34 The Punishment

"That FUCKING BRAT! The ONLY punishment for him is that he should be expelled from the academy! And he should also be tortured for seven days straight!" shouted the bald man angrily.

Behind him, a lady in a maid's outfit carefully healed the wounds on his body. And from his words, he really was pissed off.

"Nope." Stella shook her head.

"You cannot expel the strongest student from Class A. Besides, if he really turns into a villain, do you know how many problems we're going to have?"

"Did you see the FUCKING reaction to him getting a class?" Stella snapped out.

"Besides, why the fuck are you so dumb!? Don't you know that now you're going to be his target?" Stella glared at the bald man.

As much as she disliked Matthew, her disdain for the bald man was even stronger.

Besides, if she was given a gun with two bullets and faced with the choice of Matthew or the bald man, she'd use them both on the bald man.

"H-how dare YOU!?" The bald man stood up angrily.

"I-I'll destroy you if you don't obey my orders! Don't you know about my family? It can completely destroy!"

"At that time, I'll make you into an obedient little maid!" 

Sharp... SWISH!

"A-aah...!" The bald man trembled.

Stella threw a blade at him, grazing his cheek and piercing the wall. The bald man's body quivered as he touched his cheek.

"H-h-how da-dare you!" But before he could say anything more, three figures suddenly stepped into the room.

"Who is 'Ulric Preston'?" One of them asked.

"T-that's me!" The bald man spoke quickly, thinking that they were people from his family.

An arrogant smirk appeared on his lips, but before he could act arrogantly, the figure spoke coldly.

"Ulric Preston, you're under arrest for trafficking slaves and will be condened to DEATH!" He put handcuffs on the bald man, and they disappeared from the place in a flash.

Everyone in the room was speechless since the three figures didn't say anything about who they were and simply took the bald man away.

"Aahh... that Baldie finally got what he deserved... But, I didn't expect that he would be trafficking slaves!" Stella spoke angrily.

She didn't expect that he was even worse than she thought he was.

"Right. But who were they? From this aspect, they seem to have more authority than the Preston Family since they simply took him away from here." Aiden, an S-Class Hero, spoke aloud.

"I don't know, but I'm glad that they got him." Stella sighed. "Now, let's decide Matthew's punishment."

"Um!"

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"A-ah... P-PLEASE LET ME GO!" Ulric pleaded as he tried to run away.

In front of him, a beautiful woman stood with a very scary look.

"Don't think you can escape...!" Her eyes tingled with a red glint.

Splat!

She swung her sword, and blood splattered on the ground as the lifeless head of Ulric rolled on the ground.

"How dare you offend our Lord?" 

"Ah... now I'm dirty..." She spoke in complete disgust as she immediately used a cleaning spell five times.

"I can't wait to see my Lord once again~" She sighed blissfully as she held her cheeks with both of her hands...

"ATCHOO!" 

"Ah... who's talking about me?" Matthew pondered as he rubbed his nose.

His back was already aching from sleeping in a very bad position.

"They could at least provide me with a bed or something. Even in prison, the conditions are much better." He stretched his body.

Crack...!

"Mhm~, that was good." He nodded his head in satisfaction.

Step, step, step....

"Matthew, you can finally leave. We've decided your punishment." Stella spoke as she opened the cell.

"Great. What's my punishment?" Matthew spoke as Stella approached him and tried to take off his handcuffs.

But, Matthew simply shook his head.

His red mana enveloped the handcuffs, and they turned into wisps.

"Mhm? Did you hear me?" Matthew looked at Stella, who had her mouth widely opened, forming an 'O'.

"Hello...?" Matthew passed his hand in front of her face, but she didn't seem to reply.

'Was breaking those handcuffs that big of a deal? They looked and felt pretty weak.'

"STELLA!" He leaned into her ear and exclaimed loudly.

"AH, WHAT!?"

"You were daydreaming stupidly."

"Huh? I was?" 

"Yeah, yeah, now quickly tell me my punishment."

Sighing, Stella took a step forward and started leading Matthew to a certain place where he would receive his punishment.

Basically, he had two choices: show all of his class skills or simply fight an A-level monster.

'Fuck... they really want to know about my skills, huh.' Matthew smiled inwardly.

And Matthew obviously chose to fight the A-level monster, he was quite confident that he could defeat it.

"Here we are. Walk to the arena, and the monster will be summoned."

"Summoned? You mean... like someone will summon a moster?"

"Exactly, a Summoner. Now go!" She pushed him to the arena.

Arriving at the arena, Matthew saw a man standing just before him which was Aiden, the one who was deciding Matthew's punishment with the rest.

Aiden parted his lips and asked," What kind of monster do you?"

"Anything."

"Alright then... I'll summon a strength-based monster." Aiden declared, and instantly, a huge magic circle appeared below.

In the magic circle, a huge gorilla appeared, roaring loudly.

"UWUWUWUWUWUWU!

'Woah... those are some realistics sounds, Author... AHEM!'

"Go!" Aiden commanded the monster.

The huge gorilla dashed towards Matthew and raised both of his hands, trying to smash Matthew against the ground.

Swish!

Matathew dodged the beast's powerful strike, narrowly avoiding being crushed under its massive hands.

Swinging his sword, Matthew aimed for the gorilla's legs, aiming to weaken its stance.

But the gorilla swiftly countered, swatting Matthew's sword aside with a powerful swipe.

Matthew leaped back, and quickly got his sword once again.

"Damn... his strength is quite... high. It really is a strength-based monster which means that his defense... should be quite weak." Matthew smiled.

The gorilla once again sent a huge strike towards him, which Matthew leaped back and avoided it.

Then, he jumped into the gorilla's right arm and started running towards his head.

"WUWUWUWUW!"

The gorilla firecely shook his right arm, but Matthew took the opportunity and jumped towards the gorilla's other arm.

Then, he enveloped his entire body with mana and dashed towards the gorilla's face.

He gathered all of his red mana on his sword and directly pierced the gorilla's left eye!

Splat!

"WWWUUUUUUUU!"

The gorilla screamed loudly in pain, and swung his arm against Matthew which took the attack with his sword but ended up flying against the ground.

THUD!

"Aghh...!" Matthew groaned slighly as he got out of the ground.

"This fucking monkey!" Matthew's eyes shone deeply as he wanted to use one of his class skills.

"Fuck... since you wanted to see them, I'll show you one of them!" 

At that moment, a huge dark aura climbed to Matthew's body and rose to the sky.

Matthew pointed his right hand to the sky, and slowly from his hand, a small dark-purple ball formed.

WOOOSH, SWWIISSSHHH!

Like a black-hole, the ball constantly gathered mana and slowly increased in size.

Then, Matthew jumped into the sky and directly threw the huge dark-purple ball at the gorilla as he mumbled to himself.

"Eclipse Nova."

BOOOM!

In that instant, all the barries on the arena rose up, and a huge splat sound resounded through the whole arena.

Everyone that was watching Matthew opened their mouths in shock upong seeing this devasting display of power.

When the smoke was clear, they saw Matthew standing in the ground, wiping the dust from his shoulders while the rest of the floor except the part he was steeping in was completely destroyed.

"Here it is you fuckers!" Matthew pointed his middle finger to the audience.