First Princess Assassination Incident (7)
Korn Ronezia, the principal of Reynolds Academy,
was currently frowning, her brow furrowed in deep bewilderment.
The moment she stepped inside the banquet hall, having deactivated the barrier surrounding it,
the first things that hit her were the metallic scent of blood and the sickening smell of burning flesh.
"What in the world..."
"Good heavens."
"By the gods."
The other professors, noticing the same, wore expressions of shock.
What in the world had transpired to bring about such a stench, reminiscent of a battlefield?
Korn judged the situation to be far more serious than she had initially anticipated.
The smell of blood that wafted past her nose wasn't from just one or two people.
It was the stench of at least ten or more.
"......Damn it."
She clenched her fists, issuing orders to the professors standing behind her.
"Senior Professor Lucas and Professor Aron, you'll assess the situation with me. The rest of you, assist in evacuating the students. The students' safety is our top priority."
""Yes, ma'am!""
With resounding voices, the professors dispersed throughout the hall.
Despite the chaotic situation, their calm and composed demeanor as they carried out their duties was truly professional.
Korn glanced at the professors moving with swift steps, then turned her head.
Her gaze was drawn towards the source of the stench,
the center of the banquet hall.
"Damn it...!"
Korn gritted her teeth, kicking the ground.
Her long, flowing red hair swayed as she crossed the hall, now a scene of utter chaos.
The next moment,
as Korn reached the center of the banquet hall, she involuntarily stopped in her tracks.
The scene before her was so horrific that it was impossible to believe this was an academy.
Korn had to rub her eyes in disbelief.
White tables were stained crimson with blood.
Pieces of flesh, like arms and legs, lay scattered across the carpet.
The stench of blood that had been assaulting her nose originated from these remains.
Korn was momentarily speechless, the scene reminding her of the battlefields she had witnessed in her youth.
The only silver lining was that the mangled corpses weren't those of the academy students.
They were all clad in jet-black robes with a butterfly emblem.
"The Seekers...?"
Despite the simple characteristics,
it was enough for Korn to discern their identities.
They were the vermin she had tirelessly dealt with until just two years ago.
"To think they were lying low all this time, only to commit such an atrocity...!!"
Only then did Korn recall the type of barrier that had enveloped the building.
Intricate and sophisticated.
A barrier designed to be impenetrable by conventional magic.
It was a feat only the Seekers, who had achieved significant advancements in magic through countless human experiments, could accomplish.
Of course, they could simply tear through the barrier with brute force,
but it was a fact that they had been delayed.
'As expected, the target of the attack was the princesses...? Where are they...?!'
As Korn anxiously scanned her surroundings,
Professor Lucas, standing beside her, shouted,
"Principal! There's a student collapsed over there...!"
"What...?!"
A student collapsed amidst this field of corpses?
Korn hurriedly turned her gaze in the direction indicated by Professor Lucas.
There, she saw a boy lying sprawled on the ground, his back covered in blood and flesh.
The pale-faced boy lay motionless, drenched in blood, as if dead.
"Is that...?"
Coincidentally, Korn knew the boy well.
"Student... Raiden?
In the midst of this gruesome spectacle of life and death,
lay the Academy's most notorious delinquent.
.
.
.
A student was lying amongst the corpses, seemingly taking his last breaths.
"Student... Raiden?"
Despite her shock, Korn reacted swiftly.
She quickly approached the boy and carefully examined his condition.
Raiden's body was a mangled mess.
Both arms were mangled beyond recognition.
His legs were swollen and discolored, occasionally twitching in pain.
Even his left eye was half-gouged out from a deep wound.
Raiden was currently teetering on the brink of death.
Korn gasped in horror and turned around.
"Lucas!!"
"Yes, Principal!"
"Quickly take this student to the infirmary! He's on the verge of death!"
"Right away, ma'am!"
With an urgent look on his face, Lucas lifted the boy and immediately disappeared.
Left alone, Korn stared down at her hand, still stained with Raiden's blood.
Then, she clenched her fist and glared.
"......The Seekers."
They dared to harm my students,
in my domain.
"You've really pissed me off this time."
Korn unleashed the mana she had been suppressing, sending a telepathic message to the other professors.
[Gather the students who are unharmed and find out what happened in this banquet hall.]
[Everything, without exception.]
[It appears the attackers are the 'Seekers'.]
[The number that infiltrated the Academy is unlikely to be all of them.]
[From now on, the faculty will devote all our efforts to searching the Academy and eliminating the hidden enemies.]
[Torture won't work on those bastards, so prioritize elimination over capture.]
[I'll give you two hours.]
[Those goddamn sons of bitches.]
[Bring me their heads.]
Upon receiving the chilling message, the professors began to move with coordinated efficiency, each taking on their assigned roles.
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ReplyDeleteTorture don't work lmao.. for you it don't
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