Chapter 201
"I'm serious! They are alm—" the man began, but a thunderous explosion outside cut his words short, shaking the very walls of the academy.
"They're here," he whispered, eyes wide with dread.
Immediately, a wave of panic swept through the students as they rushed to the tall glass windows overlooking the academy grounds. What they saw made their blood run cold.
Figures emerged from the treeline—humanoids in tattered rags, their skin a ghastly pale, stretched taut over bones.
Their eyes were pits of darkness, soulless voids filled with hunger and malice. Each one moved with a jerky, unnatural gait, growling and snarling like starved beasts.
Some dragged broken limbs as they shuffled forward, while others radiated faint magical auras, using crude spells to uproot trees and tear through the terrain on their slow but inevitable march toward Lunaria Academy.
There were more than a hundred of them—and they were closing in.
