The Almighty School (9)

"I'll leave you with my favourite pet, Flower that's a AAA-class monster. If you manage to kill her and survive, we'll tell Ailes that you died before we could save you. If you die then, we'll still tell Ailes that you died," she viciously smiled.

I frantically nodded my head. A whatever A-class monster was better than a s-class one. I directly looked up at their faces, "I agree."

"Then please die," her words rang throughout the barrier as she left with the other humanoid.

One problem was officially solved for another one to appear. Flower, the giant titan who resembled a human being with no brains had a collar around its neck. She pounded on the barrier, slowly blasting each of the layers on the barrier away, one by one. At this rate, this wasn't much better than the previous situation.

"You know the humanoids?" Claire popped up from behind.

"A bit, they may have followed us to the school. But they're gone now," I didn't bother to add the rest of the sentence where their pet was trying to kill us in their place.

"But this overflowingly gorgeous older sister with an equally pretty heart wouldn't mind, would she?" I played with her arms.

"Of course not, we're in the same fraction. I'm just trying to know what to cover," she repeated the same words I heard from Lucius and Ben.

Claire walked towards Yulian before slipping outside the barrier to join the rest of the volunteers who were struggling to put a single scratch on the monsters. With her firm demeanor she yelled, "the bird's weakness is ice, the furry creatures are weak to light, bunnies are fire, reptiles are air, titans are earth and wolves are water."

"Watch this older sister Rika!" Claire yelled at me.

A whole swarm of monsters that surrounded her instantly obliviated into ashes. She threw many variations of spells with different elements, switching between them every second. It reminded me of splendid fireworks as all the other students admired her efficient fighting style. Colours flew up into every direction to aim at the monsters rushing to consume her mana.

So this was what reliable high school students were like. She rushed to help the students who were struggling the most to then move onto the next group once they were all wiped out. She flew in the air like a fairy as the swarm didn't feel as intimidating anymore. However, we still had to take care of Flower, whose target was sorely on me.

"We need to take care of Flower while Claire takes care of the rest of the swarm," Yulian walked towards me.

"We just came back from running away from them for the past several days," Luke stood in front of me.

"Then will you fight in her place? The Impalia fraction helps each other out. This is our rule," Yulian narrowed his eyes.

"You joined the Impalia fraction?" Luke turned to me.

"It just happened," I guiltily looked the other way.

'Didn't everything work out in the end?' I shot him a glance.

"Luke and I will go in her place," Alex joined in the conversation.

Alongside Luke who got his weapon out, Alex's sword appeared out of thin air without him chanting to summon it. I had a new perspective on those dangerous swords now after using one of those bloody mana suckers. Although they were effective on monsters, you were practically putting your life on the line.

"Follow me," Yulian accepted my replacements.

Yulian's eyes glowed as multiple swords floated into the air once he stepped outside the barrier. Each sword was dipped into a colour of the element while it spread into a large circle. Soon, a hundred swords layered in big and small circles, rotating in the air like it was nothing. Maybe this was the reason why the Impalia fraction was famous.

I had never seen anyone else who was able to control their mana perfectly to the extent of Claire and Yulian to maintain their output of powerful spells. Flower turned her neck as all the swords floating in the air rushed into its back. But instead of showing any signs of damage from the large attack, she grinned like she found an interesting toy.

She sprinted towards Yulian, not noticing the sharp daggers made from diamonds, dropping down from the sky from Luke's spell using his sword. The daggers were also dipped into the colours of all the elements, producing an artificial waterfall of rainbows targeting the monster. When she was confused why her body felt itchy from the daggers that stuck into her skin, Alex took the chance to surround her with fog full of the smell of poisonous flowers.

She started to sneeze as Yulian immediately summoned more swords towards her direction with a different set of elements this time. But none of them made a big impact as some of them bounced off her tough skin. Think Rika, what was that monster's weakness from what you've seen so far?

Ordinary elements didn't work. Only Luke's light spell made a slight difference with Alex's spell deriving from the dark element. Flower wasn't a a-class monster for nothing. What mixed both the light and dark elements from the spells you know of?

Yulian, who followed my train of thoughts, immediately switched to dip his swords into the light and dark elements. Combined with Luke's light spell that sliced the whole land into half for miles and Alex continuing the fog, Flower grunted in pain for the first time. A tiny scratch appeared on her left calf from their efforts.

"What are you thinking Rika?" Luke shouted when he noticed me slipping outside the barrier with an iffy idea.