Chapter 28

Rey's POV ***

"Haah...Today was tiring!" I straight up went for the bed.

A lot of news came today from the Academy. The new rule, the new upcoming event. But the most shocking thing for me and others was the suspension of all the famous five stars for two weeks. And that too in front of the whole assembly.

"Jerry! I got my memories of that day back after we talked. Is this supposed to happen?"

After Jerry told me everything after the meeting at the villa, slowly but clearly my own memories returned of the the entire day. Now, I can recall every incident that happened.

[ I think the potion you drank was not a potion made from herbs and medicines, it was made by using someone's ability. And since it's an ability very inferior to the ability you were exposed in the sky sect, your own powers countered the ability. ]

[ Maybe this can be related to your special constitution you will receive once you evolve. Who knows!! ]

"Hmm....~"

I then recalled the events happened inside the dungeon on that day.

At first, things were going normally. We cleared the first level and moved on to the second. The problem started after we cleared the second level. We were forced into going to the hidden floor and joined up with Elliott's group. Then the two dungeon masters entered the stage and provided us an 'Special Quest'. Even if the difficulty of the quest was somewhat higher, it was still doable and we proceeded all the way till the end room.

It all started in the Main chamber.

There was a demon named Athira, stationed inside the chambers with dead-bodies all over the place. He was protecting the corpse of Belphegor, who still had his soul inside his body. Our main objective in the quest was to seal the soul of Belphegor with the help of the Relic.

Athira was a Mid-Ranking Demon. But he had also suffered injuries in the war, hence his level was dropped all the way to lowest level demon. Even though he was a Lowest level demon, his power was comparable to a mage of rank C- .

We were annihilated completely. Everyone was utterly destroyed. Even I suffered some damage. Although Juhie and Garrett pushed the demon into corner. But the demon received a boost in his strength by absorbing blood. After that moment was just a one way traffic.

After taking care of Juhie and Garrett, the demon then started torturing everyone. But before he could touch the last three, something wrong happened to the demon. I think it was the reaction from using the extra boost.

While the demon was circulating his energy, out of nowhere Elliott started attacking the demon. At that time, something was different about him. I was vaguely conscious at that point. While fighting, Elliott was holding the upper hand until the demon used a shadow skill. A big sphere made up completely of shadow, surrounded both of them.

I don't know what happened there inside, but using this as my chance, I used up all the potions I had and recovered more than half of my health and stamina. My essence was one thing I did not had a lot. The essence potions were used up before coming to the main chambers.

After some ten minutes, the shadow sphere was gone, revealing Elliott and the demon. I acted like I was fainted. And then I heard something-

~"How can I find the case you were talking about?"~

I knew where this was going. It was a situation I had to get myself involved in. How come out of nowhere, a demon and a 16 year old kid is talking about 'Case' in life and death situation. Now was the time to reveal everything and break my locked stats.

I revealed my case to Elliott by pointing towards my earing. Elliott was shocked, but for some reason the most traumatized among the two was the demon.

He was blabbering something and shaking his head left and right.

After his bizarre state was finished, he looked at me with big red eyes filled with ample emotions. Without wasting any time, he jumped on me with his fangs stretched at full length.

I accessed my case for the first time and poured Mana into the case.

A defensive barrier was erected in front of me, stopping the demon's attack. Not only the attack was stopped, but the demon was pushed all the way back.

In that time, I used the case to attack. The barrier turned into a sword with brimming power.

{ Mana-Essence Heart Breathing - Second form }

After using the second form, a battle of tremendous power started. The chamber was half destroyed during the battle. And the result, the demon's head was cut off.

I turned towards Elliott, who was still in awe of the fight that just happened in front of his eyes. Elliott spilled everything after some humble questions.

The things he said were ridiculous. He said he came from the future and obtained the system when he woke up in the past, that is 3 months ago. According to Elliott, the avatars in the stories who are revered as heroes and gods, were normal humans from another world. These humans had a system and a weapon called Case.

When Elliott got the system, he didn't get the case, in-fact he didn't even knew anything about it. Athira was the one who told him about the case inside the shadow hall.

After I got all the questions answered, it was time to seal the soul of Belphegor. We moved all the pieces of the Relic and placed it on top of the coffin, where the engravings were already present to set up the relic.

The dismembered statue rose in the air and all the wings that were torn off were joined once again. The entire coffin lit up and turned into dust along with the statue. Only the corpse of Belphegor remained there.

A notification of quest completion displayed in front of my eyes.

Just as the message popped up, two figures entered the chambers. The dungeon masters had a bewildered expression on their faces. After a moment they started laughing maniacally, cursing the demons left and right.

They were clearly not in their right state of mind, So before they could say anything I attacked. The attack was so sudden, that neither the two could do nothing about it. These two were even weaker than Athira.

Elliott witnessed it all silently, to be honest I could never trust a supposed returnee. At that moment I heard some footsteps coming, they were of humans. To be safe, I attacked Elliott and knocked him out. I even stabbed the Goblin king's sword in my stomach and lost consciousness.

That was all I remembered from that day.

*****

Inside a hall, seven people were sitting across a table. All the seven people had different tattoos on their bodies.

Apart from the seven who were seated on the table, one person was kneeling on the ground with his one knee touched to the floor. He was none other than Brian.

"I was given the responsibility of this mission, have you done your part...." A sickly voice came out from the guy with a beast tattoo on his neck. He was looking directly at Brian.

"I will get it done by this week sir. The preparations have already started." Brian said while looking down.

"Make sure to do it before the deadline, otherwise you won't have a good end here. Leave!"

Brian left the room without looking back.

"Brock, don't go overboard with the students. We just want one person. Don't involve the other kids, specially those four. Our target is Elliott Barns, alive. Don't mess up!"

A woman with a snake tattoo warned Brock. But Brock didn't reply and just left the room with a sinister smile.

"This psycho!! . . . . . "

****

A week passed.