CH.253: Academy: interior.

( Yuuki's POV )

As we passed the town we saw the real Academy, the air around the place definitely screamed magical institution, entering there we were faced with new challenges, and by that, I mean that at every corner we found wizards spamming spells as soon as they saw us, this was extremely annoying when we had to go through a long corridor and couldn't even see who was casting spells in our general direction.

After suffering through those cheap tactics, I considered flooding the place and unleashing the power of a thunderstorm there, but I calmed down quickly when I found several scrolls of the sorcery they practiced in this academy, we found a safe room, and I started studying.

These scrolls we found belonged to the Carian school of sorcery, these mostly consisted of creating weapons with magical energy, that had many applications but something that immediately showed its usefulness was something called Carian retaliation, that spell combined with a shield could turn enemy magic attacks into flying magic swords that were used to counterattack, I don't use shields but if I use it combined with my precise barriers the results should be impressive.

With no doubt in my mind, I stepped out into a long corridor, and as the spells flew towards me, I activated my barriers, the floating hexagons changed to a blue color, and when they collided with the spells, they were converted into a counterattack, as intended.

With that, the sorcerers of the place were useless against me but there were other strange enemies in our way like some living puppets and iron maidens on wheels, Nothing was too much of a challenge because the puppets were easy to burn and the iron maidens turned into piles of scrap metal with my transmutation but at some point, we had to stop, a big wolf with red fur was in front of us and at that moment I was thinking about Lisanna's magic.

Yuuki: Hey if you defeat that, will you get a new animal form?

Lisanna: It's possible, sometimes I can get a new soul just with a touch.

Yuuki: Well, it's your time to shine.

I patted Lisanna on the back, and she stepped up into the ring, but she wasn't alone, Akane stepped forward to help her, and she had a new magic staff and a witch hat that we loot from here.

Akane: Let me help you.

Lisanna: Thanks, stay on the corner, I don't want you to get hurt.

Akane: Very well.

The battle began when Lisanna activated her magic and used her cat form, the red wolf's first move was to create a sword of magical energy in his mouth, he jumped on Lisanna but she was able to dodge and from his side, she gave him a swipe and a kick, The red wolf took a great leap back and used the Glitblade phalax sorcery that creates magical swords that seek out enemies, Lisanna began jumping around the room to dodge the flying swords while Akane began casting all the spells she knew.

Slowly, they were getting closer to victory, but at one point, when Lisanna approached for another attack, the red wolf jumped past her and went straight to attack Akane, she didn't have Lisanna's agility, so it was doubtful she could avoid the attack.

I moved at high speed before that happened, with one hand I broke the sword that the wolf had in its mouth and with the other I grabbed Akane and I dashed to a safe distance, at that moment Lisanna jumped on the wolf and dug her claws into its neck, the wolf kicked desperately for a moment before falling dead, a magic symbol appeared behind her and I approached her thinking that was a good sign.

Yuuki: Well, did that work?

Lisanna: take over!

She answered me by activating her magic again and gained the animal characteristics of the wolf, her claws stayed the same, but her ears and tail were more noticeable, she was also able to create a sword of magical energy.

I raised my hand, and she gave me a high-five to commemorate her victory.

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Passing the red wolf we continued advancing, collecting loot and experience until we reached the big boss room, the next shardbearer, the place was a library and the shardbearer was a woman floating in the middle of the room, she and other women who moved by crawling on the ground were extremely non-aggressive but I still had to collect the great runes so I moved forward but Lisanna grabbed my hand.

Lisanna: What are you planning to do?

Yuuki: relax, I'm just gonna borrow something from her.

Lisanna looked me in the eyes for a moment before letting me go, and with that, the women on the ground began to sing something I hadn't heard before, a barrier appeared around the shardbearer and seeing the relationship between those two things I used my [King's voice] to stop the singers.

Yuuki: [ SILENCE ]!

When I spoke, the women were physically unable to open their mouths, the barrier broke and the woman fell to the ground, I walked towards her, and with my intangible hand I took out the great rune from her, I turned around and when I was with my companions I snapped my fingers and teleported us out of the barrier to the academy.

Lisanna: You sure have a lot of skills.

Akane: That's what makes him the number one scout in our club.

Yuuki: That club doesn't even exist.

With another mission accomplished, we decided to return to our base, I opened a portal for the girls to return, and at the same time, I told them that I wanted to take the scenic route, that was so I could talk to Melina, but again I felt a hidden presence watching me.

Yuuki: I've said it once, and I'll say it again, it's rude to stare at someone without even introducing yourself.