Instantly, strong gusts of wind came from all over the place. Then, the perfect figure of Mother Nature appeared before me, shocking every single one of my students.

After all, this was a power that was reserved for elves to use. It made no sense for me to have access to it. It was supposed to be absolutely impossible. In fact, right as she appeared, all my students started shouting a bunch of things.

“How is this even possible?! How can he contact and ask help from Mother Nature?” Isolde shouted right away. “Can he use the powers from other races?!”

“I-I don’t know…but this is crazy. How come no one ever said anything about this before?”

“No idea; the Empire is truly stupid not to have told the world about our teacher. If he’s really able to use all the powers from all the races, then he could become the most powerful being in the entire world.”

I smiled as I heard them. However, it was a pity that I would need to remove some of their memories by the end of this. After all, this knowledge about me couldn’t leave this place.

However, I didn’t stop just at using the power from the elves. I closed my eyes for a short moment before a powerful aura started being exuded from my body. The power that vampires used—a power I used in my very first fight against Derek.

Bloodlust, that was the name of the ability. My physical abilities tripled as I took a single deep breath. I wanted to use another ability from Bloodlust, but with my currently weakened body, I could not. However, having all my abilities tripling in strength was already a nice boost that I could not dismiss.

“How can I help you, Caedrel…tsk, why did you call me in front of elves?” Mother Nature asked, not seeming too pleased to have been called in front of the people she served.

“Stop complaining, I’ll make sure they forget about this. I just wanted to go all out for the first time in a while. Nevertheless, can you help me defeat that person back there? She’s too powerful for me to handle alone.”

Mother Nature released a sigh, exuding a completely different personality than she did with elves. However, she still nodded and accepted my orders.

“You are right, she’s pretty damn powerful, and for some reason, I can feel that you got a lot weaker than the last time I saw you,” Mother Nature said, subtly making fun of me. “So, should I try to kill her or just injure her?”

“Injuries only; she cannot die here. She cannot die at all, actually.”

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Mother Nature disappeared from my sight as wind suddenly took over the whole arena.

I wanted to reveal the rest of my powers, but I shook my head. There was no point; I was already at a stage where I was more than powerful enough to beat Zoe. At least, that’s what I believed.

I had been lacking physical strength, but Bloodlust made things a lot easier for me to handle. That’s why I was confident in winning against her now.

As I dashed forward once more, Zoe had this look of disdain on her face.

“Is that really all you can do?” She smirked. “I guess I should also take things up a notch.”

Suddenly, her body—her muscles—started growing in size. She was becoming bigger and bigger in seconds, pretty much becoming a giant right before my eyes. I had no idea how this was even possible, but I could feel that she had just become a lot more dangerous compared to before. The giant axe she had been holding was now just the right size.

“D-Did Zoe really use that?” I heard one of the tribe members say.

“She did, but we promised not to use this power against the outsider…so what changed?”

I frowned at those words. They had promised not to use this power against me? Did that mean that I had not faced the full power of any of the tribe members?

I thought that I had become a lot stronger, but there was a good chance that they had simply been taking things easy on me.

“Did you really think that our only power was to see into the future for a few seconds?” She smiled as she laughed loudly. “The reason we were so feared thousands of years ago wasn’t even for that reason! It was because of the strength of our bodies! Something that no one had ever managed to achieve, a right that was given to us at birth. Something that not even you could copy! That’s why we never bothered showing it to you.”

Still, she didn’t attack right away as if expecting more from me.

“Come on. Show me what you truly have hidden inside that body of yours. I know that this isn’t the full extent of your powers, and if you want to come out of this fight unscathed, you will have to show me absolutely everything that you have hidden for years in there. All those powers that you have copied over the years, I want to see you using them.”

I smirked. I truly hadn’t expected to be pushed enough to use these powers. It was a good thing that I could erase the memories of my students. Otherwise, there would have been absolutely no way that I would have done what I was about to do next.

“You really want me to go all out, huh?” I said as I placed my sword around my waist once again. “Fine, I’ll show you what it means to truly anger Caedrel Stuart, the Sage.”

With those words, I closed my eyes as I activated all of the powers from the races I had met in my life.

Elves, Vampires, Dwarves, Dragons, Giants, Undead, Fairies, and a lot more.

If she wanted to see the true extent of my powers, I would show her.

There was a reason that I had been confident to fight against Zero back when I had first arrived in this village, and it was time to show them who I truly was.

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