Chapter 164

Chapter 164

I Became the Academy Mafia Chapter 164The Aura Style General Assembly was the greatest festival for aura users, held once a year.

It was the best opportunity to show off their growth and appeal to Aura Master Kwak Chun-sik, who could be called both a hero and living history of the Republic of Korea.

How much blood and sweat had I shed with my masters for this very day?

“Horyaa!”

I shouted with all my strength and thrust an aura-covered knife-hand toward someone in the enemy formation.

At the same time, my knife-hand buried itself in his neck, and he collapsed.

As expected, the secret technique my master taught me, ‘Neck Slice,’ was undoubtedly the strongest technique in the world.

The only problem was over there.

In this place where every disciple was displaying their martial prowess, that spot had effectively become an uninhabited zone.

Because of the boy standing there with his fists clenched.

He looked as though he were merely standing still, yet he was releasing such thick killing intent that it felt as though anyone who approached would be slaughtered.

At first, I had only felt doubt and jealousy, but now I could understand.

Killing intent of this level at that age.

He must have lived an extraordinary life.

A child soldier who alone survived a war zone.

When someone approaches the boy, his hands drenched in blood after massacring an entire village, he instinctively charges at them.

Movements like a wild beast. But the Grandmaster(no passport)

easily subdues him and says.‘You're violent. But you can become stronger! Now, run toward that sun!’Then he gently takes the bloodstained hand and leads him.

Not toward a meaningless life under the Heavenly Slaughter Star, but toward the world of Aura Style that saves people!‘Whew, he must have lived through hardships like these. Just how broad-minded is the Aura Master!’But that wasn't what mattered right now.

It was time to think only about the outcome of this spar.

Because of that boy, an uninhabited zone had formed in the middle of what had begun as a 100-versus-100 battle, and the gap in our formation made it extremely difficult for us to enter the enemy formation.

“To think simply releasing killing intent could cause this... someone go over there and deal with that boy!”

“B-but is that okay, Senior?! If he's Grandmaster Kwak Chun-sik's disciple, wouldn't he be around the rank of our Senior Uncle?”

“Don't you know things like that don't matter during a spar?! Go, now!”

The junior who heard my shout immediately charged toward him.

So far, all he'd shown was killing intent, so sending the junior to test his skill would be──“How dare anyone touch Senior Uncle while we're here!”

“Impudent fooooool!”

But the junior was immediately retired by the guys who suddenly jumped out.

Judging from the aura wrapped around their hands and the burned-looking marks on my junior's martial arts uniform, it wasn't difficult to guess who they were.

“Tool Adornment

means those Blue Yaksha Workshop bastards...!”

They were the same people who had long been notorious not only for fleecing travelers on Jeju Island, but also as Jeju's group of lunatics.

“You will not touch a single hair on Grand-Senior Uncle's head!”

“Grand-Senior Uncle is personally working for our sake, and you daaaare!!”

I didn't know why those guys were protecting that boy so fiercely, but one thing was certain.

If we didn't take them down immediately, we would lose.

“Grrr! Everyone, charge together!”

“Charge!”

The sparring ground instantly transformed into a battlefield after the Blue Yaksha guys' strange war cries.

And the young Grand-Senior Uncle looked down arrogantly on the whole scene.

Could it be that the guy scattering killing intent over there had calculated even this far?

If so, then that meant he was an utterly terrifying existence, one who possessed not only the martial strength to survive a battlefield, but even scheming ability.

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What the hell is going on?

No one was charging at me, and the Human Totem trait had activated too, so I just stood still.

But somehow things started going strangely.

Enemies suddenly began charging at me, while the Blue Yaksha Workshop apprentices blocked them.

The two formations started fighting wildly, and that was the beginning of total chaos.

Their side rushed in targeting me, while our side threw themselves in the way to keep anyone from approaching me.

The two formations that had only been keeping each other in check and trading small skirmishes until now suddenly began fighting at full power.‘I didn't do anything.’Could this be the power of Human Totem?【Human Totem】[1. Human Totem: You help your team merely by standing there. If you stand around doing nothing, your teammates' luck rises slightly and the trait holder receives an action modifier.]

The important part here was that the trait holder received an ‘action modifier.’

In other words, even if I did nothing, the enemy would perceive it as though I were doing something.

“So basically, even if I just stand still, I do my share?”

What an amazing ability.

It also seemed that the slight increase to my teammates' luck was taking effect, as our formation gradually began shaving down the enemy formation.

And at last, the survivors were decided.

Aside from me, only about nineteen people were still standing on their own two feet in the sparring ground.

“I originally intended to advance everyone from the winning formation, but the spar became more intense than expected, so that will be difficult.”

At that moment, Kwak Chun-sam's voice came from the platform.

“I think it would be best for the twenty survivors to proceed to the next round. Father.”

“Let's do that. Hahaha!”

Apparently they intended to have only the survivors participate in the next round.

“We were able to win thanks to you, Senior Uncle!”

“If Senior Uncle hadn't kept them in check, it would've been difficult!”

“Hm?”

Two apprentices bowed to me while saying something I couldn't understand.

Looks like the other two had been eliminated.

“Right. See you in the next round.”

When I patted the two of them on the shoulders to say they'd worked hard, their faces turned deathly pale.

“W-what frightening thing are you saying?”

“We intend to stop here. It seems we've succeeded in carrying out the Workshop Master's order to spread the name of the Blue Yaksha Workshop. More importantly, we don't have the stamina left for the next round!”

Their words certainly weren't wrong.

The two of them didn't look normal at all.

There were wounds all over their bodies, and their breathing had been rough for a while now.

Well, fewer people makes things easier for me.

When I nodded, the two finally sighed in relief.

