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Chapter 6: Attack on Xyrus part 1

It's six A.M and I pulled another all nighter so what better way to start the day than to write a new chapter?

Third Person POV

"We'll be getting straight into the action today, and we'll start with Elijah Knight's point of view. The point of view is gonna switch around a bit today."

"I thought we were reacting to Arthur and Grey? Why are we seeing something from Elijah's point of view?" Alice asked, worry evident in her tone. She had grown to care for Elijah as if he were her own child along the way ever since he started living with their family.

"Because at this time, Arthur's just laying in bed. You'll see him later, now lets begin.

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"GET DOWN!" I roared as I conjured an earthen wall between the mana beasts and the other students behind me.

"ATTENTION RENOWNED STUDENTS OF XYRUS ACADEMY!" A rather high-pitched grating voice echoed throughout the campus. "AS YOU MAY ALL BE AWARE, YOUR INSTITUTION IS CURRENTLY UNDER ATTACK BY MY LITTLE PETS. NO NEED TO FEAR FOR I AM BOTH JUST AND MERCIFUL!" The voice seemed to taunt us as he said this because there was a dwarven student in the jaws of a discolored black-fanged wolf, a B class mana beast.

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Cynthia Goodsky stared at the screen in shock. "I thought we had more time?" She asked, to seemingly nobody.

"You didn't. The traitors infiltrated the school and the attack was set in motion. You weren't even there to help the students." The Librarian told her, and the regret in her eyes was visible.

"Okay." She lowered her head in shame and looked at her feet.

"You knew this would happen, director?" Claire Bladeheart spoke up.

Cynthia simply nodded her head, and Claire couldn't help but feel slightly betrayed.

"Why didn't you tell us? The whole point in the Disciplinary Committee was to stop things like this. We could have helped." Claire said, and Theodore started nodding.

"We could have saved more people, director." He said simply, and Claire nodded in agreement.

"You are only children. You would have gotten targeted more if the radical group had noticed you. I couldn't risk you all, your prodigies. This continent needs you." She told them, her head still down, and they stayed silent after that.

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Even as I conjured up a rock spear underneath the belly of the black-fanged wolf, it still had the time to take the student's life before collapsing. Gnashing my teeth, I looked away from the dimming gaze of the dwarf that was pleading with his eyes before passing away. If I didn't have experience as an Adventurer, I would've thrown up as the student's insides spilled from the fatal wound caused by the mana beast.

Instead, I calmed myself using a brief meditation technique that I had learned from cla.s.s that steadied the flow of my mana core before scouting for any other students to save.

"HUMAN STUDENTS, AS LONG AS YOU RAISE BOTH YOUR HANDS AND SWEAR YOUR ALLEGIANCE WITH ME, THE MANA BEASTS WILL NOT ATTACK YOU! ELVES AND DWARVES, DO NOT STRUGGLE AND ALLOW MY PETS TO DESTROY YOUR MANA CORE AND YOU ARE FREE TO LEAVE~ KEKEKEKE!!!" The voice's deranged laugh sent a shiver down my spine. It was enjoying the carnage that was going on in this school that had been so peaceful just hours before.

Although the radical group had been escalating their terroristic activity, this was on a completely different level. It happened so suddenly that there was no way to prepare for an event like this. As far as I could tell, though, at this point was that this stage of their plan was meticulously executed. There were no places to escape to and no way to call for help.