Chapter 514: The Underestimated Alchemist
"Hahaha! Let me show you Elisabeth’s glorious light!"
The second Alice called for the duel to begin, Paul’s amiable features shifted. His gentle smile vanished, replaced by an arrogant grimace as superiority and disdain danced in his eyes.
Without wasting a second, his voice filled the stadium with his spell’s incantation as his posture wafted the confidence to breeze through a match against a weak alchemist.
The audience gawked as light condensed and swirled around the teenager like a divine halo. Anticipation gripped their hearts as they gawked at the spectacle in surprise and awe.
Even the other academy students nodded in approval at Paul’s swift casting before shaking their heads at his adversary’s lazy approach. After all, two seconds had already passed, but his mouth remained closed.
Meanwhile, Adam finally opened his mouth, raising the public’s eagerness as they believed they would witness an incredible battle. Yet, he only yawned and rubbed his eyes.
Then, under their enlarging eyes, his lips curled into a provocative smirk that dwarfed Paul’s level of arrogance by a hundredfold.
"He is too much! Does he think he can win after wasting four entire seconds?"
"He’s too scared to move! Get down from the stage if you don’t want to participate!"
"What’s this con artist? Who does he think he’s scaring with that smirk?"
The public booed and cursed him after ten seconds of inaction. Even Alice squinted her eyes threateningly, her earlier good impression of the boy already a distant memory replaced by scorn.