The evening atmosphere with the wind blowing around them, the coolness spreading throughout their bodies until they feel relaxed enough to want to lie down on a soft bed, then fall asleep with exhaustion to restore your energy and relieve the exhaustion from the whole day.
Many people did this, but not the group of people who were preparing to fight in the next few minutes. Hector's gaze watched on the five professors who were standing by his side and waiting for orders. Elizabeth, after finishing all the paperwork, immediately followed them to the field in front of the school.
Mariel was the last one to join in. After finishing all her homework, she quickly took a shower and got dressed before running to the meeting point with the others.
"Good evening, Principal Hector, Vice-Principal Elizabeth, and the other Professors." Mariel said, bowing respectfully to everyone.
"Alright, everyone's here. We've decided that Professor Kiros and Mariel will follow me and Elizabeth. The other four professors will stay here so that if anything unusual happens, we can solve it immediately." Hector said.
"We are ready to follow Hector's orders." The remaining four Professors happily agreed, and neither of them objected to the decision.
"Very good. If anything happens in that school, we will immediately notify the headquarters. The Lapas leader has prepared everything after talking to me personally." Hector explained again.
"Understood." All four Professors responded to the order.
"Ok. Are you ready? Eli, Kiros, and Mariel?" Hector asked.
"We all ready." all three people replied.
Hector casts a spell with his magic staff, creating a large silver dimension portal in front of them.
"Alright, let's go!" Hector said and walked ahead of the others into the warp core. The four of them were immediately warped to another place and the warp slowly closed until it disappeared.
They appeared in front of the 4th school, which had a large sign in front of the school saying:
"HelmSerg High School of Magic" The atmosphere inside this school seemed normal, nothing much different from other schools. The boys and girls were walking back to the school's dormitory, they didn't notice that a group of 4 people had come to visit the school in front of the large school gate.
"Hello, Hector and Elizabeth. Are you here for something with our headmaster?" the security guard at the school gate asked.
"We have something to discuss with one club here. If you would like, please invite Mr. Vidas, the headmaster to meet us here." Hector said.
"Wait a moment." the magician guard security of the school gate immediately informed their headmaster.
It didn't take long, there are a plump man with white hair, a high nose, and a silver and blue mage robe to teleport to the school gate.
"Long time no see, Hector. What can I do for you?" Vidas asked.
"Do you know that the Dark Magic Club here is inhabited by demons?" Hector said bluntly. The smile on Vidas' face immediately disappeared.
"Don't accuse without evidence, Hector! Our school always checks and there's nothing wrong with it, I can assure you." Vidas said.
"Didn't you watch the fight between Chaos and Mariel in the final match of the first-year swordsmanship? The devilish aura was so surrounding the area, the high-ranking mages must have sensed it." Hector said.
"Dark magic must have this kind of demonic aura because it comes from a mysterious, dark path that has its roots in these things but I don't see anything that's really wrong with this." Vidas tried to defend his school.
Elizabeth casts a spell in front of Vidas, which shows her the events of the parasite emerging from Mariel's body after her fight with Chaos, including its transformation from parasite to demon who named Deren and she being killed by Hector, causing her body to turn into dust.
"This is..." Vidas said with a face of disbelief at what was happening in front of him.
"There really are demons in your school's dark magic club, Vidas. We had to see them for ourselves." Hector said.
"But… it's still not entirely certain that there really is a demon lurking in my school… it would make a panic to people." Vidas said.
"Don't worry, we will handle it gently and without making any problem. You can trust us." Hector said in a good mood.
"Then… follow me. I also want to know if what you guys said is true or not." Vidas said, preparing to lead everyone to the dark magic club room at the back of the school.
But suddenly... a third-year male student looked at Hector's group and seemed anxious. He quickly turned around and headed towards the back of the school.
Scorching!!!
Hector had a faster sense and immediately shot a spell to freeze that male student with no chance to escape. The male student tried to struggle free from the spell that bound his body, but it was useless.
"There's nowhere to run." Hector said as he led everyone towards the male student.
The male student's eyes were bright red, looked like blood and he stared at everyone with hatred.
"Look at him! These are not the eyes of a normal person, but demon' eyes." Hector said.
"I can't believe that even high-level magic hasn't detected these things." Vidas said.
"Excuse me." Elizabeth said as she walked straight towards the male student and pointed her magic staff at the center of his chest while casting some spells.
Scorching!!!
"Ahh!" The male student cried out in pain.
Suddenly, the boy's eyes became dazed as if under control by some kind of spell. Elizabeth ordered him to stand up in front of the others.
"Now, lead us to your dark magic club." Elizabeth ordered.
"Yes sir." the male student said and immediately walked ahead of everyone.
Everyone walked to a medium-sized building with only one floor. When the male student opened the door and entered, there was no one there, and there was only an empty building with many student desks, but it was noticeable that the equipment was scattered everywhere, looking rather disorderly.
"That's strange. There's no one here." Vida said with curiosity.
Hector stared at the center of the room and cast a spell, causing the tables and chairs to pile up at the very end, instantly making the center of the classroom an empty space without any obstacles.
"Gather around the center now!" Hector ordered the others.
After everyone was standing in the center of the room, Hector chanted a spell with a serious expression. White light shot out of Hector's magic wand to the four corners of everyone standing in the center of the room. Then...
*Crash*
The floor of the classroom collapsed immediately, and all the people fell to the ground beneath this building. The bottom of the building was made into a large cavity, and if people did not notice, they would never know that there was a secret room below this building.
BOOM!!!!
There were more than 100 male and female students were looking at Hector's group with fear. Each of them had a terrifying and suspicious look in their eyes because the secret that this group of demons had been keeping for a long time had finally been revealed.
