Chapter 38 - The First Battle of Hell Blood Killing 3

Lu Hong, who was preparing to rush to the aid of the seven major academies, was now in a terrible situation.

The teachers from these seven academies were even more skilled than those from Kains Academy, especially in the Mage profession, equipped with formidable firepower.

However, they had chosen the wrong place to camp.

The demons that suddenly attacked from the rift gave them no time to react and tangled up with the academy students.

Under such circumstances, these AoE Mages dared not cast their skills.

A single Second Transition Skill might not kill many demons, but it would surely result in a large number of their own students’ deaths.

So the superior arrangements of the seven major academies could not be brought into play, resulting in everyone falling into a hard-fought battle, where students were besieged and killed by demons every minute and second.

When the Demon army freed from the Ice Seal saw the large number of Kains Academy students had retreated from hell, they didn’t hesitate and immediately turned toward the closest Moon Lake Academy to the Kains camp.

Of course, the teachers covering the retreat of Kains Academy would not let these demons get their way, and more than a dozen Second Transition professionals stood their ground against them.

Meanwhile, our protagonist, Lu Hong, led a hundred-man spearhead team directly into the Moon Lake Camp.

Under Lu Hong’s leadership, this small squad of a hundred tightly banded together, relying on the cooperation between different professions’ skills to deal with third-level demons as easily as slicing vegetables.

“Follow us and kill the enemy!” Lu Hong would have every student he rescued join his ranks at the rear.

Although the students of Moon Lake Academy were reluctant, the unfriendly looks of these people made them fear that any unwillingness would result in them being cut down like demons.

This way, Lu Hong’s team rapidly expanded, forcibly cutting open a battle line that bisected the Moon Lake Academy’s camp.

“Aren’t you going to clear out the demons at the back?” Lu Hong asked a Moon Lake teacher next to him with annoyance, after stabbing to death an ambushing demon.

“Why should I listen to you?” the Moon Lake teacher was somewhat unhappy, feeling that, as a teacher, he should be the one arranging tasks for others, shouldn’t he?

“Do you **** want to save your students or not?

If not, I’m done serving you,” Lu Hong said as he flicked his greatsword, once again piercing through the heart of a demon.

“… Alright,” the teacher had no choice but to listen to Lu Hong’s command, given the current situation.

After Lu Hong set up the defense line, the teachers of Moon Lake Academy quickly purged the demons from behind the camp.

“The demons at the rear have been cleared out, what’s next?” the Moon Lake teacher came back to Lu Hong’s side to ask.

“Of course, you need to rally your troops and rescue yourselves.

There are several other academies I need to help,” Lu Hong said as he saw the situation at Moon Lake Academy stabilize and then promptly led his people away, rushing to another academy’s camp.

Using the same tactic, he split the battlefield, cleared the rear, and then counterattacked the front, rescuing a large number of students.

When Lu Hong had rescued the forces of three academies, the others still struggling naturally caught on to Lu Hong’s tactics and quickly organized their students to start self-rescue operations.

Of course, the Demon army wasn’t stupid and swiftly intensified their firepower, with magma worms beginning indiscriminate attacks.

Seeing the sky filled with raining magma fireballs, the academy’s teachers didn’t think twice before deploying the Holy Light Barrier.

If this wave of magma fireballs were to land, not only would demons die, but a vast number of students would perish too!

“Elemental Bipolar Slash!” A teacher from the academy leaped into the air, slashing down.

The magma worm troops in the Demon army’s rear suddenly took a heavy hit, as a kilometer-long thunder and fire Sword Qi crashed down, instantly killing a large number of magma worms within minutes.

“Retreat!

Retreat!” Lu Hong constantly led his hundred-man army, moving between the major academies, continuously rescuing those students who were singled out and besieged by demons.

After a large number of students assembled, the academies began to band together to jointly defend against the demons’ onslaught.

At the same time, the demons besieging the various academies also completed their assembly.

Every student from each academy glared fiercely, their eyes fixed on the Hell Demons.

And the Hell Demons looked at this group of academy students as if viewing a feast about to be claimed.

The students who had died in the chaotic battle earlier had already been devoured by the demons, leaving only traces of blood on the ground as evidence of their past existence.

“Kill them!” the students from the academies cried loudly, seeking vengeance for their fallen comrades.

“You want to fight to the death with demons?” Lu Hong looked incredulously at the allies he had saved, a joint force of seven academies.

Were they crazy?

There were clearly nearly a hundred thousand demons on the opposite side, and they, a coalition of less than eight thousand?

“I’m not sure whether we should fight or flee now,” said a Moon Lake Academy teacher to Lu Hong, who now held a positive impression of him since they were the first batch of people Lu Hong had saved, and their student fatalities were the fewest among the seven academies.

“Then why not run quickly?

I’m not taking care of you anymore.

I’m leaving first!” Lu Hong waved to his hundred-man army and started retreating toward the Hell Rift.

