Meanwhile, Scorpion Brasmill was patrolling Jeju Island, fending off waves of monsters that attacked them intermittently.
Every step he took was calm, even as his men died one after another.
He didn't care; the true objective of the mission remained unknown to him.
Therefore, he didn't know if the deaths of his men were part of it or if it meant the mission's failure.
Since he hadn't received any orders to retreat, he realized that the true objective was to tarnish the reputation of the Ferkelsen Academy in the eyes of the world, even if only for a few days.
Ring... Ring... Ring
Brasmill took his phone out of his pocket to find a message from headquarters.
[Information indicates that the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Molyar, Reinhard de Molyar, is coming to Jeju Island to break the barrier preventing the reinforcements from escaping.]
[Therefore, on Sunday, the Supreme Council leaders, Scorpion 5, will arrive with 700 fighters as reinforcements to support you.] In the fight with Reinhardt and the support that will come from the academy]
[Also, bring the bodies that are still retaining their human form, even if they are cut in one or two pieces and haven't turned into a pool of blood, so that special healers can treat their injuries and revive them. The boss's words are clear.]
Bresmill kept looking at the messages sent from headquarters with slight annoyance. The bodies of the Scorpion Organization's followers were being sent, somewhat intact, to headquarters automatically. This also applied to the students and professors of the Ferkelsen Academy. Even if he prevented their escape and the arrival of support on the island,
there were still spells, there were ways to make the students leave the island.
Why were they asking him to collect bodies that weren't even there? This was the question swirling in the mind of the Crimson Scorpion, Bresmill, as he looked at the messages on his phone. He couldn't refuse an order that came from the organization's headquarters.
After all, he was just a follower of the Supreme Council leader, Scorpion 5, and he had no right to refuse or argue, as that would only lead to his head being severed from his body.
But it didn't mean He would find no excuse to shirk his mission.
[Okay, I'll do it, but for now, I'm looking for experiment number 000002546 from the D series. Yuta Cassiral and his other half.]
[That's why I don't have time to collect bodies. However, I'll try to collect them when the opportunity arises.]
Persimil placed his phone in his dimensional space as a precaution against theft or it falling from his pocket during combat, which would reveal sensitive information about the Scorpion Organization and put his life in danger.
He sighed as he looked at Gu, the Origin Tree, and removed his mask for a few seconds before replacing it.
His face remained cold for a few seconds as he looked at Gu, the giant who hadn't detected any infected beings. A few characters were present, including Director Soliver, his deputy Carter Pleasures, and several others.
"Experiment number 000002546 from the D series revealed that we placed tracking devices."
"And the Academy Verslekin anticipated this and placed a precautionary teleportation spell in case a token was destroyed or a student died.
"Soliver, you filthy traitor! You were the leader of the Supreme Council, Scorpion 7, but you betrayed us and revealed our existence to the world. You're a pile of filth!" Prismill said, slightly annoyed, as he continued his search for experiment number 000002546 from the D group.
Meanwhile, Beatrice, Lucy, Tom, and Jian Yi were searching for the remaining members of their elite class.
They ran through the forest, sometimes fighting waves of monsters and sometimes dodging them.
"Where are they? Why can't we find any of them? Did the earth swallow them up or what?"
Lucy was feeling frustrated as she searched for her comrades. It had been a while since they had defeated the Sunday squad in that forest, which no longer existed.
Tom kept looking at Lucy for several minutes before saying anything. "Is there any sign that Armin will wake up anytime soon?" "Nearby."
Lucy sensed the state of the eggs, which resembled both a dragon egg and a crimson phoenix egg.
Several seconds passed before she answered Tom's question.
"Yes, there are several energy activities that have started to increase noticeably. It seems it's about to hatch, but I don't know exactly when. However, I hope it hatches before reinforcements arrive."
Concern spread across everyone's faces after hearing Lucy's last words. Armin's condition was strange and unprecedented.
