" GAHHH!" , Jamal screamed as Wade tore off his right arm.
" I'm impressed. " , Wade stood above Jamal with stepping on his chest and his blood scattered on the ground. " I Tore off your left leg and right arm and took out all your nails, and still you won't talk."
" N-no m-ore please." , Jamal begged while lying on the ground with his dismembered body.
" Not ready to talk yet, huh." , Wade picked up one of Jamal's long sharp nails that were on the ground and pointed it to his genitals. " What if I stab you balls with these? I bet it would really hurt."
Wade scratched the knife-like nails into Jamal's groin.
" I'll talk! I'll talk! Please! I'm begging you, no more, please!" , Jamal cried.
" Splendid!" , Wade stood up and lifted his foot. " Okay, let's start with, why are you working here?"
" I-I was banished by my father five years ago. I had nowhere else to go. Then I saw a flyer about The Chalice Academy looking for instructors. I've been pretending to be human since."
" Heeh? Good for you. Then why do you want to kill me?", Wade looked at him calmly.
" Because you have brought ruin to the demon continent. By proposing laws that prevents all demons from consuming human flesh, you have taken away our pride and dignity as high tier demons."
" Well, it can't be helped. I know not everyone would be satisfied with my laws, but what's done is done.", Wade crouched and stared at Jamal. " Now, for my last question. Do you have any accomplices inside the academy?"
" N-no, nobody even suspects of me as a demon.",
" What? That's disappointing.", Wade said.
" What do you mean-",
" Don't worry Jamal, I won't kill you. As hard as it for me to accept but you are a direct cousin of mine.", Jamal was relieved for a second. " Now, then. It's time for your punishment."
" What!? I've answered all your questions! Why do you have to punish me again!?", Jamal cried.
" There's a difference between torture and punishment, Jamal.", Wade threw his nail away.
" Please, don't. I'm begging you."
" Nope! You have risked many innocent lives today. You need to be punished so that you'll learn your lesson. So, what punishment would be suitable for a naughty demon like you."
Wade paced back and forth for a few seconds.
" I got it!", Wade looked at Jamal. " Jamal, let me ask you. In your country, what are the main features of a demon that defines his social class?"
" W-what?", Jamal was confused.
" Royal blood demons have two long horns, wings and a tail. Noble demons only have two short horns and a tail. Common demons have a single horn on their forehead. And bottom class demons don't have any of them." Wade walked closer to Jamal and grabbed one of his wings.
" Wait-, what are you doin-, AGGHHHHHH!!!!!", Jamal cried as Wade suddenly tore one of his wings. " You don't mean-".
" That's right Jamal. I'll be taking everything that defines you as a royal blood demon. And I'll seal your wounds with my light magic to decrease the speed of your regeneration in these areas. Don't worry, it will take only at least a year or two. ", Wade said as he pulled his other wing.
" Gahhhh!", Jamal wailed in agony. " You cant do this to me! I'm the son of the great King Lucifer of the demon realm, he will kill you once he hears this!"
" So what?", Wade grabbed both his horns and snapped it. " You are taking my position as KING too lightly, Jamal."
Wade kicked him to turn him around and pulled his long tail off. " GAAHHHH!!"
" Good luck going back to your father with that appearance."
" You may have broken me, but in the end, you haven't saved anyone!" , Jamal sat up using one of his arms. " The last four beasts weren't clones."
" Really?"
" YES! It was unfortunate that the Giant Silverback was taken out before it's rage gem could react. But the pregnant Giant Black Mamba, the Poison Swamp Hydra and the three headed dog were not clones. They are the real deal! Even with Sebastian there, taking out all those beasts by himself while protecting everyone would be impossible! Not to mention, that hydra is the herd leader of the hydras in the demon swamp and the three headed dog is a son of Cerberus, father's personal guard dog!"
" Cerberus has a son, huh? I thought that she was a male.", Wade scratched his head. " Those are really strong monsters indeed Jamal."
" Of course! They all should be dead by now-"
" But you're underestimating those kids too much, Jamal.", Wade looked towards the arena. " It's time we go back, don't you think?"
Wade picked his long tail and looked at him sinisterly.
" Wait-, what are you going to do with that?"
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At the audience stand of the arena, Sebastian, the faculty members and the brave students were slowly decreeasing the numbers of the black mambas.
" There are only a few left! Don't let your guard down!" , Sebastian shouted.
" Neptune's lance! " , Christine released a giant water spear that pierced through many spiders with one thrust.
" Silver Rain!", Melissa raised her weapon and shot out a rain of giant silver thorns wiping out dozens of spiders.
