Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 381 The Portal Break
Raze had experienced three portal openings during his time in Pagna. The first was when Simyon’s earring was unsealed. At the time, using her massive amount of power, Charlotte from Alter was able to close it.
This was something that Raze could most likely do now that he was a 4-star mage. He was actually above Charlotte, who was a 3-star mage the last time he had seen her, but he was unaware of the method.
When this occurred, it was the first time Raze had learned of a Hybrid. Those who are trapped in the other dimensions undergo a transformation, turning them into part beast, part human.
He had yet to meet one in the other dimensions, or see such a thing, but he knew they were dangerous creatures.
The second time a portal had opened up was when the statue was unsealed. Although in this instance, it wasn’t a portal break but more of a portal opening.
And now, the third time a portal had opened, this time, it was quite clear it was a portal break. Almost immediately after the portal had opened up, the claw of a giant beast burst through.
Reacting fast, Raze could have fired off another Dark pulse or one of his many spells in his arsenal. Dame even looked over, wondering if he was about to do such a thing. Instead, all he could see was a smile on his face.
“This was part of the plan, this was planned!” Dame thought.
The beast’s claw ripped through, and coming out, a large disfigured face with six eyes and four horns atop its head had appeared. It was odd because as the claw reached out, it was large in size.
It crashed onto the ground and had already torn up the wooden floorboards. It was as if the moment its body got out of the portal, it would warp into its real size.
The beast let out a screech that was both low and high at the same time, shaking the room, and almost immediately, Dame had rushed forward to grab Safa.
“I’m sorry, but we’re going to have to get out of here. There won’t just be one beast coming out of that thing, but quite a few of them.”
The beast’s hind legs had come out into the room and nearly filled it entirely. Its body was already crushing the side of the room’s walls.
“I’m sorry, Raze, but it looks like I’m going to have to grab you because you need a little help!” Dame rushed over and held Raze under with one arm.
Right after that, Dame didn’t hesitate as he jumped backward, powering his body with Qi, allowing him to break through the wall. He had broken the barrier of the second floor and landed right in the center of the Red Headband base.
Some of the students were currently present and startled by the sudden appearance. “If I were you guys, I would start to run!” Dame exclaimed.
When the students looked up at where Dame had come from, they could see several almost tiger-sized beasts run out from the room. They had hardened black skin, moved on all fours, and had six eyes.
What was frightening was how they had scurried out of the place. It was as if a nest of spiders was disturbed as the beasts were climbing out of the walls and storming out of the room.
Immediately, some of them had even jumped down from the second balcony. One had landed right on top of a student who was unprepared, and opened its mouth, digging its two pincer-
like fangs right into his neck.
Blood squirted out, and the student had died on the spot. Another one had come toward Raze and Safa; Dame had placed them both down and spun his hand, hitting one right in the face with the back of his fist, sending it flying in the other direction.
“These beasts, they’re not the strongest, but their numbers… it’s crazy, the amount coming through the portal break, and we still haven’t dealt with the first one we’ve seen yet.”
From outside in the courtyard, they could hear the shouting that was occurring, and right after, the roof broke off from the building. Tiles went flying in the air and then slid off the roof itself before crashing onto the ground.
Right after, their eyes were glued to the rooftop like a volcanic eruption, as they could see hordes of beasts pouring out from the top. They were climbing down and heading for the rest of the academy, while some were coming from the courtyard.
The doors from the Red Headband sleeping quarters burst open, with a beast flying out from the doors, and now those from outside could witness what was going on from within, seeing the students fighting back against the creatures that had broken out from the portal, doing their best to attack them.
“Something serious is going on right now!” Simyon stated. “We need to make sure Safa and Raze are safe.”
“Make sure they’re safe!” Liam replied, running after Simyon. “You know, when I see something like this, I can’t help but believe that he might have been involved, so I’m pretty sure he’s safe.”
he’s safe.”
Dame was playing guard for both Safa and Raze, especially with him in his state. They were slowly moving out of the building, only attacking those that came toward them and were aiming for the courtyard.
While doing this, he couldn’t help but think about what Raze had done.
‘I knew something was up. That day when the portal had opened up, I had an inkling about this. He can create portals that lead to other dimensions; he can create portals that lead to other areas on the continent.
‘And when he told Safa to do what she did, he knew that it would cause a portal break. With a portal break, it wouldn’t be unusual to state that the Physicians had died, and the same with the instructor.’
‘It was the perfect cover-up, the perfect excuse for no one to ask any questions. Because no one would be able to believe that a portal break was possible.’
It made Dame start to wonder about all portal breaks. Were they done by those like Raze, those who weren’t really from their world? Maybe it was the Pagna martial artists who were ignorant of the real things that were going on everywhere.
‘I will say one thing though, I like your style, with a portal break being activated within the academy. I’m sure you have a lot of ways to take down this academy.’
