Chapter 51: Righteous Bullying

"Armed robbers!"

They were holding long, sharp swords, and gave off very frightening killing intent from their body. Their faces were masked, and a quick headcount told us they numbered fifteen in total.

Just when I thought all my classmates would hide quickly beneath the tables, I heard a snicker.

Zhangkong said with a bone-piercing smile. "What a coincidence! You're fifteen, we're fifteen too! You're bullying, we bullied some humongous savage beasts some days ago and need to really practice on humans."

Of course, the robbers were immediately attracted to us, since Zhangkong's voice was made loud just enough for everyone to hear, through the use of true essence.

"He's right!" Since Zhangkong had already started it, who was I to back down. And by the way, we really hadn't faced real people to test our combat improvement. After all, who'd want to give himself off for a beating. Thus, wouldn't it be a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually be privileged to have a free fight with armed robbers?

Surely, if the robbers were to be able to read our minds at this moment, they'd puke a handful of blood in frustration.

'So this bunch of children only took us for nothing more than punching bags?'

Well... fortunately, they couldn't.

I gave my orders to the girls in such a way that those other customers in the restaurant couldn't hear what I'd said. It was a voice disguise trick I'd learnt from Old Ancestor.

When they heard my words, they couldn't help but nod approvingly. Even the boys seemed to buy the idea and move along with it. As top-notch geniuses, they didn't need an explanation for them to understand the meaning of what I'd told them.

The leader of the mob of robbers, laughed when he heard Zhangkong's words, earlier and ignored us completely to walk towards the counter, leaving another robber to face us. He was flanked by three others, also with shining, sharp swords. In their eyes, they probably only saw us as "mere children". As I watched the four of them approach, I noted their first flaw. They underestimated us.

It really felt stupid, to think of it. In this world where everyone had a Gift, apart from the fact that a few others cultivated too, wouldn't it be stupid to actually look down on us.

When they were only just ten metres from us, everyone simultaneously let out their dominative auras of nobility.

'You must be kidding? If only you knew we were students from JAG, you'd not have ever taken the first step.

Our dominative aura complimented one another, causing a heavy pressure to fall on the four approaching robbers. It felt as though they were standing before a volcano that was about to erupt.

According to what I'd learnt from my classmates during the time we'd been discussing of miscellaneous matters, I'd learnt that, despite the spiritual energy in the air, not every Gifted possessed the ability to actually cultivate. With just a look, all fifteen of us had already noticed that no single person here were cultivators. Except Uncle Fu, though. I'd noticed true essence fluctuation from his body, earlier.

"They're cultivators?" the robbers were slightly surprised. They probably had not expected to face this kind of case.

Zhangkong took a step forward, maintaining that malicious smile on his face. The moment his foot stepped against the ground, cracks appeared underneath it as he flew forward crippled the four with his almighty strength. The time it took him to cripple all four robbers was equivalent to the time a person blinked twice!

"What a joke!" I heard Xueyi snicker in disgust.

It really was a joke. They didn't even have the time to make use of their sword. They didn't even slash it once. What was worse? They didn't even have time to unleash their Gifts!

"Hey, big brother, why not let me handle the remaining."

"Sit down, Blackie, I really have to take these guys down today, you could go next time."

"Hey, hey, hey, you lot are donkeys, step aside let me do it!"

"Boys! Why not step aside let this little sister do it!"

"Hey, stop talking slyly, allow me to show them my prowess!"

"What do you mean by..."

And that was how a group of teenagers argued over who'd take down the armed robbers, as though they were fighting over free money. Even the people under the tables who were previously hugging themselves in fear could not help but tilt their nose up and arcked an eyebrow. The other robbers who saw their comrades drop unconscious, in addition with the arguing teenagers, they did not even know when they began pulling chunks of hair from their chins as they watched on in frustration.

'Are we the robbers, or are you?'

Meanwhile, amidst the argument, I'd already given Mingming, the silver-haired maiden, a signal to make sure Uncle Fu and his workers were fine. She had the Silver Lining Speed, so she was the best to pass through the "argument" we were having. Ruby had already appeared beneath the front desk and tapped on the emergency button there to alert the police. She signaled the lady there to be at ease, so as not to give her away. Done, she teleported to the door and jammed it close.

While Jessica appeared to also be in the huddle, she'd actually unleashed her enchanted vines, slowly controlling them to crawl on the ground like a bunch of snakes, heading towards the robbers who didn't know whether to burst into laughter or cry aloud.

They were only holding swords after all.

Toby looked at the direction of the robbers as they began to advance towards them slowly, before he muttered under his breath, "Earth tide."

Immediately, about six to seven of them suddenly found their feet fixed into the ground as though they were standing in a quicksand. For the others who weren't under the influence of Toby's ability, Xuan'er covered up the flaw.

"Ice Shackle!"

Finally, the quarreling stopped simultaneously, after some stealthy hand gestures from within us. We all turned around to face them in unison, with a Cheshire cat grin.

Although their number was even with ours, however, one thing must be considered — we were not the only ones inside the restaurant. Even though these people inside were not cultivators, they were definitely not weaklings. Slowly, they began to crawl towards us and increase our number. The more they joined us, the more they supported our overpowering auras.

Chang sang out his, obviously favourite, thaumaturgy trick.

"Life is like a fine wine. Drink, tremble and fall!"

At that moment where they lost control of their mind and body, that was the best time for Class 192 to strike.

Zhangkong and I took to brute force. Xueyi fed them with poison. Lingxi cut tribal marks on their faces; vertical and horizontal lines on their cheeks, like captives from Africa.

Tang had long since made himself two other replicas which he'd led to deal with the leader of the robbers. Everyone was so excited. If this wasn't righteous bullying, then what was it?

The scared people, on witnessing a bunch of teenagers handling things they should have done, they could not help but shake their heads bitterly as they strolled over with wide strides to give the robbers a piece of their mind.

"This is for frightening my granddaughter!"

'Pah!'

"This is for making me stain my newly purchased white robe!"

'Pooh!'

"This is for..."

"This is..."

"This..."

One after the other, people began to "righteous bully" the robbers. However, in their moment of rage, what they did not realise was that a group of young people had stealthily snuck off the restaurant, just a few seconds before the law enforcers began to arrive on bloodthirsty savage beasts, trained for military purpose.

All fifteen of us gave off a hearty laughter and held hands as we ran down the road towards the magnificent gates of the academy. Of course we wouldn't want to wait behind and watch the police send reports back to the academy about our heroic acts... hahaha. We'd already left Uncle Fu with a plea to proclaim that he hadn't met with us before.

Done and dusted, alarm bells rang in our minds as we thought about the fact that we had thirty minutes to arrive inside our individual dormitories, lest... cough, cough, we really do not want to know the punishment the academy would call on us.

As we ran away happily, none of us noticed a silhouette staring at us with bloodshot eyes, and clenched fists.