An JingTian remained unmoved, his grip on the dagger not loosening in the slightest.
Although being surrounded was within expectations, their ultimate goal was still to get inside.
Letting the hostage go would mean surrendering the initiative.
If they did not make things clear and set the tone,
then if the other side attacked again, their previous discussion with Wen Ya and Zhang Tie about persuading the college to cooperate and join them would become a joke.
Zhang Tie had gotten a little too fired up. When the Flame Type Awakener threatened the ordinary people behind them, he had also wanted to strike and kill him.
When Liang Yu saw the college's Awakeners arrive, he became somewhat agitated, as though he had seen hope.
"Teacher Zhang!"
"Save me!"
The middle-aged man addressed as Teacher Zhang raised a hand to interrupt him and spoke in a deep voice:
"Young man, although I don't know what happened, if you don't release him now, don't blame me for being rude!"
With one of his own still in the other party's hands, he was not stupid enough to provoke them. His attitude earlier had already made it clear that if the other party wanted to live...
"You killed one of our people and publicly took my student hostage. Do you really think our college is easy to bully?"
Zhang Jianlin gave a cold snort. Strong winds swept around him, making it clear that he was a Wind Awakener.
An JingTian and Zhang Tie exchanged a glance before speaking:
"Bully?"
"We didn't come here to deliberately provoke you. We have something to discuss with you."
"If your man hadn't insulted us and tried to attack our people first, we wouldn't have struck back."
Zhang Tie gave a light snort and pointed with his right hand