The fighting had spread, and the beasts had entered the open air courtyard, and were now breaking down and infiltrating the other headband bases; the fighting was occurring all over.
Seeing the number and level of the beasts, it didn’t take long for others to react. Before the beasts had infiltrated the Yellow Headband group fully, Gunther had landed and swung his two blades, slicing through around four of the beasts on each side, killing them on the spot.
As for the Red Headband band base, where the portal had even started, landing down in the courtyard, Dame, Raze, and Safa were staring at a figure that lightly touched the ground with his feet. With his long dark ponytail hair, the Principal had arrived.
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 382 Strength Of The Enemy
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The teachers in the main academy had flocked to the scene of the beasts, and they were quick to act. It was quite clear that they had been through drills for this occurrence, or it was something that had happened before.
The teachers spread out and headed to their respective areas where the students were. The beasts from the portal had already reached all of the areas, and they weren’t average beasts either.
The smaller beasts that crawled, jumped, and had powerful fangs had to be at least level 3. It was something that most of the students were unable to handle, which is why there had already been a few deaths.
Their bodies lay on the ground, and the students huddled up in the courtyard, being protected by their respective teachers.
“This is too much!” The Blue Headband teacher shouted out. “We can’t handle them just with us; we need one of the senior staff to help us out.”
“I think Gunther went to the Yellow Headband group; maybe we should head over there for protection.”
The teachers agreed, but that meant they needed to move. While moving, it was slightly harder for one to protect themselves and for the teachers to continue to protect the students, but if they stayed, then they could all very well be dead.
“Everyone, do your best to stay close to us and use your Qi to attack. Right now, for the situation we are in, attack is the best form of defense.”
The teachers thought the death in the academy was over, and now they were going to see it again, only this time it would be firsthand.
At the Red Headband base, the students had managed to escape out to the courtyard, and they saw the Principal appear, landing in the center. His foot lightly touched the ground.
The beasts were still chasing after the tail end of students who were trying to exit the courtyard. Murkel looked their way. His eyes started to change color slightly. The color of his iris was almost impossible to see as it had turned black.
The Qi around him started to activate, and it was changing the air around him. It was visual Qi, but the shadow next to his feet grew outward. The colors in the air had changed, covered in a thick smoke.
‘This is intense,’ Raze thought, watching from the sideline. Even where he was, he could feel small bumps raising all over his body. He knew the other students felt the same way, as some had even fallen to the ground.
‘This Qi, why does it feel so sinister? This is the first time I’ve witnessed such strong Dark-based Qi energy before.’
The feeling was different from Dark Magic that Raze had used. When using Dark magic, it brought up the feelings from within, the darkness that Raze had harbored.
The death of others increased his affinity with Darkness. But this, it felt like his Qi was trying to drag everyone around and into it.
‘I thought there was a chance that the skills the Principal would use would be close to that of the Noctis clan skill, since he is practically the current head of the Dark Faction, but this seems completely different.’
The question was raised in Raze’s head: was it possible that the current Principal had something to do with the disappearance of the original Dark Faction founder, and if that was the case, just how strong was this individual?
The beasts kept up in the air, and immediately, Murkel turned his head towards them. The visual Qi shifted, facing toward the beasts, but there was no increase in the Qi, nor did it touch the beasts.
Immediately though, the beasts backed down. They didn’t move an inch forward. Their bodies were hunched as they bared their teeth.
“Get rid of them all, and find the source of this mess,” Murkel ordered.
Teachers followed, seemingly appearing from above. These were ones that Raze hardly ever saw, those that would stay in the main base of the academy and weren’t part of the headband teachers.
They came in with their solid steel weapons and struck the beasts. Even when being cut apart, the beasts were still too afraid to move, all while Murkel still had his Qi out next to them.
However, from the building itself, more and more beasts were pouring out from the top. It truly did look like a spider’s nest.
‘I’m starting to understand a bit more why everyone fears these portal breaks so much,’ Raze thought. ‘The beasts, they are flooding to the portal.
‘It’s as if they have found a way to escape from their world into the other, or something is drawing them here. They keep appearing one after the other non-stop. In this case, it’s even more dangerous when entering dimensions.
‘At least in a dimension, the beasts are spread out through the world.’
All of this led Raze to think of another thing: why didn’t portal breaks occur on Alterian? If they were attracted to magic, then surely portal breaks would occur all the time on Alterian.
“It would be best if all of the students head out from here and head to the main courtyard.”
The voice, it was a familiar one. It was none other than the Vice Principal Amir who had arrived at the scene as well. Heading to one of the side walls, Amir then rushed forward, pushing off the ground.
The stone flooring was destroyed beneath his feet, and then with the side of his foot, he bashed right into the wall, tearing part of it down leading into the main courtyard.
The students could see it; they could see that the other students had gathered in the main courtyard, and the teachers from all over were there protecting them. It was an open area, but it was easier for the teachers now that they had teamed up.
