky, he looked down on everyone, then he smirked and released a thick killing intent that sent a chill down the spine of everyone from the Grandmaster rank down to the lowest rank.

Even the Paragon Rankers felt a sense of dread and death coming from Anthony but they could still handle it, but as for the rest they were all trying to release their own aura to escape the pressure.

Anthony's white hair bellowed as he spoke like a god of some sort with his voice echoing

"It seems the demons are presumptuous these days, I shall pass on judgement"

Everyone looked up at Anthony with their eyes glued on him as he spoke.

'How about I abuse this Infinite Mana skill for once, I'm sure nobody would ask how I possessed such mana for my age' Anthony thought with a smile.

An incomprehensible ridiculous amout of mana was immediately released from Anthony's body.

[Fire Magic: Mana Zone: Nova Judgement]

Mana roared furiously as the entire Academy Domain was instantly tinted crimson as Anthony bestowed his judgement upon all demons from Paragon rank downwards.

Only one word echoed in all demons minds; 'DEATH'

Only one word echoed in the minds of the remaining species that fought the demons; 'BEAUTIFUL'

Fire didn't rain down from the skies like Bryan's spell.

The attack immediately materialized infront of every single demon within the Academy domain and instantly blasted and exploded them all without hesitation.

An ear wrecking explosion resounded throughout the Academy as the explosion was detonated at the same time.

The Academy Domain quaked for a second from the sheerness of the attacks, space trembled repeatedly.

****BOOOMM***ARRRRHH***EEEKK***

Screams of the demons being exploded and burnt to death continued echoing as the spell ravaged them all, even their bloods were immediately burned up as it flowed out.

Everything was layed to waste and destruction, buildings collapsed, glasses shattered upon impact.

Ravines were created as everything was in ruin from the attack.

Those watching couldn't understand how a first year student could release an attack that spanned the entire Academy domain.

Such a feat was impossible, there is no single or even a fraction of possibility of it happening, yet they all saw it with their eyes.

The mana required, the control of mana and element required for such feat was simply impossible in the Mortal rank.

Everyone could sense Anthony's mid stage SS aura which he released together with his killing intent, they all saw he was in Mortal rank.

Even though Anthony is at the Peak of the Master rank, such an attack is still impossible for a Master ranker, and even a Paragon.

Such was the beauty of MANA ZONE.

Just like how warriors awaken Aura and use it to enhance themselves and their weapons when fighting, Mages awaken the Mana zone.

But you don't just awaken the Mana zone and aura at the S rank.

The S rank was just one of the basic requirement to be able to awaken this power, the other requirement is talent.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to talent, which shackle a lot of people.

Even people with average talent can still awaken Aura and Mana zone, but just like Mana control, Aura and Mana zone both require extreme control.

You don't just awaken Aura and Mana zone and you are automatically done, you have to continue learning and increasing your control over these two skills just like how you increase your mana and elemental control.

But don't mistake mana and elemental control for Aura and Mana zone control, they are all different concept on their own which require a ridiculous comprehensive ability.

Mana zone allows mages to control mana around them, thereby allowing them to utilize more magic than they could normally wield.

This mana can be channelled into their attacks, to increase its size, damage, range and number, also allowing them to manifest the attack directly infront of you just like how Anthony did with the demons, allowing them to shoot attacks in any direction of their Mana zone with utter ease.

Mana zone also allows mages to have greater reaction time, mana detection, basically things able to be done with mana becomes ridiculous strong.

Some people can manifest a mana zone of one meter as soon as they awaken the skill, some ten meters, it all depends on your talent.

Your Mana control can also boost your attacks inside said Mana zone, making those with good mana control to be more ridiculously powerful.

Of course you can't awaken Mana zone with poor control over mana, how do you want to control the mana in the environment if you haven't even learnt how to control your own mana.

In simple terms, this is a ridiculous powerful skill that shackle a lot of people and the time taken to even increase the size of your Mana zone is another stumbling block.

People spend years training this skill, just like training Aura, you hardly see people training both Aura and Mana zone at same time.

Just a single one of them take people their entire Iives, talkless of of learning both of them at the same time, such requirements wasn't something people could handle.

Of course there are those that overestimate themselves due to arrogance and end up dying as a result of old age or other problems.

So even if you have money to cultivate a pig to the highest level, at the end of the day it's just a pig with a longer lifespan and nothing more, as people at lower rank who worked hard for everything would have more battle prowess, experience and everything.

Even if you have a treasure that enhances talent to an extent, zero times hundred is still zero at the end of the day.

This is why Anthony added Mana zone to his fire spell, not that he need such a skill in the first place, it is just a disguise that he used for his infinite mana skill, releasing such an attack without a Mana zone would be outrageous, if any demon escaped here then his life would be a constant assassination theme party.

But still, even with Mana Zone it is still outrageous for someone at the SS rank to possess a Mana zone so developed to cover the entire Domain, such a feat is impossible, but here Anthony did it with 'Mana zone', which would at least reduce the incoming assassination attempts.

Smokes and dust scattered everywhere as everyone became blinded and didn't see what happened after.

After the smoke cleared out, people looked around and saw the the staggering amount of corpse left behind, some Grandmaster rankers weren't spared by death.

Even some Paragons received scratches from the attack, such a thing punctured their pride as a mere mortal was able to injure them.

Of course not all demons died or got injured, some survived as everyone has a card up their sleeves.

Some used their armours, some tore up some one time use scrolls or talisman to cover themselves with barriers.

But they appeared ragged, as even if they survived and were still battered.

The surviving demons channelled chaos into their space rings and amulets and brought out potions ranging from chaos potions to healing potions as they healed themselves.

"Why didn't you use my flames, we missed such nourishment to strengthen myself and your soul"

Romulus said as he looked at the dead demons, even the surviving ones won't be alive if Anthony used him.

"Well, it's just for aesthetics, I mean the sun is behind me shining with a crimson hue upon everyone and I, me releasing an attack of same color makes the battlefield and I more beautiful, besides there are demons everywhere to consume, it's not like the Demon Domain would magically disappear"

Anthony said with a smile, as the demons have been attacking this world for millions of years, so he still has a lot of them to harvest later on.

