Before Crystal can recuperate, he spotted Samuel in the air descending on him, his sickles held out to the sides as the slashed diagonally towards Crystal. He tried to block it with his arms, but to his surprise, it was cut off entirely.
Samuel lodged his sikcles onto Crystals collar bone and jumped back. A black and white chain appeared connecting his hands to the pommel. He spun his hands around in a certain motion and wrapped the chains around Crystal. Before spinning around and throwing Crystal above his head. Towards the middle.
Crystal rolled on the ground as it tried to gain their footing. But Gary grabbed Crystal's shoulder and turned Crystal around to face him. Before slamming his fist towards Crystals jaw. Immediately breaking it.
Donovan jumped up and slammed his shin on Crystals head. Sending him tumbling away. He tried to fight back, but Donovan interrupted him before he can, "Harmonizing lightning. Stinging Binding!"
Seven bolts of black and white magic stabbed Crystal around his body. Restraining his arms to his sides and began to electrocute him. Gary immediately lunged forwards and slammed his fist on Crystal's face. Samuel followed it up with cutting his ankles. And then Donovan last with a spinning back kick.
The three began to descend upon Crystal and beat him down relentlessly. The students that watched on began cheering for them as they started to bring the number of monsters down steadily. This is thanks to Arthur's and Mary's leadership that made sure no one died or was injured. And partly due to Aurora's party.
As they ran across the arena, Enzo commented on the trio's fight, "Damn! They're beating the devil out of him!"
"They found his weakness..." Zhu quietly spoke to noone in particular.
"That's my man!" Aurora cheered as they began to face another wave of monsters heading their way.
The six of them quickly began engaging them in a fight. Aurora in particular touched them once before inflicting wounds on them. And quickly dispatched more with herfists.
"Wait hold up, you have a boyfriend?" Aziroth asked.
"Yeah! I do! His name is Gary Skorrson!"
The news seemed to hit them quite hard. A monster like Gary. Having a lover? As pretty as her? That information seemed almost fictional at first. But with how she spoke, it's obvious she's not lying.
As they ran through the arena, they came across two students fighting together alone. They took a second to realize the identity of each side, "Rovanne? Elyssia?" Carmilo said.
"Well hello there-!" Elyssia stomped on a monsters head, "Where the hell do you think you're going?"
"We're sealing the area where the monsters are spawning." Aurora said, "You wanna join us?"
Elyssia and Rovanne stared at Aurora for a second. She had never seen her before. Not on the school database or even in class and break. Yet she bore the outfit of an S-class student.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Aurora Black, love." She answered, "I'm a new student. But right now we have other pressing matters to deal with."
Elyssia and Rovanne stared at each other for a second. Before ELyssia sighed, "Fine. We're joining you six. Lead the way."
"Lovely."
Aurora ran past the two as the others followed her path. As another wave of monsters came, Elyssia and Rovanne jumped forwards. Rovanne sent out a spell that binded and limited the strength of the monsters.
Elyssia swung her greatsword towards the monsters. Arcs of golden magic flew across the air and cut down multiple monsters at once. She leaped in and stabbed an unfortunate one on the head. Before spinning around and cleaving a few more in half.
Enzo shot out a few bolts of lightning from his rifle. Obliterating a few monsters before Yuri, carmilo, and Zhu rushed forwards. Carmilo began stabbing his rapier towards a few monsters as Yuri came in and finished them off with an axe she found. While Zhu followed through with her warfans. Cutting down a few more.
Aziroth made sure to participate with killing a few more monsters with his scythe. Eventually, they arrive at the slash mark on the arena. Looking through the inside of the wall. A pulsing red summoning circle was surrounded with a grotesque mix of black and red flesh.
"Eugh...Disgusting." Rovanne commented on this sight.
"That's why we're sealing it up." Aurora said, "Split up! two goes with me to the right while the other four goes to the left! But you soul boy!"
"Me?"
"Yeah! You stay here. I need you for something else!
Rovanne ran off the left with Enzo, Yuri and Carmilo. While Elyssia and Zhu went along with Aurora. Each of them stood above the summoning sign and waited for orders.
"Everyone! Place your hands on the summoning circle! Now!"
They all did as told. While Aziroth stood in the middle. A bit confused on what he's supposed to do. Aurora closed her eyes and focused on what she needed to do. Diving through the world of everchanging letters and numbers. Trying to find the core of the circle itself.
She didn't need to say anything to the others as they closed their eyes as well. Following her consciousness through the world. Before finding two yellow spheres of magic. All of them grabbed onto one. And began trying to rip it apart. Revealing the inner core of the orb.
