As we made our way to the PA room, I could sense a few skinwalkers in the hall, hiding in the shadows and corners.
I don't know how it was possible for them to be here in the school but from the looks of it, they were probably the reason why not a single person was found in the school at this time.
Since I don't have that much time in dealing with all the skinwalkers, I had to cloak myself using me skill 'Light's Reflection' to run pass these monsters.
"Where is the PA room?" I asked Sherry as I continued to run across the hall.
"...At the top floor by the side of one of the club rooms."
As she said this, I began to use my skill and cloaked us both.
"W-what!" she panicked a bit when I sued my skill, so I had to tell her the truth about this.
"Don't worry, this is just one of my abilities." I said.
"Eh?…is that so?" from the sound of it, it seems like she just accepted that this was the truth.
"I-It's quite a convenient skill, but why didn't you showed this skill during your test for the student counsel. " she said.
"...because I had no plans to." from the way she was talking, it seems like she was a whole different person. Almost as if she was becoming vulnerable.
Her rough attitude at the start was a more believable and distinctive character, but it was probably because of her injured state, that she had to rely on me. Maybe when this whole situation finally ends, she will return to her old character.
"...Hey, what happened in the training center…how did I end up here?" she suddenly asked as we made our way to the PA room.
"Are you wondering about what happened to those terrorist?" I asked.
"Yeah, I came to the training center because I was told to check if everything was settled and that no one should have been there, but those bastards came out of nowhere and burned the whole place...the last thing I remembered was that I was overpowered by those bastards..." she sounded annoyed by this…but I couldn't really blame her.
Secretary Sherry was a B-rank hunter, just like Arthur and Ethea. Because of her experience and practice in the school, she could probably go against an A-ranked hunter…she could possibly even fight off and escape against those terrorist that attacked her, but because she was caught off guard, she was taken down pretty fast.
"I don't know what happened, but when I saw the burning training center, I went there as fast as I could…when I arrived, all I saw was you laying down on the floor. After that, president Ethea came and told me the situation about the terrorist attack and she told me to bring you to the clinic room."
"...Oh, I see." Having said that, it seems as though she believed my lie.
We continued on our way to the PA room, and when we came to the first turn of the room, we came upon a skinwalker that was walking at the hall with a deformed face and bloodied mouth. So from the looks of it, it probably came across another victim and ate it.
"..." I could only ever look to the beast with anger boiling inside of me…
Random people were starting to get involved by these bastards and it was all my fault…
Having met the skinwalker, I decided to stop and wait for it to walk pass me and secretary Sherry. I didn't want to be taken noticed of it by running pass it, it'll only make the situation worse for me.
But as it came to the front of me…I could see its neck hanging long as a free chance to strike.
".…" I stared at it for a bit…and soon came to pull out my weapon.
'...Apolo.' so with that, my black spear came to my hand.
"!?" secretary Sherry was a bit surprised by me taking out my weapon, but she could not stop me otherwise.
*Swing*
With one swing of my attack, a decisive swing to the head of the skinwalker fell to the floor and without it even noticing that it lost it's head, it kept on walking until finally at the fifth step, it dropped to the floor.
".…" Me and secretary Sherry could only ever look to the beast before finally continuing on our way to the PA room.
"...that was crazy." Whispered Secretary Sherry as she was a bit shocked by my choice to kill, but as she saw the look in my eye, she could not say anything else.
We continued on…and as for any skinwalkers that we came across, I killed as many as I could.
When we finally arrived at the PA room, I was meet with a guard who was injured.
"H-help." said the guard as I saw his left side of his stomach bleeding rather heavily.
"What happened?" I quickly put secretary Sherry down on one of the chairs and pulled out a healing potion for the injured man. He was probably an employee here in the academy, and must have been attacked by the skinwalkers.
"I saw it...Bastards came out of a portal and attacked the goddam school…then someone lead a few dozen of these skinwalkers here and made them run loose like some wild animals. One skinwalker came after me and bit my sides, luckily I was able to escape and hide myself in here." said the man.
"Hmm, they were probably Demon worshippers." said secretary Sherry.
"Here, drink this." I said as I passed the potion to the man.
He quickly drank the potion and soon was getting healed.
"How long were you in here?" I asked.
"...I've been here for a few minutes now after I heard an explosion from somewhere…" said the man, implying that he was in here after the explosion in the training center.
"What about the others? Were there anyone else who got caught by those skinwalkers?" Sherry asked.
"I don't know…I was on my own doing the patrol inside the school."
"I see. Well, we came here because we were told to announce the situation throughout the school" having said that, I quickly turned on the PA system and have secretary Sherry announce the situation of the school.
