Chapter 41: Fear and courage (1/2)
Chapter 41: Fear and courage
“Have a guess?”
“Haha.” Stingham laughed again, tossing his hair.
“This guy really wants to die!”
Displeasure colored the faces of all the musclemen behind Ferguillo. Stingham’s action was a naked provocation and mockery in their eyes, showing contempt for Ferguillo. For almost every student in Iron Forest Academy, insults towards Iron Forest Academy they still might endure, but insults at Ferguillo, the one who led the Iron Forest team all the way to the national tournament for two years straight already, was something they simply couldn’t accept.
Ferguillo merely waved his hand at those behind him.
Such a simple movement seemed to actually carry infinite magic power. The Iron Forest students behind him all quieted down at once.
After the wave of his hand, Ferguillo looked at Stingham and said, “Beating our Iron Forest Academy isn’t such a simple task.” His tone was still very quiet and faint, but anyone could hear the pride and the will for battle burning therein.
“The boss’ angry!”
“This guy’s gonna suffer!”
“The big boss looks so cool when he’s angry!”
The musclemen behind Ferguillo, still uncontrollably irascible just one second ago, now all had looks of adoration on their faces.
“…”
Stingham wordlessly rolled his eyes. “Don’t tell me everyone in your Iron Forest Academy’s a manlover.”
No one answered his words.
A waft of dazzling magenta stream of arcane particles formed on Ferguillo’s fingers. Countless amount of arcane power rushed frantically in the air, forming a strangely pink whirlpool in front of Ferguillo’s fingers, transforming into several dozen physical pink feathers sparkling with gem-like rays of light, floating around Ferguillo.
“Is that also Materialization? Why is it so strange!”
Stingham stared in surprise.
“Green Snake Protector!”
A cobra as tall as his body suddenly stood erect in front of Stingham, shooting beam after beam of fluorescent green toward Ferguillo.
Ferguillo’s left eye was colored a strange pink. Now the pink suddenly seemed to shrink inward, forming an especially deep channel.
He stood immobile, his hands hanging at his sides, but the gem-like feathers floating around him started to move.
Every green fluorescent beam that struck at his front was greeted by a feather that split the beam apart.
A formidable shock wave would appear in the air every time the feathers scattered the fluorescent beams. It was easy to tell how mighty the two’s arcane skills were, but what made it even harder for people to breathe was, these feathers floating in the air didn’t seem affected even one bit by the shock waves. They seemed light and pliable, yet were incomparably heavy.
“You fell into the trap.”
Stingham suddenly burst into a loud excited laughter. There was a black wire that’d appeared under Ferguillo’s feet at this point, wrapping itself around Ferguillo’s feet.
“Is that so?”
A feather had already appeared in front of the black wire at this moment as if it were aware of this black wire’s every movement. It sliced off this black wire with ease.
Stingham couldn’t help but stare blankly for an instant.
He had the strange and inexplicable feeling Ferguillo saw through every thought in the depths of his mind, as if his opponent could predict his next action every single time.
“My turn now!”
A faint calm voice rose.
Feathers still floated in the air opposite Stingham, but Ferguillo’s body had already vanished from among them.
“Three Sun and Moon Slashes!”
His body was already at Stingham’s left, a white blazing cloud of light flashing on his hand like a blinding sun.
“The big boss is indeed the big boss!”
“He looks cold and indifferent, but he still can’t control the feverish heat in his inner heart!”
“Sure enough, he still charged up to fight at close range!”
A chorus of surprised shouts of adoration rose once again.
“Come!”
A wild excited roar came from Stingham’s mouth at the same time. He didn’t try to dodge or evade at all. Dazzling lightning covered his hand in no time. He turned around and fired a punch in Ferguillo’s direction.
“Boom!”
Two people clashed together, palm against fist. Brilliant light, lighting, and arcane particles burst out between fingers and palms, once again producing the solid sound of flesh banging against flesh, numbing the spectators’ teeth to the point they became a little sour.
Surprisingly, neither of the two retreated a single step from the collision, staying entirely deadlocked where they stood.
In the space of an instant, all the gem-like feathers previously still stopped in the air went into action all of a sudden. They struck towards Stingham’s back at a speed close to teleportation!
“This guy’s actually this powerful?!”
Stingham’s heart thumped in his chest, the expression on his face changing in a flash. A weird arcane skill like this, added to Ferguillo’s mighty strength at close range, were simply equivalent to two Ferguillos attacking him at the same time.
“The boss’ indeed mighty!”
“It’s the end!”
“Big boss won’t kill him outright yeah?”