Volume 3 Chapter 161

Volume 3 + Chapter 161: Chimera

Albert took the lead, and with outstanding strength and agile reactions, he chopped off the head of the mutated magical beast.

The huge head fell to the ground, and filthy blood flowed all over the place.

In front of everyone, his taking the lead to deliver the first kill boosted morale, and the fighting spirit soared even higher.

“Hahaha!”

Biden laughed and couldn’t help but want to rub it in Xia Yi’s face.

Let her see how she had spent the entire day spreading fear and causing panic.

But when he turned around, the human race’s great mage suddenly realized the black-haired loli was gone?

“Huh? Where did she go? Did that little brat run away?”

Biden looked around, but found no trace of Xia Yi.

He felt something was off in his heart.

In terms of strength, that little brat wasn’t weak at all. In the monthly exam, she defeated so many teams, that was true.

Earlier she even came confidently saying she would help, yet everyone else joined the fight, and she’s the one who ran away at the critical moment?

This is just…

Coward!

Biden sneered disdainfully.

He despised this kind of person the most—obviously capable, but when facing real danger, chooses to shrink back.

Tough on the inside, submissive on the outside!

“That one, when this is over, I’m reporting to the whole academy. I must publicly criticize that brat!”

Biden said angrily, but he didn’t act out now, instead, he looked at the Sword Saint.

“Lord Sword Saint, didn’t I say, this doesn’t need your intervention, right?”

“…Your academy’s students truly have excellent ability,” the Sword Saint remarked with emotion. “Albert, that student, is truly extraordinary in potential, even both scholarly and martial—without a doubt, he will create remarkable achievements in the future.”

“Of course. Isn’t Laurel Academy established precisely to cultivate such outstanding students and bring out their potential?”

Biden took the opportunity to show off before the Sword Saint, feeling quite pleased inside.

A situation that Laurel Academy could resolve on its own—no need for outsiders to intervene!

Once they resolve this disaster, Laurel Academy’s reputation in the human world will rise to another level.

Before the paralysis effect on the mutated beasts wore off, the teachers and students of Laurel Academy seized the openings and launched their offensive together.

For a time, sword techniques, battle aura, and magic flew together, blasting into the ranks of the mutated beasts, delivering a wave of effective damage.

After the first round of exchanges, they had gained the upper hand.

At this rate, Laurel Academy’s chances of winning had greatly increased.

Looking at the situation, Biden could hardly imagine how they could possibly lose!

He didn’t even need to be on the front lines, just staying in the rear casting spells to control the mutated beasts would create plenty of opportunities for the other students to deal damage.

This way, all the highlight moments of slaying mutated beasts could be given to the students, which was even better for shaping Laurel Academy’s image.

On the other hand, this was also an extremely valuable combat experience.

The students participating in this battle were already excellent, with real combat experience like this, their strength would advance to another level.

Biden raised both hands, chanting complicated and lengthy magical incantations.

“Roar!!”

The paralysis effect on the mutated beasts finally ended. After being beaten for nothing just now, they were already in a fury beyond reason, only wanting to tear apart every life in front of them, completely ignoring their injuries, and charging forward desperately.

“Dark Tide!”

Biden finished his chanting. At the tip of his staff, a sphere full of dark attributes gathered and then shot out, landing in the middle of the battlefield.

The sphere burst forth with a massive surge of dark-attribute magic power, spreading like a tide, flooding around the feet of the mutated beasts, and at the center, a vortex formed.

In the dark magic, the mutated beasts not only moved sluggishly but were also dragged toward the vortex in the center.

“This… this is actually a rare dark-element magic!!”

“What an immense amount of magic power! The range of this dark-element magic is so vast—it’s covering over a dozen mutated beasts!”

“Teacher Biden truly lives up to being our human race’s great mage!”

All the teachers and students of Laurel Academy gasped in astonishment.

They rarely saw Biden unleash such powerful magic in actual combat.

Dark-element magic was notoriously difficult to master, none of the students here had grasped any dark magic. Even an ordinary magic instructor releasing it might only control two or three beasts, but Biden had controlled over a dozen!

“Such incredible magic…” Even the Sword Saint couldn’t help but exclaim.

To this kind of praise, Biden’s expression didn’t change—he was used to it, having heard it countless times before.

“What are you standing around for? Before the magic ends, hurry and finish off these mutated beasts!” he ordered.

“Yes, Teacher Biden!!”

The teachers and students of Laurel Academy gave it their all, unleashing their ultimate skills and blasting them all onto the mutated beasts.

Next, under Biden’s near-perfect crowd control magic show, the mutated beasts were completely suppressed and pummeled one-sidedly.

Every time one control spell ended, another followed almost seamlessly.

Wave after wave like this—the mutated beasts practically had no chance to fight back and could only keep getting beaten.

Biden cast spell after spell continuously, without even needing any magic potions to replenish himself, still remaining utterly composed.

“Haaah!”

Albert raised his giant sword and, with a sweeping slash, cut a mutated beast clean in half.

The last mutated beast fell, marking the end of the battle.

“It’s over!!”

“We won, we won!”

“We defeated the disaster!!”

The people of Laurel Academy were all beaming with joy.

Biden smiled and stroked his beard.

“Could it be… it’s really over just like this?” the Sword Saint muttered to himself, feeling a trace of regret in his heart.

“…”

Hill did not relax like the others because the battle was over—she still had an ominous premonition and remained on high alert.

“Teacher Biden, the battle’s over, let’s go back and celebrate together!” Albert suggested.

“Sure!” Biden agreed cheerfully. “Celebrate however you want!”

“Then let’s pop the champagne!!”

“Pop the champagne!!”

The students all cheered in excitement.

Just then…

“Back off!!”

Hill’s expression changed drastically, and she shouted aloud.

“Get away from those mutated beasts’ corpses!!”

“What?”

Everyone was stunned, looking toward the corpses of the mutated beasts—and what they saw made their hair stand on end.

A black sphere appeared out of nowhere, full of ominous aura.

At first glance, Biden recognized it—that was the aura of Disaster!

Centered on the sphere condensed from the aura of Disaster, the corpses of the mutated beasts were drawn together. The chunks of flesh and broken bodies fused together, forming an enormous and grotesque monster.

That was no longer an ordinary mutated beast, it was a monster among monsters—

A Calamity Beast.

Biden had once seen such a terrifying Calamity Beast before—its name was Chimera.

“Rooaaar!!!!”

The Calamity Beast called Chimera let out a roar so powerful that the ground cracked open.

“Ahhh!!”

Some of the weaker students fainted outright under the sonic waves of the Calamity Beast’s roar, while the others were completely immobilized, their consciousness dazed.

Chimera crouched low, its legs tensing, then sprang out like a cannonball, slamming into the invisible city gate before anyone could react.

Black aura surged wildly, corroding the magic barrier.

A sharp sound like shattering glass rang out—the impregnable gate of Laurel City was breached.

And it had taken less than ten seconds.

Everyone began to realize one thing—

The true disaster was only now beginning.