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6.53% Reverse Apocalypse: The Devil's Revenge / Chapter 10: Protector

Chapter 10: Protector

Liam had used bits of his Arcane power to shroud the tip of the steel spear with it.

By doing this, he reinforced the steel of the spear blade, which was why the spear didn't even sustain a scratch when it lodged itself deep into the sheep-sized rat's body.

The rat's long and dangerously gleaming red-colored teeth were exposed as it let out a last, high-pitched squeal before it slumped down on the ground not even five meters in front of the petrified students and the teacher.

[Blazing Tooth Rat has been slayed]

[+0.5 Arcanium]

'Stingy bastard!' Liam cursed in his mind as he closed in to the humans whom he had encountered. They were all cowering in fear and stood huddled in front of the large iron gate that was also the only way inside the school.

The keys to the lock could be seen lying on the ground behind the fence, beyond his reach. Liam was not sure how they landed there but he couldn't waste time wondering about it for the time being.

His task was to protect the students and the locked gate was in his way, preventing him from doing exactly that.

He retrieved a second spear from the large backpack, shrouded the tip in a minuscule amount of Arcane Power, and threw it at the gate's lock which burst open in an instant.

Liam ignored the gazes he drew onto himself as he removed the entire backpack from his shoulders before he hurled it toward the teacher.

"Take the weapons and start fighting!" He shouted, still ignoring the gazes that loomed on him. Liam was still a few meters away from the group of students but some of the Rats were closing in on them.

However, instead of finding a way to lead the group of humans into safety, he unsheathed one longsword and the battle axe that was secured to his belt thanks to the latch he had used to fasten it.

Running around with the battle axe had been a little bit of a nuisance but Liam was quite thankful that he could make use of it almost immediately.

Looking at the seemingly ordinary steel battle axe with its short wooden handle, he couldn't help but smile. There was no design on the wooden handle and the same could be said about the blade. However, the most important thing to notice about the battle axe was that the blade was wide and curved with a fearsome edge that could cut through everything.

It was dark in color and well-tempered, but none of that was important to Liam as long as it did its job well.

He rushed closer to the muddy soil through which the rats could progress only slowly before he began hacking and sawing through the rats, one after another with the longsword.

Liam allowed a handful of rats to approach them, just to end their miserable life by beheading them or cutting their brain with a powerful cleave of the battle axe. It was more of a cleaver, either way!

[Ordinary Huge Rat has been slayed]

[+0.1 Arcanium]

[+0.1 Arcanium]

[+0.1 Arcanium]

After a few ordinary huge rats had been killed, Liam was forced to evade the attack of a Blazing Tooth Rat. The sheep-sized rat was trying to overwhelm him with its stats that were higher than his own, which resulted in Liam getting pushed back…or so it seemed.

Liam blocked the Blazing Tooth Rat's attack with the battle axe while thrusting the longsword deep into the monster's abdomen.

He twisted the sword blade mercilessly and dragged it down through the rat's abdomen before he pulled it out.

Just a moment later, a familiar notification appeared in front of him.

[Blazing Tooth Rat has been slayed]

[+0.5 Arcanium]

Liam didn't receive many Arcanium for each kill but that was not important right now, either way. He was at an advantage and could kill dozens, if not hundreds of Ordinary Huge Rats under the current circumstances.

His opponents were slowed down in the mud, he had vast combat experience on all kinds of battlefields and he was armored with two decent weapons that could be used to slaughter and protect.

After Liam finished the second Blazing Tooth Rat, he took a moment to catch his breath.

He stepped back and glanced toward the group of students and the teacher who had yet to move. They looked at Liam as if he was a mythical creature from a fairytale, a fae that had magically come to their rescue!

'Should I just leave them behind?' Liam thought for a moment before he grit his teeth in anger and frustration.

"If you guys don't want to die, at least don't stand in my way…" He swore under his breath before muttering loudly, "Take the steel spears and use your Soultraits to fight, you brainless idiots!"

It was quite obvious that the sudden change in Haltan was too much to accept for most humans who had lived a peaceful life far from war but things had changed now.

To those who had never even killed a living being, it might be hard to accept the new truth and life that had been forced onto them, however, Liam was not someone who would bother about that.

He had been abandoned by everyone, banished from everywhere, and forced to kill to survive from a young age. His mother and siblings had always played around with him, or so they labeled it whenever they treated him like a piece of trash. They tortured him, and gave him seemingly impossible missions one after another, just to brief him about the situation on Haltan as his first opportunity to gain freedom.

It was the first time in his life that nobody could control him in any way, and Liam wouldn't allow anyone to take it away from him!

On Haltan, he had free reign and he wanted to make use of the environmental advantage that allowed him to move much faster than the rats. This advantage was only temporary because the corpses of the rats were slowly stacking up in the mud, paving a way for other rats to him and the students as the commotion would attract more of them.

However, the students were still not moving, which forced Liam to go out of his way and activate his Soultrait.

The number of rats rushing at them increased drastically over time, and that was mostly the humans' fault. The rats may not be able to smell and see much in the heavy rain but they could clearly sense the fear of the students and the teacher.

