"AAA!!!"
No one knew who scread first, but everyone soon shouted frantically.
"AA!! Help! Help !"
"What are you all doing?"
"Quick! Call the police!"
"Damned! They are Royal Guards; even if we call the police, it's pointless."
Amidst the screams, blood from the young man's severed throat gushed out like rain, splattering onto the people around him.
The atmosphere was chaotic, and even Noan was slightly taken aback. He had never imagined that the Royal Guard officers would dare to kill soone right here.
What's more, the person he killed was a Lord.
"I said… SHUT UP!!!" The Royal Guard shouted, his voice echoing throughout the grand hall, making everyone flinch into silence.
All eyes turned toward him, filled with fear and anxiety, no longer arrogant or proud like before.
The Royal Guard spoke calmly: "Aside from the one who just died… is there anyone else with an opinion?"
Silence…
It was so quiet that everyone could hear their own heartbeat and breathing.
Everyone trembled, fearful and desperate.
The Royal Guards… Everyone knew how powerful they were and how much authority they held.
Even the police or judges had to obey their orders.
Thus, the Lords here were no more than rats before them.
"Good! You all just need to stand still for five minutes. After the inspection is done, you can leave this place." The Royal Guard said, smiling mockingly as he spoke.
"After leaving here, you will forget everything that happened, understood?"
By instinct, the crowd nodded, their eyes fixed on the monstrous figure resembling a machine with two razor-sharp blades for hands grinding against each other.
Swish! Swish!
The sound of tal grinding against tal made everyone shudder, goosebumps rising, cold sweat dripping down.
Although the creature appeared small and compact, its power was terrifying.
Just the fact that it had severed the young man's head so quickly—without anyone even seeing how it happened—was enough to show how horrifying it was.
"Excuse ..." Suddenly, a girl raised her hand, trembling and stamring, "W-will we... Will we have our mories erased?"
"Pfff!" The Royal Guard chuckled, shaking his head. "No! No! No! Little girl, I won't erase anyone's mories, but... everyone will forget about this alone, understand?"
"Like soap bubbles, once you leave here… Poof! Gone, nothing left."
The girl could only nod instinctively, her face turning pale.
"Good! No more questions, you trash. Just stand still, don't move, wait for five minutes, and then you can leave this place."
Noan glanced at the guard, then lowered his head, looking at the Lord ID card in his hand, its gray light flickering. He felt a slight unease in his heart.
Why?
Because he didn't know how his Lord ID card would be checked or what information would appear when it was scanned.
[Ding! Error detected...]
Suddenly, a notification appeared before him, emitting a red glow.
[Ding! Ding! Ding!]
The sound of alarm bells rang out from the magical circle floating above him, startling Noan.
All the Royal Guards imdiately focused on the magical circle, their eyes cold and deadly.
Noan took a deep breath, trying to remain calm, pretending nothing unusual was happening, and raised his head to look at the magical circle above him.
It blinked with a red light as if it had just discovered sothing terrible, trying to warn everyone.
"Hahahaha… It looks like I've found the rat," the Royal Guard laughed loudly, snapping, "Everyone stays still. If any of you dare move even by 1 cm, I'll make sure your heads end up on the ground just like that little brat from earlier."
Swish! Swish!
The monster beside him continuously sharpened its two blades, the dreadful sound echoing again.
The Royal Guards scanned the crowd with cold, deadly eyes, searching for soone among the students who had been brought here.
At that mont, the Royal Guard took out a glass sphere and threw it into the air.
The sphere was pulled into the massive magical circle above, floating in its center.
Then, a beam of light shot out from the sphere, starting to move over each person.
Seeing the light getting closer, Noan grew more anxious.
His hands clenched tightly, sweat soaking through his palms.
He stared at the approaching beam of light, silently calling Vylyss's na as if bracing himself for the worst.
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
Suddenly, countless explosions rang out, so powerful that the entire room trembled violently as if an earthquake were occurring.
"What the hell?!" The Captain of the Royal Guards shouted.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The magical circle in the air seed under imnse pressure, causing it to crack in nurous places.
BANG!
The magical circle shattered into countless pieces, falling to the ground, turning into countless specks of light, and vanishing into the air.
The glass sphere exploded, transforming into countless small fragnts, shooting out in all directions like bullets.
Crack! Crack!
The ground split open, cracks spreading in every direction.
The walls began to collapse, causing the ceiling to cave in.
Tons of tal fell down, causing everyone to panic, forgetting about the Royal Guards still watching them intently.
Imdiately after, the crowd erupted into chaos, scattering in every direction.
"Trash!" The Captain of the Royal Guards shouted, "Stay still! If any of you dare run, I will..."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
He couldn't finish his sentence before the entire building collapsed.
"Damned!" He shouted, swinging his hand.
Krit!
The monster beside him imdiately reacted to his command.
No one could see what it did, only flashes of light flashing, and then...
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A massive pile of tal was instantly cut into hundreds of pieces, falling like autumn leaves.
"What the hell is happening?!" He furrowed his brows, shouting.
Looking around, he only saw a pile of rubble.
However, one thing was strange: all the Royal Guards were still alive and unhard.
As for the students brought here, they were not as fortunate or strong as the guards. Many were buried beneath the rubble, and so had even perished.
Although they were Lords, they were just recent graduates and hadn't participated in the Class selection event.
Therefore, they were just ordinary people. In the face of the building's collapse, they could not resist.
Seeing this, the Captain of the Royal Guards was furious, his hands clenched so tightly they turned white, his face flushed with rage.
"Captain Valtor!" At that mont, a guard ca to his side, bowing his head and speaking, "It seems there has been a disturbance at the center of the academy as if the seal has been broken."
"What?!" Valtor was startled, his eyes looking up to the sky.
There, a dark cloud was gathering into a massive whirlwind.
A beam of light appeared at the storm's center, casting an eerie blue-green glow stretching from the sky to the ground.
"Damned! Why is this happening now?" Valtor cursed, glancing at the wreckage, reluctant to leave.
He had been tasked with finding the person who had passed the 10th floor of the Tower of Trials.
But now, with this incident, he had to choose between supporting everyone to reinforce the seal or staying to find the person.
"Wait! The Headmaster should be able to reinforce the seal," Valtor said.
As if to prove his words wrong, the dark clouds suddenly began churning.
They then rged together, forming a colossal skull in the sky, slowly descending toward the ground.
"What the hell is going on?!" Valtor exclaid, startled by the sight of the enormous skull.
"Kekekeke... Kekekeke..." The laughter from the skull's mouth was filled with malicious and cold tones as if it were coming from the depths of hell.
"That's..." Valtor's eyes widened as he saw a coffin slowly rising in the center of the light beam.
"Captain Valtor, it seems the Headmaster is not at the Academy," a guard said.
Hearing this, Valtor's face darkened like ink. "Damned! You all guard this place. I'll go check what's happening there. Rember, no one is allowed to leave, even if they're dead. Their bodies must stay here!"
After speaking, Valtor imdiately rushed off in the distance, accompanied by his monster.
Amid the wreckage, Noan lay still under a piece of broken wall.
This wall unintentionally concealed him so no one could see him.
"Master, he has left," Vylyss suddenly spoke up.
Upon hearing that, Noan imdiately nodded. "Good! It's ti for to go."
His body suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, Noan stood more than five thousand ters away from the Academy.
He stood stunned as he saw the enormous skull in the sky, its eyes burning with blue-green flas and its mouth emitting a demonic laugh that seed to co from the depths of hell.
Noan mumbled, "Oy! Malrik, this wasn't part of the plan, was it?"
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