The villainess shall be mine

:::[Adam POV]:::

'Something is happening somewhere, I can feel it, or should I say an intuition? Well, maybe I've been too immersed in my thoughts these last few days, to the point that I feel weird when I just try to relax and avoid thinking about all of those things.'

Cristal reminded me of something important, and after taking her words her words into consideration, I automatically found new elements that needed to be taken into consideration.

As such, even though I finished the test in 15 minutes, it was not like I was just wasting time. Taking the time to gather my thoughts and reflect on my actions was something necessary.

And it would have been nice if these pretentious kids didn't ruin the view.

After I turned down these girls, it looked like they took it personally. The leader of their group seemed to have thought about something interesting, but unfortunately, it looked like he thought about something related to me so he would certainly fail.

Thinking about it, situations like this happened a lot in these s where the MC tried to play it cool.

'The authors tend to use these cliched turn of events to keep the readers engaged, or what was the point of those? Come to think of it, haven't I done something like that a lot lately?'

It felt like I become a sort of protagonist and the author was a pure sadist.

"Look at that crowd," Blanca mumbled, seeing the group of people heading toward us.

I didn't care about them and their opinions, but for the sake of the plan, an elite should be an elite anytime, anywhere.

At least, that was what I thought, but I was already bored of all of the Academy-related stuff.

'I need to think about something to speed up this process.'

To think that I would become someone who had the power to become the ruler of this world though. I was just an ugly person with a nasty character before.

'I am really curious about how far I can go on this path.'

Though, after saying what she said, it looked like Blanca had already lost interest in the group of people.

I also had ignored them, since they wouldn't be able to get closer to us anyway.

I could hear them questioning what was happening as their feet wouldn't move forward once they were within twenty meters of me.

Frustration showed on the boy who looked like the leader of the group, but it was not like it would change anything.

"Mmm?"

Forgetting about the noisy people, I looked at the SDP's, as I was notified of the arrival of new instructions.

From what I could read, the first test ended, and the results were already announced.

Obviously, I was at the top of the ranking, and Neige tied with me. From, the look of it, it didn't matter even if I finished it faster than everyone else.

'Come to think of it, I saw Neige around. Hmm? Oh, she is there. And this is also interesting. So my first opponent for tomorrow is a girl huh? Farah Vyh Blazenain, the daughter of Derige.'

I already knew everything I needed to know about the Guardians. After all, there were a lot of articles about them, so as an elite, I shouldn't be clueless about these things.

Their hidden identities were a different matter, and Adam, the elite character shouldn't have anything to do with those.

However, there was something that I needed to take care of as an elite character.

'The rebellion. There should be opportunities to find the root of this organization tomorrow…'

After talking with Cristal, yesterday, I realized that the three big powers that control the Empire might be just a façade used by the Holy Church, and the Holy Church was also a façade used by an unknown entity, and this unknown entity was also controlled by another unknown entity.

I reached this conclusion after considering Pride, and that last Boss's words.

'It looked like I was already taking part in the multiverse war, which was a background created by the God of Void, or at least a very powerful being who wished for his resurrection, and the Empire was just the pawn of a pawn.

'Sigh… This is nuts.'

I couldn't but sigh internally. I felt like there would be no end to the things that I didn't know and was about to discover. And then every time I made a discovery, it always led to more questions.

Nonetheless, it was not like I could take the progression of the current plan half-heartedly.

'If the King notice that his pawn has been taken from him, would he retaliate? I need to finish everything and finish ascending to the next level before that happens.'

Crack!

"Hmm?"

Something weird disrupted my train of thought.

My body felt heavy and knowing that such a thing was abnormal, I immediately activated my power.

I also glanced at Blanca, but far from noticing anything, she looked like she was frozen in time, and everyone around me was the same.

'Thi is… Time manipulation?'

My body wasn't moving, but I still could think.

'No, my body is moving. But it's moving slowly. It seems like my internal parts aren't affected by this ability. Antimatter can erase time, but it would take a while before I can activate my power externally.'

Crack!

I couldn't what was happening behind me, but I already this peculiar sound of something breaking. After all, it was a sound that could only be produced by breaking the layer that separates dimensions.

Fortunately, I have always thought about countermeasures for the only things that could threaten me, and time-based power was one of them. One of the Guardians seemed to have this power, after all.

I wasn't sure if it was even possible to do anything against time, but that was only if I didn't include the Antimatter in the equation.

I didn't who they were, but unfortunately for them, I managed to materialize the Antimatter even if it was just for a few seconds.

Absorbing the monsters' cores helped me to strengthen my body, even if I didn't understand what happened that day.

As such, I could store more neutral particles inside of my body, enough to bear the burden of materializing the Antimatter for a few seconds.

Nonetheless, controlling it was still hard, and like before, something weird happened every time I tried to use it.

Crack! Crack!

I wasn't about to lose even if something was wrapping around my neck. I couldn't feel anything, but I knew that the situation was bad.

I was pretty calm despite what was happening. I looked at beings who looked like they were apostles of death with black robes and skeleton bodies.

I could tell that they were strong thoughts, strong enough to cause a lot of damage if they were to target the Empire.

I was wondering why they didn't attack the Empire all of this time, but then I remembered the discovery I just made. They didn't want to go into an all-out war with the King who use the Empire as a pawn.

However, I wasn't included in the King's plan, so everyone could attack me as I was also participating in the battle, and I had two primordial authorities and one fragment of the Tree of Life.

The question was, how did they find me? And did this mean that the one who use the Empire as a pawn already know about my existence? Why didn't do anything if that was the case?

'Don't tell me… He is using me? How? Tsk…'

The apostle of death approached me, and it was not like that they were moving slowly, my thought processes were just unbelievably fast.

Their attacks were about to reach me and if were to be hit by those, I would certainly die.

'5, 4, 3, 2, 1…'

Swoosh! Swoosh!

"What are you surprised about? Oh, you didn't know that I had this power? It seems like you only know about the fragments. So who are you? You who are looking at me?"

In just a few seconds, I used the Antimatter to decimate the apostle of death around me, just by passing next to them.

Well, even if time stopped, my movements weren't blocked by any kind of force while I used the Antimatter.

"Hmm? They are gone."

Failing to achieve their goal, the entity that controlled the apostle of death disappeared, and it looked like nothing happened.

I could only see his eyes, and it was very big and intimidating. Was that a gigantic skeleton?

His power was insane though. It felt like he was the God of Death. I was about to finish him in one attack if I was able to do so, but it looked like he decided that I was too dangerous.

Nonetheless, if I failed to kill him in these five seconds, things would have ended in a very nasty way.

Well, I was sure that the entity could be killed if he deemed the Antimatter dangerous.

The key was to never panic while using the Antimatter, or I would just waste five seconds for nothing.

After five seconds, it would be hard for me to keep the Antimatter from overflowing out of my body. Well, five seconds was enough to deal with anything and anyone. The Antimatter was just too much of an overkill.

Well, the price of activating it was not cheap either. My body felt like it was about to melt.

"What's happening, Adam? When did you stand up? Your hair, they are white?"

"Let's go."

Ignoring Blanca's question, I decided that it was time to leave, rest and make big adjustments to the plan.

I didn't underestimate the situation, but it was also trickier than I expected. To think that they would find me this soon.