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Chapter 156
The transport rumbled through mountain roads as they headed back toward the Academy. Inside, the four teammates sat in exhausted silence, each lost in their own thoughts about what they'd witnessed at the mountain picnic."I keep thinking about Hayes," Anna said finally, breaking the quiet. "Something about the whole thing feels wrong.""Wrong how?" Miko asked, though he'd been having similar thoughts."It happened too fast," Anna replied, shifting in her seat to face the others. "Yesterday we trusted him completely. Today he's revealed as the mastermind behind everything? It doesn't make sense."Liam nodded slowly. "The timing is suspicious. Right after we start questioning AAU’s Loyalty, suddenly the person who warned us about conspiracies turns out to be part of one?""Maybe that's exactly why he warned us," Akiya suggested, though she didn't sound convinced. "Keep us suspicious of everyone except him.""But think about what he told us before," Anna pressed. "About Academy experime
Chapter 155
The portal collapsed with a sound like thunder, taking Hayes and his corrupted coordinators with it. But not before they'd left their mark on everything Miko thought he understood about the world."Is everyone alive?" Anna called, her voice hoarse from shouting healing instructions during the chaotic battle.Around the devastated meadow, survivors slowly emerged from hiding places among the trees and rocks. Students with torn robes and haunted expressions. Faculty members who'd fought corruption beasts with training techniques never meant for real combat. All of them changed by what they'd witnessed."Forty-one students accounted for," reported one of the instructors, his usually neat appearance disheveled and singed. "Five faculty members. Plus your group and Miss Rose.""Injuries?""Fifteen students with corruption exposure. Three faculty with serious wounds. Could have been much worse."Could have been much worse.Join us or die."The carriages?" Liam asked, helping a shaken first-
Chapter 154
The main portal should have closed completely. Instead, it flickered, then suddenly flared back to life with blinding intensity. Through the dimensional tear stepped a figure that made Miko's blood run cold.Coordinator Hayes.But not the Hayes they knew. This version moved with fluid grace, corruption patterns writhing beneath his skin like living tattoos. His weathered face wore an expression of cold satisfaction as he surveyed the devastated meadow."Impossible," Miss Rose breathed, taking an involuntary step backward. "Hayes has been fighting corruption for decades.""Has he?" the corrupted coordinator asked, his voice carrying the same authority it always had but with an undertone of something inhuman. "Or has he been serving it all along?"Miko felt the world shift around him. Hayes had been the one to debrief them after the Abyss mission. The one who'd warned them about Academy conspiracies. The one who'd suggested they come to Lunaris for their own safety."You sent us here,"
Chapter 153
The Awakened Wraith's first attack split the meadow in half. Corruption energy lanced from its claws in a beam that carved through earth and stone like they were paper. Miko dove left, Miss Rose rolled right, both barely avoiding the devastating strike that left a smoking trench where they'd been standing."Spread out!" Miss Rose shouted, already moving to flank the massive creature. "Don't let it focus on one target!"Miko circled in the opposite direction, dual elements weaving complex patterns around his hands. The Awakened Wraith was larger than any he'd faced before, but size wasn't everything. In the deep Abyss, he'd learned that precision mattered more than raw power.Fire lashed out from his right hand, striking the creature's corruption patterns where they seemed weakest. Ash followed from his left, eating away at the energy that held its form together. The attacks were pinpricks against something so massive, but they got its attention."Annoying insects," the wraith rumbled,
Chapter 152
The portal tore wider with a sound like reality ripping apart. Corruption energy poured from the jagged opening, turning the peaceful meadow into something from a nightmare. Students scattered in all directions, their screams echoing off the surrounding mountains."Stay together!" Headmaster Thorne shouted over the chaos, but his voice was barely audible above the sounds of panic and the otherworldly shrieking emerging from the portal.The first wraith that emerged was smaller than the ones Miko had faced in the deep Abyss, but to the unprepared Lunaris students it might as well have been a dragon. Its corruption patterns pulsed with hungry light as it swept toward a group of first-years who'd frozen in terror."Move!" Miko shouted, fire and ash erupting around his hands as he sprinted across the meadow. He reached the wraith just as its claws swept toward the nearest student, intercepting the attack with a barrier of dual elements.The wraith hissed and recoiled, clearly not expectin
Chapter 151
The morning of the mountain picnic dawned bright and clear, with the kind of perfect spring weather that made outdoor adventures seem like the best idea in the world. Miko stood at his window watching students load supplies into carriages, their excited chatter echoing across the courtyard."Everyone ready?" Anna asked from the doorway. She carried a pack filled with medical supplies and the purification compounds Miss Rose had provided. To anyone watching, she looked like a responsible healer preparing for a school outing."As ready as we can be," Miko replied, checking his own pack. Along with normal camping gear, he carried corruption detection crystals and emergency flares Miss Rose had insisted upon. "Akiya and Liam?""Already downstairs, charming the first-years," Anna said with a smile. "Though I think Liam is getting tired of being asked to demonstrate his wind techniques."They joined the gathering crowd in the main courtyard, where Headmaster Thorne was giving final instruct
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