Norilex arrives in the vicinity of the institution with a scythe in hand, when leaving the forest the vines crawl on the ground; Students who were passing through are engulfed by these, preventing them from moving or even asking for help. The students designated to protect the leaders are armed with knives and firearms to stop the advance of it and free the common students involved.
The shots fly with speed towards the leader of Esia but no matter how hard they try Norilex continues to defend himself, her attacks make them retreat and even hurt them.
Giant poisonous flowers sprout up on the pavement, cracking it, they throw the poison through thorns towards her aggressors, they dodge her attacks but cannot avoid being injured, so they are in very poor health.
The strains of the flowers are destroying everything in their path until they reach the cafeteria, all those present there panic starting to run and scream at the appearance of the plants in the place, when they feel their movements they attack them but just before even hurting them are reduced to ashes. The young people when seeing Erick sigh with joy, others fall on their knees on the ground in fear and the rest shout with joy in gratitude.
On the other hand, carnivorous plants stalk the court area creating chaos in the students and staff who were there, they begin to throw balls at them that are devoured by these plants. Seeing themselves defenseless, they seek to confront them by arming themselves with bats to fight them without much success. The plants approach them to eat them but are stopped by large blocks of sand that envelop and crush them on the spot. Kevin who has appeared on the scene recommends that they go to the main enclosure, since it will be much easier to protect a single area and they do so.
In the main enclosure Marinep waits at the main entrance for the arrival of Norilex, when she sees her at her door she throws sharp blades at her but without worrying about them Marinep defends herself with her shields returning the attack.
—You're still a nuisance Marinep!— Screams Norilex in a fit of anger.
Norilex attacks Marinep swinging his scythe against her shield with the intention that if he lets her guard down he will rip her head off with a single cut. Marinep does not stop defending herself but when she sees that she is being cornered to the wall she kicks her in the abdomen, not having the expected result because a liana covers her foot stopping the attack and then seeing her body is lifted throwing it by the airs and then throwing it to the ground. Marinep complains of the pain but without even time to breathe she stands up and stops the frontal attack with her scythe.
—Norilex calm down, you will lose your mind completely if you continue like this— suggests Marinep.
—It's because of you that I'm this way. If only ... if only you had given me your power, none of this was happening.
—What happened with your ruler was wrong, I agree with that but it is important that you calm down, we will help you, we can win by joining forces instead of stealing it.
—Shut! That won't give me my grandfather back!
Norilex with another liana takes Marinep again this time by the waist throwing her again, before she falls Norilex prepares with a needle to pierce her, Marinep seeing her purpose uses a shield to repel her but it came with so much force that it is created a shock wave causing it to shoot out at a source located in front of the main enclosure. Followed by multiple attacks going against her without any effect on her shield, Norilex begins to see the uselessness of her attacks, she turns to her back and seeing the main enclosure of her, she focuses her dark eyes on her opponent. she.
—You seem to have a great appreciation for this institution… so… what if I destroy it?
Those designated to protect the leaders observe that Norilex with her plants slowly approaches them, being the only line of defense after her representatives reload their weapons as fast as they can and open fire on her. They conceive that it goes back a little but it is not enough to free the danger zone, a strong claw of a vine hits them all leaving them unconscious and with slight injuries, not seeing enough with that she decides to end their lives but the force field Marinep stops and repels the attack, this only irritates the leader of Esia more who continues with the consecutive attack.
Marinep places a little more of her power on the shield so Norilex's last attack expels her out in the direction of the leader of Amira Sur, this fact makes her impatient sending poisonous plants that release spores in the air that approach the students on campus; Marinep can't contain her spores so quickly while defending herself from the plants that attack her, so she resigns herself to protecting the students getting hit by the plants.
She looks up at the students, pursing her lips to face the coming pain but after a while she doesn't feel anything. Considering that ashes fall on her, she decides to turn to see what happened and Kevin is standing up killing the plants while Erick burns the spores that stalk the students.
—Are you okay princess? Didn't those things sting you or throw her poison darts? And why are you wet? She - asks this giving him her jacket to warm up.
—Thanks for worrying, I'm fine, it's just a sudden bath in the fountain opposite; As for the poison of the flowers, I have not touched any of that. Is it very bad?
—It's worse than bad— Erick relates.
The people who were attacked by these plants died shortly after Erick went to meet them, they had sores on the skin that rotted instantly, the screams of pain were horrible according to account and I do not know what other things have happened to them , he did not want to describe what happened.
