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Squeak!
Swish!
Dozens of sharp ice shards began to plunge to the ground.
Thwack!
Thwack!
The ice shards embedded themselves in the spies' bodies.
As if they had eyes.
They flew accurately towards the spies in black clothes and stuck deep.
"What, what is this? How did you do that?"
"It's Mind's Eye. It's not a common technique."
"Impressive! Can you do it again?"
Hanna nodded lightly.
"If you protect me."
"Trust me and unleash it again! Skewer those spy bastards' torsos!"
"Okay."
Hanna closed her eyes again and manipulated her mana.
Antonio bravely stood in front of her.
"Come on, you black-hearted sons of bitches!"
Liber shook his head.
"Impressive, huh?"
Bellum, who had just taken down a spy, asked.
"You mean her? The brown-haired girl. The freshman who unleashes indiscriminate ice attacks. Is that really impressive?"
"Compared to Davian or Latia, her magical power isn't that strong, but... to think there's someone who can actually use that..."
"What is it?"
"Mind's Eye. It's a rare technique where you close your eyes, observe your surroundings, and link it to a magical attack. I heard it's not something anyone can do, regardless of their mana affinity."
"You can't just learn it through practice?"
"Yeah. I heard you have to be born with it. If Davian knew how to do that, all the spies here would have died at once."
"We've got an impressive freshman."
Luna, who had neatly healed Bellum's wounds with healing magic, asked.
"But shouldn't we go help Davian?"
Nubes nodded.
"Yeah. It's taking longer than I thought. Those six must be quite something. It's been a while since I've seen Davian struggling like this. Not that he'll lose, though."
Liber reloaded his special magic gun.
"Looks like this side is somewhat taken care of. Let's go help Davian!"
"Let's go!"
This time, Bellus asked.
"But isn't it strange? It was sunny a moment ago...?"
"Now that you mention it, rain clouds suddenly gathered. It's going to pour soon?"
As Bellus and Liber said.
Before they knew it, the sky was filled with dark storm clouds.
Drip, drop.
Raindrops began to fall one by one.
Swish.
Soon it became a downpour, soaking the ground.
"It's pouring as soon as we say it."
"Let's quickly help Davian and finish this. You'll catch a cold if you get caught in the winter rain."
"Yeah, let's finish this quickly!"
The friends started running towards Davian.
"Eek!"
Luna suddenly screamed.
"What's wrong?"
"T-This person opened their eyes."
"Who? Why is someone opening their eyes so surprising?"
"No, that's not it..."
Luna pointed to the ground.
Liber looked at where Luna's finger was pointing.
"W-What?!"
It was clearly a corpse with its upper and lower body completely separated.
But its eyeballs were rolling around.
"Eek!"
"Aagh!"
Liber hurriedly looked around.
Screams were erupting from everywhere.
It seemed that there were more than one or two corpses with rolling eyeballs.
Creak, squeak.
"Eek!"
Luna screamed and hid behind Liber.
Bellus had already hid behind Nubes.
Nubes looked for a place to hide but ended up just averting his gaze.
The corpse moved.
The corpse, which was rolling its eyeballs around and moving with its arms on the ground, found its lower body and reattached it to its upper body.
Shlurrrp, shlurp.
With a spine-chilling sound.
The tissues of the corpse's upper and lower body began to intertwine.
It was clearly different from healing magic.
The tissues were messily tangled, barely connecting the upper and lower body.
A body messily joined together.
Hideous beyond words.
And then.
It stood up its hideous body.
Bang!
Liber's magic gun spat fire.
The metal ball pierced the chest of the reawakened corpse.
Shlurrrp, shlurp.
With a spine-chilling sound.
The holed tissue intertwined.
The wound was instantly repaired.
Whoosh!
The corpse swung its arm wildly at Liber.
Thwack!
Nubes, who had taken out his shield, squeezed his eyes shut and struck the corpse.
The corpse, hit by Nubes's shield, flew far away.
"T-The corpse came back to life."
Liber's voice became urgent.
"It's not just that guy!"
Bellum raised his sword.
The hand holding the sword was trembling.
"W-What do we do?"
Nubes's voice trembled.
"I... I can't fight things like this."
Cowardly Nubes Arbo.
He had grown a lot while with his friends.
But he hadn't become fearless enough to withstand the sight of a corpse that had just died opening its eyes and attacking.
In fact, the rest of his friends were just as surprised and scared.
Bellus had already fainted, showing the whites of his eyes.
Bellum quickly supported Bellus's body.
The only one who maintained some composure was Liber.
"Let's go to Davian first!"
Nubes seemed to come to his senses at that and shouted.
"Yeah! Let's go to Davian! Davian will be able to handle it!"
Bellum also nodded.
"Let's join up with Davian first!"
Swish.
Cooper Carun opened his eyes as he was hit by the falling rain.
He held out his palm towards the sky.
He felt the raindrops falling on his palm.
Perfect.
Cooper Carun's gaze turned to Davian.
"Davian's coming out."
Davian, who was engaged in a fierce battle with the Six Men, turned his head.
'He's still got room to spare even while fighting the Six Men. He's really something.'
A level of skill that made him want to stick out his tongue.
A mere 18-year-old kid was holding his own against the Six Men.
He even had the余裕 to turn his head when he called his name.
It was unbelievable.
But.
'This is as far as you go.'
Davian opened his mouth.
