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After entering the dungeon, I felt a bit nauseous which is considered normal as this was my first time entering a dungeon.
" I will be right here, you guys can go ahead"
Ray stared at me in an apologetic way. Rather than being annoyed by his sad expression, I felt more sorry for leaving them with the criminals. I am sure that at least ray will survive this incident, but what about the rest? Will they die? And if they die will I be the one responsible for their deaths?
After thinking about it, I decided to follow them from a safe distance. I will only intervene if their lives were endangered. Also there is my friend John, I will have to check up on him just in case. After all, without him my life in this academy will turn into a boring one instead.
" Thanks again Arthur, and sorry for leaving you behind "
Saying that, ray left with the group as I followed them after a while.
While observing them from a safe distance, I was actually surprised from their synergy and great teamwork. Actually, the most impressive one was Ana's magic. I heard of many mages who can do multiple roles. For example the future saintass. She doesn't only heal, but she can also use holy support buff magic. However Ana's ability is a game changer. Buffing the Allie's while debuffing the enemies is nothing short of a cheat. Maybe if she had 'that' elven artifact, she could be a very powerful force to humanity. Also the saintass. If she lived long enough to use it will it also apply her holy power?
Before I could observe anymore--
---*BOOOOM*
an ear splitting explosion reverberated throughout the dungeon. Although the explosion was outside the dungeon, it still left a huge effect on the inside. Immediately after the explosion, hooded criminals appeared in groups all around the dungeon as described in the novel.
Voices of crying students were heard from miles away. If I remember correctly then about 20 students actually died in this attack, so it wasn't a complete failure although they didn't manage to kill a single target.
" W—who are those people?"
Ana was the first to break the silence
" tsk, none of those kids are on the list. Finish them off carl... "
Of the two criminal, the one named carl smiled menacingly as he said
" I will make sure to take good care of them "
The ecstatic dude named carl was emanating a D rank pressure, even though he wasn't considered strong. However, the kids infront of him were still kids. Even ray who was ranked in the top ten was only E rank.
After leaving carl the other person left instantly as though he vanished from thin air.
Finally collecting himself from the shock, ray screamed at his team members in anxiety.
" Quickly!! Ana! Selene! Both of you go inform the professors!"
As a long range specialists, they were considered as liabilities in this close confrontation. Only jay and ray can help.
Hearing rays voice pulled the terrified students out of their dumbfounded states.
" B—but what about y—"
Before ana could finish her words, a huge shadow of flying fist shot at her direction, but before reaching her a sword appeared right before her barely blocking the fist.
" Hoo? You can block this? That is more fun for me I guess"
A wide smile appeared on carls face as ray struggled holding his fist.
" H—hurry, you will hinder us!"
[ Greater Boost!!!]
Suddenly, out of no where, ray felt a strange surge of energy strengthening him making it easier for to hold against carls fist.
" Hff—hff— I poured all of my mana on that spell please hold on untill we inform the professors"
As ana grapped selene and started running away, another attack came from carl, but this time ray was fast enough to react blocking the attack immediately.
" Tch.. this annoying brat"
Hoo? Ray is actually putting on a good show against them. Hold on?? What's that bastard doing?
" Jay! Quickly help me taking him down…huh?....jay?"
Jay, who currently was getting further away from the fight, screamed to ray.
" tsk…I can't risk my life here…. SORRY RAY!!"
"Pfft"
I couldn't hold it as a chuckle escaped from my lips. This guy who told me to know my place in confidence was running away with his tail between his legs.
" Anyway, how did ray survive?"
The odds were against him, if he was fighting a mage maybe with the current boost he could take him down.Unfortunately for him, the enemy was a martial artist with a tough body. So he can't take him down quickly neither can he go for a long term battle as his boost will run out at some point.
Should I intervene? Ray as I remember was someone important but I still am not sure for what exactly was he famous for.
" Kid, because of you I lost a lot of fun. I will make sure to get that fun out of you" carl was getting more and more annoyed as he lost three toys and was somehow finding it difficult to fight a kid.
Ray stood still without showing any signs of giving up. He kept fighting until he felt the boost running out.
"Hehe finally the fun part begins"
Sensing that the kid ran out of his previous strength carl got ready to start having fun in his own way but then…
" I didn't think that I will have to use this here "
Ray had a serious expression. The one he had before was out of anxiety and scaredy . In contrast, now he seemed a bit annoyed rather than scared.
" Father told me to not use it until I graduate, but I don't have the luxury to wait"
Closing his eyes, ray had an aura that gave off the vibe a calm before the storm.
A strange transparent pattern appeared in front of ray as he mumbled some weird things.
" O….being of the forgotten….lend….of the greater…"
As ray continued his chanting, carl felt an earie premonition telling him that this kid is doing something dangerous, so immediately he charged at the kid to disrupt whatever he was doing.
After chanting, ray opened his eyes and what surrounded him was a crazy aura of wind that made the grass and tree around him shake violently. As soon as he saw the figure he was fighting previously rushing at him, he swung his sword once and then….
{ Amun's Smite!! }
A massive arc that was impossible to dodge was shot down after the swing. Carl brought his hands to guard himself.....
* Split *
...but the attack cut off both of his hands.
"URGHH!!"
Although Carl was in great pain, he bit his tounge as he casted a fire spell.
"F—Fi-FIRE ORB"
An orb of fire materialized infront of carl as he brought his bleeding arms towards it to cauterize the sliced part.
"URGHAAAAAAA"
Finally, managing to stop the bleeding carl stared loathingly at ray while crying from the wound he said in a threatening voice.
"This!! This is not the end you bastard!!!"
Immediately after, he ran away as fast as he can, little did he know that currently ray was barely standing and as a matter of fact he was currently having a mana burnout.
"Interesting, so it was 'him' "
I remembered who he was, in the future there was a famous swordsman who had a terrific ancient wind magic that made his attacks lethal giving him the title ' Wind Blade '. Unfortunately for him he died during the war in some scheme.
" so that is how he lived, well let's check on john "
Opening the map attached in the bracelet, I searched for johns name. And fortunately for him he was in the same team as the protagonist Harold.
" Lucky bastard "
Looks like I have nothing else to do—
" ---Hmm? Lucky me another toy is here "
Appearing from behind where I was, carl who was gravely injured had the audacity to approach me.
" holy cow you are a weak toy. I didn't know that there was a four digit number rank"
"…."
I got roasted by not even a third rate villain. I couldn't believe this redicilous situation and ended up laughing.
" hmm? Is this toy stupid as well?"
"…"
My laughter stop and instead a frowning expression was drawn on my face as I replied in an annoyed voice.
" calling me weak is one thing but also stupid is kinda annoying you know?"
"Hmm?"
Questioning how I was calm. Carl heared some knuckle cracking as he still was confused from the whole situation.
*crack* crack*
" Well, I was kinda getting bored from just watching. Might as well test my newly hand to hand combat technique "
From that day carl had a realization that he should never underestimate anything in this world. Unfortunately he wasn't going to live long enough to benefit from this lesson.
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