“Demonic Incursion!” Edward shouted with anger. When Alec turned his head to gaze at him, he noticed that Edward had raised his hand toward the air, his palm facing outward. In an instant, a golden light showered out from his hand. This golden light rained down on the students and the teachers like the autumn rain. When he, too, was affected by it, Alec noticed his mind to relax. He was definitely still anxious, but he could think more clearly.
The first question he had was why Professor Hunter could use an attack spell inside the array. Of course, he could have had a special privilege, but the man announced calmly before Alec could consider that option.
“To all the student body and teachers, the spell reflective supreme ward array has been punctured! Take formation!” he said. As the students kept trying to distance themselves from the black mana, another one toppled over to the ground, laying there for a short second before he also started showing signs of demonization.
Alec was really far away from the black-colored mana, however, even he could feel its malevolent aura from that distance.
‘What the fuck is a demon incursion? Did they infiltrate the school beforehand?’ Alec thought to himself. For some reason, this was the first time he had ever heard of demons in this world.
One by one, students started bursting into black mana flames and started being consumed by it. Their flesh bloated and their eyeballs fell out. However, the fallen eyeballs were quickly replaced by more eyes growing on their newly gained flesh. Although Professor Howard and a few other quick-reacting professors were suppressing them with sheer firepower, the things seemed to have some resistance against most magic. They either regenerated too quickly or weren’t damaged at all by attacks.
However, none of this surprised Alec. What surprised him was the way that the student body had been reacting to the situation. Unexpectedly, instead of scattering around like a bunch of bugs who had just had a rock lifted off of them, they were starting to form artillery formations with their untainted peers. Whenever a student amongst the formations was to show signs of demonization, either the nearby students would start blasting them apart with magic, or the students themselves would cast destructive magic on themselves and commit suicide on the spot.
“Don’t pity the fallen!” One student shouted while slinging a fireball toward one of his fallen peers, which caused the students who had been silently fighting so far to start shouting too.
“Don’t pity the fallen!”
“Cast the demons away!”
“Let them rest for eternity!”
“What the fuck…” Alec muttered to himself. He seemed to be the only one who found the situation incredibly weird. ‘Weren’t these supposed to be under 20 years old barely adult magelings? Why the fuck are they this ruthless? Is it an effect of the anti-memetic magic?’
“Alec!” Suddenly someone shouted next to his ear. This was Edward, who had been looking around intently to assess the situation. He nodded his head in a certain direction. When Alec looked, an ugly frown appeared on his face.
“That is bad…” he muttered. Unfortunately, Professor Isabel seemed to have burst into black mana flames too. However, unlike the weaker students, she wasn’t convulsing or losing control. She simply overflowed with the miasma and started bloating with flesh. The next moment, the demonization process was completed.
‘Fuck… Even her demonization process was faster…’ Alec muttered mentally. She was the first mage who had managed to transform completely. While the professors had managed to keep the other ones under control, Professor Isabel seemed to be on a different level compared to them. Whatever the professors cast on her was dispelled by the black miasma.
Isabel’s transformed visage was horrible. There were blisters, overgrown veins, hairy tumors, and bloating flesh covering her entire body. Her proportions had been completely thrown out the window. So much so that Alec wondered how she could even stand upright.
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The next moment, tens of warped, black-colored magic circles appeared around her. From inside, fleshy balls with a green hue covering them launched in every direction. Whenever they hit a student, the student who had gotten hit would topple over and start convulsing before dying in mere moments. Then, those students would be ripped apart from the inside by greenish spiders who would attack anyone on sight. Whenever they killed someone, they would lay their eggs in their corpses.
If he had to be honest, when he heard the words ‘demonic incursion,’ Alec was slightly hoping to see some women with horns and sexy clothes, but that didn’t seem to be the case. These were through and through abominations. Whatever they touched was affected by blight, death, and rot.
As Professor Isabel transformed, the untainted professors had to change their focus toward both her and the destruction caused by her. The students, too, noticed this and did their best to distance themselves.
“We can’t let it go on like this,” Edward said. “I was hoping that things would be resolved, but with Professor Isabel getting tainted, we can’t guarantee anything.”
“Yes,” Douglas simply answered. Afterward, Edward tapped his ear. A second later, ten other students Alec didn’t recognize moved to their side. Just as Edward opened his mouth to ask for them, Alec’s friends approached them too.
“We’re ready,” Evan said with a short breath. Alec nodded.
“Think of ourselves as a 23-person task force. We will stick together and cleanse the demons one by one,” Edward rained orders at the students he had called.
“And we will follow them along,” Alec tagged along.
“Let’s not keep wasting any more time. Our peers are being tainted by the moment,” Edward said. “Unless we cleanse the transformations at once, the chain reactions will cause everyone with shaky mental states to become tainted. We can’t afford that.”
Then, he looked around at everyone and raised his fist.
“Don’t pity the fallen!” he shouted. The rest of the team repeated it back to him before they all launched toward the right side of the stadium, the furthest away location from the tainted Isabel.
“We have to start from this side as once we engage with her minions, we are not going to disengage,” Edward said. It made sense. Even the spawns of the woman were too strong. It was no wonder that she could keep so many professors occupied by herself.
With decisive steps, Alec followed Edward closely. He could go faster, but it would go against their goal of acting as a blitz team.
Their first engagement was against three students who had been demonized. The demonized students had done so in close proximity to each other, and their bodies had fused into one during the process. Eight students were bombarding the demonic abomination with artillery spells from as far away as they could. They would rotate their volleys in sync, so the abomination would constantly be under bombardment.
As they stepped near, Alec approached the students while the rest of his team members started casting.
“We will take over here friends. Go and help other groups,” he said. The eight students nodded and all started running ahead.
Taking a deep breath, Alec noticed that the abomination had unleashed a ball toward him. Once he squinted his eyes, he noticed the ball to be countless mosquitos holding onto each other. Raising his hand, Alec received a fireball magic circle from the mana brain and launched it toward the thing. Fortunately, the mosquitos weren’t covered by the miasma.
When the fireball collided, the mosquitos were incinerated immediately.
“Unleashing barrage! Fire!” Edward shouted.
More than fifteen fireballs and a couple of burst-type magic missiles were launched at once, smashing against the black mana radiating from the abomination. This move was very effective, as the miasma around the monster had dissipated, even if momentarily.
“Melees!” Edward shouted. All the CQC mages rushed toward the abomination from different directions, except Alec.
‘Something… That!’
Alec looked around in a hurry and grabbed hold of one of the nearby chairs that were attached to the ground with a stone column as thick as his wrist. Flexing his muscles, Alec ripped the seat from the ground and threw it toward the abomination accurately.
However, that obviously wasn’t all. After throwing the chair, he enhanced its momentum with two quickly cast telekinetic spells.
First, the chair hit the abomination square in one of the heads protruding from its amalgam body, causing it to explode into smithereens.
Then, Evan arrived next to it. His fists burst into flames as the motor circles supporting him from his shoulders started rotating like crazy. With a right hook enhanced in strength by the mana motors, he blew off a chunk from the monster. Then, with rapid punches, he started tearing the thing apart.
Lea threw a small purple bolt into the monster, which then exploded into a small electric shock after entering its body that paralyzed it for a moment.
At last, Archer stepped forward. The spear in his hands bursting into flames, he swung it in an arc, severing the monster’s remaining two heads at once.
The abomination started dissipating into small, black mana particles before mixing into the atmosphere.
“Good fight everyone!” Edward shouted. Everyone cheered along and started rushing toward their new target without hesitation.