"Bang...! Bang-bang...!"
The academy was engulfed in flames, and explosive sounds could be heard everywhere, causing the black smoke and heat to keep rising.
Flames shot from building after building, trailing thick smoke.
The asphalt roads covering the ground had also cracked and shattered, a miserable sight as if they had been bombarded.
The teachers and students who had stayed at the academy during summer vacation lay collapsed in various places. Some leaned against walls, while others lay on the roads, all motionless, making it look as though corpses were strewn everywhere.
The group had rushed in upon returning and witnessed this scene.
"How could this...!?"
Stella, Shizuku, and the others all changed expressions.
"...!"
The student council members, including Todo Touka, were already preparing to rush over and rescue the fallen.
But...
"Don't worry. They have no external injuries, and their breathing and heartbeats are normal. They've only fainted."
Luo Zhen seemed to have grasped everyone's condition in an instant, and his words stopped the student council members in their tracks.
For Luo Zhen, who possessed the Mind's Eye, learning the fallen students' physical conditions—their heartbeats, breathing, and so on—was effortless.
The problem was...
"Why has the academy become like this? Why has everyone fallen?"
Stella spoke in some confusion.
Yet this question was surprisingly easy to understand.
After all...
"Do you even need to guess when the situation is this obvious?"
Luo Zhen spoke calmly.
"If someone destroyed things, the academy would naturally end up like this."
"If someone attacked, everyone would naturally fall."
"The unconscious people have no external injuries. They were clearly taken down by the illusionary form of an Inherent Spirit Armor."
In a word...
"Someone attacked the academy. That's all there is to it."
Luo Zhen's voice clearly reached everyone's ears.
One after another,