“Hey, you guys protect the kids; I’m going to try to get rid of as many of them as I can,” Gunther claimed as he pulled out his two swords and raged forward.
He ducked under the first beast and slid under the ground, raising one of his swords up, he slashed the belly of one of them right in half. When he stopped, he spun and slashed several of the beasts around him.
He continued to swing his arms, taking beast after beast down like a madman obsessed, but the truth was Gunther was in his element. He regularly before this entered dimensions after dimensions, and his tactic was to just kill whatever he saw in sight until he would get the dimension boss to come out.
The students were in awe as they witnessed beast body after beast body falling to the ground. It was scenes like this, which made one want to become a Pagna warrior.
Back at the base itself, the Red Headband students were starting to evacuate, and Dame was ready to lift Raze out of there, but before he did, he shook his head and then pointed to the Principal.
Raze wanted to see the power of the enemy he was going up against; he wanted to see just what it would take to bring him down.
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Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 383 A Suspicious Dragon
The creatures were continuing to pour out in large numbers, crushing the tiles from the Red Student base completely. It was looking bare, and now the beasts were barely hanging onto the structures underneath before they leapt off them.
Large parts of the walls had been destroyed, looking as if they had almost been eaten away, allowing one to see the inside of the student base and the dead students who didn’t make it from the portal break.
There were more beasts than students, but the teachers were able to put up a good fight. After all, they were selected to train the future generations, so they needed to have some skill.
If the current main clan leaders were still present, then there would be no problem at all, but they had to do the best they could.
One of the creatures had come right next to Raze and Safa, but Dame quickly shifted, dodging its long legs that snapped, crashing into the floor. He then twisted his fist as he hit it right under its belly. A hole was made through the beast, causing it to fall on his fist. Then, with his strength, he hurled it away to the side.
“I don’t think protecting you in all of this mess is the hard thing, but doing so without seeming so suspicious is going to be a problem,” Dame said.
Right now, they were at the back of the Red Student base courtyard. There was a broken wall to the side where all of the others were, but they had remained because Raze wanted to take a better look at the Principal.
So far, the other teachers and Amir were the only ones doing the fighting, but they hadn’t turned around or seemed to notice them just yet. In the end, after giving the order for the students to get out of there, they didn’t care what happened to them, but for how long.
The more Dame used his Qi, surely someone would recognize them. However, that was when something large had occurred. Large chunks of the roof exploded off, flying all over the place, and escaping out from the top, standing there larger than the other beasts, were the first that the group had encountered.
It looked identical to the beasts they had been fighting, with its hard black exoskeleton and sharp fangs, only it was around three times bigger compared to the rest.
“Do you think that’s the one in charge?” Murkel asked.
“There’s only one way to find out,” Amir claimed.
With his hands behind his back, he rushed forward and jumped up. When he did, his foot landed on top of the smaller beast’s head. From each beast Amir kicked down, jumping from one to the other. When he would kick off their heads, a large explosion of Qi would occur, sending the beast’s head crashing to the ground and splattering across the floor.
It looked like he was simply walking on top of their heads, but with each kick, he was able to kill the beasts underneath him. He continued to do this and then pushed with both of his feet, jumping off one of their heads and heading right up to the rooftop.
“It looks like the Principal isn’t the only person that we really need to worry about; the Vice Principal’s strength can’t be underestimated either,” Raze thought.
He would soon see his strength. At a guess, if the other beasts were at level 3, then the larger one had to at least be at the fourth level.
Now stood on the rooftop, Amir was face to face with the large creature. They stared at each other until Amir made the first move. Leaping up into the air, he lifted his leg up until it had reached the top of his head. Then, before the creature could even react, he swung it down. The visual Qi from above made it look like a giant sword was rushing through the sky. As the bottom of his foot hit the creature’s head, the large sword Qi had sliced right through the center of its head.
The body wasn’t chucked to the ground or crushed like the others; it was a clean cut that had killed the beast. Its body leaned to the side and smashed on the remaining tiles that were available before it continued to slide and fall onto the floor, lifeless like all of the other beasts.
“I don’t think that was the boss, but I have managed to at least find where they are coming from!” Amir shouted, turning around to look at the Principal.
When he did, in the distance he could see Raze, Dame, and Safa sticking together. It was only for a moment, but his eyes had lingered on them longer compared to other areas.
Hearing these words, the Principal seemed to waste no time, and unlike Amir, he had jumped from his position and had entered right through the broken front door of the Red Student base. His Qi still lingered, making it so the beasts wouldn’t approach him, and the other teachers continued to attack them away. After that, he looked up and leapt to the second floor.
Raze, who had been staying at the back so far, then hit Dame from behind and pointed to the building.
“You want me to take you in, don’t you? You want to get a closer look. I don’t think this is such a good idea, but it’s your plan in the first place,” Dame stated as he grabbed him and rushed in, doing his best to avoid being seen and avoid the rest of the beasts.
