How To Survive A Calamity

Chapter 151 True Fear [2]

"What is happening...?" Trise sharply inhaled, her voice sounding like a high pitched, raspy squeal.

-Thud.

She felt the blunt touch and rough texture of the wall against her back and tensed her whole body as her eyes warily darted around.

Her knuckle turned white as her fingers strongly wrapped around the hilt of her rapier and cold sweat trickled down the sides of her face and forehead.

-Thud!

In front of her, the figure of a young man fell unconscious to her feet against the ground. He was donned in the same academy uniform of Aegis, a fellow cadet just like her.

But he had also just tried to kill her.

"Are you okay?" Alex appeared in front of her, his blue eyes were ghostly and deep as they stared at her seriously.

He had the pummel of his long sword raised, which he had used to incapacitate the male cadet lying unconscious against the ground.

Trise controlled her rough breathing and looked down at the unfamiliar male cadet with her sword trembling in her hands.

'That's the third one.'

The third person who had tried to kill her in the last couple of minutes.

"Alex, Trise. We need to pull ourselves together, more might be coming." A handsome blonde boy said as he arrived with a drawn sword.

Chelsea was right behind Xavier gripping her spear tightly.

"Do you think it's that mind attack again that's making other cadets ooose control and rampage like that?" She said.

The four's survival ever since they were transported into the dark, mysterious Labyrinthine structure had been constantly hanging in balance. Now even other cadets were trying to kill them.

Trise looked down at the unconscious male cadet at her feet. His eyes were rolled hack with streams of red blood rolling down his face, and his mouth was filled with pale white and yellow foam.

He had a contorted expression that reflected untold anguish and sorrow, yet that same person had ruthlessly raised his sword at her.

At that time, Trise had been frozen, petrified in place by fear and confusion.

If it weren't for Alex who was quick witted and sharp enough to react, she would have most likely already been cut down.

It was the same as the two other times.

Monsters and sinister traps were no longer the only thing they had to be worried about.

"If this is happening, I'm beginning to seriously worry about the others. I wonder if Victor is doing fine?" With a dreary sigh, Chelsea let a fragment of her thought slip out loud.

Alexander half turned abd raised a brow.

"Victor?"

"Huh?"

"As in Victor Bright?" He said again.

"Yes. He's a member of our team, along with Deandra the class representative, and some other guy named Don."

Xavier who was looking elsewhere at that moment paused and side glanced at their conversation.

Trise's eyes flickered as she snapped back to reality, too.

"I'm not sure about that deadbeat, but the Princess is definitely doing much better than us," she retorted and wraised her wrist to show her bracelet.

"Look how much our points have risen in the last eight hours."

At the very least, Chelsea and Trise found small solace in their teammates being alive since the points in the bracelet had been increasingly rising over the last hours.

It was a strange thing. Chelsea was particularly unsure of whether to feel relief or worry at that.

Having that much point meant killing just as much monsters... right?

'Are those guys really even doing much better than we?' she found herself seriously doubting internally.

In the first place, aside from the one time unexpected encounter with king of the dessert sand worm, they hadn't faced any other particularly threatening situations on that level.

Although it was deeply unsettling that they had to fight against cadets who had lost their minds and mercilessly wanted their lives.

There was barely any moment of rest or recuperation in the labyrinth, and the same was definitely true for Deandra, Don and Victor, perhaps even more so.

After closely examining one of the incapacitated cadets on the ground, Xavier rose to his feet with a soft smile on his face and turned.

"You think Deandra is responsible for all that?"

Trise shot him a look from next to Alex and nodded.

"The princess is ranked second for a reason." She raised her chin and said pridefully for another other than herself.

"Hmm. I see."

Xavier merely tilted his head strangely and turned to Alex.

Before he could say anything else, however, Xavier stopped and his nerves tensed.

"Someone's coming."

The weight of his unsheathed sword grew heavier in his hand as his eyes darted towards a direction.

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Alexander, too was immediately on guard as he stepped forward next to the blonde Xavier.

Then at the same time, they heard a distinct screeching sound as if something sharp and edeged was being dragged across the rough terrain of the ground.

-Screeech! -Screeech.

It was a low, unsettling sound accompanied by the tapping of feet.

They heard the sound of lithe footsteps approach from withing the darkness.

Alexander's senses tingled.

It was too lithe to be a monster. Slowly the outlined figure of a person emerged from the darkness.

-Step -Step

The soft tapping of footsteps became even more pronounced the closer the figure came, the passageway vibrating with the grating screeches.

Soon, the figure of a young man came into full view.

He took a step forward, emerging into the small light where the darkness was vacant, for Xavier, Alex, Chelsea and Trise to see.

It was a young man, a youth not much older than 17 or 18. He had thick, messy black wavy hair that was like darkness combed backwards roughly against his head. Black strands of short hair fell across the side of his face, cradling his profile like rough side bangs.

He had deep, inky black eyes that stared murkily, casting a flat and deadpan gaze.

The black haired young man was draped in a black misshapen outfit from head to toe that moved strangely. His skin was pale and white and the fabric of his outfit moved almost illusionarily.

Behind him, he was pulling something along with him with one hand. Something the others couldn't quite see clearly yet.

And in front of him, he held a strange black book that was fluttered open in his hand.

As soon as the young man appeared, he cast a deadpan gaze across everyone present.

The four cadets tensed and froze.

Trise held her breath and gulped, while Xavier had his eyes narrow warily as he scanned the new guest.

This person...

He wasn't wearing the Academy's uniform.