Romulus didn't say anything and just kept quiet as indeed Anthony was right.

...

The SEER ROOM

The seer nearly choked on his drink, when he saw Evelyn releasing such a spell that spanned 100 kilometres, now Anthony casted a spell that covered the entire domain.

"How broken are these kids, even the older golden generation aren't this good"

The seer said with a frown as he fell into deep thoughts.

'How was that boy even able to sense me'

The Seer thought as he remembered how Anthony stared at him from across space before he attacked the demons.

"Well the show has been good so far, the demons should increase the intensity of their attacks now the hero has made an entrance"

The Seer continued eating his popcorn with a carefree face.

Of course The Seer was recording this to rewatch later on if he was ever bored.

Such was the life of The Seer.

Chapter 86: Men of Ice

The regular people (those with low rank like F rank and E rank and such) felt that Anthony was god in human skin.

The way he stood with the sun bathing him with a radiant glow, the spell basically wipping out almost every single demon in the Mortal rank, the spell that spanned the entire Academy Domain. (Even if they are low ranked they can still see further ahead than a person without mana, but not the entire Academy Domain).

His classmates had different reactions to a display of such power, the top twenty were more flabbergasted, Anthony's subodinate all wore smiles of admiration and defeat.

They were Anthony's subordinate didn't mean they didn't at least want to surpass him once in rank, but it seems they are still as delusional as ever, as even they didn't possess such an attack method.

Even some low level professors who were fighting some Grandmaster and Paragon level demons were shocked as they witnessed the impossibility of their lives.

Of course those above the Paragon rank didn't witness this as they were too busy fighting for their lives, they couldn't direct their attention to another place as this was a battlefield, one mistake and it's over for you.

Anthony had basically elevated the pressure on almost everyone with one attack spell.

The students who no longer had enemies to fight immediately started evacuating those who couldn't fight, those with healing abilities healed those they could.

Anthony floated down as his feet touched the ground majestically, the knee length long coat that rested on his shoulder without his arms in the sleeves flapped to the winds waves.

Anthony drew the katana hanging on his waist as aura instantly enveloped the katana.

Every demon wanted to get a piece of Anthony for his earlier attack, but they couldn't, they still had the people attacking them waiting, even fighting them with renewed vigor and those their demon opponents died joined to help.

A Master ranked demon immediately rushed at Anthony with anger flashing it's eyes as it just wasted the only life saving talisman it had on something it didn't like, and it would take him a long time to find another one of that level or even save up to purchase it.

The demon arrived a few meters away from Anthony with chaotic aura surrounding it's sword and the ice element also being interwoven with it.

The demon slashed out with a deadly technique from the get go without testing the waters as there was no water to test.

[Ice Demon Technique: Dark Frost Slash]

Anthony felt the chill coming from the attack and smiled and readied his own attack.

[Endless Technique: Katana Series: Frozen Slash]

Ice seeped into his katana as he met the demon's ice technique with his own ice technique.

**BOOOOMMM****BRRRR***CHILLL***

As the two swords met, a disastrous explosion occurred sending chills and ice at everything without mercy.

Everything within a ten kilometres radius was either destroyed from impact or frozen out of life.

The ten kilometres radius temperature suddenly dropped as the two attackers refused to bulge from the attack point.

Anthony and the demon stood there looking into each others eyes with different emotions.

Anthony of amusement, the demon of wrath.

The impact of the earlier attack didn't even bother either of the two, their feet planted firmly into the ground as they remained unmoving.

The demon shifted the balance in it's ankles and retrieved it's sword then spun around as it attacked again with chaotic aura still covering it's sword.

Anthony shifted his center of gravity and went for a block with ease.

Then Anthony slashed at the demon's neck, which the demon also blocked without any problems.

They both suddenly disappear from their place as they both increased their speed and they kept exchanging sword attacks without a pause in attack or defence.

Only flickers of light could be seen wherever and whenever they collided.

Of course demons and people in the Master rank could follow their movements with their eyes, that's if they even have time for that as they had their own opponents to face.

[Ice Demon Technique: Slash Of Sacrilege]

The demon slashed out a thousand times at Anthony with speed that seemed to break the sound barrier.

[Endless Technique: Katana series: Freezing Cuts]

Anthony sped up and also met the demon's attack with ice of his own.

****Clangggg***Clangggg**Brrrrr****

Anthony also slashed out a thousand times as he parried all the attacks the demon sent his way.

As Anthony was about to reply with his own technique, his Sense Dome rippled.

Anthony instantly ducked and he dodged a slash at his neck from a sneaky demon in the peak mortal rank that seemed good at hiding.

As Anthony dodged, his Katana instantly morphed and changed into a dagger which he plunged into the demon's head.

The dagger changed into a spear as Anthony released a technique at the Master ranked demon with utmost fluidity like he wasn't switching weapons in the span of a second.

[Endless Technique: Spear Series: Thousand Ice thrust]

Anthony thrust his spear a thousand times with ice and aura coated on the spear at the demon without any delay in his movements.

The demon was shocked by the sudden change in weapon, but was still able to follow up with it's own attack.

[Ice Demon Technique: Rime Parries]

****Clinkkkk****Clanggg***Booomm***

Everywhere was once again covered in thin ice as they were both proficient in their ice techniques and control.

The corpse of the mortal rank demon that ambushed Anthony earlier froze over and shattered as a result of destruction unleashed by these two.

Dust and smokes didn't dare to rise up in the environment created by these two for fear of being frozen over.

"Human boy you seem good with the Ice technique" the demon said with a smile.

"Well I'm learning quite a lot from you if I might say" Anthony replied casually with a smile.

"You would have made a great addition to our forces, too bad none of you are going to survive after today" the demon said again.

Anthony laughed at the demon and replied.

"Looking at the amount of minions you people just lost, I don't think so, besides I would send you to join your fallen comrade soon, this fight has become boring, you are running out of chaos due to fighting other people earlier and fighting me, you talking to me is just a way to delay your inevitable end, as you can feel death looming over you"

The demon frowned, after Anthony's spell earlier, out of anger it didn't consume a potion to recover it's chaos and directly went to attack Anthony, now it's running low on chaos, it knows there is no way it's opponent would allow it to drink a potion and replenish during a fight.