Murkel had entered the room, the room where the portal was meant to be. It wasn’t hard to find; nearly all of the second-
floor walls had been destroyed by the beasts. The Principal slowly walked up to the portal, where beasts were still coming out.
When they did, though, they would scatter around the sides of the walls, heading in every direction apart from where the Principal currently was, and that’s when he had finally entered the room.
He looked down at the floor; there were blood parts all over the place, having been mostly torn apart by the beasts, but one of the faces and the clothing he could see on the ground.
Picking it up off the floor, he knew the symbol.
“This is from one of the Physicians, one of the ones I sent.” His head scanned around the room, and he could see several arms around the area. He had no clue whose they had belonged to, but he had come to a conclusion.
“The Physicians, did they die in this room? All three of them were sent to try and heal the boy, and then a portal break occurs. I can assume most likely that all of them are dead.
What are the chances of that? The boy ruined the plans of the assessment, and now a portal break of all things, at a time like that, is it really such a coincidence? But is it even possible for a simple student to do such a thing?”
Walking closer, the Principal had a smile on his face as he approached the portal.
“It seems I need to speak with the boy directly.”
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 384 Surpassing The Teachers
?Simyon and Liam had followed the orders from Amir. They ran out from the courtyard and escaped with the other students. After a while, they had met up with the rest of the colored headband students and the teachers that were currently present.
They were being protected by them all, but mainly Gunther, in all of this.
“Hey, I can’t find Raze anywhere or Safa, did the two of them stay behind?” Simyon asked.
“You know, you should use both your eyeballs better, since you have two, you should have better eyesight than me,” Liam replied back.
A beast had broken through, and a crowd of students were attempting to stop it. Liam jumped out of the way, and Simyon had decided to brace himself. When the beast got close, it lifted both its front legs up, trying to pierce Simyon’s body. He held onto the claws tight, and only scooted across the ground about an inch before it stopped.
“Good job, meat shield!” Liam was now above the spider, and with his wooden sword, he stabbed it down right between its head and neck, killing the beast and causing it to fall to the ground.
The students were impressed by what they had just seen. They didn’t know much about the old Red Headband group. Most of them were new students who only had an idea of what students could do based on the assessment they had taken to get in. Yet, somehow, these two were fearless and were able to take out the beast with relative ease. They wondered if they could be the same as them in two months or so.
“So did you see them, or are you just going to give me more excuses as to why you didn’t see them,” Simyon shouted back.
The two started to then bicker in front of all of the students, while the teachers continued to fight. Their amazement with them was starting to fade as they heard crude insults hurled at each other.
“You guys didn’t pay any attention, did you?” Ricktor said, interrupting the two of them. “Him and his sister stayed behind. It seems there was something that they wanted to watch.”
The two looked at each other, and now were wondering what they should do. Leave Raze behind, or go off and help him. They had quickly noticed that Dame wasn’t with them either.
“Hey, a little help would be appreciated here!” Tinson shouted.
Him and his two friends had decided to join the front lines. They had pushed forward in front of the other students and were battling the beasts head-on. They had already suffered a few hits and cuts here, but they were able to face at least one beast each, on their own, and were successfully able to beat them.
“Don’t you think those guys are showing us up a little too much?” Ricktor smiled and looked toward Mada.
His eyes were focused on one person, and one only: his brother, who was in the middle, slaughtering everything he could. If it wasn’t for him, maybe the beasts would have even overwhelmed the teachers and students.
“I need to show him, show him that I can do the same!” Mada shouted as he pushed through, knocking some of the students from behind.
Ricktor, leaving a sigh, had decided to go behind him and rushed forward as well. Meanwhile, Simyon and Liam had decided to help the other old Red Headband group. All of them rushed forward and attacked the beasts they were able to slaughter left and right. It was to the point where the students were unsure what they could even do.
The group was covering each other naturally as they attacked what they could see closest to them. At one point, it looked like Violet, one of the old females from the Red Headband group, was about to get bitten, so Ricktor had kicked Simyon from behind. His body and arm flung into the beast’s mouth, but it was unable to bite down. Simyon wasn’t so happy with how his body was being used but was happy that he was able to protect someone.
Eventually, the old group of Red Headbands, as they pushed the wave of beasts coming back towards them, had gone beyond the teachers apart from Gunther, and now, staring from behind, they were able to witness everything.
“All of them are from the Red Headband group, the old one,” the Yellow Headband instructor stated next to his colleague.
“They’re killing the beasts… what stage are they at, how can they do something so easily and push them back? Compared to the rest, the old Red Headband group is far too advanced.”
Of course, the instructors could think of a reason why this was possible. All of the instructors knew what had gone on with the old students from before.
“I think there might be something else as well… I’m quite sure about it,” the instructor gulped as he saw Ricktor tear apart one of the limbs from the beast and hurl it toward another, piercing its body with one of its own arms.
