151 Chapter 151: Jing Tian Magic Academy, Besieged (2/2)

”Fifteen minutes…maybe less.”

”Fuck!” Ji Lu slammed his fist on the table. Gritting his teeth, he turned to Fielding. ”All right, Teacher Fielding. Your plan is on. Gather all the students in the gymnasium and start organizing them into groups. You'll take point and lead the first group to scout a safe path. The rest of the teachers are to lead their respective groups there. Teacher Cure, you're in charge of the injured. Do your best to get them to move. If necessary, leave the most injured behind. I'm sorry, but we don't have a choice. We can't let them drag down the other students. You'll be the sixth group after the first five groups make sure it's safe. Hopefully that's ample time to prepare.”

”Understood.” Cure didn't like it, but she had no choice. She also understood the hard choice that Ji Lu had to make, even though it sounded extremely callous. It was either some students die or all the students died. She resolved to ensure to make sure even the most severely injured students were healed to the extent of walking wounded, even if she had to expend all of her mana to do so.

He then turned to several of the male teachers. ”Teacher Wu, Teacher Si, Teacher Sha, you're with me. The four of us will stall the approaching wave of monsters for as long as we can.”

The teachers he singled out paled considerably, but nodded determinedly. None of the other teachers said a single word. They knew the four of them were heading to their deaths. There was no way the four teachers could survive against such a large group of rank D monsters, led by three rank C monsters.

But even so, they had no choice. They were teachers. They had a responsibility to protect the students at this school.

”Get moving! We don't have much time! Let's head out immediately!”

Clapping his hands sharply, Ji Lu dismissed all the surviving teachers and immediately set off with his handpicked team toward the mountains.

*

Teacher Fielding was rushing along the corridors of the classroom, trying to rally the students to his cause.

”All of you! Assemble in the gymnasium! Immediately!”

There was a scream, followed by the shattering of glass. Cursing under his breath, Fielding spun around and caught sight of a Dire Wolf breaking through a window and clawing at one of the female students. Kicking off the ground, he gathered his Ba Qi around himself and punched a bloody hole through the monster's head.

The nearly headless Dire Wolf slumped over the edge of the broken window, its corpse pierced by countless glass shards.

”Are you all right?” Ruff Fielding asked the screaming girl. She nodded, tears streaming from her eyes profusely. Fielding checked her quickly, and when satisfied that she wasn't hurt, pointed down the corridor. ”Get to the gymnasium, now!”

”Yes, sir.” The girl whimpered before scurrying off, still sobbing. Fielding sighed and resumed his mission to ensure that every student in school was gathered in the gymnasium before he could split them off into groups. He was not going to leave even a single student behind.

But for the Dire Wolf to already be here…did Ji Lu and the others fail to stop them? He did not want to think about the grisly fate they had suffered if the monsters had really gotten through them.

There was another crash downstairs, and Fielding hurried down. Below, Dong Fang Yue Chu was protecting a few of his classmates by incinerating a Dire Wolf with his flames. Beside him, Lily Liam was keeping the wounded monster at bay with her spear so that her boyfriend could finish it off. However, behind them was another couple of Dire Wolves, which were closing in on their wailing classmates. Fielding scowled when he saw the group of guys and girls doing nothing but sob while relying solely on Yue Chu and Lily to protect them.

The least they could do was try and fight back.

Buffing his physical strength and speed with reinforcement spells and gathering his Armament Ba Qi about him, Fielding launched at the nearest Dire Wolf and clobbered it. Just one punch smashed its skull into shards of bone and brain matter, and it collapsed.

The other Dire Wolf ignored him and was just about to pounce on the other classmates. Dong Fang Yue Chu and Lily were still distracted by the dying but still barely alive Dire Wolf, and Fielding couldn't make it in time before it could…

Zoom!

An azure arrow obliterated the Dire Wolf's head before it could reach them. The headless carcass toppled onto the bunch of helplessly screaming students, who instinctively backed away as blood splashed onto them.

”This…”

Fielding turned toward the window. I was climbing through the broken glass, being careful not to cut myself on them (which wouldn't have done anything since I had cast physical reinforcement spells on myself for the time being). Dismissing my Orion bow, I waved at a stunned crowd, with Dong Fang Yue Chu and Lily finally finishing off the Dire Wolf with a combined fire spell and spear strike.

”Richard! You're back!” Fielding gaped at me in surprise. I nodded.

”Yeah.” Glancing at the Dire Wolves' carcasses grimly, I breathed a sigh of relief. When I saw the pack of Dire wolves reach the academy, I had feared the worst, but seeing my homeroom teacher and fellow students still alive, I couldn't help but feel as if a huge burden had just been lifted off my shoulders. ”Looks like I'm not too late.”