"Maria, Let's go!" Seeing the supposed event is now in jeopardy, Luna was prepared to take Maria with her.
"But what about the others?" Maria looked at Helena and Lucy amidst the chaos, robed individuals kept appearing from every entrance as they slaughtered knights and opposing students.
Maria thought of others first before herself which is quite admirable, but those kind of people are the first one to die; "Luckily, I'm here...System how many points?"
*Host has 4073 SCP
"Appraise!"
Demonic Beast; 5-tailed Elemental Hare-fox {Level; 28}
Passiv Skills; [CldRst;5], [PsnRst;3], [RpdHpping;2],
Active Skills; [TailShift], [Harden;3], [WtrMgc. ;4], [FireMgc. ;3], [ErthMgc; 3], [NtrMgc. ;3], [MtlMagic; 2]
Active titles; M-idol, Beast Swindler,
"This will have to do!" Luna then used Appraise on the thin man.
Race; Human {Level; 59}
Passive Skills; {Fear;3}, {Insanity}, [DaggerMastery; 6]
Active Skill; {Shadow Hand; 6}, {Blink; 5], [DoppelGanger; 4], {Berserk]
Just as Luna finished reading Clown's info. he felt a weird sensation coming in front of "her". Luna saw Clown looking at her, Clown smiled as their gazes met. "Oh, SH*T," Luna thought.
After Clown finished killing Gerard, he then ordered a group of robed peoples to go and capture the Royal Twins. Suddenly, he disappeared from his original position, the robed peoples then proceeded to capture the twins.
"hehehe, what a cute looking bunny. Is this your bunny little girl?" a creepy voice was heard behind Luna's back, Clown has reappeared behind Luna as he slowly touches Maria's throat neck with his nails.
A stone spike suddenly appeared below Clown piercing him from his bottom to his head. Suddenly, Clown's body disintegrated into a pile of sand. Surprisingly Clown's voice was heard from somewhere; "Oooh so feisty! I'd love to have you part of my collection. How about it?"
Luna recalled the moose's head on his friend's father's cottage. Imagining his head on a display gives him the chills.
Luna then disappeared and was replaced by a gust of wind, Clown looked around as he smiled and gazed upwards. Luna was up above using her tail as a spinning drill which was only possible thanks to her skill, Tail Shift combined with Harden. Just as Luna was about to "drill" into Clown's head, A another "Clown" was appeared above Luna slashing a pair of dagger towards her head.
Luna wasn't sure if her fur could block the incoming dagger, having a so little time she immediately casted a fire spell. A scorching fire in the shape of a tornado blazed towards Clown. After Luna drilled unto Clown, she found out that "clown" already became a pile of sand under her, Clown has already passed through the tornado, filled with burnt scars.
Far from what she envisioned, the daggers actually slashed just a hair away from her ears. Luna was shocked as she thought Clown would be blown away by her spell. Clearly, it was all thanks to her lack of experience, back in the forest the pack were at the front fighting and him shooting arrows from time to time.
Just as Luna was in thought, Clown has already kicked her petite body as he uttered "You actually know fire spells? I was certain you were a 5-tailed rabbit only proficient on water spells!", Clown didn't know that Luna has dyed her Penta-colored tailed into a pure white, Mara dyed it this morning in preparation for the performance.
Clown then got enlightened as he remembered a "Stone Spike" heading for his butt, he thought this was casted by the girl. He was delighted as this rabbit actually uses different types of magic, which is actually rare as only some strong individuals possessing an 8th-grade mark then can only use different magic.
"Lucky me, not only you're a 5-tailed rabbit-beast, you can also use different attributes of magic!" After that, another burnt clown appeared beside his original body, and another one again appeared until they were 8 clowns.
The squad of Clows then disappeared, as multiple hands appeared out of nowhere and held each of Luna's tail. Then a hand with a dagger tried to cut her tails, but just before it hits her fur the tails actually shrunk back to Luna.
Luna then propelled herself up in the air using a basic fire spell as she searched for Clown's main body. A pair of hands appeared and grabbed Luna's ear as it thrashed her back to the ground.
"Luna!!!" Maria then went to Luna as she checked on her. Luna was already on the brink of being unconscious, mistaken for Luna's death. Maria teared up as she also saw the twins were taken away. Unbeknownst to her, her hair slowly turned into a jet-black color and both her originally hazel eyes became blood-red.
Meanwhile, at the castle of Itreo, a woman lying on a bed stained with blood all over her chest. The woman held the dagger stabbed on her chest as she weakly said "I'm finally going to see you sister...I'm sorry I can't protect Maria anymore...¨" she remembered the time when her sister showed up on her room in the House of Herlow with a baby on her arms, she recalled each word she promised to her sister on that day.
"Helena, take care of Eirney and Sanna in my place ok? Don't quit on life if ever you became fat again, hehehe" Her last words were carried by the cold wind as it gently blew towards the academy.
The queen casted a magic before everything else using her blood as the material which further hastened her death. After a few, while the message was slowly conveyed through Helena's necklace, Helena knew that her mother already passed away, not only her mother told her about her wishes she also told her all about Maria.
Taking up a sword from a dead student, she fought with the other students until one by one other student which were afraid to fight raised their weapons as they thought, "Even the former pig princess is fighting, if we don't fight then that means we're even worse than a pig"
...
Maria had her bloodline awakened due to her strong emotions she was feeling right now. She slowly stands up as she faced Clown if it were before Maria wouldn't dare to even breath with Clown near her but now she felt the extreme power flowing through her veins giving her the strength to comfort him.
The Clown was shocked but recovered quickly as he encountered demons before when he was out doing missions, he even took part in smuggling demons on a Slave Trade. "I never knew I'd encounter a demon in a place full of humans. You were not thinking of living together with humans without them finding out is just a wishful dream " Clown calmly said, Maria without warning dashed through Clown preparing to tear him with her bare hands.
Clown's body vanished as "he" merged with the other "Clowns" . "Demons are really talented, both in physical ability and magic but even you who lived with humans since you were young actually inherited their plain stupidity and rashness." he mocked
Maria ignored his provocations as she kept tearing his other "Body". But even "if" her body strengthened with her bloodline was stronger that Clown which weren't the case as Clown's body although looked like weak was, in fact, stronger than her. Clown's stats were worthy of a Grade 4 Assassin. Maria's stats were on par with most Grade 4 classes, but she lacked the proper technique and experience to fully unlock her potential.
Clown easily managed to beat Maria, with just a few bruises on the head. Maria was just blindingly punching him but when he actually got hit, he almost blanked out but got awaken when he was about to get hit again. Clown lured Maria into a clone, taking advantage of her pause between her attacks he managed to kick her down to the ground near Luna.
The sounds of fighting already stopped as the students who were brave enough to fight were now either lying on a pool of blood or already knelt down on the floor together with the others. Maria's cold breath can be clearly heard if one was close enough as she crawled towards Luna.