Chapter 131: 131 Four Titans.

After hearing Dannan’s command, the students left their class and ran across the hallways, following the man behind.

A deafening roar from miles away sent a tremor on the ground and turned the atmosphere tensed.

Jin followed in the back and swept his eyes over the other students, who had hardened expressions except for his group.

It can’t be helped because even though they had experience killing it, facing a monster wave was something else.

He could feel his body tense unnecessarily, for it was his first time dealing with something like this.

Fighting a group of monsters and hordes was a stark difference as he watched them earlier, hundreds, or maybe thousands, approaching this place with nothing but to eliminate.

As the group proceeded, Jin’s Jade Eyes skill flared up, and he caught the slithering darkness crawling around the hallway.

It was faint, and when he left the building and arrived at the field, his eyes narrowed to see a towering wave of darkness like a tsunami approaching his front.

“Unsheathed your weapon kid!”.

Dannan roared, his command roaming the area, stirring the blazing ember inside students’ hearts. A black broadsword materialized before him, and Dannan gripped its handle.

With a single swing from him, the wind erupted, whistling a courageous whisper through the students who summoned their weapons.

Jin gripped his katana on his left and looked at Silvia, who ran before him. She already took out her blue blade that simmered under the glaring sun.

“Silvia, let’s go. Iris and Lucya support us from the rear”.

The girls nodded, and Silvia glanced momentarily before departing from the others and following Jin’s steps.

He tapped the primal mana in the atmosphere and let it seep through his flesh and veins, enhancing his power.

“Make sure to keep up, Silvia”.

His body glowed as a thin layer of green aura coated his skin, and Jin’s speed bolted like an arrow, leaving the others like a wind.

“Thalassa, lend me your strength”.

{As you wish, master}

An ancient yet feminine voice resounded inside her head, and the blue blade hummed in joy as its power resonated to cloak Silvia’s body.

[Elemental Enhancement activated]

Silvia felt a transcendence power surge through her veins. It opened her eyes to see the world in bright light and awakened the dormant power sealed deep inside.

She stomped the ground hard and pushed through like a river stream, unrelenting and unstoppable, before standing next to Jin.

Others noticed the two people as Green and Blue trails sped up and plunged into the middle of the monster horde.

The black ocean of monsters was coming close in front of them; their predatory eyes blazed with hatred and a bit of daze.

Jin tightened the grip on his hilt and unleashed one of his techniques.

[Black Heaven Style Swordsmanship – Gale]

As he clashed with the monster, his hands blurred and sent a hurl of silver blade that obliterated everything in his path.

With each swing from his blade, head flying, blood splatter, limbs crushed, followed by a scream of anguish and groan of death, he was like a walking disaster.

On the other hand, Silvia, who watched his back, bit her lips, and a storm of mist gathered around her, creating a condensed blade of ice.

’I can do this’. Silvia sent the ice sword floating near her blade, following her every movement.

[Black Heaven Style Swordsmanship – Blizzard]

The girl swung her blade, and the ice blade followed from behind, bisecting another monster with a dog-like face coming closer.

Silvia created another two ice blades, making it three ice blades hovering beside her.

With four blades on her sides, she tensed the muscle in her hands and dashed forward, swinging her blade everywhere she went, spilling blood and intensities in her tracks.

The other three blades roamed the battlefield, following her every movement and piling her path with corpses as she danced gracefully like a war maiden.

Even though she had a greater chance of killing more monsters than Jin in every swing.

But because of the precise control over the ice blades and her focus on the battle, Silvia slowed down, unlike Jin, who kept proceeding forward, unstoppable like a storm.

Regardless, both students were inspired; awe and fear ran through their veins. Watching the same students and a first-year student had that much power within them.

“Zephyros, let’s go”.

From behind the group, Iris stopped, took an arrow, and straightened her posture.

{I’m always ready, my liege}

A reply from a masculine yet carefree spirit resounded in her mind, which formed a protective swirling barrier around Iris.

Her golden ponytail fluttered by the wind as she tucked an arrow into her bow and pulled the strings.

The girl’s green eyes flashed as she targeted the biggest flying monster in the middle. ’Is that a dragon?’.

’Well, whatever’. Iris’s hands tensed, and her posture stilled like a statue.

“Pierced it, Celestial arrow,” Iris muttered while releasing her grip on the arrow.

In a blink, the arrow was shrouded by swirling green wind as it flew into the air, cutting through any resistance as it shot toward the monster’s wings.