"Stupid pretentious brat, you would die with me then, I won't fall to a mortal like you" the demon shouted.

Then the demon raised it's sword and burned it's life force in other to increase the attack power more than before.

Chaos burned with more potency as the demon channelled it to it's sword together with it's ice and released it's technique.

[Ice Demon Technique: Final Step: Glacier Embodiment]

A more devastating ice erupted from the demon as if the entire domain was going to freeze over if it released that attack.

Space trembled as the demon channelled every last drop of everything it had in that one attack as it was determined to bring Anthony with him to the death realm.

Anthony smirked and raised his spear and released his own technique with increased aura and mana to match the demon's.

[Endless Technique: Spear Series: Swing Of Glaciality]

They both looked at each other, ready to release their attack to see who would win, both having utmost confidence in their final attacks.

They both simultaneously moved and unleashed their attack unto one another.

The Sword and the Spear met each other with a devastating swing.

****BBBOOOOOMMMMM***

Space juddered with roaring vehemence as it tried to withstand the attack from these two force of nature.

Everything within a twenty kilometres radius was brought to the ground through sheer frost.

Ravines were created, sinkholes followed up, crater and gulfs formed everywhere as the ground was destroyed due to the aftermath.

Those within the radius of their attacks were frozen over if they couldn't dodge or block.

Temperature continued dropping without any sign of stopping anytime soon.

After what seemed to be a minute long stalemate, the spear broke through the sword with a greater force than before.

The demon having no strength to block or counter as it had poured everything into that last attack only accepted it's fate with anger flashing it's eyes in it's final moment.

Anthony's spear instantly cleaved the demon's head from it's neck as blood flowed out like a fountain onto the frozen land.

Anthony looked at the blood of the demon that was stopped in place by infinity as they were about to splash on him.

He removed his eyes and the blood fell to the frozen land like the rest.

Anthony looked around and saw the demolition he and the demon caused, but it didn't matter to him as it wasn't his fault.

He waved his hand and the ice that froze those that couldn't dodge the impact of their last attack were freed from their nightmare.

Chapter 87: Beat Up

Those who witnessed the battle looked at Anthony with astonishment, killing a Master ranker while being in the SS rank wasn't a small matter.

Although Anthony wasn't the first person to perform such feat as many people already did such a thing and even more as this world holds many geniuses, but witnessing it during your own time was a different type of feeling.

An SSS+ rank demon released a frightening dark beam from it's eyes and sent it towards Anthony.

Anthony didn't bother blocking as the infinity did it's job and stopped the dark beam in place, but the demon was relentless, it increased it's intensity but it was still futile.

Anthony looked at the demon in shock as he fell into his thoughts.

'Why is a demon having superman's ability here, such a weird demon'

This is the thing about innate ability, they are random and not everyone can awaken them, even if the strongest man and woman were to have a child, it didn't guarantee an innate ability, everyone knows this.

Just like Hariko, whose ability allows him to double his strength, speed, and mana, or Kevin, 'The Blood Empress' brother who possesses a unique set of eyes.

Of course having innate ability doesn't mean you are more talented than the others or anything, well depending on what your ability is, but at the end of the day it's just an ability.

Anthony took a step, and started walking steadily towards the demon as it continued releasing the beam which didn't seem to hit Anthony at all.

Anthony then raised his right hand and held the demon's head by covering it's eyes with his palm, making the demon unable to continue releasing the dark beam.

Then he lifted the demon off the ground with a straight face and said.

"You want to fry me to crisp with that beam, how about you have a taste of it then"

Mana and fire element moved as it burned the demon alive slowly, the demon's scream resounded within a few kilometres as it couldn't endure the pain as it's flesh seared.

After roasting the demon to death, Anthony dropped it and it fell to the floor lifelessly.

'What even gave this demon the courage after I just killed a Master rank demon'

Anthony thought as he walked away from the corpse, Anthony didn't walk too far as he sighted a boy with a scythe and a coffin transferring the body of the Master rank demon into that coffin with a weird smile.

Anthony just shook his head and didn't say anything, he didn't want to judge anyone's weird hobbies.

Then he saw the Storm brothers fighting another Master rank demons with smiles on their faces as they abused this demon.

Anthony shook his head as he looked up to watch another show.

...

'The Blood Empress' and two demons stood face to face.

The two demons stared at 'The Blood Empress' with death stares, but the empress remained expressionless.

The same thing was happening with the Dean as they stared at one another and about to make a move.

[Space Magic: Separate Dimension]

'The Blood Empress' casted immediately as overwhelming mana moved and covered them and created a new space within the Academy Domain.

Such a feat was truly a testament to her space control, creating a separate space that was huge enough to hold people of their calibre wasn't a small matter.

If they fought in the Academy Domain, it would be brought down to ruins and many more people would die from collateral damage, this is why 'The Blood Empress' created a separate space and also why Klaus simply left the Academy Domain altogether.

The four demons frowned as they saw they have been moved to another place, well they weren't really moved, they were already exiting in space so 'The Blood Empress' just created another space over that space.

'The Blood Empress' and Slaughterer looked at each other and immediately moved with their own attacks.

They both moved at the same time as this wasn't even the first time they fought together on a battle field, so they were in total sync.

[Slaughter Spear Technique: Third Kill: Solar Thrust]

[Blood Empress Sword Technique: Second Move: Death Embrace]

Sword intent and Spear intent moved as they both released devastating attack on the four demons present.

The four of them moved and released their own chaotic intent and techniques as they blocked the attack coming from these two.

****BOOOOMM*****

Space shook as they all released attacks that would have wiped out the Academy Domain in one move with utter ease if 'The Blood Empress' hadn't created another space.

Intent is a higher form of Aura, the only requirement to awaken intent is to study Aura to the very peak, therefore it will naturally evolve to an Intent.

It may sound simple, but Aura alone has shackled a lot of people, so we shouldn't even dive into Intent that is more dangerous.

***Clangg****Clangg** Clinkk***Boom**

They all moved and continued clashing with one another as their weapons were aimed to take each other's lives without mercy.

