166 A Shocking Twis (1/2)
Sheila only required to lock the target within her mind before unleashing her skill at him at full power, rendering him useless within seconds. She could have done the same to the assassin, however, seeing his tenacity in person, Sheila is sure that the man can resist against her skill. Although he is weaker than her in the strength department, his will, however, might be comparable to her. It would be much better to use the skill when they least expect, it will be more impactful that way. If that isn't possible, she can just knock him out with her strength instead.
Upon seeing the assassin trying to escape, Sheila immediately immobilizes him on the spot by binding him in place with his own shadow. The crowd, however, can only see a tentacle-like shadow suddenly bursting out of the ground before coiling tightly around him.
”Guh! What is this?! Get...OFF! Shit! I can't get away!”
”You think I'll let you go that easily? I think you look down on me too much, so as a lesson...”
Before the assassin utters a single word, he was shocked to see her figure suddenly appeared right in front of him in the blink of an eye. He swore that there was quite a distance between them and if she had made a move, one should have at least be able to see her movement but, to their disbelief, her figure simply vanished out of thin air before reappearing somewhere else as if she had just teleport between those two locations. Most of the students below the platform also dream of being able to use teleportation magic but, they learned the hard way that such a convenient spell didn't exist. No, it does exist. A way to 'teleport' from one location to another but, it required a tremendous amount of resources to build such a thing, so only the rich can afford it.
Even if one is wealthy and loaded, they also need to have a connection with the Mage Academy as, even with all the resources in their hand, there's no way for them to produce the device without having a skilled mage and skilled craftsman. Mage Association does have a teleportation device in each of its branches all around the world, including the Headquarter. But it can only be used for either VIP or on rare occasions where the Mage Academy organized an event for their young mages with limitless potential. For that, the Mage Association didn't mind losing their money if they can get a loyal mage working for them soon in the future.
Anyways, when Sheila appeared in front of the bound assassin, she gently struck him in the neck with her hand. It promptly knocked him out of commission for the next couple of hours. If Sheila didn't hold back her strength, his head might have been separated from the neck instead. With this show of strength, even an idiot can tell that she's just playing around with them. Mia began to get worried and nervous. After all, someone as powerful as 'Shiro' to have gone as far as to save her from the assassin, there has to be a reason for it, right? Nothing is free in this cruel reality. Everything, even the air in the surrounding, has their own reason for their existence.
After securing both of her targets into her shadow, Sheila turned her back facing toward Mia. When she slowly walked toward the latter, Sheila could faintly hear Mia gulping her saliva in nervousness. 'Well...if an unknown person with a powerful strength appeared before me, even I would be afraid of him/her, so it's understandable why she's nervous. As for the assassins and his friend, I have a use for them.' Sheila thought for a moment before nodding her head in understanding. Arriving in front of Mia, Sheila was about to open her mouth and speak when suddenly, everyone be it above or below the platform, felt a tremor.
While everyone began to look for a place to hide under since they thought it was an earthquake, Sheila looked up at the distance, grinning as she thought, 'Finally, they came. I knew a student escaped the moment I brought everyone's attention to me but, it seemed that he didn't break my faith in him at all. Good, it was just as I expected.'
But still...never in her mind, not even in her wildest thought, did she expected this kind of thing to appear, even more, in this kind of place instead of somewhere else. Though she believes the Mage Association should have the information regarding 'that,' seeing how they even have one of their branches over here but, this is really astonishing. They did it.
”Is that...”
”My god..”
”...This is a lie.”
One by one, the students started to fall on their knees with a despairing look on each of their faces upon beholding the cause of the tremor. Even Mia, who is much stronger than everyone else on this floor, tasted the fear for the first time when looking at the huge shadowy figure in the distance. Each step it took, caused a tremor both literally and mentally. A small number of students who were on the weaker side even started to crackling as if they have lost their minds from the fear.
Upon taking a closer look into Sheila's brown eyes, in the reflection of her eyes, one can see a large and bulky creature with little clothing of a single rag covering its lower half, but Sheila thought it might as well be nude. The creature she's currently staring at is none other than a Troll. What, you thought it's Ogre based on the description of its appearance? Nah, jokes on you.