The monsters from the Prima Materia were simultaneously invading the Kizen campus.Their appearance was akin to 'creation'. The air trembled, and white masses simply dropped down.That was all.Witnessing these monsters appear without proper cause or effect, Necromancers from 100 years ago called it a miracle, while Priests called it an excretion. “Run fast!”The entire campus was thrown into chaos by the monster attack.School buildings were collapsing under the assault of 'super-large' monsters, according to Kizen's monster regulations. Students screamed as they poured out of the buildings.“Ah, no time to sightsee! Move it!”“There’s an underground shelter in the Learning Center! Head there first!”Thanks to Mei-rin’s broadcast, the worst-case scenario was avoided. If the buildings had collapsed while students were unknowingly in class, an entire class of over 60 people could have been annihilated.Students who had rushed out of the buildings, unaware of what was happening, now witnessed 'them'.Monsters of various shapes, with white bodies and black eyes, noses, and mouths. They looked like a horde of monsters drawn by a mentally unstable child wildly swinging a brush on a blank canvas.-Grrrrrrrrrrrk!“Something’s coming!”A white, medium-sized, quadrupedal monster with exposed, gaunt spinal and rib bones was scaling the building wall, targeting the students.Just as the students hastily stretched out their arms to prepare magic circles.KABOOM!A cannon blast was heard, and an explosion erupted on the monster’s face. The monster’s head pierced through the classroom wall and got stuck, followed by successive explosions that riddled its body with holes.'Artillery fire?'The students looked up. Four light-green glowing ghost ships floated in the sky.“Ah!”“It’s Elisa! It’s Elisa’s ghost ships!”True to their words, Special Admission Student #7, Elisa, with her uniform coat draped over her shoulders, was entering the battlefield.As she gestured, the hulls of the ghost ships moved, unleashing a volley of cannon fire. The white monsters entering the campus instantly vanished into dust.CRUNCH!Her gaze shifted. A super-large white monster, bigger than the school buildings, was approaching the ghost ships.Just as she was about to command the ship to turn its bow.'Huh? Who is that?'A person appeared in her sight.A blonde male student climbing the monster’s body. He clung to the monster’s face and activated the liquid bomb he held in his arms.RUMBLEEEEEEE!A deafening roar accompanied a gray explosion. Elisa clutched her uniform coat and crouched low against the violent aftershock.A moment later, the explosion smoke cleared, and the monster’s head and the male student had completely disappeared. The monster, now just a torso, fell backward.“Ugh, what’s all this noise when I was having a good nap?”Elisa turned her head. The same male student who had embraced the liquid bomb and self-destructed with the monster was casually walking over.“You’re Malcolm, Special Admission #10, right? Even a dog with its tail tucked can be useful sometimes.”“......You wanna die, seriously. Say that after you beat Special Admission #1.”THUD!Malcolm slammed his staff onto the ground. Doppelgangers rippled out from a magic circle and rose, and Malcolm casually tossed them appropriate bombs.The doppelgangers grabbed them and rushed into dense monster areas, causing successive explosions. As Elisa’s ghost ships also began their bombardment, the smaller monsters were instantly swept away.-Ahhh.Elisa picked up a magic megaphone.-From now on, I, Elisa, will organize a decisive squad to stop the monsters. I believe Kizen should confront threats, not flee from them. Those who want to fight, come to the open ground in front of the Engineering Building.Malcolm let out a scoff. She’s still trying to command even in this situation.Elisa took the magic megaphone away from her mouth and said,“You’re coming too, right? Last train.”“Get lost. Power-hungry freak.”Similar situations were unfolding across Kizen. After a brief moment of panic from the sudden offensive, Kizen students calmly began to counterattack.“Disease-type curses and bleeding-type don’t work!”“Share information quickly! Weaken the large ones with curses, and sweep away the small fries with firepower!”“Move aside in front. I’m building an obstacle.”A male student swung his arms. The glass windows of the adjacent building shattered, and classroom desks and chairs poured out, forming a large hill.Students climbed up and occupied it like a high ground, then knocked down incoming monsters or swept them away with area-of-effect attacks. Curse majors weakened the most threatening large monsters to prevent them from attacking the buildings.“Are there no more Martial Arts kids? Send more forward!”“Bring out all the skeletons! Walls! Build walls!”The Kizen students, who had been thrown into fierce competition multiple times, responded quickly and decisively. Even while evacuating, they naturally transitioned to counterattacks, beginning to stabilize the situation.“Watch out 6 o’clock! A super-large one is coming over!”The problem was the large ones. A super-large monster, tens of meters long, easily stepped over the students’ piled obstacles and entered the open ground.It moved, taking hits from the students’ dark magic and curses head-on, and shattered obstacles with a single kick.“Wow.”“This is dangerous…!”Just then, five flashes of light shot through the air towards the monsters.Their weapons and dark magic seemed to flash, and the super-large monster’s body was torn into several pieces. The students gasped in admiration.“It’s the teaching assistants!”Bread, a Martial Arts teaching assistant, who had effortlessly dealt with the monster and landed on the ground, sighed deeply while looking at his communication crystal ball. No matter how many times he tried, it was useless.He angrily threw the crystal ball to the ground and scratched his head.“This is really bad.”A fellow teaching assistant muttered.“Objectively speaking, we’re screwed, aren’t we?”All of Kizen’s professors were absent for Lang’s funeral, and among them, the head teaching assistants, or in vulgar terms, the experienced TAs, had all gone to the Mausoleum.Only the less experienced TAs, who were usually in charge of student self-study, remained.