“Though we fell here, we'll be cheering for Senior Uncle from behind!”

“Senior Uncle! You absolutely must win!”

It was hard to imagine muscular men blackened with soot cheering me on, but these were also people who had crossed the line between life and death with me.

I appreciated the sentiment.

“Don't worry. I'm taking first place anyway.”

At the same time, Kwak Chun-sam's voice came from the platform.

“Everyone except the participants in the next round, withdraw to the rear!”

And so, fifteen people remained in the sparring ground.

Until just moments ago, we'd all been fighting together, but this time we were meeting as enemies.

At the same time, the aura inside my body began raging as though running wild.

“So that's how you're going to play it?”

There was only one reason my aura would suddenly surge in this situation.

It meant everyone here was hostile toward me.

“Right, this makes doing nothing during the first round worthwhile.”

As though proving this body really did carry Vito Calione's blood, merely watching the others fight had made my whole body itch...

I thought I'd die from frustration.

“Good. Come at me all at once.”

Since I'd come this far.

I should raise my master's prestige a little too, right?

“Kishaaaaat!”

A disciple was the first to charge, letting out a bizarre scream.

I didn't know what school he came from, but he curled his fingertips like an animal's claws and began slashing with his arms.

I threw an aura-covered fist toward him.

The principle of Stillness Within Motion contained in my fist.

Crunch──!

His face was crushed and he collapsed on the spot.

It was a level of brutality possible only because this was an Aura Style event that pursued real combat and battle.

“Next?”

I shook the blood from my fist and looked around.

Even though I'd only fought one person, the others were already hesitating.

“Why are all of you so timid?”

I was wondering whether I'd have to go around finding and beating them one by one when.

“Haah!! How can Aura Style disciples be frightened by a single man! If you're finding it difficult to touch him because he's my disciple, I don't care in the slightest, so show your strength properly!”

Kwak Chun-sik's rebuke thundered from the platform.

Anyone else would probably think it was a harsh declaration made for Aura Style even at the expense of his own disciple...

But because I knew his true nature, I heard something else.‘This is getting annoying, so hurry up and finish it, Eugene!’That was definitely what he meant.

Even now, his face was tightly furrowed and looked solemn at first glance, but from my perspective, he was suppressing a yawn because he was bored.

The others, however, seemed to gain tremendous courage from the Old Man's shout, because they all began charging simultaneously.

“The Grandmaster has spoken! Let's go!”

“Even if you're our Senior Uncle, I won't hold back!”

“Prepare yourself! Senior Uncle!”

Since this was an Aura Style event, weapons couldn't be used, so I'd also have to face them with my fists.

Deciding it would be better to defeat them using techniques the Old Man had taught me rather than ordinary punches, I immediately filled my leg with aura and stomped the ground.

“Ground Wave.”

I loaded aura into my leg and stepped down onto the ground.

Ground Wave, a basic Aura Style technique that discharged aura to shake the earth.

Rrrrrrrumble──“U-uwah!”

“It's Ground Wave! Everyone, brace your lower bodies!”

Because it was Kwak Chun-sik's technique, they recognized it immediately, but apparently they hadn't predicted the power behind it.

The others lost their balance, creating openings.

And I wasn't someone who missed opportunities like that.

The force compressed while stamping the ground transformed into power for a leap, and I shot forward.

I punched the first person who lost his balance, and the man I struck in the abdomen flew backward, crashed into the wall, and lost consciousness.

He looked fairly strong, but he went down in one hit...

Thanks to all the fear I'd already accumulated and the buffs from my traits, I was practically fully doped.

There was no one here who could stop me.

“Gaaaaaah!”

Apparently spotting an opening, someone rushed at my back and launched a kick.

Having tracked his movement with 【Aura Sonar】, which I'd spread around me at the same time as Ground Wave, I lowered my body to evade the kick, grabbed his leg, and immediately slammed him into the ground.

That made three.

Still, plenty of people were targeting me.

“Charge all at once!!”

More than ten people rushed at me from every direction.

Judging from how they were moving with weight placed into every step, they were clearly anticipating Ground Wave

in advance.

But that was the wrong move.

“Solitary Evergreen.”

In that case, I could simply use a technique that attacked every direction simultaneously.

A technique still known to the world as something only Kwak Chun-sik and Kwak Chun-sam could use.

That was why no one could have expected it.───Kagagagak!

Aura surged from the tips of my feet in ripples, spreading around me like roots taking hold before shooting toward the others.

“How can he use this technique?!”

“Impossible──!”

Caught off guard by the unexpected attack, they took it directly.

I intended to finish everyone with this single blow, so I loaded all the aura I'd accumulated until now into the attack and maximized its destructive power.──Bang! ───Bang bang! ──Bang!

Normally, the energy should spread like needles, but now it expanded in a blunt form like hammers.

As a result, sounds like rocks shattering echoed across the sparring ground, and more than ten people simultaneously lost consciousness and collapsed.

“...

Ah. I'm tired.”

Since it was still a technique I hadn't fully mastered, there had been considerable waste of power.

I couldn't wash away the fatigue that came crashing in as a result, but its effect was certainly undeniable, as none of the people strewn around me showed any sign of getting back up.

I raised my head and looked toward the Old Man and Kwak Chun-sam sitting on the platform.

Kwak Chun-sam wore a shocked expression as though even he hadn't expected this much, while Kwak Chun-sik smiled as if he adored me to death.

This should be enough to raise the Old Man's prestige, right?

The moment I lifted my arm while thinking that, Kwak Chun-sik, who had been sitting until now, stood up and shouted in a voice infused with aura.

“The winner of this Aura Style General Assembly is Aura Style's successor! Han Eugene!!”

Yeah.

He's completely excited.