Everyone laughed at Luis' question, they had all come out almost together and had been waiting for Luis to return for the past twenty minutes.
"Were you having a shower in there?" Ella asked.
"Oh," Luis said now he understood why they were all giving him strange stares.
'Did I really take that long?'
But being late wasn't exactly his fault as the demons he was supposed to fight had arrived late.
"No, I ran into a little problem," Luis said, rubbing the back of his head.
"You ran into trouble? Even Dylan didn't get into trouble." Henry said.
"Hey," Dylan complained knowing what he was trying to say.
"You guys should leave him alone, the only thing that matters is that he completed the mission," Monica said.
"I can see you are all back."
The students turned to see Michael behind them with his hands crossed behind him.
"And everyone completed their missions too." He added.
"Yeah, are we free to go now?" Ella asked.
"No, I'm planning on extending the training time for today," Michael said with a cheeky smile. "But meanwhile you can watch the reply of your fights and see where you can improve before the next agenda for training today."
He pushed a button on the remote control in his hand and the same set of seven screens appeared before them.
The person on the first screen was none other than the wonder warrior. The screen showed her choose her normal long sword.
She was in a desert with nothing but sand and the bright rays coming from the sun.
It didn't take long before the army of twenty demons started approaching her. A desert terrain meant that she was totally open to get hit by fireballs, but the wonder warrior didn't give the demons the chance to fire a single fireball as she dashed through them back and forth until they all dropped dead on the floor and vanished.
'So much speed.' Orah thought.
"I didn't see anything happen," Henry said, surprised.
"Let's watch it in slow motion," Michael said and pressed the slow-motion button on the remote control.
Now in slow motion, the video showed Silvia running with her sword placed back, while running through the demons he slashed and cut down five demons.
A demon tried to grab her but with a kick the demon was sent flying, while the demon was still in the air she rushed with her superspeed and sliced the demon into two.
Without wasting time she returned back to the other demons and dealt with them with the swift movements of her sword.
"That's incredible," Dylan said.
"Yeah but she's a wonder warrior, what do you expect?" Michael said, his words were met with a stern look from Silvia.
The person on the second screen was Henry, he didn't struggle that much although he did get hit by about three fireballs and got kicked back by a demon, but he soon got his composure back, and with his double Katana blades and ice ability, he was able to complete his mission.
"You are good with those blades and your ability," Michael said. "But you should improve on your reflexes, that's why you got hit many times."
Without wasting time they moved to the third video which had Ella on display, her fight was one of the impressive ones as she avoided getting hit by the fireballs while taking out the demons one by one.
"I like the way you fight," Michael said, touching her shoulder. "With good training, you could be better."
The third video had Dylan on display, most of his mates expected to see him struggling from the start but he surprised them all.
Dylan was standing in place taking deep breaths while the demons were charging forward.
"I wonder how you escaped that," Silvia said thinking that the demons were about to pummel him.
"Just watch." Was the little reply from Dylan.
On getting close three demons fired fireballs at him, quickly shooting his eyes open a wall was raised in front of Dylan, but when the fireballs made contact with the wall they smashed into little pieces.
"That must have hurt a lot," Orah said.
Henry nodded to his comment but the wry smile coming from Dylan made them look closer to see an unharmed Dylan, standing by the side.
"He rolled out of the way," Luis said.
Deceiving the demons was successful for Dylan as he quickly intercepted them, catching most of them off guard and dealing with them, immediately the other demons became aware of his presence and were now clustered around him he began to lose his composure and was getting hit multiple times now, the only thing that helped him not to lose much hp was his body hardening as he was hardening various parts of his body where he knew the demons were going to hit him.
A punch was sent to his stomach and he was sent skidding across the sandy ground.
Quickly getting up from the floor he chose his weapon, the long spear he loved so much, and with that, he was able to attack the demons head-on but not without getting hit.
Dylan's fight was one of the tough ones although he did manage to complete it.
"You are getting better Dylan, but you need to get a hold on your decision-making," Michael said.
Next on the fifth screen was arguably the most skilled student in the room.
Monica didn't waste time in choosing her whip and then with her ability she formed a metallic shield, it didn't take long for the demons to arrive and it also didn't take long for them to start attacking her with fireballs.
Fireballs were no problem as she blocked all of them with her shield.
Five blades appeared in front of her and immediately flew towards the demons taking out five of them.
When the demons got closer she didn't hesitate to move between them using her whip to tear, lift and destroy the demons, her movements were gracious and she didn't even get hit once.
"I see a true warrior in you already," Michael said, smiling at her.
The person on the sixth screen was Luis but things were totally different here.
"Why is his terrain different from ours?" Henry asked.
Luis had noted that his mates had all fought in sandy, desert terrains but he had arrived in a swamp.
"I think it's a malfunction from his VR headset," Michael said, but Luis knew with the expression on his face that it had to be something intentional.
"I can see where your struggling came from," Ella said.
They watched the screen as Luis stood there doing nothing until he summoned his flaming sword and then a second flaming sword.
The students didn't see anything suspicious in summoning two flaming swords After all Henry used two Katana blades but Michael knew it wasn't normal.
The system had only one flaming sword, and Luis had the real flaming sword.
'Did he manage to bring it into the game? But how?' Michael thought.
"Where are the demons?" Monica asked after Luis continued standing there with the two swords in his hands.
"I need to work on that headset."
They didn't notice Luis equip his new boots because his feet were covered by the mud, but they did see the demons approach him without him noticing.
"Here starts the struggle," Dylan said immediately after Luis was hit with the fireball.
What happened next none of them except Michael could comprehend, both swords lighting up and how fast Luis dealt with the demons.
"That was even faster than Silvia's," Ella said.
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