Massacre 3

After reaching the academy,

"Why..?

I was left shocked from what I was seeing.

"No please do- Gah!"

One of the unnamed students begged for mercy, only to be cut in half by a long-horned humanoid creature.

They looked quite similar to normal demons, except for the color of their reddish horns from their foreheads.

"What is this...?"

The moment I saw piles of dead bodies in front of the gate, I suddenly felt an unfamiliar feeling like a string was cut into two.

Tak-!

At the same time, I could hear the robotic voice in my head talking.

[Hiatus Break : 14%]

I slowly walked inside the gate. Everytime I turned my head to look around, I could only see students fighting a True Demons, or blood, or dead bodies everywhere... ቿሀቿዪሃሠዘቿዪቿ.

Tak-!

The second string snapped at the same time as the system inside me spoke up.

[Hiatus Break : 17%]

Why did this happened...? I subconsciously looked down, only to see myself being reflected to the blood of one of the students.

[Hiatus Break : 20%]

I went inside the academy, and take a side glance at every classroom I walked passed by.

[B10]

Inside this classroom lies a couple of students head that was stabbed on a sharp stick, and was carefully arranged on the table.

[A9]

Just a three classroom away from the other classroom that was full of heads. In this classroom, I could see some of the soldiers of the true demons happily stabbing the professor that was trying to protect the students from his back using their swords and spears, all while while laughing.

[Hiatus Break : 27%]

Is this ቻሁክ?

[Hiatus Break : 34%]

Is killing and torturing someone really ቻሁክ...?

Was it meant to be ቿክፕቿዪፕልጎክጎክኗ?

[Hiatus Break : 40%]

Before I knew it, little by little, I felt that my patience is running out.

[Hiatus Break : 56%]

I immediately took out my sword, and ran forward to help them by stabbing and slicing two of the true demon soldiers from the back.

"Haaaaaa..."

From this day on, I finally realized my mistake.

NAIVE....

I was too naive... I was too naive for not realizing that this world can't run similarly to how it originally was from the novel. This world is not meant to be peaceful under the rule of the True Demon King and the organization.

After I finished helping them, I immediately went and took out a healing potions from my storage ring to heal the professor who was stabbed continuously earlier. However, by the time I was about to help him drink the potion, it was already too late.

[Hiatus Break : 68%]

"Thank...you..." He managed to muster using his last bit of strength before dying onto one of the student's arm.

[Hiatus Break : 76%]

After I saw this, I bit my lower lips until I started having a metallic taste on it, before looking away.

I'm about to lose all my patience if this takes anymore longer, so I decided to give them half of my potions reserve inside my storage ring, before leaving.

***

[2:55P.M.]

I finally reached the gate of the arena after a couple of minutes of walking.

As I was about to enter,

Clang-!

I noticed few of the professors battling with a hideous monster from the distance.

"Fuck!!" One of the professor cursed as he blocked the claw of the metal monster.

I was about to help them deal with the monster when my eyes caught a familiar girl lying near them.

"Ah..."

I became speechless for a couple of seconds because of what I saw next.

"Alicia!!"

Ignoring the fight that was happening nearby, I focused my attention directly on Alicia.

[Hiatus Break : 83%]

Hopping down, I ran forward to her.... lifeless body.

[Hiatus Break : 86%]

"I...."

Raising her body to my arm and covered the wound from her stomach with my hands.

I tried to use my dark magic to try and perform a surgery to stop the wound from bleeding, however, I knew that it was already too late.

She was dead.

"Ah..."

[Hiatus Break : 89%]

Holding Alicia's body that was lying on the ground, my whole body trembles from being overwhelmed by emotions.

"Why...?"

[Hiatus Break : 92%]

Normally, I am not supposed to act like this, however, I knew that a huge portion my well bring changed after I got transferred into Lucius' body.

I hated this.

I could feel my despair.

The agony.

It hurts!

I don't want to feel this kind of emotions again.

I don't want to get hurt.

I'm done with crying....

Why...?

Once again, I knew that it was because of me changing some part of the novel, it became like this.

It was all my fault.

She wasn't suppose to die.

No.

It was supposed to be the princess, Lumine. She was supposed to be the one who'll get killed in the future. And yet, due to my stupid interference, it was changed.

I wish that I could be the one to replace Alicia's place, so that she could live while I could be the one to die.

[Hiatus Break : 98%]

No.

[Hiatus Break : 99%]

If only I didn't existed like what he said,

[Hiatus Break : 100%]

None of this could have happened in the first place.

-Shackle!

Suddenly, a sound of glass shattering echoed in my ear.

[Hiatus Break : 101%]

And so, the limiter broke...

