Chapter 261: Chapter 261:Clones [1]

Chuckling at Han's furious expression, Jin and I leaned back while closing our eyes. Searᴄh the Nôvelƒire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Han, realizing our joke, regained his composure and sighed before joining us.

Hearing some commotion arise and more students starting to stand up, I attempted to lean forward to see the stage.

However, my arms were linked around the shoulders of Jin and Han, and they were leaning back.

Unable to push myself upward, I leaned against the wall of the multipurpose building with Han and Jin beside me.

With my eyes still closed, I attempted to discern what the students nearby were saying.

"NO WAY, IS THAT A _*__"

"IT IS A ___*__"

"WHAT THE FUCK...HOW DID THEY GET A D__*"

...?

According to my memory... which I admit is pretty blurry at this point, the next event for this assembly was supposed to be an agility game.

The principal and faculty teachers were going to set up an obstacle course in the middle of the multipurpose building, and students would compete to see who got the fastest score.

But why did it have such a big reaction?

It was just a normal obstacle course, wasn't it?

Without even opening my eyes to look, I could tell that something was wrong.

The event must have been replaced.

"...ah."

The principal knew about the emergency alarm and the djinn attack, didn't she? Stay tuned with m,v le,mpyr

Having an obstacle course while the emergency alarm went off would be terrible.

The students inside the obstacle course wouldn't be able to escape and be forced to stay in the multipurpose building until they eventually did.

In contrast, the principal probably wanted to clear out the multipurpose building as soon as possible to find and kill the djinns before they could attack any students.

Removing my arm from Han and Jin's shoulders, I leaned forward, opened my eyes, and peered toward the area right below the stage.

"...holy shit."

Even I couldn't hold back my surprise when I saw a massive and mystical creature simply standing there.

"...is that a damn griffin!?"

Staring at the figure with a lion-like body... but two massive wings emerged from both sides of it, I sighed out loud.

The fur at the top half of the griffin was a pure-white, except for its golden beak, while the rest of its body was colored a dark brown.

The griffin was a very rare creature, even in this world where magical beasts were seen quite often, with there only being about a hundred in existence.

And that number was rapidly decreasing.

They were either obtained by randomly finding them in the wildness... or receiving them as a reward for completing a dream

However, killing magical beasts like the griffin gave special magical items that could be used to craft very powerful items, so griffins were often killed instead of used.

But...this wasn't just any griffin, was it?

No, it was Liam's griffin.

The griffin that Liam would tame later on in the story and keep with him until the very end when he fought the final villain.

A griffin is so powerful that people used to shake in fear just from seeing it fly in the sky.

Also...there was another reason why the griffin was so powerful and useful to Liam.

It had a special ability called "Purity Checker."

Yes...this griffin could, similar to Ruby, look into the souls or bodies of people with its eyes and determine if they had good intentions or bad intentions.

That meant Liam, unlike many others, could identify undercover villains and djinns with his griffin.

This allowed him to cleanse out the Celestial Academy of all its criminals with the help of Seraphina in his third year.

Usually, I would be fine with this as I, of course, had amazing and good moral intentions.

I wanted to save the world... how much more morally good could I get!?

The problem, then?

The griffin doesn't see your entire purity and morality... it just sees it at this moment.

And what was I planning to do at this moment?

Break and enter into the principal vault in an attempt to steal some stupidly powerful magical artifact that could help me.

...that's not very morally good, is it?

Some people might say that Griffin's ability wouldn't work, as pretty much every student in this room has a morally bad thing they want to do right now.

Like wanting to win the event to get individual rewards... or other bad things that aren't even related to the assembly.

But, the griffin has the ability to distinguish between their severity and whether they are actually planning to carry it out.

Most people here have selfish things they want to do, but either restraints are in the way, or they don't have the courage or confidence to do it.

On the other hand, I am genuinely carrying it out, so the griffin would most likely notice me and see my bad morals.

Ducking downwards, I hid behind the standing figures of the people in the row in front of me.

There were at least eight hundred people in this room, so the odds that the griffin randomly decided to examine my soul were low.

Unless...someone commanded it to.

That person, whether it was Liam or the principal, could figure out I was up to something bad and preemptively stop me.

Han and Jin, also leaning forward, just glanced at the massive griffin in the middle of the room before also turning away.

It seemed that they also knew about its ability to examine souls.

Seeing them hide next to me, I curiously asked.

"And why are you guys hiding from it?"

In unison, the two replied.

"And why exactly are you hiding, Ren?"

Shaking my head, I sighed and pulled them back to their seats.

"It won't notice you unless you're actually planning to do whatever bad thing you're thinking about."

Escaping my grasp, the two immediately ducked down again before replying.

"BUT WE ARE PLANNING TO DO IT!"