"Before you…say anything, I overheard from one of those bastards that most of their men were sent to the student dorms."
"That means…!!" Sherry was a bit surprised by this.
"...Their going for the students." I said as I frowned on the truth.
She came to realize that she had to change the report, meaning that she had to also warn the guards about the student dorm.
[Attention all guards of the Academy! This is an urgent announcement. Demon Cultists have invaded the school and are releasing Skinwalkers throughout the campus with the intention of capturing all of the students in the school dorms. We urgently request that all available guards proceed immediately to the student dormitories to ensure the safety of our students. Your quick and decisive action is critical in safeguarding the well-being of the students.]
As she finished, she went and put the message on repeat. Having said that, she looked at me as if she was expecting something.
"We're going to the student dorm." as if expecting for me to agree, she went took a step forward as if she was feeling all better. But I could tell that she wasn't.
"President Ethea never really told me anything after this order so...yeah, since you're my senior, I guess I'll follow your command." I said, but I worry for what was going to happen to her if she goes to the student dorm knowing that her body was still unable to move properly.
"...You don't have to worry about me, I can handle myself." she said.
*Sigh* "...fine." as she said those words, I could not help but sigh in worry, still, she was willing to go that far for the students, so I had to respect her at least for that.
Having said that, I turned around to position myself to carry her on my back.
"..." she hesitated a bit but soon went and held on my back.
It felt a bit embarrassing, but I pushed forward to go to the dorm, the guard on the other hand remained since he wasn't fully healed.
Instead of going through the hallway, I planned to go to the roof and travel from there since I didn't want to meet anymore skinwalkers on my way.
Having pushed through the entrance to the roof, when I made it there, I could hear a few screams from the direction to the entrance…
It seems like it was getting chaotic out in the school, as guards and the sound of skinwalkers were heard all over the school.
Havign known this, I went and spoke to the secretary sherry for a favor.
"Secretary Sherry, I have a favor."
"What is it?" she asked.
"I want to get as fast as possible to the student dorm, can you make me light as a feather?"
"Hmm, are you planning on jumping your way to the school dorm?" she asked.
"Yes I am." I said.
"Hmm, well I guess its possible." she said.
As soon as she said this, she brought out her magic and soon casted me her spell. Knowing that her ability revolves around Gravity, I thought it was possible for her to cast this sort of magic on me.
A magic circle appeared on her hand and pointed its direction above us…as it did, it glowed its light our way and soon I felt lighter than usual.
From the looks of it, her magic worked.
"..Hold on tight." I said as I brought out Apolo to my hand.
Having strenghtened my legs, I prepared myself to jump as far as I could…
But in reaction to my power and will, Apolo changed and soon was bringing out sparks of lightning from its exterior and blade.
"...Here we go." as I said this, Sherry held on tight to my back and I went and jumped.
*Boom!*
The force of my jump caused the roof of the school to break, but other than that casualty, I was up in the air along with Sherry on my back.
'...High! Too high!!' Sherry was surprised by this. To think that I was even capable of reaching such a height was proof of the combination of our skills…
***ARTHUR'S POV***
It has been a few minutes since i was attacked my some unknown stranger, but in the end, I was able to beat the man.
When I tried to interrogate him, he suddenly used a suicidal pill hidden in one of his teeth…making it impossible to bring information out of him.
"...What is happening today?" I wondered why and how.
Maybe this was also happening to the other rooms, so I went to Liam's dorm and saw that he too was fighting against another enemy. I tried to assist him, but before I could reach him, the man jumped out of the window to avoid facing the two of us at the same time.
"What was that?" asked Liam as he walked forward the broken window.
"...I don't know but the same thing happened to me as well." I said as I stared at the broken window.
"Hmm, if this is happening to us, it might also be happening to the rest of the students." said Liam in an assumption to the situation.
"If that is the case, we have to go and get Licia and Martha. They might also be in danger." I said as I made my way to the elevator.
"I'll get my sister, you go and get Licia." said Liam.
And as such we separated. Liam had to ride down while I went to go to a floor higher than mine as that was where Licia's room was.
Having taken the fire exit stairs, I ran as fast as I could. And when I finally arrived at the next floor, I was meet with a group of men dress in black. They were standing their with a rather murderous intent.
"...Seven people…this is going to be tough." I said as I counted their numbers.
But as I stood analyzing my move, a sudden intrusion happened as all of a sudden, the wall that they were standing next to, suddenly exploded and it caused some of them to get taken out.
*Boom*
When the debris of dust started to fade away, it revealed that outside the building, a giant golem was hanging on the side of the wall with its arms having grabbed two men who were dressed in black.
