Chapter 288 - White Monkey (1/2)

”What is this place!” Max cried as he held his hands on his head and looked around him.

Noticing the black ground, the dead trees and the pools of lava everywhere. These were things he had only read about but he never dreamed he would end up being here.

”Hey, do you think this is still part of the training?” A student asked.

”Yeah, it might be the hunting ground made to look like the shadow world or something.”

The other half of Del's class had been teleported to a new location. In this group, there were fifteen students that included two of the upperclassmen and there was also the professor Springett.

Springett bent down and picked up pieces of soil from the ground. She was trying to sense something and closed her eyes. The look on her face remained the same but something in her mind had clicked.

”All students please gather around I have an important message for you all,” Springett said.

The students then started to gather still mumbling about where they were, but when the other students saw the worried look on the two upper-class students faces, they feared the worse.

The upper-class students had already gone through their training before, when they had come out of the teleportation circle, they already knew that this wasn't meant to be part of the test.

”I'm going to be honest with you all, this is not part of the test.” She said, ”And even worse, it seems like we have been transported to the shadow continent, the soil, everything around us is filled with its dark energy.”

As soon as Springett said those words some people broke down in tears. They wanted to go home, thinking why us, what had they done to deserve this.

”Hey is what she saying true?” Max asked Kaito who had also been transported with him.

”Yeah, this place matches up with exactly what I was taught from the empire.” Kaito said, ”The good thing is at least we weren't transported into one of their fortresses, it seems like we're just in the middle of nowhere at the moment.”

”And that's meant to be good news!” Max said.

”Most likely the teleportation circle, they couldn't completely control where it would go. My question is how did the teleportation circle change its destination? It had to have been planned from the inside, not only that but the crystal had suddenly changed and was being consumed with dark energy, without someone physically being with us at the time that just wouldn't be possible.”

”You mean there's the chance that someone at the academy is working for the shadow? We have to tell the professor.”

Before Max had even taken two steps, Kaito tucked on his sleeve and pulled him back.

”Max, we don't know who the traitor is, we can't trust anyone.”

Just then as the students were starting to get a hang of their bearings, someone spotted something from one of the trees in the forest.

”Look at that, it's a monkey!” A female student pointed.

The monkey's fur was bright white and was easy to spot between the dark trees. It had two tail's instead of one and was the regular size for a monkey. But professor Springett wasn't a fool, all beasts that were in the shadow continent had already been infected.

On its white fur, there were patches of purple and small bits of foam appearing from its mouth. Springett drew her sword.

”Everyone, get ready for combat!” she shouted.

At the same time, the monkey opened its mouth wide, displaying two large fangs. Out from its mouth, a loud yell was heard which was piercing to the ear.

”Oh no!” Kaito said

”What, what's wrong,” Max asked worriedly.

”The monkey, it's crying for help, it can see that we outnumber it and now it's calling for its friends.”