Everyone noticed the change in the enraged boy. His strength had increased a lot.
At that moment, not even the three girls at Rank 1 had confidence in beating him with their strength combined.
They had heard of that skill, but they never thought that it was so strong.
"Dodge! His power has increased too much. You won't be able to stop it. You will die!"
One of the girls screamed to let Shiba know of the danger.
It wasn't for any selfless reason. To face that guy who had turned so strong yet couldn't control himself at all, they would need all the help possible, so they couldn't let Shiba have a stupid death.
Shiba heard those words, so he decided to do as the girl said and dodged the attacks.
Fortunately, the attack patterns were quite easy to discern, given that the guy he was facing had been reduced to a mere beast without intelligence due to the use of the skill.
Still, there was too much difference in strength, so Shiba didn't dare to be careless despite his opponent relying just on bestial instincts to fight.
The three girls at Rank 1 had also joined the fight. The duel had ended since before the guy activated that skill. Moreover, he was a danger even for the students that were just looking at the duel.
They didn't dare to try reaching the door and flee with that uncontrolled guy attacking anyone near him.
Besides Shiba and three girls, the rest of the people join the room was just too weak to try something.
"This is bad, his power is still increasing. It should now be comparable to someone at least at Rank 2. At this pace, he will die due to the pressure of the skill, but he will kill all of us first."
Another of the girls said those words after barely dodging an attack.
Boosting skills weren't omnipotent. The time and quantity of the boost should be limited to what the body could endure. In that guy's case, there was also a huge requirement for the mind.
At that moment, the guy's strength was more than ten times his original strength, and it was continuing to increase.
It was only because he didn't have any intelligence remaining that Shiba and the three girls could remain fighting him. Even beasts at that level were far more intelligent.
Since he was dividing his attention between the four, they were managing to endure, but none of them dared to try attacking him since it was too dangerous.
They weren't stalling time for nothing. They were waiting for a teacher to appear and stop him.
However, they were starting to get tired. They were dodging while calculating that it wouldn't provoke that others were hurt after that, so it was mentally exhausting.
Shiba was alright since his mental fortitude was far stronger than it should be for his age, but the three girls were already reaching their limits.
"At this pace, he will really kill someone... I must do it."
Shiba decided that he couldn't continue waiting and used Wind Wings immediately.
The three girls were quite shocked that Shiba could fly. Given the lack of long-range attacks of the berserk guy, being on the air was the safest.
They felt that Shiba decided to save himself and abandon them, but they weren't blaming him. They were at their limit, so they felt that they would be annihilated soon. The fact that Shiba was there or not didn't matter too much.
Of course, Shiba wasn't abandoning them at all.
He took out a bow and an arrow and used his skills to endure that the shot would have the max damage.
His target was that man's head. In his state, he would continua attacking disregarding pain, so the safest method to save everyone else was to kill him.
Hitting an opponent that moved so much was difficult, but that berserk guy would crash with the walls quite often, which was the chance Shiba wanted to use.
However, when the chance happened, he was unable to shoot.
Shiba felt that he was determined to kill him, but in the end, that was just on his mind. Thinking about doing it and really doing it were different things.
"I must kill him. I must. If not, innocent people will die. Leaving him alive is a potential danger for Eini and me in the future! Why am I still unable to shoot?"
Shiba was shouting inside his mind, but he was still unable to shoot.
No matter what he said or thought, he unconsciously didn't want to harm people. It wasn't because he believed that everyone was good people. He just had suffered so much that he was unconsciously unable to do the same to others.
It was one thing beating his opponent in a duel, but he wouldn't be able to torture his opponent in a fight or kill him.
It was a mental block from a trauma. Shiba didn't lack in traumas given his past. Although a lot of them let him be stronger than he should, they could also limit him if he couldn't overcome them.
In particular, it was the scene of all the other slaves killed, and he mortally wounded what was stopping him.
The others saw Shiba ready to shoot an arrow, but they thought that Shiba feared hitting one of the girls by mistake, so he was still waiting for a good chance to act.
"Why am I still hesitating? I don't even know the name of those girls, but they have been helping me. I can't let them die due to this stupid hesitation!"
The three girls weren't so selfless, but it was a fact that their words had saved Shiba. He wouldn't have died, but he would have been severely harmed if they hadn't spoken.
"I need to kill him to save the rest. That is a fact. This is the same as when I hunted beasts because they terrified the surrounding villages. He is even worse than a beast."
If the one in danger had been Eini, Shiba might not have hesitated to act, but he wasn't too related to the rest of the people in the room, and it wasn't like if he were in danger since he could fly.
"A person that can turn like this at any moment just because not accepting the reality is far too dangerous. What if he does it again after speaking with Eini? If she is caught unguarded, she might be seriously harmed."
Shiba didn't know if using that skill would provoke self-destruction like the girls said, but he really didn't want to put his hopes on that.
At most, he believed that the berserk guy would be severely injured and that he would be punished for being reckless, but as long as he lived, he was a potential danger that he couldn't ignore.
Of course, he wasn't thinking about how Lina would dispose of that man as soon as she could do it without interfering with Eini and Shiba, so he wasn't really that dangerous.
However, he wasn't in a situation to think with calm, nor would he have liked to rely upon Eini's sister, who had never seen, although Eini had spoken a lot about her.
"I must do it! I must kill my enemies to protect my allies. This is the only truth. There is no way to solve the things peacefully reached this point. Hesitating so much will only cost my life someday, or worse, Eini's life."
The hesitation disappeared from Shiba's eyes.
He felt as if a burden on his heart had been lifted, and a strange resonance appeared on his mind.
The arrow immediately increased its strength ten times as the resonance on Shiba's happened.
At the same time, the academy's principal broke his table in shock.
"They are faint, but why are traces of the Life Law and the Death Law appearing inside the academy. Even grandfather can barely control a bit of one Law..."
He had been invited to meetings of powerful experts by his grandfather in the past, so he had experience sensing some Laws thanks to them. However, he never managed to understand even a tiny bit, but that was normal given his level, what was abnormal was learning some without being at least Rank 8.
"Quick! Send someone to investigate the third genius grade Dueling Room! However, don't interfere with what is happening there until you receive my orders. Forget it, I will go myself."
The principal didn't care too much about the weak students unless they have shown a monstrous potential. Even someone like Eini hadn't shown enough talent for him to remember her name.
However, someone managing to use some traces of Laws even if it was due to luck was far more enough. He had heard from his grandfather that there were strange cases of enlightenment that allowed it to happen at lower ranks, and that kind of person had far greater chances to become a real expert than others.
The truth was that Shiba didn't have the slightest idea about the traces of Life Law and Death Law that had appeared. Those appeared because his mind resonated with the fragment of Master Liye hidden inside him rather than enlightenment.
The Life Law and the Death Law were Liye's best Laws after the Sword Law, so even a tiny bit of reaction was enough to provoke some ripples.
Of course, Shiba was still affected by it despite having a complete lack of affinity with life and death.
Without knowing the changes happening on him due to the resonance, Shiba shot the arrow.