Skirmish

Hi! It's me, the God of Knowledge. Like before I'm here to be your battle announcer. Cause unlike the orientation, this one is a lot more… something.

Well, let's just enjoy the story, shall we?

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"Your Highness, get up! You kids need to get out of here, A.S.A.P!"

Anyone can hear the dread in Mahanta's Voice. The arrival of the Void was way beyond his expectation.

"Revian, Althea, take your teammates away! Go! Go! Go!"

He shouted the order for the archstudents to run, they're not ready to face the Void just yet.

Revian with no time lag quickly got back to his four-legged form and made a room for all of his mates to enter. Everyone except Sahasya instantly teleported inside, while the boy jumped from air to air with his left shoulder still leaking blood from the chopped arm.

The two dragons immediately dashed out when all their mates were in, leaving the battlefield to the professional. At the same time, Mahanta looked at 7 of his enemies, who menacingly walked towards him.

"Forsaken cinder, Is that a Yaksha!? I can't fight that alone."

Among the void person who came, one of them is wearing a demon mask, while carrying a double-sided spear. The Guild called them Yaksha, one of the S-Rank targets which can only be taken out by highly coordinated Gold team or above which consist only of main blood, and equivalent to a High Platinum Rank Guild member.

"Tch! Guess I need to run away too." Mahanta retreated while assessing his enemy composition.

In the meantime, on Sahasya's side, they finally got away from the Uhndak's camp, rushing themselves to head back to the Academy.

"Argh, shit that's hurt…" Sahasya groaned, clutching his shoulder as hard as he could.

Althea cast her first aid and attached her life-blessed metals on Sahasya's shoulder, back, chest, and the side of his torso, and as time passed, his arm started to grow back, born just like a new one.

"Ah… that's better, though my armor is now torn, it'll be riskier to fight like this…" Said Sahasya while awkwardly waving his new arm, it felt surreal after losing one just now.

"It won't make any difference, protection like your uniform and chainmail can't help you from the void."

Suddenly Mahanta came through the room's window and commented on the boy's rant.

"Sir Mahanta, you finished them off already?" Anna asked, quite surprised with how quick that was.

"No, I'm running away just like you guys haha, they're too much for me to handle without a proper team (or at least one of them is)," Mahanta answered with a calming laugh.

"Wait, so they after us now!?"

After Hada pointed that out, everyone quickly peeked through the back window, and there they saw all 7 of the Void person chasing them with a flying pseudo-black circle on their feet.

All of a sudden, a black arrow was shot and crashed into Revian's tail. A white mist emitted from it, sending a negative aura all around, though it failed to stuck itself on Revian's body.

"Looks like we're going to have a skirmish with them, Hada, Falisha, go to Althea's room and do whatever you have in mind!" Sahasya behested after seeing his enemy attacking.

"Will do!"

Since both ice twins are now in their combat mode, the two of them instantly blinked to Althea's room, teleported themselves with magic known only to the Scientist.

Not long after, a bunch of ice monkeys started crawling on Althea's back, and all of them brought an ice mirror in their hand. They then aimed and faced those mirrors to where the enemies were.

From the room, Hada rapidly swung his bara sword over and over, and crescent-shaped ice waves began shooting themselves into the enemy's line.

One of the seven void people wore a wizard hat on their head, and he gestured his hand close to one another and cast several black circles in the air, absorbing most of the attack Hada threw at them.

What I mean by absorb is literal, those elemental waves got sucked into it.

At the same time, the other void person raised their arsenal and shot whatever they got in hand at the two dragons. Arrow, dagger, magic, you name it.

"Yo! This girl is a healer blessed by the Tree of Life! Hitting her is a war crime you know!?" Said Hada angrily.

All those attacks hit, but none were able to penetrate both of the dragons. Either their skin is too strong or the enemy projectile is too weak.

On the Revian's side, Sahasya and Anna rose their firearms and rain their bullets at the Void, but unfortunately end on a similar fate as Hada's attack. Hazana also tried to send her lightning to no avail.

"Can you curse their feet or something Chiya?" Sahasya asked the ashen lady since she's the only one who attacks without any projectile.

"No, not for now, their flesh and blood are so foreign to me, I need to understand more of it if I were to put any of my magic on them," Chiya answered with a disappointed face.

"Sir Mahanta, before, you said that my uniform and chainmail is useless against them, why?" Asked Sahasya while continuing his attempt at shooting the enemy.

"Ah!"

Suddenly a black needle manages to get through Revian's window and stuck itself on Chiya's upper chest.

"Blaze me…"

Seeing how having those windows open only be less advantageous for them, Sahasya then decided to ask Falisha to close it with an ice shield.

Sadly you can't shoot through it, since Falisha isn't a Fui Malianis (Support) (Siska's mage who excels in the art of magic shield), but at least they can see what's happening on their back.

"To answer your question, I'll be dividing Void's attack as melee and ranged—"

While Sir Mahanta was about to explain, Sahasya move closer to Chiya, grasp her chest real hard, and forcefully take out the black needle which stuck on her body. The lady moaned loud and seemed to be enjoying it a lot.

Sahasya also signals Althea to not do anything, cause he wanted to see how Chiya's body heals on its own. The black needle is thicker than a man's finger so the wound is pretty big and visible.

"Continue please, kind Sir." Bid Sahasya to his current Watcher while his eyes still fixated on the wound.

"As you wish…" Mahanta felt like he just witnessed something he wasn't supposed to.