The teacher starts charging at Scepticus and starts launching blow after blow with his fists. Scepticus just imagines a sword in his hand and deflects the blows. “So you’re a martial artist. What’s your name?” asked Scepticus. “Well Devlin. You seem to have forgotten me. How about I punch you till you get your shit together?” he replied.
Scepticus just smirked. “Sure. If you can”. The teacher started making his blows faster and faster but Scepticus just made his deflects happen faster and faster. Scepticus kept on deflecting until he got bored and then he released his bloodlust. It was so strong that everyone in the entire school couldn’t move.
“You. You aren’t Devlin. Who the hell are you?” the teacher asked. “You will answer me first. Who are you and who do you work for? I had been noticing this as none of the people had many souls lingering around them. So will you answer me? Or do you wish to see your blood on the walls?” Scepticus questioned back.
“OK,OK, I’ll tell you. I’m part of a cult. We call ourselves the Cult of The One. We wish to resurrect our lord and saviour. The Lord of Famine” he said. “Ok. Wait… Did you say ‘The Lord of Famine'?” Scepticus said with his sword pressed against the teacher’s neck. “Yes I indeed said the Lord of Famine” replied the teacher. “Why would you want to resurrect him though? He is only going to be a pest. Literally and unilaterally”.
“This is what our boss told us. He told us that the Lord of Famine would bring salvation down upon us… Do you wish t-”. Before letting the teacher finish his sentence he slashed his neck. “Shit. Why the Lord of Famine though? He was such a pain in the ass to fight. I don’t wish to fight him again” Scepticus said.
Scepticus then realising that his bloodlust was still being released started removing the bloodlust’s presence. As soon as he did that Rick and a few other students started puking due to the sheer intensity of his bloodlust. Scepticus just casually walked away examining the place as he saw an old man with a white beard start running down the stairs. “IS EVERYONE OKAY?!” he said worryingly.
He then looked at the students who were puking. “Thank God, it’s nothing worse,” he said. He then saw Dave lying on the floor with his neck slit. “Shit. We lost one of our members” the principal said not realising Scepticus was behind him the entire time. “What do you mean by one of your members?” Scepticus said with a knife against the old man’s throat.
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“We lost one of our school board members obviously. He used to be a game changer when it came to decision making. Also let me guess. You were the one who released that bloodlust. Right Devlin?” the old man replied. Scepticus was startled that the old man knew it was himself who was behind the old man. “Hmm… Interesting you seem to be different from the rest old man” Scepticus said to the old man. “May I say the same to you,” said the old man.
“Do you wish to talk upstairs Devlin? I will explain everything to you” the old man asked Scepticus. Scepticus thought about it for a moment and then he said “Sure old man. On the condition there is no one else up these stairs”. “Huh, what do you mean? And also stop calling me old man. I have a name too. The name being Alfred” he replied. “Do you take me for a fool old man?” Scepticus questioned him back.
“What do you mean? There is no one else upstairs” said Alfred. “And why should I trust you?” Scepticus asked Alfred back. “Because I am your principal. So you should trust me”. “That’s exactly why I won’t tru-”. Before Scepticus could complete his sentence a bunch of spiders started charging in front of him. Scepticus looked at the Spiders again. “NICK?! You BASTARD! Why the hell are you here?”
Scepticus said while dodging the spiders. The spiders completely destroy the old man and the two auras which Scepticus saw from upstairs. He then chanted “Sword Style: Absolute Devastation” he then created a big dome of slashes around him which cut a lot of the spiders into pieces. But more were coming and by the time his attack had finished more than double the amount of spiders were in front of him again. “Shit. I didn’t know there were this many spiders…” he said.
Then a man with blonde yellow hair and a white cloak jumped over Scepticus in a flip and then started using a rapier which absolutely decimated the spider’s numbers. Scepticus just watched as the man for the next half an hour repeated doing this until the number of spiders was null. Scepticus then asked the man “Who are you?”. “I am from the Order of the Holy Paladins. I just happened to be passing through here when I sensed there were too many small critters here. By the way, you’re welcome” he said with a bow and then he disappeared with the wind. “That is one interesting fellow” Scepticus murmured to himself.
He then walked to Rick and put his elbow on Rick’s shoulder. “So… What should we do now?” He asked Rick. “I actually don’t know you monster. You killed our teacher in front of m-”. Scepticus pushed his index finger in front of Rick’s mouth telling him to be quiet whilst telling him “If anyone apart from the two of us happen to get to know of this… You know what will happen don’t you?” he told Rick. He then started walking outside and saw that some of the kids had knocked out from his bloodlust from earlier. “Why is this generation so weak to bloodlust?” he asked himself not expecting an answer. He walked out of the school and started getting the other kids to wake up. The kids who didn’t puke were knocked out. “Ugh… What a drag”.