Chapter 91 - 54

Back when the teachers and Merlick headed straight for the students' camp, even though they weren't that far away, it still took some time for them to get there.

"Flavio, how are things over there?" Merlick was worried about the condition of the students. Even though this exam was meant to test students' survival skills and was full of dangers, he couldn't let other students kill each other. After all, they are Merlick's responsibility.

"Hmm... The situation over there right now is... Principal! This is dangerous! That person with dark mana is starting to hurt the students one by one. Princess Reina and Biron from Class A seem to be seriously injured. We have to get there quickly!" Flavio became panicked after re-checking the situation through his artificial familiar.

"We have to be faster!" Merlick and the other teachers increased their speed. Soon they arrived at their destination. They were shocked when they got there because the person with dark mana wanted to stab a female student with her long nails.

"The girl is in danger!" Merlick who woke up from his shock wanted to help the female student but he was preceded by someone else.

[[Tempest Arrows]]

Kalya had already joined forces with Silphy and fired one of her best wind elemental spiritisms. The arrow shot at high speed and hit Princess Iris' shoulder. The wound on her shoulder also looks quite serious because it continues to bleed.

Princess Iris retreated and kept her distance from them. The wound from Kalya's attack quickly closed. The dark mana shrouding her body accelerated her regeneration process.

"Clara!" Beatrix screamed and ran towards Clara who was lying on the ground. She immediately cast healing magic on her but Clara was still unconscious.

"Beatrix! Get her and the other students away from here! She is Princess Iris. Her situation is very strange, I will try to see if she can still be awakened or not. Otherwise, I can only apologize to Jonathan because I had to kill her." Merlick said seriously. He narrowed his eyes looking at the dark mana shrouding Princess Iris.

"Alright, Let's take her down quickly. Another teacher should treat the injured students and take care of them." King Leonida drew his Claimh Solais and prepared to attack.

"Come on Leo, we're both enough to stop her." Merlick stood next to King Leonida and took out a wand with a 4-colored crystal on it.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Princess Iris didn't give them a chance to attack first. She shouted and disappeared from their sight and appeared behind King Leonida. She stabbed her nails into King Leonida's back.

Clank...

Her nails and Claimh Solais clashed. King Leonida quickly twisted his body and parried Princess Iris' attack.

(Heavy! What kind of power and speed is that!? Plus those nails are just as hard as Claimh Solais!?)

King Leonida was taken aback by his first clash with Princess Iris. He thought her strength was beneath him, but after resisting her attack, he was certain that she wasn't any weaker than him or Merlick.

"Be careful Merlick! She's stronger than she looks!" King Leonida reminded Merlick who was also about to attack her.

"I know without you having to tell!" Merlick backed away and put some distance between him and Princess Iris then fired his magic.

[Fire Tornado]

King Leonida quickly dodged after seeing Merlick fire his magic. Princess Iris was hit by Merlick's attack and was wrapped in a vortex of fire. But they couldn't lower their guard. Princess Iris inside the fire vortex swung her nails and the fire vortex split into two. But it was within their estimation.

King Leonida was already behind Princess Iris and slashed Claimh Solais on her back.

"Aaaahhhh!" Princess screamed in pain. Even though she's being controlled but Princess Iris can still feel pain.

"Merlick! She is strong, but she doesn't have much fighting experience. We have to defeat her quickly! I'm afraid she will adapt to this fight and become stronger!" King Leonida smiled confidently after successfully landing one hit on Princess Iris.

"I understand!" Merlick fired his magic again at Princess Iris. King Leonida also launched his attack after Merlick. Their attack managed to overwhelm Princess Iris. She tried to dodge their combined attacks. But King Leonida and Merlick seemed to know where she was going. Even though it looked like they were bullying a little girl from someone else's point of view, but those who have seen her power before will understand that Princess Iris's current power cannot be underestimated.

"I didn't think that girl could be this strong. She can even fight father and principal at the same time." Princess Freya muttered under her breath looking at the battle in front of her.

The students were also amazed to see their fights were on a different level. Especially when they saw Princess Iris who could fight equally against both of them. But there is one thing they are not aware of. The amount of mana that Princess Iris expended was less than when she first appeared.

"Merlick! I feel that she is weakening, her regeneration is slowing down!" King Leonida realized what happened to Princess Iris.

"Hmm...as you said, she's indeed weakened. The amount of mana that's oozing out of her body is getting less and less. Looks like her mana source is drying up because she's been forcing it out all the time." Merlick was a sage, he knew better what Princess Iris was going through.

"Then this is our chance! Let's beat her!" King Leonida prepares to deal the final blow to her.

"Okay." Merlick nodded slightly. He fires his magic at the same time as King Leonida's attack.

[Sowrd Obelisk]

[4 Element Blast]

Boooooooommmmmm

"Did they succeed?" One of the students from class S unconsciously voiced his curiosity.

"They made it, maybe." The student next to him answered.

Meanwhile, the smoke and dust from their combined attack were too thick that they didn't know how Princess Iris was doing there.

