The bus broke down and a whole busload of students was just abandoned in the middle of nowhere.
Uneasy crowds, college girls left alone...
Just as Eleazar was linking up and speculating on whether something unexpected would happen, a bus ahead of him backed up frantically.
The car door opened and a teacher darted down, catching their driver in the act and giving him a good scolding.
Hmm... It was the convoy that realized they'd dropped out.
Once those two acolytes of unfathomable strength converged, Eleazar couldn't think of anything else out here that could threaten them.
It was all a false alarm.
At that moment, the two girls who had gone out for convenience, also walked back with their heads down.
Bored, Eleazar propped his head up by the window and peeked through the rearview mirror in front of him at the acolyte stepping out of the car.
He was seen walking to the middle of the road, and with a single kick, he heaved the face-sized piece of granite that had caused the car to break down from the bumps and kicked it off the cliff.
Hiss!
His feet... Doesn't it hurt?
Just looking at it, Eleazar felt a throbbing pain in her toes as if she'd knocked the corner of a table.
It was beyond brutal and transcendent!
...
It was stalled for close to half an hour before the driver repaired the broken down bus and resumed the journey.
After a long time, the sky was slightly dark, and they finally reached their destination after a long day of rushing.
The city of Shaye, rich in the winds of gold, is rich in history, retaining many buildings from ancient times, and is a famous port city from which adventurers are said to still take ships to explore overseas.
Stopping the car in front of a luxurious hotel, the students poured in gleefully like birds breaking free from a birdcage.
Inside, however, the reception was less than enthusiastic, and the staff's smiles were a bit far-fetched.
"What happened?"
Eleazar turned his head to find the teacher outside the doorway talking to a few locals about something, then his face changed slightly.
Turning back thoughtfully, he looked at the worried faces all over the front desk.
It does look like something bad happened here.
"Hey..."
At that moment, Lingyin came to the side, she lowered her head and pulled his sleeve with some embarrassment.
Eleazar glanced at her, "What for?"
"You... Do you want to go to the bathroom..."
I've heard that it's popular for girls to go to the restroom together, but she's planning to ask a boy to accompany her, so she's not crazy, right?
Eleazar was speechless for a while, but then suddenly thought of something and nodded.
"Let's go then."
Lingyin blushed and hammered him instantly.
"I knew you were brotherly enough!"
"..."
They then snuck into the elevator.
"Hey, I'm smart, right?"
Lingyin hit the close button with a smug look on his face.
The restrooms in the first floor lobby were full, especially on the girls' side, and there was a long line.
No wonder she pulled herself together.
Eleazar, full of boredom, perfunctorily said, "Smart smart smart."
Arriving on the 3rd floor of the hotel, Lingyin, who ran out of a gust of wind, quickly found the restroom.
Eleazar had the good sense to wait outside with his hands clasped.
Quietly waiting for a moment, "Ah ----"
A scream came from the women's restroom.
In the lobby of the first floor, the acolyte who was juggling his status as a teacher jerked his head up.
"Who's up there!"
"It's... It's Lingyin's classmate, she said she couldn't hold it in and then got a friend to sneak up there."
Outside the women's restroom on the third floor, Eleazar stands in the doorway and yells inside.
"Hey, what happened, are you okay?"
"Ooooohhhh..."
Obviously there was no perceived abnormality on the mysterious side, but the person inside just kept on crying, Eleazar's eyes stared and simply pushed the door of the room open and walked in.
Lingyin was lying on the smooth tiles, her face pearly, looking extraordinarily helpless.
"What's wrong with you..." Eleazar crouched down in a million different ways.
"Oooooooh~" Lingyin let out as she threw herself into his arms.
That's the way these little girls are, when the slightest thing happens they just howl and cry and don't say anything about the cause, making Eleazar so anxious she's about to spit blood.
He could only raise his own head and look around for a moment.
The anomaly was soon discovered.
A rope dangled from the ceiling and disappeared into a bathroom.
Eleazar dragged the tired man who could only howl, and endeavored to peek over his shoulder to take a look.
That bathroom door had been closed, but whoever's hand was in arrears pushed it open, and then revealed an unbelievably horrific scene inside.
The Inverted Man...
A woman whose body had been suspended by ropes, skinned and drained of blood, appeared to have undergone a very professional corpse disposal, followed by some unknown evil ritual. Her hair was shaved, the bridge of her nose was gouged out and cut, her eyes were removed, leaving only two dark holes in the eye sockets, all her teeth were pulled out of her wide-open mouth, and her tongue was missing, her silently spinning body was twisted in an anti-human position, and her features, which were only dark holes in the eyes, were turned towards the door from time to time.
Eleazar sucked in a cold breath.
What kind of evil rituals are necessary to torture people like this?
At that moment, the sound of intensive footsteps came from outside the corridor.
Eleazar blinks his eyelids, and the look on his face slowly becomes hollow and dull, as if he's been stunned.
The restroom door was pushed open with a huff and an acolyte arrived with a few people.
"What happened!"
They looked at the two men on the ground.
But the man and the woman, one of them would only sob, and the other looked completely dumbfounded, unable to answer anything.
Soon, they also spotted the inverted hangman and their faces changed.
A large hand quickly covers Eleazar's eyes, followed by the body being assisted.
"Take them out."
The stony-faced acolytes quickly cordoned off the area.
...
People have no idea what's going on.
During the dinner, the students happily ate and drank in the cafeteria.
Lingyin was among them, eating creamy mouthfuls and yelling every now and then.
It was as if he had completely forgotten what had just happened to him.
She was sealed from that horrible memory by the Holy Light spell...
Eleazar, whose demeanor seems to have returned to normal as well, silently feels the seed of light in his mind.
An ordinary person seeing that kind of image would indeed be rooted in their minds as a nightmare that would linger for a lifetime, so they were all inflicted with the Holy Light spell.
A very gentle force, as the spell energy slowly fades, that sealed memory may slowly come back in the form of a dream, which will eventually be dismissed by the brain as a useless dream and subconsciously forgotten in the depths.
Very brilliant hybrid spells, I don't know how many times better than memory erasure, hypnosis and all those messy tactics.
Eleazar pretends to eat happily, but his attention is on the teacher's side.
"It's not safe here anymore, should we change hotels?"
"No, there aren't many hotels at all that can accommodate that many people, and it's too late to make reservations, and these students will be even worse to watch once they disperse."
"Well..."
"Put the third floor on lockdown and call in more people over the next few days."
"And keep up the pressure, make sure you completely eliminate that person from continuing to commit crimes in the next few days!"