Comeback.

John got up and looked around the room, 8 other students were inside and only 6 of them were conscious.

"What the fuck?! What the fuck?!"

The boy who was banging his head against a wall began to complain loudly, turning to john and revealing himself to be Cameron.

"How? My plan... it was supposed to be simple... i didnt think about the ones downstairs... the shouting drew them up..."

John sighed and realised that like the bar, they probably couldn't see what just happened to him.

John felt something was slightly off and tried his best to pick up on it.

"My vision... it got way better..."

Every single detail of the room was easily identified by him, he felt his breath was steady and he could hear cries from far down the hall.

He mumbled to himself.

"My senses... if that light was me levelling up then..."

John grabbed one of the tables nearby and tried to lift it, whilst it wasn't completely effortless the ease of him picking it up was far beyond how strong he had ever been.

John thought about a plan to try and save as many people as he could but in the end without enough people taking on orcs just wasn't something he could think his way around.

Another person in the room spoke up, a girl who had been in the room where the attack was planned.

"You shouldn't have attacked them head on, we dont have any information on them. We dont even know if they stay dead!"

Cameron looked down in sorrow at these words.

"I should have waited and thought through the plan."

John sighed.

"Everyone who came openly agreed with your plan so we all share the blame. Priority is saving anyone who isn't dead yet, I think I'm able."

Cameron looked at John with suspicion.

"You'll die, no one can beat so many."

John shrugged and picked up his bat.

"I killed 3 already, that means there shouldn't be that many left right? If the plan is saving we can just run away when things get dangerous. taking them on head on is impossible, we found that out the hard way, but that doesn't mean we can't save people who are just knocked out or slightly injured."

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Cameron seemed to gather himself and got up. He handed john his own javelin and then sat on a table, clearly extremely tired.

"Send them back here and we'll hold them till we leave, if we manage to get everyone in the building back to the second floor we can work on getting to the next building and work logically till we have swept the entire school."

John nodded and went to the door, as he exited he spotted two orcs close by.

He threw his javelin straight through the first orc, spearing it straight through the chest. The bar appeared and grew much less significantly than prior, about an 1/8th.

He picked up his javelin.

John slowly crept to the closest person and shook them awake, sending them to the classroom, then the next, then the next.

Eventually John had cleared the first section of the hallway and had to kill another orc to reach the next section.

He watched the orc seemingly patrolling the hall and snuck up on it.

He used his arm to tightly choke the orc which caused it to fight against him roughly, slamming him between the two walls of the corridor.

John kicked the orc in the back of its leg to get it to the ground and backed up into the wall so it couldn't move him easily.

He held on tight, even once the creature gave up he held tight, finally letting go after alnost 3 minutes had passed by his count, stopping only whem the bar finally appeared and filled to 1/4th.

He crept down the hall again, nudging unconcious students sending them down the hall, orcs seemed to mainly use their fists so the students were only unconcious or had sprained or at worst broken bones.

John reached halfway down the corridor, past the point where the initial group had made it before being attacked from behind.

In front of john was a scene of chaos, several heavily injured and soon to be dead students, an orc that had been speared heavily before dying and a door to a classroom knocked onto the floor with shouting and screaming ringing out through the empty doorway.

John woke the students that could be moved without pain and sent them to the room to wait.

John snuck through the doorway to find more unconcious students and around 19 students fighting against a group of 3 orcs and being beaten badly.

John shouted and drew the attention of two before throwing his javelin and striking one of them in the shoulder.

"Fuck..."

The two enraged orcs rushed towards John who moved out of the door way, got down low and out of their lines of sight and held his leg accross the base of the doorframe.

The first orc tripped over his leg and hit its head against the wall, knocking itself out as the second climbed over before tensing its muscles and getting ready to punch John.

John grabbed a javelin from the shoulder of the orc and pulled hard, ripping it free.

He grabbed it tightly and held it out in front of himself to attack if it continued to approach.

The orc growled before charging and swinging its fist towards john.

John's level up had given his reaction time a boost and allowed him to get low to dodge.

The creatures heavy punch hit the wall and caused it to scream in pain, trying to stomp of john to squash him he thrusted the spear and hit it in the gut.

John crawled backwards and got up, pulling the spear back again before thrusting and hitting the creatures other shoulder and causing its arms to flail uselessly and he went for a final strike, hitting the creature in the chest.

The orc had been pre-empting what john would do and stepped out of the way, it grabbed john by the throat and held him tight as he kicked and struggled. He threw a punch to the creatures face that created a cracking sound from both his fist and the bones of the orc.

The punch had created an opportunity and john headbutted rhe creature and used his spear to push deeper and twist.

The creature finally stopped struggling and the progress bar and voice appeared.

He moved to the other orc and speared it through the eye, killing it aswell as the bar filled to half way.

John sighed with relief before realizing that only two orcs had been dealt with out of three.