Life Hunter

Inside the "cylinder", the upper part was filled with the dark press while the lower part was filled with purple lightning. Arima kept concentrating on the plasma and particularly the bullet inside the chamber.

As he was charging the gun, the strange light that was in the magazine, slowly left and gathered on the tip of the bullet inside the chamber.

At some point, the ground Arima was standing on crumbled and became a crater. He smirked and put his finger on the trigger.

"[Gun Metuunt Blasphemantes] (Rail Gun)"

"[Ultimum quantum magicae] (Ultimate quantum magic)" Arima chanted and black light invaded the area along with the lightning.

"[Prod Materia]" Arima pressed the trigger and a purple and black ray shot out from the barrel. The bullet was covered with a dark aura.

When the bullet touched the huge press falling down, it felt like time stopped. The dark aura around the bullet spread around it pierced the press. That dark aura then recovered the entire object. And while the plasma was attacking it, the press suddenly disappeared, in less than a second, without any warning.

The entire object had disappeared. At the same time, a small cyclone was created because of the difference of atmospheric pressure and left soon after.

Arima breathed out and put Superbia away when he saw the barrier created by the Lawless Tome had vanished. Just a second following that, a white sphere suddenly formed above Arima. The latter looked at it and furrowed.

The light exploded and blinded him for a moment. He could only sense an aura approaching him, he took out his katana and clashed with the owner of that aura. He recovered his sight in just a second and he was already fighting in close combat with Lanya.

Continuously reinforcing his eyes to resist the light produced at each slash "Hey, shouldn"t you be almost out of mana, Lanya?" He said.

"It should be okay" Lanya smiled and answered. Arima frowned and infused his katana with lightning.

"[Aeterna]" He chanted and struck Lanya with a dark wave of lightning. The latter conjured a wall of light and was thrown away.

While Arima was fighting, he was trying to find out their plan. But it was hard to deduce everything from scratch. But he at least knew that the third art wasn"t supposed to defeat him, the proof is that Lanya attacked him instantly after, without any worry on her face.

"(Did she wish something else from the book?)" Arima wondered and looked around very quickly. He couldn"t spot his students. And coincidently, he suddenly reacted and moved away from where he was standing and a sort of cyclone suddenly fell from the sky and crushed the place he was before like a drilling machine.

Arima looked at the figure in the sky, flying around and his eyes widened "A harpy?" He muttered. The figure was Lena. Her appearance now was the result of her resonance with her soul beast. She grew a pair of wings from her arms and her legs became strong claws.

Just after, a beam of light attacked Arima, this time it was Ofia but coincidentally, her appearance was almost the same as her sister. Her soul contract with the c.o.c.katrice made her look like a harpy too.

"You certainly are sisters" Arima smiled and commented, after that point, it was just a matter of time before every student started attacking him from everywhere. Arima countered with the same number of magic, slowly taking out the casters. While he was doing that, he thought that something was strange, he couldn"t feel the auras of his students.

At the same time, he was defending against Lanya"s direct a.s.saults and his best students" attacks. Particularly Ofia, Lena and Isla.

When Arima started to wonder where Balan, Melody, and Irian were, Lanya suddenly backed away and chanted before planting her rapier on the ground. Arima widened his eyes as he felt the ground trembling. The earth itself started to produce light. Arima quickly created a sphere of darkness and entered it.

In the next instant, a huge pillar of light emerged from the ground and raised until it pierced the clouds. It almost broke Arima"s defense. He had to admit it, Lanya"s affinity with light was better than his, even in the absolute domination level.

When the light died down and the pillar vanished, Arima got out of his sphere and looked at Lanya who was panting, she had used the rest of her mana. But for some reason, she was smiling at him.

Arima then felt a presence behind him and instantly turned his head to look behind. In the corner of his eyes, he spotted Irian in his bear form with bloodshot eyes, ready to strike him. He didn"t sense him before because he couldn"t feel his aura.

Before Arima could react, he suddenly felt an immense pressure crushing him. The ground below him was crushed by his own body and he himself fell one knee. His eyes flashed with surprise and he looked to the front. Melody was one more time using gravity, Balan was beside her and every other student was sharing their mana with her.

Arima snickered and turned around the fastest he could. In the end, the pressure really hindered him and Irian punched him. Arima could only cross his arms to guard himself. He was instantly thrown away and flew for a few tens of meters before spinning in mid-air and landing on his feet.

Arima looked up and saw that Irian fell on the ground, his whole body was weak and his arm was broken. He had used 125% of his strength on this strike, the recoil was obvious.

At the same time, everyone stared intensively at Arima. The latter shook his head and sighed, he pushed back his left arm"s sleeve. Then, everyone could see, a drop of blood fell on the ground. There was cut on Arima"s arm.

When they realized what they did, everyone cheered. They successfully injured Arima. The latter allowed them to rejoice for a few minutes before clapping to get their attention, Arister also came back meanwhile.

