Glade Planet - Snow City
*Beep Beep*
The sound of beeping echoed through the hall, making the adults and children in the room to look around for the source of the sound.
"What's that agitating sound?" Asked Noah while rubbing his ear.
"Its a warning system. It means that there is a possible threat. I'm sure the army will deal with it, but if it gets too much for them to deal with, I usually send Ruben there to fix the situation." Benjamin shrugged.
"Sir." Suddenly a figure wearing a tuxedo appeared in the room, causing everyone to look at him with either an inquisitive stare or complete awe.
"What is it, Ruben?" Layla asked in her husband's stead.
"According to the information I have gotten, the tomb of Cthulhu has been discovered and accidentally opened." Ruben spoke with the same steady voice as always.
"Cthulhu... Mommy. You told me that was a just a story." Alice turned to Olivia while thinking of all the times \when she told her mom that there was a monster in her closet, but her mother didn't believe her.
"It is a story." Olivia smiled awkwardly while looking at her daughter, that was beginning to tear up out of fear.
"The tomb of Cthulhu was just a myth those elves told us to scare us. Honestly Ruben, you shouldn't prank us like that." Benjamin laughed, yet Ruben's face quickly turned into a grave expression.
"Sir, the entire army is beginning to move. Even the Emperor is thinking of making a move. The founding families are also sending their best soldiers." Ruben continued.
"Ruben. You're scaring Alice." Noah sighed.
"You utter morons. I'm telling you that Cthulhu has awakened, and this is your reaction? You do know that Lloyd is on that planet, right? The military academy is doing a mock exam there and has just sent out a signal for all nearby soldiers to help evacuate the students and kill Cthulhu." Ruben's watch began to shine as a holographic screen shone above it.
The screen showed an enormous monster with swamp-green skin, tentacles for a beard, and an abnormally large head that made it look like the aliens from the old movies.
The creature had enormous red eyes that shone through the dust and smoke and an aura that could be felt from the screen, sending s shiver down the spines of the kids in the room.
"Wait... Lloyd is on the same planet as that thing?" Noah asked with widened eyes.
The moment Ruben called them morons, they knew he was serious. Ruben almost never cursed anyone out, but when he did, it usually worked in his favor by straightening out anyone who tried to speak against him.
"Ruben, get the ships ready." Benjamin ordered, making Ruben nod and slowly fade away.
"Layla, you stay here with the kids. Noah, Olivia and I will also go to that planet." Benjamin ordered, making everyone nod.
Layla's abilities weren't really suited for battle against monsters like Cthulhu. At best, they were good against humans who are capable of feeling emotions to a larger extent.
"Let's move out."
***
*BOOM, BOOM, BOOM*
The sound of several explosions reverberated through the air as the instructors of every class threw everything at Cthulhu. Despite him still being in the Topaz stage of the second commandment, they struggled against him, especially when their strongest instructor was nowhere to be found.
"Where's Mirage!" Rachel Kim asked while slowly finding herself being swarmed by hundreds of Cthulhu's soldiers that were flying around her like a swarm of bees, similar to what they did to Null.
However, now they were a lot stronger than when they fought with Null, having reached the half-step second commandment and nearing the topaz stage more and more as the seconds passed.
"I don't know, but I don't think we can hold on for much longer. The mana in the air is thinning due to that thing absorbing it all into its body, and its becoming harder and harder to create spells or use any of my abilities." Lloyd's flame control instructor panted as she quickly weaved several spells into the air, creating hundred of fireballs that quickly turned the monsters into ashes.
"Don't worry. He should be here soon. Reinforcement are on their way too." A man covered in lighting shot around, electrocuting the monsters and slicing them up into dozens of pieces.
"Oh yeah? Let's see if they can get here before I rip that thing limb from limb!" Rachel Kim shouted while punching forward and creating a powerful air pressure that eviscerated everything in its path, turning the monster into nothing but chunks of blood and gore while parting the remaining mountains and slamming Cthulhu in the abdomen.
*"HAHAHA! You think you're so powerful, little human? I've fought humans more powerful than you can ever imagine. That human, in particular was a little too terrifying."* Cthulhu shivered when he remembered a particular person with bright green eyes that had almost killed him with the wave of his hand.