The separate space 'The Blood Empress' created continued shaking intensely like it was about to collapse any moment, but it never faltered and stood strong.

[Dremis Sword Technique: Chaotic Fire Gash]

Dremis sent out a sword attack with chaotic sword Intent and fire element attached to it towards Slaughterer.

The slaughterer moved to block, but was stopped by the second demon who attacked from behind with an evil grin on it's face.

[Oswa Sword Technique: Slash Of Dismemberment]

The Slaughterer stuck between two attacks coming from behind and the front replied to them with his own attack.

[Dragon Magic: Lightning Magic: Calamity Disgruntle]

A tumultuous detonation followed as everything was enveloped in devastating lightning and wreckage.

**CRACKLE***ZIZZLE***BOOOOMM**

Lightning tore everything in it's path apart without clemency of any sort.

As the spell was boosted with Dragon magic, the four demons suffered censorious injuries as they were caught unaware by such sudden change in attack style.

Blood flowed from their bodies as their flesh was torn apart by the lightning.

The attack also reached 'The Blood Empress' but she wasn't hit as she was able to dodge it, she was a space user, if she was hit by such things, it would be a disgrace to her name.

Besides she has worked far too long with the slaughterer not to know the way he responds to various attack.

Before the demons could even react, 'The Blood Empress' followed up as she couldn't miss this chance Slaughterer created.

[Blood Magic: Deleterious Blood Explosion]

The Blood on their bodies and the ground around them dyed crimson as another rocketing explosion followed suit.

The four demons were sent flying backwards from the impact of the implosion.

Truly the Dean and the Vice president were bullying these four demons.

Oswa balanced himself mid air as he casted his own magic with anger.

[Dark Fire Magic: Raging Blaze]

Everywhere instantly stained pitch black as as blazing heat flared everywhere with high intensity as fire roared.

****BOOOOMMM***

Oswa really didn't go easy with the attack as he was really angry at these two people.

When the smoke cleared up, he saw that the two of them were still fine as ever.

The Slaughterer boredly tanked the attack with his physique, he was a dragon, he has a certain immunity to fire attacks, coupled with his ridiculous physique, such attack can't even tickle him let alone injure him.

As for 'The Blood Empress', she just simply teleported out of the way, although she could regenerate easily from injuries, it didn't mean she would become a masochist.

Seeing both of them standing there like nothing happened made oswa vomit even more blood as his injuries worsened.

His eyes went bloodshot out of anger.

Chapter 88: Beat Up-2

The Blood Empress looked at the two demons who were here for her life.

She shot forward with world defying speed that made time seem like it had stopped in itself, sonic booms resounded as she moved and arrived in less than a blink.

(I would name her demons, one and two, can't have a name for one time characters)

She arrived Infront of Demon one and threw a punch that tore even space apart.

As a vampire, her strength was no joke, further strengthened by her ranks and foundation, she was a force to be reckoned with.

Demon one snorted as she too raised her hand as she threw out her own punch.

**BBBAAAMMM****BAAAAMMM***

Large explosion resounded as they exchanged fist for fist, showing that women were no less weaker than men.

In a span of a breath they had thrown out a million attacks at each other with such speed.

Demon two feeling forgotten, became angry and sped up as he arrived with blitzing speed.

He sent a kick at The Blood Empress, who was simply unimpressed by the attack and just retrieved her left hand from demon one attacks and used it to counter demon two.

******BOOOMMM******

Wind barrier and pressure were ripped apart infront of these three attack.

The separate space continued quaking but with higher intensity as everyone's aura flared up with pestilential intensity.

Then the three of them went into straight hands mode, with demon one and two flanking The Blood Empress at both sides.

The Blood Empress used her right hand to fight and counter Demon one, while the left hand was used for demon two.

***PAAA****BAMMM***BOOMM***

She blocked and countered the four fist sent at her breathlessly as they didn't warrant her even taking a single breath of air in their direction as she deemed them unworthy.

She was simply unrestrained by space as it allowed her to move even faster than her original speed.

Explosion kept rocketing as the three of them only left blinding flashes of light in the air as they moved with an atrocious speed and intertwining like pairs of scissors.

The Blood Empress caught demon one's fist and threw her at demon two with light strength as if she was a rug.

Before demon two could even dodge and counter, The Blood Empress appeared behind him and threw out a blasting punch at his skull.

Demon two's head jerked forward from the impact as he collided with demon one mid air and they were both blasted forward.

"BLOOD EMPRESS, I WILL KILL YOU"

Demon one roared in fury as she was beat up even when they teamed up against The Blood Empress.

Demon one's sword appeared before her, she channeled chaotic Intent and darkness element into her sword and she sent multiple dark cresent sword arcs.

[One's Sword Technique: Hell's Praise]

Her attacks threatening to raise hell in The Blood Empress separate space wrecked havoc as it moved.

The Blood Empress still expressionless moved swiftly as she didn't even bother using her own sword attacks or any technique.

She coated her fist in her own sword intent and she punched out even more fiercely than before as she punched at all the attacks coming towards her with overwhelming strength and speed.

****BAAANNNGG****BAANNGGG****

Fulminations rang out with such tremendous ardour as it continued sounding everywhere.

Then The Blood Empress spoke for the first time since the fight....beat up started as she looked at her bleeding and ragged enemies, but she stood without a single drop of perspiration or blood running down her body, as she stood with her stable breath like she hasn't even moved at all.

"You know, when you all came here, I thought you might have some greater plan or something, even coming with some extra ants to gang up on us, but at the end of the day, a group of ants remain just that, ANTS"

"HAHHAHAH, even if you don't fall here today Blood Empress, your students would all die and you would have nothing left of your golden generation"

Demon two laughed with madness flashing his eyes occasionally.

The Blood Empress looked at Slaughterer and said expressionlessly.

"Let's get over with this shenanigans, I'm tired, they are too weak for a warm up, they couldn't even make me deploy my Techniques and skills"

The Dean nodded then faced his own opponents as he decided to increase his attack intensity.

The Blood Empress looked at the two demons and just decided to end this as she has given them an opportunity to show what they have but they seem too weak for that.

