The legion of priests and nuns handled the captives with an efficiency rivaling that of Debauchery, the only difference was that they needed verbal coordinators giving orders and organising the minute details. On the other hand Debauchery barely needed any outward communication at all.When the legion has transported all the captives and doc.u.ments and whatever useful things about the Supreme cult, they returned to wherever they came from to the relief of Debauchery seniors. The town has become a ghost town and only Debauchery and the pope were left at the central plaza in the academy. The pope did not hug his daughters but stood in front of Balin ;who was doing his best to hide behind Dustan; the pope put his palm up and said "taxes".
Dustan who did his best to stand between the two was seething with anger, add in the stress from the legion of nuns earlier and he exploded on the pope. " We worked hard for this old goat, we killed no one and even gave you all the captives, they should be worth at least six times more than their treasures, you need to pay us 3 times more instead of taking from us. You are getting too greedy for your own good old goat."
The pope looked at Leader who simply nodded at him "he is always correct when it comes to money". That prompted the kindly old man to drop his hands and usher Debauchery to follow him to the cantina of the empty academy. There were some sisters inside preparing food for the coming group. One of the sisters respectfully led the team to a back room with a luxurious furnishings and a big table where everyone can sit and talk.
Everyone was seated and food was served, Lili was first to reprimand the sister for the empty table as she saw it "we need enough food for 60, this barely a snack for me! Get more as we eat" the poor sister just nodded her head and left the room to get more food for those who took over the sin of gluttony from the devil.
"So we found out this cult is named " The Supreme Cult", literally, not just a glorified nickname like we thought, we have finally found someone who is more arrogant than you kids, what a surprise" the pope chuckled at his own quip while Debauchery had poker faces at this wanna be cool oldie.
"Back to business, can you hit another academy before sunset? Do that and i will not tax you for anything you get from this sickness calling themselves a cult, also i want to see the kids fight, no matter what strategy you used to capture this one. You have been training my cute daughter under this spirit heart of yours for two weeks, if the kids can defeat all the students in the next academy, i will gift you a mana bomb to play with as well"
"Are you serious old goat?" Balin almost jumped out of his seat but then sat down with a frown muttering to himself for a while while Debauchery continued their conversation with the old pope. "We can do that after lunch" Bai took out a notebook and flipped a few papers back and forth "we can also get you inside to watch, but it will be harder to get everyone captured and uninjured, so excuse us if we go b.l.o.o.d.y during the take over". This was the blunt way Debauchery did business. With a nod from the pope Bai pa.s.sed the relevant information to Lucian and discussed it among themselves.
After lunch the kindly old pope took with him two sisters and teleported outside the next target along with Debauchery, this time, Debauchery went ahead and started with the town by using a plague dual spell that would release a potent virus that can cause a whole city to fall unconscious or make anyone below a certain level to liquify from the inside out. There was an effective range limit since the virus could not live in open air for more than 10 minutes.
The whole population of adults started dropping unconscious suddenly, it only took 2 minutes before every adult was sleeping peacefully. Before the sisters beside the pope could start summoning their legion, the grave robber was already half way done with the town and by the time the first portal was opened and the first nun stepped through it, the grave robber had gather everything of value into a pile beside Dustan who stood like a mountain guarding it while Balin categorised it into the corresponding storage rings.
The academy was in turmoil, as the students were panicking because all adults suddenly fell unconscious, they ran from building to building trying to find any clue about this mystery when they heard the call to gather at the central plaza where a group of people suddenly appeared. Dustan raised his voice to draw all the students and when everyone one was there, he left his place to leader.
"This is a raid by the church, each and everyone of you is a captive on death row, the only escape you have is to defeat these kids, anyone who is capable of handling them will be spared from death and instead trained into elites by the church, if the kids are still standing when the last of you is down, then there is no more to discuss." With that the adults withdrew amd left the juniors surrounded by almost 500 students from all ages and cla.s.ses.
The smart ones started by running away to get weapons while the dumber ones just charged in fists first. these ones were the first casualties as the juniors used Fae"s techniques of one hit Knockout to get rid of the swarm a fast as possible, then they took their time dismantling the cautious ones who did not charge first, by the time the weapons were introduced, the numbers of standing students went down to a quarter, and that made the relaxed juniors even more relaxed. They had fought Debauchery for so long and suffered from the dirtiest moves one can think off, so these students were barely good enough to stimulate them.
"Now we start the real fight scene, you girls can take a seat and watch while we deal with this" Leol rolled up his sleeves as he tried to play with the minds of the now shaken armed foes. Lili did not even look at him as she retorted "why do we need to bother the men when we, the delicate flowers, can handle this bunch of wimps, i find it a waste if all of us were to let loose at them". Yunan chuckled and said "if we end this before the afternoon bell we can get to soak longer in the hot spring, so let"s just do it fast, whoever downs the most gets to sleep with Drogon tonight"
It seems the juniors are unknowingly turning into a miniature version of Debauchery.