"What's going on here?" Seeing the ruckus, Uriella spoke with a stern voice.
"You again? What are you trying to do with these girls? I won't tolerate this attitude any longer," she shouted, interpreting what she saw in a way that pleased her without even knowing why Adam did what he did.
Nonetheless, Uriella couldn't be blamed because from the point of view of someone who didn't see what happened from the beginning, it looked like Adam was trying to take the twins somewhere and people tried to stop him.
In a way this deduction wasn't wrong but it was Adam's intentions that made the difference.
Still, Uriella disliked Adam's guts since the first time they met, certainly, because she thought that he would be an obedient kid. At least, that was how she imagined him while she was listening to Redmond.
Yet, the individual who appeared in front of her exceeded all of her expectations.
Nonetheless, she believed that Adam had a lot of things to learn and his attitude was not really appropriate if he wanted her to train and guide him like how Redmond asked her to.
Little did she know that Adam had already surpassed her in a lot of ways, and the difference between them was so big that she would be speechless if she knew what Adam was capable of.
Hearing what Uriella said, Adam stopped, turned his head, and looked down at Uriella.
Then his black cape put itself on his back and he floated in the air, above Uriella, so she had to look up when she talked to him.
"Look, that woman scolded him," one of the young boys who was laughing along with the pretty boy earlier said and his friends began to cackle with him.
"That's what you get for acting like a clown. He probably thought that people would find him awesome and join him, but no one did, and so he targeted these weak girls," another one remarked.
"Too bad for him. Anyone could see through his tricks. He is just a showoff."
These people didn't think twice before saying these words, and it seemed like not having their testicles compressed inside of a black cube made them think that they could badmouth anyone without even knowing them.
People could indeed change for the better with time but some were already too rotten and will continue to rot, spreading their malice to their surroundings. Their attitude, their mindset, everything about them was filthier than a horse's feces.
It was like a sickness, and the Lord's children were more prone to contract this mental disease.
If the children were like this, how rotten were the adults and their world, Adam thought.
"Is this the soul of the Empire? I am disappointed," Adam said and suddenly the room got darker and the atmosphere got gloomy.
People felt a chilling sensation running through their bodies and some of them began to tremble.
"What is this? What are you doing? It looks like you really need some beating," Uriella shouted in anger, thinking that Adam was challenging her.
However, Adam was just sad. In the beginning, he looked forward to attending the Holy Academy but now he understood why it was stated that sometimes 'ignorance was bliss'.
All he could see was the dark side of the Empire and everything, everyone could be his enemy, created by them or controlled by them.
Added to this was the unchanging reality of the ugliness of human nature. He grew up in a lovely family so he was used to his parents' kindness and he had almost forgotten that humans weren't all like them.
Adam knew that this was not really something that should surprise him, but he just thought about how wonderful it would have been if everyone just worked along with him to create a world where everyone could live happily.
But that was just impossible. Trust, love, hope, happiness, desire, ambition, and pride, all of that were something that incited humans to accomplish great things. And the world would be indeed more of a lovely place if only, hatred, envy, arrogance, despair, greed, and betrayal weren't also part of human nature.
Consequently, for them to work together to create a bette work was unthinkable. After all, the world was always a beautiful place with or without humans, so why it had become this rotten?
When these thoughts crossed Adam's mind, he glanced at the twins and realized that these twins' gifts had somehow influenced his thoughts even if it was at a very insignificant level.
However, for Adam who had a higher level of thinking ability, just a slight disturbance could lead him to make a dissertation about the topic inside his head.
The sisters had certainly decided to be brave and hoped that something good might happen, thinking about the wonderful tales that their parents told them about the Empire, but the reality made them feel disappointed.
Seeing Uriella who was about to activate her power, Adam reached his hand and when he did, everyone felt a force that forced them to kneel down. Everyone present there, whoever they are, apart from the twins and Blanca, had their knees on the ground.
The area didn't become darker out of blue and it was due to Adam's power.
Normally, everything that the black cubes touched should disintegrate, but Adam had created a weaker version of his Darkmatter by not synthesizing antimatter and using iron atoms instead.
It was not easy because he needed to learn to be able to differentiate and feel this one particular atom from the others. After that, he needed to use his astral form and combined the Darkmatter with the iron atoms and increased their numbers.
With this, he would be able to control the other primordial particles if he could feel them, but this was just a sort of practice for him, as it required a lot of focus to control something that was at an atomic level with his thoughts.
Nonetheless, just by doing this, Adam had already managed to achieve something that he couldn't before.
For example, controlling the reconstructed atoms even though they were inside a human body.
Obviously, the people who were kneeling on the ground and looked up at Adam would never know what was happening to them.
Something was moving in the air, almost like a black cloud or a visible aure, but these particles were the atoms that Adam was controlling with his thoughts.
In other words, he could kill anyone present by making a block of iron appear inside of their heart.
Besides, Adam original ability prevented them from using their gift and these gifted and talented felt utterly powerless.
Bringing his astral body to this dimension was the most awesome thing that Adam did.
Now that he about it, he felt if he had enough power to spread the area that his ability could cover, controlling the whole universe wasn't as impossible as it sounded.
His astral body left a part of him on everything that came in contact with it, so if the space covered by his original ability was big enough, for example as big as the universe, that would mean that the universe would be a part of him.
Thus, Adam had a certain idea of how a universe existed inside of him, but his realization wasn't enough to explain everything.
Compared to what he needed to do to solve this mystery, the people in front of him and their thoughts and opinion of him was nothing but a trifle.
Still, Adam knew that there would always be people who would look down on him, or make fun of his status despite him not talking to them or even looking at them, so he needed to show them why they should respect him even if they didn't like him or his attitude.
"I sparred you because of your ignorance. There will be no next time," Adam said, looking at Uriella straight in the eyes but everyone else also felt the height of his words.
Even without his status, Adam had the fate of the world on his shoulders, but no one needed to know what he was going through, and no one could force him to continue if he give up, because the choice was his and even though he complained at first, he was now ready to face his inevitable future.
However he believed that as a Lord, people should respect him. This was the least they could do to support him because if he managed to save the world, humanity would owe him a great deal. And if he failed, no one knew what would happen but humanity wouldn't be there to see that.
Who would want to save a species that treat someone who was battling for their sake so disrespectfully? Indeed, ignorance was also sometimes a sin.
Consequently, Adam had decided to leave things there because when he looked down at the people below him, he saw various expressions on their faces, such as fear, hostility, and confusion, but he didn't see respect in their eyes.
Adam realized that people had certainly misunderstood his actions and this also disappointed him. How could they not see what the twins were feeling, and even if they didn't see that, why were they criticizing him when he was trying to help these two?
He had observed what was happening and knew that the twins' gifts were special, but that was not the reason why he reached out to them because other people had particular gifts that were better than them there.
Adam decided to help these sisters because he listened to what they were saying and when he said that he saw their worth, it was not only their gift but also their nature as humans.
Adam was already putting his plan into motion and decided that these twins were worth his time, and he needed to do something before they were swallowed by the Empire.
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