Those who survived suddenly got up and backed away from the creatures. About 20 out of the 30 people in the class had survived the initial wave of force.
Baladan was one of the living, he had only stood up from his chair looking near the front of the room as 10 figures slowly start to get off the ground and shuffle towards the group.
Immediately Baladan looked at their timers, as expected they were counting into the negatives. With his experience fighting he wasn't to afraid of a couple slow creatures like those coming at him.
With a casual grab he picked up a chair by its legs and smashed it over the head of a creature close to him. Immediately he felt something off, when he pulled back the chair the creature was bleeding from its temple but the attack wasn't strong enough to crush the head.
Baladan clicked his tongue as he backed up, his arms never stopped slamming the chair over the creatures head until finally the object broke in his hands. The creature was bleeding heavily but was now close enough to finally swing a arm just to hit Baladan's.
His eyes immediately widened as he felt the creatures power directly. With that one attack he was sent flying backwards before being caught by the crowd.
Bal: "Fuck! What kind of power is that!"
The grim expressions on the faces of his classmates worsened the moment he was attacked. All except for one, instead this person was filled with rage. Their eyes burned with the intent to kill before jumping out of the crowd.
With a quick lunge this person ran at the shadow creature pulling out a knife from her skirt she ducked under an attack from the creature before stabbing it directly in the chest 3 times before jumping back dodging another attack.
Bal: "Everyone out into the hallway! If you can find any weapons pick them up and use them if necessary! Rose me and you will take it down while Ms. Miller leads the others away!"
With the other 9 creatures getting closer he no longer thought about killing it fast to protect the room. Instead he had a different plan.
Ms. Miller: "Everyone come on! We are going to run towards the door pick up chairs or desks just use whatever you can to survive!"
The teacher immediately picked up a chair close by ready to use it like a weapon or shield if necessary. Baladan picked up his desk holding it out in front of him like he was about to ram someone before stepping in front of Rose.
Bal: "I will try my best to force it into the wall. Take that chance to stab it in the head, we still have 9 more after this so let's hurry up please!"
With the 9 spread out heading for the back of the class he didn't have to worry much about being caught, at least for now.
He immediately ran at the creature, his full sprint rammed into the shadow forcing it backwards towards the wall.
The creature seemed to not have much intelligence, with it not even using the strength in its legs to stop itself it worked like magic. He pinned the thing down with the desk using all of his might to give Rosa enough time to act.
He wasn't disappointed either, in the next moment after they collided with the wall Rosa came running at the creature knife in hand. The creature had almost thrown Baladan off itself before it went limp with a knife stabbed into its skull.
The moment the creature died the energy in its eyes and mouth started to dim before it surged out entering Baladan's eyes and mouth as if he was absorbing the energy from the creatures body.
[Congratulations! You have unlocked the Death System!]
A glowing green panel appeared in front of him moments after the creatures death. He had no idea what was going on but he couldn't take the time to examine anything as the creatures body immediately disappeared and a blue light shot up before hitting Rosa where her heart would be.
She looked surprised at first but after a couple seconds a blue screen popped up in her view saying.
[Congratulations! You have slain a level 5 Shadow Corpse! You gain 150 exp!]
Bal: "You ok? If so we need to help the others! With all of them running with those desks like that I fear something bad will happen if they get careless!"
Rosa nodded her head turning to look at their next target.
Using the same strategy as before Baladan smashed the desk into the creature before Rosa killed it.
[Congratulations! You have leveled up! Please Choose your ability out of these options!]
A new notification appeared after Rosa killed the second Shadow Corpse. With the level up she felt her energy recover instantly! She felt better then ever, while Baladan was breathing heavily.
He hadn't been getting any exp from the creatures. The only thing that kept happening was that sudden green light being sucked out of the being and into Baladan.
"Ahhh! Get away! Nooo get off me!"
Baladan looked over to see one of the students had gotten grabbed by a Shadow Corpse. With its strength it pulled hard breaking the students arm before it pulled them close and bit into their neck.
The student kicked and screamed hitting the creature with their fist and legs trying to get away as they pleaded to the others for help.
Unfortunately the sight of them being easily pulled around and bit like that caused them to hurry as they pushed the people in front of them around making some fall as they force their ways out of the room and into the hall.
Bal: "Damn bastards! They will get what they deserve soon enough, they dare treat someone like that karma is going to be a real bitch!"
Baladan was about to head over to the person screaming when the creature brought its other hand up gripped their jaw and ripped it off. This revealed their tongue hanging out of their body as they died in the grasp of the Shadow Corpse.
That wasn't the end either! With the creature eating it's fill blood covered the floor around it before dropping the corpse as it began to change into one of those things!
Bal: 'Damnit… it's just like those old zombie movies, you get bitten you turn… we have to kill them quickly but… my muscles are giving out on me… if we don't get out of here soon that may be us'
Bal: "Rose we are leaving… at this rate we won't be able to survive especially if more of them come!"
Rosa: "Agreed… let's help those we can before following the group ou-"
Bal: "No. We will only help those who had been trampled on then we will take those like Ms. Miller with us to find a safe place. They want to sacrifice others to live then we have no reason to be with them. Or else we will be the sacrifices next time"
Baladan stood up straight as he ran for the closest student, he dodged away from the Shadow Corpses coming towards both of them just to slam the furthest up against the wall. His arms giving out faster now before getting pushed back by the corpse just to have Rosa jump up and stab the creature this time directly in the back of its neck making it fall to the ground.
The announcement didn't go off, this made her look at the creature to realize it was still moving it's mouth trying to bite her. Instantly she stabbed it in the temple as Baladan helped the trampled students off the ground.
Bal: "Let's get out of here and lock these things in the room"
With Rosa's and Baladan's help the rest of the students who were trampled on were pulled off the ground and guided out of the classroom.
Too bad the other class rooms had also been in chaos. With the creatures being created in different amounts in each room it was almost a stampede going on in the hallway.
Immediately Baladan grabbed Rosa's hand as they went into the flow forcibly keeping up with everyone as they head towards the exit.
Bal: "Rose! Hold on tight we will force our way out of the flow once we get to the exit! We will work our way to the cafeteria and clear it out!"
He instantly brought one hand up grabbing the injured students string from his hoodie forcibly pulling it out before handing a side to Rosa tying their hands together as they go with the flow.
It took them 5 minutes of constant moving while pushing their way out of the group. Unfortunately 2 of the injured students had been forced to separate from their group in the middle of the tide of students.
Using the rest of his strength he yelled out before running forward pulling Rosa and the rest out of the group falling onto the sidewalk finally getting out of that hell.
Bal: "W-We need to keep… going… ha… ha…"
He was completely out of breath, he could barely move at the moment. With him using all of his strength constantly just to fight against those creatures he was drained instantly. His muscles were sore, throbbing with pain as he tries to stand. Only to fall back down, his whole body shaking.
At the moment he was about to fall again he felt two hands grab one arm each. When he looked up the injured students he had saved had recovered a little with his help and decided to help him now! They quickly helped him up carrying him towards the cafeteria while Rosa protected them.
Bal: "T-Thank you…"
Those were the only words he got out as he struggled to stay awake. Finally his eyes closed making him go limp in their arms.
———
???: "Finally… you are awakening"
Those words echoed in his head as he stood in the center of a dream world. In front of him a green translucent screen appeared saying.
[Welcome to the subterranean underworld, otherwise known as Sheol!]