The night of the attack of the abyss army was devastating, fifty injured and three deaths. That low mortality rate was a good thing however....
"AAAH GO AWAY YOU MONSTER!!"
"m-m-m-m-m-m-m-mm"
"I-I didn't want that"
"ahahahahahHAHAHAHA"
over the half of second years and one fourth of the first years are suffering from huge trauma response at that accident. No one knows why they are all suffering so much, other people say they are suffering so much because they are children and learn for the first time how hard the battlefield is.
"How many are showing signs of recovery?"
A beautiful man with black hair and green glowing eyes is watching everyone inside with a huge frown on his face. His frown disappeared as a pink haired woman emerged from the door, holding three cute draconian babies in human form and one dragon in her arms.
These two are Muzio and Jette with their children. Muzio asked Valeria golden before Jette entered the room with their children. Valeria is viewing this scene in her vision as some kind form of payment for all her hardwork.
"some are showing signs of recovery as they didn't were exposed much to the abyss energy... bu-"
"you can stop there, I see it"
Muzio interrupted her, not out of evil intentions, and left the room with Jette and his children. Valeria knew that this little dragon listened to their conversation with the only time it is awake at the day.
"Haaa why is everything slowly collapsing?"
Valeria is venting her anger by demanding from the gods an explanation. She wasn't angry at the gods but with herself, questioning herself what if she instead of becoming an healer started to fight as a battle priest healing her injuries while slaughtering enemies.
Would it be more helpful? Could it have prevented such an thing happening to these children?
Was it worth it to continue heal people to give them hope on a normal life again, even if a leg is missing or their mana core is destroyed?
Is she even worth anything anymore after so much pain, so much helplessness... so much power yet not enough to help people who need it?
She didn't know it, her role was uncertain yet certain in a game of chess played by people with enough strength, authority and wealth. Valeria resisted the effects of the abyss all because of her special power she told no one about. Life Energy made her every attempts at healing magic ten times stronger as well as protecting her for decaying energies.
'How long am I going to be able to withstand the pain of it?'
Unlike Edward who has no problems using Life energy or now life mana, she has the problem that everytime she uses it for a prolonged time over and over again, the pain she would feel is immense like her soul is torn apart or every fiber of her body is slowly but painfully stretched until they are broken... but that are the harmless ones, the real danger is that her health and lifespan will drop significantly after she goes beyond that certain amount.
"Muzio is a really sweet man... that he even noticed my body state"
Today will be the fight between Alan and the trash of titan. She already got a vacation after healing nonstop for eight hours all students on the station at the same time, which are a bit more than 850 students.
The Boy with no Face Pov
I walked in the arena, with no expectation whatsoever but I needed to fight in this match... to meet him and to free myself from these chains binding me at that place.
[Combination Holy Snakes son has been activated]
"It activated itself again?"
I muttered under my breath as the light of the sun, the flashes of the cameras and the cheering of the viewers entered my eyes. On the other side at the same time is an average child entering the arena, his black hair and brown eyes didn't help much, and started to glare at me with hostile feelings.
'Seems as he doesn't like gifts that much'
We both put a foot on the stage as the referee at the same time started the fight. No announcement of our names or anything, just the fights between me and him was enough for many people to forget that we... children are suffering from yesterday night.
'Yet here we are like a circus show fighting at who is the strongest while injuring my juniors... for their sick entertainment'
I am not even feeling anything other than guilt and regret despite that I am still fighting my juniors to regain my life... Ironic isn't it.
^Whoosh^ ^clang^
he swung his greatsword at an impressive speed against my spear Casimir, a creation of sparks happened, and his strength was... impressive but not as strong as the other two, or did I get stronger?
His eyes are showing me the reflection of myself... that disgusting me that has no name as well as no face to be recognised or called with. His sword appearing above me and I sidestep to the left blocking the created spear facing my spear. I kicked the sword from its course, making him fall on his face.
No sound left his lips as I feel five spears appearing behind me with supposed holy flames around them in golden color.
[The holy snake is asking for permission to devour those spears.]
'do what you want, I don't care'
^Boom^
"Now I got yo-"
He stopped speaking after I threw my spear at him and got with the Apocalyptic stains art next to him, twisting my upper body and launching my fist to his face.
