When flesh lted it turned into sothing that looked like brown mushy yogurt. With a sizzling sound of sothing boiling coming from it.
It has been a long day. I didn't have the energy to feel disgusted.
After making sure professor Chain was leaning against a tree. I threw my sword like a spear at the screaming creature and pierced its side, almost missing the demon. The prick of getting stabbed didn't seem to grab the creature's attention.
I started walking toward the demon. It hadn't noticed , so I shouldn't get scared. That's what I told myself as I tried to replicate the feeling of using my Perfect technique.
Be logical, no decision should involve emotion in this matter. Don't think about the future or the people who died around . Dont think of how this could go horribly wrong. Be cold colder than ice.
In contrast to my thoughts, the heat coming from the snake was blistering hot. The demon was burning up a lot more than I thought it would. I grabbed onto my sword that was stuck into its body and swung it upward.
The slash went by so fast that it felt surreal as I was covered in boiling blood in a split second.
Hot! Shit that burns!
It was like boiling water scattering all over . I had my clothes to stop the blood from scorching my skin. I jumped back, in ti for so of the snakes to bite at the place I was at a second ago. They stared at like delicious prey.
While in Perfect state, I learned not to rush into battle. Always do it with a plan, and know when to back off. Don't involve emotions and nervousness. Trying to get one more hit in when you have an advantage could end up in death. Be patient.
Humans were way squishier than demons.
"Kon! Be careful!" Called out Bets, the fatigue in his voice was as clear as day.
Perfect was one of the best abilities for . That was sothing I had realized after using it only once. Slowly but surely, I will shed the weakness of my previous world.
In my last life, there was no risk where I used to live. At most, there might be a car accident or so homicide that had nothing to do with .
Growing up in such a safe environnt would dull anyone's instincts for survival. In this world, even sleeping was a dangerous activity. A demon might have the ability to enter dreams and kill you in them.
So many thoughts going through my mind. It was like my body was moving on its own. No, it wasn't, every slight movent was with full consciousness.
I took a couple more steps back and threw so projectiles. Which didn't do enough damage, but the ball of serpents was cautious enough to try and dodge.
Seed like this demon had so intelligence, despite being low class.
The creature rolled toward . I jumped to the side, the whiff of burning flesh was uncomfortable as ever. Their body wasn't maneuverable. But with the snake leads extending out they got close and were about to bite into .
Taking out a talisman, I used a minuscule amount of Ord and it created a translucent barrier around . Of course, the talisman was cheap and made only to ward off lingering spirits. But it still stopped the snakeheads from reaching for a split second. Which gave enough ti to back off.
"{Shadow Bite!}" Soone from Bets' group yelled.
Did he call his attack na out loud?
A giant wolf head ca from the creature's shadows and swallowed it whole. The wolf was made of shadows and it chewed on the demon a couple of tis. Before spitting out what was left of it, just inert parts of aty chunks.
The user of the technique was a wild dark haired classmate, who was huffing and puffing. It seed like the last attack had exhausted him.
Still, attacks at that level were sothing he shouldn't have been able to handle until years from now. Until his Ord would grow to a level where he could handle it, and the control of his energy beca better.
Him being able to use his Shadow Wolf ability at such a level. He pretty much brute-forced the technique into existence by using a huge amount of Ord. Sothing he shouldn't have now, and wouldn't have even in the future. What was happening? What changed?
Well, whatever happened, I will have no choice but to adapt to it. Unless the delinquent, Gem, ford so contract with a demon that will take his soul in exchange for Ord, then everything should be fine. "You guys okay? Anyone dead on your side?"
"Soone died?!" Bets was the first to catch onto my wording and read between the lines.
"Yes, almost half of my group is dead. Also teachers Rana and Fort are also dead," I broke the news imdiately and so of their faces paled.
Since none had died in their group yet, it seems like the reality of the situation hadn't sunk in yet. So might even think this was still a test.
One of the students started crying. "What about professor Chain?"
Imdiately everyone cringed in worry. I decided not to tell them that he was just sleeping while leaning against a tree there.
"He sacrificed himself for us," Gem, the delinquent, clenched his fist.
Yeah, Gem might seem at first sight like a bully character. Many readers of the manga, myself included, thought so at first. But he had a heart of gold, and he even helped stray puppies sotis.
It seed like professor Chain stayed back to buy the others ti. Just like in the manga. Since Chain was an Elite Exorcist, then there had to have been at least two high class demons for him to worry about his students.
"Don't worry about professor Chain," I went to the tree behind a bush, where I had hidden the teacher. "Though it seems like he has used a technique that had drained his life permanently."
"Teacher!"
"Professor Chain!"
The students didn't listen to at all and just went and crowded around the teacher. I couldn't help but smile a bit. Despite being harsh as hell, Chain saved their lives with the intention of sacrificing his own. This was sothing many students would rember.
In the original, he would have made a similar sacrifice for another student group that the main character was a part of. That's why I never got mad whenever he acted like an asshole. One of the main reasons was that despite saying it in a an way, his lessons were genuinely good. But also because he had the will to sacrifice his life even for those students that seem like he doesn't like them.
Amongst everyone, Gem stood by the side and I walked closer to him. His face was in a permanent sneer as if looking down on the people around him.
"That shadow wolf was your special ability, right?" I asked, wanting to pry so information.
"Yes," he answered simply, despite his delinquent appearance even though he knew that it wasn't smart to reveal his Special Abilitys nature.
Well, the Kuro Clans abilities werent a secret. Since the clan was one of the four great clans.
Though I knew it from the manga and even knew the weaknesses of the ability he hadn't even discovered yet. "Never thought I would see such a strong ability like yours in here. Seems stronger than most of the teachers."
Gem would develop this ability years later after a long period of training to raise his Ord. His main affinity was 50% Blaster. He was better than the average exorcist at best. But due to being born in the Kuro Clan, he was eventually going to reach a high power even with talent less than most.
Exorcist Clans essentially breed through generations of people using similar abilities. Normally a Blaster at the end of their growth would be able to change their Ord into an elent, and control said elent.
It wouldn't be strange to see so Blaster who was an Expert or Elite Exorcist shooting fireballs. But the training needed to achieve that would take months for the talented. For soone like Gem it would have taken at least two years.
Also to control elents, it wasnt only the Blaster affinity that one needed.
Since Gem was from the Kuro Clan. His family had been using shadow abilities for generations he was able to create the ability within a little over a year.
Their Ord could be imbued into a shadow, and Kuro Clan mbers can mold that shadow into many different forms, depending on the person.
But here he had achieved similar results as in the manga that had taken him over a year. My first suspicion was that he had sacrificed his lifespan. But sacrificing lifespan wasn't sothing any inexperienced Exorcist could do. Unless it was a Creator, which one could stumble through by accident in a stressful situation.
Sotis soone can get a bunch of Ord through extre restrictions on special ability. Ord control was sothing that can only improve with training. So the answer to how Gem could gain so much power in such a short ti had an obvious answer.
Soone else intervened and a dangerous ability had ford.
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