Chapter 258: Arrival I

As soon as the ferocious aura erupted from Alex's body, it vanished.

He had quickly retracted the aura he put out due to his anger, which had appeared because of the announcement that Olivia's family made to the world. He was simply angered by that. 

Well, there was nothing he could do except go there, defeat every genius and become her legal husband.

When he retracted the aura, he looked at Soulstorm and said with an amiable smile "I am sorry. I was only angry about something. I have to go now. It was nice chatting with you"

Soulstorm who was shocked by Alex's strong aura that radiated great anger looked at him with a light of incomprehension in his eyes.

He couldn't figure out what made Alex really angry.

He only nodded his head.

"You would be there on that day right?" Soulstorm asked again to confirm.

"Definitely." Alex said sharply.

Then he continued "Today, we are friends. But on that day, we would be challengers"

Soulstorm smiled and nodded his head.

"Practice and cultivate hard, friend. If we eventually face off on the battle stage on that day, you would be knocked off the stage in an instant by me" He said with an amicable smile, but seriousness could be felt in his tone. 

Alex laughed. 

"What a crazy confidence. Is it because you are a soul cultivator?" He asked in a curious tone. 

Then he spoke further "Well, we shall see on that day. Bye, Soulstorm" 

Alex then stood up and left the inn. And as he left, all the cultivators in the inn couldn't help but look at him. 

Although they were all above him in cultivation; he was at the initial-phase earth adept stage, while they were at the mid-phase, late-phase or peak-phase earth adept stage. Yet, they were affected by the powerful aura that he put out. They couldn't easily resist it. Then they began to wonder how strong he would be. 

They would definitely be there on that day to watch him perform. 

***

"You met him? The killer of my brother?" Maximilian asked. 

"Yes, senior." A boy in a group of seven boys hurriedly replied 

"Hmm. So where is he? Why don't I see his terribly mangled or badly damaged body on the ground?" Maximilian asked with concealed wrath in his tone.

"We couldn't do a thing to him. He's simply very powerful for us to do what your uncle actually ordered us to do." That same boy replied.

"He's very powerful? How powerful would he be against a group of seven boys who are in the mid and late-phase Earth Adept cultivation stage? Eh?!" Maximilian asked with intense mockery and disgust in his tone.

Then before the boy could speak, Lenna suddenly cut in.

"Well, Max, don't forget that the Immovable Mountain Academy announced that the lover of their Great Holy Daughter is a powerful and superior genius, one that would be made to battle all the geniuses in the city to defend their reputation, and fight to be their Holy Daughter's true future husband. So, I think that he must be outrageously powerful. Besides, recall that he could kill our genius brother who was at the mid-phase Sky Lord stage. Even if he used a cheap method to achieve that, since he could slay our brother, regardless of the dirty means that he might have used, that still makes him a genius" She intelligently said.

Maximilian's eyes shone with apprehension.

"You are right Lenna." He said.

Then he looked at the group of boys before him.

"So, he fought all of you and pushed you all back? That's one amazing battle prowess the bastard possesses." Maximilian said. 

"Actually, he didn't even attack us. He let us all attack him and even embraced the attacks that we sent at him, which didn't even cause as little as a mark to appear on his skin. His skin is astonishingly tough" The boy replied. 

"What?!"

Lenna and Maximilian asked with shock in their tone. 

With deeply furrowed brows due to the surprising thing that he heard, Maximilian asked "So, without a body armor, he used only his body to withstand the full-powered attacks that you sent at him?" 

"Yes, senior" The boy replied.

"Oh! So our future captive is a body cultivator. That is a good one. Alright. You can all go" Maximilian said.

Then all the boys in the room left to leave Maximilian and Lenna behind.

"Well, since we haven't been able to catch him, I guess he has fortunately made it to that day were he is going to perform on the big battle stage" Maximilian said.

Lenna's eyes that emitted wrath shone with uncertainty.

"I guess. But there's still a day left before the day of the competition. I am definitely going to catch him. And when I do, he would screech for the rest of the hours that he has left to live in this world before he dies in an exceedingly gruesome way" She said.

Haha! 

Maximilian laughed.

"Lenna, we won't be able to find him before tomorrow. But he would definitely appear at the stadium to fight his challengers. Therefore, we would go to the stadium at the city center to watch the battles so that we would be entertained. Then when the event is over, we would capture him and bring him to the academy for series of intense agonizing torture. I believe that no academy would dare to stop us on that day, even the trash Immovable Mountain Academy itself" He said.

"Hmm. True. That's a good plan, brother. I agree with you." Lenna said understandably.

***

- A day later -

In a large treasure-stadium that was placed at the center of the city, could be seen thousands of people seated.

These people were both mortals and cultivators who had arrived at this stadium, which was an expansive treasure-artifact, to watch the glorifying battle between the lover of the Great Holy Daughter who she claimed to be a superior genius, and the other fearsome geniuses who were from all the academies in the city.

This place was noisy as both mortals and cultivators discussed amongst themselves.

One of them which was the most discussed topics was that the lover of the Great Holy Daughter might not come. That he might be frightened of fighting such a long battle and then wouldn't come. While some who were the fans and admirers of the Great Holy Daughter hotly argued against that. They believed that the Great Holy Daughter who they adored so much because of her battle prowess and fascinating beauty wasn't that cheap and stupid to offer her body to some fool who is also a coward, one that wouldn't dare to even show his face in a only competitive battle between geniuses. Therefore, because of these reasons, she would definitely have a high taste for the kind of person that she can consensually offer her body to for intimacy.

Then the second topic that was greatly discussed and was heatedly argued between them, was that her lover would be knocked off the stage in the third or fourth fight, whereas he was going to fight about thirteen geniuses, not including the ones that weren't from academies and would show up because of the great and fantastic rewards that would be given.