“!!!” Raza widened his eyes in shock. That question was simply a way of Nathan saying he didn’t have enough strength to do anything.
As someone older than them, he had trained his body much longer, so it was supposed to be obvious that he was stronger. Yet someone who had just gotten into the academy actually dared to say he felt nothing?
When Raza was about to squish his hand even harder, Mando immediately stopped him by saying, “We are here to kill the alien, not for competition between academies. If you are going to continue this act, I will have no choice but to expel you from this mission!”
Mando remained calm, but when they looked at his eyes, there was a trace of murderous intent that made the hair on their arms rise.
“Tsk!” Raza clicked his tongue and said, “I don’t have any intention of getting along with the people from the Frexia Academy.”
Nathan looked at him before turning away as if he were disappointed.
“You!” Raza clenched his hands into fists, but Mando glared at him. “Enough.”
Nathan simply shrugged as if he were saying, ‘I did nothing. I said nothing. Not my fault.’
Raza snorted and returned to his group.
Meanwhile, Nathan said, “We’ll be waiting there.”
“Alright. We’ll inform you once we’re about to set out.” Mando sighed and walked away.
Selena looked at Nathan with a worried expression while asking, “Are you fine?”
“It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it.” Nathan shook his head.
After feeling relieved, Selena’s face turned dark as she couldn’t help but say in a cold tone. “Should we just crush that guy to the point where his pride as a summoner is gone? There is nothing more humiliating than a guy who is proud of being a summoner and ends up choosing to never have anything to do with being a summoner again and lives through that nightmare for the rest of her life.”
Nathan couldn’t help but widen his eyes. Even though her expression didn’t change, her words gave chills down his spine.
Instead of killing him, Selena actually wanted Raza to be tormented for the rest of his life.
“Calm down, calm down. Our plan will work even better with them here. Why do you think I did nothing earlier?” Nathan tried to distract her while waiting for them to start.
“Well, I just hope the plan works this time. I want to see the dragon as well,” Anubis remarked with a casual tone.
Both Fenrir and Nathan suddenly turned to Anubis with their foreheads sweating, as if Anubis had just made a big mistake.
…
An hour later.
“We are about to depart. All personnel gather at the front gate.” A soldier moved around, informing everyone out loud.
Selena and Nathan exchanged looks as they immediately joined them. The people from the Retishia Academy were furrowing their eyebrows, since this was just a call from the soldier. If they wanted to call a summoner, they should have gone to them personally.
However, because Nathan and Selena had gone, it would be very annoying if Mando became disappointed in them.
They had to fulfill his expectation if they wanted to meet with Alavenya.
Nathan couldn’t help but observe these soldiers. They were wearing full body armor. They were not thick to increase mobility, but they were not too thin either to absorb a lot of impact.
Each of them was equipped with an iron sword and a shield.
Obviously, the summoners were quite a rare sight, so the soldiers couldn’t help but glance at them.
Some of them pitied the summoners, thinking that they were still children.
Nathan and Selena were already 16 years old, which was already considered an adult in this world. However, it didn’t change the fact that they were at least much younger than these soldiers.
It was a pity that such young children had to fight in the front line.
Eventually, they reached the front, finding several other summoners, including Mando and Alavenya.
Raza was already clenching his hands into fists as if he had prepared all kinds of methods to invite Alavenya.
After another two minutes, Alavenya moved to the very front and faced the soldiers as she raised her voice. “We are about to head into the battlefield. The opponent is the mature class alien.
“Follow your leaders because a single mistake can cause the formation to collapse.
“There are 600 soldiers and 18 summoners taking part in this expedition. I’m expecting a lot from all of you. Without further ado…” She turned around and started walking as she shouted, “Onward!”
“Uoohhh!” the soldiers replied to them with a sharp yet short cheer.
Nathan and Selena followed the group. The battlefield this time was a forest.
The trees were tall, and the leaves covered most of the light, making the area humid and dark.
The marching ended up being slower so as to avoid draining their stamina.
Even though she looked like a muscle brain, Alavenya had actually taken everything into account, which would allow the soldiers to fight at their top state.
Suddenly, the army leaders increased their paces, their path slightly curving to the side as if they were planning to avoid something.
“!!!” Nathan was confused at first, but soon found out what they were trying to do.
If he looked up, he could see a tall tree. That was what could be seen since his vision was covered by leaves, but if he took another look at it, it wasn’t a tree.
It was a body—an enormous body that stretched for 10 meters (32 feet) high. On top of the tree, they didn’t find branches, but tentacles. All of them were moving slowly as if they were scanning the area.
Nathan couldn’t help but furrow his eyebrows, wanting to notify Selena. However, the latter had noticed it as well and kept staring at the alien. Once she lowered her head, she turned to Nathan while pointing to the left.
They both agreed and immediately moved toward their position, leaving the five people from the Retishia Academy behind.
Obviously, their action didn’t escape from Alavenya… or probably the alien as well. Before everyone could take their position, a loud, deep sound echoed across the forest as if they were just blowing their horns. However, all the people in this expedition knew that it was the sound of the alien.
“!!!”