Bloodline of Gods: The Genius at Olympus Academy!

Chapter 43 43. Orphalon Melthyr

Although it was shaped like a man, the being that walked out could only be described as a giant.

He stood towering completely over the crowd of students. The muscles on his body popped and quivered under his clothes as if they threatened to burst out of his shirt at any moment. Each step carried with it an oppressive air that made many trainees feel suffocated.

Its eyes, or more correctly, eye, shined with an intelligent light as it quickly scanned the arena as if assessing something.

And yes, Aiden meant singular eye, and that was because the being in front of him was no regular human; it was a cyclops!

Aiden knew that in the world of gods there were many mystical beings and not all the descendants of the gods would necessarily be 'human,' but it was still the first time he had met such a monstrous being up close.

The Cyclops Orphalon was unfazed by the incessant murmuring and jumped down onto the arena, causing the floor to tremble under his weight as he did so.

Instructor Kyros looked at Orphalon and asked,

"What level would you like the trial to be on?"

Orphalon looked back at Instructor Kyros and spoke calmly.

"Level 9."

As Instructor Kyros heard this, a slight smile appeared on his face.

"Very well then."

The gates started to tremble as nine low growls escaped from the shadows.

Soon the golden-furred lionesses were out of their confinements and on the prowl once again.

They slowly circled Orphalon, but he didn't buckle at all. His body remained stoic and unfazed like a stone statue, unaffected by the elements.

"Roar!"

The lionesses no longer tried to stalk and instead charged out at full speed, surrounding him from all directions.

Orphalon just scoffed as he finally made his move.

[Drowning Waves]

Orphalon stamped hard on the ground, causing it to crack as geysers of deep blue waves poured out from it and rushed towards the lionesses.

The effect could be seen immediately as the lionesses' movements were greatly hindered by the sudden appearance of raging waves. Every single one was struggling to maintain steady footing, much less continue with their attack.

As the floor around Orphalon quickly flooded, the only person that remained unfazed was Orphalon himself. He stood completely still at the center like an ancient titan, as the elements brushed against him—but this didn't last for long.

Orphalon stepped forward, his feet cruising along the floor and walking through the surrounding waves completely uninhabited. He quickly appeared before a lioness and raised his giant warhammer into the air before bringing it down with inhuman ferocity.

"Bang!"

There was a heart-wrenching sound as the hammer crashed down on the lioness's head, popping it like a balloon.

As the trainees watched this, they couldn't help but gasp!

Fuck! That cyclops was too fierce!

In certain ways, the sight was even more harrowing than watching Kain at work. At least with Kain, you could see the traces of years of technique and experience, but when it came to Orphalon, all that was non-existent.

What was on display was pure biological brutality that they could never hope to match.

Seeing one of their own die such a brutal death, the lionesses were only further enraged!

A few managed to break through the suppressing waves and launch themselves at Orphalon, but his single eye was already shining with an ominous light as he had already predicted all this.

Instantly, his muscles tensed as the veins on his giant arms popped. A low growl escaped from his lips as a deep blue divinity poured out from his body and wrapped around his warhammer.

Orphalon sensed the time was right and lowered his hammer, allowing it to wrap around the waves, and swung out with the power of a deep-sea behemoth.

"Boom!"

A cataclysmic shockwave echoed as three more lionesses were swatted away like a baseball.

Each vomited up a litre of blood as they roared their death throes.

Orphalon lowered his hammer and exhaled deeply. Even if he didn't show it obviously, sweat was beginning to build up on his brow as a sense of exhaustion piled up.

Although his physical abilities were far from reaching their limits, the cost of the divine technique he used to create a miniature ocean was far from light. Orphalon thought he had calculated everything perfectly, but it seemed that he had still overestimated his limits.

Knowing things would get ugly if he continued at this rate, he quickly deactivated [Drowning Waves], causing the water to quickly recede almost as if it had never been there in the first place.

The remaining lionesses took this as their chance and rushed over to attack Orphalon, but they had made a vital mistake.

His divinity reserves were low but not completely finished!

As the lionesses leapt towards him, Orphalon's eye glowed with an ominous black light.

In that instant, the air seemed to freeze, and a booming voice seemed to resound in the ears of all the attacking beasts simultaneously.

[Gaze of the Abyss]

All of a sudden, in the minds of all the lionesses, Orphalon's figure seemed to vanish and was instead replaced with an all-consuming whirlpool.

It carried with it a deeply ancient and harrowing aura. Each second gazing into it seemed to bring that aura closer and closer until the beasts had completely lost their minds.

In their moment of madness, everything became an enemy, and the attacks that were initially directed at Orphalon were now all headed towards each other!

Orphalon didn't just stand there and watch, however. Now that they were enemies, he wouldn't hesitate to kick them while they were down!

Rushing up, he raised his trusty warhammer once again and brutally smashed it down once again like he was playing a deadly game of whack-a-mole.

Three more lionesses had their heads exploded in their state of confusion under the assault of Orphalon's deadly hammer.

It was unknown if the death of their companions that shocked them to their senses or if the effect of Orphalon's divine technique simply wore off but soon the remaining two lionesses came to their senses