“I think these students, it’s possible that they might be stronger than all of the instructors.”
Such a thing would have been laughed off by them in the past. It wasn’t that this never happened in the past before. It was a quite regular occurrence towards the end of the second year, but for it to happen so early on, and for there to be so many of them.
It was a frightening thought that the ones under them were more powerful.
The portal had been discovered, where the break was coming from and the beasts that were coming out, which meant there was only one thing left to do.
Raze, along with Dame, had managed to reach the second floor, but they had entered from the other side of the building and were hiding behind a partially torn wall watching everything.
Safa was still with them as well. She would have refused to leave him alone, and when time was of importance, it was better than trying to argue with her.
“He’s going to enter the portal,” Dame said. “The way to stop a portal break is just like any other dimension. One needs to head inside and defeat the dimension boss.
“Or they can wait for it to come out, but who knows how long that would take at this rate. Judging by the enemies, one can try and judge the level of a portal break, but the only sure way is to enter the portal.
“It’s quite possible that the beasts that are breaking out first are just all the low-ranking beasts coming out from the portal. Which is quite the risky move, but I guess he has no choice if he wants to save the academy.”
In a way, as Dame said those words out loud, he thought Raze was quite a genius. He was putting more damage on the academy, and had gotten them out of their troubling situation with one solution.
Watching from afar, it was exactly as Dame thought though. Murkel had entered the portal. His body disappeared, and the moment it did, the beasts, they were no longer coming out from the portal.
“That’s strange he only just entered? There would still be beasts coming out. I mean it’s a whole other world; it’s not like he can protect the portal entrance… can he?” Dame started to wonder, and was imagining his father in the same position.
If it was his father it would be possible, and that’s when, after a minute had passed, the portal flickered once more, and a figure was seen coming out. It was the Principal.
As soon as Murkel exited from the portal, it had closed behind him.
“He managed to clear the portal! And he did it so fast! Wait how fast was this, how could he… did he just destroy the other world!” Dame could only imagine what had occurred.
It was hard to find a dimension boss, and then to defeat one while everyone was attacking you. It was hard to comprehend just how much power the Principal had. frёewebηovel.cѳm
After exiting out of the portal, Murkel turned his head, not to face Amir, not to look out at the courtyard, but was staring directly across, right where they were hiding behind the wall.
“It appears we have some spies with us,” Murkel smiled.
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 385 Caught Red Handed
The principal had come out from the portal break in next to no time. With that, the portal had sealed up behind him, and the beasts were no longer pouring through. Just because he had cleared up the portal, though, didn’t mean it would get rid of the beasts that had already appeared on their side.
The fight was still going on, yet rather than rushing off to go and help the students and other teachers, instead, Murkel was looking in a particular direction. From where he was staring, he could see nothing but part of a broken wall that led into another room. Beyond that, was part of the main building that was broken and led to the view of the outside.
‘I ducked down as soon as he looked out our way, he didn’t spot us right? I mean, he was just gazing around, unless he was paying attention he shouldn’t have spotted us,’ Dame thought.
“It looks like we have little spies with us,” Murkel commented.
Both Raze and Dame’s hearts had sunk at that moment. The worst person to have seen them, the strongest in the Dark Faction, the principal had caught them. Not only that, but by his side was the vice-principal who they also realized had great strength.
‘Raze is injured, and I’m still at the 6th stage. Even with items and pills, it will be impossible to beat those two.’
For a while, the two of them stayed hidden. Maybe he had just spotted them but had yet to confirm it was them. Dame had wanted to stay down, that was until Raze stood up, revealing himself.
Now that the cat was out of the bag, Dame had done the same, standing up, and awkwardly started to scratch his head.
“Sorry about that, it was just when you told us to move and get out of here, well, there was a beast in our way!” Dame explained. “We managed to deal with it, but then seeing how all the beasts were scared of the principal, we thought that this was the safest place.”
A reasonable explanation was the best one Dame thought. Surely the principal wouldn’t be a person to jump to conclusions, and speaking of jump, right there and then, he and Amir had leaped from their side all the way over to the other side.
They landed and were now standing in one of the student’s rooms that had been destroyed into pieces.
“You should make sure the rest of the beasts are dealt with; I can handle this,” Murkel commented.
Even Amir didn’t like the sound of those words, as he hesitated for a moment and looked at both Raze and Dame, but he complied and jumped away to where the others were.
“Before this portal break occurred, I don’t suppose you know what the physicians that came to meet you here were doing, do you?” Murkel asked, looking at Raze in particular.
“He can’t speak, sir, due to his throat,” Dame answered. “But I saw the physicians enter into the room; then it was all chaos, and I don’t know what happened.”
“Well, I do, and they’re dead,” Murkel answered, followed by another moment of silence.
Dame could feel his heart pounding. Even when talking, he wasn’t talking in his usual calm and joking manner in front of the principal; he was being as polite as he possibly could, just like when he would talk to his own father.