A spontaneous change in the physiological and biological structure of an entity would attract many eyes eager to study his case, conduct experiments, and dissect him.
To uncover the secret of Armin's unique physiological and biological structure, it was best for him to hatch before unwanted attention was directed at him.
At the same time, their investigations could reveal Yuta's hybridity, a cross between four races, which would throw the world into chaos.
Something like this would harm them more than it would benefit them, given their knowledge of Armin's condition. And Yuta will be considered a traitor to the Empire and will be severely punished.
"Yes, you're right. Armin must hatch quickly. Time is not on our side at all," said Jian Yi as he killed a monster that attacked him.
While searching for companions, they came across Greedy, Ruichi, Leon, and Inuyasha resting after facing a wave of monsters that emerged from an X-rank dungeon. He approached them directly without saying a word.
As soon as they arrived, all eyes turned to Greedy, Ruichi, Leon, and Inuyasha.
Leon and Inuyasha's gazes were calm yet capable of instilling fear in each of them.
Despite this, they ignored the sudden feeling of oppression and approached them.
"How are you, lads? We've been looking for you for a while..."
Lucy stopped speaking as she looked at Greedy, Ruichi, Leon, and Inuyasha, whose uniforms lacked the Academy crest. "By the way, how did you lose the Verselkin Academy crest? Did you forget there's a teleportation spell inside it?" Lucy's voice was filled with surprise.
Based on what she knew about Greed and Roichi, it was impossible for them to lose the Verselkin Academy crest.
There was only one possibility: they had thrown it away. This made her realize there was something inside the crest.
She spoke immediately, before they could reply, "There's a tracking device implanted inside the Academy crest, right?"
They all nodded in agreement.Lucy and Jian Yi smashed the academy's emblem, removing it from their suits.
Grey turned his gaze to Tom and Beatrice, who hadn't done so. "Why didn't you smash the emblem of the farm with the tracking device?"
Tom and Beatrice looked at the faces of everyone staring at them for several seconds before Tom answered his question calmly. "Because we discovered the tracking devices a long time ago and disabled them already, there's no need to destroy them."
Lucy and Jian Yi looked at Tom and Beatrice with annoyance, but they didn't say anything. It was their fault after all for not discovering something sooner.
"We need to look for the others' companions," Roichi said calmly as he stood up.
However, Leon canceled the search for Nicholas Kazuhiro, Christian, and Gowther.
"There's no need to search. Nicholas Kazuhiro, Christian, and Gowther are coming to..." Here"
"I sent them a message asking for pots. They'll arrive in 10 minutes at the most."
Grey, Ruichi, Tom, Lucy, and Jian Yi all looked at him with a puzzled expression for several minutes.
They hadn't said they were looking for them, but he figured it out on his own. Was it just a coincidence, or did he know they were looking for them?
These questions were swirling in everyone's minds, but they didn't voice them. Leon and Inuyasha were both radiating an aura that suppressed any dissent.
It couldn't be ignored, so they decided to ignore it for now. But Inuyasha had a different opinion. "Where's your friend Armin? Wasn't he with you?"
Jian Yi looked at Inuyasha for a few seconds before drawing his sword from its scabbard, releasing his aura into the air. He understood what Inuyasha meant: he knew Armin had turned into an egg.
How did he know? Was he a spy? These were the questions swirling in Jian Yi's mind at that moment.
His aura A terrifying warrior of the Holy Ruler rank, so fearsome that all the monsters fled the scene, yet neither Inuyasha nor Leon's expressions changed.
They simply looked at him indifferently as Inuyasha picked a nearby fruit.
"Stop it! You look like a fool. Don't think there's no one stronger than you in this world."
"Put your sword back in its sheath and stop this nonsense," Inuyasha said after finishing, eating a fruit with his eyes closed. "It's really delicious."
A look of annoyance crossed Jian Yi's face as he glared at Inuyasha, who was oblivious to his presence but had decided not to engage him in any fight.
