I Got a Fake Job at the Academy

Chapter 647: The Power of the Holy Nation (2)

The White Prison, the symbol of the First Checkpoint City.

Though it would be far inferior compared to Galahad, this fortress-like structure that boasted impenetrable security had been partially destroyed.

The number of attackers was only 7.

But those mere 7 people completely subdued over 100 holy knights and prison guards.

It was an unprecedented incident in the history of Bretus.

-Weeeeeeee!!!

-Bang! Bang-bang!

Emergency alarms sounded throughout the city as white flares burst one after another into the sky.

As the bright white light that shone brighter than the stars in the night sky gradually faded, in the distance, the main gate of Galahad Fortress opened and troops poured out.

Alex clicked his tongue.

"Look at them swarming like a pack of dogs. They say most of their forces were sent throughout the continent, so where were these guys hiding before they came rushing out?"

"They may be wearing white clothes, but they move no differently than cockroaches."

Even though the Holy Nation of Bretus should be in a nearly empty state, the number of holy knights coming out now was by no means small.

Perhaps because they were the ones guarding the capital, the quality of their white coats and the armor worn over them was noticeably different from that of ordinary holy knights.

Holy knights with white hoods pulled over their heads, moving quickly in formation.

Alex wondered what they would do if his side tried to escape, but looking back, he saw holy knights from the First Checkpoint City emerging to surround the area.

"They've completely blocked our retreat routes to prevent us from escaping."

"Annoying."

Pantos said with a growl, flattening his ears as if in a bad mood.

The Bretus holy knights thought they would grab Rudger from the White Prison and run away.

That judgment properly provoked Pantos' pride.

"I suppose I should teach them a proper lesson."

Pantos stepped forward, flexing his arms.

But the one who stopped Pantos was neither Alex nor Rudger, but Hans.

"What is it?"

"Let me handle this."

Pantos looked at Hans's face with a surprised expression at his answer.

It wasn't just Pantos. The other Owen's members also opened their eyes wide in considerable surprise.

"Hans. Are you sure?"

When Rudger asked, Hans nodded with a flat expression.

"To be honest, I'm not sure."

"You're not sure, but you're volunteering?"

"That day. After what happened in Dreamland, something seems to have changed. How should I put it, I feel like I can handle this power a bit better now. It's a feeling that's hard to express in words."

"......"

Rudger stared at Hans.

Come to think of it, Hans had fought quite intelligently even after transforming into the Beast of Gevaudan in Dreamland.

If that experience had given Hans some kind of instinctive realization...

"Very well."

With Rudger's approval, Hans's expression brightened.

Pantos wore a reluctant expression, but when Rudger gave permission, he snorted and stepped back slightly.

"Since you've taken my share, make sure you do it properly."

Pantos didn't forget to add a word to Hans.

Hans now knew that this was Pantos' own way of encouragement.

"Of course."

As Hans took a resolute step toward the approaching holy knights, Rudger spoke up.

"Hans."

"What? Oh?"

Hans quickly caught what Rudger suddenly threw at him in mid-air.

After checking the object in his hand, Hans opened his eyes wide.

"Brother. This is..."

"I picked it up while I was at Isla Machina."

"...Well, well."

Hans let out a helpless laugh as he looked at the wolf sovereign's tooth.

Bringing a sovereign's tooth from Isla Machina? Can that be described as picking it up while passing by?

He already knew that something serious had happened at Isla Machina.

In such a situation, he was grateful for Rudger's thoughtfulness in remembering to bring such an item for him.

"Thank you. Actually, there was something I wanted to experiment with."

"Experiment, you say. That's quite a confident tone."

"I've never done it before, but somehow I feel like I can do it."

Hans pulled out a tooth from inside his clothes. Then he raised it together with the tooth he received from Rudger and stabbed them both into his palm.

One was the tooth of the guardian beast of the Ulburg family from Isla Machina.

The other was from the deer sovereign from the Mysterious Forest.

Two sovereign teeth.

