Damn Academy chapter 119

119 – The Circulatory System (21)

Lilith and Mathias ran until they were out of breath.

My forearms and face were scratched countless times by tree twigs, and my shins and knees were bruised from getting caught on tree roots, but I had no time to care.

Lilith looked back.

Through the dense trees, a black figure was striding forward, stretching its legs.

“Damn Lilith! Run faster!”

“It’s running!”

Now I was almost at the limit of my stamina.

As Lilith sluggishly accelerated, Mathias urged even more.

Those black spirits looked different from a few hours ago. It was strange. What at first had the shape of a man now had a deer-like head and even sprouted antlers.

He caught his breath for a moment, and in the meantime, vines and weeds wrapped around his ankles.

Lilith immediately stomped his feet away.

And they even wielded magical powers like real forest spirits. It was a shocking thing.

“This is… Nonsense.”

Lilith ran again, but he quickly reached the limit. Now I was out of breath and my vision was blurry.

On her way, a vine caught her ankle again. She couldn’t control her body and fell.

“Wow!”

Lilith tried to get her foot out, but to no avail. She tightened her ankle with a force different from before.

“Lilith!”

Matthias screamed in fright, and she hurried over to Lilith.

“This is… They tied my ankles.”

“Wait!”

Mathias took out her knife and cut off her vines. But she was growing faster than cutting. Now, at last, even the roots of the tree began to restrain her lower body.

“No, no, damn, damn it!”

Sensing that she was late, Mathias stood with her back to Lilith, holding her sword with both hands.

The black spirit, visible through the trees, quickly began to close the distance.

One, two, three, five… Heat… thirteen.

Mathias’ expression gradually began to contort as she counted her opponent. She was unable to deal with even a single entity, and her head count was overwhelming. This was a battle that could not be won no matter what.

The vines stretched out like snakes, gradually entangling his body.

Mathias repeated as he nervously struck with his sword.

“You have to block it. Can stop sh*t. I… !”

The black spirits were gradually narrowing the encirclement in a semicircle.

His hands and feet were shaking and his reason was paralyzed. The primal fear was not something that could be controlled by replaying it inside.

The calculation had already been done a long time ago. If you stay like this, you will die together.

“This is wealth, impossible. It’s over.”

Mathias put her sword in and turned around and started to run away. Leave Lilith as it is.

Lilith wrestled with her vines alone until she realized that Mathias had abandoned her and fled.

Tears began to flow at the thought that it was all over.

Lilith used her remaining strength to fire a fireball. However, it passed through the bodies of the spirits.

Finally, the black spirits surrounded and surrounded Lilith. Soon after, a long black hand began to wrap around Lilith’s neck.

My breath started to tighten.

“Collock, no, no….”

He struggled with his arms, but to no avail.

At that moment, all the black spirits stopped moving. And all 15 of them turned their heads to the west. Like detecting someone else’s movement.

There was only darkness where sunlight did not reach and thick black-brown trees. Lilith couldn’t see anything.

However, the black spirits took their attention away from Lilith and turned their ranks in that direction.

As the choke on her throat loosened, she coughed violently.

Soon thereafter, footsteps were heard rustling in the quiet woods.

Sureuk, sureuk, sureuk.

It spread in a regular rhythm, like taking a walk, but suddenly stopped at some point.

Then, a pure white light radiated from a point hidden by a wooden pole. The light gradually brightened and became so intense that it blinded my eyes and forced me to close my eyelids.

It wasn’t shining on the spot, it was getting closer to Lilith. And in the blink of an eye, the waves of light destroyed everything in front of them and passed by.

“Kyaaak!”

Lilith curled up and closed her eyes tightly for a few seconds before opening them.

Black Spirit. Trees, rocks, even dirt were cleared of everything in a straight path.

Half of the black spirits were swept away by the light, and the remaining ones couldn’t help but walk backwards.

Lilith didn’t know what had happened. She stared blankly at it.

After that, old trees whose pillars were smashed began to fall indiscriminately in all directions with a crackling sound.

With a thump, the earthshaft rang several times, and leaves and twigs attacked Lilith.

Lilith fixed her gaze on the spot where the light came from, but she couldn’t see anything because the fallen trees obscured it.

The black spirits began to resist strongly.

They utilized fallen trees. Branches and vines grew from the lying trees, blocking the approach like a barrier.

Again, light burst through the dim gaps that were covered.

Quang!

An instant roar erupted and swept away everything in the way. Lilith’s hair fluttered in the strong wind.

The waves of light mercilessly shattered all the barriers and created a straight path, making the resistance of the black spirits to no avail.

Lilith’s pupils dilated and her heart began to beat wildly. I remembered one person who could handle this level of power.

A person walked out of a straight path. A longsword made of light in one hand. In the other hand, he was holding the black spirit’s hair.

It was the masked man.

He never imagined they would be reunited in this way.

