All Chapters of ROOM 1313: Chapter 61
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The week after the festival passed faster than Liam expected.He hadn't forgotten that Principal Alaric wanted to speak with him, but throughout the entire week, he heard nothing from the principal.For the first few days, Liam barely had time to breathe.His name was still everywhere.Students approached him between classes. Some wanted advice about magical engineering. Others wanted to join his future projects. A few simply wanted to say they had met the student who had won first place.Liam hated most of it.But there was one thing he enjoyed.Training.Every night after returning to Room 1313, Liam spent hours cultivating.He had reached the limit of Bronze Peak.He could feel it.His Adaptive Core had become denser after everything he had experienced during the festival. His mana circulated faster, cleaner, and with less resistance.But Silver was different.It wasn't simply about having more mana.He needed to break through the barrier separating Bronze from Silver.After practi
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The students finally got a clear look at the creatures rushing toward them.Abominations.Their bodies were twisted in ways that made them difficult to identify as any particular race.Some were thin and unnaturally tall, with elongated arms and crooked backs. Others were covered in thick black skin, with four legs and mouths filled with uneven teeth.But one thing was common among all of them.They all possessed dark mana.It covered their bodies like a thick mist, the energy cold, rotten, and violent.Liam's eyes narrowed.Most of the creatures were Silver level.That alone should have been terrifying.But the first-year students of Blackthorn Academy were not weak either.Most of the students standing there were already at the Silver level, and many had progressed beyond Silver Beginner.They were among the strongest young talents from the Six Great Races.They had spent months training inside the academy.This was supposed to be their first real mission.Not their defeat.Maguire
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The battlefield had descended into chaos.Spells exploded between buildings as students shouted warnings to one another while the Abominations poured through the streets.Liam fired another bolt.The Runic Railbow kicked against his arm, and the bolt struck an Abomination in the shoulder, sending it stumbling sideways.Before Liam could fire again, something rushed toward him from his blind spot.He immediately turned.A large Abomination was already swinging its arm.Liam raised his Railbow.CRACK!The creature's claws smashed into the weapon and knocked Liam several meters backward.His boots scraped against the ground as he struggled to keep his balance.Liam caught himself before falling.He looked at the creature.It was roughly his size, but much more muscular, with dark mana crawling over its body.[Cultivation: Silver Beginner.]The Abomination charged.Liam immediately moved aside, making the creature's claws tear through the wall behind him.He fired.The bolt struck its rib
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The deaths had changed everything.A few seconds earlier, the students had still been fighting as if this were another academy exercise.Now, they were terrified.“Fall back!”“We need to get back to the transport formation!”“Forget the mission! We need to leave!”Several students began retreating toward the edge of the town.Then someone shouted from a nearby rooftop.“They're everywhere!”The students looked around.Abominations were emerging from every street.Some crawled over rooftops, while others climbed out from shattered buildings. More were moving through the alleys behind them.The town was completely surrounded.The students who had been trying to retreat stopped in their tracks.There was nowhere to run.Liam stood frozen for a moment, his eyes fixed on the bodies lying several meters away.The screams were still ringing in his ears.Those weren't monsters.Those had been students.People he had stood beside only minutes ago.Liam had definitely fought before, but this w
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The two collided again.BOOM!Lucas's fist slammed into the Abomination's jaw, sending its head snapping sideways.Lucas followed immediately with another punch.Then another.His demonic aura surged around his arms as he drove his fist into the creature's chest.The Abomination stumbled backward.Lucas didn't give it time to recover.He appeared in front of it and struck again.BOOM!The creature was pushed several meters down the street.Lucas stopped.For a moment, he thought he had actually managed to overpower it.But then the Abomination slowly raised its head.There wasn't even a serious wound.Lucas's expression changed.The creature didn't give him any time to process what had happened.It rushed toward him.Lucas blocked its fist with both arms.The impact sent him sliding backward, his boots carving two long lines into the ground.Lucas gritted his teeth.The Abomination swung again.Lucas ducked and drove his knee into its stomach.The creature barely moved.Lucas followed
