Alan didn't bother to pay attention to Hicks's thoughts.
He casually shoved the magic pendant into his pocket.
We've already fallen out, who the hell is going to argue with you?
Alan's principle is... don't talk too much when you can get physical!
The kind-hearted Panthers is such a straightforward man!
He's a telepath, taking advantage of any opportunity!
He directly invaded Marvin's mind!
Judging by his superficial appearance, no one would believe it...
Alan, this tall, muscular, violent warlock, actually has the strongest attribute... Spirit!
A perverted 52 Spirit points, twice as much as Marvin's.
The gap is already so huge...
What's the point of talking about resistance to telepathy and will immunity?!
The moment the pendant's protection was lost, Marvin's thoughts were completely exposed to Alan!
"Who told you my true cultivation level?"
"Andrew...?"
Alan thought briefly.
He finally remembered the person this name corresponded to.
A bat-type sorcerer from the Beast Cult, in the early fourth stage.
When the martial arts gym first opened, this guy had brought people to cause trouble.
Master Shiva kicked them all away.
Later, when Alan returned to his hometown of Quinte Island, he encountered this Andrew again.
This man had set a trap to capture Tanya.
Alan foiled his plot.
With Spanna's cooperation, he killed Andrew.
At the time, he found it strange.
Why had the news reached Andrew so soon after he returned home?
Who was the one who tipped him off?
Until now, the mystery has been solved.
"Marvin, you keep talking about catching the traitor, but it turns out you're just the thief crying 'stop thief'!"
"The real traitor colluding with the Beast Cult is you!"
Alan exposed his inner secret.
Marvin's face grew even uglier!
His spirit was shaken, and his defenses weakened.
This made it easier for Alan to read his mind.
"Let me see what other secrets are hidden in your mind."
"You never know until you see it!" Alan was shocked! "Good grief! It turns out it's not just you, Master Marvin, but your entire Ganesha family has betrayed the South Island Federation!"
"The Warlock Academy, one of the three great families, has completely surrendered to the enemy and colluded with the Beast Worship Cult!"
"No wonder we've been met with setbacks at every turn in this war. It turns out the traitors are right there in the front three rows!"
The Ganesha family, including patriarch Kana Ganesha, Marvin's father and vice-president of the South Island Warlock Academy, and almost everyone in the family's upper echelons have defected to the Beast Worship Cult!
At first glance, this may seem unbelievable, but after Allen read Marvin's mind, he could understand it.
The root of the matter lies in...
The Ganesha family's elephant-man bloodline caps at level five!
President Ganesha's path of cultivation has reached its end.
To break through this bottleneck, he resorts to secretly colluding with the Beast Worship Cult.
He secretly worshipped the gods, attempting to fuse the beastly bloodline of the Batman lineage, hoping to break through the bottleneck and advance to the level of a Rakshasa demon!
Not all members of the Ganesha lineage willingly surrendered to the enemy.
Family vassals, represented by Pansen and his daughter, firmly advocated resistance against the Beast Cult!
This was the reason the Ganesha family abandoned Pansen.
Tanya's refusal to marry Marvin became the fuse that ignited the rift between the two sides.
Thus, Pansen and Tanya, along with Pansen's disciples like Taffman, were treated as abandoned by the Ganesha family, framed and used as cannon fodder for their allies, the Beast Cult, to gain military merit.
The Beast Cult's initial capture of Pansen and Taffman was inseparable from the intelligence provided by the Ganesha family.
Marvin was the informant responsible for contacting Andrew!
It was he who leaked the news of Allen's return to Andrew.
In turn, Andrew revealed Allen's true strength to Marvin.
In reality, Allen wasn't particularly loyal to the South Island Federation.
The real offender with the Ganesha family wasn't their betrayal of their homeland, but their betrayal of his mentor, his senior sister, his senior brother, and even Pan the Great Kindhearted himself!
"Your entire family is a traitor, and that's none of my business. Why are you targeting me and harming me?"
Allen questioned Marvin.
"No need to answer. I'll open your mind and see for yourself."
"Oh! So it's because Senior Sister Tanya refused to marry you, and you think she likes me, so you're jealous of me and want to get rid of me as soon as possible..."
Allen scoffed. He wasn't surprised at all!
Marvin's face flickered, then paled.
Unable to resist Allen's mind-reading abilities, all his dark thoughts were revealed, leaving him furious. But!