The next second, the surrounding changed as the Blood Empress decided to at least send the two weaklings out with a flashy but more deadly move.

The entire separate space shuddered as if it was afraid of what came next, mana whizzed furiously to The Blood Empress' command as she casted one her deadly spells.

[Ancient Blood Magic: Forbidden Type: Blood Consanguinity Erasure]

True to the separate space's fear, the entire separate space instantly dyed red as the two demon's soul cried out for survival.

But alas, it was too late for them to survive as even if they could run, The Blood Empress won't allow such thing happen in her name.

The blood coursing the veins of demon one and demon two suddenly moved in a weird direction as they changed from their black colour and dyed crimson immediately.

Their blood burned up starting from the heart to the veins to the arteries as it started moving in reverse and were disappearing as if they failed the test of time.

As the blood moved, it burned the demons life essence and vitality, the demons burned from within as the fading blood refused to disappear alone, but leave with their body also.

The demons screamed as they moved their chaos from their core then ran it throughout their body in other to stop what was happening.

But it was futile, as if this process started, it couldn't be stopped, even The Blood Empress herself can't pause or stop the spell midway.

And just like that, the two of them instantly turned to ashes and their blood disappeared as The Blood Empress has literally erased their blood from whatever bloodline they initially originated from.

Oswa and Dremis were shocked as they had never witnessed this spell from The Blood Empress their entire lives, fear ran through their spines as their blood ran cold.

Truly, The Blood Empress was broken through and through.

Slaughterer shook his head and said in a light tone but still heard by everyone "show-off"

He then looked Dremis and oswa and decided to release his own attack and match The Blood Empress in style, then he said

"No need to be sad Dremis, at least you would get to join your wife in hell...or heaven"

Then he casted his own spell instantly.

[Ancient Lightning Magic: Dragon Magic: Atavistic Tribulation]

The separate space abruptly pigmented a dazzling white colour throughout before a world ending lightning descended.

**CRACKLLEEE***ZIZZZLEE***BRR**

Everyone's ear drumps immediately shattered from the force of such attack, even the separate space no longer held on and tore apart, but The Blood Empress channelled more mana and sealed up torn up space.

Lightning descended on everything within sight as it devour every single thing whole, like it was bestowing the wrath of god on an inferior species who dare defile it's orders.

Nothing dared to move in the face of such display, even space within the separate space dare not patch itself back up after being torn apart.

Such was the weight of an Ancient rank spell further boosted by the Dragon Tongue.

When everything calmed down, Dremis and oswa had not even ashes of them daring to remain here.

Even though the spell duration has ended, flashes of lightning kept moving in small forms across the separate space.

Such was the strength of the Dean and Vice president of the Academy.

They truly were strong.

Chapter 89: What is a Weapon?

Klaus and his opponents arrived at the place where he made his students climb mountains.

The four demons were shocked that Klaus was able to take them out of the Academy Domain despite them sealing space.

Such a move wasn't something they expected

(Just like the last chapters, these one time characters would be named A, B, C, D)

Klaus spoke immediately they appeared.

"You know, it would have been different if you attacked me outside or anywhere else, but making a move while I'm in the Academy Domain and also the golden generation that I've taken quiet a liking to is pushing it, it seems I have to have a talk with your Domain"

The four demons didn't dare to speak, the fact that Klaus could even take them out was still fresh in their minds.

One of the demon instantly realisng his demise was swift and immediately brought out a teleportation scroll and tore it up in order to runaway.

But after tearing it, instead of disappearing, he remained in place, the scroll had FAILED.

"Just like how you prevented teleportation in the Academy, I also did something like that here, there is no need for either of you trying to run, you came for a fight and blood, thus you shall fufil your mission"

Klaus voice sounded again as he beckoned them to attack him as he stood with his weapon hanging on his waist with no intention of drawing it for these weaklings.

But none of them made a move, they needed to be careful, only one gesture from Klaus had shattered whatever courage they had.

"Since you won't come, I will come to you"

The moment Klaus voice dropped he appeared Infront of Demon C and a slapping sound travelled throughout space with majesty as space trembled from the sound movement alone.

Demon C was unable to react as the speed of the slap was too fast for him, and the slap landed and he was sent flying sideways with speed faster than a flash.

**PAA**

The sound still echoing as he was sent sideways.

Demon C's body slammed into mountains due to the sheer force of the attack.

A large amount of blood left his mouth as he continuously collided with mountains on the way, he remained motionless and just laid there.

The rest reacted straight away and moved with deadly speed and precision, as they released their chaotic Intent on their weapons with thick killing intent appearing in space.

[A Demon Pole Technique: Slam Of Grievance]

[B Demon Body Technique: Dark Punch]

[D Demon Sabre Technique: Cleavering Pain]

They all attacked together as they released their attacks on Klaus immediately.

Klaus didn't bother dodging and just allowed the attacks to land on his body.

****BOOOMMM****

Space barrier shattered due to the intensity of their attack and everywhere became extremely brighter and hot.

The attack left scar marks on the ground as the ground around two hundred kilometres were cleaved apart from the harshness of the attack forming various craters and ravines.

Dust and smokes covered the entire area due to the aftermath of their attacks as they bestowed devastation upon Klaus.

Demon A just waved his hand as the dust instantly cleared up as the figure of Klaus was shown as he was still standing there perfectly fine after he tanked the attacks.

But Klaus' surrounding didn't agree with this notion as everything was reduced to crumbles and ashes.

The demons were shocked when they saw Klaus standing still, looking at them like clowns who weren't paid enough.

"You only have one job to do, and that is to entertain me" Klaus said as he disappeared.

He appeared in front of Demon A and threw out a punch that he considered slow and weak, but to the demons, it wasn't.

Demon A instantly raised his pole to block the punch, but he was blasted rearwards with a boom as he couldn't withstand the impact from the punch and his pole broke in half.

He vomited blood as his body slammed on the ground and ended up in the sea with a splash.

Demon B arrived behind Klaus as he dealt with demon A.

Chaotic Intent wrapped around his fist as he sent out a punch that space dared not interrupt.

