Extra's Guide to Surviving a Dark Fantasy World-Chapter 78: The Wrong Puddle

I leaped back, narrowly avoiding the beast’s massive claws as it swung down, tearing through the earth where I’d been standing.

I backpedaled even further, running towards a group of students before immediately starting sprinting left. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"No-" Aria, seeing what had happened, raised her sword, but it was too late.

The monster lunged, tearing through the group of students like paper. The others screamed, scattering in panic.

I hesitated, the chaos overwhelming me, but then Seylith grabbed my arm. "How could you, you bastard? Those were your fellow students!"

I didn’t respond; instead, I yanked my arm away and looked at the scene in front of me.

Something was wrong.

I mentally spoke before a sudden strange feeling took over my body.

Hadn’t I said the same thing before, once... twice, maybe?

Suddenly, a small fog began to take over my mind. I looked behind me to see a group of smaller Glyms approaching near our location, so I stepped further back, behind Seylith this time.

What was I thinking? I had definitely said it. But why? I couldn’t remember, yet my instincts were screaming at me that this was important.

Was it when the second wave of Glyms surrounded us? No, it couldn’t be that; none of the group had even noticed their presence until they were too close.

Then why had it felt like something was wrong?

ROOOOOOOOOAR!!!

The monster roared, lunging forward, meeting face to face with Aria, who, carrying her frozen sword, dashed forward towards the monster.

I, on the other hand, began going through my memories, recalling everything ever since we had stepped outside of the teleportation room. A sudden fog once again began to take over my mind, but I forcefully suppressed it.

First, the academy, for some reason, had decided it was okay to kill students. Aria was showing a panicked expression, something she hadn’t shown even after countless life-or-death situations in the desert; Soren had decided to reveal his salhira, something he had never done in the novel; Seylith Serenth was acting like the biggest protector in our generation.

And finally, I, who had also revealed my Salhira in front of the entire world.

Because I would have died if I hadn’t?... Sure.

But that still didn’t explain why I had suddenly decided to run forward at the head of the formation in front of everyone. Soren had begun using his Salhira as well; after he joined Aria and Seylith, there would have been plenty to break through the formation. If it were the usual me, I would have moved to the center of the formation and waited for them to break through.

The more I thought about it, the more the fog around me began to thicken until, finally, A sound of cracking reverberated through my mind as a crazy thought appeared in my mind.

I began looking at my surroundings, especially focusing on the corpses of my fellow students, going through them one by one, until-. Not too far away from me laid the figure of a boy, his forehead pierced by a single sharp claw.

I immediately began running through the body, making sure to only narrowly defeat the Glyms coming my way.

This isn’t right; I stopped a couple of feet away from the body, not coming too close, yet also inspecting the body.

The blood streaming from the head had pooled beneath it, forming a crimson puddle. Yet that wasn’t what had caught my eye, it was the size of it.

While a stab to the forehead was expected to cause blood to gush and form a puddle, the amount wasn’t supposed to be this excessive. I was sure of it because I had seen it firsthand when I killed Tess the exact same way.

This, however, felt more like a decapitation, like the time that beast in the fort had decapitated Thorne.

This was way too gory for a stab in the forehead. Wait a minute...

What kind of arcana did Mia Rhyden specialize in?

My eyes slightly widened as I immediately began dashing forward as the fog surrounding me began to disappear. I rushed towards Aria and Seylith, fighting against the beast. Even from here, I could see how tired they truly were.

Please be right, Please be right. I mumbled in my head as I rushed towards their direction, climbing over the top of a large nearby rock.

"YOU FOUL BEAST!!!" I screamed, pointing my sword at the large Glym and making sure everyone in the vicinity could see me.

"DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO I AM? I AM ROYE VALDRIN, YET YOU DARE TO BRING YOUR DIRTY PAWS IN MY GENERAL DIRECTION."

My shouts were loud, prompting everyone on the battlefield to turn in my direction; even Seylith and Aria momentarily paused to see what I was doing.

"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. TODAY WILL BE THE DAY I END YOU WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS."

I took out a bottle filled with healing pills my uncle had gifted me. Made with only the most expensive and mana-rich materials, just one look and one could sense the extremely thick mana wafting from it.

Once I had made sure a couple of my fellow classmates had seen it, I took out some of the pills and, pretending to hide them from the public’s eye, I clumsily threw them in my mouth.

"I WAS THE ONE TO BREAK US THROUGH THE ENCIRCLMENT BEFORE. NOW I WILL USE MY OWN STRENGTH TO SLAY THIS BEAST AND PROVE MYSELF TO EVERYONE PRESENT, SO WATCH ME CAREFULLY, YOU PLEBIANS; LOOK AT THE LORD YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS."

Saying so, I raised my sword high and, for the last time, prayed that I was correct. Once that was done, I leaped high up in the air toward the monster.

"YAAARG-" My scream was cut short as the giant Glym’s claws pierced through my body, tearing it into half.

Students around me gasped as my lifeless corpse, the one boasting about killing the monster, fell to the ground, with his body separated into two pieces.