Chapter 882: Red Lips of Blood

Chapter 882: Red Lips of Blood



Ramy laid Lucia on her bed and watched her for a few minutes after Arad left. To her eyes, she seemed a bit paler, but that might've been just due to the moonlight drizzling through the tent's thin walls.

The night had become suddenly quitter, and not even bugs could be heard. The vicious mosquitos of this warm jungle have all but ceased to exist. A dreadful silence filled the air, and Ramy could hear water droplets falling outside.

Ramy could feel a strange dryness in her throat, like a stone stuck in her neck. She massaged her neck and looked at Lucia's ripped clothes, getting a shiver down her spine upon thinking how gruesome the injury was. Her lips shook in awe and fear, thinking how Arad had witnessed that and still acted calmly.

With shaking fingers, she searched Lucia's belongings and pulled her clothes out, quickly changing her before putting her back in bed to sleep. The guard duty of this hot and stuffy night would only burden her shoulders, Lucia can't do her part.

"Rest well, old friend," She closed the tent and went to sit by the campfire, looking at the dancing flames, unable to stop imagining how badly Lucia had been injured. Just an hour ago, they were sitting here on the flames joking, and in that short time, she got gouged and mauled to near death. Ramy couldn't stop her knees from shaking and her hands from shivering, the thought that such misfortune could come precipitous just like that.

Humans are unfortunate creatures, too fragile for the world they live in. Fate always laughs at them, giggling at their pain. Ramy's fears almost came true just seconds later, her eyes paled upon seeing it.

The three tiger men from before came back, now that Arad had left, and Lucia was bedridden, Ramy alone was left to fend for herself. Seeing the large three people approaching her with vicious smiles, her mind couldn't help but race with the thought of her near future.

On a silent night, she could hear her inner voice crying, begging for mercy. As a sense of dread washed over her body, her hands naturally moved to her hips...and she pulled down...two guns.

Taking a strange stance, she pointed the guns forward at the three beast men, her eyes stern and focused. Fear wasn't a sin, but a blessing, letting her know when she was in danger, and when she should stop shivering and get ready for blood.

With loaded guns and a brave soul prepared for the worst, her hands stopped shivering and her knees held firm. "Three on one, I'll take lives." She said in a calm voice, glaring at them with sharp eyes.

The moment one of the tigers took a step forth, she blasted his right ear and eye out, her guns automatically loading in a fraction of a second. "Last warning, back down."

With red lips painted with her own blood, Lucia finally woke up to her new self, a beast of the night. Those tigers are nothing but mere food, an annoying one that still moves and talks.

Confused as to how his slash didn't blind her eyes, the tiger went for a second attack. But this time, Lucia had already tasted blood, her own blood, but still got her woken up. Even with Arad sealing her blood magic, the unhuman nature of her body took hold, and the tiger's blazing-fast attack seemed as slow as a turtle, slowly approaching her face.

Lucia opened her palm and her wand teleported between her thin fingers, sparking with magic as she drew a circle in the blink of an eye on the tiger's chest, blasting him into the nearest building with a loud blast. All of that happened between the tiger and his second attack

starting and it reaching the halfway point toward Lucia.

A horrifying cast speed, only heard of in horror stories. Still not a fraction of Arad's speed, but to the poor tigers, Lucia seemed like a monster they shouldn't have messed with.

The students rushed out of their tents in panic, saw the scene, and immediately cried, "Are we under attack?!" One girl screamed.

"The bastards got teacher Ramy?!!!!" A guy roared, pointing a dagger at the tigers. "Make a rug from those cats!"

The two remaining tigers didn't even have time to listen or notice the students. One of them immediately lunged to attack Lucia, thinking he was on mana burnout after casting such a powerful spell. Most normal wizards must rest for white after casting powerful magic, as not doing so could knock them out, like how an athlete shouldn't do two extreme exercises above his own limit back-to-back.

With a single swing from her wand, the tiger floated up into the air and she swung him at the third tiger with magic. The third tiger dodged his friend, letting him hit the ground unsteady. But Lucia wasn't stopping, she kept swinging the poor tiger, trying to hit the third one, even though the one she was swinging was already begging for mercy, his bones all cracked.

The last remaining tiger turned to run away; this woman didn't seem like something he could hope to defeat. She's casting extremely powerful magic at an inhuman speed, making it impossible for him to get close.

With a heartless cold, Lucia threw the weeping tiger at the running one, following that with a powerful lightning bolt to char their skin in a flash, almost blinding all of the students watching. The poor kids hadn't seen their teacher fight seriously before, they knew she was strong, but they didn't expect to see such an oppressive and unfiltered raw power and magic.

Lucia took a step forward, aiming to suck the tiger's blood. But Arad appeared sitting beside Ramy. He looked at Lucia as he poured a healing potion on Ramy's back. "Sit and calm." Those words jolted Lucia back to her senses, pulling her mind out of her blood rage and she sat down, looking at the blood pouring on the ground beside her toes.