Everyone frowned at Lucian.
While everyone else was worrying about how to escape safely, he was focusing on a little Magic Communication Box. He really seemed to have his priorities wrong.
The girl paused, then her lively eyes, so unlike her stiff, expressionless face, darted about. "What? Can you solve the communication problem?" she asked with a smile.
"My specialty is mana communications. I can give it a try."
"All right, you try that. I'll stop those guys first."
The girl thrust the Magic Communication Box into Lucian's hands, then, amid everyone's startled cries, darted forward to meet the three charging Mana War Chariots head-on.
"Just hurry up and escape on your own!" the boy who had warned her earlier shouted. "If you get captured too, we're all done for!"
At his words, the others snapped out of their bewilderment and shouted together, urging the girl to flee.
But the girl glanced back at them, let out a clear, pleasant laugh, and raised her hand. A long steel tube suddenly appeared in it.
At the sight, all the students behind her were dumbfounded.
That thing... unless they were mistaken, it was clearly an Infantry Mana Rocket!
They could just about accept that this strange girl could retrieve things from a mana space, but none of them had ever imagined she would pull out an Infantry Mana Rocket!
They stared blankly as the girl expertly propped the Infantry Mana Rocket on her shoulder. She even made a "bang" sound with her mouth before a brilliant streak of red light shot from its barrel.
In less than the blink of an eye, that fiery streak struck one of the three Mana War Chariots charging toward them.
Boom!
This...
Weren't Mana War Chariots universally regarded as the strongest force on the battlefield after