The person who had pulled the boy into the bush was none other than Zach who had been keeping an eye on him since he left his dorm room to go buy something.
The boy tried his possible best to pull himself free from Zach's grip but Zach kept a firm grip on him until he had entered the lonely road where Dan and Luke were waiting for him.
"Hey let me go!" The boy said as Zach pushed him to the floor.
"There you go, I've let you go," Zach said sarcastically.
The boy tried to get up only to look around and see that he was surrounded by three students now and the darkness was making it really hard for him to make anything out of his face.
"Let's see what you have here," Dan said, grabbing the small bag the boy had in his hands but before he could open it and see what was inside the bag flew off his hand and back to the boy.
"What do you want from me?" The boy said, pulling himself back on the floor.
"Just give us a gold coin and we'll allow you to go in peace," Luke said.
"But I don't have a gold coin." The boy said, still pulling himself back.
He knew there was no point attacking three students who all had the number three with a small h displayed on their watch.
He was only a level two lower and that was why he had been such an easy target for Zach.
"You don't have a gold coin?" Zach said, his voice sounding a little nice.
"Yeah." The boy said, nodding his head.
"Well, that means you'll have to compensate us for going through the trouble to get you here," Zach said, joining his hands together.
He lifted a piece of earth from the ground and hurled it towards the boy who quickly covered his face but before the piece of earth could get to him another piece of earth flew out from nowhere and knocked it away.
The three second-year students didn't act surprised as they already knew who was behind.
They knew the person who was always getting in the way of most of their operations.
"Run." The boy heard a voice resound from the woods around them and without hesitating he got up from the ground and took to his heels.
The three second-year students didn't try to attack him as they knew there was no point in doing so.
"Hey, why are you always getting in the way of our business?" Zach said with a frustrating voice.
"You call bullying students and taking their coins business," Luis said as his voice resounded around the second-year students.
Keeping himself hidden was making the second-year students scared as they were looking around wondering where he was.
The part that worried them the most was that they had no idea where he was going to attack them from.
"It's okay as long as we are not killing anybody," Zach said.
"Ok, then it's okay for me to beat you guys up now as long as you don't die," Luis said quickly, sending out a blast of water from behind Zach.
Luke spotted the water on time and countered it with his own water blast but he was getting pushed back really fast and Zach seeing that quickly formed an earth wall in front of him to block the water.
Luis could have easily broken the earth wall with his water blast but he decided to stop blasting in order to change his position.
"Why don't you show yourself, attacking us from the shadows doesn't make this a fair fight," Zach said.
"Three second-year students ganging up on a weak first-year student is no way close to fair," Luis said as he shot out another water blast from his changed position.
Dan quickly formed an earth wall to block the water blast but his earth wall wasn't going to last as he could feel it crumbling under the effects of the water blast.
Zach knew he was struggling with keeping out the water blast from the look on his face and quickly formed another earth wall to support Dan's earth wall.
Their earth wall combined still wasn't enough to keep out Luis' water blast as it broke through the first wall and was now slowly bringing down the second one.
What Luis had done was made his water hot with his temperature control before blasting it out and you could tell that the heat was playing a very important role in breaking down the earth walls.
"Come on Brad," Zach said with his teeth gritted as he enforced his earth wall with his last earth points.
Brad was on top of the tallest tree in the area and had been trying to spot Luis for a long time without any success but now that the Angel had been blasting on the second-year students from one spot for a long time he had a clear view of him.
He summoned his bow and fitted it with two arrows that he had pulled out from his arrow pack.
He aimed at his target and let his arrows fly.
Luis was still blasting and had a smile on his face now that Zach's wall was on its last enforcement but before he could bring the wall down and blast them into oblivion he felt a stinging pain on both of his thighs.
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He grabbed one of the arrows on his leg and pulled it out before pulling the other one out with a little groan.
He had his aura vision activated and looked up to see the person who had shot the arrows and quickly formed an earth shield to block the other arrows which had almost hit him.
"You didn't think we were alone did you?" Zach said, looking towards the direction where the water blast had come from.
Luis didn't say anything as he formed a bubble in his hands, stretched it to a long water blade, and sent it flying towards Brad.
Brad understood what had just been sent towards him with the little motion he had managed to see Luis do with his hands.
He was a bit late to jump off the tree as the water blade had slashed off the branch he had his leg on and knocked him off balance.
He hit about two branches before he had finally hit the ground.
Hitting those branches may have hurt but they had helped in reducing the force with which he would have hit the floor with.
"Arghhhh." Brad groaned as he slowly got up from the floor. "Who is that guy?"
He slowly made his way out of the bush to the lonely road only to see the three second-year students on the ground with a hooded figure who had his hand placed on Zach's chest.
"Hooded figure," Brad muttered on seeing the person.
Luis' ears had picked up those words from him and he had quickly turned to him.
Brad could feel his heartbeat rapidly increasing now but he was trying his best to keep his composure.
"Who are you?" He asked, his voice a little shaky.
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Mass release goals...
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4 magic castles or 1000 power stones= 4 extra chapters.