Meanwhile,
Outside the Academy,
The city was in chaos. The portals were opening everywhere as the monsters roamed around the city, causing carnage everywhere. Killing every person they saw and destroying the infrastructure as they pleased.
The enforcers, teachers from the academy and the other experts from all the other families of the city were in panic. Their hands were already filled with the hundreds of monsters that they had to deal with and the new monsters that appeared made it even harder for then to deal with the situation.
"Where are the others? If this goes on, we won't last much longer," Said an instructor from the academy. Albeit being an expert in the Calamity-Rank, it was hard for him.
He was standing on duty for three days now. He had been killing monsters left and right and although the monsters weren't stronger and were in the Magical Realm at most, fighting them continuously tired him and it was the same for the others with him.
"Don't know. Seeing the amount of monsters here, I am afraid that everyone has their hands full and what can we do either? It is our duty to protect the city and that is what we will do. So let's keep on defending, let's show them what we are made up of," Replied his team member with much zeal in his eyes.
While he spoke, he didn't stop his attacks. His hands were constantly moving as he hurled fire balls instantaneously. He was a fire-mage and his fire magic was quite special. It had a special characteristic which allowed him to inflict fire poisoning on the one he attacked.
"You are right. Let's keep on attacking, I am sure that the dean will be here soon and help us," Answered the instructor. His eyes were now burning with the will to fight as his friend's pep talk had made him energized and fired up his fighting spirit.
Meanwhile,
Inside the huge portal that had opened up in the sky,
The Dean and Amanda had their back facing each other. Their faces were grim as sweat and blood covered their whole body.
The dean's body that was dripping with blood had a deep gash running along the shoulder as it went down to his waist. Although the wound was healing at speed visible to naked eye, the movements and attacks he made caused the healing to slow down by a huge margin.
Amanda on the other hand was in a much better condition. Her fair and white skin had bruises all over while the staff in her hand had some cracks running along it's surface. Her breathing was ragged as her bountiful chest heaved up and down, revealing a marvelous show but no one cared for it at the moment.
Right now, an army of millions stood in front of them as they saw a black wave approach them relentlessly. The ground quaked from as the army advanced while the sky seemed to be filled with swarms of reddish birds.
"Amanda. No holding back, unseal your powers and connect yourself to the will of the world. If this army crosses the portal, we are done," The dean said. While he did, he glanced back at the portal behind him. It was the same portal they had came from and right now, they knew that they had to be on guard and not let a single creature pass through.
"Okay," Amanda nodded solemnly. She raised her staff and started chanting. A greenish light lit up on the staff's tip and the power travelled from the staff to her body. It spread through her body as she started to recover. The bruises on her skin receded as the blood was cleared as well.
Her ragged breathing normalized while an armor covered her whole body. Her eyes changed as one eye turned completely white while the other turned green. Her hair also had the same changes as half of it turned white while the other half turned green.
Her feet were slowly lifted in the air as she gracefully embraced the wind that had came to of nowhere. The area around her started to change as the desolate wasteland they seemed to be in had turned greener and greenery appeared in their vicinity.
The dean also acted. His dark clock glowed as he pulled the power from the underworld. Halos appeared around him as illusions of multiple souls shone behind him. A reddish gate of blood appeared in the air, the skulls and chains embedded upon it shone a dark light while eerie voices came from within it.
The dean looked up, the hood of the cloak covering his face as dark lines appeared below his eyes. A shadow seemed to loom within those dark eyes as the air around the dean changed.
He stretched his back slightly as two dark feathery wings were unfurled. The wings were entirely black in color as just looking at them seemed to pull a person into them.
The dean raised his rapier that also had a dark smoke coming out of it as he pointed it forward.
"Booomm!!" A loud bang sounded as the door was burst open. On the other side was a dark desolate plane filled with the aura of death as the souls that banged the door fled out. They fled into the other dimension and surged forward at the upcoming army.
They were all under the dean's command as this was the army that the dean had collected over the years. The dean had raised this army by capturing, building and calling over various souls from other dimensions, planes and worlds.
This was the result of his decades old preparation and it wasn't in vain. After the ordinary souls flew out, came the rarer ones that had some sort of intelligence.
These souls were covered in an armor from head to toe. They all had a dark shadowy sword in their hands as they held it in the air and walked forward. Assembling in front of the dean, they took an attack formation and waited for their master's command.
After those souls came even rarer souls that emanated the aura of a Calamity Ranked expert. These souls were seven in total and had different weapons in their hands.
These souls stood in front of the ordinary souls as their mere presence put each and every soul present in order. Seven lines were formed as the Calamity Ranked soul generals looked at the dean and waited for his order.
"Not now. Wait a bit, I will tell you all when to," The dean ordered and turned to look at Amanda.
In the meantime,
Amanda was having a conversation with the will of the world. Inside her consciousness was a vast garden full of flowers and greenery. Trees were lined up in every corner as the consciousness screamed of peace and joy.
In the middle was a huge tree who branches extended everywhere. The tree was so tall that it's top was nowhere to be seen. It seemed to have grown into infinity.
Amanda walked forward and placed her hand on the tree. Closing her eyes, she leaned forward and started to open a connection with the tree.
Her hands glowed a green light as the tree shook. The green light spread through it as the branches seemed to chime in joy. On one of the branches, a translucent figure of woman appeared.
The woman seemed to be no older than twenty as her cheery face spoke of the rich life force she had. However, she wasn't twenty; she was as old as the world and her eyes that glowed of wisdom spoke for themselves.
Sliding down the branches, she stood behind Amanda and chuckled as she poked her cheek.
"Hehe…" Giggling like a little girl, she spoke, "Open your eyes. I am here," Her voice was smooth and cheery as it seemed light up the whole world.
Opening her eyes, Amanda turned around and looked at the spirit of the world. A smile appeared on her face as she spoke, "Thank you for answering my call. I need help," Spoke Amanda as her smile disappeared and her expression turned solemn.
"Don't. I know what it is and I am ready to help you but I have one condition," Said the spirit of the world. Even her cheery expression was gone as despite her cheerful and playful personality, she knew the gravity of the situation.
The world was on stake and she was not going to be irresponsible here.
"What is your wish?" Asked Amanda politely. Getting help from the will of the world was enough and knowing how the spirit was, she knew that her request wouldn't be reasonable and only favorable to the future of the world.
"As you may have known. The next successor has been chosen and has already acquired a very small bit of my power after her advancement. I want you to take her under your wing, train her, teach her our ways and make her ready for my power," Said the spirit of the world seriously.
"Sure, I will heed to your request. I do want to know. Who is she? And what is her destiny? Is it related to what's happening right now?" Amanda asked back.
"She is the sister of the one with the blood of primordial moon. Even though she failed to inherit the blood power, fate blessed her and allowed her to become the successor. Also, she is close to the chosen one. So her fate is important for the whole world," Answered the spirit of the world.
"Okay, I will do as you asked," Affirmed Amanda again as she felt her consciousness tremble.
"Go now. The Soul Reaper Calls you. Do give him my greetings, it will be fun to fight alongside him," Spoke the spirit of the world and turned into various lights as it fused into Amanda.
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