Chapter 520: The Hidden Storm
The image of the trembling rabbit avoiding defeat by a hair’s breadth he had built in everyone’s mind suddenly shattered with his words as a suffocating pressure crashed on everyone.
The non-mages legs chattered in terror as they finally understood that Alice’s crazy allegation had been true since the first day. Adam never tried and just played them like fools with his exaggerated acting.
Loud gulps echoed, and icy sweat dripped from the ones who had insulted him earlier as the sound of rushing wind rocked the place.
On the platform, Bernard stopped his incantation and watched with constricted pupils as a literal storm brewed between Adam’s palms. The rumble of lightning registered next as bright purple flashes blinded everyone.
But the most appalling thing that sent a shiver down even Alice’s spine was his swiftness.
Without a single word and in less than a second, Adam had ordered mana to reshape itself, something even she, an adept, couldn’t do!
She trembled next, remembering his mocking words on the first day and understanding... understanding that Mathias didn’t save Adam from a good trashing by holding her. Instead, he had saved her from a horrible public humiliation or even death.
Meanwhile, Adam’s enchanted beast core roared in his puppet as the storm extended to cover the stage in a dome of whistling wind spinning fast enough to reduce rocks and metal to shreds.
In its ceiling, purple lightning arcs danced and merged with terrifying crackling.
Upon seeing the spectacle, the arcanists rose from their seats in horror as the image of the sky guardian’s overwhelming figure superimposed with Adam’s.
Everything happened almost simultaneously, leaving them no time to react, much less to think before the first bolt shattered the stadium’s stunned silence.