[Hiatus Break : 106%]

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[Hiatus Break : 259%]

[Hiatus Break : 526%]

The numbers went up at great speed.

[Hiatus Break : 804%]

[Hiatus Break : 979%]

[Hiatus Break : ????%]

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[Hiatus Break : .....]

-Shackle!

After that, my whole vision turned black

The last thing I saw was that the panel that was covering half of my vision once again let out another shattering noise in my head before breaking into pieces.

[¡¡!!IMMEASURABLE!!¡¡]

"It's my fault..."

*****

As Athan sat there at the middle while holding Alicia in his arms, the professors began to notice him in the middle of their fight.

"Get out of here, kid!"

The female professor screamed as she summoned out her spell to bind Roche using the vines that appeared below him.

[Strap Vine]

However, Roche was able to easily shook this off and hardened his body in a more efficient way by sharpening the edges like his elbow, knee and chin.

"Roooooaaar!" He rushes towards the three professors and clawed his way to the barrier that one of them had set up as shield. Soon, he was able to destroy it in one go and took a strong bite on the middle while crushing the other two with his hands.

Splurt-!

The whole arena was rained down in blood after crushing the two as he ate the professor that was in his mouth.

Munch! Munch! Munch!

As he ate him, the sound of bones being crushed could be heard clearly before the swallowing part.

"Grrrr..." Roche turned his way towards Athan and growled like a rabid dog.

"You're no longer useful..."

Before Roche could even attack, he suddenly felt scared when his eyes met his.

"Die."

Athan raised his hands and pumped it into a fist. At the same time, a black miasma went towards Roche's body and picked him up before crushing him like a ball.

Crush!

Crack!

The sound of his bones cracking with the metal being crushed echoed loudly in the whole arena. It was more intense than when he ate the professor, as the same was very detailed from the sound of his bones getting crushed, his agonizing growl, the metal crushing sound, it was too loud.

"Kufufufufu...." He began to let out a chuckle as he let go of Roche, who was now crushed into the same size of a paper ball.

"Arthur.... Arthur, where are you!!?"

...

Somewhere inside the mirror world, Evangeline suddenly felt an immense amount of fear as her back began to get covered in sweat.

"I... I need to leave. Don't worry, you two will be safe in here."

"Wait!!"

As she said these, she left the two to enter the portal to the real world.

***

[2:59P.M.]

At the amidst of their battle, a loud laugher was heard, stopping them from what they were doing.

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

When all of them turned their head to face where the laugher first came from, what they saw made including the Duke, their spines tremble.

"Hahahaha!!!"

In their eyes, a boy that has prismarine in his left while ruby-red on his right eye, made his way towards their direction while holding a glowing katana that was covered in black miasma, including his body.

The boy's hair is half black and half brown, but it was hard to see due to the black mist and aura surrounding his body.

While walking slowly towards them, the boy stopped laughing and said "Now, then. Arthur, shall we begin the next round?" with a grin.

[Time: 03 : 00 : 00]

What's that famous line again?

Right...

"I. ALWAYS. COME. BACK."

[System is currently being downloaded... 1%]

The system spoke in his head.

"So... It's you who that guy was talking about?" The man wearing a bandana take his sword out and launched himself toward Athan.

"Hmmm?"

Though Athan could see it,

"I'll just wrap this up quickly..."

He merely spread both of his arms out and grinned mischievously.

Soon, his head was cut off and flew in the air.

"That was... fast?" The man said as he turned around to look at him in complete disappointment.

As Athan's head continues to spin in the air, every person nearby heard a notification inside their heads, Arthur was included.

[An interference has occurred!]

And so, new notifications followed.

[Due to some interference, the «⬛» has gifted the chosen «Player(?)» 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000......Ω1 of his «Creator's Authority».]

[Receiving gift.... Ding!]

[The gift has been received.]

«Zero to One»

When everyone heard this in their heads, it was as if time and reality had exploded that everything around them suddenly collapsed.

'What?!'

The man wearing a bandana wanted to speak, but couldn't because he can't move even an inch of his lips while the sudden turn out event was happening.

Shuuuuuuuuuooooop!

While everyone was shocked, a black hole suddenly appeared to where Athan had died, as it swallowed everything including his body.

'Athan!!!'

Everyone including Arthur wanted to scream out his name, however, they couldn't because they were experiencing the same case as the man with a bandana.

They couldn't even move their body. As for the black hole, it started getting bigger and bigger with great speed.

Soon enough, all of them were all swallowed by this black hole as their vision turned dark. They couldn't see anything because the black hole had already swallowed the light around them, nor could they feel anything since the time had collapsed so as their senses.

BAAAAAM!

After swallowing the whole Academy's Arena, the black hole finally exploded as a notification echoed around the explosion.

[Time is moving backwards...]