Chapter 1206: Helping The Students
Chapter 1206: Helping The Students
Inside one of the five Fractured Nightmare Realms left, which resembled a series of labyrinthian caves with water pools and glowing crystals inside.
"WHY DID YOU CUCK ME WITH THAT MAN?!"
A lanky-looking Nightmare in the slight shape of a screaming human man roared, its face distorted and long, its jaws spreading across its entire body. The monstrous Nightmare rushed towards the students in front of him, targeting the females in specific.
"Uuaaaggh!"
"Noooo!"
They tried fighting these things and ended with one of the students dead and their weapons all destroyed. These monsters were simply too strong. Trauma-type Nightmares wasn't something they were supposed to fight yet, even less prepared for!
"YOU WILL RETURN WITH ME AND STOP BEING WITH THAT MAN! RIGHT... NOW!"
The monstrous Nightmare screamed furiously, swinging its giant arms towards the girls in front of him as he vomited purple flames that spread out everywhere. Traumas were among the deadliest Nightmares, embodying the cumulative trauma of people across the world.
As the girls closed their eyes and hoped for their deaths to be swift, while the other half of their team had already run away, the claws descended.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
They had closed their eyes believing they would die, only for the claws to end up landing on something, or several somethings. Their eyes slightly opened, as they saw an army of monstrous skeletons of all shapes and sizes.
"Huh?!"
"U-Undead?!"
The two girls glanced at one another in disbelief, before finally realizing that the army of Undead wasn't everything, a ghostly young woman emerged amidst the many skeletons, exuding an Aura of Darkness and Death.
It was as if an even worse Nightmare had showed up!
Yet once she faced the girls, they immediately recognized her face. One of the strongest students of the Academy and also the famous Necromancer.
"M-Maria?!"
"It's her...?"
Maria looked a bit different though completely made of shadows, as she was using an Ego of her own Skills and Body Parts she swiftly glanced at the Nightmare, and the two other Traumas coming right behind it.
"MY CATS... GIVE ME MY CATS!"
A twisted Trauma Nightmare of an old woman merged with hundreds of cats, who was constantly vomiting monstrous cat-like Little Nightmares.
"FUCK! FUCK EVERYTHING! FUCK YOU! I HATE THIS! I HATE THAT!"
A giant, blazing and muscular man-like Nightmare, with many muscular arms and a volcano- like head constantly releasing fire, its entire body ablaze.
One embodied the unhealthy obsession that lonely old people have with pets, and the hatred that people have against one another.
"Well, this is my last visit, aren't you all quite feisty? Shut up for a while."
With a wave of her ghostly hands, a Domain spread out, resembling a dark graveyard-like farm where only crimson bones grew from the soil. The sky turned into night, as a bright silver moon glowed above.
RUMBLE!
The soil then shook as the crimson bones took form, resembling giant Blood Bone Dragons, giant in size, they rushed towards the Nightmares and started slashing them apart with their giant claws and blasting them with fiery breaths of phantasmal flames.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
BOOOM! CLAAASH! BAAAM! CRAAASH!
The Nightmares screamed in agony, but were quickly disposed, torn to shreds and then exploding into black smoke, the two surviving students had already passed out due to all the shocking things happening in front of them.
"Looks like I'm finally done..."
Maria grabbed the three Nightmare Cores of the Trauma Nightmares she had just slain, and glanced at their big, spherical forms and quickly saving them in her inventory. She didn't want to share them or make it so these students would try to get those cores for themselves because this was their raid or something.
"I might as well take care of the other annoying Nightmares around here! Let's clean the place, hehe..."
While telling the skeletons to bring the two girls to the outside world, Maria began killing any Nightmare she detected with her magic, conjuring giant bows made of darkness and firing arrows of shadows and phantom flames.
"{Abyssal Spear Arrow}"
They had the shape of giant spears made of darkness, encompassed by blueish phantasmal flames. Each projectile pierced through all matter of Nightmares, destroying them on the spot and then she quickly stored their Nightmare Cores.
She did the exact same thing in the other Fractured Nightmare Realms where she had to save the students being attacked by the stronger Trauma-type Nightmares and stole like over a hundred Nightmare Cores all for herself.
....And maybe her family too.
At the same time, across the rest of the Fractured Nightmare Realms, she guided the students she saved outside, while also bringing the corpses of those that died.
The authorities had already arrived, and were mostly cooperating with her in four out of the five realms, but this one had yet to have any figure of authority come to help.
"Hm, it's not that they were slow it's just that I was too fast..."
Indeed, Maria had done things in less than thirty minutes, so she was indeed incredibly fast in what she did. Eventually, after all her egos arrived, they flew to her main body, fusing back
with her.
There were many professors and students walking everywhere, meeting the recued students, some started crying over the casualties. Out of the five teams, three students died, a terrible
tragedy.
The biggest issue that Maria detected, and the cause of this entire tragedy wasn't just the Nightmares, but a Nightmare Force Field previously placed on all the Realms, which didn't allow the artifact given to the students to work properly.
This artifact would instantly send a signal to a professor, who would run inside and save the students from any threat, but this force field barrier made of nightmares fused together, made it not work.
Maria explained this to the professors that gathered here, there was even the director, a lot of people, too many for her to check individually, unfortunately. However, dread grew within each student and professor when they learned about the existence of this barrier.
Which was, without a doubt, pre-made.
"I think this means that someone else... made these before the students entered, maybe yesterday," Maria explained. "Someone in this academy is planning to kill the students."