Mind reading is nothing more than a devious method.
Marvin didn't believe he could lose to Allen in terms of physical strength.
What's more, he had Hicks by his side.
"Junior Brother Hicks, what are you still standing there for?"
Marvin's face darkened, a murderous look in his eyes.
"No need for decorum when dealing with such a sinister villain!"
"Let's team up and take him down quickly!"
"Uh, Senior Brother Marvin, I..."
Hicks had just been severely beaten by Allen.
Not only was he physically injured, but he was also psychologically scarred.
He had originally hoped to rely on Marvin to take action, to vent his anger.
But now, Marvin seemed to be suggesting...
He seemed to want him to lead the charge?
Hicks' scalp tingled.
He looked hesitant, unwilling to step forward.
He and Marvin each had their own agenda.
Each wanted the other to strike first, holding Allen back while they waited for a chance to launch a surprise attack.
They were still dithering, but Allen wasn't having any more time.
Who the hell is playing mind games with you!
Two versus one, huh?
I'm just going to charge right in!
Kill one first, then talk!
Agility isn't Allen's strongest point.
But 31 points of Agility is more than enough to crush Hicks.
Swish!
Alan's figure vanished from the spot.
His hound gait, combined with his leopard-man talents, unleashed an incredible burst of speed!
Hicks' eyes flashed.
When he came to his senses, Allen's iron fist was already right before his eyes!
Bones exploded!
Bang! !
Amidst the roar, flesh and bones shattered, blood splattered!
One punch, Hicks's head exploded!
The headless corpse spun and fell backward.
Alan retracted his fist.
He calmly turned around and faced the stunned Marvin.
He grinned.
"Now, we're one-on-one."
What do you mean by fair?
This is fucking fair!
Marvin had no time to rescue Hicks, and watched helplessly as Allen's punch killed him.
In shock and anger, he had to reassess Alan's strength.
He no longer dared to underestimate his enemy!
"Bold lunatic! I will crush every bone of yours and avenge Junior Brother Hicks with my own hands!"
With a furious roar, Marvin instantly activated his fourth-level Atavism!
An elephant-headed giant stood tall in the forest clearing, resembling a giant white tower!
Ang ang ang ang—
Atavism Marvin unleashed his killer move, "Elephant Roaring Technique," upon contact.
The long, thick trunk pointed directly at Allen, unleashing a shockwave that shook the earth and sky!
Without hesitation, Allen raised his hand and blasted out "Thunder Explosion Wave"!
Elephant Roaring Technique and Thunder Explosion Wave are both sonic-based martial arts.
The two sound waves collided in mid-air, interfering with each other and triggering a series of air explosions.
The surrounding sand, gravel, and fungi were shattered by the overflowing energy.
Thunder Explosion Wave is a third-level martial art.
Marvin's family-inherited Elephant Roaring Technique, a Kekkei Genkai, has no fixed rank and advances in tandem with his own sorcerer rank.
For Marvin, Elephant Roaring Technique is equivalent to a fourth-rank martial art.
In a clash of the two, the latter proved superior.
The shockwave sent out by Allen was ultimately completely neutralized.
Marvin's Elephant Roaring Technique still had a third of its power left.
It thrust forward unhindered, sending Allen flying!
Bang!
It broke a giant mushroom, tumbling into the moss, buried beneath a soft cloud of spores and dust.
Marvin, reminiscent of his ancestors, grinned coldly.
He strode forward with his giant elephantine feet.
The heavy footsteps rumbled like thunder.
Where Allen had fallen, a figure slowly rose.
Pooh!
Alan spat blood-stained saliva.
He casually tore off his tattered shirt, revealing a muscular, bronzed build.
The scarf Pamela had knitted with enchanted yarn lay intact around his neck.
Alan removed the scarf, folded it neatly, and stowed it away in his storage bag.
He stretched his shoulders, his joints cracking.
Marvin's strength was not bad.
He was far stronger than Hicks, who crumbled at the slightest touch.
It looked like he could withstand a couple more of his punches.
It was worth using 70% of his strength to enjoy the joy of battle.
And so, Alan also activated his ancestral form.
He transformed into a ten-meter-tall demonic leopard giant!
His bloodline converged, concealing the blue skin that symbolized the poisonous demon and the pair of fangs—traits of an ogre wizard. Marvin stopped abruptly, his gaze fixed on Allen, a hint of caution in his eyes.