When everyone looked back at Arima, they noticed that his injury had already closed and even his clothes were perfectly clean. They suddenly felt strange, the result of their hard work was that simple cut, and it was healed in just a few seconds. What is worse was that Arima obviously held back against them, even after the suppression at the tenth level.

Since the students knew they couldn"t kill him, they used their full power. On the opposite, Arima had to be careful as to not kill them. Heck, he could have beaten almost everyone with a single large-scale magic.

"Well, it was a good plan. Arister gained time to let Lanya use the Lawless Tome. The wish was most likely to attack me while hiding the auras of everyone except the caster. From that point, you just kept a.s.sailing me, waiting for the right opportunity to pin me down and strike me physically since you realized it would be almost impossible to pa.s.s through my magic defense. Not bad" Arima narrated with a smile.

Everyone felt even more depressed when Arima explained their hard-found plan so simply "Now" Arima cracked his knuckles and sat down on the ground "Time to point out your biggest errors" he declared and started to give a lecture for everyone single one of them.

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An explosion occurred "…Not that bad, but you didn"t put enough mana and you lost the control halfway through"

The earth crumbled "...Good one, but it wasn"t destructive enough, and the target wasn"t well defined"

Water fell down from the sky and pierced the ground "...…The mana quant.i.ty was correct but the theory behind has to be revised"

Like that, Night kept receiving the magic and commenting on it "That was the last one" Karma smiled and said.

Night looked at her with a darkened expression. His clothes were wet because of the water and basically dirty because of the earth. He breathed out to calm himself and calmly cleaned his clothes. At least, in this session, Karma took care of the physical lectures while Night took care of the magic lessons.

Karma, as Arima"s weapon, was the best for close combat, better than Night, maybe even better than Arima himself.

When Night and Lanya finished their role, Arima reappeared with all of his students. When the two of them saw Arima"s students, they made a silent prayer.

They all were mentally tired because of Arima"s lecture added to their physical strain. Even Arister and Lanya weren"t very energetic.

"Well, you guys can go home for today. Rest and come back in two days. I"ll finish the general lectures then" Arima said toward the group of twenty. When Arima said that, their expression brightened and nodded.

Arima smiled and teleported everyone back to the FDA. Following that, he let his picked-up cla.s.s leave and took the next one. Of course, he didn"t repeat the "large-scale spar" between him and the cla.s.s. It was just a special case for his own cla.s.s.

Then, for two days, Arima continued the training with Night"s help because Karma went to make company for Lanya and Arister left because he said he was going to meet his family.

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"I don"t understand" Lilis muttered "I realize he is a Life Hunter, and he"s special physically and mentally. From what I saw until now, I can"t see what could possibly happen to the point he would hate Karaskan that much" She wondered while looking at the pond.

After Arima"s integration in the squad, for two years. Moria personally taught him about everything. Martial arts, sharpshooting, strategy, and the ways of an a.s.sa.s.sin"s thinking process. Arimane himself already had a natural disposition to control his emotions and he was really smart, making of him a spec op was extremely simple.

One day, Moria suddenly called his squad and gathered the members "I have an announcement. In a week, we will fly out of the country" He declared and everyone frowned without any other comment. But it was without saying that they were confused.

Of course, Moria was aware of that and resumed "We"ve been called for a mission" He said and shrugged "Direct order from the higher-ups" He added.

"What is the mission?" Erin asked and Moria looked at him.

"Destroying and dismantling a terrorist organization" He answered and the squad fell into a daze "Well, it"s just a small group, around fifty people. But we were asked to take care of it. Maybe they want to test us" He shrugged and looked at his squad of fifteen people including Arimane "We leave in one week, prepare for it. That"s all I wanted to say. Also, Arimane, you will come too" Moria declared before leaving his squad alone.

"Aah" One of the members sighed loudly when Moria left. He sat down on a chair and laid down his whole upper body on a table "Taking out a terrorist group? By ourselves? They"re serious?" He complained.

"Don"t act like that, Jin. Technically, with our training and Nanomachines, we should be able to take care of a terrorist group alone, particularly when there are only fifty of them" The one who said that was Gano, a man around 18 years old, with a really large build, which wasn"t corresponding his age at all.

"Yeah, yeah" Jin waved his hand and responded. That guy was also around 17-18 years old, like almost everyone on the squad, except Arimane. His eyes and att.i.tude really described him, a lazy type of guy.

"Well, if we"re careful, nothing bad should happen" A tall man who was the oldest here with 20 years old, spoke and sat down next to Jin. Everyone soon followed and sat down on the seats spread around the room.

Arimane just sat down on a chair quietly but he was soon picked up by someone and hugged for some reason "Tiria...put me down" Arimane weakly said. The one who had picked him was one of the three women of the squad. A girl who really treated Arima like the little kid of the group.

"Come on guys, the real problem is that Arimane is supposed to come with us" Tiria completely ignored Arimane"s opinion while she sat down and put him on her lap "Sir Moria said that but what if Arimane can"t do it?" She then said.

Erin raised his head and looked at Arimane "Tell me now, do you think you can kill someone?" He suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Arimane was caught off-guard by such a blunt question.