"Favs. Just wait. I'll kill you soon."
Favs was the name he briefly used when he disguised himself as a magic material merchant in Elton City.
He used this name again today for the freshmen.
"You remember that name well."
"I don't forget the name of the guy who backstabbed me."
"You know it's not my real name, right?"
"Doesn't matter. You're going to die today anyway."
"My name is Cooper Carun. I'll tell you my name since you're going to die here today."
Did Cooper Carun's provocation help?
Davian's ice sword deeply slashed the body of one of the Six Men.
The sword went in properly.
The man who was hit by the sword scattered blood everywhere and fell to his death.
"Just wait there, I'll be there soon."
Cooper Carun tilted his head back and laughed loudly.
"Okay. I'll be waiting. In the middle of hell."
Cooper Carun put his hands behind his back.
He took a deep breath once.
Then he looked around.
More precisely, he looked at the corpses lying on the ground.
"You who have been touched by the Rain of Necromancy. Arise and follow my will."
"Davian!"
Bellum stood behind Davian.
"What are you doing here? You should be helping the freshmen."
"The corpses are rising."
"What?"
"The corpses are rising!"
Whoosh.
Davian created a large fireball.
Boom!
He casually threw it where the remaining 5 members of the Six Men were gathered.
Then he looked around.
All hell broke loose.
Corpses were rising everywhere and attacking living people indiscriminately.
Those who couldn't rise because their bodies were incomplete roughly combined their bodies with another.
Among the risen corpses were the spies, as well as the freshmen and their companions.
They were all attacking the living.
Davian turned his head and looked at Cooper Carun.
He was leisurely strolling through the chaos with a relaxed expression.
He even had a faint smile on his face.
'So he was a necromancer.'
This time, he looked up at the sky.
Dark storm clouds were pouring out heavy rain.
'This rain must be the medium.'
At that moment.
Whoosh.
A sword rushed towards Davian.
Clang!
Davian quickly raised his ice sword and blocked it.
It was the guy Davian had killed earlier.
He had died with a long diagonal wound on his chest, but the roughly tangled tissue completely filled the wound.
On the other hand, his movements were not much different from when he was alive.
Whoosh.
A fireball appeared in Davian's left hand.
His movements were no different from when he was alive.
But his judgment seemed to be much clouded.
He didn't avoid the fireball and launched another attack.
Davian quickly took a few steps back.
Then he lightly flicked his left hand and hit the guy's torso with the fireball.
Boom!
The fireball exploded, burning and tearing apart the guy's bones and flesh.
Shlurrrp, shlurp.
However.
As soon as it exploded, the guy's body was restored.
His appearance became even more grotesque.
'Things have gotten messy.'
To get to Cooper Carun, he had to defeat the Six Men.
He had already defeated one, but.
There were still Six Men.
And if he killed them all.
Then he would have to face the moving corpse Six Men.
Besides.
It seemed that this rain was the medium.
Even if he killed Cooper Carun, it didn't seem like this necromantic phenomenon would stop.
Meanwhile, Nubes, Liber, Luna, and Bellus also stood beside Davian.
"We can't let any more people die. Whether they're freshmen or spies."
"Then what do we do, Davian?"
"Get the kids to evacuate. As far away from here as possible. To a place where it's not raining."
"The spies and corpses will chase after us, won't they? If we scatter, we might suffer even greater damage."
Damn it.
That was also true.
To save even one more freshman...
"Then tell everyone to gather here."
"What are you going to do?"
"We have to hold out. Until this damn rain stops."
Meanwhile, the Six Men, who had reorganized their ranks, began to rush in again.
Davian blocked their attacks and took a deep breath.
Davian's sonorous voice echoed through the downpour.
"Freshmen! Everyone gather here! We can't let anyone else die! Gather in one place and fortify!"
Amid the screams and wails.
Some brave responses were heard here and there.
"Yes, senior!"
"Yes!"
"Senior Davian is telling us to gather!"
It wasn't necessary to save all the freshmen who had gathered here anyway.
An event notification had popped up, but it didn't specifically say how many people to save.
In fact, it was okay to fail the event.
The clear reward wasn't that big either.
But.
He had to save as many talented kids as possible.
They were essential forces to clear the Demon Wave Quest that would be in the 6th grade.
Breaking through the spies blocking the way.
And the corpses that had come back to life, making eerie noises.
And the downpour that was obscuring his vision.
Freshmen began to gather around Davian one by one.
"Form overlapping circular formations! Those who can use swords on the outer circle! Those who can attack from a distance on the inside!"
They hadn't received formal education from Elton Academy yet.
But if they were good enough to get in Elton Academy.
They were already students who had made a name for themselves in their respective regions.
Not perfectly, but they began to form a formation according to Davian's instructions.
Bang!
Liber's bullet pierced the head of a corpse.
Bellum and Nubes roamed through the junior students.
It wasn't that they weren't afraid of the living corpses.
But they couldn't just hide behind their juniors, cowering.
Luna looked for injured people among the gathered juniors and immediately cast healing magic.
Unfortunately, most of the companions had already died and become moving corpses.
Only those with skills could join Davian's ranks.
"Davian! It looks like everyone's here!"
Davian nodded.
Looking around at the hellish surroundings, Davian muttered to himself.
"Cooper Carun. You said you'd be waiting in the middle of hell. Good. Then I'll show you a fiery hell."
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