"Lucas, do you want to die? Stop dozing off in the midst of this crisis."
Parth's fierce yelling brought Lucas to reality.
"Lucas, we need to run."
"Parth, should I punch his face?" Axel muttered, cracking his knuckles.
"Nooo!" Lucas let out a fierce shriek seeing Axel inching towards him with a clenched fist raised prepared to hit him.
Getting up on his feet, Lucas stared at the sight of destruction around him.
The plain grassy plains covered with the upper layer of ice were now full of cracks and crevices.
Some students were running, and some were on their knees with eyes widened and ragged breathing. Some were crawling towards the other end while some were rolling and convulsing in pain.
Amidst the fierce bombing sound and shockwaves jerking the body pain, all of them were mustering their strength to move away.
"Roa...Where is Roan?"
Lucas' heart tightened with unease.
He glanced around frantically wondering where Roan was as he was weakest among them and unlike others his chances of getting killed were maximum.
"Fuck Lucas. Have you gone insane? Stop thinking about Roan. That asshole is already running towards the safe zone."
"Already?" Lucas asked in a baffled tone.
*After he took part in that bird-designing spell, his mana was exhausted and he was knocked out, the moment hell broke out, he was already running towards the back.
Parth scowled and then nudged Lucas while wondering if something felt odd about Lucas.
Lucas's mood eased up and his heart calmed down however inside he was cursing that guy.
'That bastard ran away alone. Is his sense of danger more overpowered than mine?"
"Lucas is dozing again." Axel spoke, raising his finger to touch Lucas's face.
"I am not."Lucas flicked Axel with a glare and turned towards Parth.
"Where are we going?"
"To the other side, the place where Third Year Seniors were watching us."
Parth pointed and sped up his steps, followed by Lucas and Axel.
'That place...There was supposed to be a barrier that was quite difficult to break and only people with special passes could enter. If we can enter there we can survive.'
The Chalice can form a restricted land and snatch control of the land from the Tower but it can't modify the preexisting things in the land, like a person who through q force or shady means can snatch away the property of a land but they can't displace or modify the internal topography of the place.
Since the barrier was already present, it couldn't displace it.
As long as a person enters the place, he can be safe from this slaughter.
However...
Can they enter?
Will these bastards allow them to even reach the place?
To this question, the sixth sense of Lucas was saying no.
"Those seniors are engaging with those people. We just need to sneak in easily."Parth spoke, noticing Lucas' gaze.
"It's easier said than done."
Lucas answered solely by noticing a separate group of black men who were forming a circle and drawing something.
'They are planning something.'
Lucas' steps halted in his tracks as he suddenly realized something.
"Shit! They are preparing for a summoning ritual. We need to disrupt it."
"Why do we need to do it?"Axel asked in confusion.
"Because summoning ritual needs life essence and where do you think all these life essences will come from?" Lucas asked with a hint of dreariness.
Axel rubbed his head looking around while running the muscle cells in the brain to their full potential but he was unable to conclude anything and he asked.
"From where?"
"It's us you fucking gorilla!" Parth shouted, frustrated by Axel's stupidity.
"Can't you even think that?"
Lucas faceplamed.
According to their usual way of doing things, these people sacrifice the people around them.
However, most of the students here are important, so sacrificing them to provoke the entire Empire seems too much.
They might have prepared sacrifices from before but what if he is wrong again?
What if, this guy plans to kill them and that's why he asked his men not to kill them?
"So now what?" Axel spoke with a frown.
"Parth and Axel, go and call that Frederick bastard. What the hell is he doing at the front? As a protago...I mean a proper gentleman should stay back and have our backs."
"Go and call that fucker"
Though Lucas voiced his words calmly, he was cursing Frederick inside.
'Who the fuck made you the protagonist?! Shouldn't this group of people look for you instead of others and instead of fighting these guys, you're running ahead?'
'This world should have been blind to make you the protagonist instead of Julian.'
"Hmm! You are right. Since we are going to die, we should drag more people around us."Axel murmured, folding his hands.
Parth, halting in his steps, rotated his gaze from Lucas to Axel.
'Am I dreaming? Why the hell are these two so relaxed when we have a death sword hanging on our heads?!'
If only Parth knew that Lucas had a magical amulet that could protect him from an 8-Star attack, he might have vomited blood.
As per Axel, he was a bit dumb to understand the crisis.
"I will observe things from the sidelines. At the front, there is a fight going on between the senior and black men. We shouldn't rush there."
"I have good escape techniques so all of you go now and call Frederick. Meanwhile, I will keep tabs on this and think of a way, if I can."
Lucas turned and took a different route.
