Chapter 170 - Absolute Overwhelming
After keeping his foot on Draven’s face for a while, Nexus suddenly came up with a new way to show off. He stopped stepping on Draven’s face and turned around to look at everyone present in the square.
Facing all the prodigies of this generation, Nexus didn’t give them any face at all and held his head high.
His practiced way of looking down on people was so natural that the moment he did it, quite a few people were already red with anger.
"Don’t look at me with eyes like that. All of you are just lowly mortals."
Nexus pointed his index finger straight at the crowd below, shocking them so badly that they were completely stunned. They had heard plenty of praise and flattery from others, but this was the first time someone had openly insulted them like this.
Just now, they had thought Draven was already outrageous enough, but compared to Draven, Nexus was much better at making people’s blood boil.
"Bastard! Don’t think that having a little strength means you can look down on others."
"Who here isn’t talented? If they don’t have money, they have strength. You think you can just offend several thousand people at once with that little bit of strength?"
"Don’t think that just because you’re handsome and strong, you can say whatever you want."
"Principal, you can’t blame us for this."
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After just being provoked by Draven, most people couldn’t hold themselves back after Nexus hit them with another massive mental blow.
All kinds of different abilities were activated at once, throwing the entire square into chaos. Zero’s expression, along with those of the academy’s core members, darkened. There was no way to stop this situation without casualties.
Now that Nexus was no longer controlling him, Draven could immediately get back up. Looking at the pile of attacks flying toward this place, the corner of his mouth twitched.
"Hey, even though I’m S-rank, this many isn’t a joke."
This alone was naturally not enough to kill Draven, but it was more than enough to send him to the hospital if he wasn’t careful enough to dodge and tried to take them head-on.
"Hmph, a bunch of worthless mortals gathering together is still nothing more than one big pile of trash. With this little bit of strength, you still think you can attack me?"
Nexus snorted coldly. Immediately, a glint flashed in his eyes. Almost instantly, the entire academy grounds fell within his control.
An invisible, powerful force directly crushed every wave of attacks and pulled all the students straight down to the ground. Those who knelt were kneeling, those who lay down were lying down, but absolutely no one in front of him could still stand.
The aggression and anger on everyone’s faces disappeared in an instant. Instead, they were replaced by shock and even fear in the face of absolute power.
They all considered themselves well-educated and knowledgeable, but when faced with this kind of power that completely overturned their understanding, all they could do was helplessly lie flat on the ground.
Out of respect for the American Hunter Academy, Nexus didn’t use his ability on them this time, so they didn’t feel anything changing.
Lailah was sucking on a lollipop when she suddenly frowned. Looking left and right and seeing that no one had been pressured to the point of vomiting blood, she finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Luckily, he’s still holding back. Even though everything has already turned into a mess, this level is still acceptable."
She nodded, then suddenly felt that something was wrong. Had her tolerance for Nexus’s behavior somehow increased?
"Are you kidding me? Is SSS-rank really this powerful?"
Someone as arrogant as Draven now widened his eyes in shock. Just now, Nexus had casually controlled him, which had already left him extremely surprised.
Now Nexus had actually controlled thousands of elite hunters at once while also completely nullifying all of their abilities, and there were truly no words left to describe his astonishment.
"No, he’s not SSS-rank. He’s the strongest cultivator of all time, and also the first cultivator to appear in this world."
Bell had known that Nexus was very strong, but witnessing this spectacular scene still made him break out in a cold sweat.
Luckily, he understood Nexus’s personality. Nexus might be a little strange right now, but a closer analysis of his actions clearly showed that he didn’t want to cause any destruction.
Thousands of people were being pressed down to the ground by terrifying pressure, but not a single brick was broken. Not even a blade of grass was bent, let alone anything being destroyed.
"This... Is this reasonable?"
As an S-rank hunter, Zero’s back was drenched in sweat right now. His eyes were wide open, and his body couldn’t stop trembling.
Zero was naturally not afraid of Nexus’s power. It was just that the shock he was experiencing right now had completely overturned his understanding, making everything feel incredibly unreal.
At his age, when the apocalypse happened, he wasn’t a hunter yet, but he was already old enough to understand just how terrifying the great battle back then had been.
He had once been lucky enough to witness humanity’s only SSS-rank hunter take action. That year, with nowhere left to run, he followed a group of people into a dungeon.
Inside that dungeon, he witnessed the power of a legend. A terrifying attack caused nearly half of the dungeon to completely vanish. Whether it was towering mountains or buildings, everything disappeared before that horrifying explosion.
But even though that attack was incredibly powerful, it was an extremely serious attack, completely different from Nexus’s current playful attitude.
Moreover, the target back then had only been a bunch of monsters around the mid-rank level or below, not thousands of humanity’s elites.
Nyx had already pulled Mark quite far away, but she could still sense the commotion and turned her head to look back. Her special eyes were positioned very high up, so she could clearly see what was happening.
"Hahaha, this is really interesting. So cultivating can actually let me do fun things like this? Hey, tell me quickly. What exactly do you do to cultivate?"