The Ancient Genes

"Scree!!!!"

The Commanding Beast let out a screech in rage as it shook its wings kicking up a storm.

Max couldn't help but frown when he saw that thing wasn't injured at all. He definitely couldn't fight that thing head-on.

Not to mention, it was a team competition. A single person couldn't do much to begin with.

"He is strong…" Kain muttered as he looked at Max. He was wondering whether he could have taken that fist or not.

Anyway, they had achieved what they wanted. After being provoked like that, Kain was sure that it wouldn't let the people off easily.

Mr. Cool had already moved by now and pulled Wilson away from the place.

Max's strength had honestly surprised everyone but looking at the Beast which wasn't injured in the least, the weaker ones became doubtful again.

While the strong one's like the Celestials and the figure who were most likely from the Ancient families had already made Max into one of the most difficult people to deal with. Someone they definitely wouldn't want of fight alone.

Max's opponent was strong, if it was a level lower, the people might be scared to death when the thing would have been blown to smithereens.

The Commanding Beast flapped its arms and flew towards Max.

Max looked around and saw that these people were still watching and his face twitched.

'They really think, it's a show going on..' He smiled before his eyes landed on Kain.

Good things should be shared among brothers and he was going to be his brother-in-law as well. How could he leave him out of this?

When these people saw Max flying towards them? They immediately panicked and began to flee away from him.

Kain smiled helplessly. It wasn't that he hadn't expected it.

He didn't run away and instead exploded with all his aura and attacked the people nearby.

People tried to react but they suddenly felt their movements becoming sluggish.

This…

Poison!

There was only one person who came to mind when thinking of poison.  

The people slowly turned their heads looked at Alen and his lips had indeed curved up into a smile

A few people were immediately wrapped up in a white light and disappeared.

"Attack him!!!"

No one knew who shouted but the people immediately targeted the students of Orca while the Orca fought back.

At this moment, Max descended on the battlefield and punched Kain. This time, he wasn't holding back.

"Bang!"

A Master Tier striking an Expert Tier, the person would be considered strong if his body didn't explode on impact.

Kain felt as if someone had rammed a thousand-ton hammer on his chest.

A sweetness immediately rose against his throat and he was sent flying away. The battlefield suddenly went silent fo a second.

Strong...Too strong!!

No one could deny it!!

At this moment, the Commanding Beats behind descended as well. Its claws ripped the ground apart while directly eliminating a few and injuring several others.

The Commanding Blood Eating Bat once again opened its mouth to attack, but as soon as it did, a hurricane of water crashed into its mouth, choking it and disrupting the attack.

Faryl had made a move and with that, the war had begun. 

Bayu followed with the next move as he took out a scythe and slashed at its wing trying to seal its ability to fly.

Ren didn't wait as well and his sword immediately pierced the other wing.

Max looked behind and saw everyone barraging the Commanding with their attacks. Every kind of spell rained down on it.

Using this opportunity, Max turned towards Kain. 

As he was about to attack, he felt another strong aura not any weaker than Kain approaching from behind.

Max immediately turned around and threw a fist as flames burst out of his body.

"Bang!"

The incoming figure's face contported in pain as he staggered dozens of steps behind before falling onto his knees and spitting out blood.

Max recognised the guy. His aura was a bit different from the rest of the people and he had seen him before with Norek.

"How in hell are you allowed to enter the competition?" The guy grumbled looking at Max. "You have clearly crossed the junior category…"

Max froze. 

It was true, Master Tier Mages had to be treated with much more respect and weren't treated as the younger generation but a senior member of the society.

After all, Master Tier was one of the most difficult barriers to cross. It was the dividing line for ordinary and power houses.

It was extremely difficult to cross this line and could take a lot of time even if you had a lot of potential.

But for Max, he didn't train in mana like other Mages. It was entirely different for him.

But did that mean he couldn't participate?

"Which Ancient Family are you from? I thought all the leading geniuses perished in the disaster last year…''

Max looked at him. He could understand that the guy had immediately related him to an Ancient Family for the fact that he was a bit too powerful, but what was this about geniuses perishing…

"Will you tell me more about it?" Max asked with a smile and the guy immediately understood that he had let his tongue slip and even mistaken Max's identity.

The guy didn't reply and instead suppressed his injuries and once again attacked Max

Seeing that he wasn't planning to go ahead with the chat anymore, Max decided to send him packing.

His palm balled into a fist as a layer of earth suddenly appeared on it. The layer started to turn into a color of darker shade before hardening into stone. 

Max raised one his hand and blocked his short sword with his bare hands while his other hand smashed into his chest like a cannon.

"Bang!''

At the time of impact, Max pushed his fist deeper into his chest and cracking sound could be heard from his bones before he flew away like a broken kite.

But before he could crash into anything or anyone, a white light took over him and he vanished.

"You are not running away!"  

A spear suddenly appeared in Max's hand and he threw it towards Kain who had already begun to flee.

The guy obviously wasn't going to stand and let himself be killed. He moved in to block the attack and activated his life saving artifact.

"Bang!"

The spear was repelled and he waved his hand at Max, "You are strong, I admit. But only because I have been holding back my Tier…after the competitions are over, I will find you again.."

Max couldn't properly understand what he meant by that. As he was about to give him a chase, he felt a chill down on his spine and immediately moved.

"Boom!"

A claw swiped at the position that he was standing at and dug a huge mark on the ground.

Max couldn't help but click his tongue when he saw Kain disappear. On the other side, Alen had escaped with heavy injuries as well but the guy had managed to poison quite a few.

With such severe injuries, even if they could get away, it would be difficult for them to even fight at a third of their strength.

Now the only problem was how to deal with this thing…

"I will support you…" Mr. Cool suddenly appeared behind Max.