Chapter 153 Graduation 7 (1/2)

After saluting, Liese walked to side and bowed towards the audience.

The audience clapped with enthusiasm, almost like they did with Leda Portia.

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But on the students' side, their eyes glowed with admiration as they stared at the figure on the middle of the stage.

Their hands didn't stop clapping even when Leda walked towards Liese and stood by her side.

Back at the stage, Leda took an exquisite box that a Protector brought over, and gave it to Liese.

Opening it, Liese retrieved a Matter Manipulator that was different from most of the others.

The Matter Manipulator they should receive was made in a very simplistic way and colored in orange, but the one Liese got was carefully crafted and painted in white.

This Matter Manipulator represents her status as some that stood on the top of her class from the beginning to the end of the course.

Liese thanked Leda and bowed towards her before both of them shook hands while smiling towards the audience and the cameras.

After Liese finished with her part, she found herself a place within the stage and stood there while Leda immediately called the next one, the 2nd in the overall rankings.

Each student was reward with a Matter Manipulator and give a 5 minutes speech before giving space to the next person.

The moment they get their Matter Manipulator, they would then walk to the back, and stood side by side with those that already got have gone up.

When was John's turn, he walked up towards the stage and stood before the entire audience.

He didn't waste much time, after Leda gave the Matter Manipulator to him, he only made a short, normal and straightforward speech, nothing much interesting that barely caught attention of those in the audience.

John didn't seem bothered and swiftly found his place right beside the 35th rank.

It went for about 2 hours before it finally ended the ceremony of graduation.

Leda walked towards the microphone and cleared her throat before speaking, ”With this, concludes the graduation ceremony, but before we can properly end, I have an announcement to make for those that are present here, and those that is watching around the universe.”

”All you might have the rumors already. Yess, it is true, most of it. My fellow citizens... Our collective worlds face a threat unlike any we've seen before. Five major Terrene Protectorate hubs have been destroyed in the last days.”

With those worlds, the audience exploded in whispering and chattering as they talked with each other.

Leda waved her hand and as such it became silent again. She continued, ”It's time to take action. We must join forces to repel this strange new enemy and stop fighting against ourselves over petty nonsense, lest we face unparalleled danger.”

Some in the crowd nodded other just suspiciously stared at Leda, not at all convinced of the danger.

”If we do not engage immediately we risk total annihilation! We cannot whatever this...thing, organization, or person...tear our noble republic apart, our hard-earned peace!”

”To combat the threat, our scientists developed a toxin derived from Aether. With it we can weaponize our greatest tool, the Matter Manipulator!”

The ones that knew the threat that enemy poses to them immediately stood up from their seat and clapped with all their might.

”Now, I'll demonstrate this new-”

Leda was about to continue her speech when she felt something wasn't right.

Her sharp senses were tingling and warning about the impending danger all around her.

”Security.” Leda called out, ”Could you take a-”

Leda didn't have time to finish her orders when the the ground beneath them started to rumble and quake.

The sudden shaking caused some of the students and staff to lose their footing and almost fall, but as they received extensive training, it didn't take long before they stabilized themselves.

”What's happening!?” Feeling the tremors growing stronger, Leda Portia exclaimed, ”Earthquake? No, impossible!”

The ground suddenly quaked even harder

*BOOOOOOM*

The whole auditorium exploded all of a sudden.

Dust was sent up in the air, those that survived the initial explosion, were soon squashed by the falling debris of the ceiling.

There was blood, limbs and corpses everywhere.