"Here."
This time, even Kulande, who had maintained an imposing presence all along, grew somewhat uneasy. The scenes along the way had simply been too shocking.
There were traces of battle and destruction everywhere, as well as corpses of Federation University students everywhere.
Yes, corpses—and they had died horribly. Some had been beaten into pulp and embedded in the ground, while others had been torn apart by violent force and scattered across the land. Some had been scorched by dragon breath and, despite the protection of their equipment, had still been reduced to puddles of thick liquid.
One of them was especially disturbing. Its Defense Barrier was still intact, yet the person inside had been forcibly melted by the extreme heat. The sight made several of them feel sick.
It was almost possible to imagine how desperate the people inside must have been at the time.
"This is Mu Xi Academy's barrier!" Luo Se said, his expression growing graver after taking a look.
None of the dead were weak. The occasional school insignia they saw showed that most of them had been from the top hundred, with several even ranking in the top twenty. Their strength and foundations were no small matter. Mu Xi Academy was one of them, ranked seventeenth. It was a comprehensive arcane academy, ranked even higher than the famous Starfire Academy, and was the number-one arcane academy in the Eastern Star Region.
He had seen the competition records of academies like this. Arcane academies generally prepared many things in advance to deal with ambushes, and they were also the quickest to activate their devices after an encounter. This one was no exception. Judging from how long the Defense Barrier had continued functioning after everyone inside had died, its defensive capabilities were not weak.
But—
"What kind