"Is this your second-awakened bloodline, Demonic Leopard Man?"
"Haha! It doesn't look that powerful!"
While Marvin taunted, his hands weren't idle.
He simply broke off the atavistic tusks and hurled them with all his might.
Another unique skill of the Ganesa family, "Ivory Skill," transforms atavistic tusks into enchanted weapons.
The higher the warlock's rank, the higher the level of enchantment on the ivory blades, and the more additional enchanted effects they possess.
Marvin's blades, equivalent to level 2 enchanted weapons, possessed the "Dancing in the Air" and "Rebound" special effects.
Like boomerangs, the blades, accompanied by a piercing whistle, crossed and slashed towards the atavistic Allen a hundred steps away.
If a strike missed, the blades would automatically return to Marvin's hands, waiting for a chance to launch a new attack.
‐‐This was the "rebound" effect!
‐‐If the ivory blades were knocked down, even if they were far from their master, they could be controlled to automatically soar into the air and pursue their opponent.
‐‐This was the "dance" effect!
‐‐However, in Alan's eyes, the ivory blades were only worthy of a four-character description...
‐‐"Flamboyant!"
‐‐The "Steel Rake" was activated in both palms, emitting a metallic luster.
‐‐A silver vortex swirled in his palms, generating a gravitational field.
‐‐With a quick grab, Alan drew the whistling blades into his palms, gripping them firmly.
‐‐Marvin's expression suddenly changed!
‐‐He focused on controlling the blades, slicing Alan's palms.
‐‐The blades trembled violently!
Metal clashed, sparks flew!
With his soft bone armor and beastly armor, Allen's defenses were beyond Marvin's wildest dreams.
He gripped the blades with his bare hands, not even a scratch on his skin.
Instead, the ivory blades were bent by the friction of his palms!
Alan gripped his blades tightly and grinned at Marvin.
"Which of your two fangs is harder?"
Marvin was stunned, confused by Allen's intention.
Before he could reply, Allen had already clashed his blades!
"Ahhh—Stop!"
Marvin finally realized what this guy was up to and cried out in shock!
It was too late.
Clang!
The ivory blades clashed fiercely, sending out dazzling sparks.
In his ancestral state, Allen's physical attributes reached a staggering 54.
Even the strongest ivory couldn't withstand such a monstrous force.
The moment the two blades collided, they both broke!
Allen dropped the two broken blades and casually commented.
"Your teeth are well-maintained."
Before he even finished his words, he had already transformed into a cannonball and pounced directly at Marvin!
The speed of a leopard!
The pace of a hound!
Allen charged at high speed.
Behind him, a white sonic boom cloud exploded!
"Good timing!"
Marvin's eyes were bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth.
He suddenly swung his trunk, whipping it at Allen like a whip.
The Ganesha family's bloodline martial art—Elephant Trunk Technique!
Boom!
Allen thrust his right hand forward, activating the Whirlpool Dragon Claw.
A powerful gravitational field locked onto the elephant's trunk.
Telekinesis!
Marvin's attack was based on Allen's attack speed.
According to the predicted trajectory, a twenty-meter-long trunk would surely be able to intercept Allen and send him flying!
However, he had overlooked a crucial factor.
Even at full speed, Allen could still use the force field provided by the Whirlpool Dragon Claw to pull in external objects, providing him with additional thrust and even greater speed!
Or, he could simply pull the enemy in from the opposite direction, effectively shortening the distance traveled, as Allen was doing now.
The sudden shift in speed caught Marvin off guard.
Before the trunk could fully unfold, Allen grabbed it!
Snap!
A massive hand gripped the trunk tightly.
Allen freed his left hand, activated his "Ice Soul Palm," and slammed it hard onto the base of the elephant's trunk!
Extremely cold magic flowed through the trunk, instantly coursing through Marvin's body.
The towering elephant-headed giant was frozen in place.
A look of astonishment froze on his face.
A Allen exerted force with both arms, his muscles pulsing like the serpentine movements of a python.
Using the trunk as a grip, he swung the icy-encased, atavistic Marvin into a human windmill, slamming him into the ground!
Bang!
Mud and sand flew, echoing endlessly.
A massive crater was blasted into the ground!
The ice shell shattered, revealing the pale elephant hide.
After being frozen, Marvin sensed something was amiss.
To withstand the impending blow, he activated his "Elephant Skin Skill" throughout his body.
