novelraw Chapter 105: Remember to put your head down
Chapter 105: Remember to put your head down
The entire vibe of the island had changed.
All of them remained stunned for a few seconds, even Noah.
This was nothing like what they had seen last.
"So many people all lathered here?" Noelle broke the silence among them and asked the question.
Before, they did see people outside, but right now, entire streets were filled with people.
They were not just students their age, but every person on this island.
It was as if this wasn’t the entrance for the Arcania Academy, but a festival that brought them all together.
’This is crazy.’
Even Noah believed this was crazy.
"The entrance for the academy can be seen by everyone on the island, so almost everyone goes there to see the entrance happen. The number of people attending as the viewers is always huge, but this... I never expected it to be this big."
Even Milim gulped down. She, with all the information she had, was still shocked by this.
The experience before them was something they might never be able to witness. Even seeing this next year won’t make a difference.
"This is... insane."
Even Rose couldn’t hide the overwhelming feeling she felt from this.
"Crazy as it may seem. This is all good. They are going to watch the next generation of this world. Nobody will give up on such an opportunity." Noah added after Rose.
This wasn’t something that happens every day, so their excitement for this was completely understandable.
Besides that, this audience will be more than enough for him to spread his new name throughout every part of the world.
If before, only the people of his region and those interested in such information knew about his growth and real strength, after this, everyone in the world will know about that.
There was this excitement, but he had other things he was looking forward to.
Meeting his protagonist and also his fiancée, the main heroine of his novel.
Just as he was about to head out, a familiar yet unpleasant voice came from his back.
"You? You were here?"
Noah slightly turned his head back to look at the approaching man.
Witnessing the anger and disgust in his eyes, he felt awfully pleasant.
"Lucian... our dear prince. Did you sleep well? You feel so energetic." Noah sarcastically mocked him.
He was the one who made him sleep or knocked him out cold yesterday.
Of course, he will be full of energy after sleeping like a log, right?
Milim chuckled softly hiding her face with the folding fan she carried.
Lucian gritted his teeth. He was already enraged after the embarrassment he faced yesterday.
Only he knew how he was able to get to this place after being so arrogant before all of them and then getting knocked out by a simple tap on his shoulder.
"You... you arrogant trash. What kind of trick did you pull..."
He began to spout curses at Noah, not even caring about the fact that he wasn’t a match for him yesterday.
He was so blinded by his rage that he couldn’t think straight.
However, he wasn’t able to finish his words till the end.
Noah disappeared from Noelle’s side and appeared before Lucian in the blink of an eye and grabbed him by his neck.
Just like that he slammed him on the wall behind him, completely shutting his mouth off.
He had played the part of an innocent bad guy.
Till this moment, the story was just an introduction. From this moment on, this was the beginning of the true story.
And here, he was a villain. A villain isn’t supposed to be like a hero who will let his opponents finish speaking, explain his powers, even give his backstory... nah, he wasn’t a hero.
So he never had to be afraid of hurting anyone.
Nor that he needed to as well. Even without powers, Noah was an arrogant asshole in the story. He acted as he pleased because of his huge backing.
But now, he had powers to back himself up, and compiled with his backing...
Was a prince a threat to him?
"Listen well, you piece of shit."
He glared coldly at Lucian, staring at his eyes, willing to engrave his fear into him.
"I don’t care if you are a prince, don’t care if I hurt your tiny ego, don’t even care if I make you lose your face before even lower trash. I don’t give a fuck about any of that."
He tightened his grip on his neck, making him struggle to even breathe.
Lucian’s face turned red, with anger, with his weakness, with his embarrassment and with the difficulty to breathe.
Their actions soon attracted the attention of people around them.
They immediately recognised the one being slammed on the wall with his neck held in place.
"Prince Lucian?"
"Why is he like that?"
The bystanders were also beginning to do their part, but their work was also stopped in between with a loud shout.
"Shut the fuck up!!"
Noah yelled at them. He was fed up with this NPC talk he always listens to.
"I am fed up with this shit. Did you really think just because I talked nicely to you, I respect you? You are only trash before me. An arrogant brat who can’t even differentiate between the things he should never mess with."
He then dug his fingers into his neck, sending wisps of his mana into his body.
Lucian immediately had his eyes turned red, he struggled to break free from his clutch bit he couldn’t.
He couldn’t overpower him, neither in mana nor in physical strength. On top of that, a few wisps of Noah’s mana were going inside his body.
He was torturing him in an even more gruesome way.
The quality of mana differs in everyone, so one’s mana isn’t suitable for everyone else. It is impossible for two purities of mana to exist, it can just never be the same.
It might feel the same, but at the atomic level, it never is.
So, when someone else’s mana goes into the body of another person, their mana collides and ruptures the internal organs.
It could be very fatal. The only way to stop that is if the one who took in the mana has better quality and a higher amount of mana, then the mana in them can cancel the foreign mana.
However, that couldn’t happen here.
Lucian wasn’t even close to Noah in that aspect.
Noah finally let go of his neck, but he did not feel a shred of relief. In fact, it was even more painful than before.
He even spat out blood, his veins were getting ruptured.
He tried to calm his mana down, but they betrayed him completely.
There was nothing he could do, beside waiting for the time when his mana could be stabilised again.
Noah did not use too much mana, if he had, he could have killed him easily.
He stared down on him, piercing his scared yet vengeful gaze and spoke,
"You are only a prince of this kingdom not the king, while I am the duke of my region. My status is bigger than yours, unless you become the king. However..."
Lucian was only the prince of the kingdom as of yet. He was supposed to become the king later in the story, but that was until the variable wasn’t there.
Noah wasn’t going to let that happen now, unless he had a change of heart.
As for his status, Noah was bigger than Lucian. He wasn’t a crown prince yet but only a prince, that was only a title without any authority, but Noah had the authority, not much right now, but it was still bigger than someone with nothing.
Noah snorted, disdainfully staring at the pathetic creature before him.
"With that puny strength and your fragile ego... You will never become the king. I won’t let you be one."
He lifted his leg and kicked Lucian in the face, then stomped his feet on his head, pressing it down without holding back.
"This is no longer the outside world, so don’t go around showing off your status. If I find you do it again, then I don’t mind giving you the same treatment again. Next time we meet, always put your head below me. If you don’t have a death wish."
With that, he backed his feet to their place and turned around.
He looked at the audience who were stunned by this display, but he did not spare them more than a second.
Before leaving, he gave him his last words,
"Also, in this political game between you and your sister, I won’t support you. And from ’I’, I meant the Asthor family. Keep that in mind too."
With that, he walked away from the scene, along with the 3 ladies who followed after him.
They had their eyes widened up just like everyone else.
While they were worried about the consequences, Noah had other things on his mind.
’It was a great way to clear the way.’
No one dared to come before him after he destroyed the prince of the kingdom.