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"Bang—!"
With a dull impact, a figure was suddenly sent flying backward from the center of the crowd encircled by the Apollo Familia adventurers. Like a kite with its string cut, he sailed over everyone's heads and across the crowd.
"Crash—!"
Another heavy impact rang out as the flying figure slammed hard into the wall of a building, cracking the sturdy surface with a web of fissures.
"Pfft—!"
Only then did a mouthful of crimson blood spray from his mouth. His body slid slowly down the wall before collapsing onto the ground.
Everyone present, still unable to react, instinctively turned to look at the figure who had been sent flying, smashed into the wall, and slid to the ground. Once they saw who it was, every one of them fell into deathly silence.
There, a shoeprint remained on Hyacinthus's chest. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth as he lay facedown on the ground. He struggled to lift his head and glare at Noah, who had not moved so much as a single step. His handsome face twisted with hatred.
"You... you..."
Watching Hyacinthus get crushed in a single blow, not only the spectators but even the Apollo Familia adventurers stood frozen in place, speechless.
Hyacinthus was a Level 3, a second-class adventurer.
An adventurer of that caliber was already considered an important figure by the surrounding spectators.
For the Apollo Familia adventurers who regarded Hyacinthus as their captain, the shock of seeing their own captain defeated in one blow was even more unimaginable.
Thus, when Hyacinthus addressed Noah in a