The campus was a pitch-black labyrinth of dead ends and roaming death squads.
Lucien led the strike team through the narrow alleyways between the faculty dormitories, avoiding the main cobblestone paths entirely. His [Detection Lv. 8] swept the darkness like a radar pulse, allowing him to weave the Golden Generation through the blind spots of the Valemont patrols.
They moved in complete silence. Kael kept his golden Sovereign Aura deactivated. Bordon muffled his heavy armor with a dampening spell.
They were halfway across the campus when the night sky suddenly ignited.
A massive, blinding pillar of crimson fire erupted from the central plaza, tearing through the suffocating dark mana. The sheer heat of the blast washed over the squad from three blocks away.
Lucien held up a fist. He peered around the corner of a stone archway.
In the center of the massive academy plaza, surrounded by over fifty elite Valemont operatives, stood Instructor Samantha.