—We must stop her immediately— Marinep suggests.
—It will not be so easy because the madness in a leader increases her power five (5) times more, so it will be difficult to deal with it, it also remains to be noted that Erick is not yet in optimal condition.
—We must then think of a quick plan, the more time passes she will become stronger than us. It would be best if we took her to the greenhouse to subject her to the catalyst.
—Wouldn't it be better to move the catalyst here?
—We can't do that, if we move the stone even with Esteban destabilized, she can become like Norilex or worse, she can die.
—Should we then protect the institute until Esteban improves? I see it as a very tedious mission if not impossible.
Kevin does not respond, he tries to analyze the best decisions to make; Fighting in the institute gives them a great disadvantage, being a neutral territory that governs in part the behavior of conscientious leaders, preventing them from performing extraordinary feats that can hurt innocent people.
Norilex and they should have the same strength; that she is overtaking them by cornering them between a rock and a hard place only reveals that her power is too unstable. On the other hand, inside the main campus, the students, between frightened and fascinated by the unfolding of events outside, place the teachers in a position to maintain order, avoiding panic and riots in the corridors.
Among all those students leaning out of the windows to see the unfolding of a leader in action, those who only know in story books and illustrated stories a boy takes his cell phone, it rings and when the receiver answers he begins to report.
—Sir, the Norilex girl leader of Esia entered the vicinity of the institute in a state of madness wreaking havoc as she passed.
>> I understand << the deep voice is heard through the earpiece.
— How I should proceed? The leaders are trying to stop her but the girl shows no indication of calming down.
>>… Don't worry, I'll send someone who can move the situation a bit in our favor <<
—Will she be capable of that? Lately she has been reluctant to do her job.
>> she will make it of that there is no doubt or at least she will give time until she can take action. By the way, since we're talking about the leader of Esia, do you know what level she's at right now?
—Let me verify.
The boy makes his way among the students so that he can see the girl attacking the leaders through the window. Wrapped with different plants and even poisonous flowers that are turned to ashes as soon as they appear by Erick, thorns repelled by Marinep when they are expelled towards them and petals knocked down by blasts of sand that Kevin faces to prevent them from scattering everywhere. Seeing this, the boy places the cell phone back in his ear.
—Level 5 sir, his powers have grown wide since he arrived. If that fight continues, we can say goodbye to them.
>> Don't be exaggerated Max, with that power he will not put anyone on the line of death, he will put them to the limit but they are together so you can rest easy <<
—Sir, if I can comment, I would say that this girl could be raised to level 6 because of how she is.
>> That won't happen, the girl is too weak to get there * sigh * look, there's nothing to worry about at the moment. She proceeds with the plan for this case, help is on the way and I will arrive as soon as possible. <<
—Yes sir, whatever you say— he hangs up.
The boy, after cutting off the call, goes down the stairs of the second floor heading towards the main door, the director stops him warning him of the danger that he poses for himself and the others, but the young man indicates that he must give an urgent message to the leaders outside . The director does not want to move away although at the insistence of the boy he lets him out without taking his eyes off him.
The young man gets close enough for Erick and Marinep who are closer to the door to hear him.
—I have a message for you!
—Boy go back inside, it's dangerous to be here— says Marinep still keeping her eyes on Norilex that she was dealing with Kevin.
—The leader of Antirda left a message for you.
—What do you say?— Erick and Marinep are surprised by the young man's words.
—What does that idiot want? Are you one of his followers?— Erick asks with a notable anger in his voice.
Nodding his head the young man resumed his message. —Help is on the way for what you want them to hold out until then.
—It puts us in this situation and then helps us. What's next? What do we thank you for? What do we kneel and favor?
The boy without being alarmed or exalted by Erick's words just continues with his message.
—Another thing, Esia's leader is out of bounds— he points out.
—How does she know what level she is on?— Marinep asks but the boy ignores the question.
—If they can't calm her, they'll have to end her life.
—That is not fair!— shouts Marinep. —She didn't want to be in this situation, it was all because of your leader's actions.
—Your friend could bear it, that only shows that the girl should never have been a leader, it was a mistake— Her monotonous expression gave him an air of not caring about anything that was happening.
—How do you know about Esteban? And how could Norilex not have been a leader?— Marinep is concerned at the words of the messenger.
—We have always observed them, it is our duty and as for the leader of Esia I will not tell you anything. I retire, you decide what you will do. Calm her down or kill her?— After saying that he returns to the venue without hearing the answer.