Academy's Strongest?

Chapter 5 : Egg

“Whoa!? You found me already!” Lapis jumped over a spear hurled at him.

“Oh s**t!” Stella was already in front og him and kicked him, sending his body through multiple trees as she walked slowly towards him.

“Haaa… f**k I don’t want to use this here, but f**k it!” He clasped his hands, and countless hands materialized from his shadow.

“You’re not running this time?”

“Well, you got my escape route blocked anyway, so I will just kill you and go on my merry way.”

The spear shook violently and pulled itself from the ground. It then lunged at Lapis, and with a chopping motion from his hand, the spear was caught and shattered to pieces.

“Good thing the magic was split beforehand.” He commented as both of his hands were on the ground and the shadow spread, engulfing the entire area of the forest.

“I will make you regret pursuing me alone!” From the shadow, countless hands emerged, destroying the trees, rocks, and grass on contact.

“Who said I was alone?” Stella voice was heard above Lapis, and the moment he looked up, hundreds of arrows made out of light fell from the sky.

“This cannibal sure is hard to kill, right? Stella.” A maid with hair covering her entire face approached Stella, standing in the air by embedding her aura and creating a platform from it.

“Fal, your appearance and magic are still total opposites, huh?”

“What can I do? I was born with this magic, and I love being myself.” She shrouded as her eyes went back to the ground after the assault of arrows descended. A dome of darkness was seen as Fal raised her hand again and brought them down, unleashing a barrage of arrows.

Lapis, within the dome, was waiting. “I just needed five more minutes to unleash this.”

Within his hand was an egg the size of a human fist, and its reddish glow intensified along with the pulse as it began to c***k open.

“Good thing they’re focused on my shield for now.”

“Son of darkness. The lord of death. The primordial son of the creator. I offer my body and mind; descend upon this believer!” The egg then suddenly expanded and swallowed Lapis’s body whole.

The dome of shadow dispersed, and Fal used that moment, unleashing hundreds upon hundreds of light arrows, but the darkness simply swallowed all of the attacks. Lapis snapped his fingers and sent balls of pure darkness towards Stella and Fal.

“…” Fal held out both of her arms, pouring her mana into a barrier while Stella cut off the incoming attacks.

“Hahahahahahahaha!” Lapis laughed hysterically as he lunged toward Fal like lightning. He threw a punch, but it was blocked by Fal’s barrier, and she closed the distance and sent a concentrated blast of light point-blank.

Lapis’s upper body disintegrated, but even so, his leg kick Fal’s breaking through her barier and sending her flying to the ground.

“Ggh!” Lapis body chased her down as she was falling. While falling down she sent dozens of light arrow toward lapis as he dodged all of them and used the arrow as platforms to caught to her.

Lapis stepped on the arrow head and leap as his upper torso instantly regenerated from the damage earlier. He c****d back his left arm as darkness gathered within it and the moment he punch Fal he was stopped by chains of light binding him in place.

“This is my payback for earlier!” She then focused her mana into her fist and punched him back, causing a massive shockwave that swept through the forest. Lapis’s body was held by the chain, unable to move as one after another punches were unleashed.

“Whoa!” Lapis almost wiped her face as the chains were slowly getting contaminated with darkness, and from the ground, darkness formed into a hand and grabbed Fal.

‘I bought enough time, right, Stella?’ She crash-landed on the ground, creating a huge crater.

Lapis, with a wide grin on his face, brought both his hands down as the shadows within the forest surrounded Fal.

“I can’t let you do that.” Stella sword pierced through Lapis’s chest. He backhanded Stella as she dodged and spun around, taking another sword from her weaponry and slashing Lapis’s head off. Stella followed up her attack by summoning spears from her ability and piercing Lapis’s body.

“Fall!” Lapis’s head chanted as Stella was pulled down to the ground by some unknown force.

“@@$!” The shadow rose from the ground, disintegrating anything on contact.

“Stella! What are you doing? Why couldn’t you finish him off?” Fal deployed a multilayer barrier, which protected them from the pressing force.