[B Body Technique: Space Breaking Smash]

A devastating loud sound resounded as wind barrier broke under arrant pressure, as the punch connected with Klaus back.

***BAM***

Klaus tanked it yet again as he deemed them to weak to bother blocking.

Klaus turned and his hand moved with escalating speed as he grabbed the head of demon B and slammed him into the ground a near death guaranted slam.

Then Klaus lifted demon B up by still holding him on the head then punched demon B's stomach with a rocketing force as the wind exploded behind demon B and he was sent flying rearwards with maddening force.

Demon B internal body was trying not to collapse from the world ending force that was sent to it as the armour the demon wore was ripped apart by the punch.

Air was not adventurous enough to remain in demon B's lungs as it escaped immediately after that punch to the stomach.

Demon D attacked with her sabre as she went straight for Klaus head as she saw that Klaus could tank their attack on his body.

[D Demon Sabre Technique: Sinful Harvest]

Her sabre instantly met Klaus' head with a deadly glee on her face.

But....

****Clinkkkk***Shatter***

Her sabre shattered as soon as it touched Klaus' head.

Demon D's eyes widened in shock as she refused to believe her eyes.

Everyone's weakness was always their head (brain), or their heart.

But here Klaus tanked everything without even trying to block anything.

Klaus smirked and said with a mild tone.

"Since you are a woman I won't slap your beautiful face"

Time seemed to stop and then assume again as Klaus arrived in front Demon D and flicked his finger on her forehead.

Demon D's brain didn't seem to register either Klaus movement or the feeling of touch on her forehead or the attack klaus just released, due to Klaus' outrageous speed.

***Crackkkk***Booomm***

She was instantly sent flying like a kite as soon as Klaus finger connected with her forehead, and her skull cracked as it couldn't withstand such force and duress.

She was immediately stamped into various mountains before she stopped rolling and jerking from the impact of the attack and she fell unconscious from the weight of Klaus single finger.

And with just one attack each, Klaus had decimated demons that would have cost a lot of people injuries and time.

This was the thing about Klaus.

Nobody knew where his strength began, and where it even ended.

Nobody dares to cross him because of this, many hated him but could do nothing about it due to his sheer power and force.

Everyone who has ever made a move against him ended up dead, so nobody even had a clue about his skills or technique.

He didn't even attend the Omini-peak Academy as a student so they too had no file on him.

Not a single information was present, if you want the information, bet your life on it and fight him, then come out alive.

Even during many wars with the demon race, he didn't fight with other groups, he just selects a random zone and killed every single demon alive while coming back untouched.

People couldn't team up to attack him cause a lot have tried and they all know how the stories always ends.

The only information that remains is that he has a Unique class called "Weapon Master"

But you should ask yourself, "What is a Weapon" if you want to know how deep Klaus secret actually is or how far his power goes.

The true meaning of 'Courting Death' is crossing Klaus.

Chapter 90: Aftermath

Anthony watched as the Dean and Vice president abused their opponents.

He was shocked by the scale of such attacks, he couldn't even keep up with their movement speed with his eyes, even after increasing time for himself by manipulating the Time element.

'A single punch from them could wreck the Academy Domain, and to think there are people even stronger than the Dean and Vice president in this world'

Anthony thought as he clenched his fist, as he needed to get stronger fast.

Even his first intro attack that spanned the Academy Domain was just him abusing the infinite mana skill, even his attacks can't span that kind of distance under normal circumstances.

Although he has made progress with his Mana zone, he still had a lot of other things to study ranging from the knowledge of his bloodline and physique to his own aura.

Anthony sighed as he decided there is no need to rush things, he would get there in time when he is supposed to.

Battles were still going on and explosions kept resounding everywhere.

But none of the demons dared to approach Anthony after his first and second display of power either due to fear or due to being occupied by their own opponents.

As people fought, they all heard the sound of crashing and cracking, and they all stopped in their tracks and looked up.

***CRASHHH***CRRAAACCKK**

As space broke due to the separate space shattering, the Dean's and Vice president's presence became known to all.

Everyone instantly became happy as they saw the Dean and Vice president, finally they could be freed from their suffering and sorrows.

But the Demons felt the opposite emotions the rest felt, fear gripped them.

Their heart throbbed as they felt their blood run cold and a chill running down their spine.

They all wanted to runaway immediately, they couldn't be caught there.

The fact that the Dean and Vice president were both here meant their Lords were dead.

None of them had any single thought of revenge in their mind or heart, they just came here as they were forced to battle and bring everything to ruins.

This is the thing about demons, unlike other species that can be loyal to other people.

The Demons knew nothing about loyalty.

Their only loyalty was to strength and that's all, and it was forced loyalty since the stronger person could kill them if they defiled any orders they were given.

So the demons also live in a 'stronger fist has the biggest word' world, but their is just way more bloody and outrageous.

All demons immediately abandoned their opponents and made a run for it with the hopes of running away and surviving.

Deep down, beneath those useless hopes, they knew that escaping was just wishful thinking but they made a break for it, just in case they could make it.

The people fighting didn't bother chasing the running demons and just watched them run for their lives.

The Dean moved mana and wanted to erase them, but the vice president stopped him, as she decided to handle it.

The vice president's voice sounded in Tiara's head as she stared at her Master and the Dean.

'How much you can see and learn from this depends on you my disciple'

Tiara instantly entered total concerntration mode as she removed any other thoughts from her mind.

The Blood Empress was about to teach her something even in a battlefield like this, this was a hard to comeby opportunity.

Then the vice president lowered her mana control and brought it down to just a little level above Tiara's, then she controlled the blood on the battlefield with minimal mana as the bloods on the battlefield moved and formed thin blood threads that danced in the sky.

Then the blood threads moved with a fast speed after all escaping demons as it literally passed through the small body pores present on their chest, the blood threads wrapped around the demon hearts and contracted causing their hearts to cut in countless pieces.

They all lost their vital signs and fell from the skies as they dropped like manna from heaven.

Tiara's blood red eyes shone brightly as she marvelled at such control.

Although the vice president was only teaching Tiara, but the rest of the class who could learn something benefited from seeing the mana control display and the way it interacted to form an object.

