"Haah.... Haah...haa..."
Goddamnit...
I spent a few seconds trying to control my breathing and keep my mind stable.
For better or worse, the Ruler's Authority Enchantnt consud a lot of Ether, and, i an, i could spare a bit more of that but there was still so level of ntal exhaustion depending on the scale i activated the Enchantnt on.
At the very least, it was at a level where i couldn't maintain any other Active Enchantnts at the sa ti, like the Crown's Veil which was kind of similar to an opposite and contrasting enchantnt of Ruler's Authority.
Activating one of the two required deactivating another at the sa ti.
And switching between the two Enchantnt simultaneously swiftly took so ti and focus.
I was leaning against my spear while expanding my senses sharply, a small portion of my mind was still fused under the influence of Imrsion that was still active.
It was how i was still capable of holding myself together as my mind began to recover under the skill's influence.
Next to against the ground was the female cadet who had lunged at .
She was sobbing her eyes out with her face in her hands, kneeling against the sharp sand. Her shoulders continued to tremble
I glanced at her from the side and sighed.
"... You alright?" I said probingly, with concern.
Even though she was the one who unsympathetically lunged at and aid for my head, that was while her emotion and thoughts had been manipulated.
Now she was probably suffering the backlash from the effects.
I could understand.
If it weren't for Imrsion holding up like ntal pillars, i too would probably be on my knees.
Heck, i could even barely stand upright on my own without support.
There was a big ntal drain and despondent emptiness left behind that seed to want to swallow you up.
At least, for , that was how the lingering side effect of the diabolical ntal attack felt. And this was with the Imrsion skill activated even.
The cadet continued to cry to herself without saying anything in reply.
I didn't mind, and aside from that, she seed to be alright. As far as fine could go in this situation at least.
Well, taking a broad look around, for the anti, everything seed fine.
For now.
The cadet continued to cry and sob, but at least she seed to be in a more rational control of her actions. She wasn't lunging around recklessly while spouting ncomprehensible nonsense all around.
"Wh-what have i done... What happened... Huh?" Occasionally, i would hear her say in-between sobs.
A small sigh broke from my lips as i struggled to restrain my bathed breaths.
Everyone else seed to share the sa sympathy.
I gripped the spear i used for balance tightly and said in a small voice only i could probably hear.
"ta...haahh... analysis?"
ta promptly responded, the synthetic voice vibrating in a symphony inside my head.
[Affirmative. Analysis, so far, shows the symptoms revealed are the results or effects of a powerful wide scale ntal attack that triggers high emotional responses instantaneously like lighting a gas with a mayvh stick. You have barely managed to mitigate the mysterious skill, but there are still chances that remnants of the effects still linger. Best course of action is to avoid or be mindful pf any excessive emotional stimuli from now on.]
A ntal attack... My eyes coldly narrowed.
One that instigated ntal and emotional breakdown from experiencing even the most mild shocks and emotional tension.
I swept a carpet glance across the vicinity once.
At the sa ti, i caught sight of Deandra staring at .
"V-vic...! What the hell happened to you — no, what the hell is going on?! One minute, w-we were just...! A-and then i...!"
The panicked voice belonged to a pale faced Chelsea with dried blood staining her roughly wiped cheeks as she stumbled her way up to .
"Chelsea..." I said weakly.
And then.
•[Skill: Imrsion has been terminated]
As i heard the system prompt abruptly say so out of nowhere, i felt my head go lighter and consciousness turned fainter as it flickered for a mont enough to make stumble.
It was so sudden that i couldn't even maintain standing on my feet and fell on my ass with a thump.
"Oof."
"Vic!"
A small groan left my lips and Chelsea threw herself with concern at .
"Chelsea, Victor, you two are safe " then a third familiar voice said and approached.
The figures of Deandra, Trise and Don ca into view around .
My held was throbbing, i held up the heel of my palm against my forehead in a futile attempt to mitigate it slightly.
"Yeah... mostly." I said and glanced at Don.
The young black haired cadet was being held up by Trise with his head lowered. His eyes were vacant and hollow, ushering with darkness.
Don lowered his head as his fingers incessantly trembled and vibrated, and he kept mumbling sothing sothing incomprehensible and unsettling from his lips.
Trise noticing my glance at him parted her lips, hesitated in a ek fashion, and said pitifully with a dark expression.
"Don is..."
"I know. You don't have to tell anything, i understand." Before she could bring herself to continue, i interjected with a sigh.
"Can soone tell what the hell is going on?" Chelsea said urgently, shifting her gaze between each of us, and ultimately Deandra.
Deandra t her gaze woth her usual stetn and composed expression as she seed ready to give a reliable response.
"I..."
But Deandra froze and hesitated, her expression faltered and an uncertain voice flowed out instead.
"I... I'm not sure..."
She lowered her head and looked away with unease.
Then Deandra suddenly looked back at .
"Do you have any idea?"
She blinked, her voice sounded a lot eker.
She was probably asking because i eas the first person to notice we were under attack while no one else did.
Thinking that, i didn't pay too much attention about Deandra's sudden change and submissive personality and nodded darkly.
I looked at Chelsea who offered her hand to help up.
"I do."
Trise's eyes brightened up slightly.
She took a steo forward.
"Then..!
Before Trise could continued we suddenly heard the shattered sound of an explosion from the distance.
-BOOM!
A powerful explosion erupted from distant direction not too far from us, and a powerful gale swep over us like a shockwave.
I felt the ground tremble under my feet as the roar of an explosion reached my ears from afar.
"Holy cow! What the fuck was that?!" Trise scread in alarm, staring at a tall and rising cloud of dust and smoke stretching into the red sky from afar.
"That's..."
The explosion...
"It's from the direction we ca from!"
The Shockwaves and winds seept over us like a storm.
Eventually, once it all seed to be over—
"Heeeaaaiiiiaaakkkk—!!!"
We heard a bloodcurdling scream.
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