The moment rin heard the billions arc,he took to his heels, running straight to the hall without giving his friends a headstart. They ran after him regardless of anything and tried to ask questions but he ignored them. Out of the blue,he calls out to danzai with a tensed expression
"Follow me quick.... The billions arc is to protect"
"Huh"
Danzai runs to him regardless
"Anyone who fails the billions arc will die.... Embodiment or not"
They all progressed till they got into the hall just as jack was about to explain the details of the quest
"As I said before, the billions arc is going to be the first test you'll perfom. Unlike other test this is an emergency quest and anyone who fails this test is going to die..... Within the premises of this school, there's a building. One that changes it's location every 3 minutes and doesn't have a particular sequence it follows. Your first task is to find the building and seek shelter from inside for a period of three once outside, you're basically assumed dead"
Silence remained in the hall as he continued to speak
"Take note that there aren't only one building of the same condition"
"How are we supposed to find it then"someone asks from the crowd
"It's up to you" saying that, he whispers something into the ear of the youngest looking boy who follows him among the exiles and walks out while the rest escorts him, leaving the young boy behind
"Hello... My name is sky, and I'll be your instructor for this session"
"Um... Sky sensei please tell us how to survive"
Sky seemed disturbed by the question but he answered anyways
"If jack hears this I'm gonna get an earful"
"Please...."
The united plea if the whole hall made him talk
"There are two ways to survive this quest. The first is finding the building normally"
One person from the crowd askes
"so sensei is there an automatic way"
"I wouldn't call it automatic but there's a sure way.... A Portal"
Hearing this the students became excited and continued to listen
"But there's a catch.... It can only carry 3 people; one each day so I won't advice it"
The expression on the faces turns from excited to scared
"Can't you protect us?"
"I can't guarantee the safety of you all... I can at most defend half of the city so as long as you're in the building or in the axis where I'll be you will survive.... But take note you staying outside might automatically disqualify you"
What?! He can defend half of this city on his own
"Um...."
Everyone turns to look at danzai who raised his hand to ask a question
"What makes this the billions arc?"
The crowd glare daggers at him for asking such an irrelevant question
"Good question... Actually, in the building you're to hide, there's a billions coupon people that find it are the real embodiments"
Rin reacted to danzai's actions
"How did you...."
"There was nothing adding up to the billions arc there so I had to enquire"
"By the way,it has started..."
Everyone begins to rush out of the hall running in every direction with different goals in mind. Danzai decided to run back to the lab where he met jack hoping jack was around there. Rin notices and follows behind him
Danzai reached some minutes later and tried to walk straight into the building like he did the night before but was stopped by the guards while rin hid behind a tree. He tried to persuade them but they remained adamant until jack came outside
"Let him in..."
The guards allowed his passage while rin decided to enter through the window to sneak a peak on their business
"There's something off about this quest... The way you suddenly became friendly with me... What are you up to?"
Jack smiled feeling satisfied
"So you finally realized.... This room is a trap meant to lure embodiment killers here and everyone in the school, embodiment or not... Are all bait"
"Why..."
Suddenly tentacle like devices grab danzai and suspend him on air completely restraining his movements while jack just smiled at the sight
"They are looking for you danzai.... The embodiment killers are here to kill the embodiment of....."
"Of what"
"Of.... "
Jack says nothing more but exits the building leaving danzai trapped inside. Meanwhile,rin who has been hanging on the window heard the conversation all through but was short of ideas on what to do
***
On the outside, beasts storm into the school with some flying above the premises and spraying fire. Sky effortlessly defeats the beasts invading the school with some guards fighting beside him
"Hold them for a little while...."
He turns and runs up a building, jumps and lands on a beast's back then proceeds to stab the beast with his dagger as it emitted blue aura making the beast to blow into bits
"Continue fighting, I'll go find the embodiment killers..."
"Then who are these"a guard asks after killing a beast
"Puppets... Embodiment killers are like humans, they posses human body like us"
Saying that, he exit the place with lightening speed, jumping from building to building until he vanished from sight
Ai,Miya and shizu continued to roam around the city looking for possible buildings that could be the billions arc building they turn towards a road and see a small girl of about 10 years sitting on the floor playing chess. Miya approached her to talk to her but the girl behaved like she didn't see anybody. Miya stretches her hand to carry her but then Ai noticed something just as the girl looked at her.
"Check mate....."
"Stop!...."Ai shouted as Miya closed in
A mysterious wind pressure attempted to slam into Miya but out of nowhere sky carries her out and takes a leap backwards to Ai and the others. The collision of the wind slightly cut sky's cheek as it destroyed the buildings around
"Awwn the queen showed up now....."
Sky steps out to meet her
"Found you..... Time killer"
[N.B: she was called time killer because she is an embodiment killer of time. The same goes for all other embodiment killers]
Meanwhile, on the highest point from the ground,a boy and a girl are standing there. The boy stares intently at the lab where danzai is trapped while piggybacking his sister
"Big brother.... We have to obey her right?"
"Yeah..."
Spots rin trying to enter the building
"What a drag...."