After vomiting blood a few times, Prince Theo was the first one to collapse. Without Prince Theo's intervention, Cedric poured all the remaining holy energy into Ares and Ares who was caught off guard started vomiting blood while his metal chains started to cover the Ankylosaurus like a cacoon.
Cedric felt sluggish after pouring all his holy power and he only managed to see a notification interface from his system before he also fainted due to the accumulated exhaustion.
"Fuck.." Ares muttered in pain.
He never knew holy power would make him feel pain like that or is it only because Cedric's holy power was different from the others.
"Prince Theo, Cedric!?" Ares heard Gina and Selina's worried voices.
He was also already on his last stand and might collapse soon but without him, these two girls would die.
Having his past life memory, Ares felt himself as the older brother of these kids thus he felt like he had to protect them till the end even though he felt annoyed why a villain character like him have to work this hard.
"I-shit how do the Zanuki seal a monster? I didn't learn that yet" Ares said in distress.
{Follow me. I teach you how.}
Suddenly he heard a deep voice talking to him as if it was close to him. Ares felt nervous but he was desperate. He didn't know when those HGA administrators would come to save them. They have been inside these weird dungeons for hours.
Taking a deep breath, Ares muttered in a low voice only he could hear, "Let's start"
Gina was worried when she saw Ares start kneeling on one knee and his skin was paler than usual. However, Selina grabbed Gina's shoulder, restricting her from moving toward Ares.
Selina felt that being near Ares would be dangerous since she could feel a shivering feeling coming from Ares. Small yellowish flashes of lightning started to appear around Ares and his metal chains also become shinier than before.
Ares started to chant weird language and both Selina and Gina remained standing still at their place.
-Grunts
The Ankylosaurus grunts and tries his best to escape from Ares's metal chains. However, it was proved futile especially when Ares started to chant the weird enchantments.
-Swish Boom
-Swushh boom!
Suddenly two large fireworks appeared in the sky. The firework formed the word 'HGA'
"The rescue team has come" Selina muttered with a hint of relief.
The Holy barrier still remained since Ares had the remaining holy energy from Cedric thus if Ares collapsed the holy barrier might collapse. Realising that fact, Gina urged Selina to help Ares from collapsing like Prince Theo and Cedric.
However, both of them didn't dare to act recklessly since they didn't know what exactly happened to both Cedric and Prince Theo.
"Since the support team from HGA has come, I think I could try helping him a bit" Selina decided.
One of Selina's abilities was to help soothe excess energy and made them more reserved and efficient, thus she flowed her ice mana into Ares and it made the metal chains also cover in ice.
"Urghh" Selina underestimated Ares. She only knew that Ares was in a dire situation when she was in contact with him. His mana was already depleted to a minimum level and his aura tried to absorb any energy it could grasp and Selina became the victim.
Immediately Selina's mana was depleted and she also fainted on the spot leaving Gina dumbfounded.
Ares stopped his chanting after Selina collapsed. He stood there in a daze while Gina didn't dare to get close to him.
"A few traces of humans in front!"
"Quick move!"
Not long after that, a few people wearing hazard suits appeared in front of Selina.
"Student what happened?" They first approached Ares but Gina's voice stopped them.
"No don't touch him. Help-My my friend collapsed. I...I don't know what happened. They suddenly collapsed one by one" Gina tried to explain while tears started to come out of her eyes.
After Gina said that, the previously silent Ares suddenly collapsed and the Holy barrier was also destroyed like glass.
"Quick give first aid treatments to these students"
"Student please wear this hazard gas mask. We need to get out of here quick."
The rescue team quickly bring the five students into a special teleportation portal. Gina was questioned as soon as they arrived in HGA while the others were quickly sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
From Gina's story, the officers made a report on what happened inside the weird dungeons but they still have to interrogate the other students since Gina's story has a lot of loopholes.
"Have you called the Terrorism Investigation Bureau?" Almer Dario, HGA Vice Director asked his assistant. He and a few other officers stayed in the dungeon to do an aftermath investigation to find the perpetrator of the incident.
"Yes I have and they will send their best personnel to investigate."
"You mean?"
"Sir Zoroas Zanuki might come here since this was considered a big thing. Someone managed to catch some HGA students under the Chief's nose"
"Fuck. How are we supposed to write a report about this?" Almer was stressed. The incident caused a few students to die and a lot of them were in critical conditions.
"Don't worry Sir, Chief is currently doing a large scale investigation around HGA. We might find something or someone"
"She must be angry right now."
'Shabina Vien'
A Destructive rank Guardian but she chose to be an educator instead.
She became HGA Chief Director.
She didn't want to rank up because if she became a Supreme rank, the government would send her for dangerous missions like investigating high-level dungeons that not everyone could enter.
She always acts playful and mischievous sometimes but don't even think of touching her students since she cherished all of them.
Almer Dario could imagine what condition HGA was in right now even though he wasn't there.
Shino that was in HGA felt like he was underwater but he still could breathe. The academy looked the same but felt different.
[Students were all required to be checked by priests from the church. I repeat...]
There was an announcement repeated over and over again across the academy.
