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Chapter 159: Revenge [1]

Adrian tightened his grip on his sword, his body aching but his resolve unbroken. "I won't let you harm anyone here."

With a swift motion, Tony lunged at Adrian again. Adrian slashes his sword at Tony's neck but Tony under the sword sends a powerful punch to Adrian's stomach.

-Punch!

-Baam!

"Aghha!"

Adrian's body was already in pain but with this punch, his body was screaming inwardly.

Adrian staggered and lost his footing for a moment, Tony took advantage of that.

A black colour mana started to gather around Tony's leg, Tony raised his right leg and hit Adrian in the chest again sending him flying back to where Lucas and the rest of his classmates were.

A moment before Tony kicked, Adrian noticed the black mana around Tony's leg and Adrian knew that Tony had forsaken his humanity.

Tony has become a Fallen Human.

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SLAM—!!!

As I turned my head back towards where Adrian was fighting, something came flying in my direction and slammed against me.

The force of the impact sent me tumbling to the ground, my limbs flailing wildly as I desperately tried to steady myself.

"Arghhh!" With a pained groan, I summoned the strength to rise to my feet and scanned the area for the object that had collided with me.

But then I heard panting and saw Adrian. It turns out he was the one who slammed into me.

"Adrian?" I frowned, still feeling the ache from the collision.

"S-Sorry," Adrian gasped, stretching out his hand.

I nodded and turned my head to the other main cast.

Aric was slightly bruised but was fine for most of the part. Lyra was on her knees, catching her breath, after casting her buff magic her mana should be very low by now.

Isabella, Emma and Isabell were both relatively fine but exhausted nonetheless.

Elera and Sunny were both injured, albeit not gravely.

And I – Well, every fibre of my body was aching. I wasn't in the worst shape, but not in the best either.

It's pretty clear to me that we are in no condition to take on Tony right now, especially with some cadets and civilians still under his mind-control spell.

"Everyone!" I shouted, trying to make myself heard over the chaos. "I know all this must be confusing, but you were all under this woman's mind control! Now that she is dead, you're all back to normal! Run to the exit and escape this mansion as fast as you can since there is now a Fallen Human Among us.

My words jolted everyone into confusion, and they started whipping their heads around to take in the situation.

When their eyes fell on Tony, enveloped in a dark aura, approaching them, panic set in, and they began running towards the western exit.

The ground shook under our feet as the panicked crowd rushed past us, I know that outside is a danger of an S-rank dungeon gate but that danger is not within the City, it's outside of the City and Heros are currently working together to close the dungeon gate so it's fine if they went out now.

"Do you have any plans?" Adrian asked.

"Why don't we just run like everyone else and get out of here?" I suggested, hoping to find some way out of this mess.

"Look at him," Adrian countered, pointing his chin toward the approaching figure of the Fallen Human. "He's seething with rage. He will do whatever to take his revenge after all the living proof is Tony himself, He turned himself into a Fallen human."

Well, there is a point in what Adrian is saying, Tony will not let us escape no matter what happens.

So the only way to get out of here alive is to kill Tony.

"While we are on that topic, can you fight?"

"Are you understanding me?" I raised an eyebrow, nocking an arrow on the bowstring. "I'm strong, if I was not this strong I would have been dead by long time ago.."

"Fair," Adrian cocked his head slightly and get ready in a fighting position.