novelraw Chapter 8 : Chapter 8
Chapter 8 : Chapter 8
Chapter 8: I Wasn’t Paying Attention. I Was in the Middle of the Lecture, and He Suddenly Attacked Me!
As he spoke, Red-Hair turned his sharp gaze toward the young man on the right.
Although the young man disapproved of what he was doing, he could only nod.
There was no helping it. Red-Hair was the chief instructor for Blackwater High School this time, while the two of them were assistant instructors.
As the three of them spoke, a large group of Blackwater High School students was already pouring in from the entrance.
The moment Li Mu saw this red-haired instructor from a distance, he frowned.
In the original owner’s memories, the discipline of the Abyss Suppression Army indeed could not compare with the army back in his homeland.
But he had not expected it to be this bad. They actually allowed someone to dye his hair red.
Still, Li Mu knew as well
that the Abyss Suppression Army was desperately short on personnel.
Otherwise, that officer would not have started luring students into enlisting during military training.
Once the forest grew large, all kinds of disorder were bound to appear.
There were admirable senior Martial Artists who gave their heads and shed their blood, who died wrapped in horsehide on the battlefield, fighting for the lights of ten thousand homes.
But there were bound to be rotten scoundrels among them as well.
Dyeing one’s hair red did not necessarily make someone a rotten scoundrel, but from the look on his face, Li Mu could tell he was no good person.
“Hurry up! Stop dragging your feet and line up properly!!”
Just as the students were getting into formation, Red-Hair suddenly roared.
Quite a few students were startled.
The students quickly adjusted themselves and soon stood steady.
But Red-Hair narrowed his eyes anyway, strode forward, and suddenly grabbed a male student by the hair, dragging him forcefully to the front.
Red-Hair was, after all, a member of the Abyss Suppression Army, so the students were instinctively somewhat afraid of him.
He yanked the student’s head right in front of his own.
“Did your mother never teach you how to stand properly?”
As he spoke, he viciously swept a kick into the student’s thigh.
That student was only at Yellow Rank First Grade. Faced with a sweeping kick from a late-stage Second Grade Realm Martial Artist,
his whole body was sent flying sideways into the ground. They could even hear his head thud against the floor!
The student immediately clutched his thigh and head, screaming in pain.
With a bang, Red-Hair planted his foot hard on the boy’s mouth and ground it several times.
Gnashing his teeth, he hissed viciously, “Do you know that Abyssal monsters like prey that screams like you the most?”
All the students of Blackwater High School looked furious.
They had long heard that the worse the school, the worse the instructors assigned to it might be.
It was not that the Abyss Suppression Army did not value students, but rather that its manpower was truly too scarce.
The outstanding martial soldiers were living combat strength for patrol and extermination missions.
Protecting the safety of the Abyss fortress came first.
So some of the less capable martial soldiers were sent to serve as instructors.
As long as they taught properly, these Martial Artists were fully capable of the job.
Everyone had also heard that new recruits in the Abyss Suppression Army often got beaten.
But we are not new recruits! We are even less your soldiers!
We are students here for military training.
According to the rules,
you instructors may discipline students, but you absolutely cannot beat them at will!
Let alone without any reason at all!
When Red-Hair saw the expressions on the students’ faces, his anger surged even more.
“What the hell are you looking at? Greenhouse flowers like you, with your pathetic little faces, still think you can challenge the Abyss?”
“You cannot even stand properly!!”
As he spoke, Red-Hair swept another kick at a boy standing in the front row.
Li Mu was right there in the first row.
As far as he could tell, this student’s posture was straight and upright, and he looked exceptionally spirited.
He was standing far more properly than Red-Hair himself, full of vigor and presence.
Yet Red-Hair still kicked viciously into his thigh.
Just like the previous student, even though the boy tried hard to resist, he was still swept off his feet and slammed heavily sideways onto the ground.
“Trash!”
“Trash!!”
Every time Red-Hair cursed, he kicked down another male student.
His kicks grew heavier and heavier, and screams filled the air!
At the same time, however, his gaze kept roaming over the prettier female students.
First, he was checking whether they had been frightened.
Second, he was picking out targets who were pretty and well-built.
Very soon, he got to Li Mu.
He whipped a vicious kick toward Li Mu’s thigh.
Li Mu calmly stepped back and avoided it.
Red-Hair froze for a moment, then flew into a rage and glared at Li Mu.
“Do you think you are very clever?”
“I came here for military training, not to be beaten.”
Li Mu spoke very calmly.
The Blackwater High School students behind him instantly broke into a sweat for him.
Although there really was a rule that military training instructors could not beat students at will, they were still under someone else’s roof!
This was their territory.
Red-Hair laughed in anger. He was already full of pent-up fury because of Zhao Meiting.
