Endless Extraction in a Game-Like World

Everyone froze in their tracks. Their minds completely short-circuited at the bizarre sight. They simply could not believe what they were witnessing.

Caelus was effortlessly holding onto Brad, a superhuman player with a Combat Score of 31, using only a single hand. Kevin and Roland’s pupils constricted in profound shock.

"You... what?" A deep chill ran down Brad’s spine when he saw the look on Caelus’s face. It was a mask of pure indifference.

"You are extremely lucky we are on school grounds. So..."

Crack!

"Arggggh!" A painful wail erupted from Brad. His eyes turned bloodshot as the bones in his fist were effortlessly crushed to dust in a single squeeze!

In the following instant, the world spun wildly around him.

Boom!

Brad’s face was slammed directly into the concrete courtyard. A shockwave of wind swept outward as Caelus casually lifted his foot, glanced lazily around the silent perimeter, and stomped down hard right onto the back of Brad’s head.

Crunch!

The sickening sound of breaking bone audibly rang out as Brad’s skull and jaw fractured under Caelus’s crushing pressure.

Some of the girls in the crowd started tearing up in sheer terror.

"Oh wow. Did this guy not have a Combat Score of 31 at Level 12? How did he end up under my shoe?" Caelus blinked innocently before casually kicking his leg forward.

Boom!

Brad’s limp body shot across the courtyard like a broken kite and smashed violently into the brick wall of the dormitory. A morbid trace of blood smeared against the bricks as his figure slid to the dirt. Brad was barely conscious, shaking profusely in pure terror as he stared up at Caelus. He could not comprehend what was happening.

He was just like the rest of the spectating students. They all had only one thought echoing in their minds: How is this even possible?

To effortlessly crush someone with a Combat Score of 31 like a fragile toy, he had to possess a vastly higher Combat Score!

"The so-called elite students of Fortis-01 High are pretty weak, are they not?" Caelus looked around the frozen crowd. "Even that loud monkey over there cannot do a single thing. I wonder what they are actually teaching in this academy for you all to be weaker than a supposed trash tier with an E-Rank affinity."

"Do not act so smug yet, Caelus! There are still real experts here!" Gilbert shouted as he charged forward to defend his bruised pride.

He was Level 15 and boasted a Combat Score of 39! He absolutely refused to believe that this academy outcast was stronger than him!

Caelus merely raised his hand. Using just two fingers, as if flicking away an annoying piece of trash, he casually flicked Gilbert’s forehead.

Boom!

Gilbert shot backward like a cannonball, crashing right next to Brad with a deeply cracked forehead. Whether the wealthy heir suffered permanent brain damage or not was none of Caelus’s concern.

"You dare cause trouble on the school premises, Caelus?! We will call the Player Association!" Lara shouted angrily, unable to handle the sheer humiliation.

"You fucking bastard, Caelus! Die!" Ivy screamed, her mind clouded with confusion and rage. She charged blindly toward Caelus. She could not accept that this trash had effortlessly swatted away both Gilbert and Brad!

Caelus stared at her incoming figure with a completely deadpan face.

Slap!

The crisp, deafening sound of a heavy slap rang out. Ivy’s body shuddered as the kinetic force spun her in the air, sending her crashing to the dirt.

"Argggh!" she shrieked, clutching her rapidly swelling cheek. A second later, a tooth slipped from her lips and fell to the ground.

Caelus looked down at her without a single ounce of pity. "I am sorry, but my hands are rated E for Everyone."

Ivy used to constantly mock his appearance back in the day, standing right alongside Lara to hurl insults. Now, lying in the dirt, she looked like a swollen pig.

Caelus fully believed this was poetic karma. He was not normally the type of man to strike a woman, but he simply did not consider these sociopaths to be human anymore. Drugs, relentless bullying, and ruining the lives of innocent students were just a few of their daily hobbies.

Such vile creatures did not deserve an ounce of pity. They had humiliated the previous owner of this body countless times, and today he was collecting the debt.

"Everyone, we need to stop him together!" Lara shouted, her voice trembling with a mix of sheer anger and deep-seated fear. "I will buff all of you! With my support skills, your stamina and Combat Scores will increase exponentially!"

Roland, who was standing near the back of the crowd, could not stomach the humiliating sight any longer. The image of Caelus’s white-haired figure overlapped with the pathetic lapdog who used to trail after Lena. Roland’s expression turned freezing cold.

"A very good performance, Caelus. But this childish farce ends right here," Roland Parker declared as he confidently stepped forward, flanked by his remaining lackeys. "You might have taken down a few careless students, but those cheap tricks will not work against the true elite of the Special Class. You got one lucky encounter in the Domain and decided to become arrogant, huh? I will make sure to bloody that misplaced arrogance right now," Roland spat coldly as he surged forward.

Seeing the academy’s top student take charge, Lara immediately took action and cast her area-of-effect buffs. Potent telekinetic power erupted from Roland as several sharp flying swords shot directly out of his spatial inventory. They all arced toward Caelus with immense speed, while the other lackeys joined the fray with their own respective skills.

Caelus just sighed at the pathetic display.

Just then, Principal Haris rushed onto the scene.

"What on earth?! Caelus?!" Principal Haris’s eyes widened in horror as the crowd hastily parted ways for him.

From afar, the news reporter was sprinting toward the courtyard alongside his cameraman, who was already live-streaming the entire bloody incident to the city network. They both wore expressions of greedy excitement.

To think they would stumble upon such a viral, scandalous event at the prestigious Fortis-01 High!

However, the attacking students did not halt their assault. Caelus glanced at Principal Haris with utter indifference, then flashed a mocking smile.

Boom!

His figure blurred out of reality, completely disappearing from everyone’s line of sight.

In the very next millisecond, every single attacker, including Roland and his lackeys, collapsed to the concrete. Their bodies were covered in severe bruises and blunt-force injuries. Caelus planted his foot firmly on Roland’s back, pinning the so-called genius to the dirt, as he casually stepped right next to Lara.

"Y-You... Caelus," Lara stammered, looking up at him in pure shock.

Smack!

Caelus gave her a single, indifferent look and delivered a swift backhand slap. She fell hard to the ground with a painful groan, her buffs instantly shattering.

"This is not just for me. It is for my past self and for all the hell you people put him through," Caelus said with a dark chuckle.

By now, not a single onlooking student dared to make a sound.

Their eyes were completely glued to Caelus. Even after being targeted by a coordinated barrage from the Special Class, he looked entirely unharmed. And that high-speed counterattack he just executed... it did not even take a full second. They literally blinked, and all the elite students were groaning on the floor.

They were petrified. This level of power... how could an expelled, talentless student possess this sort of god-like speed?

"You... what have you done?" Principal Haris was visibly stunned by the massacre.

Everyone, including Roland, the absolute pride of his academy, was lying defeated beneath Caelus’s shoes. How was this remotely possible? He stared at Caelus not with anger, but with deep, existential confusion. Was this truly the same weakling he had just expelled from the academy?

By now, the other instructors of the school had also rushed into the courtyard. They froze dead in their tracks upon seeing the carnage.

"Caelus?" Instructor Aron’s stunned voice echoed through the silence.

"Yes. That would be me," Caelus replied coolly.

Aron snapped out of his daze. "There is no time to waste! Quick, someone call an ambulance! We need to get these students to the hospital immediately!"