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Liam activated Insight again.This time, he didn't look at the Abominations themselves.He looked at the battlefield.At first, the information was almost impossible to process.Dozens of red markers moved across his vision. Every Abomination had a different speed, strength, mana density, and attack pattern. Student positions overlapped with them, creating a chaotic web of movement.Liam narrowed his eyes.“Forget the individuals.”He focused on the larger picture.Then the battlefield changed.The red markers connected, and movement lines appeared between them.Then he saw it.The pattern.The Abominations attacking the strongest students never pursued them when they retreated.They would attack.Force the student backward.Then stop.Another group would move into the space the student had abandoned.Liam shifted his attention to another section.Three students attempted to escape through a narrow street.The Abominations didn't chase them.Instead, two creatures moved from opposite
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The battlefield had become a blur of movement, blood, and dark mana.Liam looked at Lily.She was standing only a few steps away, blood floating around her in thin crimson threads. Her breathing was heavier than before, and her crimson eyes had become sharper.“Lily.”She looked at him.“What?”Liam pointed toward the streets around them.“Look at the Abominations.”Lily frowned.“I've been looking at them for the past twenty minutes.”“They're not attacking randomly.”That made her pause.Liam continued.“They're controlling where we move.”Lily glanced toward the nearest street.“Explain.”“Watch the ones over there.”He pointed toward a group of Abominations attacking several students.“They're pushing those students toward the eastern road.”Lily watched for several seconds.One of the students suddenly tried to escape through a narrow alley.An Abomination immediately moved into the alley and forced him back.Another creature attacked from behind, driving the students forward aga
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Liam crouched and drew another line through the dirt.“The western line is being used to keep the students from escaping in that direction. If you attack it hard enough, they'll have to reinforce it.”Karl studied the markings.“And that's what you want?”“Yes.”“Why?”“Because when they reinforce this side, something else becomes weaker.”Liam drew several arrows branching away from the western line.“Their formation is spread across the entire town. They can't strengthen one section without pulling Abominations away from another.”Karl slowly nodded.“So I become the distraction.”“Not a distraction.”Liam looked directly at him.“A threat.”Karl's smile returned.“Much better.”“You need to make them believe you're about to break through.”Karl looked toward the Abominations.“And if I actually break through?”“Don't.”Karl frowned.Liam continued.“If you destroy the line completely, they'll retreat and rebuild somewhere else. I need them to reinforce you.”He tapped the dirt.“At
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Liam looked at everyone one final time."Don't improvise unless you have to. If something changes, I'll tell you."His eyes shifted toward Karl."Especially you."Karl's ears twitched."I heard you.""Good."Liam turned away.The trap had begun.---Lily returned to the vampires.The sight that greeted her was exactly what she expected.Blood covered the ground, and blood covered the vampires.Seraphina was already deep into her blood-fueled aggression.Her crimson eyes burned as she tore through another Abomination before immediately turning toward the next."Move."Seraphina lunged forward.Lily caught her arm."Don't kill them."Seraphina slowly turned her head."Are you insane?" she asked in an icy voice.Another Abomination rushed toward them.Seraphina's fingers tightened around her weapon.She clearly wanted to tear it apart.Lily stepped in front of her."Listen to me."Seraphina's expression remained hostile."We don't have time for this.""They're herding us toward the cente
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Liam forced himself to ignore everything else.Karl. Lily. Angelina. Elena. The wounded students.He couldn't keep watching all of them.His Insight had already made it clear that trying to analyze the entire battlefield at once would only overwhelm him.So Liam narrowed his focus to the town center and Lucas.Blue windows filled his vision as the chaos in the center slowly began to form a pattern.Lucas was moving deeper into the town, with several Abominations following him.But something was wrong.They weren't attacking him.Liam frowned.One Abomination rushed toward Lucas and raised its arm...Then stopped.Instead of striking, it moved across Lucas's path.Another appeared from the opposite street.It did the same thing.They weren't trying to kill him.They were slowing him down.Liam's eyes followed their movements.One Abomination blocked the eastern street while another moved into the northern road.A third approached Lucas from behind, forcing him to change direction.Luca