Chapter 416 Trap of Memories - II
??"Hey, I wanted to ask something," Damian asked.
"What?" Asher replied.
"A month ago, why did you tell me to protect that girl?" Damian asked while they were sparring.
End of Year Tournament was near, and Damian wanted to do a few spars with Asher so that they could get ready for it.
But the question regarding Asher''s strange request was still on his mind.
Usually, Damian wouldn''t ask Asher about things he didn''t speak about but he was curious.
"Hmm, I-I don''t know," Asher replied as he stopped in his ce.
Damian stopped for a second as he saw the look on Asher''s face, especially his eyes that for a single moment didn''t seem as emotionless as usual.
Damian just shook his head, and decided not to pursue this matter further, as he didn''t wanted waste their precious time of sparring.
Both of them continued sparring while Damian took all of Asher''s attack and after some time both of them stopped.
"You have gotten quite powerful, I am surprised you caught up so fast," Damian smiled.
"I am pretty sure, you will achieve the Ranker Title after the End Year Tournament,"
Asher sat on the bench present in the room thinking about Damain''s words.
At first, Asher was cautious of increasing his strength because of the fact that he couldn''t control his increasing madness.
But now, that wasn''t the case anymore. He didn''t feel the urge to destroy everything around him, and life didn''t seem that dull to him.
It was a new feeling, that was still unknown to Asher but he was slowly recognizing it.
That''s why Asher didn''t put a limit on himself and continued practicing his mana, and due to his bloodline ability reaching D Rank was possible.
"Seeing your speed, makes me feel that I have cked off," Damian said while stretching his body.
"I am sure you can defeat me or the other rankers if you fight carefully," Damian spoke.
These were his honest opinions.
"I don''t really need the Ranker Title," Asher replied.
"It''s not like anything would change," Asher said while looking at his sword.
"Ohe on, there are so many people that talk behind your back, although you startedte, I don''t think you would have a hard timepeting for Rank 1," Damian said with a smile on his face.
Asher nced at Damian''s expression and for a moment, Damian''s smile looked a bit bitter.
But Damian turned his head to ce his shield on the weapon shelf, as he started removing the protective gear.
Although Damian and Asher were friends, Asher hardly knew what Damian was thinking.
He didn''t even know why Damian had stuck with him for so long, but right now Asher didn''t mind Damian''s presence.
''Maybe, I can be normal as well?'' Asher thought for a second.
His whole life, he had a hard time rting with others, but sinceing to World Academy, he felt different, something that he didn''t know he could feel.
The memories shifted, as Asher was now standing in his waiting room looking at Alyssa who had just won a match against Venessa Baker, but her next opponent was n.
There were a lot of students that were cheering n, who was smiling at them, but then he looked at Alyssa and his face had a look of disgust.
"It seems winning against a Ranker made you think that you are something?" n said while Alyssa stood on the stage silently.
The Referee was about to signal the start of the match n smirked as he was ready to show the world, that he and his family weren''t connected to her at all.
The match began as n dashed towards Alyssa who chanted her Ice Spell, but the chants weren''t fast enough topletely stop n.
n had already seen the duel between Alyssa and Venessa and he was aware of the way that Alyssa defeated a ranker, and it was due to her catching Venessa off guard and pushing her off the stage.
"GO ALAN!"
"CRUSH HER!"
Chants were resounding in the arena and even some of the Professors weren''t looking too happy seeing Alyssa on the stage after all her previous win had guaranteed her spot on as a Ranker.
They were sure that it would create a lot of bacsh as people wouldn''t like that a person rted to the Garcia Family was enjoying the privilege of a ranker.
Alyssa''s hands were shaking because her match was scheduled after the first one.
This was the Fourth Day, and she had just fought Venessa, but for some reason, she was told to fight n soon after.
"A pathetic b*t*h," n smirked as he shed the ice sh, and made a cut on Alyssa''s arm.
"I didn''t want to dirty my sword with your blood, but I would make sure that you know your ce here," n spoke loudly.
Alyssa stayed silent as she touched the wound, and raised her hand.
"Ice Arrows, Descend," She muttered as n started running around the stage.
The frost arrows would pierce the stage but n could see their trajectory.
''I don''t have enough strength,'' Alyssa thought as her head started hurting.
Her mana was running low, and she was feeling tired even staying afloat on the stage dodging n''s strikes.
Both of her arms were shaking, and the loud cheer of the crowd was slowly getting muffled for her.
She waved her hands upwards, causing the ice to erupt from n''s feet trying to capture him, but the strength of her spell wasn''t enough.
Shatter!
n broke through the ice with his aura and dashed towards Alyssa as he grabbed her throat, and lifted her upwards.
He let his aura spread as he countered the effect of the gravity magic that Alyssa was using and threw her on the ground.
Alyssa''s head hit the stage causing her mask to break and also causing small bleeding around her head.
"Ugly b***h," n spoke.
Alyssa opened her eyes, which were looking lifelessly at n.
"Haha, I guess this isn''t enough to make you know after all," n spoke as thrust the sword into Alyssa''s hand making her eyes go wide with pain.
The crowd cheered while some people averted their eyes as they couldn''t stomach the look on Alyssa''s face.
n was about to thrust his sword again, but the referee stopped him midway as Alyssa couldn''t move anymore.
"The Winner is n Astaria," The Referee announced.
"Tsk, too bad I couldn''t y a bit more," n turned to leave.
The medics present there immediately took Alyssa to the ward for her treatment while the Referee started announcing the next match.
Everyone moved on, as they were eager to watch the next match.
But that wasn''t the case for Asher who was watching the whole match.
His eyes went cold, as he looked at the screen and the look on his face changed.
He felt it.
The madness that has been suppressed for so long, emerging slowly.
But this time, Asher didn''t even try to control it.
For so long, he didn''t know what he felt towards Alyssa.
But that also was about to change in the near future.
"It is the next match between Asher Von Raven Greville Vs n Astaria,"
The crowd cheered as n proudly walked onto the stage with a wide smile on his stage.
"Let''s have a good match," n said while looking at Asher.
Unlike his previous opponents, n didn''t mock Asher but it was mostly due to the fact he and Asher had simr status.
Both of them were Heir of their respective families.
"Do you think he can defeat n?"
"Who are you kidding, he is good but n is better,"
The Heir of the Greville Family, who had only recently gotten awakened, wasn''t even a Ranker, unlike his sister.
Many people judged that Asher wasn''t capable of defeating the rankers and rumors about him being ipetent were being spread around the World Academy.
"But he did kill the people...."
"Kevin was the one that actually held them back, he just dealt the final blow,"
Every person had a different view of Asher, but the person in question was standing on the stage staring at n''s sword.
"Not even a greeting? Huh, good luck," n said as he felt a bit annoyed by Asher''s expressions.
"Start,"
The Referee spoke out as n dashed towards Asher who was standing still.
n closed the gap towards Asher in an instant and thrusted the sword towards Asher.
sh!
The whole stage got silent as n''s sword pierced Asher''s guts.
"What?"
The whole crowd was confused. Even the Professors were shocked by this.
Even n himself was confused as this attack was meant to be a follow for his next strike as Asher could dodge it instantly.