Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Shrinking Realm of Survival

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Delicate and pale, as if deprived of sunlight for years, with a white face and slender fingers clad in black. Such a person, before the Dark Age, would undoubtedly have been the cherished companion of wealthy women, possessing a pair of long, slender, and tender fingers that many girls would envy. He did not look like a young generation supreme ruler but seemed born to play the piano. Yet, with these very hands, he had slain mutated beasts, humans, aliens, and supernatural creatures in numbers that could fill an entire auditorium.

Silent yet unapologetically present, he appeared before everyone like a shadow that confounded all. If the Azure Supreme brought an overwhelming pressure like being submerged in the ocean, and the Forest Fire Supreme exuded calmness and ease like an ordinary person, then the moment the man in black appeared, he brought with him a bone-chilling coldness—the eerie sensation of impending death. Instantly, everyone felt as though they had fallen into an ice cellar, cold and powerless to resist.

“Killer’s intent.”

Sleeping Cao Xiaoseng had unknowingly opened his eyes, his dark pupils fixed intently on the black-clad man on the stage.

In Cao Xiaoseng’s eyes, behind the man was not a black curtain but a river of red blood, with bones drifting within, and from time to time, anguished roars echoing in defiance.

Ye Bai looked at Cao Xiaoseng and asked, “How many must be killed to produce such an aura?”

If it was about murderous intent, Ye Bai’s first encounter with it was when fighting for the Wood Spirit Flower, facing a man known as the Butcher—his entire being radiated killing intent, his blade glowing with a red hue. Yet the young supreme before them did not carry such glaring hostility; rather, one could feel the icy chill from him even at a distance of over ten meters.

This young supreme merely stood there gently, yet everyone sensed the piercing cold. If he truly wished to kill, what kind of murderous aura would he emit?

When the man in black appeared, nearly all second-year students gasped sharply.

“What’s going on with him?”

“Wasn’t he driven mad, already lost his mind? How did he come back again, and as a freshman counselor no less?”

Compared to the second-year students, the freshmen were even more wary of the man in black. A freshman who had his arm severed by this man on the first day of class looked up at the stage with resentment but dared not show it.

Everyone had assumed the first lecture would be a simple introduction, a way to get acquainted, expecting the counselor to be at least kind if not handsome or beautiful. Instead, their first meeting was a show of force.

“Do not interrupt when I’m speaking. My time is precious.”

As he spoke, a flash of black light passed, and the freshman’s arm fell to the ground. The man in black continued, “Consider this a warning; there won’t be a next time.”

Each word was spoken slowly, calmly, yet laced with killing intent.

“Who is this?”

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