Now that he had finished establishing his authority, he had been just about ready to pick a few female students and take them off for some private “special training.”
But then this thorn in his side had suddenly jumped out and made him lose face in front of everyone.
Pointing word by word at the ground before him, Red-Hair said,
“I am telling you to walk. Over. Here!”
Li Mu smiled too, but his smile was chilling.
“I will say it one more time. I came here for military training. If you dare stretch that leg out again, I will break your dog leg. I mean exactly what I say…”
“Ha… hahaha… hahahahaha…”
Red-Hair laughed coldly in fury, his laughter growing louder and louder.
Then his expression suddenly changed. His right leg lashed out at once, sweeping over with terrifying force.
Its target was Li Mu’s thigh.
Li Mu reached his right hand up by his ear, dug something out, and slammed it hard into the ground!
Clang!
The Black Iron staff struck the ground heavily, landing directly in the path of Red-Hair’s kick.
Caught off guard, Red-Hair’s shin crashed hard into the staff.
He was still a Second Grade Realm Martial Artist, after all. His presence surged as True Qi roared through him.
Although he managed to kick the staff aside, the collision still sent intense pain shooting through his shin.
The surrounding students had already scattered with a rustle, leaving a large open space.
Using the staff that Red-Hair had just kicked into the air, Li Mu spun it in a full arc overhead and smashed it down at Red-Hair.
Red-Hair did not know where he pulled a long saber from, but he hacked upward to meet the strike.
True Qi surged wildly, and with that blade, he violently knocked Li Mu’s staff away.
When the first strike failed, Li Mu turned and swept out a second strike.
It was so fast that Red-Hair only had time to block.
Li Mu reversed his grip and snapped out a third strike.
When Red-Hair took that third blow head-on, he felt a sudden burst of pain in the web of his hand, which split open and began to bleed.
Only then did he realize that Li Mu was using Flowing Cloud Three Tremors.
But it did not matter. Three strikes had already passed. There was no way Li Mu could possibly defeat him.
Unexpectedly, Li Mu unleashed a fourth strike with even greater speed and power.
The fourth strike shrieked through the air with a piercing howl.
Red-Hair’s face changed abruptly. He raised both hands and his weapon to block, only to hear a crack as the long saber in his hands was smashed apart on the spot!
And what filled him with even greater despair was that Li Mu, his face cold and grim, swung out a fifth strike!
The fifth tremor of Flowing Cloud crossed the air like an afterimage!
Where it passed, energy shook and space itself seemed to cry out.
Its target was his right leg!
“No!”
Red-Hair had no time to dodge. His weapon was gone, and he had no way to block.
Crack!
“Ahhhh!!!”
Red-Hair’s knee bent at a grotesque angle and snapped, and he crashed heavily to the ground.
Clutching his leg, he rolled around on the floor.
His scream was utterly miserable.
Li Mu spun the staff through a flourish and then, with a whoosh, drew it back into his ear.
He had not come to another world just to swallow humiliation. Otherwise, what was the point of awakening the Battle Triumph System at all?
As for punishment?
Heh.
Back on Earth, Li Mu had been nothing more than an invisible drudge.
Work, debt, illness, emotions—every one of them had pressed down on him until he could scarcely breathe!
If this miserable life of his in the High-Martial World
still could not be lived as he pleased,
then he might as well transmigrate back and go on being a drudge there!
【Victory! Triumph Points +31】
The students of Blackwater High School, however, were all completely dumbfounded.
What was this?
Had they had some kind of nightmare or what?
Military training!
Their fellow student Li Mu!
A First Grade Martial Artist had broken the leg of a Second Grade Realm Abyss Suppression Army instructor!!
They had never even dreamed a dream this crazy.
As soon as the alarm sounded, an officer quickly arrived with several patrol guards.
This officer had sword-like brows and starry eyes, with an authority that needed no anger to show itself.
And the moment they saw the rank insignia on his shoulder, the entire group of Blackwater High School students fell silent!
Terror appeared on every face.
Some people had even started trembling with fear.
An officer with the rank of Wolf Guard—who would have thought they would come into contact with someone like that during university military training?
An officer of this level—even their principal,
no, even the Minister of Education of Ironhand City’s Eastern District—would have to treat him with great courtesy!
The moment the patrol guards took in the scene, they all grew tense.
“What happened here?”
the officer asked coldly.
By then, Red-Hair had already been helped to his feet by the two assistant instructors. His whole body trembled with pain, his face covered in tears and snot.
Looking at his twisted leg, he ground his teeth in hatred.
Pointing at Li Mu as he wailed, he shouted,
“Wolf Guard Qin! This student refused to obey management and defied military discipline. I was in the middle of the lecture, and he suddenly attacked me!!”