The Rise of the Algorithm King

Chapter 9

Storm didn't respond for a while as he just stood there with his head facing the floor. Images of how Flare burnt down grandpa Sikes's only source of income to the ground came flooding his mind and made his blood boil in anger.

"Hey, i am talking to you, trash! What are you doing in a place like this?" Flare repeated his question while tightening his grip.

After few seconds of staying mute, Storm finally spoke.

"You only have three seconds to get your hand off me." Storm uttered in a deep and menancing tone.

Hearing the words of Storm, Flare and other students in the cafeteria broke out in serious laughter.

"Can you all believe this guy, hahah..." Flare paused in his laughter as he felt Storm grab his arm and his bones began to twist.

'What's with his strength?' Flare pondered internally as Storm twisted his arm before letting go and walked away.

While Storm walked away, Flare pulled out a dagger and stabbed Storm from behind, causing him to grunt in serious pain and fall down to his knees.

"You bastard! What have you done!" Lucy voiced as she rushed towards Storm and picked him off the floor before dashing out to the clinic.

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The nurse attended to Storm's injuries and informed him to rest there till morning, while Lucy is asked to leave.

"That bastard. I planned on forgiving him for burning down the farm land, but with what he just did i will definitely kill him." Storm clenched his fist as he rose up from the bed to go look for Flare and his gang.

Storm climbed the bed and jumped out through the window and landed gracefully outside. The day was already dark, so no one spotted him.

He glanced around the place before advancing forward. Storm walked around for several minutes, until he finally caught a glimpse of Flare and his gang in an empty area.

"I stabbed you. How the hell are you here, and unharmed?" Flare questioned, gulping down saliva and beads of sweat trickled down his face.

"It must have been Nurse Freya who healed him. She is a B rank healer." Cameroon whispered to Flare who had a surprised expression etched all over his face. Hearing Cameroon's words, Flare regained back his confidence and stepped forward.

"You came here to get your revenge, right?" Flare voiced. "I guess that confident attitude of yours finally landed you in trouble, because i will make sure i kill you for making my father call me to give me a warning!" Flare spat, launching forward once more with glowing bright yellow light surrounding his body from head to toe and smoke could be seen emmiting from his head.

When he got in striking distance, he pulls his clenched fist backwards and swung out a punch. The punch headed straight to Storm's head, but he lifted his right arm and blocked the strike from connecting.

"Argh!" Storm grunted in pain as he felt his arm being burnt once it touched Flare's arm, causing him to leap few meters backwards to regroup.

"As far as the sun is shining bright, you are nothing to me!" Flare voiced, pulling his right leg backwards and swinging it forward horizontally.

Storm reacted swiftly by leaning his body backwards until his back was almost touching the floor, making the kick pass over him. With his back now close to the floor, Storm placed his hands on the ground and performed a backflip.

'Really?!' Storm mused as Flare charged forward him once more when he was few inches away from Storm, he leaped up into the air and sent out a round solar beam that headed straight to Storm's head.

Storm managed to leap few meters backwards, dodging the beam completely, but the shockwave still knocked him few inches backwards until his body hit the wall nearby.

'He's way stronger than i thought. I guess he is a B Rank for a reason.' Storm pondered, wiping the sweat off his forehead and standing opposite Flare.

"You see, if you had simply buried your head in the sand and allowed us to toss you around like a low human you are, you might have lived past today." Flare gloated, his right arm stretched forth and bright yellow solar energy could be seen gathering around it. 

After gathering enough energy, he threw his hand forward and the Solar energy shot out from the palm of his hand and headed towards Storm.

[DASH ACTIVATED]

With the ability being activated, Storm felt his whole body become lighter and his environment became slower. Seizing the opportunity, Storm launched forward and arrived infront of Flare, with his fist clenched tightly, he swung it towards Flare's jaw.

BAM!

The punch slammed heavily on his jaw, lifted him off the floor, and sent him few meters backwards.

Flare fell infront of his friends who all their mouths wide opened in shock after witnessing such amazing feat being perfomed by Storm.