“You still have the same problem from before I can tell,” Murkel stated. “If they had met you before this had happened, I guess they weren’t able to heal you, so it’s unlikely that anyone will be able to.”
Hearing this, Raze couldn’t help but his eyebrow twitching slightly.
‘This person was the one that ordered the others to kill me, and now he’s speaking to me like this, right in front of everyone. The type of person he is, he will try and kill me with one hit. If I use the Dark magic spell Shrouded Heart, I’ll be able to protect myself like I did against Beatrix, but then I won’t have any mana to do anything else.’
Finally, Murkel acted, but he didn’t move and only spoke.
“Well, if you were able to somehow deal with physicians with the current state that you’re in at the moment, then it means that you are still somewhat useful at least. Keep proving yourself, White Dragon.”
After finishing what he had to say, the Principal had jumped out of the area, and rather than heading to where the other students were, it seemed like he had gone back to the main building.
“That was… close. Why do clan heads have to be such strange people, huh?” Dame asked. “I guess it saved us this time, but I can never know what they’re really thinking. Do you think it’s the fact that they have all this power it messes with their brain cells? They can’t experience fun anymore so they have to do strange things like this.”
Either way, Dame thought they could take it as a blessing.
The incident was clearing up quite well after the portal had closed up. With no more beasts coming out, the teachers and the students were able to have an easier time as it went on.
Then after all of that, the teachers had asked the students to stay at the main academy for the time being, while the areas were being cleared out and repaired.
The incident stayed in many of the students’ minds, especially since a few of them had died. It wasn’t an incredibly large number, but it still affected those that had yet to see anything like that before.
Then there were the reported teacher deaths; in total, 3 teachers and three physicians had died due to the portal break. Thankfully, due to the principal, they were able to close the portal quickly; otherwise, it would have been a disaster for them all.
There were a few things that the portal break allowed the old Red Headband students to gain. For one, they were given a large number of level 3 power stones due to their help in dealing with the beasts. With this, they could turn them into Qi pills and cultivate them more, and on top of that, the new students, rather than giving them any more trouble, seemed to respect them.
The school had stated that the plan was to remain the same. They were on break, and during this recovery period, they could do as they wished. Especially now that repairs were on their way.
Finally, with Safa having reached the third star, she and Dame had headed off to the back of the main building, into the forest, where they would use the statue to train.
Meanwhile, Raze continued his training on his own. Growing his strength bit by bit.
‘The second Descending Step!’ Raze dashed forward in the courtyard, then followed it up with another step. ‘The Devil’s Formation.’
He striked downward, and he wasn’t done just yet, performing another foot technique and thrusting forward, a powerful strike filled the air, as visual Qi struck around it for a few moments before disappearing.
Raze was sitting; his body was screaming in pain, but he stood up, taking short shallow breaths quickly.
‘I’ve improved… I’ve improved a lot, there’s only a few more days left, I’ll see how far I can get, and then I’ll get Safa to heal me. Everything is falling into place.’
That was until the fourth assessment was set to start, an assessment that was all aimed at one goal, making Raze’s life as difficult as possible.
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 386 The Last Day
There was only a day or so left until the principal would announce what the next assessment would be for them. This was the case for the new students who had arrived and the old students.
The two groups would be going through different assessments, so there was no need to worry about strange incidents possibly happening, at least between the two. What it meant though, was this was the chance, the one last time, for everyone to get stronger before heading to the next stage.
In the courtyard, Liam had chucked his sword up in the air and grabbed it by the handle, swinging it and clashing it right off Simyon’s body. As it bounced, he held it again and struck once more. He continued as he grabbed the sword, hitting Simyon in different areas bit by bit. It was an impressive display that would go on for a full ten minutes.
When the new students were there, they would stop what they were doing to look at what was happening.
‘I can feel it, the tension’s high after that portal break. It feels like even the teachers are on edge. They still haven’t figured out what’s happened, and no one is telling us what’s happened either!’ Liam thought as he struck harder, moving Simyon slightly, shifting his feet.
‘Raze helps us out, Dame helps us as well, telling us how to absorb these crystals to be stronger, but all of that, it’s all just so we can catch up and not be in the way. I don’t want to be an afterthought!’ Liam held out his hand, and the wooden sword was drawn right into it, holding it then with both of his hands he shifted forward.
Doing so, he slammed the sword from below as strong as he could and bashed it right in the center of Simyon’s stomach; he was lifted slightly off the ground, and his hand was seen holding onto the wooden sword.
“I want to fight by their side as an equal,” Liam said, letting out the thought from his mind.
“I know how you feel… I hate to say it, but the two of us, we’re in the same boat,” Simyon replied, as they stopped there for a moment and went on to continue absorbing the new Qi pills they had obtained.
Hopefully, they could push through and at least reach the fifth stage. With their special items, then maybe they could do something to help out.
