Aldric: HUH!!?
Lona: WHAT!!?
Arnold: Are you Serious!?
Cohly: This is horrible!!
After hearing from John about the consul's plan, they couldn't help but to be in complete shock, despite that he didn't say the full truth he was able to say the important things.
John: yeah it's as you heard, and the worst part is that we don't have a lot of time in our hands.
Aldric looks at the ground with a mix of guilt and responsibility of what happened on his face.
Aldric: All that time they were setting things up right under our feet, we should've known, I should've known.
Everyone looked down at the ground, feeling guilty of not knowing any of that.
John sighs and starts explaining that he has a plan.
John: *sigh* calm down everyone, I didn't gather all of you here to make you feel bad, I actually have a plan.
Aldric: huh?! Then tell us what's the plan.
John: I'll tell you, but before that I have something to ask, do you guys trust me?
Lona: what's with that question? Of course we trust you.
With a sharp gaze and a Cold face, John doesn't smile, doesn't move his eyes from them, he's simply staring at their souls.
John: let me change my question, do all of You trust me blindly with your lives?
When these words came out of John's mouth, the area suddenly filled with silence, as if the weight of the question is holding them, but only one stepped forward to answer John's question.
Aldric: of course I do, and it's not just me Lona and the others also have the same thought, you've already saved our lives before, and I have no doubt that you'll do it again.
For a split second John's face shows a sign of surprise from Aldric words, and then his eyes turn to Lona waiting for her decision.
Lona stepped forward, and with a serious face she faced John.
Lona: John shon, on behalf of the high ranking students, both the ones who is still here and the others who left for overseas training, we will give you aid as much as we can to save the Academy, so please lead us .
With a sigh, a small smile appears on John's face after hearing these words.
John: *sigh* you know, I really thought you'd refuse to answer my question, but I guess it's true that no one can expect the high ranking students minds.
The group got closer to John as he started explaining the plan.
John: alright here's the plan, Aldric, Lona, Cohly, Arnold, I need all of you to get the guards attention near the lake as much as you can then you have to hold on there.
Lona: wait, how are we supposed to fight All those guards, you've seen the number of people, the consul made the Academy secure, there must be hundreds of them.
Aldric: Lona has a point, even if we were able to take down the very first of them, we still have our limit, and it won't be too long until we reach it.
John: I had a feeling that you'll mention that point, but don't worry, I'm not going to make you fight All that number of guards alone, I just need you to fight until the Support arrives.
Cohly: huh? What kind of support?
John: knowing what kind of support I get to help you is the last thing you need to worry about.
John noticed it's getting late, and he advised the group to get a good rest.
John: it's getting late, right now the only thing that you need to do is getting as much rest as you can, I recommend you to stay in your rooms to prepare for the battle tomorrow won't be an easy one and I can't promise you that you'll be fine after the battle, but at least you'll go out of it with some minor injurys, well, before we head back, does anyone have a question?
Arnold then raised his hand.
Arnold: I have a question, while we take care of the guards, what exactly are you going to do inside the consul lair, it's not like I don't trust you or anything, but isn't it a bit dangerous to go on your own inside the place were the consul is hiding?
John gave the group his back and started talking in a Cold tone.
John: I already have a plan to deal with the so-called Savior, if it found a way out of its seal, as for why I'm going alone, Let's just say I have an old debt to pay, let us meet behind the Academy at sunset, if that's what you guys have to ask me, then let's go to our rooms every second of rest is Precious, especially now.
With these words, John left the group, even though they have some questions, but they prefer to keep it to themselves.
[Later that night]
In his room, John is sitting on his desk chair, gazing at the horizon from his window, but suddenly, Elesa who's sitting on the bed, interrupted him with a question.
Elesa: master, I have a question, do you really have a plan or you just said that so no one gets worried?
John: hmmm, you could say that I have a plan and I don't at the same time.
Looking annoyed, Elesa started talking in a mad Tone.
Elesa: Hey, you're just playing with words, can't you just give me a straight answer?
John: alright alright, no need to get mad, I'll tell you, the plan I talked about is you.