" Wow! "
" As expected from General Class students! "
Both teachers and students admired them as they effortlessly were clearing dozens of spiders every attack.
" Just a little bit more! Don't let up on thos attacks! " , Sebastian raised his staff.
" ADVANCE SUMMON SPELL : COME AND SMITE THE ENEMIES, LIGHNING GOD! "
Suddenly, bolt of lightning striked the ground and there stood a giant purple entity carrying an electric laso. It raised it's arm and swept the area with it's laso wiping out hundreds of spiders in one strike.
" Whoa! ", said one student in astonishment, not noticing that a spider was creeping behind him. He was suprised as the spider latched on to his back. " Help! ahh!"
Luckily, Mary was near and tore the spider apart using her hunter's knife.
" Don't let your guard down until all enemies are dead!", she said and dashed to other targets.
" Let's finish this." , Sebastian pointed at the last mobs of spiders incoming. " LIGHTNING SHOWER! ". His lighning god raised both it's arms and dark clouds coverd the arena's sky.
" SILVER CANNON! ", Melissa's bow turned into a long silver energy canon.
" UNDERWATER PRESSURE CLEAVE!", Christine released a giant cresent shaped water having the same pressure as the ocean floor.
Their attacks shattered a quarter of the arena's audience stand ultimately wiping out the remaining spiders.
" Wow."
" They are clearly on a different level."
The students and school staff were in awe at what the saw.
" It looks like they made more destruction than the beasts.", Mary said with a conflicted feeling.
" That's all of them. Good job everyone!" , Sebastian said while walking towards the front of the audience stand, checking the status of Rafaela's and Shin's team.
He saw that both of them were still holding their ground, but they were clearly at a disadvantage fighting a poison hydra having 20 heads already and the other looked like a real three headed demon.
" What is happening there?", Sebastian was clearly worried.
Melissa and the others saw them in the audience stand, too.
" Master!", for some reason, Melissa began calling Rafaela 'Master' after the started training these past days. " Don't worry Master! I'm coming to help you!"
But before Melissa could jump down the arena, a blue liquid trident blocked her path.
It was Christine, standing in front of them holding out her trident and preventing them to go any further.
" Wha-, what do you think you're doing!?", Melissa shouted.
" Did they ask for your help?", she calmly asked.
" What do you mean? Do I need permission to help a friend?"
" Melissa Mayers, I don't know what your relationship with Raven is. But those two holds the pride of the strongest student and strongest woman in the academy. So, as long as they haven't thrown the towel yet-"
Christine raised her trident and suddenly, a thick wall of water covered the arena, preventing anyone to forcibly enter.
" -No one is allowed to set foot in the arena. Their hunt is not over yet."
" Are you out of your mind!?-"
Melisssa felt a soft tap in her left shoulder.
" She's right Ms. Mayers.", said Sebastian as he slowly faced everyone. " It would be an insult to them if we interrupt their fight while they are doing thier best. For now, we'll just stay put and watch over them."
" Principal-". Melissa looked at him with her fists clenched.
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" This is bad." , Rafaela looked at her team and almost everyone has been greatly affected by the poison, including her.
" Anyone who feels that they are not fit to fight should retire immediately, that's an order!", She ordered her team.
" RAVEN!", She heard a loud voice calling her name.
She turned around and saw it was Christine at the audience stand and two large water spheres below her.
" SEND YOUR RETIRED TEAM MEMBERS THIS WAY!!", she shouted.
" Everyone who wants to retire! Head towards Lorelei's direction!", She instructed them.
Many of her members backed out. Some even had a hard time walking straight.
" We're sorry we couldn't help more president."
" Don't worry. We haven't lost yet.", She confidently answered.
They hurriedly entered the water spheres and Christine carefully carried them to safety.
" RAVEN! MAKE SURE YOU BEAT THAT OVERGROWN LIZARD!" Christine shouted.
Rafaela did not reply, she just raised her right hand with her thumb up.
Everyone in the audience stand we're a little relieved.
Only five of them were left; Rafaela, the vice-president and three of her most trusted men.
" Let's do this, you guys!", Rafaela shouted.
" Yeahhhh!!!" , they shouted back.
Rafaela signaled her team to surround the beast. When the hydra noticed them approaching, it started shooting out jets of acid from it's 20 heads.
" Do you guys have enough energy to use the twilight sword?", She ask them while running and dodging towards the beast.
" Yes, barely."
" I could still do it, but I'll be drained after."
" Hah! You weakling, I could still do at least two, Pres!"
" I could do it maybe only once, too."