He decapitated the spirit and tossed it beside him. Then he strode towards the next spirit.

Soon after, Victor and a wolf the size of a bull jumped out and approached Lilith.

“Victor!”

Seeing Victor alive, Lilith finally burst into tears. He grinned and examined Lilith’s injuries.

“Damn it, I’m so glad to see you alive.”

Victor took her half-sword and cut off the vines that bound her, and the wolf supported her with a bite in her mouth.

Ududuk, coo goo goo-

In the meantime, an old tree with a half-destroyed trunk began leaning over their heads.

Shouted Lilith, pushing Victor away.

“No, avoid!”

As soon as I could scream, a light burst from where the masked man was, and a wave flew in and shattered the old tree above his head.

“Kyaaak!”

Wood shavings fell like pollen on their heads.

Victor continued the disassembly work while giggling as if it was absurd. It was a sight that no one could say anything about.

Victor helped Lilith and led her to safety.

While moving, she looked back at the masked man several times.

He single-handedly slaughtered the black spirits. It was such a bloody scene that the expression tearing it to death was appropriate.

“I got a message from the professor. Elias says he’s fine.”

When Victor spoke to Lilith to reassure her, she finally looked away.

“Mathias….”

“Professor Candinella will find it right away.”

“….”

When the masked man appeared, the charter turned completely upside down.

The battle ended soon after. The Black Spirit, who drove everyone into a corner, died miserably at his hand.

And the surrounding area was completely ruined as if a meteorite had fallen.

The sword finally disappeared from the masked man’s hand, and he slowly walked towards Lilith and Victor.

And beside it was a face I hadn’t seen before.

A genius elementalist. It was Luna Reilless. Lilith was momentarily speechless at the sight of her standing, like her best friend, within arm’s reach of her.

Lilith and the man looked at each other.

The masked man took one glance at Lilith, then fell silent. He didn’t even say a common greeting saying that it’s been a while.

There was silence for a while as our eyes met.

Hold it hold Lilith opened her mouth first.

“Thank you so much for saving me… Thank you… It’s so hard to say hello…?”

But no answer came back.

For Lilith, men’s greetings were the easiest thing in the world to get. It was so common that it was now as familiar as pebbles underfoot, but was coldly ignored by those who really wanted to receive it.

Her gaze fell helplessly down.

Victor looked back and forth between the man in the mask and Lilith, then said nothing.

***

Professor Candinella wrinkled her brow as she looked at the black pit from which the spirits had crawled out. Her head throbbed when she faced something that only came from the North in a place like this. Perhaps because she was fortunately under the influence of the circulatory system, she was not able to expand greatly.

Candinella bit her lip. An accident occurred during the shedding period, when her phantom power was at its weakest. As if someone was aiming for it.

She looked behind her and beckoned her students to move behind her. If she hadn’t stepped forward, they could all have been sacrificed to the pit. It could have led to catastrophe.

Twenty or so students, who had been watching with anxious eyes, backed away.

Then he started casting spells.

Accordingly, black smoke rose from the floor, and a black magic circle that looked like it was scorched by fire spread out.

Coo goo goo goo-

Soon after that, nearby stones and rocks rolled in and began to pile up layer by layer, wrapping around the broken obelisk. After the restoration of the obelisk was completed, the black pit began to be restored slowly.

After finishing the temporary sealing like that, I took a breather for a while. I was able to hold out long enough until the power of the phantom beast returned.

Candinella walked out of her seal, shaking her hands.

Then Mathias hurriedly approached her and said,

“Professor! Still, yet, I haven’t been able to find Lilith. Even now… !”

She shook her head.

“I just received a message from Victor. The kid is fine Take it easy.”

“… !”

Cecile, who was among the group of 20 just in time, shouted.

“Candy!”

All eyes turned to one place at the sudden shout.

Soon after, a masked man, Damien, walked out of the woods. After that, Luna, Victor, and Lilith followed.

Candinella said to Mathias, raising the corner of her mouth in her arrogance.

“There you are.”

Mathias looked back, but immediately his face went pale.

“Why don’t you go and say hello?”

Candinella pushed Mathias on the back, but he couldn’t stand it. He only clenched his teeth with a hostile gaze at Damian.

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“… ?”

I was wondering what the story was, but I narrowed my eyes after confirming that there was not one unusual gaze directed at Damian.

I could see the composition at a glance because I was watching from a few steps away.

“Why didn’t you reply? You were worried!”

Cecil ran to Damian and exchanged glances with Lilith. Then, suddenly, she hugged Damian tightly.

“Oh, sister!”

The Luna who was next to him, and the Saint Azelis who was restless behind Cecile. Even Lilith, who kept her mouth shut with her expression distorted. And Shion, who is opening his ax eye from a long distance away.

All of her attention was focused on Damian.

Seeing that, Candinella muttered in her heart.

‘… Silverin also has a very special pupil.’