Elesa: Huh?! What does that even mean?
John: it's very simple actually, if somehow Minsium was able to summon the Savior, I'll be counting on you to stop it.
With a mix of worry and calm expression on her face she asked the most important question.
Elesa: then what if the Savior, was something even I can't face?
John: then I'll be moving without a plan, you could say it's a gamble, but the price is my life.
With angry tone, Elesa started insulting John for his high risk plan.
Elesa: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!! WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO FIGHT SOMETHING EVEN I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT, AND YOU'RE GOING TO RISK YOUR LIFE FOR THE SMALL CHANCE THAT THE SAVIOR WON'T APPEAR, ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING?
with a serious face and a very cold voice, John gave her the answer for why he is taking the risk.
John: this is the only chance I could have to take my revenge from Minsium, if I hesitate now, who knows when I'll have a chance like this, if taking this chance means I'm crazy, then I don't mind being crazy.
Elesa: *sigh* I should've known you'd say that, oh well it can't be helped if that's what you want, by the way I was curious about something else.
John: hmm? What is it?
Elesa: you've mentioned some kind of support coming to help the others, you surely didn't mean me right?
John: oh so that's what you're worried about huh? Don't worry, I would never make my kitty work as a slave, you'll be with me All the time, as for the support, let's just say that they will be more than happy to kick the ass of anyone realated to Victoria Academy.
Elesa starts yawning and after this conversation, she's ready to sleep.
Elesa: *yawn* well, I really don't understand what you mean, but I trust you, I'm going to sleep, what about you? don't you need some rest?
John starts gazing at the window again.
John: oh, don't worry about me, I'll go to bed later, but for now, I want to stay awake for a bit longer.
Elesa: *hmph*? Oh well, suit yourself.
With that, Elesa lays down on the bed to sleep while John is thinking about tomorrow and Minsium.
John: (hmmm, I really didn't expect to see Minsium this fast after returning to the academy, not only that, but he's now the head of the consul, and what the hell is he going to summon, *hmph* will I be able to stop him before he can summon that thing? No, I shouldn't think like this right now, I only need to focus on making the plan work, *sigh* I really hope that the letter reaches the support because if it didn't reach them, I'll be with no plan for supporting Aldric and the others).
[Next day, morning]
In the west of ASTREVAL Kingdom, in what seems like a military academy, a huge number of people train outside, inside the main building and inside of an office, a man who seems to be a 26 years old with dark brown hair and X scar on the middle of his face and a serious expression is sitting on his desk, finishing some paperwork and he seems to wear a different uniform from the people outside the building, suddenly a woman with dark purple hair and the same uniform enter the office.
Woman: huh? Captain Roland you're still working? I believe that I left you on the same spot last night.
Roland: *sigh* I finished a while ago but I'm just doing a quick check, you seem a little energetic today captain Asha.
Asha: well, since we finished with the newcomers early, we still have a few days before returning to the front line with the general, I can't decide where to go first.
With an annoyed expression on his cold face.
Roland: you know, you could've helped me instead of wondering around the academy.
Asha: huh? Well I was checking on the situation around here, and besides, you're the 1st Captain, you can handle some paperwork alone.
Roland: *sigh* I should've expect that answer from you, you're the 2nd Captain and you better start acting like one.
Asha: alright alright, I'll start doing that later but now let's put a plan for our rest time, I've heard that there's a new drink in the bar of the main City, and I can't wait to try it.
Roland sighs, knowing that his words meant nothing to Asha.
Roland:*sigh*.
In the hallway of the building, a soldier is running, sprinting on the stairs until he reached Roland's office.
He opened the door with a look of panic across his tired face from running.
Soldier: *Panting* Captain Roland *Panting* Captain Roland it's urgent.
Roland: Soldier, what's going on?!
Asha got closer to check on the tired soldier.
Asha: Soldier, take a deep breath and tell us what is the urgent situation.
The soldier immediately handed a letter to Asha.
Asha: huh?! A letter? HUH?!
After checking where the letter was sent from, Asha knew that Roland must know what is inside the letter.
