"They're coming for you," Eris said begrudgingly when she removed her hand unwillingly.
"Why would the Shedim group come for me?" Taylor asked while moving outside the room. Soon enough as he reached the hallway, he understood that Eris didn't mean the demons.
"Seriously?" Taylor furrowed his brows deeply and he made a big grimace.
"Seems so"
A total of four young students reached the second floor of the dormitory. They saw Taylor standing in the middle of the hallway, right in front of the blazing flames that flared up behind him and a bright smile appeared on their face.
"My dear friend, we missed you so much!" One of the students with broad shoulders and short brown hair and eyes exclaimed with a mocking smile on his face. His body was covered in a red Knight aura that mantled him like an armor.
This was the most basic technique Knight Squires had to learn upon awakening their Knight Aura in order to learn how to control it and it was called 'Aura Armor' or 'Aura Membrane'.
"Why are you running friend? Don't you like us anymore?" A thinly looking man with long green hair asked, acting miserably when he began to pout in sadness. An Emerald colored Knight aura emerged from him, greeting gusts of wind that swirled through his hair
"We had so much fun together…if you keep running away from us, we will be sad," The third Knight Squire said, just for the sake of speaking up.
"And you don't want us to get sad!" The last young man declared with fierce eyes that turned ice-cold and darker as a black Aura Membrane manifested around his body.
'Are they a circus or what? Is it really necessary for each of them to have some screentime?' Taylor rolled his eyes before he started to get angry.
"You guys really don't learn…are you? We are facing the attack of Demons, quite literally, and you want to take revenge for the dude I knocked out earlier? You are really dumber than I thought, which is definitely hard to achieve because my standards for you guys were already quite low…" Taylor mocked, shaking his head in denial.
He couldn't believe that someone as dumb as the four Knight Squires truly existed. Instead of helping their classmates to fight against the Lesser Demons, or to flee if they were too scared to fight Demons head-on, they chose to follow him and take revenge on him for beating up their friend.
"Should I take care of them?" Eris asked, staring daggers at the four Knight Squires, releasing her killing intent without restraint. The entire building began to tremble and the Knight Squires' hearts skipped a beat as they froze in place.
Eris really hated these students. They bullied Taylor, who wanted to keep a low profile to stay in the academy. Not many academies accepted normies without money, or connections because they needed high funding and prodigious talents to increase their reputation.
Taylor was also not considered an ass in terms of theoretical knowledge, which didn't really increase his appeal to the academies
Fortunately, the situation had changed now and Eris didn't have to hold back anymore. The Lesser Demons' attack made it easier to cover her traces later as well!
A crazed smile appeared on her face, that turned wider at the thought of taking revenge for Taylor.
"W-wh-what is going on?!" One of them stuttered as he looked at his comrades with quivering eyes. However, the others were not in a better condition. Their bodies had begun to shake like thin branches that were shaken through by a simple draft.
Taylor looked to his right and he shook his head lightly, while lightly grasping Eris' shoulder. Her skin was smooth and extremely cold, which caused Taylor to halt for a moment.
"How can you still be so cold?" He mumbled while looking at Eris, who was just regaining her senses before she pulled back her killing intent.
Eris turned her head in his direction but Taylor had already averted his attention. He looked at the four Knight Squires, who looked miserable and as if they had nearly escaped death.
"H-how did you do that?" the Knight Squire with the Darkness Aura asked, his eyes filled with nothing but terror. He nearly pissed himself and his legs felt like jelly.
"I didn't do anything," Taylor burst into laughter, revealing the bitter truth. He pointed to his right but that was not really helpful.
The four Knight Squires couldn't see anything except a wall of fire. Taylor was aware that Eris was invisible to them and he turned serious all of a sudden.
His laughter died down and a wisp of fire manifested in Taylor's right hand that moved to his right.
The blazing flames from behind him surged forward. They were suctioned to the flame Taylor had manifested and he made use of this by luring the flames toward his direction until he could control them faintly.
"After taking a piss, you should dry yourself, kids. How about I help a bit?" Taylor asked, smirking widely as he threw the flames toward the four Knight Squires.
A flood of flames gushed forward. It covered Taylor, whose bright smile was the last thing the young Knight Squires saw as the entire hallway turned into a domain of blazing flames.
The four Knight Squires reacted instinctively and covered their body with the Aura Membrane. They stepped backward as quickly as possible in the attempt to reach the stairway that lead to the first floor.
Even the student with the Fire-attributed Knight aura was not immune to flames. He had some resistance against the fire element but that was of no value because his Knight aura was still untrained.
The four Knight Squires turned around when the flood of flames nearly reached them. They could already feel the surge in temperature that made them feel as if they were inside a sauna.
All four students reached the stairway just before the flames reached them. They jumped down the wooden stairs, ignoring everything else as long as they could prevent burning to death.
When they reached the first floor, the students' Knight auras had dimmed gradually. If it was not for their Knight auras protecting them, they would have burned to death or sustained several injuries. That was something the four
"He is probably dead, right?"
"Of course he is dead! Nobody can survive an inferno like this!!" The broad-shouldered student declared. He shuddered when he recalled Taylor's expression and felt weirded out
"He was crazy, definitely crazy…" the student repeated to himself, just to freeze when he heard the creaking sound of wood as someone stepped down the wooden stairs.
A young man with bright crimson eyes and burning clothes was calmly walking down the wooden stairway that was about to be engulfed in the flames that brought death and destruction.
"Surprise!"
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