Chapter 107
this is a fictional story by realTensai
CHAO’S POV
I knew it. I should’ve never trusted Hibea. She suddenly joined our team yesterday and even Alvis didn’t know her reason. Still, he accepted her into our group and so did I.
This was a mistake.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Hibea was insane.
“You’re rotten to the core,” William said, half laughing and half disgusted. “But don’t worry, I will crush you together with your puppet.”
Hibea nodded with an enthusiastic grin on her face.
“Please try your best. Else it won’t even be fun.”
“Keep that smile of yours. It gives me extra motivation.”
William’s blue eyes turned cold and the killing intent emitting from him made it hard to breathe. However, unfaced by any of that, Alvis faced him, his eyes even colder than William’s.
Their fight was about to begin.
William raised both his arms in front of his chest as if directing a cord and in the next second, Alvis’ feet left the ground. Wind raised him high into the air and he couldn’t do anything about it.
His opponent, not satisfied yet, opened his palm, and wind torrents gathered on it. They morphed, devouring each other to get stronger, creating a small tornado that danced in his palm. However, as soon as he let go of it, the force of nature sucked up everything in its distance, exponentially growing. And before I knew it, it had already reached the heights of a small building. Wind slashes circled within it, dismantling everything that got caught up in this monstrosity.
He just toyed with us. If he wanted to, he could’ve killed us within seconds. This sadist!
Yet, I couldn’t even be mad right now, as my life was on the line. The tornado pulled me towards it like a magnet and there was little I or anyone else present could do to avoid it. However, before my body got sucked up and destroyed by the tornado, earth shackles formed around my wrists and ankles, binding me to the ground. My eyes widened, and I looked at the others, only to see that the same happened to them.
Alvis saved us once again.
However, he couldn’t save himself. Still, hovering in the air, there was nothing he could do to avoid the tornado. As soon as Alvis was in its domain, it consumed him like a predator would its prey.
My heart sank as Alvis vanished from my vision. Still, my brain couldn’t believe it.
There was no way he died.
As if answering my thoughts, the tornado vanished, revealing a completely unharmed Alvis. Like a descending angel, he landed on the ground, his superiority clear for everyone to see.
How did he do that?
Within a second, he dissolved the raging tornado, not even dirtying his clothes. My eyes wandered to William only to see him gritting his teeth, holding in a mixture of emotions.
Somehow, it was a pleasant sight.
“You’re beyond insane.”
“Why?” Hibea asked, yet her disturbing smile made it obvious she knew what he was referring to.
“Don’t act stupid. You countered my tornado by letting him create one with the same strength, speed, and rotation as mine, but in the opposite direction. If his tornado had been a bit weaker or stronger, faster or slower, or had a different rotation, our tornados would’ve merged and gotten even stronger. They would’ve torn him apart in mere seconds. No sane person could perform something so risky.”
Hearing William’s explanation made my inwards twist and just looking at Hibea was enough to make my blood boil. She had put Alvis’ life on the line for an almost impossible stunt without even blinking an eye. No, she was even smiling!
“I just had to try it,” she said, her voice dripping with childlike excitement. “I just couldn’t hold back. Only someone with a human brain is capable of such a feat. You can’t blame me for trying it out.”
Her words were filled with a conviction that made one think she was innocent, yet this discrepancy between reality made everything even more disturbing.
“Now, it’s my turn to attack. Please, I’m begging you, don’t die immediately.”
“The fact that you’re serious makes me sick.”
“Seismic Lockdown.”
Hibea and Alvis simultaneously uttered this spell. William barely had time to react before his knees hit the ground. His ribs creaked under the sudden weight pressing into his body, the very air around him turning into an invisible iron cage. A crack spider webbed across the stone beneath him as if the earth itself had decided to swallow him whole.
Since when can Alvis use gravity magic?
“Let’s try this out,” Hibea said, and giving will to her imagination, Alvis created a tornado even bigger than William’s. However, they weren’t done yet. “Let’s add some spice to it.”
Alvis snapped his finger, and a flame manifested. It feasted on the tornado’s oxygen, turning it into a fire tornado. Its valor increased with every passing second becoming a natural disaster.
“If you use your wind magic to counter it, the tornado will only grow in strength. However, if you do nothing, you just melt to death. Oh, of course, you can try to run away, but I don’t think this is possible because of the gravity spell I’ve put on you. So show me what you’ll do!”
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William grimaced, the cold sweat forming on his head immediately vaporizing.
“Oh no, wait, I got an even better idea.”
Suddenly lighting bolts terrorized the air, feeding the tornado with even more strength. Now it was a lighting-fire tornado that grew stronger with each second.
“If lightning is added, the flames ionize the air, creating plasma arcs that bounce inside the tornado. This turns the storm into a massive electromagnetic inferno that burns and electrocutes everything inside. Hahaha, can you defend against this?”
The air howled as the inferno raged, its heat so intense that the very ground beneath it cracked and splintered. The flames roared like a living beast, devouring the oxygen in massive gulps. Sparks of plasma danced inside, crackling in chaotic arcs, sending flashes of blinding blue light that burned into the retinas of anyone who dared to look too long. The ground vibrated with raw power as the smell of charred earth and melted stone filled the battlefield.
The insane girl only laughed, yet the might of the tornado now also became a threat to us. The immeasurable heat melted the earth shackles that had protected us from the earlier tornado. However, as soon as those shackles almost vanished, new ones appeared. They were even sturdier and the second they started melting, they renewed themselves. Right beneath them was cold water protecting my wrists and ankles so that they didn’t burn.
How does Alvis maintain so many spells at once? Is this his true potential Hibea talked about?
My brain focused back on the present as the tornado caught William, who couldn’t move.
This is his end.
