The students felt excited as they quickly realise that that was the exit portal. Despite the happiness, they were cautious when they stepped towards the portal.
While they carefully tiptoed to the portal fra while simultaneously observing their surroundings, Lee casually walked past them and went ahead.
"Children, being over-cautious is more problematic than being carefree."
With this, he placed his palm on the stone fra.
*rumble*
The stone fra trembled briefly and cald down after a few seconds. At the sa ti, Lee could see that his Mana reserve had lost about 70 Mana.
'Did it just take away 70 Mana?'
[Don't ask . Though I know about Lurelands, I too am a stranger to these events.]
[Maybe it needs so sort of energy to kick-start the process.]
'Sounds reasonable.'
By this ti, the space inside the stone fra distorted and the party saw the platform on which the Ruin entrance was. Like a weird photoshop, the dusty insides of the cave did not fit the view of the platform.
[The beacon is fired!]
Dnekewy opened the Map and Lee Shen saw that a beacon was standing like a pillar of light above the surface, where the cave entrance was. And when Hudson zood out the Map, he saw nurous figures flying towards the beacon.
"Okay. We need to move fast. Others are rushing here."
The students saw Lee Shen spacing out for a second as he stood staring at the wall. Then he ca out of the peculiar state and spoke these words.
The students frowned as they saw this developnt, but did not question the professor's intuition. They quickly stepped into the stone fra and their consciousness faded.
--
When the students ca conscious, they saw light and found themselves standing on the stone platform. The party recognised the scenery around them and saw that all 13 of them were present.
When the students saw the face of their professor, the excitent of exiting the Ruin in the first place vanished into thin air.
Because...there was an unpleasant expression on his face befitting the situation!
Lee Shen had his eyes fixed in a distance and the students followed his line of sight. What they saw in the direction of the Piscerent City was two large pillars of smoke rising from a distance.
"The hell happened in the city!"
Lee spoke to himself but it was louder than self-talk. The students heard his words and thought the sa.
"Depart!"
With this word, Lee Shen dashed forth. All of his agility value erupted out and his figure flashed. The students could only stand there and witness him moving at incredible speed.
"We should go too!"
Felrian clenched his fist as his Mana was concentrated in his feet. He leaned forward and followed Lee Shen's trail.
Seeing this, the remaining students quickly augnted themselves with Mana and darted at the city.
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Lee Shen was now only 2 kilotres from the city gate. He could see that the pillars of smoke were active and quickly summoned the Map.
[That is a waterfolk warship!]
Like a submarine, sothing floated in the water with only a hatch protruding above the sea level. The waterfall warship was enormous and it's length rivalled the size of a cricket stadium.
That warship had parked in a rather aggressive way. The concrete and solid portions of the port have been thoroughly broken down as the warship breached into the land with its nacing structure.
The port and the Guild were the places from which the smoke rose. There were signs of widespread destruction as many buildings had kissed the ground. The market area had casualties and the sects had dispatched many of its cultivators to control the situation.
Through the Map, he could see that the students were following his tail so he decelerated and ca to a halt. Though Lee Shen's Agility value was 4000, it was yet slow when compared with a Tubian.
"All of you go to the academy and query what is happening. Take these spatial rings and show them as the trophies to the principal.
I will go and check the situation."
When the students reached him, Lee took out the remaining five spatial rings and gave it to Zona while saying this. He then took off again at a relatively slower pace but was still fast in the eyes of the students.
Lee Shen saw the deserted city gate with only one or two soldiers guarding it. Seeing his familiar figure, they were not alert.
Lee walked to one of the guards and enquired to which the guard replayed-
"It happened on yesterday evening. The waterfolk's vessel ca up to the surface without any warning and shot two projectiles at the city. One fell at the port and greatly deford it. Another fell near the Cultivator's Guild and subsequently damaged the market area.
Several waterfolks ca walking into the city and gravely injured anyone who tried to stop them. I heard from other soldiers that they ca asking for so explanation."
Though Lee Shen was able to form an outline from the guard's description, many factors of the story remained missing.
[Waterfolks never attack the landfolks without provocation. Soone must have done sothing idiotic to piss the waterfolks to this extent.]
'We will have to know more about what had happened to conclude.'
Lee Shen darted to the Guild. He slowed down as he neared the market area.
[What kind of projectiles did they use?]
There was a crater between the Guild complex and the market section. The terrain inside the crater was scorched and was black.
The buildings around the crater were shattered not by brute force but by the energy rippled out from the impact!
[The waterfolks seems to be more advanced.]
Lee Shen clenched his fist as he could see severed limbs and decapitated heads here and there on the ground. Torsos and limbs were projecting out of the ruins.
"What in the world fell here?"
Mumbling to himself, Lee Shen walked to the Guild building.
But he was stopped from entering into the building by cultivators.
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