Rafaela felt the hesitation in their replies. She needs to make sure that this final attack will finish the beast off.
" Follow my lead!"
" Yes, ma'am!", they replied.
" When I give the signal, use your twilight swords to cut open it's hide and impale it's body with the sword and leap away after."
" Copy that!", Rafaela raised her hand and the five of them split up.
Rafaela leapt up several meters above the hydra's back.
" NOW!!!!", she shouted.
Together, her four team members raised their weapon orb that they got from Rafaela's King's aura.
: TWILIGHT SWORD!!!! :
And in an instant, the weapon orbs turned into a giant shining purple sword about thirty meters long. And by succession, they tore the beast's giant back with every slash.
" SHHHRRRIIIEIEEEEKKKK!!!!", the beast screamed in agony.
After they successfully removed the beast's thick hide, exposing it's bare organs except the heart, they impaled the beast with the four giant swords, preventing it from moving around. And they immediately jumped away from the beast.
Rafaela, who was floating above the beast raised her weapon orb.
: TWILIGHT SWORD!! :
Rafaela's sword was about fifty meters long and twice as wide as the other swords. " Take this!"
She plunged her sword in the middle of the hydra's body.
The beast screamed and tried to move it's impaled body, but it was of no use.
Rafaela jumped high above the beast and spreads her arms open.
: TWILIGHT'S END :
And after casting her spell, the five giant sword pinned on the beast's body exploded in unison.
" BAANGGGG!!!!!!!!"
Everyone from the audience stand were astonished and gasped with what they saw. The explosion was so strong that the shockwave reached the audience stand past Christine's water wall.
" Amazing.", Melissa uttered in sheer awe.
" What was that?",
" It was at the other side of the Arena.",
" Looks like they're having fun over there.", Mumbled the three headed demon.
" Your firepower never cease to amaze me, Rafaela.", Shin felt a strong surge to fight after feeling the strong shockwave from Rafaela's attack.
" Even if you move your heart, that explosion should have incinerated every part of your main body.", She looked down at the explosion searching for her team members.
She saw her four exhausted teammates resting near the decapitated heads of the obliterated hydra. As she descended slowly in front of them, her armor also slowly returned to her normal general class mode.
As she landed slowly, her legs gave out from exhaustion and lost her balance.
" Oops, we can't have you looking uncool after defeating that monster.", her vice-president jokingly said as she supported Rafaela's back.
" Thanks, Vice-pres. And thanks, everyone.", she replied with a smile.
" Let's go, everyone."
They slowly walked towards Sebastian and the rest.
" She finally defeated that ridiculously large hydra.", Christine smiled in relief.
" Of course! It's Raven we're talking about.", Melissa proudly shouted. " Right, Principal?"
Sebastian's face was not relieved at all. He looked very anxious staring at Rafaela and her crew.
" Principal?", Melissa called out to him.
" Oh, yes? Miss Mayers?", he replied.
" You look very nervous? Is something wrong?"
" Somehow, I feel uneasy about something.", he closed his eyes and used his magic detection. " OH, NO!"
(BA-DUM)
"Huh?", Rafaela looked back. " Did anyone hear that?"
(BA-DUM)
" Hear what?", her vice-president replied.
(BA-DUM) (BA-DUM)
" I can hear a heartbeat.", Rafaela said.
(BA-DUM) (BA-DUM) (BA-DUM)
" Seriously?!" , the rest of her team started hearing the fast pace of a beating heart.
" Don't tell me-", Rafaela took out her weapon orb and prepared for combat.
(BA-DUM)
(BA-DUM)
(BA-DUM)
(BA-DUM)
(BA-DUM)
(BA-DUM)
(BA-DUM)
Suddenly, one of the severed heads started growing legs and rapidly grew a body and a tail. Even in a minature state, it was clearly a poison hydra and grew at least 5 meters high and 8 meters long.
" How is it still alive!?", Melissa shouted.
" I'm guessing before the explosion, it transferred it's heart into the farthest of the 20 heads, using the other 19 heads to cover it's heart from the blast.", Sebastian replied.
" How could a clone have a very high survival instinct with a defined and very quick decision making brain?", Christine was baffled.
" It's as though the beast is used to harsh conditions for survival since it was little and is using all it's wits to be the last man standing.", Sebastian was shaking, stopping himself from rushing towards her daughter.
" But as long as Rafaela is not giving up, there is still a chance."
Everyone anxiously watched from a distance.
Rafaela looked at her team. Everyone was very exhausted and can't even do a proper fighting stance.
