Suddenly, the sound of the footsteps stopped.

I looked towards Oyado, and she looked my way as well. Her expression was filled with doubt. It seemed like she did not why the sound of the footsteps had stopped as well.

Oyado waved her hand about, telling me that she would be going alone to investigate through hand signals.

I shook my head. Silently, I summoned an Ice Shield, and then, stretched it outside.

Pa!

Seemingly in an instant, an arrow instantly pierced through the shield in my hands. Although the arrow was stuck in the shield after penetrating it, for an arrow to be able to penetrate my ice shield, it showed that the one who shot the arrow was definitely an Archer who was above level 20.

I suddenly thought of something. Instantly raising a thick ice wall to block the passageway, I then grabbed Oyado, and accelerated to the back by five meters.

As I have expected, with a flash of a blade-light, the wall in front of us was sliced into half from the middle. Then, the person behind the wall kicked away the blocks of ice which he had sliced, and walked over.

I say, Bai Yueguang, is it really alright to throw your attacks around without looking at whos your opponent?

Tch, I knew it was you. I simply wanted to test your abilities.

Test your sister! Mine has lost its functions as well, are you trying to kill me?

Is that so But from the looks of it, your personal capability is pretty good. Its already pretty amazing to be capable of dodging that.

The person who walked over was, as expected, Bai Yueguang. The person behind him was naturally Hei Luoli.

Acting as though I was taking out some sort of fire-lighting equipment, I then immediately used a Fire Magic spell to once again light up the candlelight.

Tch, after seeing that arrow, I had already guessed your identities. Hei Luolis the only one who uses a bow in this academy, right? Of course, theres still some archers in this academy, but all of them use crossbows instead.

I see. Hence, you quickly judged the next possible attack, and instantly dodged? Alright. Lets put this aside for now. This place Are you and Oyado the only ones here?

Of course not You guys can come out now. Theyre one of us.

After hearing my words, an instant later, Princess Michelle and the rest walked out from the back of the blind spots.

So its little Bai. Then were much safer now.

Why?

Because according to what you said earlier, our opponents are capable of petrifying magic spells, but slash waves should be impossible, right?

Oh! Youre right!

Suddenly, I felt as though Princess Michelle was very logical!

Even if thats the case, its very hard for me to slash those things. With a distance of about twenty meters, even if my slashes are quick, the nimble bodies those things have had dodged my attacks several times.

So you have battled them?

Un, in the beginning, we planned on finding the others before fleeing. However, near the library, we encountered a Medusa. The reason why I was able to defeat one, was because she tried to petrify my slash wave. However, after confirming that she was unable to petrify it, the rest immediately changed their plan and dodged everything instead.

Hearing Bai Yueguang words, I could not help but sink into deep thoughts.

I see. The Medusa possesses resistance to status debuff spells, and the ability to dodge at high speed. So, in that case, doesnt that mean they have reached the stage where theyre capable of defending themselves against us Magicians, Bai Yueguangs slash waves, and Hei Luolis arrows?

Hmph. Although I dont wish to admit it The Medusas used by our opponents are monsters which are able to completely restrain us According to my information, in history, theres only a single type of class which is capable of exterminating them. And thats, the Berserker.

Blitzing to where they are, and then, give them a fatal blow!

But, problem is It seems like our Berserker Aliyah is incidentally not around Could it be our opponents have incidentally grasped this opportunity to attack us?

However, even if our opponents were to do such a thing, whats the point? Is he planning to turn us all into statues and then, collect us?

Indeed, usually, Medusas wont destroy their enemies who have turned into stones No, if thats really the case, our opponents goal may not be just us, rather

All of the students in the academy!

Although we have many regular students in our academy, the number of students with noble backgrounds are equally as many as well! If all of them were to be captured, then, the entire Western Continent will sink into a hostage crisis!

Ah, I see. Based on this point, our opponents came assaulting the academy!? So theyre trying to kill two birds with one stone!

And, we, who are the only ones capable of going against them, are basically restrained. Bai Yueguangs katana skills and Tai Shixis halberd are basically unable to forcefully breakthrough a huge group of them. If its only a single one, it will still be fine. However, if many Medusas were to come at us all at once, we will have no chance of victory at all.

Ms. Maris Magic Gun Although it has a Sniper Rifle Form, its not the type of weapon used for battling a huge group of enemies.

Dales tools Hopefully, he still has something incredible up his sleeve, otherwise, we will definitely be doomed!

But right now, we have to first locate them. Ms. Mari and Dale are the only ones remaining, but right now, theres no way to contact them.

In any case, without an insurance in our hands, its best to first flee from this place.

Alright. We will then first leave this place before thinking of anything else. Princess Michelle, you say that theres a passageway here that leads to the Ruins of the Ancients, but youre unsure of the location of the entrance. In that case, do you know if theres any part of this passageway thats been labelled extremely dangerous, and youre not allowed to enter?

Eh? Hearing you put it that way, theres really such a place!

Princess Michelle replied seemingly without thinking about it at all.

Because, when we obtained the rights to use this passageway, the person who was in-charge of guiding the way has clearly stated that theres a route were not allowed to take.

Now, thats really convenient. If its only its really that simple, then it would be great.

I nodded.

But that dangerous route seems to be our exit. If we want to leave this place, we have no choice but to take that route.

I looked towards everyone.

No one should have any objections, right?

None.

Of course not.

Anything is fine.

Although I know that you guys do not wish to bring too much trouble upon yourselves, it will be more dangerous to stay here. After all, those monsters may enter here at any time. Sitting and waiting for our deaths is definitely not the right choice.

Naturally, I understand that.

Princess Michelles other bodyguard nodded and said.

Indeed, we cant hope to head outside in this situation. Although on a certain degree, its really dangerous, according to your performance earlier, I believe that you can still be trusted.

Its really great to receive your confirmation.

I smiled.

Then, lets go. Lets head to that passageway