Inuyasha's overconfidence was proof that he could easily defeat him without lifting a finger.
"Who the hell are these people? They're currently in their final days of the school year and got perfect scores on their written exams!"
"Moreover, they didn't show a trace of fatigue, unlike Grei and Roichi, who were... extremely tired."
"Some might think that only Grei and Roichi fought, and that Leon and Inuyasha were just watching. But upon closer inspection, there was a strong smell of blood emanating from their bodies, indicating..." They fought in many battles.
"But those looks, full of confidence, absolute power, and arrogance, like Yuta's, make me say that there are things happening in this world that we don't know about."
"The world is full of secrets that haven't been revealed yet, but they won't remain hidden in a thick fog. At the end of the fog, it always recedes, revealing what lies within," Jian Yi thought to himself as he rested under the shade of a tree, his eyes closed, waiting for his companions to arrive.
Meanwhile, Gowther, Nicholas, Christian, and Kazuhiro were chatting as he headed towards his companions.
"Is there something you're hiding? Although I don't know Yuta well, I'm sure he wouldn't let anything that threatened his plans for the Scorpion Organization go unpunished."
Gowther's tone was filled with suspicion. Yuta was eliminating threats at their root, not letting them grow.
But at the same time, he was helping everyone from Grey, Ruichi, Tom, Armin, Gia, Beatrice, and Lucy, and helping them solve their problems. Their power had increased over the past few months.
Furthermore, he killed Edward in front of the entire world because he was a future threat, yet at the same time, he lets the Scorpion Organization, which directly threatens his interests, do nothing, even though he is capable of doing so.
It seemed extremely suspicious to do nothing in the face of such a clear threat.
If anyone else had done it, Gowther would have accepted it and wouldn't have cared, but for Yuta, who would put an end to something like this before it grew, it didn't make sense.
A faint smile appeared on Nicholas's face as he looked at Gowther, whose heart was filled with suspicion towards Yuta.
"You're right, Gowther. Yuta doesn't help Grei, Roichi, Tom, Armin, Gia, Beatrice, and Lucy because he's a hero and loves helping his comrades."
"Or he lets the Scorpion Organization do nothing because he doesn't have time or isn't interested in them. He has his reasons. I've known Yuta for thousands of years."
"That's why his actions—whether out of kindness, hatred, arrogance, cowardice, love, or envy—are, in the eyes of entities like us, merely a means to achieve our goals. However, no It means that we are emotionless. There are Absolute Beings who have loved, married, and had children, and they live beautiful lives.
A sigh of frustration escaped Gowther's lips, as he hadn't received any answers simply by analyzing the thought processes of some Absolute Beings.
Nevertheless, Gowther's desire to become stronger grew stronger every time he saw his former companions who had become more powerful than him.
Furthermore, he had many important things to do: first, to assimilate the power that the concept of assassination had granted him when he fought Uta in that magic tournament;
Second, to unravel the mysteries and conspiracies circulating within the fantasy world they currently inhabited. The concept of wings was unknown.
Moreover, the power level of someone who reached the rank of Master God was HIGHOuterversal1-A, and this made him realize that it was a system of false power designed to prevent people from evolving to Boundless levels and obtaining their own wings, if they even possessed them in the first place.
He had heard from Kazuhiro that not everyone who reached the rank of Boundless or was born an Absolute Being possessed wings. Third, to study the concept of assassination and gather information about the world outside the imaginary world they inhabit.
Fourth, to understand the cause of the dreams, what happened in his past life, and its connection to the world they currently inhabit.
These were the things Gowther wanted to know.He was aware of her current situation, but he knew it wouldn't be revealed overnight.
Gother sighed involuntarily as he considered his next steps. Life wasn't easy, and thinking too closely would often lead to death.
They all stopped on the tree trunks, looking towards their companions who were resting in the shade.
