With her promise, Yue began doing as she said. She searched every nook and cranny of the dungeon looking for goblins, once found, she mercilessly killed them with either a fireball or blasting a hole in their head with her magic gun. She was no longer running around smiling. Her eyes were cold as she hunted them down. She had even come upon a goblin nest where they moved the babies to, and without so much as a shred of emotion, tossed a fireball into it, killing the babies before they could grow up to cause more harm to innocent girls.
After one floor was clear, she moved to the next until she finally reached the top floor once again. It was here that she found a large group of Goblins who did not seem to know what was going on down on the floors below.
"Graauugh!" The goblins did not hesitate to pounce on towards her, driven by their lustful needs of procreation. Yue reacted quickly and incinerated the first three with fireballs before shooting two more. When they got too close, she put her gun away and unsheathed her blade, and slashed out, taking the heads of those who got near.
Like a goddess of death, Yue killed all the goblins in the room besides one. It was a little taller than the others and also had an animal skin cloak covering its body. In its hand was a wooden staff with a magic gem hanging from the top. "Oh? A goblin shaman. How rare."
"Garagahh!!!" The goblin shaman waved its staff and conjured up a few fireballs, and launched them at Yue.
Yue sneered and held up her hand, creating a basic magic shield in front of her causing the fireballs to slam right into it and disappear. "Sorry to tell you, but you will need to do better than that if you wish to kill me. Flame tower!" Yue called out her spell name, causing a burst of flames to appear below the goblin shaman.
This spell was one of the top low level fire spells and took a lot of concentration and imagination to cast. This was why she used a trigger word when casting it. It helped greatly when imagining the actual spell itself. But for someone who never even cast such a spell before to actually do it on their first try, it showed just how much Yue had practiced her magic even when she was not even able to cast a single spell. So her ability to picture the spells in her head from the images she has seen were still there to give her that edge.
The goblin shaman was not even given a chance to defend when the flames engulfed it. It let out screams of pain as it was burnt alive, just like those before it. Yue didn't even say a word as she continued clearing the top floor. She was, however, a little extra cautious as she looked out for the spark lions. Although she felt she could easily deal with a few of them at once now. When she finished searching every centimeter of the place, she finally made her way towards the entrance.
---
A day earlier….
"Miss Clara, are you really just going to leave Yue alone!? She just lured all those spark lions away to save us all!" Princess Venessa couldn't understand. Although she did not get along with Yue, she still did not wish for a person who would sacrifice themselves to die a needless death when a teacher who was more than capable of saving her was right here.
"It's not that I do not wish to go and try to save her, but I have to think of all of you. I must get you out of here first. I will try to come back and see if I can find her after." Clara knew what she was saying was a lie. But it was true she had to get the students who were not in danger back home first. Even if she wished to come back out to try to save Yue, she knew the academy would not allow her to. They would make her sit and give a full report on what happened. And probably just write Yue off as dead.
"Well, I am not leaving! If you wish for me to leave with you, then go in there and bring Yue back out here now!" Princess Venessa refused to budge. She would not leave someone who risked themselves to save her.
"Princess, why are you being like this over a piece of trash! She decided to be our bait to let us live. She is nothing more than a mere commoner anyway. Expendable cannon fodder." Van did not wish to stay here any longer. He had already almost wet himself. He was glad that the trash was made useful for once.
*Slap!*
A crisp sound of skin on skin was heard as Princess Venessa's hand hovered in the air beat red. And the one who was standing there staring at her in shock was Van. "You hit me over a piece of trash!?"
"Say it again! I dare you! I will have your entire family stripped of their rank! You dare talk in such a way about someone who risked her life to save all of you! Van, you would not even be standing here right now if it was not for her! All you did was cower in fear. I saw you squatting down, shivering at the first sight of a Spark Lion. If anyone should be deemed trash, it should be you. So I dare you to speak badly about her again." Princess Venessa had never been so angry before, and she was angry for the last person she would ever think to cause her to be angry for them.
Van held his face and shut his mouth. His hate for Yue grew even more. He had planned to cozy up to the princess in hopes of gaining her love and extend his family's influence, but now… He spoke coldy under his breath: "Tch… If she comes back alive I will make her pay."