In the real world, two red chains appeared from the circles and connected with each other in the middle. Wisps of soul magic can be seen from the connection. Aziroth now knew what he had to do. He raised both of his scythe upwards and mixed them together.
A green aura surrounded the scythe as he raised it. He took a deep breath before cutting it, "Here it goes..." Aziroth quickly brought the scythe down upon the chain.
Sparks of green and red clashed against each other as the scythe quickly cleaved through the chain of summoning. Before completely severing it in two. A horrid scream echoed through the whole of the school as the summoning broke. Everyone that was fighting could hear the screams of the summoning circle being broken. Everywhere, monsters halted their attacks temporarily. Trying to take in what just happened. Giving a few lucky fighters the opportunity to escape. And especially for Sultan and Matthew.
"What was that...?"
The sudden scream had froze everyone in place. Even Matthew. The alpha monster stared at the arena in shock of what just happened. But Sultan wasn't bothered a single bit by it.
"It's our opportunity, Matthew!" Sultan rushed forwards and swung his scimiotar towards the Alpha monster. Cutting off a horn from the monster.
It shrieked in response and flung its arms wildly. Pushing Sultan back and snapping Matthew out of his trance and bringing him back to the fight. He ran forwards and shot out a ball of wind towards the Alpha.
It was pushed back towards the wall. Sultan leapt in and grabbed the arm of the alpha. Before raising his scimitar and cutting off one arm. Matthew followed it up with another wind spell, "Maelstrom! Ik Roep Je Aan! Vang!"
The Alpha monster didn't have time to shriek in pain before a round barrier of the howling wind trapped his target. Matthew raised the ball upwards as the creature attempted to break out of the ball.
However, Matthew wasn't going to let it go. He hasn't tried this ability yet. He only knew about it but he was forbidden from using it. Surely his mentor wouldn't care now. It was the proper time to use it. At this moment, many second years and third years alongside parents and other lower ranks were watching the Alpha be lifted in the air by a boy of the security force. This is the best time to show off.
"Doorboor met de boog!" Three blades formed around the ball. And pierced the creature on the back, "Scheur en verscheur!" The ball started to slice the body of the alpha monster. The wind acted like a whirlwind of sharp blades. Slowly tearing apart its body, "Moge de wind harder hulien da jouw kreten!" The wind's howl was louder than the Alpha's shrieks as their body turned into a bundle of red flesh, "Kooimutilatie!"
After a solid ten seconds, the alpha had stopped screaming. Inside the cage was nothing but a a pile of red meat. Matthew let go of his spell, letting the remains drop onto the ground infront of their minions. The silence was deafening. Even the monsters didn't know how to react.
The loss of their alpha can immediately put the monsters into chaos. But in this moment, they were in total unison one last time, the wind cried yet again, as Matthew rose from the ground, "Creatures of the underworld, look upon your leader, run! Or you shall share his fate!"
In the next second, all hell broke loose. The horde didn't know what to do anymore. Some ran. Some panicked. And some kept on attacking, "Citizens of this country! Hunt every monster until the last one! And spare nothing!" the sight of this immediately gave a boos of morale towards every single human in Cainlocke. They gathered their courage and held onto their weapons tighter, "For Cainlocke!"
"FOR CAINLOCKE!"
The tides turned in under a minute. The injured stood up with pure determination and will. They charged forwards with their broken bones or limbs. Passing by the bodies of their friends who laid on the ground lifelessly. The lower ranks and parents dashed forwards. Massacring every single monster in sight that dared to attack them.
Matthew slowly floated back to the ground. Sultan awaited him as he does, "Wonderful job my brother." Sultan patted him on the back.
"Did I do good?"
"Did you do good?!" Madhav's voice shouted from Matthews earpiece, "Dude! Look at them! They're running! And you inspired the others! Haha!"
Matthew watched on as the people ran through the town, slicing apart monsters and tearing them to pieces, "Our reputation is going up after this! They'll finally acknowledge us again like before!" Madhav cheered in his room.
"Well done Matthew." Sultan chuckled as he sat back down by a bench.
The end of this nightmarish day is reaching its end. The sun is slowly setting on the horizon. Slowly lulling in the twilight of the night in a few hours. A day that will go down in history is being written as Matthew stood. They will write of their actions today. They will be remembered for years to come.
"Hey...Sultan. I have a question."
"Hm?"
"Why are you hollow?"
Sultan stared at Matthew before sighing, it was going to come sooner or later, "Hollow. Is that the term you use for people like me?"
