Academy's Highest Force
Walpurgis Royal Meccha Academy, main gate.
"Stand back!"
"Fall back, quickly!"
"All students, get back!"
Under the professors' direction, the students nearby hurriedly retreated, putting distance between themselves and the battlefield ahead.
Even so, the students' hearts remained filled with disbelief.
"Fimbulwinter is actually openly opposing the Academy...?"
"Have they really grown tired of living?"
"Does he think the Academy can be defeated as easily as the Knights of the Cross?"
"This is the highest institution of magic and the foremost academy in the world of automatons—and it even has autonomy!"
"Fimbulwinter is really finished this time..."
One student after another thought along those lines.
Yet no matter how inconceivable it seemed, it had still happened.
Luo Zhen had truly set himself against the Academy.
"Fire!"
"Homeland Guardians! Advance!"
"Take him down!"
As the students retreated under the professors' orders, groups of guards instead surged in from all directions, joining the battle.
The moment the guards arrived, they raised their rifles, while the Homeland Guardians beside them charged forward one after another without the slightest fear.
But if fearlessness was the issue, Luo Zhen's side had no shortage of it either.
"Crack, crack, crack...!"
Amid a series of freezing sounds, the rifles in the guards' hands were covered in frost the moment they were raised, all frozen into icicles. Under the piercing cold, the guards cried out in pain and threw their weapons away.
The Homeland Guardians, meanwhile, were all kicked flying by a moonlight-like figure.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
Amid the sound of the air exploding, the Homeland Guardians were kicked away heavily by the moonlight-like figure the instant they leaped into the air, scattering across the ground like garbage.
The Academy's guard force was utterly helpless against Luo Zhen's group. They could only watch