“Coward!”

“Ptui!

A bunch of cravens!”

At this point, seeing Lu Hong leading the people of Kains Academy in a retreat, students from all the academies began cursing them.

“Heh, a bunch of ungrateful wretches!” Lock Fan sneered thrice.

They had come to rescue these students from the academies, and now, the Kains Academy’s hundred-man spearhead team had already suffered more than half casualties.

All their sacrifices without any returns, yet they were being cursed instead?

“Never mind them, let’s just retreat,” Lu Hong patted Lock Fan on the shoulder.

“Right, let’s focus on our escape,” Lock Fan nodded and stepped into Hell’s Rift with Lu Hong.

But a shocking thing happened—they weren’t teleported out and remained at the mouth of Hell’s Rift.

“What…

what’s happened?” Lock Fan felt his mouth go dry.

Not being teleported meant one thing to him—death!

“Don’t panic!” Lu Hong’s face was dark as he shouted to steady the people around him.

The scenario where they couldn’t teleport out had crossed Lu Hong’s mind, but it was indeed the worst-case scenario.

“There’s a high-level demon interfering with Hell’s Rift,” Lu Hong quickly deduced the cause.

Previously, when rescuing the seven academies, he had found it suspicious that once students from Kains Academy left Hell’s Rift, they should have sought help from the military forces stationed nearby.

But up to now, as the seven-school alliance continued to hold against the demon army, not a single military figure had appeared.

It was common knowledge that within these seven academies, there were countless offspring of the empire’s elite—if these individuals perished, the entire empire would erupt in an uproar.

“So, what do we do now?” Lock Fan was completely at a loss.

“We retreat!

Get as far away from here as we can.

We won’t partake in this war; let’s hide,” Lu Hong led the remaining brave warriors of Kains Academy around Hell’s Rift and started to flee rapidly, with their backs turned to the battlefield.

“Hell’s Rift is only temporarily closed; the empire will surely find a way to open it again.

If we can just hold out for a while, we’ll make it,” Lu Hong stated gravely, “Trust me, everyone, I will get us all out of hell alive!”

“We believe in you!” the people unanimously declared, resolutely following Lu Hong to flee the battlefield.

As they witnessed Lu Hong and his group’s escape, the students of the seven academies felt even more contempt.

“Why isn’t he using Hell’s Rift to return?” A teacher at the academy noticed the issue and hurried to investigate the situation at Hell’s Rift.

“This is bad!

Hell’s Rift has been closed!” The teacher’s face turned pale as he exclaimed in shock.

This exclamation set all the students into a panic—the feeling of having no way out spelled despair!

Meanwhile, on the distant horizon, another large demon army was approaching to join the battle.

As it turned out, the demons facing the seven-school alliance had held back their assault, waiting for the second wave of their troops to gather.

“Everyone, hold the line!

The empire will definitely send someone to rescue us!” the academy’s teacher called out loudly.

At that moment, the demon horde finally launched its assault, charging towards the allied academy forces.

“Let’s go on the offensive directly,” the teachers from various academies glanced at each other, deciding to take their stand at the frontline to save as many students as possible.

“Don’t anyone move!

Hold the line!” the teachers from the various academies commanded their students and then charged selflessly into the demon army.

Nearly a hundred Second Transition professionals attacking at once caused destruction on a massive scale; each skill unleashed eradicated hordes of demons.

In just three minutes, the demon army of over a hundred thousand had been halved!

Witnessing such lethality from behind, the morale of the students watching the battle soared.

“With the teachers fighting, no amount of demons can harm us!” the students voiced out, their despair quickly turning to hope.

But life, much like a roller coaster, has its highs and lows; as strong as Second Transition professionals are, they too have limits.

Before the demon forces could be completely wiped out, the second wave of demon reinforcements arrived and began to encircle and attack these several hundred teachers.

As the saying goes, outnumbered hands cannot defend against multiple assailants; the wide-area skills were indeed powerful, but they took a significant toll on their users’ strength.

The teachers, trapped in an endless struggle, quickly depleted their power.

A Mage teacher, after casting a meteor shower spell, finally ran out of magical power.

With his magic shield gone, a demon’s spike pierced his body, and the next moment, countless demons feasted upon him bare, leaving behind nothing but his agonizing screams echoing in the ears of the students.

“Teacher!” Witnessing their teacher’s sacrifice, the students burst into tears—this was just the beginning.

Gradually, more and more teachers perished.

“This is no good; at this rate, not only will we fail to save the students, but we will also perish here!” A teacher from the Academy of the Swordsmen cried out, blasting a punch to clear a gap through the demon army and escaped.

Of course, some teachers didn’t choose to flee but fought to the very end.

“Retreat!

Retreat quickly!” The returning teachers were few—only eighteen remained.

They urgently commanded the students.

Following the teachers’ orders, the allied academy forces began their retreat, with the demon army in hot pursuit, hunting down those students lagging at the rear.