Hans had stabbed them both into his palm simultaneously.

The change came quickly.

-Puhwak!

White fur grew from Hans's body, and his body swelled greatly.

Normally he would have transformed into a deer form at this point, but this time it was different.

His snout lengthened, his teeth grew, and his overall shape changed into that of a four-legged wolf.

But his fur remained white, and golden antlers like a crown grew on the wolf's head.

The wind blew.

Around Hans, who had transformed with the genes of two sovereigns, bluish-colored wind materialized and swirled.

"This is..."

Violetta, who was most sensitive to wind, muttered in astonishment.

-Awoooooo!!

The wolf's howl echoed throughout.

The sound spread beyond the First Checkpoint City, reaching the holy knights approaching in the distance.

The holy knights were startled by the wolf's cry but soon resumed their advance as if it didn't matter.

Hans looked at them and curled his mouth into a grin.

And then with a blue afterimage, Hans's figure disappeared.

"What was that wolf howl just now?"

"Do beasts live in a place like this?"

"Don't let your guard down. Since we don't know what abilities the enemy has, we should assume that was the intruder's doing."

After quickly exchanging information, the holy knights caught sight of the partially destroyed White Prison.

Some holy knights trembled with anger at the sight of the stepping stone for capturing heretics and criminals and sending them to the execution platform crumbling like a sand castle.

"Those intruders. How dare they touch the Holy Nation. I will never forgive them."

While they were grinding their teeth in anger, wind blew from somewhere.

"Halt."

The commander at the front sensed something strange and gave the order.

The formation of moving holy knights stopped simultaneously.

"Something's there. Everyone be on guard..."

The commander couldn't finish his sentence.

Before he could finish speaking, his neck was severed and floated up into the air.

The pupils of the holy knights in the first row contracted at the sight.

"Command—!"

The heads of the holy knights in the first row who tried to call out to the commander were cut off.

Like an invisible sharp blade passing horizontally with a swish, the heads of nearly 50 holy knights were severed along with their hoods.

The severed heads showed expressions that hadn't even realized they were dead.

That's how subtle and natural the event that just occurred was.

"Everyone duck!"

A few quick-witted holy knights in the second row shouted and lowered their heads.

-Seogeok!

With an eerie sound of something being cut, the ends of their hoods were severed.

'The hoods woven with thread imbued with holy power!'

The cross-section, cut as if by a chopping knife, was smooth without a single misaligned part.

"It's the enemy!"

"Watch your heads, everyone!"

"The enemy's form is invisible! Be careful of stealth!"

The holy knights quickly changed their formation to form a defensive array.

As the holy knights holding shields chanted holy spells, golden energy rose over the shields and surrounded the area protectively.

It was a precise deployment that moved like a single body with hundreds of people, like a gear.

The holy knights, guarding in all directions, were desperate to find the culprit of the invisible blade-wind.

Perhaps because they had entered a defensive formation, the wind that had been blowing like an ambush subsided.

Could they have run away?

While some holy knights were thinking this, one knight with particularly bright eyes looked up at the sky.

It was because the amount of blue moonlight pouring down was somehow unusually bright.

"Huh?"

The holy knight who looked up into the empty sky couldn't help but make such a sound.

Blue stars shining in the sky were reflecting the moonlight but that was because those stars were falling towards them.

Only when they got closer did he realize that these were not stars but barrages made of pure magic power.

"Everyone defend!"

Feeling the pressure from the sky, the holy knights at the center of the formation chanted holy spells.

Above the protective barriers that were guarding each formation like a turtle shell, translucent shields in the form of crosses rose in triple layers.

The blue shooting stars that fell on top of it broke through the shields and landed in the center of the formation, causing an explosion.

-Kwaaaaaang!!!

Even though it was hastily deployed, it was a protective spell cast by the combined power of the holy knights.

It was broken all too easily, and moreover, a bluish magical explosion centered on the focal point swept the surrounding area.

What had been tightly clustered for defense turned into poison.

The explosion greedily swallowed the holy knights.