Asha: Captain Roland, I think you better take a look at this letter, it was sent from Cargo village, from the East of the Kingdom, that means.
Roland's face quickly becomes dead Serious as he heard the "East of the Kingdom".
Roland: hmmm, East huh?
Asha give the letter to Roland, when he opened it, he couldn't help but to stare at it.
After a minute, Roland put the letter he just read inside his uniform Pocket, he pick his uniform hat and with quick steps, he rush out of the office.
Asha, with no other choice, followed Roland, trying to understand what is written in the letter that made him act like that.
Asha: Wait, Roland where are you going?! And what's going on?
Roland answers with a cold voice.
Roland: we're heading to the East of the Kingdom, to Victoria Academy to be exact.
Asha: WHAT!? You're not serious, are you? (Just what was inside that letter that made him react like this).
In a short time, Roland and Asha have reached the front door of the building, Roland opened the door with force and while he's walking towards his horse, he starts giving orders to the soldiers who are training outside.
Roland: ATTENTION, I NEED A 150 SOLDIER FULLY PREPARED TO FIGHT ON THEIR HORSES, YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO PREPARE YOURSELVES, WE'RE HEADING TO THE EAST, THE LOCATION IS VICTORIA ACADEMY, ARE MY WORDS CLEAR TO YOU?!?!.
Soldiers: YES CAPTAIN!!!
As he reach his horse, Roland started preparing his gear while Asha started demanding some answers.
Asha: Roland wait, what's going on in Victoria Academy, and why do you need that many soldiers?!
Roland: something very bad is about to happen in Victoria Academy, and if we don't move right now, I'm afraid that We need to divide the army to deal with this problem, so the best choice for us is to deal with it now, I'll tell you the details on the way.
In a few minutes, the 150 soldiers were ready in the front gate of Fortis Vanguard Academy sitting on their horses behind Roland and Asha, as the gates opened, Roland gave the order to move forward.
Roland: IT'S TIME TO GET MOVING, LET'S GO!
Soldiers: YES CAPTAIN!!!
[A few hours later, at sunset]
20 minutes before the battle, John is looking through his window as the sun slowly disappears in the horizon, his long awaited revenge is only but a few steps ahead, and he'll make sure that the plan won't stop at any cost.
As the minutes go by, Aldric, Lona, Cohly and Arnold are preparing themselves for a very long and exhausting fight.
In his room, John picked up Elesa and put her on his shoulder as he left his room, his red eyes are dead and he's unusualy silent.
As he stood in the hallway, the two guards who's watching over this floor couldn't help but to notice the student who just left his room.
Guard 1: Hey you! What are you doing out of your room?
Even though the guard yelled at John, his cold expression remained the same.
Guard 2: haah? It seems like he doesn't understand you, let me try in my way.
The second guard walks closer to John, when he approached him, the guard puts his hand on John's shoulder and starts threatening him.
Guard 2: hey kid, don't you know that you can't leave your room without taking our permission, so I suggest you to return or else your parents gonna lose one of their kids, so what do you . . .
With a quick hit from his left hand John ripped the guard's nose off, although he didn't have a weapon he managed to rip it as if he had one.
As the guard was looking at his ripped nose on, the ground the pain start hitting him.
Guard 2: huh!? A-AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH-HMFFFF!!!
Suddenly, John grabbed the guard from his skull, closing his mouth.
When the other guard saw what happened, he pulls out his sword and starts rushing towards John.
When the other guard got closer John kicked him with a strong kick, sending the guard to the end of the hallway.
John walked calmly to the guard he just kicked and grabbed him like the other one as he starts making his way out of the building.
Behind the Academy, Aldric and the others has already cleared the way from guards and they are now waiting for John.
Lona: John must be here any moment now.
Aldric: the fact that he's not the first one to arrive here is strange when you think about it.
Arnold: even if he faces trouble in his way, I believe that he can handle it.
Aldric: yeah, I guess you're right.
Cohly: Hey look, I think this is him.
