Outside of the mysterious woman's imaginary Dark World. The fight inside the erected barrier by various guilds to contain the leakage of Chaos Miasma against the artifact-wielding monsters was intensely transpiring, and because of the monsters' ranks that were ranging from A- to S , casualties were sothing that couldn't be avoided in any way.
At this mont, the terror attack was trending and quickly beca known to every habitant of the Human Domain. Various dia companies wanted a statent from the Obelisk Organization regarding the true motive behind the attack, or was it simply to spread terror?
The Obelisk Organization, although it was the higher-ups who had the idea of the probable reason, as well as the identity of the perpetrators, behind the horrible tragedy, they had only spoken and promised to the player civilians, especially the citizens of Alastor, that they would find the culprit or the group that was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, which was still currently happening at this mont.
"Truly amusing! It seems the others weren't much compared to the five of you."
The mysterious woman spoke, amused by the students' will to live as they were standing in front of her.
Han Jiho, Anya Amasawa, and Samantha quickly recovered from their shattered ribs. With more power from the woman in the grey hood, their bodies would certainly have split apart.
Standing with their respective Personal Weapons in their hands, Jiho firmly spoke, seemingly feeling a lingering pain in his abdon.
"...Why are you doing this?"
The mysterious woman, whose face was seemingly covered by darkness, glanced at Samantha for a mont without answering Jiho's question.
That sudden glance made the four of them look at Samantha with bewildered expressions as though they had understood the woman's intention with that simple action.
Letting out a sigh of ntal exhaustion, Samantha, without looking at them, spoke in a perplexed manner.
"...I don't know the exact details, but I think this is happening because of sothing that my father did."
"It's not what you think because it is the truth."
At that mont, as though the woman was playing with them until they lose their will out of horror, the voice of the woman ca from behind, causing the five of them to reflexively turn their bodies around and defend what was coming.
As elusive as she was, the woman, whose dark scythe this ti was floating in the air with her, following her like a pet's owner, instead of being held, disappeared again.
Glancing around and trying to find the woman's location, Jiho addressed Samantha's previous words.
"I don't know what your father did or when did that happen, but the most important thing right now is to subjugate her.
"I'll never forgive what she's done to nurous innocent people."
"Hoh... Aren't you a brave young man?"
The woman openly showed herself, but this ti, with nurous students was encapsulated by darkness. It was the Skill: Dark Prison (A ), allowing her to capture any people that were weaker than the skill's rank, but the higher or closer to the rank of the skill's rank, the harder it would be to successfully execute the skill.
But the students trapped at this mont were low ranks, and it would only probably be Samantha who ranked higher than everyone except the perpetrator, although she wasn't safe either unless the entity in her head triggered sothing to help her, but for so reason, the entity in question was silent and seemingly certain that Samantha wouldn't die in here.
Still conscious, the students, either male or female, had terrifying expressions painted on their faces. So of them had tattered clothes, so were crying, and so had minor wounds on their faces, which were caused by infrastructure debris due to the shockwave's impact when the high-tech modified weaponry hit the largest artifact museum of Alastor.
After a mont, what was screened to Jiho, Anya, Samantha, Rumia, and Elizabeth was sothing that they beca conscious about for the first ti in their lives.
The woman, now holding the dark scythe, pointed her weapon just below the female student's neck, who was involuntarily kneeling and covered with darkness. She then slowly cut the student's head, causing the blood to gush out of her neck.
Thud-!
It was emotionally excruciating and caused ntal and physical repulsion to whoever was seeing it. The woman, however, had an unwavering expression. She was also looking at Samantha's eyes while she was slowly beheading the female student that the five of them didn't recognize.
"..."
Jiho, who couldn't contain himself because of the atrocious act of the woman, lunged forward wielding his golden lightning sword — the one he received when he defeated the strengthened Karas on the Tower of Growth's tenth floor.
Without worrying about the incoming attack, the woman let the dark scythe float again midair and follow her similar to before. Then, the mont when Jiho was about to reach her, she managed to grab the neck of another student that Samantha and the others didn't know, placing it in front of her.
It then caused Jiho to stop his movent because he would certainly hit the terrified student, soone who just wanted to go ho from this supposed relaxing school trip that turned into hell.
The woman didn't mind Jiho's act and didn't even look at him, but rather at Samantha.
It was as though the woman was telling Samantha sothing with every action she was committing the mont she dragged those students in front of them.
Samantha tried to understand as hard as she could, but she couldn't fathom the subtle anings of beheading soone in front of them and using a person as a shield to stop the montum of the attacker. It left her stunned for a mont as though she was in her own world.
'Dad... what did you do for this woman to resent you so much...?'
Samantha lanted inwardly, looking at Jiho who was less than two ters away from the mysterious woman.
She then clenched the sword in her right hand before proceeding to join Jiho.
Feeling an epiphany of true sacrifice, with reluctance, Samantha thrust her sword towards the mysterious woman, who was still holding the student by the back of the neck.
Everyone, including the unidentified woman, looked at Samantha in shock.
It was because Samantha stabbed through the student's body to pierce the figure behind.
***
With a stunned expression, the woman seethed as she threw the bleeding student into Dark Prison, including the other captives.
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