Chapter 21

"Adam."

Tonight, after the five fireballs, this name had a unique magic power on the Moldova College. In everyone's hearts, Adam was equal to power. They could ignore Ophelia, but they had to ask for Adam's opinion.

Tom didn't dare to speak anymore. A despicable person like him had his own way of survival. He could curry favor with the strong, but he would never challenge an opponent who was on a completely different level.

Adam had been watching from the side for quite some time. He didn't care about the ownership of a mere magical beast. Instead, he was interested in the ugly faces of humans when it came to their own interests. Whether it was Ophelia, Quentin, or Tom, each of their faces was like a set of symbols, constantly filling in the gaps in his understanding of human nature.

After Corestal finished speaking, she ran to Adam's side. She wanted to ask Adam to uphold justice, but after seeing Adam's expressionless face, she suddenly didn't dare to say anything.

The deck fell into an awkward silence.

William hid behind the crowd. He had already made up his mind. At least on this ship, he wouldn't have any conflict with Adam. Tom was a stupid lackey. Since he wanted to die, he had no interest in saving him. Moreover, William thought that Adam wouldn't care about Tom. After all, it would be beneath his dignity. He just didn't know how Adam would deal with Quentin and Randy.

However, what happened in the next second was beyond everyone's expectations.

Adam directly threw a fireball at Tom's head, blowing him into pieces. Then, he naturally walked to the front, picked up the magical beast's corpse, and walked back to the side of the deck.

The apprentices were stunned. They were dumbfounded. They didn't know what kind of expression they should use to face what had just happened. Right in front of them, an apprentice killed another apprentice without hesitation.

Adam walked back to his original spot, waiting for their reaction. There were two reasons why he did this. First, although Adam couldn't determine whether the Mage's Continent was an orderly civilized world or a chaotic primitive world, at least on this ship, the four mages tacitly agreed to fight, even if it involved life. Second, Adam was really curious. How would creatures like humans react when a carnivore trampled on their common values?

Would they submit or resist?

After about a minute, everyone finally reacted to what had just happened. Their expressions changed from daze to fear in an instant.

"Murder!"

"How dare you! How dare you do this! "

"We are all apprentices. We have the same status. How dare you kill another apprentice like this? The mages won't let you go!"

What a strange reaction. Adam thought.

When the magical beasts killed their companions, although they also felt panic, they were definitely not as angry as they were now. It seemed that in their eyes, magical beasts killing people was a matter of course, but humans killing people was unforgivable.

"Adam, you've gone too far," Randy scolded loudly.

"You have to give the other apprentices an explanation. We can't tolerate an apprentice who wantonly kills his companions. You have to pay for your actions," Quentin took a step forward and stared at Adam, speaking righteously.

Ophelia and Corestal were also stunned. Even if Ophelia was angry, she didn't think of killing Tom, at least not on this ship. Corestal only asked Adam for help because she wanted to get some support.

They didn't think that Adam would kill.

"No feelings, not the same kind."

Once again, Ophelia recalled the words of her father, Count Johnson. Those words had never been as clear as they were now, and they made her tremble in fear.

To Adam, this was an experiment, and he had to cooperate with the experimental steps in order to continue. Thus, he replied, "What kind of explanation do you want?"

Quentin's breath stagnated. He suddenly didn't know how to continue. Yes, what explanation did they want? Adam had to pay for Tom's life? Obviously not.

What to do?

Quentin's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He felt that he had done something stupid. He had put himself in the fire to roast.

Adam was not satisfied. How could he continue the experiment if the subject didn't cooperate? He asked Randy, "In what way did I go too far?"

Randy said, "We're on the same ship and will study in the same academy in the future. Tom only offended you with his words and actions. How could you kill him just like that?"

Adam was very dissatisfied. After these people recovered from the initial shock, their thoughts were all in his favor. It was true that their companions had died, but they couldn't take revenge on Adam for others. Now, their words of condemnation were full of loopholes and concessions.

Was this cowardice universal, or did it only appear in these people?

Adam shook his head and walked towards the cabin. As expected, including Randy and Quentin, no one dared to stand in front of him. Adam smoothly returned to the cabin. It was only when Adam's figure disappeared from the deck that the others dared to quietly complain about Adam's brutality. They also acted fearless in front of their companions.

