Chase pulled himself over the ledge, laying flat on his back as the two suns armed his body far more than he found comfortable.
Everyone except for Lithica did the same around him, but Chase quickly scanned the surrounding areas from his back on the ground position.
All that he could see was one of the western courtyards of the academy, but it was completely empty, which meant they had three different ways that they could clear, not including the two other doors that led to other important areas.
"Alright everyone..."
Chase mumbled, as he stood up.
"We have to do a clean sweep of the academy... Free anyone in chains, kill anyone in your way..."
He pointed towards the first small door on the far left.
"Kaylynn, Reinhart, and Leo... Take that door, kill everything you see that isn't a student..."
They nodded and immediately drew their favorite weapons, heading towards the door.
He pointed at the large corridor thirty meters to its right...
"Poppy, Neo, and Luke... That door, head to the armory and try to kite as many students as you can find, gather them to the armory and get them geared up..."
He found confidence with every word he spoke...
They nodded, but just before Poppy left to follow her team, she turned towards Chase and ran toward him.
Then she kissed him on the cheek before putting her helmet over head.
"Don't die!"
She yelled.
"I try not too..."
He muttered under his breath before pointing at the next small door.
"Alright..."
He looked around at his remaining allies, studying each and every one of them, trying to get a good idea of who had the best chemistry and who could support each other the best, before he eventually grinned.
"Skylar, Hans, and Gideon... Go kill as many guards as you can find..."
"Gladly..."
Skylar grinned, before his team sprinted off.
Chase pointed at the next large corridor...
"Neveah, Gabriel, and Lithica... Go take every classroom on the second and third floor..."
"Yes sir!"
"Of course my lord...'
Neveah and Lithica saluted, as Gabriel only nodded before they ran toward the direction of the second corridor.
"That leaves..."
Chase looked around only to see two of his best friends grinning at him.
Michael summoned his frozen scythe, letting its cold eminence radiate with pure chilling authority...
Equan only grinned from his kneeling position.
"We head to the top floor... And we kill whoever awaits us at the top..."
Equan stood next to Chase, as Michael walked up and stood at Chase's other side, letting all three of their gazed snap onto the final corridor that they all knew far too well...
After all... The three of them had trained in this very courtyard years ago...
"Let's get you that throne..."
Equan said coldly awaiting Chase to make the first move, which only took him multiple seconds before he dashed towards the direction of the corridor, tightening his grip on the steel sword in his right hand, as a fury of flames overtook his right, revealing a beautiful topaz dagger take shape in left hand...
They dashed through the eerily empty hall, and straight towards the grand stair room of the academy...
As the three of them stepped into the towering room of shifting staircases around them, strange noises began to echo throughout the entire room.
Michael took a step forward, resting both of his hands freely on his scythe's handle.
Equan drew his bow and nocked a spectral arrow that was infused with sparks of lightning.
Chase's body began to illuminate as flames took over his very being, orange vibrant flames began to expel themselves from every single pore within his skin.
His energy was seething just as he was.
He finally got to kill something that taken from him...
'It's been so so long...'
He remembered the empty feeling he felt when he had taken Sazir's poor life... The man had taken everything from him, and yet somehow had not taken enough...
Chase wasn't sure what that thought meant, or why he was drowning in greed for that same feeling of emptiness, then he remembered what the man fighting on the frontlines below this entire academy had said to him once upon a time...
'Too battle... Is too dance... I understand now...'
Then several figures jumped from each and every row of stairs, and landed before the three of them with terrible dread coming with them.
They were not human...
In fact, they were the farthest thing from it.
Hundreds, maybe thousands of disfigured humans, each probably the size of an orc, some even that of young giants. Some with ten or so limbs, others with multiple heads, some had countless eyes growing out of their mouths, and some even had mouths inside of their eyes...
Both Michael and Equan narrowed their vision on the horde of monsters before them.
None of them spoke.
But Chase did...
As steady as everything was in the grand stair hall... That only meant that the explosion of movement would be a thousands times more fun...
"If it breathes..."
Everyone and everything twitched.
"It can burn..."
Then all hell broke loose.