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At the back of the main family academy building, Safa was sitting in the middle of the forest patiently. She was meditating, but what she was actually doing was absorbing a Qi pill.
She would alternate between a Qi pill and a crystal, the Qi pill to improve her stage so she could become a stage 5 Pagna warrior, and the regular crystal to try and improve her magic core as well.
Raze had actually told her, now that she was at the third star level, there was no need for her to try and increase it more. At least not for now, but she wanted to make this a regular habit.
The reason she was here though was for another reason as well. In the middle of her meditative state, loud noises were being heard in the forest. Trees falling and being torn apart, the rabbit beasts scattering off in every direction, and eventually breaking through a tree, and then hitting a large rock that was by her side, Dame was seen falling to the ground.
Right after, a large stone statue had landed in front of Safa. Its eyes were heavily fixed on Dame, and it placed its sword by its side, ready to strike again.
“Stoney, stop!” Safa commanded, and immediately the stone statue stayed in place, standing up straight.
Right after, Dame on the floor started to pull using his hands across the floor. Doing so, he inched himself forward until he was in front of Safa. He looked up, wounds covering his body, even a large cut on his shoulder that was bleeding now, and gave a smile.
“Healing, please,” Dame asked.
To which Safa just shook her head and placed both hands on the main areas of the wound, and started to use her powers.
“Why do you idiots keep training like this?” Safa asked. “I mean, do you have to get hurt so bad, is this really the only way to increase your stage level?”
“You’ll understand when you reach a point where you can’t increase your stage no matter what you do,” Dame replied. “Extreme measures are needed. Besides, the statue, it also is linked to Ricktor.
“And although the Principal and Ricktor don’t both use exactly the same techniques, they are somewhat linked in a way. The statue is at a high level, so if we are able to fight against it while it’s using Ricktor’s skill, it will prepare us the best for when we go against the principal.”
Hearing Dame’s explanation, Safa thought back to what they were told. What they had all seen with the portal break and what had occurred.
“I’m not sure this is the best idea yet. I mean, are we ready to fight?” Safa asked.
“I’m sure they’ve been ready to fight for a while. The real question is, do we think we can win?” Dame replied. “And the longer we spend in the academy, the more I feel like we don’t have a choice.
“The Clans now have a vendetta against Raze. I’m sure Feebie will even try her best to come after him. She will be the first to strike, I’m sure of it. Once we get rid of her, the war will have already started.”
“And this is working. Remember before, I couldn’t even get a hit on the statue, now both of us are fighting, I may be getting beaten, but I’m lasting longer and longer than before.”
Dame was actually taking a page out of Raze’s book. After seeing him progress just a little, he was seeing it build up, and he needed to do the same. Push the small steps forward until he could eventually break through.
If he could just fight the statue for a second longer than last time, then that was an improvement. Even if he didn’t reach the middle stage, he would be the strongest initial stage warrior there was in existence, until his body needed to break through. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
“The next test, it will be announced tomorrow,” Safa moved her hands, having healed the biggest of wounds and now went towards Dame’s ribs and was working on that area next.
“The month, it’s up… the next test, it’s most likely where they will go after Raze… and most likely when the fighting will start, we don’t have any time now, this is it.”
Dame was quite surprised about how insightful Safa was because she was right. Which was why he was pushing himself even harder than he had done any other day before.
Right now, he was regretting his earlier days. Just how much stronger would he have been if he had always been like this?
Just then, Dame stood up, his body fully healed and ready to take on the statue again. The sound of rustling leaves behind them was heard, and the two of them turned their heads to see someone surprising to say the least.
“Raze!” Safa called out. “You should be resting!”
Raze shook his head as he looked at Dame, and in a soft, croaking voice that was barely audible, he managed to say a few words.
“Let’s… fight.”
It was quite clear that Raze still hadn’t healed from his condition, and yet he wanted to fight with Dame. If he did, did it mean he really thought that he could win?
Dark Magus Returns
Chapter 387 The 4th Test
When both Safa and Dame had heard the request from Raze, that he had wanted a fight, they thought he was crazy. Sure, he had done some stupid things in the past, but they had seen him in the courtyard just a couple of days ago.
He was only able to perform a few simple moves, so if he wanted to challenge himself, then wouldn’t it be better if he was to ask someone like Simyon or Liam, not going straight to the top.
Dame before was the strongest in the group and currently was. The two had never fought at full strength before, and even fighting now, it wouldn’t be at full strength.
But all of that changed after the fight had occurred. The trees in the area, they had broken and fallen on top of each other, vines tangled. The ground beneath them, there were several craters from the aftermath of the fight.
Safa herself could only step out now slowly that the fight was complete, and soon after, she started to run over to a fallen Raze. He looked intact on his body, there wasn’t a scratch on him.
However, blood had dripped out from his mouth and onto his uniform. He was wheezing even worse than he usually would.