However, despite being enormous, no one realized his predicament since they were all too busy doing their own thing.
[Dagger of Lightning Obliteration]
[Zues's Wrath]
A bolt of lightning shot through the air and slammed into Cthulhu.
At the same time, clouds began to spiral above the monster, and before Cthulhu could understand what hit him, he felt ravaged by natural lightning bolts that shot down from the sky and burned him alive.
*ROOOOOAAAAAR*
Letting out a deafening roar, Cthulhu parted the clouds in the sky with his voice alone, and with his maw now wide open, his mana began to gather in it while something began to shine on his forehead.
A ball of black energy slowly formed in his mouth, growing in size by the second while also sucking any attacks there were coming his way into its mouth.
"ARISE!" A woman wearing a black robe slammed her staff into the ground. Green energy suddenly spewed out of her body and covered the entire battlefield before something began to move from under the ground.
Slowly, bones and flesh gathered as the corpses of bodies from the past slowly stood up, their eyes burning with a green flame as they stared at Cthulhu.
"Protect us!" The woman roared, causing all the undead to pile up on each other and create an enormous, almost indestructible shield before the instructor's very eyes.
Almost...
Suddenly, a beam of pure destruction left Cthulhu's mouth. Everything in its path, from the dust to the rubble in the air, turned into pure energy while the atoms dismantled in less than a second, leaving them in the form of protons, electrons, and neutrons.
The beam shot right at the shield of the undead, yet the moment the beam came in contact with them, they all lost the mana that kept them going and quickly turned into nothing but quarks.
Everyone's eyes widened as they tried their best to stop the attack from hitting them, yet no matter what they did, the attack only grew stronger.
Before they knew it, the beam of destruction was right in front of them, and a moment later, all the instructors were quickly consumed by it.
***
On the other side of the planets stood a group of 11 students, all back to back with their weapons on hand.
"We're dead... We're so dead." Elliot had tears running down his eyes as everyone else in the group looked around in panic.
For the first time in a very long time, Haley was feeling true terror.
First, the teammate that she had just grown to like had died protecting them. After that, the entire team spent 4 days trying to find their way back to the military camp; however, every time they tried to go back, there was always something in the way.
"Well, we are close now, we just have to fight through this horde of monsters, and we'll be fine." Haley stuttered.
Derek, Alex, and John were also there but stayed completely quiet.
Alex was panicking a little.
Despite the monsters around them being normal half-steps, they weren't normal monsters.
They could fly, moved in swarms, and were abnormally strong.
If that wasn't enough, they also had a connection to the darkness element that made it hard to fight against them. One wrong move and the students in the first commandment would instantly die. While the third years didn't feel the same threat of instant death that the first years did, they also had to be careful.
The monsters were growing at an abnormal rate too, and the fact that they moved in swarms also made it much harder to kill them.
"Guys. They don't seem to have minds of their own so I can't really use any of my abilities." Jay Ludwig spoke with a stern expression.
His team and Hayley's had merged together after finding one another in the forest.
"Oh really? I expected better from a dreamweaver." A black-haired girl smirked while beheading three monsters with one swing of her Scythe. After killing hundreds of monsters in an environment where your life could be in danger at all times, Luna had grown to the late stage of the first commandment, and was ready to break through into the peak stage at any moment.
Luna was quite young, being only thirteen years old, when she joined the military academy. While she had been trained in combat since the age of three, she had only awakened a week before the military academy had begun, which was why she found herself in the C group despite being one of the most talented in the academy.
Since her class required her to take lives to increase her commandment, she didn't improve much in the academy, but now that she had been put into a place filled with monsters waiting to be killed, she was finally able to flourish.
Her team consisted of Jay, her, and three D ranks; however, since Jay and her were carrying the team, it didn't really matter how many D ranks they had. They just needed to keep them safe.
*THUD*
Suddenly, a larger monster slammed into the ground before slowly standing up.
It looked at the in the eyes while the rest of the monsters expanded a little, circling around the group of humans but not daring to come any closer.
"Looks like we found the boss monster." Derek joked, yet no one laughed.
If only he knew how wrong he was...
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