Stealing from the stealers

As were flying side by side, I reduced the gravity acting on me and my speed increased leaving Owen behind by a decent margin. When I got to the ruined palace, Damien and Edward were fighting the platinum ranked Asura.

Damien was shrouded in lightning like a god of lightning, while Edward was.....well you can't see telekinetic energy so.....he was doing whatever he was....I guess. The asura on the other hand was weaving through their attacks, though barely, it was a testement to his experience and power.

Damien threw a lightning packed punch only for the asura to grab his wrist and fling him away. After the asura threw Damien away, he felt himself being drawn away from where he stood but he merely gritted his teeth and resisted the pull coming from Edward but while he was doing that, several bolts of lightning struck him so hard that he was flung backwards.

All that happened in less than two seconds, I wanted to act the moment the asura was struck by lightning but stopped myself, the fight wasn't at its peak as I thought and trying to steal the kill now would be pointless since the asura was still strong and going.

Then I felt Owen stop beside me, "I'll always say it, your bloodline is a cheat" he said to which I shrugged.

"Why are you not attacking?" I asked.

"What about you? Why are you also not attacking?" he counter asked.

"Fair point" I replied. He probably came to the same conclusion as I did. I might as well get some more points as I looked around. Out of the initial seven gold ranked Asuras, four have been killed remaining only three.

The points we get in this exam aren't the regular points we spend, instead the number of points we get will reflect on our rankings by the end of the term. So a few more won't hurt nobody.

So I looked for a weak link and after a few moments, I saw it. A peak gold ranked asura fighting three cadets just got pushed to the ground from the bombarding attacks dealt by the three and so I took my chance. The asura had the ability to create sound frequency hurtful to the human ears which disorients his opponents.

But I figured out from his patterns of attacks that there was a two seconds lag between each use of the ability. So I would have to attack between that time frame.

As the asura flew back into the air, he used his ability on the cadets fighting him, releasing a shrill sound and making them block their ears with both of their arms. His ability worked for about five seconds and the moment he stopped, I moved.

I flew towards him or more like bolted towards him, my trusty dagger aiming for the right side of his chest, with a piercing sound, my dagger pierced his heart.

""You....blerhh" he gagged on his blood as his eyes widened in despair.

"Curse....you" he let out before his body went limp in my hands, which I threw to the ground.

"Damn, he's stained my hands and uniform bloody" I muttered. Have I mentioned that I was a clean freak? Well if I haven't then now you know. While I wasn't on the level of OCD, I utterly dislike dirt, sweat and grime, that why I always hurry to take a shower after after any training session and everytime I come back to the dorms from the class not to talk of someone else's blood staining me.

I turned to look at the cadets I so graciously saved to ask one of them to conjure some water for me. Since I saw some of Damien's clan members use water abilities in their fight. But I was baffled to see them glaring at me. Ungrateful folks I say, I kill the asura not totally not to steal their kill but to save them.

Seeing the looks they were giving me, I gave up on asking for the water. Instead I simply brought out a bottle filled with water from my storage. It was the last one I had but I can't exactly keep staying bloody. As I washed the blood off, I also made a mental note to figure out a defensive technique not for attacks but for dirt, blood, grime and the likes.

As I finished washing the blood off, I heard the sounds of battle lessen again, I turned to the area the sounds of battle became silent and saw Owen there and below him laid an asura's corpse.

"Of course he wouldn't stay still" I muttered to which he showed me a smirk which made me wondering whether he heard me or not.

**3rd person POV**

Damien was fighting the platinum ranked Asura with all he got, lightning under his command, he even bought out a spear, it was a his personal spear not the one given by the academy. Though it was special, it had a special ability and that was resistance against mind attacks which was the Asura's main forte.

He and this Edward guy were fighting the asura and he was proud to be putting the asura on the back foot and he knew it was only a matter of time before the fight would end in his favour.

He realized the other battles in the surrounding areas were finished and the next would be this asura. So he attacked with more fervor welding his spear elegantly while enduring the reduced potency of the asura's mind attacks.

Amidst all he managed to pierce the Asuras abdomen and knocked him to the ground. The asura wasn't the only one injured. Damien also had injuries of varying degrees all over his body but nothing a healing potion won't fix.

Just as he was flying downwards to finish the asura, he saw two individuals bolt towards the asura, Owen and the commoner who was always with him.

'The nerve of them to try that' he thought and increases his speed, but then just as the three of them were just about a meter away from the asura, a purple blade suddenly materialized and instantaneously split the asura in two.