"Did he just send Flare flying with a single punch?" Cameroon blurted with widened eyes and mouth.

"Isn't he suppose to be a human?!" The second minion known as, Dan, voiced out with his two hands on his head.

Flare picked himself off the floor and spat out blood that was mixed with two or three teeth from his mouth.

"You, human trash, you have the guts to lay your filthy hand on me?! You are a dead meat!" Flare voiced out in anger, wiping the blood off his lips before charging forward once more with his two fists clenched.

When he got in striking distance, he punched his fist forward with anger towards Storm's head. Storm stood calmly as he watched the punch heading towards his head with full force, before swrling sideways, making Flare punch nothing but air.

Flare retrieved his outstretched arm and sent out a round ball of flame from his mouth. The flame moved at incredible speed as it headed towards Storm. When it was only inches away, Storm swereved his body sideways and dodged the fire ball.

After successfully dodging the fire ball, Storm shifted his gaze forward and saw Flare's leg that was covered in flame heading towards his head. Reacting swiftly, Storm managed to leap sideways, dodging the kick once more.

'My turn.' Storm smirked.

Storm didn't stopped there, he clenched his right fist and sent out a punch of his own towards Flare's cheek. Before Flare could retrieve his outstretched hand and block, the punch connected neatly with his cheek.

PAH!

The sound of flesh meeting flesh reverberrated throughout the area as Flare was tossed few meters backwards after receiving a single blow from the mere human student.

"A-a-are you sure this guy is a human? His strength.." Dan couldn't believe his eyes.

"D..d..don't..just..stand there...get..him!" Flare ordered, serious pain and agony evident in his tone as he laid there on the floor.

"Aye, aye." Cameroon responded with a cold look, joining his two hands together and placing it infront of his chest like someone about to pray.

SLASH SLASH!

While Storm stood there watching him in confusion, he noticed two sharp wind-like aura heading towards him fron both sides. When the aura were about to make impact,Storm leaped up into the air, making the auras miss him by hair length and kept travelling forward until it connected with a pole and divided it into two.

'Huh? Just what the hell was that?!' Storm pondered, landing back safely on the floor. 'If that thing had hit my body i would have been ripped in half!' Storm pondered, standing opposite Cameroon with his guard on high alert.

"Wind slash!" Cameroon called out, and what looked like an arrow-like wind aura shot out instantly and headed straight to Storm's head like an arrow.

'If i get pierced by this i'm a goner!' Storm pondered, pulling his right arm backwards and swiping it forward, releasing three barrage of Electric bolts from the palm of his hands.

'Huh? What the hell is that?' The whole group had the same thoughts and similar surprised expression etched on their faces as Storm displayed such strange technique.

When both projectiles collided, Storm's eletricity deflected Cameroon's wind slash and kept travelling forward, knocking them backards until they both hit their heads against a wall and passed out instantly.

[CONGRATULATIONS ON DEFEATING STRONGER OPPONENTS]

[LEVEL UP]

[LEVEL UP]

[YOU ARE NOW A LEVEL 2]

[TWO NEW ABILITIES UNLOCKED]

Series of notifications kept poppoing up right in front of Storm after sucessfully knocking out the bullies. 'Sweet rewards.' Storm chuckled in joy while examining the screen.

'I actually did leveled up by defeating them.' Storm mused.

While Storm was busy with the system, Flare rose up from behind with a blade in his hand and began to move forward in silence. When he got in striking distance, he lifted up the blade and was about to behead Storm.

'Huh?' Flare exclaimed as black shadow began to appear beneath Storm's's feet and what looked like a guy began to crawl out from the black hole.

Before Storm could notice what was going on behind him, the guy grabbed Flare's neck and squeezed the life out of him.

"What the hell? I didn't asked for his help and yet he appeared?" Storm sounded, his heart racing and sweat trickling down his face as Flare's lifeless body fell down infront of him. The guy who appeared was his roommate. "He's dead!".

He knelt down beside Flare's body and examined him with a racing heart.