From the shadows, a human figure with glowing red eyes is walking towards them, when he gets closer, they can see that it's John, but in his hands he's still grabbing the two guards from their skull.
Without saying anything he walked beside them, suddenly he stopped and looked at them from his shoulder.
John: let's get moving.
After he said those words in a cold tone, he starts heading to the lake, the others had no other choice but to stick to the plan and follow him.
After a while, they reach the lake, John steps forward and throws the guard with the ripped nose to the ground, and told him to open the door that lead to the consul lair.
John: the door to the consul lair, open it.
The guard starts talking in angry tone because he's now taking orders from the same kid who ripped his nose off earlier.
Guard 2: YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE!!! I'D RATHER DIE THAN DO ANYTHING FOR A BRAT LIKE YOU!
John: hmmm? Very well then.
With a quick move of his hand, John took the other guard's sword, unleashing one strike on the guard in front of him, decapitating him, his head falling off his neck.
The other guard is laying on the ground behind John with complete shock, his face is getting more and more pale as he looks at the head of his colleague fall on the ground.
A mix of shock and surprised expressions on the face of the group as they see John decapitating the guard, they knew that John could do something like that, but seeing him doing it in front of them have made them realize how terrifying a person could be.
When a person believes in something, it becomes almost impossible to change their way of thinking about that thing, but history is full of those who believed in things like religions, countries, gangs, even if it was one person, history recorded a lot of people who believed in something and they were about to die for it, but when the moment of giving up their lives for that thing comes, The human's will to survive will manifest involuntarily, and the consul guard who just witnessed the death of his colleague is now experiencing the same feeling as many humans before him, he doesn't see John as a student or even a human anymore, he see him as death, any wrong move or word can simply send him to the afterlife.
John turns to face the guard, his eyes are glowing with red Mana, even though he just killed someone his voice is calm and cold as if the idea of getting his hand covered in blood is not a big deal.
John: it's your turn, open the door.
Without hesitation the guard stood up and opened the door to the consul lair,
John: hmmm, I see that you have more braincells than your friend here.
Suddenly John puts his hand on the guard's shoulder, and out of the blue, he says something completely unexpected to the guard.
John: now I want you to go and report an Attack in the Entrance.
Guard 1: huh?! b-but this means that all the consul manpower is going to come here!!!
John: I didn't ask about your opinion, and I wasn't asking at all, I was ordering you, now go.
The guard starts running through the entrance after the few words he just heard from John.
John turned to face Lona and the others, reminding them of the plan.
John: the consul's guards will be here at any second, you guys need to keep holding on until support arrives.
Lona: wait John, before you go, I just want to say that I don't agree with the way you solve your problems, or how you treat your enemies, but you're still a student in the academy, and as the one in charge of the high ranking students, I want to say, take care while you're there alone.
John: yeah yeah, I will.
With these indifferent words, John sets his foot in the Entrance and slowly disappears in the shadows using his arcane arts.
[In the collusiem room]
The seal in the ground is covered in dry blood, and a familiar person is standing beside it, holding a book with a closed eye on it.
Minsium: oh great Savior, please raise your hand and take us to the better world.
Suddenly the book's eye opens, the seal in the ground slowly starting to glow in a strange white and blue light.
Suddenly, a guard interrupts Minsium.
Guard: SIR! SIR! IT'S URGENT.
Minsium: WHAT?! You better have something urgent or I'll. . .
Guard: Sir, someone at the Entrance is Attacking us, I tried to call the guards in the academy but there's no response.
Minsium: THEN SEND ALL THE FORCES WE HAVE HERE, I DON'T WANT ANY BUG TO ENTIRE THE LAIR.
Guard: YES SIR!!!
as the guard goes, a lot of guards start heading to the Entrance, between their shadows red eyes are watching, waiting, then moving to the collusiem room.
Minsium is focusing on making sure everything is as good as possible for the arrival of the savior.
Minsium: don't worry Savior, no one shall stand in your way.
Just when Minsium is about is about to begin breaking the seal, the sound of a young man interrupts him with a simple greeting.
John: yo, long time no see, Professor.