After a short while, they seemed to feel that this was meaningless, so they all fell into awkward silence. They each carried the magical beast's corpse, but no one dared to touch the body-refining magical beast's corpse.

Corestal suddenly felt that her environment and the people around her were so unfamiliar. She had previously found Adam to be very cold, but she had never thought that this young man would be so indifferent to life. This was very subversive to her.

Ophelia, on the other hand, sighed. Her heart was filled with complicated thoughts.

On the first floor of the cabin, the banquet in the mages' room never stopped. Fresh food was continuously served. The mages did not need to sleep, which was a low-level recovery method. Based on their total spiritual power, if they did not use magic, they could always maintain a full state.

Mage Irene seemed to be drunk. She laid lazily on the table with one hand supporting her head and the other holding a wine glass. She softly said, "I didn't think, I didn't think, that this little guy would actually dare to kill people. Did he guess that we wouldn't care?"

"That's not the point. He doesn't seem to be killing for resources, but purely because he needs to kill people. This apprentice called Adam is very dangerous. If he kills everyone, you'll have to pay for my part of the reward. "Mage Jerome teased Mage Black.

Mage Black immediately agreed, "Of course." Then he said, "It's indeed a very strange style. Killing for the sake of killing people? I don't understand. I don't seem to have heard of such a thing. But it shouldn't be a problem. I don't think he'll kill everyone. "

Adam indeed would not do such a thing, because it was meaningless. Just because he needed to conduct an experiment on an entire race, it did not mean that every single individual in the race was a test subject. Finding a sample was enough, and Tom was just a coincidence.

The voyage continued. There were more and more magical beasts, and fewer and fewer apprentices. In the second half of the month, the mages completely sealed the cabin. The apprentices needed 79 hours a day. Because this setting was too troublesome to change. They tensed up and faced the incoming magical beasts at any time.

Only six survived: Adam and the other two mages, William, Quentin, and Randy.

Mastering the fireball spell was the foundation. Those who could not even do that were the first batch to die. Then, it was the instantaneous fireball spell. Two instantaneous fireballs. In this situation, if they did not improve, they would die.

Drawing the spiritual power solidification runes and spell runes had become their instinct. These two tasks were carried out at all times.

As expected by Adam, the closer they got to the Continent of the Mages, the higher the number and quality of the magical beasts. Now, the low-level magical beasts had disappeared. Every magical beast that rushed to the deck could use magic or had combat power that far exceeded that of a Super Knight.

But the scariest one was an ugly magical beast that could use poisonous gas. It only appeared once, and that time, it took away the lives of half of the apprentices. William and the others finally realized that a weak alliance was meaningless in the World of the Mages. So, that childish and boring organization completely collapsed.

Adam's situation was a little special. No one, including Ophelia, was willing to be too close to him. But every time a magical beast attacked, they would spontaneously treat Adam as the center. Especially that time when Adam released twenty fireballs at the same time and blasted the poisonous magical beast into ashes.

Adam sat right in front of the Fireball Rune Group. He did not seem to have changed in the past month. There were no scars on his body, and there was no fatigue on his face. The days of danger were no different to him. But the constant repetition of the magical beasts made him a little dissatisfied.

No matter how ugly these things were, the nature of carbon did not change. In other words, to Adam, only the different spells used by the magical beasts were meaningful. But almost a month had passed, and there were still no new, more powerful spells in front of him. Adam was a little tired of playing around.

As soon as he thought about it, Adam instantly activated fifteen fireballs. Five fireballs in a group bombarded the rune formation that had been suspended in the air. The rune formation shattered with a crisp tinkling sound and disappeared without a trace.

Corestal was bored to death on the other side of the deck and looked into the distance. Suddenly, she saw a different color in the distant sea. She turned around and shouted in surprise, "The Continent of the Mages! We'll reach the Continent of the Mages soon! "

But she found that everyone was looking at Adam with a pale face. Corestal shrunk her neck and did not say anything.

It was not until Adam picked up the high-quality shards in the Rune Group that William asked, "The reason for the magical beasts' attack, is this the reason? You knew all along, didn't you? "

When Adam's hand touched the shard, his spiritual power quickly and automatically interacted with it. Magic began to condense at a speed far faster than normal. Adam hurriedly restrained himself, and only then did he avoid the ridiculous ending of his soul being blown up by the magic.

"Yes, that's right. I knew all along. "