Chapter 305 - I am the prince (1/2)

Riding on top of a large back wolf, a boy could be seen but it wasn't any boy, it was Van. Tasked by Ray to escape from the battle scene, he had no choice but to leave.

Van felt incredibly guilty, right now everyone that was fighting back there, the students who had gotten hurt, the students that had even died, all of it was because of him. Right now though, he had the chance to save them all.

”Coem on girl,” Van said, ”Let's go home.”

As the city was now in sight, Noir sped up even more and eventually the guards had spotted her.

”A Beast is coming towards the city, activate the orbs.” A guard shouted.

Then the floating orbs above started to come out towards the two of them.

”You can leave me here girl I'll do the rest,” said Van.

But instead of stopping or slowing down, Noir decided to speed up even more.

”Wait, the orbs will hit you, leave me here!”

She was now moving faster than the whole journey here, like she expected something like this to happen. Saving her energy for the last leg.

The circle orbs started to move forward and as they got closer to her, they started to light up, then when it was within striking range.

Zap*

A little ball of lightning came blasting out, Noir managed to jump out of the way avoiding the strike, but then more balls started coming forward and more lightning bolts were shot out from the Orbs.

Noir was doing well avoiding each of the strikes.

”I've never seen a beast so fast, will it be able to reach the wall?” A guard said.

”In all my years here, I've never seen a single beast reach the wall.” The leader said.

Noir continued to avid the lightning strikes but each time they would strike closer and closer, so much so that Van could now feel the heat emitting from them.

However, without even realising it, the orbs had surrounded her and were now behind as well. She jumped once more to avoid the strike in front but then was hit on the leg behind. She howled in pain and immediately stumbled to the floor.

”What did I tell you?” the leader said.

The lightning bolts had now all surrounded Noir and another one zapped her again and with it, came another cry of pain.

”Stop it!” Van cried, ”She was just trying to help.”

Van started jumping up and down and waving at the guards stationed up on the wall but it was no use, they were still quite far away and unless they used the crystal scope they wouldn't be able to see him.

Strays often came out of the forest from time to time and would try to attack the city. The guards would usually never bother using the scope for a single beast unlike with the horde of harpies from before.

The orbs were also programmed to only attack beasts and humans were completely off the radar. They could be reprogrammed with a magic circle in times of war but right now it was only designed for beasts so Van remained complete safe.

Several orbs were now drawing closer and soon Noir would be burnt to a crisp.

”You tried helping and now I need to help you.”