" All of you! Run towards the others! I'll take care of thi-"
Before she could finished talking, the beast swung it's long tail towards her. Unprepared, she tried to block it's attack with her arms. But the momentum and the stregnth of it's swing sent Rafaela flying.
"Gahh!"
" President!", her vice-president had to stand her ground to protect her other teammates.
" OH NO!", everyone in the audience's stand started losing hope.
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" Ugh-", Rafaela slowly got up, wiping the blood on her mouth. Her left arm was greatly damaged from guarding the attack and her vision was getting blurry from exhaustion.
As her vision slowly came back, she saw that the beast was preparing to attack her team mates.
The beast stretched it's tail and whipped it towards the remaining four.
" NOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Rafaela screamed in desperation.
When suddenly, her eyes turned black and her pupil became white and everything around her turned grey.
She was astonished. It looked like everything around her became black and white, and all moving things were moving very slow. She saw her team mates guarding themselves being very exhausted and not able to dodge the obvious attack coming from the beast.
The vice-president closed her eyes accepting her fate.
*SLASH*
*SHRIIIEKKKKK!!!!*
When she suddenly heard a slashing sound followed by a sharp cry of the beast.
She opened her eyes and saw Raven's katana on the ground with the hydra's tail cleanly cut. Apparently, Rafaela threw her sword before it's tail could hit them.
" Your opponent is me!", Rafaela shouted.
The beast started to run towards her. She raised her hand and her sword came flying back to her.
The beast sprayed a jet of poison at her. But Rafaela was fluently dodging all of the beast's attack.
She ran towards the beast while carefully dodging it's posion. As she got close enough, she started slicing different locations of the beast's body.
*SHRRIIIEEEEK!!!*
The beast cried in agony and collapsed as it's wounds were healing very slowly.
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" What's happening?", Melissa was confused. " Raven suddenly got calmer and more aggressive."
" Not only that, but her sword attacks are very effective when the heavy cannon attacks they did earlier did very liitle damage to it.", Christine said.
" She's using it.", Sebastian said and started to feel calm.
" And at a very young age.", Mary said as she stood beside Sebastian.
" What do you mean by, " Using it"?", Melissa asked.
" God Killer's Eyes", Sebastian projected the eyes using his projection magic.
" When the eyes of a Ravenclaw turns pitch black with a dense white spot in the middle, everything they see turns black and white. In this state, their brain removes others unnecessary information coming from their vision. In exchange, their sense of perception heightens and everything moves very slow in their point of view."
" Wha-, that's just cheating!", Christine interrupted.
" Not only that, but they could also see a living being's weak spot. In their eyes, any living being would look like a grey object covered with many red spots. Those red spots are it's fatal areas.", Mary interrupted.
" This ability of theirs was the reason that they were hunted many years ago by the different rulers in the underworld which forced them to hide in the shadows.", Sebastian continued.
" But if they are this strong, wouldn't they just defeat anyone who tries to hurt them?", Christine asked
" The problem is, no one, not even the members of the Ravenclaw tribe, know how to trigger the activation of the God Killer's Eyes. Those who activated it, could freely switch their vision but they can't really expalin how they activated it at first.", Sebastian replied.
" So the rulers of the underworld wanted to eradicate them before they could discover how to freely activate this ability."
" Ravenclaw", Melissa watched Rafaela as she confidently butcher the beast with her katana.
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" I can see it! I can see all of your weak spots!", Rafaela thought to herself as she continued to cut the beast.
" President-", Her teammates were in awe, as they saw from up close her fluent and gracious movements.
The beast couldn't do a thing. It's wounds weren't healing as fast as before and the pain from it's legs are preventing it to move.
Rafaela stood at top of it's hide and stabbed the left side of it's back. She then dragged her sword down, ripping it's belly open. It's organs began gushing out including it's heart.
It tried to move it's heart, but Rafaela had cut the veins attached to it before it could move it's heart inside it's body again.
Rafaela calmly raised her sword and slashed it's heart in two.
*SHRRIEEEEKKKK!!!!*
The hydra cried it's last cry and began whilting slowly until it's whole body was entirely degraded.
Rafaela raised her sword and deactivated her aura armor. Her teammates shouted with joy and everyone watching were screaming and shouting with Rafaela's victory.
" President! That was superb!", Her vice-president ran towrads her. " President-?"
Before her vice-president could touch her, Rafaela collapsed into her arms.
" President!"
Then she saw her peaceful sleeping face and she was relieved. " Good job, pres."
She then carried Rafaela and the five of them walked safely towards Sebastian and others.
- END OF CHAPTER 9-