"Is it derogatory?"
"I mean. There's only one like me in the whole world. And plus, I find it as an appropriate term for me." Sultan said as he twirled his scimitars, "But you can call it an even exchange. An eye for an eye. That's what I am. Someone who left the very foundation of this world behind. I am he who deject the laws of the world."
Matthew took in this information. Unsure whether to trust his words or not. But still, he had helped Matthew in killing the alpha. And he sounded like he was speaking the truth. Madhav has listened in on this. And he himself is wondering about what Sultan said.
"I ask for both of you to keep it silent. In a place like this, I'm not welcomed here. However, I will be staying for other purposes. Consider the actions I requested to be your way of paying back for what I had helped you with. Do we have a deal?"
Matthew stared at Sultan's hand as it reached out towards him. Madhav's voice spoke from the earpiece, "I'll keep it a secret. You should as well Matthew."
He sighed before grabbing Sultan's firm and strong hand, "Deal."
"Good. Let's head back to the arena yes? We have to help them now should we?" Sultan stood up.
"What about them?" Matthew pointed to the people who he had just inspired.
"No worries. The crows are following them. They'll be safe-"
The ground suddenly rumbled under them. A deafening roar glided across the town from within the arena. It was a familiar roar to Sultan, a roar of desperation.
***
The trio was in the middle of the beating Crystal into nothing. They were shouting insults and encouraging it to fight back as they pummeled him relentlessly. But the roar had stopped them in their tracks. Causing them to stumble back from how loud it was.
Crystal broke through the lightning restraint set upon him by Donovan. And exerted magic around him. Pushing the three away. As soon as he does, Crystal readied his appendages one last time. And readied for a blast of magic.
"Don't you dare!" Donovan leaped forwards and made a hand sign, "Boneless watcher! Endless abyss-"
"Are you serious, Donovan?!" Samuel shouted, "It's too small for that spell!"
A second hiss escaped Donovan's mouth as he continued to chant, "Then I'll compress it as much as I can!"
"Honored and interrupted, Gazed from the below beckons forwards!" Crystal reached the end of his powerup, opening his jaw wide and sending forwards the full force of his magic, Alongside numerous slashes from its appendages, "Ascended Culling spear!"
The pitch black darkness and blinding white coiled together to form six separate discs around Donovan. As if they were a hivemind, all six of the discs shot out pure and concentrated magic outwards. Eventually crossing together to form a larger beam.
The two magic clashed against each other. The pure force of the clash shattered the ground under the four fighters. The deafening explosion echoed through the school. Garnering unwanted attention towards Donovan. Raw and volatile strays shout out all over the dome. Leaving cracks on the barrier itself and the ground.
This was one of the stronger spells in the trio's arsenal. And one of the more flashier ones. To Samuel, thanks to his eyes, it was as if the sun itself was standing only ten feet away from him. The raw amount of magic being exerted by donovan and Crystal was the only reason for this. What should have he expected? This is Donovan afterall. One of Hanlerk's favorites.
The battle over who has the stronger magic force went on for a bit too long to Gary. As he stood up under all the pressure and began to charge forwards, "Gary?! What are you doing?!"
"With how this is going, Donovan's gonna be in this clash for a long ass time! Way too long for my liking!" Gary answered, the mere pressure of the clash can push even the strudiest of mountains away. But Gary was far stronger than that. He pushed through towards Crystal. When the slices from the appendages struck his body, he simply tanked it and kept going. Any normal creature would have been diced into pieces by now.
Samuel took this as a challenge and stood up, trying to follow gary's example of walking towards Crystal under all the pressure. As the slices came his way, Samuel ducked and weaved through it, even deflecting them using his sickles. Crystal noticed this and attempted to focus more attention towards Gary and Samuel, but the split second he lost focus on Donovan, his beam was pushed closer to him. Threatening to kill him if he lost even a single smaller bit of focus.
At this point, most of the monsters had been neutralized. Almost everyone was gazing upon the trio. Even Elyssia and Rovanne. This was the first time they had ever seen such magic before. They got to see their magic path up close now. It looked so divine. Yet ravenous at the same time.
Aurora was in the back cheering for Gary as he charged through the slashes. But worried for his health after. But from the looks of it, he's going to handle it well. Aziroth, Enzo, Yuri, Zhu, and Carmilo watched on in awe of the spectacle. Finally grasping who these three were.
Finally, gary and Samuel were only three feet away from Crystal as it started to panic. It sent out just two extra appendages towards both of them, but that was all it needed for Donovan.
"Got you~"