"It seems like our Chief started using her ability," Amanda who was sitting beside him commented.
There were a lot of stories and rumours about HGA Chief Director, Shabina Vien.
She was a Destructive rank guardian and her ability was well known by the name 'Dream'. She could change the surrounding area into her dream realm where no one could escape without her permission.
She could see and felt everything inside her 'realm'. This ability used a tremendous amount of mana but for someone that was a half-elf like her, it wasn't much.
Currently, she might be searching for anyone suspicious around the academy after the weird incident that happened during the test period. Shino and Amanda were lucky to not get caught up since they managed to teleport out of the dungeon earlier.
Suddenly Shino saw two familiar faces walking toward him.
It was his butler and one of his father's assistants.
"We come to pick you up, young master. Master asked us to do a thorough examination on you" said his butler.
There were also a lot of servants around the area walking toward their masters. Amanda also walked away when she saw her butler from afar.
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Inside a special meeting room on the top floor of a private hospital.
A few high ranking officials were sitting at a large oval-shaped meeting table. The atmosphere inside the room was subtle. Only the sound of paper flicking was heard inside the room before someone suddenly broke the silence.
Shabina Vien, as the highest authority figure in HGA, had to endure a whole hour of questioning regarding the dungeon incident and also how to compensate the dead students' families. She patiently endure and answered every question genuinely since she knew she was also partly to be blamed for the incident.
If she was keener and not as nonchalant, the incident might not happen in the first place and none of her students would die.
HGA communication lines have been busy since yesterday and some of the students are still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
"Now is the turn for the Chief Intelligence of the Terrorism Bureau to report his finding to us especially when Miss Shabina Vien here volunteers to clean up all the mess in her academy," said a fat middle-aged man, Thomas Warren mocking Shabina for letting small fries troubling her students, the future fighting force of the country.
In terms of strength, Thomas was only a Pandemonium rank mage and he was nothing when compared to Shabina who could kill him with just a wave of her hand. Thomas and Shabina were former classmates during their studies in HGA and since both of them were mages, they tend to be compared.
That was why Thomas felt elated when he heard Shabina messed up big time. He didn't even hide his mocking smile during the solemn meeting.
The Chief Intelligence of the Terrorism Bureau, Zoroas Zanuki knew Thomas's antic but chose to act like he didn't see anything nor did he care.
With a stoic face befitting of an experience Guardian Zoroas started his report, " We found traces of Djinn inside the dungeon. There were also a few high-level Demonic incantation circles all over the dungeons that seemingly functioned to amplify demonic energy. We have already cleared every Demonic monster and still investigating them in the lab. It was confirmed this incident might be instigated by the Djinn Association since there were multiple reports of their suspicious movement for the last few months."
All the things that he reported were true except he purposely didn't disclose a few important issues since they related to his family.
Yes, he found Ares's spatial bracelet where none of his personnel managed to crack it open since there was a restriction put on it. He knew Ares has a habit to modify his things but Zoroas thought there must be a reason why Ares didn't allow just anyone to open his spatial bracelet.
Using his instinct, Zoroas tried to flow his aura into the spatial bracelet and as expected, a Zanuki aura was the trigger to unlock the restriction which means there was something inside the spatial bracelet that Ares only trust his family to know. And Zoroas felt his assumption was spot on after he saw the things inside.
After discussing a few more details, everyone quickly dispersed since the longer they delay in solving the case, the harder it would become to solve it. Zoroas went to the ICU section and slightly glanced toward two wards before he arrived in front of a ward.
He couldn't come in since the patient was extremely fragile and almost died if he arrived at the hospital a bit late. Compared to his two friends who were also in ICU, he was the worst and even the doctor said it was a miracle that he managed to stay alive.
"Doctor how are the other two students," Zoroas asked the Doctor who quietly accompanied him without a sound since he arrived in the ICU.
"Their conditions are better than young master Ares. Cedric probably wake up tomorrow and Prince Theo might wake up after a few days but we are not sure when young master Ares will wake up. It's already a miracle he didn't explode since it was reckless to inject holy energy into someone, a huge amount at that"
"So the holy energy is from...."
"It's from Cedric since Prince Theo's record stated he didn't have any affinity with holy energy. Thus we quickly tested Cedric and he has a huge amount of holy energy, comparable to the priest that grew up in church their whole life" the Doctor explained carefully.
It means that Cedric's holy energy might be comparable to a young Bishop who had been baptised. This kind of talent was quite rare thus Zoroas knew he not only had to cover for his nephew but for his two friends.
His father, Zen Zanuki already told him to make sure to take care of Prince Theo by saying something ambigous like the second Prince is interesting. Knowing his father's attitude of being too lazy to explain things properly, Zoroas decided not to dwell into it too much.
Despite being an experienced doctor, he still felt intimidated by Zoroas's overbearing temperament.
Zoroas stood in front of the glass, watching his only nephew still unconscious. It was unknown when he would wake up but he wasn't worried since he knew, Ares wasn't someone to die that easily.
After a few moments, he walked away since there were still many things he needed to do. With his most trusted aides, he went to Kazigare Valley to discuss his next course of action.