"I fucking knew it."
Viswa cursed as he pulled his knife.
The black-colored energy that he felt is something he is very familiar with. At least, his body is very familiar with it. It is the demonic energy that he hadn't felt in a very long time. Right now, his slave band also stopped completely hurting and in fact, a very faint sense of relief is surging from it.
That is the indication that a demon is present and that demon has a sea demon bloodline within them.
As for how Viswa found out about Mathur, it is pretty simple.
When he was about to go after the archer back at the orphanage, the building was set on fire. He had to immediately run back to save the children.
But at that moment, he used the Ticket of analysis. Then he got Mathur's Status screen.
[TICKET OF ANALYSIS
ANALYSED CULTIVATOR MATHUR
NAME: MATHUR
CULTIVATION LEVEL: ELEMENTARY CULTIVATION LEVEL INITIAL STAGE (40% STAGNATED)
CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE: BASIC BLACK SAND CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE,
STRENGTH: 40 (65)
AGILITY: 42 (58)
STAMINA: 48 (68)
COMPREHENSION: 16
WILL: 46
SKILLS: BASIC ARCHERY(15%) BASIC HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT (12%), SNAKE STEP(10%)
SPECIAL STATUS: MOST OF HIS STRENGTH IS DORMANT BECAUSE OF THE TARGET'S SPECIAL STATE. THE DORMANT STATS WILL BECOME ACTIVE WHEN THE TARGET SWITCHES TO THAT SPECIAL STATE
At that time, Viswa didn't really know what this special status meant. But when he looked at the stats, he was already surprised.
Because the speed of Mathur's cultivation is way beyond what he expected. There are not a lot of people within the academy that has completed forty percent of their cultivation. Only the first couple of ranks might have come close.
But Mathur not only completed forty percent, his stats are also way higher. Basic strength of 40 for forty percent of cultivation is practically unheard of. Except for Viswa's case, no other cultivator has that kind of strength in the academy.
Then came the special status and the dormant stats.
He felt extremely suspicious as he looked at those points and he planned this whole thing afterward.
When he was sparring with Mathur, he whispered something in his ears.
"I know your secret and I know what you did. I know it was you who went after the orphanage. I am going to take my revenge. Since you came after my home, I will be destroying yours tonight.
Come and stop me if you dare."
That is what he whispered in Mathur's ears.
Mathur immediately became panicked.
He didn't know Viswa would take action immediately, but he gathered his companions and hurriedly ran to meet Viswa and here they met each other.
As for the remaining group, Viswa doesn't need to know, he will soon find out who they are. If he is not wrong, even the people that burned along with the Orphanage building would have been found out by now.
Mathur aimed at Viswa and shot an arrow. It is surging with demonic energy. Viswa simply dodged it like it was nothing. He didn't even need to put much effort it. He didn't attack Mathur too.
Instead while dodging he closed the distance between himself and one of the remaining opponents. They also have this demonic energy inside them. Viswa moved swiftly and threw a knife.
The knife struck the throat of the opponent and took him out immediately. These remaining people are not as strong as Mathur after all.
But that swift is the only one that came as easily in this fight. While Viswa is slightly distracted by the arrows, the remaining three opponents closed the distance and attacked him from a close distance.
Their coordination is also perfect.
One of them used a sword, another one a saber, and another one a scimitar. All bladed weapons and they are all pretty much closed-range weapons. Viswa dodged the slash of the scimitar and bent backward.
A saber strike was aimed at his throat, which he dodged barely by letting his body fall down, but he had to take a kick to his head.
Which he barely managed to block with his hand, but still the impact was nothing to scoff at.
He rolled on the ground and a sword slash came at his legs.
Viswa curled up like a ball first and then did kip up swiftly before throwing a knife at the sword wielder.
The knife cut through the air and scratched against the shoulder of the target before it lodged itself into a rock behind him.
The sword user was not as quick as Viswa, he groaned in pain at the cut on his shoulder and Viswa took the chance to lunge forward and tackle him before taking him to the ground.
*WHOOSH*
An arrow came at him, and Viswa rolled on the ground bringing the sword wielder to the top. The arrow tip brushed past his back, leaving a slight cut.
"ARGH…"
He groaned in pain even more. When a Sabre and the Scimitar came at him, once again Viswa grappled with the sword wielder and made him a meat shield.
The saber strike was diverted, but the scimitar left a gash on his back, cutting off a chunk of flesh.
Viswa broke his arm and made him release the sword. He became much easier to control. For the next three minutes, the opponents saw a combat style that they have never seen.
Viswa rolled on the ground as he slowly hurt the opponent in his hands, whenever any external attacks came, he used that opponent as a meat shield and made him suffer. As the remaining opponents are not very keen on hurting their companions, they had to pull off the attacks in the last minute, but they couldn't do it fully.
So, the attacks are not landing with full power. Only the problem is that guy is suffering more because of this.
Viswa started hurting his bones, with his sharp elbows and punches while his own companions are shooting arrows and throwing blades at him.
He felt the agonizing pain all over his body as he could slowly feel the energy slipping out of him.
Viswa then moved on to breaking his fingers one by one.
*CRACK*
"ARGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH…."
*CRACK*
"NOOOOOOOOOOO….."
The screams reverberated in that silent night.
After torturing him enough, Viswa decided to end it.
As the scimitar came towards him, he rolled over and then pushed the opponent in his hands up, the scimitar stabbed directly into his heart.
Blood spilled out of his chest and Viswa's face was covered with it.
He threw the opponent to the side while the blade was still stuck in his chest. The scimitar wielder was caught off guard and he moved to the side along with the blade. Viswa who is already on the ground threw a kick to the knee of the scimitar wielder.
*CRACK*
The knee broke and his leg caved in. He fell down immediately. Even before the pain could kick in, Viswa raised a bit and caught him midfall by his neck and held him in a headlock.
*WHOOSH*
An arrow came at him, which he dodged swiftly.
*SLASH*
He let the Scimitar wielder take a saber slash.
*BAM* *CRACK*
Meanwhile, he threw a vicious punch to the scimitar wielder while he is still stuck in that headlock.
The next three minutes is just the saber wielder and Mathur trying their best not to kill their companion, while Viswa punched the teeth out of his mouth while keeping him in the headlock.
After he fainted, he broke the neck, lifted him with both of his hands, and forcefully slammed him on the saber user who was stepping forward in one swift motion.
The saber wielder fell on his back and lay down on the ground in shock.
Viswa took the chance and mounted him. Then came the barrage of punches.
*WHOOSH*
An arrow came flying at Viswa and to the absolute shock of Mathur, he actually caught it.
*STAB*
He then used that arrow to stab the opponent that was under him in the eye.
Blood spurted out and the opponent is dead.
Viswa stood up calmly and looked at Mathur.
He is absolutely terrified at the moment. He wanted to run away, but he remembered what Viswa said. If he escaped, then when Viswa would run to his village. That threat is hovering on his head.
He genuinely wished that he could have something on Viswa. He could say that he can go back and kill the children in the inn. In fact, Viswa thought about it.
But he saw that Student Union has tightened the security over there by many times. It might be because of Viswa's threat, but the children are safe.
He dropped his bow and fell on his knees.
Viswa slowly walked towards him.
"Good choice. Now, I want to know the whole story. Why are you capable of using demonic energy? Why did you go after the orphanage? Why did you target me? Answer fast and then we could go on our own ways."