“Sorry, Fal. I don’t think I can kill him using third-grade weapons.” Stella stretched her body.

“Use the first-grade then, idiot.”

“Well, I can, but I need you to make a covenant with me first.” Stella extended her hand toward Fal.

“Fine, you cautious b***h! I shall accept your covenant!” Fal took her hand, forming a covenant.

“Thanks! Weaponry first-class weapon permission activated.” A blue transparent window panel appeared in front of Stella.

“Offer a price!” A robotic voice replied, and she touched the panel.

“Covenant! I request the vanquisher of evil. The sword of the first knight, Excalibur!” A sword manifested in her hands, glistening in golden light, as golden armour encased Stella’s body.

“Permission granted!”

“Wow! What kind of armour is that?” Fal exclaimed in surprise, shivering at the mana radiating from the armour and weapon, similar to a dragon’s mana.

“Well, it’s not first-class for no reason.” Stella swung her sword in an upward diagonal, releasing a wave of golden aura at Lapis, who extended his hand and intercepted her attack with a wave of shadow.

After both attacks collided, they caused an explosion. Lapis and Stella came face to face as she thrust her sword forward while Lapis deflected the sword and spun around with a backfist.

“Why aren’t you saying? For such a talkative criminal, you sure are quiet right now?” She commented as she blocked his hand and kicked him in the stomach. Following it with a downward s***h as Lapis raised his arm, reinforced with shadows, to block her sword.

For a second, he managed to stop her sword, and shadows from the ground materialized into spears surrounding them. The sword emitted a blinding light as she swung it, cutting his arms and leaving golden flame on the stumps of his arms, stopping the regeneration.

“…” Lapis looked at his burning arms.

Stella thrust her sword at the distracted Lapis; her sword pierced his body and discharged golden flame from her sword, burning Lapis’s whole body. Suddenly lapis charred foot kicked her on chest sending her back.

‘Ugh! What the? His attack went through my armour’

“Fifty percent until the armour’s destruction!” A robotic voice stated within Stella’s mind. The golden flame was swallowed by the shadow, and Lapis emerged from the shadows with all injuries healed and a dark half halo hovering on his head.

“Nourishment!” Lapis muttered, looking at Stella with his mouth drooling saliva.

He dashed towards her with hundreds of shadow spears sent her way, which she decimated with one aura s***h. Stella and Lapis clashed, sending shockwaves across the forest as Fal watched the fight, but the only thing she could see was the exploding lights in the sky.

“They’re too fast for me to see.” Fal pressed both her hands together and extended them forward, creating an intricate magic circle, and slammed both her hands on the ground, deploying a giant dome of light encasing Stella and Lapis.

“Warden of light. Lend me your chains and restraint, my enemy. Chains of eternity!” Within the dome, chains manifested and lunged at Lapis as he tried to summon shadows, but the dome limited his power while Stella sent out multiple slashes of aura at the same time.

“Thanks! Fal.”

“Yeah. Yeah. You’re welcome!”

Fal then chanted her magic and formed her magic circle. “The judge of the Court of Eden. The one who favors fairness and justice. I request your scales!”

In front of her, a golden scale appeared, and she put her mana on the one with the white flames, making it burn more fiercely and tilting the balance.

“Confiscation!” Lapis suddenly stopped moving as the white in the form of a hand stabbed through his body and took an egg from his chest.

“Huh? That wrenched! I will kill you!” He screamed in anger and fused his shadows into one giant spear, sending it at Fal, who was on the ground on one knee, bleeding from her nose.

“Did you forget about me!” Stella was already behind Lapis and, with a combination of horizontal and vertical slashes, finished it off with a thrust. A golden cross formed from her attack as Lapis’s body split into pieces.

“Hahahahaha! Damn it! I bring destruction to my enemies! Death!” His body exploded with pure darkness, swallowing all of the surrounding area within the dome.

Stella landed in front of Fal and, with all of her strength unleashed, made an upward s***h cutting through the explosion.

“Fal! Drop the magic dome!” But Fal instead maintained the dome, containing the explosion within the dome. She vision was fading looking at Stella back as she fell down on the ground.