The monster, who noticed an approaching arrow too late, shifted its body, but the arrow not only grazed it.

A bloody hole tore the dragon’s ability to fly as it fell to the ground.

“One down, hm!?”.

Iris’ brows knitted as she noticed Jin jumped through the air and beheaded the dragon’s neck in a single swing.

Her lips parted in a menacing grin, feeling proud and conflicted that someone stole her prey. ’I will get compensation from him later. ’

As she noted, Iris shot another arrow toward the other flying monster and some to help the students.

Standing in the back, Lucya, who closed her eyes, recalled her reason and the recent behavior she had shown.

She becomes weak in the face of adversity, while she used to laugh it off and continue forward.

Lucya had forgotten the essence she once held deep in her heart.

She opened her closed eyes and stared at the back of the boy who launched himself in the vanguard, creating a mess in the monster formation.

His glowing figure shone admirably in the middle of battle, like a beacon in the darkness when Lucya almost dropped into the pit of the abyss.

“A beacon, huh?”. Lucya scoffed and couldn’t believe that word had left her mouth then.

’What a brightest star! I’m almost drowning in the wrong path once again’. She clenched both her hands and gazed at the battlefield ahead.

Monsters and people clashed together in a bloodbath.

Jin’s figure was at the center of this whirlpool of chaos. His swift movement cleaves every monster in his path, leaving an enormous corpse with spilled blood.

The way he fought in front stirred a flame inside her. ’No time to waste, manifest hexa!’.

In front of her, a magic circle with a hexagonal pattern, filled with runes and a complex structure, emerged as Lucya’s body was bathed in six different auras, plus a translucent one.

The ground beneath her shook and cracked into spider webs. Her feet slowly left the ground until she floated in mid-air.

“Let’s do this, wind!”.

When she directed her focus onto the magic circle, one of the corners lit with green light, and Lucya set to another.

“Flame, merge!”.

A massive magic circle appeared above the battlefield. It enveloped all the monsters within, along with the students, who stiffened by its emergence.

Lucya briefly exchanges glances with Jin, who glances at her side.

“Fall back! All vanguard, fall back!”.

Jin’s voice echoed throughout the field as the magic circle glowed ominously.

Once the field was empty of students, Lucya raised her palm and whispered.

“Pull them all in, whirlwind”.

A towering vortex descended from the magic circle, generating a tremendous sucking force that pulled the monster over.

Their feelings left the ground and were slowly swallowed by the storm; even the flying one was unable to keep its balance and was sucked.

“It’s time”. Lucya poured more mana into the hexa pattern before her and muttered. “Burn them all, Crimson Tempest”.

A deafening roar of explosion shook the atmosphere and earth underneath.

’Jin’. Lucya’s eyes flickered like a lantern as memories resurfaced.

***

Born into a royal lineage, Lucya’s life was nothing but a struggle against the ominous desires of those around her.

Gifted in looks, brain, and even talent, she was a walking dream for some people.

However, because of those traits, she became forgetful of herself and almost drove into the path of no return before her mother slapped a sense back to her.

From that moment on, the girl followed her mother’s words diligently.

Her mother’s tender touch when she praised her in magic, her gentle whisper when telling her the story of a brave adventurer.

It was a happy moment until it collapsed when her mother was cursed.

At first, the curse took her mother’s sight, then her physique, before her mind collapsed, turning her into a sleeping corpse.

“Mother no, don’t leave me!”. Lucya tightened the grip on her mother’s cold hand.

Tears streamed down her face as she desperately pulled her bedridden mother.

“Lucya, are you crying?”. The woman’s voice was weak and like a fleeting mist.

“That’s strange, my dear, Lucya in my sight was a brave, …and a confident girl who shone brilliantly, right?”.

She said, even though her eyes were draped with blindness.

“…Mother?”.

Lucya gritted her teeth, a blazing flame that burned the tears in her eyes. She stood up and declared before everyone present and puffed her chest.

“I am, “. Lucya bit her lips, trying to hold her voice, and stammered.

“I’m going to be the brightest star and strongest Mage in the world, so that I could become a beacon for those who lost and save you from the darkness. I promise…”.

***

’No more mistakes!’. Tears unnaturally trickled down her cheek as she recalled her promise to her mother that day.

“For I will become the one light that would chase away the darkness and save everyone close to me within my grasp…”.

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