The bigger problem was that the formation had collapsed.

"Confirm casualties!"

"Treat the injured immediately! Loosen the formation a bit more! If we cluster, the damage will be amplified!"

The holy knights at the center of the explosion were unrecognizable as corpses, while those on the outside who had suffered severe injuries quickly recovered with healing holy magic.

One of the strengths of holy knights, their tenacious vitality, had activated.

Of course, the attacker had no intention of just watching this.

Stars shining in the void fell again.

They were smaller than before, but their number had increased more than tenfold.

At a sight like all the celestial bodies in the night sky collapsing, the holy knights gritted their teeth and raised their shields.

Countless streams of blue light poured from the sky.

Like a shower, they beat against the holy knights' protective holy magic, causing cracks or shattering them like glass.

Blue flashes that squeezed through the broken gaps hit the ground and exploded in a hemispherical shape.

They were small in size, but each one was highly concentrated magic power.

Their power could not be ignored even with the protection of holy magic and sacred implements.

"Where is the enemy?"

"There! Floating in the sky!"

The holy knights spotted a white mass flying in the sky.

What was continuously creating blue magic spheres and bombarding the ground was a white-furred deer.

"Intercept!"

Even if it was in the sky, the holy knights had ways to attack.

Some holy knights took on a throwing stance while gripping golden spears.

Arm muscles trained through years of practice swelled, revealing blood vessels.

-Shuuuuuush!

Golden spears soared toward the empty sky.

The priests who were deployed in the rear and were relatively safe also helped.

Angels made of light blocked the magic bombardment, and golden chains shot out, targeting the sovereign floating in the air.

The white deer sovereign entered into evasive maneuvers, literally treading on the empty air.

However, no matter how much it moved, with such a huge bulk, it wasn't at a level where it could avoid all these attacks.

Got it.

Just as everyone was thinking that...

The wind that had stopped for a moment blew again.

"Huh?"

The subtle blue wind blew past the holy knights and priests.

-Swiik. Suk.

It passed by lightly, like a person walking down a street, but each time it did, heads fell with a thud as if being harvested.

"Wh-what! It's him! There's someone invisible!"

"Strengthen the defense on the outside! Keep the inner formation focused on capturing that deer in the sky first!"

It was the assailant who had immediately stopped attacking when they had put up protective barriers.

Just as the holy knights were gritting their teeth and bulging their veins, a beast's form revealed itself through the gap in the blue wind.

It was a wolf with golden antlers.

"A wolf?"

Come to think of it, wasn't the howl that had just echoed a wolf's cry?

-Kwajik!

Such thoughts of the holy knight were cut off as the wolf bit and tore his neck.

The wolf that jumped out from within the blue fog-like wind was not just one.

There were over 20 of them.

More than 20 giant wolf sovereigns, each standing at least 3 meters tall when seated, broke through the outer defense and dug into the center of the formation.

"Block them! Block them!"

"These bastards, our attacks aren't working!"

Physical attacks didn't work on the wolves.

When they tried to stab with swords, maces, or spears, the parts passed through cleanly as if they were wind.

Holy spells did inflict damage, but by then the formation had already collapsed beyond repair.

Perhaps because they had regained composure, the blue bombardment that had stopped for a moment started again.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

"Everyone fall back! Raise the drawbridge!"

The holy knights who had crossed the bridge quickly raised the bridge between the waterways.

Befitting a city of water, the waterways throughout were both passages and, conversely, could block enemy movements like this.

-Puhwak!

The wolf sovereign jumped down below the waterway as if mocking their effort.

A water column rose with the power of the wind, forming a wide wall.

That water column changed direction, becoming a small localized tsunami that swept over the holy knights.

The holy knights tried to withstand it by putting strength in their legs, but the water that submerged up to their ankles temporarily slowed their movements.

However the wolves were not affected.

The wolves moved by treading on empty air and ran with the wind.

On the fields tinged with gold, luscious fruits fell as the reaper harvested them under the moonlight.