'The situation is already bad. My calamity magnet is even stronger than a protagonist and at this moment, If I stay close to him, only God knows what will happen.'
If these Dark Churches knew that Frederick also had a guardian spirit then they might turn all their attention to him.
'Stay away, I have to stay away from him for now.'
As Lucas moved closer slowly, he saw the fight getting fiercer as the Top dogs of 3rd year were engaging in serious combat.
...…
BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!
"Filths of the world, you dare to run amok without knowing the subject."
Issac, who appeared with a red flame warped over his fist, struck the enemy's head using all his strength as if it was the end.
The person who was struck sank deep into the ground and continued to dig downwards due to the impact of the hit.
Then Issac's body flicked dodging a sharp strike of tomahawk thrown towards him with a bursting momentum.
Appearing over a safe distance, he stretched his arms and clenched his fist.
All the mana around him swirled and seemed to be sucked into his hand.
Flames amplified and a starlight flickered.
The surrounding space vibrated burning like flames and the temperature of the area rose by several margins.
"Let's see if you can keep going after I smash this on your face."
A wide grin formed over Issac's face as the red flame continued to agglomerate in his fist which was clenched even more strongly.
Taking a bigger step forward, Issac's fist holding the flames shot forward smashing the waves of power of the opposite side.
With a flicker illuminating the entire vicinity, a blazing pillar of flame from Issac's first horizontally carried a concentrated mass like a flame bazooka that instantly annihilated and obliterated anything that stood in its path.
The raging fiery pillars with the might of volcanic eruptions hit several of the black figures who attempted to protect themselves using barriers but all this was for nought.
BOOM!
When the light subsided, a huge hollow rift in everyone's eyes with the rock emitting fiery hot flames.
The black warrior who was caught was vaporized and vanished into a mass of nothingness.
Those who managed to protect themselves stared at this in disbelief and raised the danger level of the boy in their minds.
"Are you a maniac?! There were 1st years in your attack range!!"
Lara's fierce roar disrupting Issac's hearing.
Issac saw them glaring at him with a deadly stare but he just shrugged his shoulders showing that he didn't give a damn.
"Useless people should die."
"Don't worry, I have them."
A lazy voice echoed and Ian's image carrying four people over his shoulder appeared.
Staring at the huge rift, he clicked his tongue in annoyance.
"It's good to have bloodline ability. I wish I had some ability, probably something that can help me have a nice comfortable sleep."
"Shut up! Stop talking about sleep in this situation and take them to a safe distance."
Lara shouting, pulled out a small hammer from her storage space and leapt ahead towards the black man.
"Got it." Ian yawned, taking large big strides.
Before going back, he gave Issac a menacing look,"Issac, if by chance you killed someone and their parents dared to disturb my sleep, I am warning you, I will not let you sleep until you are out of the academy."
Then leaving a flicker, Ian's images moved as fast as lightning carrying the dead weights.
Meanwhile, though their comrades were wiped out of existence, there wasn't any sign of fear or hesitation in their eyes.
Rather seeing the woman darting towards them holding a small pinkish hammer, they burst into laughter.
"Little girl, what's this?"
"Did you bring this toy hammer to fight me?"
"Girl, go away and play house games. Don't waste our time."
"What did you say?" Lara's eyes became cold and she swung her small hammer.
The man was mocking Lara just standing on his spot puffing his chest to get hit.
[Enlarge]
However, his laughter didn't linger for long as just before the hammer struck his body, it enlarged into a gigantic mass and crashed onto him sending him flying with cracked bones.
[Shrink]
Under everyone's astonishing eyes, the hammer shrunk again and then enlarging as huge as a big boulder, smashed the ground sending shockwaves that pushed them away.
The sight of a small dainty lady smashing everything on sight with a huge hammer sent chills down the spine of many.
Lara's bloodline ability can make any non-living object expand and shrink to a certain limit, amplifying the momentum of the attack.
Many people even considered this a godly ability if not for its limitation of not being effective on living objects or things that originate from them like food, grains, and materials from monsters.
"Hey, you came again."
The man's heart chilled and he tried to run away, but his back was wrecked by a hammer sending him flying.
A little bit from afar, others swallowed their saliva seeing the man burning down everything while another girl sent them flying.
Then their gaze fell on a pink hair weirdo boy who was standing there swaying his hips while twirling his fingers with nervousness.
"Is this a boy or a girl?"
"A boy?"
"Tsk…what a sissy bastard. Come let's torture this guy."
Letting out an eerie laughter, they ran towards the girly boy thinking about the pleasant scene of torture however little did they know about the cruel fate that awaited them.
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