They stepped onto the ground quickly, opening their eyes to look at Gother, Nicholas, Kazuhiro, and Christian, who had just arrived.
A smile spread across Gray's face as he looked at them. "I got there 8 minutes early."
"Two minutes isn't bad at all."
"Hahaha, you're right, Gray. We should have arrived earlier. After all, we don't have time to linger." Kazuhiro laughed loudly, looking at Gray.
This brought a smile to Gray's face as he looked back at him. "I really like him. What a fun guy," Gray thought to himself, looking at Kazuhiro.
"Well, since we're all here, we must confront the Scorpion Organization's followers. Even though they're just followers, they're still terrifying, possessing hundreds of years of combat experience and high skill in both close and long-range engagements. We can't ignore them."
"Defeat the followers and stay away from the Crimson Scorpion for now until the Academy's reinforcements arrive. And one more thing: no more attempts at bravado. Several students and followers of the Scorpion Organization have died because of this foolish behavior. My words are clear."
Jian Yi spoke calmly as he drew a plan on the ground with his sword.
The Grand Duchesses, Beatrice, Gowther, and their companions remained silent as they listened to Jian Yi's words.
Without saying a word, they knew what they should and shouldn't do, so they nodded in agreement.
Jian Yi looked at them for a few seconds before returning his gaze to the ground where he was drawing a plan with his sword.
"A plan like Lucy, Kathalie, and Beatrice..." "Azouassen Grie de Moulière and Roichi de Moulière will be on the same team."
"Since you've known each other since childhood, your coordination will be excellent, and you won't encounter any difficulties..."
Jian Yi paused to gauge their agreement. His nomination for leadership without their consent could lead to setbacks, as they might not approve of his plan.
The fact that they were well-known figures made them difficult to lead.
Leading the general populace was easy because deep down they knew there was no choice but to follow orders.
But the nobles and figures of that high social class and powerful position were difficult to lead because of their pride, stubbornness, and habit of obeying orders, not the other way around.
"It's fine. There's no problem."
"No objection."
"I don't even have a problem being on the same team as a fool like Grie."
Grey was slightly annoyed by Lucy's words but remained silent, turning his gaze to Beatrice to listen. Her Reply
Jian Yi's gaze waited patiently for Beatrice's reply. Her power was terrifying, even though he'd heard she was still a High Ruler. He didn't believe those rumors or what she was showing now.
Deep down, he felt something wasn't quite right, as if she was hiding her strength. When he was near her, he felt the same way he felt when he was near Plum Blossom Saint Yu Hanma and his father, the head of the Mount Hua Sect.
That feeling of oppression, of being a mere insect daring to approach him, bothered him deeply, but he decided to ignore it as much as possible.
Forcing Beatrice wouldn't be good for him. Even the Director of Soliver, his deputy Carter, the professors, and Yuta himself were all under her protection.
This indicated one thing: she was powerful enough to command such respect from such figures.
Or perhaps Yuta treated her like a stray cat, returning her to her kennel whenever he found her sleeping somewhere.
When Yuta or Beatrice and Yuta, when separated, appear as a seasoned warrior or a sorcerer the world has never seen the likes of.
But when they're together, they seem like a nanny caring for a lazy cat that sleeps wherever and whenever it wants and eats whenever it pleases.
And Yuta is the one responsible for bringing her back every time she sleeps in some nearby alley.
"Yes, I agree to that. After all, I have nothing to lose," Beatrice said in her usual tone, breaking the silence that had fallen after Beatrice's statement.
However, unlike usual, he would have been annoyed, but he felt relieved that the plan was proceeding without any setbacks.
"But shouldn't we wait for Jia and Yuta to arrive?" Gray asked, breaking the silence that had fallen after Beatrice's statement.
A confident smile appeared on Jian Yi's lips after hearing Gray's question. "No, there's no need. I bet you they're together. Even if they came, I would put them on the same team alone, since each of them is capable of defeating the current members of the organization without any problems."