A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Once Kyle heard a shout. He stopped and the fear in his heart abated.

Swoosh!

The person who shouted 'stop', landed before Kyle. It was without surprise, instructor Micah.

Jennifer looked at him and her gaze turned cold. She believed it was him who sent these boys to carry out the evil act.

"This is your doing I believe?" she asked.

Micah smiled. "You know, why do you still ask? I am surprised your boy has lived through three days. What magic potion did you give him to eat?" he asked.

She didn't give a reply his question.

"Let's go" Jennifer said to Alex and Jake.

Alex looked at Kyle, there was still anger in his eyes. He felt like beating him up.

Kyle looked at him with a smile. Then he looked at Jake. He wondered how Jake was able to survive from that poison. That was no ordinary poison Instructor Micah gave to him to blow in his face.

Actually, they wanted to blow it in Alex's face. But since he wasn't there, they blew it in Jake's face.

Once Alex and Jake left with Jennifer, she brought them to her office.

"In three days time, we would be having the competition. Alex, I don't want anything to happen to you. Him saying you lived through three days is a warning and a threat. The remaining three days is only going to get extremely tough for you. I don't know what that bastard has up his sleeves. I can't let anything happen to you. You are my only hope." she said.

Alex nodded. He was intelligent to know the three days mentioned by Micah was actually a threat.

"So what do you suggest I do?" he asked.

"I want you to forfeit classes for the next three days" she said.

Alex's eyes shone. Then he took a deep breath.

"Why don't you report instructor Micah to the school authority. They should be able to do something about all this. He is taking an ordinary competition too far" Alex said.

"He has more connections than me. My request wouldn't go far." she said.

Alex's brows furrowed.

"What about me? My life too is at stake" Jake said when he saw he wasn't needed in their discussions.

"Yea. You too. You should forfeit classes. You can resume classes after the competition" she said.

Jake nodded.

"We would forfeit class to avoid his puppets, but what if they come to assault us in our room. They might do worse than what they did today. They could probably fill the room with poisonous gases that may instantly kill us" Jake said.

Alex nodded at what he said. Their room wasn't safe anymore.

Jennifer thought for a long time, then she looked at them. "I would give you two a room to stay in my place." she said.

Jake's eyes shone in excitement but his exhilaration was cut short by Alex.

"Nah. We can't do that. The whole school is going to crazy about that. We still stay in our room. We would be more careful" Alex said.

Jake became unhappy at Alex's suggestion.

"Is this boy stupid or what?" he asked and cursed in his mind.

She looked at him and asked. "Are you sure? They could come do anything to you two"

Alex gave a smile. Right now, he was armed with many uncanny abilities. They wouldn't be able to escape his powerful senses, from his heightened sense of sight and hearing.

He nodded.

She looked at him and could see an aura confidence that couldn't be dispelled emanate from him. Then she said "I would be scanning every time with my saint-sense too. I don't what anything happening to you"

"Instructor Jennifer, nothing is going to happen to me." Alex said assuredly.

Jake looked at Alex with unbridled resentment in his eyes. "Son of a bitch" he cursed inwardly.

Then he looked at Jennifer "Ma'am, could I stay in the room? I don't feel safe at all in that hostel room" Jake said.

"Oh! Alright. You can stay" she said with a smile.

Jake heard this and was exceedingly glad.

Alex's ears twitched. He wasn't sure he heard right. "Instructor Jennifer actually agreed that Jake should stay with her? Hmm, that's great anyways" he said in his mind.

Then Jennifer looked at Jake with a smile still plastered on her face. "Sure you can. But on three conditions. If you can fulfill them. My home is your home" she said.

Jake's eyes shone. "What conditions?" he asked.

"There are three conditions. First, you cook pre-breakfast, breakfast, lunch, post-lunch and dinner for me. Second, the only food that would be available to you is only rice. Third, you would mop the tiles, sweep the whole compound." She said.

Haha!

Alex laughed inwardly. What wicked conditions. Jake would become a slave if he accepts that.

Jake's eyes glowed. "The hell" he said in his mind.

"So do you agree?" she asked.

"No. Thanks ma'am. I would stay in the hostel room. With your scanning saint-sense, we should be safe" Jake responded.

Living with her was simply saying I want to become a slave, Jake thought.

Slaves don't even work as much as that. That's torture and abuse. What a wicked lady. He complained in his mind

Then they left her office and went back to their room.

- Micah's office -

"How was he able to survive that?" Micah asked Kyle who was in front of him.

"Instructor Micah, we don't know. He collapsed to the ground in our presence and was shaking. We left him there to die in his nakedness. But we became surprised when we saw him in our classroom. We were greatly shocked. It was like we saw a ghost. It's a mystery to us how he was able to come back from that." Kyle replied.

"Things are going very bad for me. In three days time, the competition would take place. The school authority have detained one of my boys and is under serious interrogation. They want him to produce the name of the person that gave him the substance that he put into that liquid which splashed at those kids." Micah said.

None of his orchestrations had succeeded. He wondered what kind of evil luck was following Alex. Some of his plans had gone awry, and he felt the remaining ones might go awry too if he wasn't careful.

- Hostel Block -

"Alex, I am scared. Those guys might want to attack us again. You should have agreed to stay in Instructor Jennifer's house" Jake said.

"Nah. I can't do that" Alex replied.

"Why? Can you tell me why?" Jake asked.

"Is this guy kidding me?" Jake roared in his mind.

"No reason. It's just not appropriate. Besides, we could invite extra trouble. Although we are young boys, those terrific cultivators who are instructors in this school could be in love with Instructor Jennifer. What if they get angry over us sleeping in her place. They could become angry and be directing their wrath at us. I already have enough problems to deal with. Can't be burdened with another." Alex replied.

Jake thought of it and shook his head agreeably.

Some of the instructors in the academy might actually like instructor Jennifer very much. If they saw them living at Jennifer's residence, they would shower them with wrath purely out of envy and jealousy.

Alex looked at Jake and said. "Asshole, aren't you a cultivator of the sword. Why are you scared of some bunch of rats. Besides, you killed several times before. Your fucking heart should be hardened"

"You don't know anything. An enemy you can see and fight is better. Those that come in your sleep or when your guard is down are the most dangerous. Mighty experts could fall in the hands of such kind of people. It's good to be careful man" Jake replied.

"Well, I don't have a problem with that. I would be safe. Don't worry, I would watch over you too. Besides, Jennifer's saint-sense would be scanning" Alex said.

You would watch over me? Are you kidding me? Asshole!

Jake went to his bed and laid in it.

Alex looked at him and shook his head. Then he came out of the room.

It was still evening and everyone were now moving around in their non-uniform wears. They had changed from their uniforms to clothes.

They were going from one hostel block to the other. Some went to see their friends to gossip, gist and some for something more serious, like solve an assignment given to them for a particular subject together.

Being kids of wealthy parents as only their parents could afford a cultivation academy's tuition fee, they dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked dazzling in them.

They looked more beautiful in their clothes than in their uniforms. Especially the girls, they were dressed in provocative short skirts and gowns. It was like they were going for a night party.

The girls who passed by his side to go a particular hostel room would wave at him with a smile. He was the guy with the face every girl would trip for.

He smiled back amiably and waved at them.