Time for my nightly training I guess. I change, I grab my phone and wristband and leave the room. I start walking down the hallway when suddenly I feel the presence of some people leaving the dorm. I quickly mask my presence and slowly approach them. What exactly are these girls doing leaving this late? I enhance my hearing.
"I can't believe he called us out on the second day of school." (Voice 1)
"It is what it is, we have to plan things out for the rest of the school year so we need to get things straight."(Voice 2)
"That's true, there's also the fact that the new officers will be appointed so we better be at our best here." (Voice 3)
"There's also the scouting of seven graders and get this." She scoots closer to the others. "According to rumors this year will be the year that 'it' will finally come to plan."(Voice 2)
"Really!" (Voice 1)
"Shhhh, let's go before we're too late." (Voice 3)
All of the leave through the front door in a hurry.
So they have some sort of meeting in the middle of the night or something?... There's possibly a dark side within the academy isn't there? Why would they need an underground in the school though? If it's for making rules than the student council should be good enough right?
Unless the student council is selected in a certain way that may make the students feel that it's unfair or maybe some people are not satisfied with how the school is. It's not like hey can do much, now can they. Their contracts don't allow them to do much after all.
However, there's still one unanswered question. Even if they are having some sort of meeting, where exactly would it be? They can't leave campus due to the rule and if they do it in a place inside they definitely would be found out. Unless there's a group on the faculty side that also facilitates this. The thing is, I don't even know what exactly they would do as a group with so many limitations.
There's also the fact that everyone within school is just a high schooler or middle schooler. I honestly don't think that they will honestly do something that extreme other than adding slight pressure on the student body. But is that something worth over sneaking out in the middle of the night
In other words, all they are having is some sort of gathering to make them feel like they are part of something bigger. That's the most that I can imagine at least, investigating it will just be a waste, though it will be good to keep in mind that people are pulling the string from behind.
I'll just go to the arena this time around and ignore them. I arrive at the arena after a couple of minutes of walking and expand my presence sensing...no one here. Ok, time to start fighting empty air I guess.
For the next thirty minutes, all I did was practice spells on empty air, both fire, wind, and water. I also worked on merging with my shadow and manifesting my light element a little. The light element is honestly so hard to control.
It looks like my output has increased quite a lot compared to before. I still have plenty of mana left so... should I try taking out my armament again? I wasn't able to use it at all before. Especially the 'healer's warcry' skill. The armament is one of the few things I've been looking forward to and I"m not even able to use it.
Should I try out the skill then?... Why not, it's not like anything that bad will happen.
[Jacket Armament]
I feel my magic being drained a little. I guess this is the cost of manifesting this armament and next...
[Healer's warcry]
What followed was the feeling of my body being enveloped in fire. Everything felt slow and my body felt extremely light. I decided to sprint forward and easily closed the gap like it was nothing. This is insane!!
It looks like a couple of my muscles tore because I went way faster than I am used to going at, this is painful as hell. Though it looks like the healing magic that I am gathering is healing my muscles as they tear. So the more I use this skill the stronger my muscles will become, I will get accustomed to using my skill and I will get used to moving at high speed.
Holy crap, I feel so powerful right now!
Right as I thought that I felt my nose bleed. Followed by liquid from my eyes. I touch it and looked at it...
This is blood, the armament disappeared but I could still feel the mana being poured into me... Shit! The skill still works even if the armament is dissolved.
I started being overwhelmed by the amount of magic that was coming into me and I slowly started losing consciousness. Shit, I am going to die at this rate! Magic just keeps on pouring in, I have to use it! I start randomly firing healing magic in order to get rid of as much as I could and finally, I fainted.
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Again we return to the certain aforementioned country. A group of five people is reporting to the leader standing above them.
"How is the infiltration of the gates going?" The leader first turns to the one nearest to her left.
"Ma'am, most of Europe's important gates are already infiltrated, the only ones that are giving trouble are the English and the German gate."
"Next."
"Asia is also mostly infiltrated. We already infiltrated every country with a gate without excluding the Russian and Japanese Gates."
"Next."
"Africa's gates already completely infiltrated."
"Good work, next."
"America's gates are mostly under control. We're only missing the Brazilian, Mexican and American gate."
"Alright, you may all leave."
Everyone leaves the room except for the one person that has not said anything the whole time, this person is none other than Veronica. The leader takes a seat and relaxes.
"You're pushing yourself too far."
"Well, what can I do? It's only 4 months until we're finally able to carry through with the next phase of our plan." (Leader)
"Yes, but relax a little will you. We already have control of most major facilities. Considering the number of people we have, just having 4 out of 7 major gates infiltrated is a major accomplishment."
"4 out of 7 means that we're still missing three, I better get back to work if I want those last three to be conquered." The leader stands up and walks out of the room
"Wait for me!" Veronica follows behind.
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I open my eyes, where is this room. I don't know this room. Actually, what exactly happened...Right, I tried out my armament and ended up passing out? How did I get here then?..... One way to find out I guess.