"Swoooshh!!!" The wind blew by as the shadows in the portal room darkened. Darkness covered the whole area as the vague shadow of a wolf appeared in the middle of the portal room. The shadow solidified as it looked around. It saw Ray laying on the ground, unconscious with blood and gore splattered all around him.
Walking to Ray, the wolf picked him up and put him over his shoulder. The wolf turned around as a bright shadow was cast behind him. As he looked back, he saw a woman covered in a bright light standing behind him.
In her hand was a short sword that had light flowing through it while crimson blood dripped down from it.
"Is it done?" Asked the wolf in a deep husky voice.
"Yes, everything is taken care of and the rest of the people will reach the portal room in five minutes or so. What happened here?" She spoke and asked.
"From what it looks like, Ray was ambushed and the fight seems tough," said the wolf as he then muttered in astonishment, "To think that someone was able to put Ray through all this. To the point that he used up all his strength and fainted,"
"Did you find the people?" Asked Nia as she flicked the blood for her sword and put it away.
"Yes, i did," Sirius answered. He raised his hand and pointed a few meters away. Over there, laid a person in a dark cloak in a pool of his own blood while his head was squashed like a watermelon.
"Just one person?" Asked Nia.
"No, there are two more. From what i can guess, it was a prolonged fight and they attacked him in a very clever way. Well, they failed to do anything," Sirius replied. By now, his voice had turned back to normal as he had ended his transformation and transformed back into his human form.
"Hmmm, that's quite interesting. Though i wonder who are them and how did they get here before us. We need to conduct a full investigation of their bodies and see if they have any Alias or not," Nia scratched her chin while she suggested the idea to Sirius.
"Already ahead of you," Sirius remarked as he walked to the man in black cloak. He took out a spherical object and put it on front of the corpse. A bright light was projected by the object as it scanned the corpse and then the corpse was disintegrated into the object.
"This is a dimensional storage device used to store the corpses and bodies of any creature present. I use it to store my food and keep it fresh. Never knew that it would come handy at such times," Sirius spoke as he pocketed the spherical object.
"Hmmm.. what about the other two corpses?" Asked Nia with much intrigue. It was because she failed to find the other two corpses that Sirius had talked about and it piqued her curiosity.
"Well, i have already stored them in here," Sirius answered with a smug smile as he patted his pocket that constrained the storage device.
"Ohh! Good," Nia nodded as she looked at Ray and asked, "what about him?"
"Well, we wait for the others to arrive so the head nurse can check him and tell us about the extent of his injuries because without him, there is no way we can activate the portals. Also, even if we can activate the portal, we don't know the coordinates of our destination. Therefore, we are totally dependent on him," Told Sirius as he walked to corner and laid Ray down. He took out a clean cloth from his spatial storage and used the cloth to clean the blood off Ray's face. After cleaning the blood and grime off Ray, he noticed that most of the wounds over Ray's body were healing with speed visible to naked eye and had even formed scabs.
"Man, this guy is something else. He is a monster . His regenerations peed is even faster than mine and the doesn't even need beast meat to fulfill his energy," thought Sirius as he was amazed by Ray's talents and abilities.
Seeing Sirius sitting down and taking a break, Nia did the same as she sat near a corner and breathed in relief, "it will all be over soon and i will have a hot nice bath," she thought as she remembered her father, "i hope he is doing well," she thought to herself as her eyes went heavy and she dozed off because of the exhaustion from constant fighting.
As her eyes were closed, a whole caravan was moving towards the portal room. It contained students, teachers and the workers of the academy. Some had tense face while some were emotionless. There were even those who had joy all over their faces as they were going to leave this damned place once and for all. Amongst them were also those whose faces were stiff and filled with worry. There eyes weren't like the others and had a mature light shining in them. These were the people who had ventured out of the infirmary and had seen all the bloodshed and had themselves taken part in killing monsters. Thus, experiencing everything, they had matured greatly. Over looking the whole operation, the head nurse stayed on alert on all times. She was the leader in Ray's absence and being a celestial, it was a matter of her pride and respect to keep everyone safe and in order.
"Don't slow now, we have a few minutes before we reach there. Let's keep moving," the head nurse shouted as she lifted up everyone's confidence. Besides head nurse was Aliya as she acted as the assistant for her. Being with the head nurse for the whole time, she had become more skilled and had even matured a lot under her care. Not only that, but given the head nurse's expertise and teachings, Aliya had gotten much stronger than before.
Besides Aliya was Aella who had a look of worry on her face. She anxiously looked around herself and asked Aliya constantly, "How much more till we get there?"
"Don't worry. He will be fine and we will be there in no time. Just calm down," this was what Aliya constantly replied with as she consoled Aella, who was worried sick about Ray. Also, her words served as a consolidation for not just Aella but for herself as well as she was also worried about Ray.
As they all walked forward, they crossed the battlefields that were full of corpses. Seeing the blood over the whole place, many people felt sick while most of them even emptied out their guts due to the horrendous stench of blood.
"Did you all clear the beast crystals off the trolls?" Asked the head nurse.
"Yes, Ray ordered us to clear them as we moved forward," Elina answered calmly.
"Hmm… okay," the head nurse nodded expressionlessly. Even though she looked calm on the outside, she was still in shock from inside as she thought, "The kid's decisiveness and decision making ability is as good as a corps commander and that is right now when he is young. If he is given the time and under right guidance, he sure will be one of the greatest leaders of the future," As she thought, she praised the dean too for his decision making skills and foresight to support the kid.
A few minutes later,
The whole caravan reached the portal room as they saw the door of the portal room that was in smithereens . Seeing the door in such condition, the head nurse sensed something wrong, "Everyone get in formation," she ordered and she herself took out her staff.
Even though she couldn't sense any danger coming off from the place, there might be traps or an enemy that knew well to hide his or her killing intent. Also, underestimating the situation wasn't a mistake she was going to make when these many lives were on the line.
Listening to the head nurse, everyone got in formation. The fighters covered the perimeter while the students and the others who didn't fight were all huddled in the middle of the formation for their own safety.
The head nurse raised her staff as a resplendent light shone over its tip. She pointed it high in the air as the light spread outwards and covered everyone. Forming an energy barrier around everyone, she ordered them to stay back and decided to move forward alone.
Entering the portal room, she found nothing strange but blood splatters all around and energy signatures of four people.
"Interesting," she muttered and moved forward. As she did, she scanned the whole place as nothing missed her senses. As she did, she noticed Ray, Sirius and Nia sitting against the wall while Ray was unconscious and Nia was fast asleep. It was only Sirius who was fully conscious and keeping watch over everything.
Sensing someone gazing at him, Sirius snapped his head in the head nurse's direction and growled lightly.
Seeing that it was the head nurse, the yellowish glow in his eyes receded as he smiled at her. The head nurse nodded at Sirius's vigilance. She glanced at another corner and then moved forward towards Sirius.
While she did, a person felt a chill run through his spine. His whole body shivered from the fear as he felt a predator gaze at him with the intent to kill.
The person was none other than Wilfred. Up till now, the man had cleverly hid himself and had seen how his partners were killed by Ray's hands and when Ray lost consciousness, he didn't attack himself as he knew that Ray had other helpers nearby. So he hid himself and observed the whole situation from the shadows. It was all going well until the head nurse arrived. Just a glance from her and Josh felt the suffocating pressure and helplessness caused by a celestial.
"Hopefully she didn't notice me and was just a curious glance," he thought to himself and saw as the head nurse used her abilities to heal Ray.
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