Of course seeing was one things, learning was another things totally.

"Even using the Academy's worst times to teach your disciple, what a Master you are"

The Dean's voice sounded in the vice president's ears as she just smirked.

The Dean lifted his hands as he tapped on the Academy wrist watch on his wrist as he sent out a bunch of instructions.

Various professors and assistant professors in various departments, even those who aren't professors received a notification on their wrist watch.

They all read the message and immediately started moving based on the orders given.

Students and various people of varying species were taken to buildings that survived and started healing them (of course this is for free as the demons attacked the academy, so they didn't have to pay points).

The mana chefs went into overtime as they started cooking mana dishes that could help them fill their stomach and heal hidden injuries.

People in construction department started moving to bring back the Academy buildings to its normal state.

Many people died in this battle due to their weakness, some awakened the drive and thirst for power they didn't know they had before due to their weakness and ignorance.

Some mourned over their fallen friends or family member, some cursed the demons and swore revenge (even when they knew they had no hope of revenge).

Many were indifferent to the deaths that occurred, because they were already used to death, as death in this world was common than vegetables.

Even the indifferent ones were angry, but not at the deaths of people or anything.

But for the fact that the demons had enough guts to attack the Academy; their haven.

Some professors and assistant professors also fell during the battle, but the other professor who survived didn't have any emotions on their face.

But deep down, anger boiled in almost everyone's heart due to the demons courageous attitude.

But even in pains there are gains.

People working for the Academy were about to make huge amount of money (Academy points, which can be converted to quarks or mana crystals, but not vice versa).

Those whose services were needed instantly drank healing and stamina potions as they couldn't wait in line to be healed or they might miss such rich opportunities.

So anybody that has any work to do after this carnage would be paid double their original price, except those that insulted Klaus earlier since they are still under punishment, so they missed such golden chance.

They could only grit their teeth in anger and blame the demons for not attacking a thousand years later or earlier.

They didn't dare to blame Klaus, they already lost a minor rank before due to this, nobody was ready to take any chances again and test how far Klaus' tolerance goes.

Miraculously, none of the students died during the attack, how ironic.

One of demons great plans was to wipe out the golden generation before they could ripen, but this plan failed, but at least tney still took many lives with them.

And also they already killed two hundred students earlier during the first six months.

Anthony and the rest who didn't need healing just looked around as various people flew and ran around trying to bring a sense of order to the carnage that is present here.

Some of the student who stood at the side that were just recovering their mana looked at Anthony from the corner of their eyes with various lights flashing their eyes as their thoughts remained unknown.

Even the storm brothers who were already impressive enough to take down multiple Master ranked demons were shocked.

Anthony simply shook his head, he didn't care what their thoughts were, though he could find out if he wanted, but he won't.

There is always fun in the unknown, if the unknown is dangerous he would runaway and come for revenge later, if later was too far, he would send his father, if his father isn't strong enough he would send his grandfather.

He couldn't go around reading people's mind every time at the slightest inconvenience.

That's no different than paranoia.

.....

THE SEER ROOM

The seer munched on his apple as he nodded at the sight he just witnessed.

Such live matches were indeed exciting.

'But would have been more exciting if I could spy on that man called Klaus, but at least the demons didn't disappoint, even though they ended up dead'

The seer thought.

Then he looked at the recording of the fights he recorded and smiled, then he then thought of something and smiled even more.

"Should I exert more force into my spying"

The seer thought as he really wanted to spy on Klaus.

"Sighs.. I better not test my luck or that man might just kill me for overstepping"

"But to think that boy possessed the Time element, even his father, mother and grandfather weren't this talented"

The seer said as he looked at Anthony.

Chapter 91: Celebrity

TWO DAYS LATER

The reconstruction was still going on, but as a world with mana and everyone above ten years old could wield mana, the Academy Domain construction was almost practically done, due to presence of various spells, abilities and skills and techniques.

The world was in an uproar after they received news of the demon's attack on the Academy Domain.

Truly no one saw this coming...(well beside two people).

No one expected that the Academy that has stood tall without a single blemish would have two stains on their name in a span of just six months.

The first being the massacre of two hundred students, the second being the recent attack.

Parents and various families, and regular people were furious at the academy for letting such a thing happen right under their nose.

Even the Dean was tired of such things as he drowned in his own paper work.

Even the media didn't let things die down as everything on the Mana-net right now was about the Academy and the casualties suffered.

Anthony sat in his new room that the Academy built from scratch after the last one was destroyed as he watched the television which displayed a reporter giving news on the recent incident.

"How are we supposed to send our children to school if their lives are at stake, the Academy has suffered huge blows in a short span of six months, over two hundred students died at the hands of the forsaken cult and the demons, and of recent the demons took the attack to the Academy itself"

The reporter's eyes were bloodshot like he had lost siblings or a partner who resided there, he continued speaking with anger and grief ever so present in his voice.

"Millions of people died, people who just want to make a living and feed their families, they were promised protection by the Academy and the Academy failed on that promise not once but twice"

"The Academy hasn't even given out any official statements or apologied to the public since the first incident, I think it's much safer to have our children in our homes and in our beds"

As the reporter went on and on, Anthony just switched off the television.

Indeed the reporter was right, but Anthony didn't care, he didn't die, none of his families died, so he didn't have time to sympathise the other millions of souls he didn't know.

When the space restriction barrier was lifted and the news of the attack was released to the world, many families instantly flooded the Academy domain with their Aura and killing intent everywhere.

Of course they could have gotten here faster if the students from top families could contact their families with their lives saving artifact, or even runaway using such artifact.

But the demons had set up everything in place, even restricting any communication from coming in or going out.

Even Anthony's parents and grandparents came blazing in when they received the news.

The Null family had already mobilized their army to attack the Demon Domain if a single hair on Anthony's head was missing.

During all this, war was brewing between the Dragon race and the Demon race because of Dremis.

Dremis didn't just use the Dragon Domain as a distraction in other to lure the Dean out then give him a surprise later when he came back to the Academy.

Dremis prepared even another surprise just in case he died.

Twelve hours after the death of Dremis, a Domain shaking explosion erupted in the Dragon Domain due to Dremis schemes.

