To Take on an Army

Reinforcements. Somehow the thought of help had been drowned out by his desperate struggles. The Knights' Academy was just on the other side of the mountain range after all. "Reinforcements, huh?" Lance said. He lay flat on his back, the center of the slaughter. He unconsciously overlapped the faces of his students on the demon corpses. The students would be lying just as still if he found them, and just as quiet.

He could still hear screams coming from the academy, signs of an ongoing battle. It wasn't quite over yet. The demons had an objective, and Lance knew exactly what and where it was. There could only be one thing that would draw an attack that large, the map. "You can get in through the base of the academy." Lance let out a pained groan as he reached over and rolled up his sleeve to expose his Allpass. "You'll need me to unlock the obsidian door with this."