Chapter 109
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Volume 3 + Chapter 109: Witness
“Ugh… Aaaaaahhh—!!!”
A beast-like roar erupted from the crowd, causing the chandelier hanging from the ceiling to sway violently.
All the students were startled.
These students were different from Xia Yi.
While Xia Yi was communicating with the witch earlier, they had been completely unaware. From their perspective, Xia Yi had simply walked up to the mysterious purple-haired girl and accepted her invitation to dance.
But before anyone could even react to that, the terrifying roar suddenly rang out beside them.
“Who was that?”
Xia Yi pushed through the crowd, searching for the source of the sound.
She had clearly seen the witch perform a strange act—throwing a sinister glowing orb into the crowd.
At that moment, she had also heard the witch devoutly utter a name—
Samael.
Xia Yi had a strong premonition that this must be the name of the legendary beast worshipped by the witch, just like Leviathan, the Beast of Envy, or Belial, the Beast of Sloth.
Perhaps that glowing orb contained the aura of calamity—something extremely dangerous.
“Ah!! What happened to him?!”
“A monster!!”
“What on earth is going on?!”
The crowd was rapidly backing away from a certain individual at the center.
When Xia Yi finally saw who it was, she froze in shock.
It was…
Anthony?
Anthony’s body seemed to be swelling, tearing his suit apart. His size had increased several times over, and his entire being was now shrouded in an ominous aura. His pupils had lost their light, transforming into something inhuman—more like a demonic beast.
“Xia Yi! Xia Yi! Xia Yi!!!”
Anthony stared fixedly at Xia Yi, repeatedly snarling her name as foul-smelling liquid dripped from his now-sharpened fangs.
“It’s all your fault, yours!! If it weren’t for you back then, I wouldn’t have ended up like this!!!”
Xia Yi now understood—the witch had infused the aura of calamity into a human, transforming them into a mutated demonic beast tainted by disaster.
How could an ordinary human resist such corruption?
Especially a young man who had already suffered a mental breakdown not long ago.
“Aaaaaahhh!!”
The beastified Anthony swung his massive arm wildly, clearly lost to madness, and lashed out at the surrounding students.
“Get out of the way!!”
The student council president shouted while grabbing a spear from the decorative weapon rack in the venue. He unleashed a spear technique, sending a silver flash of light shooting toward Anthony’s claw.
However, after a crisp snap, the spear shattered instantly.
“President!”
The other students snapped out of their daze and quickly retreated.
Though most of them were students of Laurel Academy, not everyone was trained in combat—only a select few from the practical courses were capable of fighting.
“Anthony, snap out of it! We’re not your enemies!!” The student council president tried to reason with him.
But Anthony, now completely engulfed in the sinister aura, paid no attention. His gaze remained locked onto Xia Yi.
“It’s all your fault, all your fault!!” Anthony’s words dripped with naked fury.
After quickly assessing the situation, the student council president immediately issued orders.
“Everyone, listen!! Evacuate the center of the venue immediately! This isn’t an ordinary demonic beast—it’s a mutated one! Most of you aren’t equipped to handle this! Those leaving should head to the academy and call for the teachers! Members of the Calamity Response Unit, stay behind with me! We’ll hold him off and protect the others!”
“Regular students, follow me now! Don’t get in the way of the Calamity Response Unit!”
Lia reacted swiftly, taking the lead in executing the president’s orders. The others quickly followed, rushing toward the exit and beginning their evacuation.
The members of the Calamity Response Unit also sprang into action, summoning their weapons and gathering around the student council president, preparing to engage as they had been trained.
“Xia Yi, you’ll pay for this! This is the price of crossing me!!”
Anthony roared again, shaking the entire venue. The sheer force of his voice was enough to knock some fleeing students to the ground.
He had completely transformed, barely resembling a human anymore. His power had surged dramatically, far surpassing that of an ordinary person. With another sweep of his arm, he effortlessly shattered the defensive formation of the students trying to block him and charged straight at Xia Yi. Each thunderous step cracked the floor beneath him.
Xia Yi stood still.
To the others, it might have seemed like she was frozen in fear—after all, such a terrifying mutated beast looked capable of smashing the petite black-haired loli into paste with a single strike.
But in truth, she wasn’t panicking at all.
Though Anthony had been possessed by the aura of calamity and turned into a mutated demonic beast, he was no stronger than the dark tide creatures she had faced in Golde.
His power was only fearsome by human standards.
“Since this guy is coming for me, then…”
After a brief moment of consideration, Xia Yi suddenly started running—but she deliberately put on an exaggerated act of terror, stumbling as if she had no idea where to go.
“Waaahhh, stay away from me!!”
“Xia Yi, don’t run that way!! Get behind us!!” the student council president shouted urgently.
BOOM!
The hulking monster smashed through a wall, disappearing from sight along with Xia Yi.
“My rival is… just putting on a show, right?”
Yue Liu muttered to herself.
“Well, whatever. An enemy of this level is nothing to her.”
—
The monster’s roars echoed through the night in Laurel City.
“Xia Yi, I’ll kill you a thousand times—it still won’t be enough!!”
News of the mutated demonic beast’s appearance spread quickly. Panicked citizens fled for safety, gathering at Laurel Academy for protection.
Meanwhile, Xia Yi led Anthony on a wild chase through the streets—like walking a dog.
Anthony had completely lost his mind, crashing through everything in his path like a runaway truck.
Once they reached a sufficiently deserted area, Xia Yi finally stopped.
“Alright, this should do.”
With nimble movements, she leaped onto a streetlight and summoned her Rose Staff.
“Aaaaaahhh!!”
Anthony lunged at her, claws raised.
“No matter how angry you are, it’s meaningless.”
A surge of sword intent radiated from Xia Yi as she slashed with her staff. Despite its blunt form, the unleashed sword energy struck Anthony with overwhelming force, instantly defeating him.
Thud.
Anthony’s body collapsed onto the ground, leaving a small crater.
“Alright, mission complete. Time to head back and act clueless.” Xia Yi dusted her hands off and turned to leave.
However—
In an inconspicuous corner of the street, a girl who had risked danger to follow them witnessed everything.
Her pupils shrank in shock, her breath catching in her throat as she struggled to process what she had just seen.
