Cultivation Through Artifacts

“I will kill him! Cut him up into hundreds of pieces! Let’s see after that how confident he will be!”

“He will wish he wasn’t born at all! This daddy will teach you a lesson!”

“I will cripple him to his very core!”

People after people ran at Khal with crazed expressions while various Talents and Secret Arts bloomed around filling the whole Arena with different kinds of powers and presences. There were users of different elements like fire, water, wind, and earth, there were others with weapon-associated Talents like swords or shields while there were even unique ones that could manipulate objects, others, or even shape their own body parts!

There were so many scary Talents in one place that it was horrifying!

The close to hundreds of Cultivators with numerous powers from outside looked so terrifying that those who spectated from the outside felt their abdomen turn numb while small sweat drops started to form on their palms! All of them thought about the exact same thing too; that right now, Khal has no chance to achieve victory at all!

Even though he had a powerful Eye Enhancing Talent with a great Movement-type Secret Art, against so many and different enemies he will be as helpless as an infant caterpillar in a nest of hungry ants! There will be no chance for him to escape no matter what he will try!

However, even facing so many enemies and powers at the same time Khal looked just as indifferent as ever before! No, he even had a smile etched on his face radiating confidence and… Slyness!

Khal was naturally not stupid nor did he act on an impulse because of Alia; of course, he felt irritated by the guy and the crowd who started mocking her because he knew exactly how it felt being ridiculed too, but his true reason behind his actions was not that. No, he started all this because of a single reason…

He needed to ascertain his worth!

Yes, his worth! Ever since he came into this world, he was looked down on by people from time to time. At the Ceremony by Alde, on the Announcement Day by both teachers and students and even now by other Cultivators because they think he has a ‘weak Talent’ that is useless.

Only his friends, Jas, and Logan knew he was strong, but for Khal that was not enough; he wanted to show everyone present that he was strong and he can’t be pushed around as others willed!

Especially Alde. Since he tried to kill him not once but twice already it was time for him to show just who he messed with! As he could understand it so far, inside Moon Academy he was safe and no one could harm him; it was a place where not even the Ourvi Family’s hand could reach. However, the very moment he took a foot through the gates into the outside world, his life was instantly at stake, danger lurking around him every passing second just like when he went on a mission.

And he didn’t want this at all; living his life behind walls, in the fear that he could die anytime if he stepped outside of Moon Academy’s protection, was something he did not want at all! He didn’t want to live his life with shackles and under others despising gazes ever again! He wants to be free and do what he wanted to do!

But for that to happen, the first thing he needed to do was to show that he was not weak, and had worth just like anyone else present here!

He was also a Cultivator and he needed to act just like one!

Also, who knew what would happen with Liza behind his back? Who could promise that Alde won’t try anything shady when Liza will go on a mission? Of course, Liza was stronger than him currently, but still, losing her, the only one who could make him remember about her would be akin to shattering his world. If that would happen he didn’t know what he would do, but one thing was sure; nothing unforgivable that was certain!

As Khal reached this thought of line, his smile vanished from his face while his breathing calmed down with each passing second; right now his expression was so terrifyingly tranquil and blank that others would think he suddenly fell unconscious!

“What is he doing?” a frown appeared on both Liza’s and Nate’s faces while Alde showed a mocking grin at this sight, “See? I told you. He already gave up!”

On the other hand, Logan’s eyes flashed with curiosity, because he noticed that Khal didn’t fell unconscious at all! His clear sky blue eyes with their crimson slit in their middle were firmly fixed on the crowd before him; those eyes didn’t look like he gave up at all!

As the opponents now were closer than 10 meters away from him, Khal extended his right hand straight before his chest while his left palm rested right above his right elbow as he lowered his stance into an almost crouching position.

“What the hell is that stance? It’s ugly!” frowned everyone on the spectator seat, but even before they could have thought about anything else, Khal’s voice sounded in the arena quietly.

“Dance of The Celestial Serpent Second Form; Azure Snake Dance!”

“Fuck off!!” screamed the crowd as they bounced on Khal one by one, sending different kinds of assaults on their way at him.

Right now, before Khal hundreds of various abilities, fireballs, jade spikes, weapons, and a lot more flew at him at once, falling on him like the verdicts of heaven!

But it was exactly the moment when Khal’s feet moved an inch forward, while gentle blue light similar to flowing blue flames suddenly enveloped his entire palms and the next second…

*Swish!*

*Swish!*

*Swish!*

One swing toward the right then toward the skies with his right palm, while one whack toward the ground then to the left with his left hand, Khal hit the assaults away one after another with an extremely quick speed that his arms turned so blurry, that they left after images behind! And the scariest thing about this was that he let not a single attack touch his clothes! 

“!?”

Immediately as this happened, everyone turned stupified on the spectator seats while the people attacking Khal suddenly turned a bit surprised but still continued to attack him like maddened animals.

“Maybe you have a Secret Art able to deflect attacks, but you can’t maintain your defense against me and those attacks at the same time!” suddenly a guy with a Talent similar to Angor appeared on Khal’s side, and swung his dagger at him with a cold glint.

Khal, with his eyes still on the attacks before him, noticed the guy’s ‘surprise attack’ from the side and couldn’t help himself but to raise a small smile while his eyes revealed pity.

*Swish!*

“Eh?” the guy who was just about to slash and injure Khal from the side, suddenly noticed as Khal’s figure moved and like a ghost, without any indication or warning, he appeared right behind him!

“Ho-?” began to talk the guy, but even before he could have turned around, he felt as a palm was placed on his back, and with one single thrust he was pushed before the hundreds of attacks that was meant for Khal.

“Oh, fu-“

*BOOM!*