“Ah, shut up. Maybe it’s for the best.”Bread threw off his outer coat, raising Jet Black. The Jet Black Robe, the symbol of a Martial Artist, covered his body.“If even one casualty occurs, consider your TA uniform gone. If you want to stay at Kizen, prepare a Watchman resume.”He had to be bossed around by Simon for three years, and now this situation was piled on top. Bread felt resigned. He was thinking of giving up being a TA and just working as a freelance Necromancer.“Oh.”But the junior TAs looked at Bread with touched expressions.“I thought your brain was just muscle, but you can say cool things, senior!”“He’s right.”“The other seniors went to the Mausoleum, so let’s focus on protecting the students!”The TAs, their morale boosted a hundredfold, rushed out.“……?”Bread made a puzzled expression, wondering why they were like that, then quickly followed.Thus, a large-scale counterattack was underway, centered around the teaching assistants and named students. However, while stamina and Jet Black would eventually be depleted, the monsters created by the Prima Materia continued to pour out endlessly.“Four super-large ones!”“Get out of the way!”Eventually, Elisa’s western front, which had responded first, collapsed. She hastily loaded the students onto her ghost ships and retreated, but the super-large white monsters were rushing to grab the ghost ships.'Ah, I’m tired.'It was a mistake to have pushed the pace too hard at the beginning, expending so much Jet Black. Keeping four ghost ships airborne and even creating cannonballs consumed a large amount of Jet Black.“They’re catching up!”“Go faster!”The students, oblivious to her struggles, pounded on the ghost ship’s railing, urging Elisa on.Just as she was seriously considering dropping them, she saw a boy in a Kizen uniform flying towards the monsters.WHAM!A single punch from the boy tore a large hole in the monster’s cheek. He stepped on the falling monster’s head and leaped again.WHAM! WHAM! THWACK! CRACK!The remaining monsters also fell like dominoes with a single punch from the boy.Elisa’s eyes, watching from the ghost ship’s railing, widened like saucers. The other students were the same.“How is he so strong? Is he a teaching assistant?”“But he’s wearing a school uniform.”As the five monsters fell in different directions, raising thick clouds of dust, Prince casually landed on the ground.[Ugh, I’m getting tired of babysitting.]Prince grumbled to himself, scratching his head as he watched the departing ghost ships.[What in the world is Simon doing?]***Command Center.The battle was one-sided. Simon leaped off the wall and powerfully brought down the Greatsword of Destruction towards Flema.FLARE!The moment the sword was about to touch her forehead, white flames enveloped the Saint, forming a protective barrier. The greatsword was futilely repelled, and she smiled, raising a finger.Pure white flames were rising in front of Simon’s abdomen.BOOOOOOOOOOM!The White Flame exploded, sending Simon flying dozens of meters to crash into the wall. As soon as he touched the White Flame, Pier’s agonizing scream echoed in his mind.Simon slid down the wall and knelt. “Ugh!”He then trembled, clutching his abdomen where the White Flame had touched. His eyes flickered with pain, and saliva dripped from his mouth.Flema smiled, pleased by the sight.[Does it hurt?]She said.[This flame is the power of the Goddess to purify impure beings. For things like Undead or Necromancers, even a slight touch is fatal. It creates a living hell.]She spread her arms.“It’s proof that you are fundamentally impure. White Flame heals the wounds of those who serve the Goddess, but it cruelly burns those who follow evil. Can you deny the Goddess even after witnessing this power with your own eyes?”“……”Simon silently plunged his greatsword into the ground and struggled to his feet. She raised her fingertip, preparing to send White Flame again.CRACKLE!Her eyes darted backward. Kazhan, who had rushed forward, had punched her from behind. Of course, it was blocked by the White Flame protecting her again.“Ugh!”Kazhan’s expression twisted in extreme pain. Just touching the white flame with his fist felt like it would make him lose his mind.[You’re trying so hard. It’s not coming to you, is it?]She grinned and aimed her hand towards Kazhan.[The image of defeating me.]WHOOSH!This time, white flames exploded in front of Kazhan’s body.“Aaaargh!”Kazhan flew dozens of meters, writhing in pain from the White Flame that had transferred to his body, then slammed his head into the wall, spitting blood.Flema smiled as if enjoying the entertainment.[I acknowledge your struggle in stopping the Desolaters. But.]Her gaze turned to the Command Center’s screen. Kizen students were fighting desperately against the monsters created by the Prima Materia, but they were slowly being pushed back, seemingly running out of strength.[The grace period has only been extended a little; no one can stop this 'Great Purification'.]THUMP!Simon re-gripped the greatsword embedded in the floor, panting as he drew up Jet Black.Pier’s Bone Armor, which had already taken damage beyond its limit, had forcibly disengaged and was rolling on the floor, with only the bones of his right hand, gripping the greatsword, still attached. [I acknowledge your willpower, but this is not a difference that stubbornness can overcome. Farewell.]She extended her fingertip, aiming it at Simon.FLASH!She frowned, having been interrupted. Strange feathers were now embedded in the center of the White Flame protecting her.But the feathers weren't burning away; instead, they were pushing back her White Flame shield, trying to break through more than halfway. [Who are you?!]FLARE!She intensified the White Flame to an extreme degree, burning the feathers away.“Hmm~”Soft footsteps were heard, and a female student with ivory-colored hair, her hands clasped behind her back, entered the room.“Hello, Simon. You look tired?”“How did you get here…!”FLAP!A dazzling wing unfolded from Serene’s right side, behind her back.“I’m here to get my third coupon stamp.”
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