"!!" I was quite surprised by this because I could not sense its presence at all, but judging by how it attacked the group of men, it could only men that it was not an enemy.
"RROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!" it roared as soon as it came view of these men, and by the volume of its shout, it clearly broke off their presence of focus. It also affected me but not as much, as such it gave me the time to handle the men in black who were shocked by the scream.
Its scream alone was powerful enough to wake up everyone that was inside the student dorm…so by doing so, it will alert everyone.
When I finished handling the men on this floor, I looked to the golem and noticed that it was moving higher above to the next floor of the building. From the looks of it, it was hunting these men…so I feel like I didn't have to worry at all.
"..." Having seen that everything was settled here in the hall, I quickly made my way to Licia's room, but as soon as I arrived, I was met with a predicament.
*Boom*
I smashed the door open and saw that before me, Licia was found being held by a man who was holding a knife to her neck.
"Licia!" I called out to her, in worry of the situation.
"A-arthur!" she screamed back as well.
As I look to the situation, I could see that her spear was found laying on the ground…and a few damages were found in the walls and floor as well. So a battle was happening here but Licia lost to the man.
"Don't you fucking move or I'll slice her neck open! You got me!" shouted the man as he threatened me and licia with the knife.
But as he did not know, I came in control of the wind elemental…it was simple to handle a situation like this.
".…" so I made a simple sway of my arms to his direction…and in reaction to this, he did not feel any harm in me moving my arms, but that was his mistake.
Because as I finished a simple sway of my hand, I had already thrown a wind blade down his direction. And at the second my arms swayed down, my attack had already landed on his face.
*Swich*
He could not tell until the last second that the pressure of my wind blade made its way to the surface of his face, causing it to push him back as will as kill him the next second.
As he was pushed back, Licia came running to hug me in fear of what just happened.
"Arthur!" she hug me as soon as the situation was over.
When I went to look at the corpse, I saw that underneath his shirt, on his chest was a mark that I was very familiar with.
"...A demon worshipper." I said as I gripped my hand in anger.
It seems like this whole ordeal could easily be understood if they were the ones who organized this whole situation. And from the looks of it, they were probably targeting all of the available students in the academy.
"...Arthur, what's going on?" Licia asked as she looked worried over everything.
"Grab you spear Licia, we have to go and protect all of the students. The Demon Cultist are coming to take every student they can."
Licia quickly took her spear from the floor and we made our way out of the room. But as soon as we got out, I saw something fall off the side of the building. A blurry feature that reminded me of the golem. When I came to see what it was…
*Boom*
The object fell to the floor.
"..."
"What was that?" asked Licia.
"I'm not sure." I said as I looked down from the hole that the golem made, only to see that It was the same golem to who attacked the men in black a few minutes ago.
When I looked up, I was shocked to see that a man was standing horizontal on the side of the building's wall.
The man had the feature of two long sharp horns, a tail that was about two meters long and was wearing all red.
"...Hmm, quite a sturdy fellow." said the man to the Golem.
".…" I could only ever stare as the man before me was no doubt a demon that had a very powerful presence before him. If I could guess his strength…he was probably around an S-rank.
"..." its devilish smile was making me nervous to a point that I had to quickly hide myself and Licia.
But luckily for us, the man was not interested in us but was more focused on the Golem that just dropped. So we had time to escape his view.
Or so I thought.
Because as I turned to the fire exit, I could hear footsteps in the hall.
"!!" I was scared…for many reasons.
When I turned around, I saw the demon look me in the eye with a calm gaze.
".…"Licia on the other hand was unaware of the demon, but was aware of me turning back.
She was curious as to what I was looking at so she looked back, but before she could even take a view of the demon, I stop her from turning her head.
"...Licia, you go on ahead and meet with Liam on Martha's room." I said as I slowly guided her to the stairs. Making sure that she doesn't look at the demon.
I was scared that if she does turn to look at it, she would lose all of her strength in walking…so I had to prioritize her escape without her knowing of the demon's presence.
The demon on the other hand could not care less for the girl…as if the demon was aware of my actions and priority over Licia.
"W-why?" Licia was starting to get nervous over my own nervousness, but I had to let her know of what she had to do.
"Just go…I'll meet with you guys later." I said after finally making reach of the fire exit.
When I successfully made Licia run down the stairs, I turned back to face the demon, only to find it smiling my way so crudely.
"...Such a noble man." said the demon.
But as he said that, I myself brought out my sword "White Scale."
I know full well, that my sword was capable of damaging any demon, since it had a holy attribute embedded into it, but what I worry more to it was how could I fight against a monster of this his caliber.
I could only ever hope that I was lucky.