"I will abandon you guys if you don't move in the next ten seconds!" Liam shouted out a warning.
His voice traveled through the heavy rain and his words rang through the minds of the students and the teacher who flinched.
At the first glance, it sounded like Liam's words were just a means to encourage everyone to start fighting for themselves, however, everyone could tell that the pale young man would actually abandon them if they didn't act on his orders soon.
This was the feeling they got upon seeing the eyes that had been hidden behind the mask of the young man. Liam's eyes were like a vortex that sucked everything inside them. They were deep and a hazy purple hue shrouded them, making him look eerie and ominous.
However, all of that turned insignificant when the overall picture entered the view of the students. It was as if a sealed galaxy was coldly staring down at them. There were no emotions in the eyes of the unknown masked savior, which made a few students feel like their savior had been forced to help them.
They knew that it didn't really make any sense for anyone to be forced to rescue them. Nobody must be stronger than their savior…or was it just their wishful thinking?
Too many thoughts flashed through the minds of the humans who witnessed a brutal massacre unfolding in front of them. Dozens of corpses were scattered across the school yard, their blood turning the muddy water brownish red, all of them killed by a single individual.
Liam was massacring every rat that came too close to the students but he also noticed that he was slowly losing his upper hand against the rats.
They were simply too many and even the ordinary huge rats were not much weaker than him. The only advantage Liam had was his Soultrait and that his Arcane Power had been upgraded to [E].
It was possible for him to keep his Soultrait activated for a little while. This made it easier for Liam to perceive everything in his view, digest the most important pieces of information and forward them to his brain where they would be processed in the blink of an eye.
Using his Devil's Eyes gave him the necessary means to determine that it was time to leave if the students wouldn't join the fight. The rats charging at them continued to increase in number, after all!
The corpses had paved a clear path for the other rats to reach the students and Liam could clearly see a few huge rats rushing past him left and right.
However, there was not much for him to do because he was occupied with two Blazing Tooth Rats.
He blocked one of the rats with the battle axe's flat side while twisting his body in an uncomfortable degree as he leaned forward.
His back nearly touched the muddy ground and he was about to lose his footing just to evade the vicious claws of the second Blazing Tooth Rat.
Liam couldn't risk sustaining any injuries because that was what would kill him in the long run. Exhaustion could be compensated by purchasing potions but wounds couldn't be healed instantaneously, not with potions, at least.
Thus, he would rather exhaust himself by doing movement sequences that strained his entire body rather than risk getting injured.
That was how Liam ended up evading the attack of the second Blazing Tooth Rat while swinging the longsword at the first Blazing Tooth Rat.
The blade slid deep inside the flesh of his opponent as he heard the sound of flesh tearing apart and bones cracking under the force of the blade, followed by a pained squeal that quieted down not long after.
[+0.5 Arcanium]
Liam pushed his left foot backward to regain balance. He didn't want to fall in the slippery mud because it would be a hassle to get out of the mud while getting attacked.
There was no way that he could waste time wrestling with a bunch of lowly monsters in the mud, and he had a mission to finish with flying colors as well!
Liam pushed himself beyond his limit and regained balance, ready to charge at the second Blazing Tooth Rat when he halted in his tracks for a moment.
He saw four students piercing their steel spears inside the monster that was struggling hard in a feeble attempt to ensure its survival.
The four students were shivering because it was cold, their clothes were drenched in dirty rainwater and they were walking on thin ice that could be cut through at any time if they didn't start acting.
In fact, even if the students were to start acting now, it might already be too late!
Liam shot forward, his eyes gleaming coldly through the small slits within the black devil mask as he cleaved down with the battle axe.
A few other students let out a blood-curdling wail, their fear-stricken minds making them believe that Liam was just about to kill their fellow peers when the head of the Blazing Tooth Rat fell to the ground, decapitated from its body.
[Blazing Tooth Rat has been slayed. Equal Contribution detected!]
[+0.1 Arcanium]
Blood spurted out of the monster's neck like a fountain and the students were showered in warm, sickly blood, some more some less.
Liam noted their disgusted reaction to the warm blood that splattered on their clothes and faces before his eyes flicked over to the other students.
Their hysterical cries intensified further when the huge rats started to tear apart their clothes to feed on the tender flesh below, while others had gotten their hands on one of Liam's steel spears.
He didn't have that many steel spears in the large backpack but it would take a while to remove all of them. At least that was what Liam expected when he noticed that a rather small figure hushed through the rows of students, briskly handing out the spears he had retrieved from the backpack.
Liam could tell that the student was moving rapidly, which was owed to his high Agility stat and the fact that his Soultrait's passive effect was already activated.
However, it was also pretty clear that the student was built like an athlete and that he knew how to use his muscles to move at a phenomenal speed.
'Let's see how many of you guys will survive!'