He Became A Monstrous Genius After Obtaining A Time Dilation Artifact-Chapter 536.Checkmate

A/N: Shout out to Aaninja for the massage chair. Thanks man.

***

The academy residential districts were calm on the surface.

Villas quietly floated in the sky as usual. For most students, it was just another cycle in the ruthless academy.

But for three gangs, this calm was about to be shattered.

Cool Gang Territory

Inside a large villa, Cool, the naga leader of the Cool Gang, stood in the center of his private hall. His expression was cold. He was extremely angry. It looked like he had to pause his assault on the bastard that killed his cousin for now. There was no way he could swallow this humiliation.

A line of words burned into the wall beside his bed:

"I had a nice time with your girlfriend at the party ten years ago. Still too weak to come for her, aren’t you? She keeps saying I’m better at it all the time than you’ll ever be. Heh. Piece of trash."

The words were written in the exact style Raven Claw used when he taunted enemies. The phrasing, the insults, the reference to that party ten years ago — only one person knew about that incident.

Raven Claw.

Cool’s eyes narrowed. His lackeys shrank back in fear. He was very pissed.

"That bastard..."

That party had been a long-standing wound. Raven Claw had once mocked him for being too weak to protect his lover from him. Raven had drugged his girlfriend and slept with her. But Cool could do nothing about it because Raven was stronger. Raven had called him weak. Did Raven think he was still weak as he used to be?

The feud between Cool Gang and Blood Claw had started from that moment.

Now, Blood Claw was provoking him again.

Cool’s killing intent surged.

"Gather everyone," he said calmly. "We wipe out Blood Claw. Now."

His lackeys trembled.

"Yes, Boss Cool!"

The Cool Gang mobilized instantly.

Blood Claw Territory

In another residential district, inside a villa, Raven Claw read the message that had appeared in his training room, somewhere on the wall:

"Just saw the video of one of your members dead in the registration hall of the Alchemy Society. I remember when you watched helplessly when I killed your brother during one of the ranking battles. Hope you won’t be such a wuss this time?"

Raven Claw’s eyes widened slightly. Then they burned with fury.

This message...

The reference to his brother. The mocking tone. The word "wuss."

Only one person had ever dared to speak to him like this.

Santoria.

Years ago, Santoria had killed his brother in a ranking battle and mocked him publicly for being unable to interfere. This feud was well known. But he did his best to stop the spread of the issue, as he didn’t like to be humiliated. Over time, the issue seemed to have been forgotten.

Santoria was challenging him again.

Raven Claw’s eyes glowed crimson. Did Santoria think he would sit back this time?

This was the tipping edge.

"Santoria..."

His voice was low and murderous.

"Mobilize the Blood Claw crew. We exterminate Santoria Gang. No survivors."

The vampires roared in response.

Santoria Gang Territory

In a luxurious floating villa, Santoria sat calmly, sipping a drink.

Then his expression changed.

A line of words had been carved into the marble wall of his chamber:

"So one of your mistresses died, huh. Seriously, what is wrong with you? Just when I nailed her last night, she just had to go and die?"

His fingers tightened around the cup.

This message...

The vulgar tone. The direct insult. The mockery about his dead mistress.

Only one person would dare say such things.

Cool.

Cool Gang had always mocked his personal life. Cool himself had once openly insulted him in a territorial dispute, calling his relationships "tools."

This was his style.

Santoria’s eyes turned icy. He could swallow this nonsense no more.

"Cool... you want war?"

He stood up.

"Gather everyone. We wipe out Cool Gang. Now."

His subordinates knelt instantly.

"Yes, Leader Santoria!"

***

The Collisions.

The three gangs moved at the same time.

The Cool Gang stormed out of their district, heading straight for Blood Claw territory. The gang members readied themselves for attacks.

The Blood Claw vampires rushed toward Santoria’s territory.

Santoria Gang marched toward Cool Gang’s zone.

The first clash happened between Cool Gang and Blood Claw.

Law attacks shook the air. The clashes were cataclysmic. The losses on each side were daunting.

The battle was savage and fast. There was no negotiation. No warnings. Only killing.

Then Santoria Gang slammed into Cool Gang from behind.

Cool Gang was caught between two enemies. Their morale and strength were broken endlessly.

"Kill them all!" Santoria shouted.

His elites slaughtered Cool Gang members with ruthless precision.

Cool Gang roared in fury, smashing through enemies with law attacks.

At the same time, Blood Claw encountered Santoria Gang at the edge of a residential district.

Raven Claw’s vampires and Santoria’s elite lackeys collided head-on.

The power of laws reverberated in lethal proportions.

Spiritual attacks claimed lives.

The battlefield became chaos.

Each gang believed they were retaliating against a direct provocation. Each believed the other side had chosen war. None of them hesitated.

Mutual Destruction

The fights escalated fast.

Cool Gang was crushed between Santoria and Blood Claw.

Blood Claw lost elites to Santoria’s coordinated attacks.

Santoria Gang suffered heavy losses to the vampires’ speed and cruelty.

One by one, the leaders entered the battlefield.

Cool unleashed his full power, his strongest fire law attack killing dozens in moments.

Raven Claw tore through enemies like a storm, releasing relentless law of darkness attacks.

Santoria activated his strongest attack, his body surrounded by raging water law attacks.

The three leaders eventually collided in the center of the ruins.

The clash of their law attacks shattered buildings.

Students nearby fled in terror.

The academy’s automated systems recorded everything.

No mentors interfered.

This was student business.

The battle ended in mutual destruction.

Cool was pierced through the chest by Santoria’s strongest law of water attack, while Raven Claw crushed his head with his strongest darkness law attack.

Raven Claw was impaled by Cool’s final attack and shredded into pieces by water law blade attacks of Santoria.

Santoria was torn apart by the law attacks of the last surviving elites of the other two gangs before collapsing in blood.

Silence followed.

The three gangs were wiped out.

No leader remained. No core fighters survived.

Only corpses and ruins filled the places of battle.

****

Far away, in his villa, Kailen stood by the window.

Through the eyes of his shadow hounds observing everything from the shadows, he saw it all.

A faint smile appeared on his face.

The messages had worked exactly as planned.

Each gang had taken the bait.

Each had believed the provocation came from their true enemy.

Each had moved instantly.

No dragging.

No hesitation.

Only blood.

Kailen turned away from the window.

"The academy really is simple, once you understand how things work" he muttered.

The shadow hounds had already returned to the shadow expanse.

And Kailen?

He remained untouched. With a yawn, he headed inside.