Another War

With the cla.s.ses and training he needed to attend to, only one thing he could think of, it was going to be a very long day for him or weeks at least, just to get familiar with his new routine.

When they arrived in the cla.s.sroom, Professor Fields asked the cla.s.s to move to one of the practice arenas where they had to practice and train their synchronization as a team.

Upon arriving, the professor sat on the bench at the far side of the arena while observing his three students dueling five combat droids in the centerstage.

The combat droids had the same appearance as the mannequins displayed at the front of a clothing store. Though in this version, they were devoid of facial features and clothing. The five combat droids were dealing heavy blows from the three students, most especially from Ranger.

Unfortunately, the droids remained unscathed from the battle while the students were already starting to show exhaustion from this ongoing battle.

"Sanna, release your arrows once I gave you the signal. Yule, once I stun the droids, activate your spear pillars," Ranger ordered his cla.s.smates wherein they nodded as a reply. He was floating in the air, observing the attacking patterns of the droids. He watched as Yule tried to strike two droids with his spear, but both avoided the attack in unison. They were moving in a synchronized manner. On the other side, Sanna was exchanging from firing her energy arrows to hand to hand combat when the remaining droids launched at her. She sometimes used her bow to deflect the blows from the droids, then leaped away from them and fired three energy arrows quickly at the same time, aiming at their heads. But they easily avoided Sanna's arrows and launched themselves at her again.

'This is going nowhere,' Ranger thought, observing this tiresome situation they were in. He'd rather face the wolf-like asw.a.n.g than these robots.

"Guys, gather them in one area, so I can launch my attack now," he requested to Yule and Sanna.

Yule and Sanna found a way to exchange glances and nodded at each other. Both of them were starting to feel the soreness from their body after receiving the hits from the droids.

Yule dashed forward at the center while the two droids trailed after him. Imitating Yule's action, Sanna kicked one of the droids on her right side, giving her the opening to dash forward also at the

"Move now!" Ranger shouted.

Yule and Sanna jumped in the air, leaving the droids looking at them below. Without missing a beat, Ranger pointed his yellow-bladed swords at the droids and launched a wave of electrical attacks accompanied by a blinding light.

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The droids were successfully hit by the electric attack and were left unmoving at the stage. Landing on the ground, Yule took this moment as his cue to activate his spell. Swinging his spear before him, he impaled the ground and rumbling sounds could be heard beneath him.

"Lunar Monument!"

The rumbling sounds moved towards the area of the droids and simultaneously similar violet spears protruded from the ground impaling the metallic bodies. This sudden attack awakened the droids, tilting their heads and looking at the direction of Yule's despite being impaled by spears. This reminded Yule of a certain horror video game he played before where the main protagonist was trapped in an unknown village along with cult followers, where later on they realized they were in purgatory all this time.

"Sanna!" Ranger shouted from above.

Raising her bow, mana energies started to surround her field, and a white magic circle appeared meters above the heads of the droids, preparing for the energy arrows to be launched.

Then -

A deafening sound of alarm cutting off the trance of Sanna who was in the middle of firing her energy arrows.

"Time's up, students!" Professor Fields announced to them. "As you all know, you've failed in this activity."

"B-But we're about to launch our finis.h.i.+ng attack!" Ranger protested.

The professor gave him a thin smile. "The activity is to defeat the combat droids within fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, the droids, as I observe, are very much alive."

"If I just move faster..." Yule moaned on the side. Frustration was shown on his face.

"No, it's my fault. My preparation time for shower of arrows should be at a faster pace." Sanna objected to him.

"Being in quick feet is very important in battling asw.a.n.g. A second delay may cost life on the Ground." The professor rose from his seat and climbed down to his students. "Though I have a few pointers I can share with you after observing your battle..." Then he launched to usual lecture mode, while the three students left with no choice but to listen to him and slouched on the benches.

The professor went on for thirty minutes nonstop on his lectures on what they could improve on for their next synchronization training when he was interrupted by his mobile device who kept on buzzing.

"Excuse me for a moment students. I sense this an urgent message." Professor Fields swipe opened his device and found an email from Avatara telling him that their team was being deployed for a new mission. He read the full content of the mission and just whistled after reading it.

"Students, hate to interrupt our lecture. But we're being deployed for a new mission."

"Finally! Thank the G.o.ds!" Ranger exclaimed, but the professor just sighed at him.

"Don't be too excited, Mr. Yellowlake. It's a search and rescue mission. A civilian who sneaked her way down to the ground."

"Who are we searching for?" Yule asked the professor.

The professor swiped again his device and looked for the name of the missing person.

"It's Candace Rodriguez. A middle school student and she's tagged as an urgent mission since she already made a contract with a mythical beast or more technically a divinity."

Yule gasped when he heard the name from his professor. She's the girl she watched in the summoning ceremony and the girl he rescued from her schoolmates.

"Do you know her?" Sanna asked him.

He nodded at her. "She's the girl who summoned G.o.ddess Bastet in the summoning ceremony."

Sanna tried to recall her memories, and gradually recalled that day.

"Have I met her?" Ranger asked his cla.s.smates.

"Yes," Yule answered. "When you, Sanna and the professor arranged a welcoming dinner for me, she accompanied me to the restaurant."

Ranger just shrugged at that, barely remember that there was a girl with Yule on that day.

"When we can start the mission?" Yule quickly rose from his seat and looked eagerly at his professor.

"W-wait! May I know first how the h.e.l.l did she get down on the Ground in the first place?" Ranger inquired.

"I'll brief you once we're in the aircraft."