Chapter 159 - Incident at the magic academy (1) (1/2)

With their main objective secured and having enough hostages to throw a few of them away without issue, the 50 elvers went on the offensive to secure the academy. In teams of 4 they went room to room and secured the academy, proving extremely potent in close quarters combat, and quite ruthless too. The first classroom one of teams secured ended in quite a bloodbath as they didn't really bother exercising proper trigger discipline, there was simply no need. After spraying down the teacher and a few of the students unlucky enough to have stood near him when they started shooting the rest of the class became quite docile.

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”What the f.u.c.k was that?”

Outside on the practise field the knight instructor Jessica was making some of her students sweat as she heard a strange sound coming from somewhere behind her and turned around.

”That's Dax's golem right? What was it called… ICI?”

Ever since the start of the expedition Dax's drones had been patrolling the academy, night and day. After her and her boyfriend Finn got back from the expedition they even started running into those black smooth surfaced golems on their morning runs, and it seemed like there suddenly was a lot more of them about a day ago. While Jessica had gotten used to the strange sounds and behavior that came with the new groundskeepers, she didn't recognize the sound the one standing near them just made.

”ICI? Everything okay?”

Speaking out to the drone and getting no response, the knight instructor put a hand on her longsword that was strapped to her hip as she cautiously approaching the drone. She knew very well the destructive capabilities packed into the golem, having trained against one on multiple occasions. Now she feared it might have malfunctioned, as golems often did, which had kept them from entering large scale service in the central Kingdom.

”Instructor is everything okay?”

”Yeah everything is okay, stay back please.”

As her students also started noticing there was something wrong Jessica called out to the golem once more without getting a response, then reached out to touch it on the shoulder, making it fall to its knees before collapsing completely.

”That's not normal…”

”Is it dead?”

”It looks dead.”

”It told you guys to stay back…”

Proving they were not really disciplined knights yet, the knightings Jessica was teaching all gathered around the malfunctioning drone to take a closer look at it, normally they would get a response from it for getting that close but it just laid there lifelessly.

”Training is over.”

”Instructor?...”

Hearing a different tone than they were used to, the knightings realized there was something wrong.

”This might be a serious situation. Stay close and stick together, this is not a drill.”

Informing her students on the seriousness of the situation they all hardened up their expressions and made a note to follow their instructors commands to the letter.

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”What the hell is that sound?...”

As she started made her way back towards the academy with her slightly nervous students in tow, Jessica picked up some kind of faint popping sound in the eerily quiet academy. When she and her students had made their way halfway back to the academy grounds she picked up the faint sound of screaming, along with more pops and snaps.