Chapter 92: John Kick ass (1/2)
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,” Theo said while looking at the arena.
”You're correct. John is using the magic eyes he conjured using his magic matrix to their maximum limits. He is using them to look at his opponent from different points of view. He is using that to see the movement of his opponent's body, from the twitching of his bones and the twist of his waist to the bulge of his muscles and the range of his limbs. Moreover, he is determining the trajectory and the range of his attacks and moving as well as stepping out of their way in time, and thus, perfectly evading them.” Elliot said, able to understand the technique John is using to beat his opponent black and blue.
”Wouldn't that require a heck lot of computing power?” Lisa blurted out in shock.
”True,” Elliot nodded his head while saying those words, agreeing with Lisa's words about John.
Theo felt impressed by John's intelligence, so he said, ”I guess John was a genius all along, just that he was a gem buried under the dust and stone.”
Although John was intelligent since birth and was able to tell which side he should stand on and what type of person he should befriend to survive in this cruel era, nearly all of the people turned a blind eye to him due to small-mindedness and prejudice, and the fact that he was a Hollow, a magician that has no hope of awakening as they can't contain supernatural cells in their blood vessels, attributed a lot to this.
”Genius or not, he must have put a lot of work to integrate the magic eyes with his fighting style,” Elliot said those words so that the others won't undermine the hard work John put in over the past month and attribute his current accomplishments to his computing powers.
”He must have trained harder than us to achieve that,” Theo said, feeling a bit embarrassed of himself. While he was gathering intel for the sake of his race and making love with his girlfriend to live his life and award himself, John was training to become a stronger magician, something he should have been doing!
”I don't believe that you'll be able to dodge this!” Lucas said in a loud voice before he leaped towards John, throwing a jab at his chest, which John blocked by stepping out of the reach of his extended fist, shocking Lucas once again. Without any delay in his movement, however, Lucas took a step forward and kicked towards his waist. Almost as if John was looking forward to it, with a slight movement of his hand, he trapped his leg between the bulging muscle of his arm and his waist, effectively immobilizing him. Then, he took a step forward and started to land one attack after another on Lucas's face, knocking out some of his teeth as he tried to free his leg.
”Ugh! Stop it, you bastard!” Lucas cursed out loud,
”Heh, you are just asking for it!” John said as his grip on Lucas's leg tightened, and he started to land heavier attacks on his face.
”Ah, my face!”
”I'm just starting!”
”Ugh! You brute!”
”You would have been even brutal if you were in my shoes!”
”Fuck! Let me go!”