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Anna Snapped [1]

Orion raised his leg and...

Bam!

He kicked the panther in the leg.

Crack!

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

Covering his fists in dark green mana, he punched in the sensitive parts of the panther's face.

"Grr!"

The panther angrily swung his claws but Orion dodged it, though there was a deep cut on his cheek now.

"Take this!"

Catching the panther's face with both hands, he raised his knee.

BAM!

"GRROAAA!"

The panther growled in pain as his canines broke from the shock.

"It's over."

Orion placed his left palm on the panther's face.

The beautiful dark green tattoo on his left hand glowed and...

"Njord Wind...

The dark green wind swirled again and the panther's face deformed in sheer fear upon seeing this.

Buzzzzzzz!

"...Air Blast"

BOOM!

The panther leader's head vanished and his body or what was remaining from his body was sent flying away toward the three other slumped panthers.

CRASH!

Growl____!

The only panther who was barely alive died from the impact.

Dust flew everywhere and the ground was deeply hollowed.

Thud!

"Ah...ah...ah...ah"

Orion kneeled on the ground and breathed heavily.

"I-I am really weak compared to before..."

Orion said, remembering about his fight when he was Soren. It was still a blur but he was sure that he was far stronger before.

Then he remembered his last fight as Soren and his eyes turned dark green again.

Bam!

Gritting his teeth, he punched the ground.

"Alfred...Ubbe...BASTARDS!"

BAM!

"Fuc-"

Thud!

Losing consciousness, he fell on the ground.

He was utterly exhausted.

***

Slash!

Spurt!

Blood spattered around as the body of a black panther fell on the ground.

"Ah...ah...ah"

Austin breathed heavily and used his sword to support his body. Blue flames were still shrouding his two-handed sword.

"Wow Austin, it was a nice s***h like in the animes!"

"Yeah, could it be that you wanted to imitate Sasuke ?"

"As if!"

Austin shouted back, incredule.

He would never do the clown against monsters.

"Sigh..."

Thinking that he looked at the dead panther.

The panther looked like a normal panther, 1.5M and the same appearance, but that was it.

The panther was a monster as its speed and strength were several times higher than a normal panther on Earth.

If not that his body had been strengthened from the awakening, he would have died long ago.

Glancing around, he saw all his classmates like him fighting against panthers. As always, they came into the rift to fight against monsters, but there was something different now compared to two months ago.

They were all seriously fighting compared to before.

'Dammit...'

More than two months had passed since Orion's disappearance and they still couldn't find him. They searched throughout the whole capital but to no avail.

It was impossible that he was outside the capital as there was a strong barrier preventing anyone from leaving the capital without passing by the official exit.

At first they thought that he would come back soon, but after two months it was getting hopeless.

Austin, Aura, Elena, Anna and Sienna changed drastically. They were training all day without rest. They felt very weird and it was eating them from the inside.

If not for their friends, they would have already snapped.

Andrew, on the contrary, was extremely happy, rather he wanted Orion to never come back. His marriage with Liana was just a matter of time now.

Jordan and Ryan were feeling strange as they would have preferred to beat up Orion with their own hands.

As for Liana...

"Lord Austin, please I will heal your injuries."

Liana rushed toward Austin to heal him.

Liana was not the same anymore, but she believed firmly that Orion was alive.

She was still doing her job of helping the heroes but there was a gloom on her face.

Austin nodded and let her heal him.

"Solas Fire."

Golden fire emerged from Liana's hand and covered Austin's body.

Austin felt conflicted with her. She rejected Orion in front of everyone, so why was she acting like that?

He was angry at her because if Orion left the palace it was the result of her actions, but looking at her broken expression, he was doubting.

He couldn't bring himself to speak harshly to her.

"Done."

"Thank you."

Liana nodded before looking at another injured person around her.

"Oh! Lady Anna is injured."

Muttering that, she ran toward Anna.

"Oh s**t! W-wai..."

Unfortunately, Austin was too late.

"Lady Anna, let me heal your injuries."

Arriving before Anna and Isabel, Liana asked.

Anna turned around, she was wearing, like the others girls, a leather dress-like armor. She was stunning.

But her mood was not good.

"What...?"

Anna asked in an icy tone.

Liana was surely the last person she wanted to see right now.

"H-Hum, I will heal you so..."

Liana replied hesitantly.

She knew that Anna hated her and accepted that.

But it was just making Anna even more mad.

She glared fiercely at Liana.

"No need."

"B-But your injuries..."

"Ah! What ? Are you worried about me ? That's the biggest joke I have ever heard!"

Anna snapped. It was too much for her.

"Anna calm do..."

"Shut up Isabel! I'm really sick of this world now!"

Isabel lowered her head, she could understand Anna as her friend.

"It has been f*****g two months since Orion disappeared and all you nobles just want us to be strong!"

"What?! Are we just pawns for you ? Orion is surely dead now and you all didn't care at all!"

Anna's words pierced Liana.

"Well, from you it's normal I guess, he was just a tool for you!"

"…!"