“I don’t even care what you say, I’m helping you now!” Safa said.
Raze, even in the state he was in, reached out to grab her hand and shook his head though. Safa didn’t understand, so she did what she could. For some reason, he wanted to stay in the same state that he was in before, so she would at least do that, and heal him up back to the point where he could kinda breathe.
Dame, who was standing there, his shoulder of his clothing torn, a deep cut on him. He looked at his own hands and they were shaking, shaking from the adrenaline that had rushed through his body at the fight that had just occurred.
“How is that possible, how were you able to fight this well, even in the condition you were in!” Dame said in disbelief.
Even though he was the victor, the match wasn’t as easy as he expected it to be. The progress Raze had managed to make as well, it was unheard of.
‘I’ve been practicing, pushing myself beyond what I could. I’m not the same as I was before either after fighting that statue non-stop. But for Raze. He’s been fighting with his throat all messed up, making it hard for him to breathe.’
‘Since his breathing is disrupted, his Qi is as well. Right now. It doesn’t matter if he’s at stage 6. If a glass is the same as one’s dantian, at the moment Raze is limited by the amount of Qi he can use due to the size of the straw because of his breathing.’
‘He can only take so much Qi at a time, and if he tries to take more than the straw can handle and force it, it will strain the straw itself. He’s stayed in this state, straining the straw, allowing him to use more Qi, but not just that.’
‘He’s also figured out a way to condense the Qi in his dantian before releasing it to where it needs to be. Doing it this way, he can pass more Qi through and still use more moves.’
Dame started to wonder, was it something that he could have done if he was in the same situation as Raze. It wasn’t something normal people could do, so why could he? What was driving the Dark Magus so much to keep pushing himself?
Even now, where he can heal and have relief in his life from the pain, he isn’t, all for the sake of getting just that bit stronger.
‘Right now, Raze is restricted by all of these things. It’s like there are chains wrapped around his dantian and body, but when those shackles come off, I don’t want to be the one that faces him.’
“If you’re done with him, we need to keep up our own training, right?” Dame smiled.
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Everyone worked as hard as they could, pushing themselves further than they did before. Unaware, it wasn’t just Raze and his group working hard either. Tinson and his two friends pushed themselves.
Even though they had been saved thanks to Raze in the last test, the same couldn’t be said for the upcoming one because they had no idea what it would be.
Then there was Ricktor, and Mada. After seeing his brother fighting, Mada had a fire lit up in him again. He had been too focused on Raze in the past, but now he had to worry about himself.
As for Ricktor, he was just one of those types that always worked to his fullest regardless of the situation. It was how he got to where he was now.
Only they knew how much they had improved, how much stronger they had gotten, and finally, the group had been called to meet at the main courtyard.
Before they had been called out, the first-year students had been called. They had gone to the library quite early and returned all of them learning the new skills. Then it was time for the second group of only ten, the ‘Second-year’ students as they were referred to, even though they had only been here a few months.
Standing out in the courtyard, the principal was nowhere to be seen. Instead, Amir was standing there, but he wasn’t alone.
By his side, there were ten adults. All of them dressed in heavy black robes that covered their entire clothing. On their faces, they bore a mask that covered half their face with two large fangs that bent upward.
“They don’t look like the normal teachers, I’ve never seen them before,” Simyon stated.
“That’s because they’re not teachers,” Ricktor replied. “They’re from the same clan as me, they’re from the Erupting Fist Clan, and the same clan as the Principal.”
In the usual case, there were only so many personnel that were allowed in the academy from each Clan. The rest would need to be made up of the vast number of Clans in the Dark Faction or wanderers like that of Amir.
Due to the recent events, with the number of deaths that had occurred, it had given the perfect excuse for there to temporarily be more members of the Erupting Fist clan.
‘They look quite strong, this isn’t so good,’ Dame thought.
“Treasured students.” Amir started off by raising his hands and a large smile on his face. “We have been faced with great trouble recently, but as suspected our treasured and best students all managed to survive, and it is great to see that.”
“The time has come to finally talk about the fourth assessment, and first, I must inform you, None of you will be going to the tower just yet, and you will understand once I explain to you the contents of the assessment.”
“The next test is, Dimension exploration.” Amir announced.
Raze had heard of this; he had heard that the academy had portals that the students were able to use, and it looked like they could finally use them, but it was a little too late as Raze had entered a number of portals and even made large connections on the outside.
“Each of you will have a month to access the dimension. You may come in and out. What we suggest is everyone to head into a portal, and in doing so, you know what you are dealing with.
“Once you know that, you are to choose your skill and head back in. How long you spend in the other dimension is up to you; the only thing is, the month is the limit. There is one more thing to mention to you all.
“Each of you will be heading to a separate portal on your own. This is something that you must survive through your own power.”
Dame glanced at Raze because he had a feeling that while Raze was on his own, a certain person would target him. Maybe it was time he healed up.