"Hoho... You can't kill her. It took us a long time for the 'seeds' to grow like this." A boy's voice came from within the smoke and dust.

Merlick and King Leonida raised their guard when they heard the voice. The students and teachers were shocked because suddenly someone else had interfered in their fight.

When the dust and smoke cleared, they could see two people wearing black robes and wearing black masks with a rectangular pattern above them standing in front of Princess Iris. Merlick and King Leonida Leonida's attacks were blocked by them as if it were nothing.

"Who are you?" King Leonida asked grimly. He could feel the strength of the two people in front of him was extremely unreasonable.

"Leo..." Merlick felt the same way as King Leonida.

"Yes, I know." King Leonida tightened his grip on Claimh Solais.

When they tensed up at the opponent in front of them, the students were surprised and curious about the two people who suddenly appeared to help Princess Iris. Apart from Merlick and King Leonida, other people were also tensed by their appearance.

"Silphy let's do it!" Kalya screams in panic. Her current mood was a mess from remembering what happened in the Elven Kingdom. When she saw them for the first time, she was only confused by the purpose of someone like them entering the academy. After all, she didn't know their true identity and they didn't show their true strength at that time either. But now it's different, they seem to be intentionally showing their identity and strength.

[[Thunderstorm Dragon]]

She attacked them with the same attack when defeating the green dragon. Little Seiryu shot up with incredible speed towards Berith.

Roooooaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr

Berith took out a sword that was like a large kitchen knife from his storage space. He swings his sword towards Kayla's attack.

Boooooooommmmmm

Kalya and berith were blown away from the shockwave from their clash of attacks.

"Hee... After I experienced it myself the attack was indeed extraordinary. You could even injure a divine race like me." Berith wiped the blood that was running down the corner of his lips. Kalya has more serious injuries than him. In addition to her bleeding right hand, she also suffered many fractures in her body.

"Divine Race?"

"What race is it?"

"Have you heard of it?"

The students who heard it became confused and noisy because it was their first time hearing about the divine race. On the other hand, The Princesses, King Leonida, and Merlick became gloomy after hearing that. The Divine Race is listed in the incident report in the Argaint Kingdom.

"Noisy!" One word from Lilith made them all gasp for breath and kneel. Even the teachers suffered the same fate.

(Ugh...is this what Miss Kalya meant back then? She said to keep an eye on the class S students but she didn't say anything specific)

Flavio thought back to what Kalya said. Back then he only half-heartedly listened to her and didn't keep an eye on his students.

"What exactly do you want!?" King Leonida prepares to attack him after hearing his answer.

"Isn't that obvious? Annihilating all of you and preventing the human race from getting stronger." Berith drew his greatsword and walked back towards Lilith and Princess Iris.

"So you made the girl like that to kill the other students?" Merlick gritted his teeth holding back the anger within him.

"We were just experimenting with special humans. And coincidentally this Princess is special and we can use it for our purposes. But unexpectedly the mana source dried up faster than we thought. Even though we had planted 'seeds' on her for a long time but the results weren't as good as we expected." Lilith sighed heavily in answer to his question.

"What do you mean by 'seeds'?" King Leonida was annoyed by the word "seed" they had been saying earlier.

"Ahaha... You don't need to know more details. But since you're going to die today so we'll tell you a bit. The 'seed' is the result of our experiment, by implanting it in someone, she will become stronger many times over based on how big the seedling grows. And you must be asking how they grow? It grows up using a person's dark emotions. Moreover, she had dark mana with thick killing intent. So her power can jump several levels easily." Lilith smiled after finishing her explanation.

"You used that girl for your experiment!?" Merlick shouted at Lilith and could no longer suppress his anger.

"Ahaha... You can put it like that. The students as well as you guys are going to die this time anyway. So it doesn't matter to you anymore." Lilith then took out a wand-like spear. The spear blade was made of purple crystal that was whetted very sharply.

"Students? You mean the other students who aren't here either?" Merlick became panicked after hearing what she said.

"You're smart! We've spread a lot of high-level magical beasts around their camp. The other students outside this camp only contained weaklings. Those monsters should be enough to kill them all. Ahahah..." Berith laughed in satisfaction at the expressions on the people around him.

"Reid, Christof, Alvis, Ashley you guys immediately help the other classes!" Merlick gave his orders to the four teachers. They quickly left after hearing his orders. Merlick looked at Lilith and Berith who didn't seem to be blocking their departure.

"Merlick you back off, please take care of my son and the other students. I had no other choice but to use that thing." King Leonida said with determination and took a black ring from his storage space and put it on his finger.

"You...! Fine if that's your decision." Merlick was about to stop King Leonida, but after seeing his serious face, Merlick could only give up and head towards the place where the students were gathered.

After wearing the black ring, King Leonida's strength suddenly rose one level. He was currently a demigod, but he didn't stop there. He activated his king rank artifact ability to temporarily double his power which made him equal to a true god.. Having finished with his preparations, he charged forward to attack Berith with full force.