Elephant Skin Technique is also a bloodline-limited body-refining secret technique that increases in power with rank.
It offers excellent damage reduction for both physical and magical attacks.
The moment he struck the ground, the Elephant Skin Technique's elasticity took effect.
Marvin bounced back like a giant ball.
Rebounding with force does mitigate impact damage.
However, it also facilitated Allen's subsequent assault.
Alan grabbed the elephant's trunk with both hands and, using Marvin's rebound momentum, flung him to the other side.
Bang!
Another roar.
Another massive crater was smashed into the ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The crashing sound continued.
Allen swung his trunk, treating Marvin like a meteor hammer, smashing him left and right, repeatedly hitting the ground.
The frequent impacts gradually made Marvin lose consciousness.
Finally, the battered trunk finally gave way.
With a snap, it broke at the root, blood gushing out!
The excruciating pain from the tip of his nose spurred Marvin back to consciousness.
Although his trunk was torn apart, excruciatingly painful, he was finally free from Allen's control and regained his freedom.
Allen held the bloody trunk, a look of regret on his face.
In ancient recipes from his previous life, the elephant's trunk was listed as one of the "Eight Delicacies."
Unfortunately, Marvin's trunk wasn't a special ingredient.
Throwing the trunk away, Allen...
Lun gazed into the sky.
Marvin, with his broken nose, was still tumbling in the night sky.
Alan bet he wouldn't fall.
"He's been beaten so badly, why isn't he showing off his best skills?"
Alan muttered to himself with anticipation.
He longed to see Marvin's true strength.
That was a special power Marvin didn't dare publicly display!
If it weren't for telepathy, Alan wouldn't have known he had a hidden trick.
In the air, Marvin's broken nose gushed blood like rain.
His massive body suddenly transformed again!
A pair of wide black bat wings spread out from behind him, supporting him in mid-air.
Like a bat-winged man, his eyes took on an eerie scarlet hue.
An even more terrifying transformation was taking place in Marvin, a throwback.
A pair of brand-new tusks slowly extended from the corners of his mouth.
The broken trunk secreted countless dancing buds, entwining and interweaving to form a new trunk.
The tip of the trunk mutated into a suction cup-like organ.
The inner side of the suction cup protruded with densely packed hollow spikes, demonstrating its thirst for blood!
The elephant-headed giant, a second reversion to its ancestral form!
Black bat wings, a blood-sucking trunk.
Rapid self-healing, regenerating severed limbs.
All signs indicated that Marvin was no longer a pure elephant-man sorcerer.
"Actively infected with lycanthropy, merging with bat-man blood."
"From elephant-man, mutated into bat-winged vampire elephant-man."
Alan stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the demonic beast-man towering in the night sky, and commented calmly.
"You joined the Beast Worship Cult, a lineage of Death Warlocks, and fetched a good price."
"Unfortunately, you ultimately couldn't make the leap from beastman to Rakshasa."
"Did the Beast Worship Cult not give you this opportunity?"
"Or has your potential been drained, and you failed to advance to Rakshasa?"
Alan's question deeply wounded Marvin's pride.
The beastman roared in the air.
"To deal with you, Beastman Reversion is enough!"
"You've seen something you shouldn't have. You must die here tonight!"
"Marvin, who do you want to kill?"
A cold female voice suddenly echoed from the mushroom forest.
"What's the unresolved hatred between you and Alan?"
"You have to fight here in the middle of the night, keeping me awake!"
The blonde, blue-eyed Pamela emerged from the mushroom forest.
Marvin's fury instantly solidified on his face.
He seemed to have turned into a fossil.
After a moment's pause, he regained his composure and instinctively complained.
"Pamela! You're just in time!"
"Alan betrayed us and murdered Hicks!"
"Join me and kill this shameless traitor!"
Marvin was timid, fearing Pamela would ask him why he was like this.
He quickly put the blame on Alan, primarily to divert Pamela's attention.
He was buying time to come up with a story explaining his own beastly traits.
The result was unexpectedly effective!
Hicks's death seemed to have deeply tugged at Pamela's heartstrings.
The young lady's gaze shifted from Marvin to Allen's face.
"Did you really kill Hicks?"
"If I don't kill him, he'll kill me. What can I do?"
Alan shrugged and spread his hands, his face filled with helplessness.
Pamela nodded, her eyes cold.
