Not Finishing Off Wounds Is a Capital Offense

"Look at their badges. Three Third-Ranks."

"Tch. What a pain."

Ahab muttered in frustration to himself.

No matter how strong three Third-Rank Apprentices were, even tied together, they still could not beat a single Second-Rank Apprentice.

But his own situation was special. Killing a Second-Rank one-on-one was no problem.

That did not necessarily mean he could beat three Third-Ranks.

See Through was limited to four uses a day, and it only worked if he guessed correctly.

If the three people ambushing him each had affinity with three different elements...

He might not even be able to guess them all right.

"Ahab Gul, to be honest, I've heard of your evil reputation."

"But the world is a pyramid. For a better future, I have to go all out against you."

Wilson wiped the swill from his forehead with his right hand. He was the one who had hidden in the trash can to block Ahab's retreat.

The three apprentices lying in ambush exchanged glances, then each cast a spell.

Wilson's magic light was red, while the other two were blue and cyan.

One fire, one ice, one wind.

They really do have affinities with three different elements. Good thing I already prepared for the worst... Ahab pushed his left hand forward.

His right hand quietly reached into his wizard robe.

Wilson made the first move. He activated the spell model in his sea of consciousness and shot out three fireballs.

Ahab's left eye gave a wink, and the fireballs were instantly rendered intangible.

Normally, at a time like this, as long as a single spell struck him, Wilson would be finished.

But on the other side, the other two apprentices had also released their spells.

One wind blade and three ice spikes were already flying toward Ahab's vital points.

"See Through, See Through!"

Ahab blinked his left eye repeatedly.

Fortunately, both of these were spells he had seen before. He knew the Ice Spike Spell himself, and he had seen Tolia use Wind Blade.

The two spells were successfully rendered intangible, but Ahab had already used See Through three times.

On the other side, however, Wilson had already begun chanting another spell.

Clearly, the three of them had discussed long ago how to counter Ahab's See Through.

"Bloodline power, Plant Manipulation!"

Of course Ahab would not sit there and wait for death. He reached toward Wilson from afar and clenched his hand in the air.

It was already summer now, and the Academy's roads were paved with stone bricks, with plenty of weeds and shrubs growing along the sides.

At Ahab's command, every blade of grass and plant seemed to come alive, uprooting themselves from the soil and binding toward Wilson.

But ordinary plants and trees were not like vines. Wilson's movements were merely restricted, not completely tied down.

The instant he saw the plants binding toward him, Wilson took a potion from his robes.

He tilted his head back and drank it.

Ahab had transplanted a bloodline and gained the ability to control plants; Lie Qi had naturally revealed that as well.

For this, Wilson had even taken out a loan of twenty Magic Stones, all for this bottle of potion.

The potion was not used to strengthen his magic power. On the contrary, it strengthened his fire resistance.

And the elemental spell Wilson had learned in the first place was fire.

The potion entered his throat, and Wilson immediately chanted a spell, igniting flames across his own body.

What bound him was only ordinary plant matter, which burned the moment it met fire.

Seeing this, Ahab did not panic.

His goal had already been achieved: to delay Wilson for a moment.

The two apprentices blocking his path from the front still needed time to chant if they wanted to release another spell.

He would seize this chance and deal with Wilson!

The hand Ahab had already slipped into his robe gripped a decorative nail.

This was something Ahab had obtained back when he poisoned Lola, the loan shark, and looted her corpse.

This was a wizard tool!

The instant the wizard tool activated, Ahab felt tiny hallucinations appear before his eyes.

They were the most painful, most fearful, most despairing parts of Wilson's past experiences—

It seemed to be... being late to class?

And then he felt like the sky had collapsed?

Ahab almost laughed out loud.

He did not even need a second to struggle free of the illusion.

The effect of this magic tool was similar to a mental attack. It could show both sides the most painful memories buried deep in their hearts.

If the user's mind was not firm, they could even suffer from it instead.

Back when Lola had used this on Ahab Gul, she had ended up foaming at the mouth herself.

Wilson's current state was just about the same as Lola's back then.

In almost an instant, huge swaths of memories were displayed before Wilson's eyes in the very same second.

Suffering a penetrating wound and enduring the pain to stitch himself up in order to survive.

Being pinned under something heavy and forced to cut off his own arm to live...

Even the most recent time, lying on the ground and playing dead, only to be struck by lightning until he was charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

"Guh-ah!"

Wilson convulsed violently, as if he had personally experienced all of the above within a single second.

Then he completely passed out.

After confirming that Wilson had lost his combat strength, Ahab turned his back.

A diamond-shaped ice crystal the size of a human head was already held in his palm.

When the two apprentices blocking his path saw this, they immediately dodged in perfect sync, flashing toward two different directions.

Third-Rank Apprentices were limited by their magic power and often lacked large-area attack methods.

The two of them had already basically finished chanting their spells.

Ahab Gul's See Through had only one use left.

As long as they dodged this attack, no matter which one of them got seen through, the other could make a move and take Ahab down for certain.

The diamond-shaped ice crystal shot toward the spots where the two of them would land. Suddenly, a cold gleam flashed, and it exploded on the spot.

Though the ice crystal was only the size of a human head, terrifying magic power was compressed within it.

The instant it exploded, shards of ice mixed with wind and frost swept outward.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of meters around were covered in frost.

0.4-circle spell, Thunderbolt Ice, at the Second-Rank Apprentice level!

Boom—crash!

When the frost dispersed, a large stretch of the stone path had been destroyed.

The two Third-Rank Apprentices blocking the road were already covered in ice shards from head to toe.

The shockwave from the explosion had torn apart their internal organs as well.

It looked like they were not going to live.

Ahab backhanded another ice spike at them.

Wounding someone without finishing them off was a capital offense.

After confirming that the two apprentices were thoroughly dead, Ahab turned and looked at Wilson, who was still twitching.

"No matter how bad your mental fortitude is, with that much noise just now, you should have snapped out of it already."

"Your acting is terrible."

Ahab raised his hand and launched another 0.4-circle-level Thunderbolt Ice.

"No!"

Wilson, who had been lying on the ground putting on a frantic performance, preparing to ambush Ahab once he came close, let out an unwilling roar.

Then the ice spike exploded directly above him.

Not even a whole corpse was left!