Chapter 321: Getting Poked

Julius hadn’t realized how much the tournament affected the city as a whole. All he had really seen so far was how busy the campus got with the flood of people.

However, seeing all of the people still bustling about at night around the city was quite the sight.

They had just eaten dinner at the Golden Wheel, an experience just as impressive as last time. Perhaps even better, considering that he didn’t have any drama with other people while they were there.

He licked his lips and couldn’t help but wonder what kind of sorcery they did to the food to make it taste that good.

At the moment, he wasn’t with the others. While they had all decided to stay and hang around in the city for a little bit since everything was still open, he had requested that they wait for him to grab something by himself.

He didn’t want to share with them his secret shop he had found, it was one of his most valuable and deadly weapons against them. If they were to find out where he managed to procure some of the pastries, it would be horrible for him.

His stock needed some replenishment, especially if he wanted to bribe Lily into helping him with his aura training.

Thankfully, he had gotten there soon enough that the woman had just enough left for him. So with an excited grin, he tucked the goodies into his ring and headed back toward the others.

Navigating through the dense crowd, he smiled when he saw all of the children, young couples, and other families having a good time. It was quite pleasant to see. The atmosphere was radiant and bright.

However, it was for that very same reason he was surprised when he didn’t notice the person dressed in all black right next to him until it was too late. Before he could even turn and look at them, Julius found himself being stabbed by a thin needle right in the back.

He couldn’t keep a close eye on everyone around him; there were just too many bodies. For a brief moment, a part of him thought it was just an accident, and someone with a pointy stick had poked him when he was walking by.

But he realized that for that to happen, it must have been one hell of a stick for it to break his skin and pierce him. If that wasn’t suspicious enough, then the flood of foreign substance entering his body was the next hint that it wasn’t an accident.

He reacted right away, and before the assailant had the opportunity to get away, he spun around and proceeded to slam his elbow into them. The attack contained all of the kinetic energy, mana, and aura he could gather in such a short period.

Furthermore, his quick actions surprised the person, and they were barely in time to put up an arm to block his strike. A defensive skill of some sort was deployed to intercept, but it wasn’t enough, and he crushed through the defense. He felt his arm slam into them, and they were blasted away into the distance.

However, Julius widened his eyes in alarm as he watched the person he attacked barrel through several people. One bystander in particular was tossed into the side of a building with a worrying amount of force and hit the dirt with a thud, completely unmoving. Many others were sent to the ground with a collection of small injuries.

Screaming and shouting immediately started to ring out of the crowd as they got worried about what had just occurred. Soon, everyone ran away, understanding that staying around there would be a mistake.

Julius instantly felt a pang in his stomach. His actions were shortsighted, and what frustrated him even more was that he didn’t even think before acting. He had just smashed that person through a crowd of normal people like one would throw a hundred-pound bowling ball at some pins.

Of course, that would hurt them.

He had gotten strong enough that he shouldn’t react so explosively. He would survive. He had a pretty decent healing skill after all. He could have used his aura or kinetic energy to freeze her.

With that being said, he still understood that he needed to finish the job. The fight had already started, and it was too late to stop now. So with a disgruntled groan, he dashed toward the person who had attacked him, who was in the process of getting up to their feet. However, just as Julius was on top of the person, he felt a movement of mana.

Realizing that whatever the assailant was about to do wouldn’t be good for either him or potentially the people around him, he sent a localized burst of aura at the person and siphoned all of the kinetic energy around him.

The burst of aura wasn’t as strong as it could be, but he couldn’t take the chance of it accidentally hurting the people around them. However, he cranked up his kinetic energy and slammed the entire strength of his willpower and Emblem down at the shrouded person, immobilizing him.

He heard the surprised grunt from the person and realized that the person who had attacked him wasn’t a male, as he had thought, but was actually a woman. Still, he didn’t let up just because of this realization.

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He squeezed his kinetic energy around them ruthlessly and leaned down to pin them to the ground, all the while using his aura to try and disrupt whatever skills they were trying to use.

Despite not taking it easy on her, he found it quite hard to keep the woman in place. Her willpower was strong, and she was definitely Tier 4 because he was trying his best to beat her Authority into submission. He was finding this very difficult as she was definitely no slouch, and it was only thanks to the surprising nature of his attack that it worked on her.

However, now that he was within touching distance, he loosened the reins on his aura control, letting it seep into the woman and destroy her. This seemed much more effective because she screamed out in pain as his aura went to work.

Still, as a Tier 4, she had some impressive aura defenses of her own, and he quickly found that he wasn’t able to overwhelm them like he had with other Tier 3s or that weaker Tier 4 he had fought in the past.