The explosion covered the entire Dragon Domain threatening to wipe out the entire dragon race beside those that were currently outside...but nearly none were outside because Dremis schemes made them gather every dragon together and he planned to wiped out the Dragon Domain once and for all, making it another source of big gift if he ever died.

This explosion was caused by mana bombs, of course there are sanctions against mana bombs during war and other occasions, but they are demons, they don't play by rules.

But the explosion didn't wipe out the entire Dragon demon as the Dragon king made an entrance and suppressed the explosion, but he couldn't suppress it all as some part of the Dragon Domain already exploded and many died from the explosion, before the Dragon king arrived at the scene.

So one-third of the Dragon Domain exploded and everyone in that area died if they couldn't activate their live saving moves on time.

This was why a war was about to erupt between the Dragons and demons, all because of a single hatred between the Slaughterer and Dremis.

Of course if Dremis was alive, he won't dare to carry out such a plan of wiping out the Dragon Domain as he sure a war would come right after and the Dragons weren't small time players and he didn't want to suffer their wrath.

But now he was dead, why should he care, there is no wrath to suffer, the other demons would be the ones to suffer the Dragon's wrath.

Dremis was truly determined to take everything Slaughterer holds dear.

Within those two days, many videos surfaced the mana-net.

Videos of the golden generation fighting against the Demons surfaced, thereby reducing the people's anger a little as they saw the golden generation battle videos.

Although it was known throughout the world that this is a golden generation, nobody has ever seen them fight, as those who saw them fight were either family members or friends and those within the Academy walls.

A lot of students suddenly became famous from nowhere as many companies contact some of them for endorsement deals and roles in movies and other contracts.

Of course the person who received the most attention was Anthony.

His battle with the Master rank ice demon was truly shocking, both of them having such exquisite control over the element and the sword.

Even Anthony Mana zone attack that spanned the entire Academy also made it's way to the mana-net

People were shocked to the core by such display of power, although some didn't know what mana zone was, they still marveled at such display of power.

Anthony suspected that the Academy was trying to use these videos to redirect the public attention, from the negative to the positive.

Anthony always had a mana-gram and other social media accounts, he always snapped pictures and post them once in a while, he had a decent amount of followers of fifty seven thousand.

But after the videos got to the Mana-net, his mana-gram followers stepped into two hundred millions overnight.

Anthony didn't complain and accepted all his followers with open heart and made comments once in a while as a reply to the questions asked.

He was never popular in his past life, nor was he a celebrity, but nothing was stopping him now, he had the looks, the money, the body, the power, the charm and charisma.

Also Anthony didn't care about this Mana zone attack making it to the Mana-net.

A lot of people in the Academy already witnessed the attack.

There is no need to hide it or anything, besides, he hasn't killed any young masters since he came to this world.

It seemed they either knew the limit of their arrogance, or their families didn't allow them to grow up arrogant and could recognise death flags when they saw one.

Top families didn't march to fight the demons this time around unlike the last time.

That was because none of the students died, those that died were those that weren't part of the golden generation.

Chapter 92: Trip

Although millions of people died in the Academy Domain, the Academy walls itself was bustling with happiness as the student walked around with a smiles on their faces.

The students were able to digest their gains from putting their lives on the line with no place to actually hide or run.

This was one of the advantages of fighting, improving after some battles, and gaining insight into your art skill or techniques.

Which further improves your combat power even if you don't increase your mana rank.

This is why battle maniac always improves faster than other people, simply because they bet their lives on the line to get where they actually are.

The students were also able to convert their demon corpse into points, and these were demons, not corpse of beast and monsters so the students got more points.

Even the initial 15 percent which didn't improve earlier got some points and they rushed to purhcase resources after seeing the power their classmates displayed during the attack.

Anthony's name had also spread throughout the Academy, many people looked at him with reverence, wondering if they could ever reach that level of power, they had confidence to get to the SS rank like Anthony, but the battle prowess was another matter.

Of course some girls already started making moves and inviting Anthony for lunches but Anthony declined all of them.

He was desperate for a girl doesn't mean he was that desperate to accept whatever that comes his way.

Besides none of these girls truly loved him, they only liked him for money and power, he wasn't ready to waste his time with fake a relationship, he had a lot of things to do.

Anthony had also received many titles ranging from truly absurd ones to ridiculous ones.

'Child of Mana' 'The World's hope' 'Demon Bane' 'Invincible' 'Ice Emperor' 'Sword Monarch' 'Heaven's illegitimate child'.

Of course all these names were just names given to him by his fellow students, not that the world recognised it.

But on the Mana-net he was recognised as the world monster talented in history.

As the buzz about Anthony and the points were ongoing, people were also buzzing about another thing.

The Academy has sponsored a trip to the floating island, a three days trip, while also giving a one week free time.

But the three days trip was included in that one week free period.

The floating island is one of the tourist centres, where a lot of people gathered for sightseeing and spending of money.

And things here were outrageously expensive, SSS rankers could go broke just by buying a single item here.

This is because, the island mostly accepts mana crystals and rarely uses quarks.

And ordinary people hardly came here, so there was simply no need for quarks amongst those who could fight for resources.

The Academy was already paying for this three days trip, which would cost a ridiculous amount of mana crystals because they are sending over seven hundred students on a vacation.

But as an institution that has stood for millions of years, the money spent didn't even affect 0.01 percent of their Dean's wealth talkless of the Academy's wealth itself.

Even the gate or ticket fee to gain access into floating island already detered most poor people and the slightly rich ones.

So those you see on the floating island were truly rich.

Even if you paid for the entrance ticket and don't actually buy anything, the hostel cost alone was outrageous.

So no matter what you do or how hard to you try not to spend, the floating island was sure to rip your pockets apart regardless.

Some students converted their points to Mana crystals and quarks so that they could spend.

Although the Academy was sponsoring, and providing food and other payments, it didn't mean they would buy them whatever they wanted or pointed at.

Although it was a three days trip, many ladies packed clothes they could wear for a month for reasons the men don't understand.

Anthony too didn't understand, because women in his former world also did this for reason unknown to men.