Liam got to understand that the plan he had worked out in his mind was not going as smoothly as expected.

Thus, he changed his way to approach the situation.

"I will abandon you guys if you don't move in the next ten seconds!"


Chapter 11: Massacre

"I will abandon you guys if you don't move in the next ten seconds!" Liam shouted out a warning.

His voice traveled through the heavy rain and his words rang through the minds of the students and the teacher who flinched.

At the first glance, it sounded like Liam's words were just a means to encourage everyone to start fighting for themselves, however, everyone could tell that the pale young man would actually abandon them if they didn't act on his orders soon.

This was the feeling they got upon seeing the eyes that had been hidden behind the mask of the young man. Liam's eyes were like a vortex that sucked everything inside them. They were deep and a hazy purple hue shrouded them, making him look eerie and ominous.

However, all of that turned insignificant when the overall picture entered the view of the students. It was as if a sealed galaxy was coldly staring down at them. There were no emotions in the eyes of the unknown masked savior, which made a few students feel like their savior had been forced to help them.

They knew that it didn't really make any sense for anyone to be forced to rescue them. Nobody must be stronger than their savior…or was it just their wishful thinking?

Too many thoughts flashed through the minds of the humans who witnessed a brutal massacre unfolding in front of them. Dozens of corpses were scattered across the school yard, their blood turning the muddy water brownish red, all of them killed by a single individual.

Liam was massacring every rat that came too close to the students but he also noticed that he was slowly losing his upper hand against the rats.

They were simply too many and even the ordinary huge rats were not much weaker than him. The only advantage Liam had was his Soultrait and that his Arcane Power had been upgraded to [E].

It was possible for him to keep his Soultrait activated for a little while. This made it easier for Liam to perceive everything in his view, digest the most important pieces of information and forward them to his brain where they would be processed in the blink of an eye.

Using his Devil's Eyes gave him the necessary means to determine that it was time to leave if the students wouldn't join the fight. The rats charging at them continued to increase in number, after all!

The corpses had paved a clear path for the other rats to reach the students and Liam could clearly see a few huge rats rushing past him left and right.

However, there was not much for him to do because he was occupied with two Blazing Tooth Rats.

He blocked one of the rats with the battle axe's flat side while twisting his body in an uncomfortable degree as he leaned forward.

His back nearly touched the muddy ground and he was about to lose his footing just to evade the vicious claws of the second Blazing Tooth Rat.

Liam couldn't risk sustaining any injuries because that was what would kill him in the long run. Exhaustion could be compensated by purchasing potions but wounds couldn't be healed instantaneously, not with potions, at least.

Thus, he would rather exhaust himself by doing movement sequences that strained his entire body rather than risk getting injured.

That was how Liam ended up evading the attack of the second Blazing Tooth Rat while swinging the longsword at the first Blazing Tooth Rat.

The blade slid deep inside the flesh of his opponent as he heard the sound of flesh tearing apart and bones cracking under the force of the blade, followed by a pained squeal that quieted down not long after.

[+0.5 Arcanium]

Liam pushed his left foot backward to regain balance. He didn't want to fall in the slippery mud because it would be a hassle to get out of the mud while getting attacked.

There was no way that he could waste time wrestling with a bunch of lowly monsters in the mud, and he had a mission to finish with flying colors as well!

Liam pushed himself beyond his limit and regained balance, ready to charge at the second Blazing Tooth Rat when he halted in his tracks for a moment.

He saw four students piercing their steel spears inside the monster that was struggling hard in a feeble attempt to ensure its survival.

The four students were shivering because it was cold, their clothes were drenched in dirty rainwater and they were walking on thin ice that could be cut through at any time if they didn't start acting.

In fact, even if the students were to start acting now, it might already be too late!

Liam shot forward, his eyes gleaming coldly through the small slits within the black devil mask as he cleaved down with the battle axe.

A few other students let out a blood-curdling wail, their fear-stricken minds making them believe that Liam was just about to kill their fellow peers when the head of the Blazing Tooth Rat fell to the ground, decapitated from its body.

[Blazing Tooth Rat has been slayed. Equal Contribution detected!]

[+0.1 Arcanium]

Blood spurted out of the monster's neck like a fountain and the students were showered in warm, sickly blood, some more some less.

Liam noted their disgusted reaction to the warm blood that splattered on their clothes and faces before his eyes flicked over to the other students.

Their hysterical cries intensified further when the huge rats started to tear apart their clothes to feed on the tender flesh below, while others had gotten their hands on one of Liam's steel spears.

He didn't have that many steel spears in the large backpack but it would take a while to remove all of them. At least that was what Liam expected when he noticed that a rather small figure hushed through the rows of students, briskly handing out the spears he had retrieved from the backpack.

Liam could tell that the student was moving rapidly, which was owed to his high Agility stat and the fact that his Soultrait's passive effect was already activated.

However, it was also pretty clear that the student was built like an athlete and that he knew how to use his muscles to move at a phenomenal speed.

'Let's see how many of you guys will survive!'


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