The way a person's perceptions in a situation can often determine their actions and the outcome of a situation.
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Ethan, stood in the room, with parts of his outfit covered in blood was quite absorbed in figuring out the gloves origin but soon snapped back to reality as he knew there was no time to be curious about anything yet.
Looking outside through his door well perhaps where his door use to be, he could tell that his situation wasn't going to get any better. With quick thinking, he had to get to the authorities or possibly anyone who with authority in the school to know or decide whatever action was to be taken.
Then again, what made him so sure they were not dead as well , at this point even he wasn't sure those zombie-like creatures knew who to devour and who not to devour.
At this point it's not entirely wrong to assume that all those mutated humans had any consciousness left.
They rather seemed like mindless puppets programmed to attack anything at sight and that's considering if they could see at all.
Exhausted, Ethan squatted and sat on the floor, with eyebrows furrowed and gridding teeth, the pain he was feeling was becoming overbearing to him, he reached his right arm out and held his left arm , bringing it closer to his face, his left arm seemed as though it was about to burst with black thin veins all around, he tightened the shoe laze tied around his arm . With a hurried breath, he braced himself for the pain he was about to endure, he cancelled his mana made katana and shield, created a dagger of considerably low density and focused on making the edges sharp. He held the dagger in his right palm, slowly placed the tip of the dagger in his infected left arm and pierced it, he continued to go deeper by an inch or to and sli it through his skin , pain like no other he had felt ramaged through his entire arm , blood gushed out , thick and dark, almost black, flowing down his arm and dripping onto the floor , forming a pool of blood .
Soon enough Ethan exhaled heavily as he fell at ease .
His arm, considerably damaged, was now at a stable condition. The veins on his arm which was somewhat black was now returning to it's normal condition with signs of a little toxic substance left.
It was quite safe to say Ethan won't be using that particular arm for quite sometime.
"I won't be going out anytime soon not that I can, ...not with my arm this badly injured, what I should do right now is stay hidden and out of sight for the time being, I need to recover any way I can"
Ethan said . He had decided to stay hidden for the time being which in his situation seemed to be the only thing he should do if he plans to live to have answers to his questions of events unfolding before him.
His plan right after recovering was to seek the nearest medical facility on the Campus.
He need medical procedures to deal with his injured arm before it gets worse than it already has.
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An hour has passed already and during this time he turned his attention to the orbs that later on the ground. He took them one by one and repeated the same method he did with the Holy grade orb.
There were three bronze orbs and 2 red orbs in total amounting to a total of 5 orbs excluding the white orb from earlier.
With the same procedure, he held one bronze orb in his right palm, tightened his grip around or with a little bit of strength with caused series of cracks on its surface .
Soon the orb emitted a dim bronze hue and broke into countless little shards disappearing in an instant.
What replaced the orb was an item. This item was covered in green leafy design. It look carved with a circular shape,it's size was the size of a coin. A look at the coin would suggest that it was nothing noteworthy as it seemed normal without anything unique to draw interest. The only thing that makes it different from an ordinary coin was that it had a little hope at the center of it . It emitted no such auras or anything out if ordinary. Anyone would assume it was a normal coin .
With the coin in his hands, Ethan raised it and sized it from different angles, Trying to figure out what it was exactly.
Almost immediately a screen appeared before his eyes as if it responded to his need for knowledge, the description of the item was displayed before him .
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[Object name: Jade barrier
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Attributes
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Type: protection
Description : This object acts as a barrier of protection around an object with the sole purpose of protection.
Endurance: 150 (50 per activation before cool down)
Cool down: 30mins after use
Requirements: Can be activated by infusing manner or spiritual energy into the coin.
Can be used 3 times before becoming useless]
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Looking at the description and its attributes.
Ethan was quite elevated Knowing, reason why?, It's simple, With this his chances of not dieing was increased.
If he was able to utilize the Jade Barrier efficiently and at the right moment, he could actually maximize his chances of surviving, for how long her be able to survive, he didn't want to think about that , at least not now .
"Jade Barrier,... this will be very helpful . But 30 minutes cool down, if I'm correct is probably the time it takes for me to be able to use it again after I have already used it .
The problem now is if I'd have 30 minutes to to re-use it again depending on the situation I might find myself in.(sighs) "
He placed the coin in his pocket and strange enough, paused for a moment, took out the coin again and this time he stood up, walked towards his desk and took his back .
He grabbed the bag, emptied it's contents on the desk with some falling on the group, grapped all the orbs and placed it in his bag.
Well now his fatigue had cleared, his injury stabilized and calmed his state of mind.
He soon changed his clothes with only a few minor sensation of sharp pain in his injured arm while changing his bloody clothes filled with blood .
He was getting ready to head out of his room to the nearest health facility possible before securing a safe place for himself before the help arrived. But first he had to seek the authorities in case they have any safety measures until the help from the government arrives right after he has taken proper care of his injuries.