However, after a few seconds, the raging lighting-fire tornado vanished. I couldn’t even catch my breath as I saw William riddled with brand wounds, his artificial smile nowhere to be seen. Yet even though blood dripped down his entire body, he was still alive. He survived this sure-death attack.
Seeing that, Hibea’s eyes widened in happiness.
“Yes, amazing. You created a vacuum to extinguish the tornado and the fire. However, this would still leave the plasma tempest as it is ionized gas, which can even exist in a vacuum. Still, removing air was your best choice, because without enough particles to conduct through, the electrical discharges would weaken, and the plasma would eventually disperse. So within this small time frame, you had to endure the attack, and that’s why you’re so injured now. Still, you’re alive!”
I heard her words and also understood her explanation, but arriving at this same conclusion within mere seconds and this with your life on the line… William is a genius. Because of his blessing, he could control the wind, which made one forget that William also was a human.
Still, in a battle of geniuses, Alvis had the upper hand.
“I’ll kill you. You shitty failed product.”
William burned with rage and moved despite the gravity spell. He raised both his arms high into the air as if summoning a celestial power. The sky darkened as dozens of wind torrents spiraled toward William, molding together into something monstrous. Air compressed, bending into the shape of a towering, ethereal colossus. A monster that would make a giant look like a dwarf towered behind William, a wind scythe in its hands. Its hollow eyes pulsed with storm light, and its scythe, pure condensed air, let out a sharp, humming keen.
Even the very air itself twisted in its presence.
However, upon seeing that, Hibea just laughed.
A deafening crack split the air. In an instant, the battlefield turned to ice. The temperature plummeted, frost racing across the ground like creeping veins. William’s wind construct wavered, the sudden shift throwing its balance into chaos.
Then, just as suddenly, a wave of unbearable heat erupted, shattering the ice with an ear-splitting explosion.
William stumbled back, eyes wide, his creation unraveling into formless gusts.
“Impossible…”
My brain caught on to what Hibea did, yet I couldn’t believe it.
She let Alvis super-cool the air and instantly reheated it. Wind magic depends on airflow, but sudden temperature shifts disrupt the atmospheric balance, making wind spells unstable or uncontrollable.
Within an instant, she had destroyed William’s strongest attack.
However, Hibea wasn’t done yet and within the blink of an eye, lighting chains wrapped themselves around William. Constant electric shocks made his body tremble, yet he still fought to break free of the chains. But it was in vain. As soon as he got rid of some chains, new ones appeared, shocking him even stronger than the ones before.
“Water Prison,” Hibea and Alvis muttered simultaneously.
A water orb drowned and imprisoned William. The water only increased the electric shocks William received. His body convulsed violently, his muscles betraying him as the lightning wracked through his nerves. His jaw clenched so tight his teeth cracked, his throat raw from a scream that couldn’t escape the suffocating water. The more he struggled, the more his body burned. However, the water orb was just deep enough so that if he struggled hard enough, he could catch a breath.
It was pure torture.
“I’ll kill you—” he shouted as his head was barely out of the water. Yet it got sucked right back into it. “You’re just a fake---” William gasped for air, but the water prison swallowed him whole once more. His body screamed, nerves fried by the lightning that coiled around him like a serpent. “--- worse version of Jasmine---”... “kill--”…. “all your friends are already dead—”…
William struggled and fought, but with every passing second, his body moved less and less. And then it stopped moving completely.
“Huh? What? Don’t tell me he is dead already?”
Hibea released the spell only to see William lying on the ground, all life having vanished from his eyes.
“I guess I overdid it. Even though there is still some of my blood left in his body, it’s already over. How boring.”
For the first time, Hibea’s smile vanished.
However, my eyes couldn’t leave William’s corpse.
Hibea killed him. No,… Alvis did.
ALVIS’ POV
Alvis regained control over his body and only stood still.
[You received 100 coins for killing a person!]
[Experience is awarded for killing an S-ranked enemy!]
[You received 3 ability points!]
The system’s notification flooded his mind, but he perceived nothing of it.
He had seen everything, felt everything, as Hibea used him to kill William. He knew he should feel sickened. The way William struggled. The way he clawed at the water, the way his body twitched under the electricity, the way his life was snuffed out, inch by inch. Alvis’ skin started itching as disgust built up within him.
Alvis had broken the sole rule Lia put on their teams. He killed another student.
However, the reason he felt disgusted wasn’t because of what Hibea did. It wasn’t even because he had broken their rule. It was because all these actions of cruelty did nothing to him. He couldn’t care less about how someone like William died. Even if he was the one who did it.
He had seen two hundred people being annihilated because of him. He had seen his best friend die right before his eyes without being able to do anything.
The Alvis right now couldn’t care less about William’s death.
“My blood is still in your body, and that’s why you can still move. But its effects won’t last long and when the time is up, you will feel all the pain you felt before and probably ten times harder.”
Hibea’s words didn’t even register in his head, as there was only one thought occupying it.
I have to go to Lia.
Without even checking on Chao and the others, Alvis started running towards the student council building. William didn’t stop mentioning how Hibea was just a fake and a failed product and how Jasmine was a success. If this was really true, then Jasmine was a demon with a human brain. In other words, she was as strong as him whilst under the control of Hibea. Maybe even stronger.
Please, still be alive Lia.
However, his enhanced senses picked up the smell of blood and he saw smoke building up in the distance. Don’t tell me…
The scent of blood thickened, clinging to his skin like rot. Smoke curled in the air, black and suffocating. His heartbeat quickened. Every instinct in his body screamed at him to hurry up.
Then he rounded the corner.
The student council building was on fire.
“Lia!”
His mind blanked. His feet moved before he could think, before he could breathe. Before, he could accept what he was seeing.
Alvis immediately entered the building, but what he then saw gave him the finishing blow.