The Battle within the forest part 1

Three spears came flying towards the

squad. One struck the ground, while another flew towards Kyle. He silently drew

the longsword at his waist and sliced it away in an instant. On the other side of

the group, the last spear pierced Steven's torso. "AAAHH! Take it out —

someone take it out!!" Steven yelled as he thrashed about wildly, beyond all

sense of shame or decorum. Panicking from the pain, he lunged towards some

male students nearby.

"Whoa! Stop it!"

"H-Hey! Don't come this way!"

Steven fell on top of some male students.

E-Exterminating the monsters comes first !" Collette was the first

to come to her senses after Kyle and Nathan after the sudden atrack.and snapped others out of their stupor.

"...Defense positions! Men in front, hold your shields and protect big sister

with your wall! Rear guard will launch a barrage of offensive magic.

Collette, you assist with the healing. Take your positions!" Nathan ordered,

reorganizing their formation.

The battle from that point onwards was overwhelmingly one-sided. The front

guard became a wall of shields, while the rear guard healed the injured and

killed the monsters with their offensive magic.

Nathan went on an rampage after that killing many monsters. Kyle also killed some monsters in self defense. That much was a given — the ability to use magic made humans far more

powerful.

Even the very first level of offensive magic taught at the Academy was enough

to gravely wound a human. In a head-to-head battle, any one of the students

present had enough power to take out a group of goblins by themselves. This

level of magical power was why the standard fighting tactic for sorcerers when

facing non-magic users was to maintain a mid-to long-range distance from their

opponent. There was no way they would lose as long as they kept that up, short

of their opponent having enough mobility to dodge or a high level of defense to

block the magic attacks.

Annora and other girls launched a barrage of lightning bolts that

blew away the remaining goblins. Their bodies vanished, leaving behind

enchanted gems and concluding the battle. There were some students who had

been injured, but Collette had helped Eira keep the healing up under

Nathan's orders.

After the battle as soon as everyone started rejoicing thinking the battle is over.

MRROOOOH!"

Suddenly, a monstrous roar echoed from the forest; the sound was loud

enough to shake the trees. The startled animals in the forest fled all at once,

making the students flinch.

Thump, thump, thump, thump. The noise of something hitting the ground

sounded rhythmically, then fell silent for a beat, before an even louder sound reverberated. It was as though something enormous had taken a running leap.

Then, many giant figures emerged from the forest, looming in the sky.

"W-What is that?" A girl exclaimed as she looked up above them.

They were large humanoid creatures, holding a swords carved from stone... But they

clearly wasn't human. Their mouth curved into a fearsome grin when it spotted

the students below, before it landed back in the forest. A thunderous roar

echoed alongside the tremor of its landing. The ground shook like a small

earthquake had occurred, causing the weaker parts of the cliff to crumble away.

"W-Watch out for the cliff!" Annora yelled, prompting the students to

scramble away from the edge — but they didn't enter the forest. The forest

contained that creature, after all.

"It's heading this way, Nathan ! What do we do?" Collette yelled, wanting

Nathan to take the lead command. Her face was clouded with little fear.

Some students were almost shivering from fear.

Nathan thought for a moment and then said. "Everyone get ready, we are going to make a path and charge inside forest at my command. Tgeir presences was so daunting, several of the students' faces twisted in fear, and

cowered in terror with quivering legs. But on Nathan's command they readied themselves to charge into the forest. Step by step it approached, until the

students finally had a clear view of its whole body.

They had a demonic bull's face, with thick, pointy horns on its head. Its eyes were

brimming with madness, and glowed a menacing, crimson red.

Its frame must have stood over ten feet tall.

The body was covered in rough, black skin, and bulged with huge, rugged

muscles. A whip-like tail snapped about behind it. Its teeth wete like that of tiger.

"Everyone charge." Nathan gave orders to everyone to charge inside the forest.

As soon as Nathan gave orders Annora fired the first shot.

A geometric formula appeared at the end of her staff and launched a dense

ball of lightning. The thunder ball, which was about three feet high, crackled in

the air as it drew close to the monster's head, sparking hope back into students'

eyes. But—

"MRROOOOOHH!!"

The bull-headed giant gave a tremendous howl as it raised its stone sword

upwards, before bringing it down on the thunder ball in a crushing swing. The

impact sent a cloud of dust into the air like an explosion.

"Wha..."

Even Annora was lost for words.

The monsters started laughing eerily. But Nathan took this oppurtunity and charged towards monsters from within the dust. His peed was so fast that monsters could barely react he slashed down the sword in his filled with magic onto the monster's neck. The monster could barely block it fell down certain steps back. After seeing this the other monster's were stunned for sometime.

"Everyone run into the forest now."

At Nathan's order everyone increased their physical strength to max and ran into the forest into the full speed. But a monster suddenly slashed with his sword

"Nooooooo!"

It killed 3 male and 2 demale students at the rear of the group. They were completely turned into paste by the attack. It was also about to hit Kyle and other two female and a male student but Kyle dodged the attack and saved other three students too.