I ran out of the coliseum and sprinted straight on the grassy plains of the academy. By this time the number of demons running around in the academy had increased quite a bit, and were increasing constantly.
𝒇𝐫ℯ𝑒𝒘ℯ𝑏n𝑜ѵ𝐞l.c𝗼𝗺
I didn’t know for how much longer Ryfin will be able to stand on his grounds or how many students will be killed before they make it to the teleportaion circle. But I cared about none of that. Anya would be safe, and that was all I wanted to know—though I still low-key hoped that Ryfin could surive long enough to tell Anya that I’ve left the academy.
If she knew that I’d left on will then she would surely understand where I was going and why. After all, they were her parents too. I know as soon as she would know what’s going on in the world the first thing she would want to do is to run off to the Roswell city and protect out parents.
But she had no need to do that, I was there for it. It was my sole purpose as of now, nothing else mattered.
‘Req, get ready. We’re in for a ride,’ I said.
[of couse, I am ready. Seeing this I’m sure something interesting is bout to happen.]
I never really used sentences like ‘we’re in for a ride’. Perhaps the tension was getting to me, perhaps I was more than worrried and scared, perhaps I was edging over the fact that I might make it in time.
Jumping into the air as high as I could I used elemental magic and created a plaform out of ice. Then I started running forward in the direction where lay the Roswell city, and as I ran I continuously created footing for myself and dissolved the bridge behind me.
Soon I was pretty high up in the sky and out of the academy campus. This way I could at least skip the roads and all the buildings and get there by a straight route in a straight line. This was the fastest way.
There was a chance that some students might have seen me when I ran up in the sky, but the chances were low since it was night and dark. Moreover, even if they saw I couldn’t care less.
Running over the city I saw hundreds of new portals opening in the sky and tens of thousands of demon beasts coming out of them. They dashed out of the portal and rained down on the ground, they killed and at people like they were not humans but livestocks—which they kinda were, for the demons beasts.
Demon beasts, or more specifically the lower-demons. These were not true demons as they have not been born that way. If I go by the novel’s logic, then these were just mindless killing machines made for the sole purpose of killing and decreasing the population of humans.
They had been created by the real demons by plating the ‘cores’ into monsters or animals. That was one way to make someone a demon, but not the type you see in novels.
If those ‘cores’ were planted into any other living being they would not gain demon powers and then be able to contain their will and later use that power to fight against the demons. Instead, they would just become one of these; mindless blood-hungry monsters.
However, the fact that these were not real demons only made my anxiety worse. I knew beforehand how ridiculously strong the real demon, or to be precise the higher-demons were—war lords, commanders, sins, etc. But seeing that power displayed in reality was completely different from just ‘knowing’.
‘Tch! I’m not fast enough,’ bringing myself out of the mindly wonders I focused on increasing my pace. The slipperiness of the ice was helping me to walk faster than usual and I was running at my full speed, but it wasn’t enough.
It took around half a day when you go there with a wagon but it didn’t have that much time. Although the destruction of the Roswell city was not shown in the novel—only the Sofrora city was in the spotlight because the mc was there—but I had no doubt that the demon beasts would appear as well.
After all, the portals were supposed to open in ‘all over the world’.
Looking straight forward I concentrated all my attention toward running. I stimulated the mana inside my body and enchanted my physical abilities as much as I could. Now I was at my max speed; a combination of mana enhancing and my C rank agility.
Tearing through the air I dashed forward in the sky. There were times when I barely avoided clashing with one of the demon beasts that were falling down from the portals. There were times when I ran too fast that I was just a step away from stepping out of my ice bridge.
But I had no fear. All I wanted was to reach there to my parents before the demons do. I wanted to avoid that scenario at all costs.
***
The air was beginning to get heavy and the clouds had started rumbling. It was past midnight probably, but the moon was shining bright in the sky but it was overshadowed by the dark portals that were starting to pop up everywhere in the sky.
I had entered past the borders of the Roswell city a few minutes ago and the condition here was not the best. Even though there weren’t as many portals as there were in the Sofrora city but they were starting to appear, and quite frequently over that.
I looked down in order to search for my house, but what I saw was a massacre. People were on the roads getting devoured and obliterated by the demon beasts. The roads streets and walls were stained with blood. Bodies were ripped part and different parts of organs were lying at different places.
But I ignored it. People were getting killed; women and children too. And I had the power to save at least a few of them, however I didn’t. Neither did I felt any sympathy for them. They didn’t matter, they were no more significant than a grain of dust for me right now.
I had to save my parents, that’s all I cared for right now. It was my sole purpose for living, as of this moment.
Thus I turned my head back up and turned toward the direction of my home, hoping in my heart that I was not too late.
