93 Bullied (1/2)

For the next couple of days, Oli had no choice but find somewhere else to cultivate.

Netra offered to share her cultivation room, but Oli declined. It was one thing for them to share the formation for dark essence. However, he didn't want both earth and dark essence to be gathered at the same time because it would slow her cultivation.

So, Oli would spend one day training with Netra and the next day going home with Yeter before he trained in the magicite mine.

Yeter was so glad to finally get some time with Oli, so of course, he did all he could to cultivate together with Oli. The first day, they sparred but Oli won as usual, though Oli could tell that Yeter was progressing and. He guessed that soon Yeter would push to break through to the adept plane.

It made him feel an even bigger desire to breakthrough. Netra was already passing him and both Yeter and Karos would be breaking through to the adept class thanks to what they've been learning thus far.

On the third day walking home with Yeter, something unexpected happened. Class had just gotten out and Netra was still with them as they hadn't passed the library just yet.

”Oli, let's spar again!” shouted Yeter. ”I'm even stronger today!”

”Yeter, we sparred two days ago. How are you so much stronger now? Did you break through to the adept class?”

”No… I… I just want to spar,” the stallion chuckled.

Oli sighed, ”Yeter, I want to cultivate and try a few things so I can't today. But I will next time since my cultivation room is almost done and we won't spar for a while.”

”Okay!”

”Hey, horsie! Are those the powerful friends you were talking about?”

Yeter lowered his head and frowned. He turned around to see a couple of people in front of the library.

Oli saw the ugly look on Yeter's face, who was terrible at hiding his emotions and made it obvious that these people weren't friendly. ”Umm… Yeter, who are these guys?”

”They're just nobodies who think they're better cause they're already adepts,” mentioned Yeter. ”Just ignore them. They're not even in the advanced class.”

”Shut up you stupid horse!” shouted one of them, a lynx.

The other, a frog, added, ”Yeah, just shut up already, unless you think you can beat us.”

”And what level are you?” asked Oli without any look of concern.

”We're both already low-adepts, so you three who aren't even early-adepts can't even compare,” said the lynx with his chin up proudly. ”Go ahead and try you stupid--”

Before he could finish speaking, Oli dashed ahead and already had an earth essence hammer in his hands. ”Let's see what you're made of!”

”Seriously?!” the lynx was startled and prepared for the attack. ”You really are stupid! You may have won the novice tournament, but you're just crazy!”

Lightning essence gathered around the lynx as he dashed forward to meet Oli in the middle. He swiped his claw forward to destroy the hammer coming towards him.

As the two attacks collided, something happened. Just before contact, the head of Oli's hammer almost doubled in size yet it ended in a single sharp point. That point broke through the lynx's lightning essence and pushed the lynx adept back.

”I thought you would be stronger than that…” sighed Oli. ”I guess you really aren't in the advanced class. If you were, this would be much harder.”

”You!” Furious, the lynx gathered even more essence and concentrated more around his claws. ”You're just some stupid gorilla that got lucky in the tournament! You have no right to talk to me like that!”

The lynx chared at Oli, no longer holding anything back. Even though he mocked Oli, he already knew that Oli would actually beat him if he didn't go all out.

”Then come on already!”

Oli met the lynx head-on, not wavering in the slightest. He was glad to have a chance to face an adept. It would be a great opportunity for him to test his growth without much worry about hurting his opponent, like when he sparred with Yeter.

The hammer and claw stuck each other again and again. There wasn't too much difference in strength between the attacks, but there was a key difference.

Like that, Oli would last longer since he had better control of his essence and his body wasn't taking any damage. It was his hammer that was constantly making contact, and its design was made to pierce through anything.

The lynx, on the other hand, was hitting that powerful hammer with his claw, and the hammer always managed to barely break through his essence. After a few clashes, his paws were starting to feel a bit numb and achy. At that rate, he wouldn't be able to defend himself much longer.

”Come on, is that the best you've got?” joked Oli. ”Like this, you wouldn't last a minute against Karos.”