I had been struggling with the restraints for a long time, I can't remember how long ago I was taken.
"Look Ingen, I'm busting you out, but I'm not sure how well it's going to work." I recognized Teo's voice right away.
"Teo? What are you doing here?"
"That's a question I don't want to answer right now, but just know that Vincent and Gina have been tricked, they think that you are going to be left in the forest until the rescue teams arrive, but really there're core hunters after you."
Teo cast a spell and the rope that was holding my hand to the chair was undone. I could suddenly use Eneru again, so I tried to open a mind-link with Spirit.
'Hey! Are you there?!'
'Finally! You're free, it took you long enough! I counted 43 hours since you were out.'
"Hey Teo, could you cast Vis (Vision) on me? I can't cast it while blind."
'Hey! I'm talking to you!' Spirit shouted in my mind
'Look for Orin, we are in a crisis, no jokes.'
Teo finished casting and I could see again. My hand darted in front of my face, and the bond wasn't there.
My thoughts spun, now I know that core hunters were at the head of this, and I'm sure that they would not be opposed to an extra core.
"Teo, where is Orin?"
"He's... in that room." Teo hung his head.
"No... they didn't!" I rushed to the door and broke it down.
What I saw on the other side was horrible, Orin was living, but only just, it looked like he was in the middle of a half-baked surgery.
"Orin!"
I ran over and inspected his wounds, he had much of his forehead removed where he had his mark. I cast Rive (Reveal), and thankfully his spirit core was intact.
"Orin! Can you hear me?" I was a little loud.
"No, but I can! keep it down Ingen, he's sleeping." Teo pulled a potion from his bag and threw it at Orin, his wounds closed at a rate visible to the eye. "We have to get him out of here before the core hunters get back."
Teo whistled and a golem appeared in front of us.
"Get on his back with Orin, I'll make him small again." Teo splashed another potion on Orin and Orin became the size of a normal fox. "Han, go to the school, full speed."
Han, the golem, started a sprint. We came across my gear sitting on a table and I used matter manipulation to get it back, it was only my arm and glasses, but they were indispensable for me.
I saw a guard at the door of whatever place I was, he stood in front of Han and got pushed out of the way.
"HEY! WE HAVE AN ESCAPEE!" He shouted from the ground while he loaded a crossbow
I made a bow and arrows out of my hair and the nearby trees with matter manipulation and fired back ineffectually, it was a crude bow fired with telekinesis, I couldn't aim right, but it kept the guard from shooting back. I was on track to escape.
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Back at the school, at the scene of Ingen's kidnapping:
"I think I got it... give me a potion and get the other Constables." Pei'ye was feeling the effects of overusing potions.
It took almost no time for the rest of the constables to get to the scene, they all had something to say.
"There was no way that Teodor and Vincent are uninvolved, I found ample evidence in their rooms," Larry said
"We put the rest of his friends in the 'good detention' so they won't interfere," Unda said
"Yeah, they were already getting ready to go on a rescue mission," Venor added
"Good, Pei'ye, you will open the portal and stay here, Lana, you're the escape plan since you have the energy."
"Yes sir!"
Suddenly a large circle of runes appeared in the air and opened a hole in space where the Constables could see an empty room with a chair. Unda was the first one through and she was immediately engaged with a guard. She drew her sword in an instant and stabbed at his arm, and when she connected, she fried him with lightning Eneru. The rest of the Constables jumped through the portal and it closed behind them.
"Start clearing the facility, capture the students responsible, and kill those who manipulated them," Larry ordered.
"Yes sir, Lana, and I will clear the west," Unda said.
"Yes, and I will go with Venor east," Larry replied.
The groups split up and met minimal resistance, Larry's group found Teo tied up and barely breathing and had to capture Vincent, who was captured easily once they cast Dimensional Repulse. Unda's group met Gina.
"Where is she?!" Unda shouted with many very small cuts all over her body.
"There!" Lana shot a bolt behind a shadowy figure and blood splattered against the wall.
"Ung, I surrender," A little girl's voice was barely audible.
Lana wasn't taking risks and sent her to a pre-determined drop-off point through a portal.
Once the place was cleared, they gathered the surviving adults and interrogated them.
"Where is Ingen? Tell me now!" Larry was frustrated that Ingen wasn't there.
"That little traitor Teo let him go! I saw it with my own eyes! Said he took off towards the school." The man knew if he cooperated, he would get a lesser sentence.
"Let's go, Lana, you're up."
Lana started drawing a Warp circle and after a moment it was ready.
"Vand, Moten," she said while simultaneously drawing the runes, and suddenly the portal opened and the survivors were instantly transported to a faraway dungeon.
She repeated the process and another portal opened back to the school where everyone started a search for Ingen, Headmaster Larry even borrowed Ingen's glider so he could fly more efficiently. After two days of searching, Larry came across an overexerted golem, and a malnourished child, and a fox that used the last of its strength to keep the child alive.