"Our old rival, Hector!" said by a shrill voice of a man who slowly walked out from inside this large hall.
"Long time no see, Lord Dark." Hector said.
The dark mage was two meters tall, slender, but his red eyes were fierce, and his ears were long and almost reaching the top of his head. His sharp fangs grinned as if he wanted to taste the other's blood with thirst. He wore a long, pitch-black robe, along with his terrifying, long, black claws.
"It's been hundreds of years since we last saw each other. I miss the old days so much, lol." the dark mage said.
"It should be around 200-300 years. Last time wasn't satisfying us. Let's finish our fight this time." Hector said.
"All demons, kill them!!!" The dark mage shouted immediately.
"Vidas, Kiros, Elizabeth, and Mariel, kill all of these demons. That Lord Dark, I will take him by myself." Hector immediately ordered.
The demonic parasites that had been hiding in the bodies of more than 100 male and female students broke free from their bodies, revealing black demonic bodies with large wings, terrifying red eyes, and black claws that were casting black magic spells. The students immediately fell unconscious to the ground.
Suddenly, a large gray magical barrier appeared covering the entire large hall.
"This place will be your grave. This black magic curtain will make it impossible for you to escape!" Lord Dark said.
"Don't worry! I'll handle the healing to all of you!" Elizabeth shouted and cast a green healing spell on the ground to prepare to restore health and heal the wounds of others immediately.
Professor Kiros and Headmaster Vidas immediately conjured magic staffs and fired ice and fire magic at the demons that were approaching them from all sides.
Mariel summoned the Dragon Slayer Sword and charged forward to slash at the demons without stopping.
Scorching!!! Scorching!!! Scorching!!!
Hector casts light magic against Lord Dark who counters with dark magic. Both sides are outsmarting each other in their attacks, but it is still not clear who has the advantage or disadvantage in this battle.
Elizabeth and the others were able to withstand the demons' attacks in unison. The high-level ice magic fired from Kiros and Vidas' magic staffs was so powerful that it easily dealt with the demons. Mariel was at the forefront, attacking and slashing the demons without fear. Her fire, wind, water, and ice magic swords were used at the right time, making it almost impossible for the demons to do any harm to her. Lord Dark turned to look at her in confusion for a moment.
"That girl, if she is survived, it may be detrimental to our future plans. We must eliminate her immediately!" Lord Dark thought to himself as he thought of an evil plan.
Scorching!!!
The two sides' light and dark magic powers clashed against each other, causing both to stagger back. Hector and Lord Dark were both panting from exhaustion after clashing with magic power almost 100 times.
"Principal Hector, I'm here to help you!" Mariel said as she rushed towards Hector immediately.
"Kill him!" Hector said as he immediately launched a barrage of light magic towards Lord Dark.
Mariel also fired her ultimate ice magic sword power at him.
The two magical powers hit the Lord Dark's chest, causing his entire body to tremble. However... a suspicious smile appeared from his mouth.
"W-What happened?" Hector felt something was wrong with this attack.
Scorching!!!
The magic power of light and ice was suddenly reflected back at the two of them with full force. Hector was able to block his own magic power in time, while Mariel was struggling to break the power of her ice magic sword, not expecting that this Lord Dark would have the ability to reflect power.
"I got you!!!" Lord Dark appeared in front of Mariel with his right fist that gathered dark magic power, and some other magic spell mixed to form a large ball of dark magic power with a sly, victorious look on his face.
"N-No… A-ahh !!!!" Mariel spat out a large amount of blood after being attacked in her chest. The dark magic energy shot through her body, sending her flying far away until it hit the hall's wall with a loud bang, causing her body to fall to the ground with her gasps.
"M-Mariel!" Hector shouted in shock, while the others were also terrified.
"It's time to die, you brat. My power contains a deadly poison. It's going to eat her body until nothing is left, lol." Lord Dark said with satisfaction.
"What did you say ?!" Elizabeth said in shock. Normally, poisonous magic is difficult to cure in a short period of time. Especially from high-level dark magicians, they must be even more careful because they might die on the spot if they get hit like the previous attack.
Mariel's chest was covered in black spots, as if a deadly poison was eating away at her. She was still unconscious, only breathing.
"I gathered all my magic power to take out that girl in one move. I didn't expect to be so lucky. Lol." Lord Dark laughed with satisfaction.
As Elizabeth tried to cast a healing spell and tried to expel the poison from Mariel's body out of concern, she suddenly felt something...
"Wait… This isn't…." Elizabeth said in surprise.
"W-What happened, Eli?" Hector asked curiously.
"What is it?" Lord Dark asked in confusion.
Mariel, who had fallen unconscious on the ground, slowly revealed a smile, along with a brave expression and eyes, and then she slowly stood up proudly as if nothing had happened just now.
"W-What? How is that possible? You got poisoned by me!" Lord Dark said.
Suddenly, the poison slowly drained from Mariel's body, appearing as black smoke surrounding her.
"This poison can't hurt me." Mariel said with a mischievous smile.
"That's crazy… It's impossible!" Lord Dark said in disbelief.
"This battle, everyone just watch. Lord Dark is my prey!" Mariel said with a smile.
"I will kill you with all my power!" Lord Dark said as he transformed into a demon that grew to about 2 meters and 30 centimeters in size, with an even more muscular body. Large black wings protruded from the middle of his back on both sides. Black magic energy surrounded his body as he prepared for this battle.
"Devil has to fight the devil, right?" Mariel said, immediately touching the brooch on the right collar of her shirt.
Suddenly, Mariel's body slowly transformed into a black form with eyes like a venomous snake and ready to hunt down the delicious prey in front of her.
"Let's have some fun together, my love. Lol!" Dark Mariel said with a smile that almost reached her ears.