"You're so ruthless, so I can't blame you."
"Let me show you my true power!"
Blonde hair flew, skirt fluttered.
In an instant, the beautiful and elegant blonde girl transformed into a massive thundercloud storm!
Marvin and Allen couldn't help but shrink their pupils!
Pamela, Storm Elemental bloodline.
The fourth-level atavistic form, both of them had already witnessed.
Logically, it shouldn't be a cause for alarm.
However, the giant storm elemental that Pamela had transformed into was unlike any other.
The storm clouds were shrouded in dense blood-red lightning!
Raging magic, imbued with the utmost chaos and evil, radiated from this blood-red storm.
Both Alan and Marvin felt a sense of suffocation!
Pamela, transformed into a blood-red thundercloud, still maintained a vaguely humanoid form.
Her long, thick arms, formed from a tornado, slowly rose.
Between her arms, a surge of magical power converged into a ball of blood-red lightning.
This blood-red spherical lightning...
In his two lifetimes as a human, this was the first time Alan had witnessed such a thing.
"Abyss... thunderstorm!"
Pamela, reverting to her ancestral form, murmured like thunder.
He suddenly spun in mid-air, thrusting the Abyssal Thunderstorm in his hand towards Marvin, who stared blankly.
BOOM!!
A massive ball of lightning struck the bat-winged elephant-man.
Thunder exploded, lightning flashed, like billions of blood-red pythons dancing wildly across the sky!
A twisted figure struggled within the blood-red thunderstorm.
Most of Marvin's body had been ionized and vaporized.
Depending solely on the powerful vitality of his beastly transformation, he held on for dear life, struggling to survive.
Alan raised his hand and unleashed a "Moon Shadow Bullet" at the perfect moment.
The bright moonlight shone brilliantly against the blood-red lightning.
It shone on Marvin, sealing his beastly transformation and reversion.
Marvin degenerated into an ordinary elephant-man, losing his wings for flight and the ability to rapidly heal his flesh.
What awaited him was endless pain and despair.
Pamela rubbed her hands together, unleashing the full power of "Abyssal Thunderstorm"!
A thunderous roar!
Marvin's flesh and blood vaporized, turning to ashes!
Pamela released her atavism and slowly descended.
The dress that had vanished during the atavism was automatically donned.
As a young lady, she certainly wouldn't easily expose herself.
Alan didn't expect to see such a scene.
He'd already seen what he was supposed to see.
What truly surprised him was...
The mysterious power displayed by Pamela was so powerful that she could instantly kill Marvin, even with his beastly armor!
People often say that the two young masters of the South Island Warlock Academy, Marvin and Pamela, are equally renowned.
It's as if they were on the same level, evenly matched.
Now it seemed the gap was as vast as that between "Southern Murong" and "Northern Feng."
Having fought Marwen before, Allen knew the situation well.
Despite his hypocrisy, Marwen was still quite capable, definitely not someone who had earned his reputation in vain.
The problem wasn't that Marwen was too weak, but that Pamela was ridiculously, unbelievably strong!
Even if Allen were to fight Pamela alone, his chances of winning would only be around 70%, not a guaranteed victory.
"Pamela, have you fused with the bloodline of the Abyss?"
Allen didn't bother beating around the bush and got straight to the point.
"You come from the Randolph family, and there aren't any demonic sorcerers in your immediate family. It's unlikely you were born with the Abyss bloodline."
"Even if you were to fuse with other bloodlines, you should have chosen the Wind element. Why would you choose the Abyss bloodline?"
"Also, your Abyss bloodline essence is clearly not ordinary stuff. Where did you get it from?"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Pamela responded with her usual arrogant attitude.
"It's none of your business. Stop asking!"
Alan frowned, not wanting to say anything more, and turned to leave.
As for the mess here, Pamela would clean it up.
"Wait a minute!"
Pamela caught up, grabbed his hand, and warned him in a deep voice.
"Hicks, it's okay if he dies."
"Marvin is the heir to the Ganesha family!"
"His death here is no small matter."
"The Ganesha family's surrender to the enemy is an even bigger deal!"
"I'll report this to the family's top brass through secret channels."
"Don't be careless! If you don't want to get into trouble, keep your mouth shut. Be good—"
"I'll listen to you," Allen replied grumpily.
"Well said!"
Pamela smiled, her eyes charming.
"Be good, and I won't treat you unfairly!"