Chapter 16: The Weak Get Eliminated
Translator: John Cui Editor: Zayn
However, the knights’ threats had backfired.
them kill our own people. They’ve got only a dozen men. And are we gonna turn in five
A student had stepped up and protested in a seemingly righteous voice. His broadsword had
demonstration of resolution.
had left, the rest of the students, partially inspired, had been rallied by a common goal – not
Actually, the students regarded the knights as inferiors in their mind. They hadn’t become a
The next day, the Fake Faceless had called everyone on board to the deck for a head count of the
He went into a cackle after sweeping his eyes across the crowd, “Another five gone. Well done!
Having said that, the sorcerer headed back to his tent, followed by Sam, Kyrie, Bionna and the
Those who hadn’t left belonged to two confronting camps, the student camp and the knights’.
But it would be a big mistake to think that the students could take down the knights so easily,
Besides, the near-400 student camp were split into several smaller ones, which didn’t seem
quarters. Many of them even would not have been selected as students for learning sorceries if
interviewing sorcerer.
picking on a smaller group and crushing it, as they had done yesterday, the head knight went
“You little brats didn’t prepare the sacrifices?!”
of the group rattled, but he seemed to have no intention of walking up.
cried “Ah, Ah!” as they dashed at the knights, leaving the rest of their group jostling.
“Son of a b*tch!” the knight being attacked shouted as he had agilely warded off a scythe
The headless body fell down and struggled for a few steps and his head was then kicked back to
The rest of the few warriors in the stormtroopers, who were unafraid of death, ended up being
Having been deterred by the gruesome killings, the student group had ceased being aggressive.
There was extreme fear and cowardice in the front man’s triangle-shaped eyes and the axe in
He squinted back to check i
f there was anyone willing to help, and he became disappointed.
assisted him in bullying Chris and Nina.
Mouse knew that he had to be on his own, since his protector had gone and no one was going to
As the chief knight was closing in with the blood dripping machete in one hand, an idea
hacked her in the head with his axe.
a few seconds.
an assumed delight.
The murder of the girl by Mouse had infuriated a male student in the crowd, who was believed
The male student, in his fury, was going to kill Mouse. He was stopped, though, by some
Every life was now a valuable asset, since the five-dead quota had been met!
Glenn’s room and no one wanted to be left alone in the face of such an intense situation.
the five-dead-people task by the students, and he instigated them to proceed with the cause.
came at Mouse for revenge, with a friend. And Mouse had brought a helper, too. It was Barry,
The battle was ferocious. Mouse lost out to none in the ability to fight, despite his mouseshaped
painfully after being stabbed in the back by the boy’s friend, and died. Mouse had undergone
the same fate, too.
The boy student had avenged the girl he loved.
the back, and the stabber had sneaked into the crowd afterwards and disappeared.
killing Nina was foiled by Chris, who had constantly been with Nina ever since she was injured.
The bad guy was tall and quite composed. He then made a feint kick on Chris’ right knee while
“perpetrator”.
In a second, he had found himself tripped by a long and sturdy vine, which suddenly appeared
Chris took the advantage and axed him to death.
the fact that the quota of five dead men had been nearly fulfilled.
entwined the scampering man. Awed by Lafite’s mastery of sorcery, few of the students now
The knights had heard of Lafite’s story and they all looked intense the moment they heard the
Everyone on board wished to reach destination as soon as possible. They felt like that every
The crew had been stratified over the days and there was a strict hierarchy in place on the ship
Class one – the ruling class – which consisted of, as expected, Kyrie, Bionna, Sam and the
Nilmar in the head count.
their sorceries had been brought to full use in the fights over the past few days. No ordinary
Spell Casters!”
the five dead people had to be chosen from them. That was why they were called by the
Thirty days had elapsed and an aggregate of 150 students had been butchered and thrown
the purgatory now had freezing cold eyes. Smiling was a luxury that you barely had on that
At that night, Glenn, Chris and Nina, who had all survived the inferno, partly under the aegis of
Lafite, followed Lafite to the deck, and the other four Spell Casters were already there.
It seemed that there was going to be a major and significant meeting.