^Whoosh^
I only hit air as a kick from above followed from him. My body with it enhanced senses because of the holy snake, made me see it in slow motion.
I take a step back, avoiding his attack barely, moreover grabbing my spear. He vanished from my side but not my mana sense for water, my original affinity.
"You are fast-"
^Bam^ ^Bam^
"But not fast enough"
I instantly appeared behind him with lightning enhancing my body insides. My fist connected with his face as his foot connected to my stomach but he lost because I have more strength than him.
'How did he get up here with such bad skills?'
My thoughts are shown on my face... well what one could see from the broken mask. I am observing all of his movement as well as his eyes... now being vertical and blood red in color.
'He isn't focused on fighting me but has his attention elsewhere'
I instantly recognize the reason the fight is so easy, The holy snakes strength boost and his lack of attention to the fight. I didn't use that to my advantage, I mean why should I? I am here to learn his art to win against Kim Yong not to finish the fight fast.
[Skill: Overdrive(senses) has been activated]
I activated the skill and my already slow motion vision is turning even slower, now he is moving at a snails pace to me. His eyes then turned at normal speed at me and his speed increased many fold.
^Bam^ ^Bam^ ^Boom^
Our fist collided and a shockwave is sent out, an energy similiar to mana but stronger is coating his body. My mana coated my body as we traded some hits, my spear stabbed his right shoulder and his sword cut open my chest.
To be honest that fight is boring as well as not even worth remembering like the last two I fought. I now wanted to end it since it is not worth leaning from someone that weak an art... and oh how wrong I was.
"Did you really suffer much or are you mainly searching for someone to blame?"
my mind for a short second paused all his actions along with my body. He vanished and cut open my back, His blood red fire burning into my flesh.
"Argh"
The pain was bearable however not to that extent that I can keep my mouth shut. A spear is trying to pierce through the wound to my heart.
^Splash^ ^sizzle^
However to his surprise did my water push out his ever burning fire out of my back along with blocking the spear. I used the moment to swing my spear horizontally, cutting deep in his stomach.
^spurt^
His wound closed with the golden fire healing his injuries, the holy energy I feel from it vanished in an instant after healing him. His astonished look is speaking volumes that he is testing out its limits right now.
"Can you really understand it?"
[Skill: Lightning Titan has been activated]
His form started to change as he swung his sword down with this blood red fire being denser than before.
[frontal lightning assault]
^Boom^
Our clash of fire and lightning spread through the arena as I hear even a glass shattering sound. I am astoniched by how much force he could build up despite having some milliseconds to react to it.
His eyes are entirely on me as the blue lightning is changing to white lightning as well as he is changing in an half phoenix, his fire started to increase as a second clash of our elements happened.
^Boom^
I got pushed back by the sheer force of the explosion, my eyes already observing every movement as well as spreading the lightning similiar to a net like sphere above me to notify me when he invades my space.
'Can I defeat him without using that?'
the dust is flying at high speed at the edge of the arena, revealing a majestic half phoenix that he shown against the orc. His wings of fire are slowly replaced by huge golden sharp wings, feathers of blood red and golden color covering his body, his hands turning into claws and his height increasing to be 10 metres and a few more centimetres taller I suppose.
I am contemplating to use that however than I remembered that I wouldn't have a secret weapon against Kim Yong anymore. The dark veil and moon wouldn't be of any use since his blood red fire is literally burning the darkness and I am currently using the holy snake that let me shine a bit like an holy person.
'So the only way is to fight that beast with full power Lightning titan state and Holy snakes buffs'
I leaped towards him with my spear in hand using frontal lightning assault again. He nosedive towards me and his greatsword in his hand, already swinging his sword down at me.
'He learns faster than the other two'
^BOOM^
Our weapons are currently trembling under the force we created from lightning and fire clashing. I hear the barrier cracking. His blood red eyes are staring deep into my soul or at my vertical snake eyes who knows.
"Can you understand my suffering?"
I increased the output of white lightning pushing his blood red fire back as well as him. He increased the power too but was a bit to late as my spear tip hit the sword, lightning shoots out of the tip, and is send crashing against the barrier.