Science/Magic

Looking up to the sky, Bloed saw several figures flying in the direction of the explosion.

'Demigods!'

Bloed expression turned grave.

He counted four figures flying towards the explosion. That meant at least four demigods!

Moreover, these were just the ones that he saw. He did not know how many demigods more were going towards the site of the explosion.

The fact that so many powerful figures were flying towards the same place made it obvious that something serious happened.

"We are going as well," Bloed said immediately. Behind him, Liu Ying, Aya, Gina, Eres, and Sara who had gone out after hearing the explosion, nodded.

"Stay behind, Gina," Sara said to her sister.

Gina pouted slightly, but she nodded.

"I know, sister. My hero, I'll stay here and use my ability to understand what is happening. If I find something, I'll inform you through the communication device."

"Okay. Sara, you should stay behind as well. Protect Gina in case of an emergency."

Sara hesitated slightly with a reluctant expression, but in the end, she nodded.

Just at that moment, Bloed heard Regina's voice in his head.

[Master, I'm going with you.]

Bloed hesitated briefly before shaking his head.

"It's not necessary. Stay here watching the cameras."

[But master, it could be dangerous!]

"You are right, but…"

Bloed smiled wryly and looked at the fox-eared girl that just walked out of the tower.

"Eve should be enough, don't you think?"

[Master… Ha... Understood.]

Bloed smiled wryly when he heard the reluctant tone in Regina's voice, however, he did not change his decision.

After all, someone needed to stay behind to watch the cameras, and Regina was the most appropriate for that work.

If something happened and they missed it because Regina was away, it would be a great loss.

Eve easily agreed when Bloed asked her if she could take them to the place of the explosion.

The fox girl then waved her hand, creating several invisible mana burbles that enclosed each member of the group. Then, she kicked the ground and flew towards the place of the explosion with the rest of the group flying behind her.

When the group arrived at the place of the explosion, their expressions changed.

Right there, they could see two giant craters caused by two powerful explosions.

The surroundings had been badly damaged, with windows broken and walls destroyed. Several nearby stalls had been completely ruined.

But destruction was not the only thing that Bloed saw. He also saw two dead bodies lying in the two craters. The two bodies were in a pretty bad state. They were so badly burnt that their features were unrecognizable; moreover, the lower part of their bodies had disappeared completely, probably due to the explosion.

Besides them, several injured students were moaning in pain in the surroundings of the craters as healing mages and personal of Academy City tried to help them.

In the middle of this scene, Headmistress Wave was hovering silently in the air, looking towards the two dead people with an ice-cold expression.

Several other demigods were hovering around her, each one of them with similar expressions to Headmistress Wave. Fortunately, none of them seemed too worried.

Eve frowned. She then put Bloed and the others on the ground before flying towards Wave and asking her about the situation.

Wave replied with a dark expression, but unfortunately, Bloed and the others could not hear their conversation.

Thus, they were forced to ask around about what happened here.

Once Bloed heard about it, his expression turned stern.

According to the people in the surroundings, several students tried to stop two people that they had found suspicious.

Nobody thought too much about it then. They just assumed that the students were people in charge of the security for the War of Clubs. In this kind of situation, they would briefly check the identities of the people and everything would be alright after that.

The problem was what happened next.

When the two suspicious people were stopped by the students, they suddenly unleashed several attacks, catching the students off guard.

Fortunately, one of the students was an A-Rank practitioner, and his quick reaction managed to save the other students from suffering grave injuries. Moreover, the commotion attracted several students nearby who surrounded the two suspicious men to subjugate them.

However, something unexpected happened then.

When the two suspects realized that they did not have any chance to escape, they charged towards the students crazily.

Then, they self-destructed!

That was the cause of the two explosions. Two A-Ranks self-detonating at the same time!

The self-destruction of two A-Ranks has enough power to raze an entire street of the city to the ground. It was enough to cause a grave tragedy.

Fortunately, the worst did not happen this time.

At the moment when the two A-Rank self-destructed, Headmistress Wave noticed the situation and teleported over; immediately using her abilities to forcibly stop their self-destruction.

Thanks to that, the damage caused was relatively low, and despite several students suffering injuries, nothing serious happened.

'Even so, it doesn't mean that the situation is good.' Bloed thought to himself when he finished hearing the story.

Just a few days ago, Headmistress Wave had released a private task to several clubs, asking them to help her to catch some criminals in the city.

Bloed was almost certain that the two people that self-destructed here were two of these criminals.

However, these criminals did not hesitate to self-destruct when they were about to be caught.

If not for the quick intervention of the headmistress, several students could have died!

In other words, what was before a relatively difficult mission had now turned into a very dangerous task!

Bloed frowned and looked at the two dead 'people' in the center of the craters. 'How troublesome...'

But at that moment, he noticed Aya looking at the two dead bodies with a frown.

Aya twitched her nose twice, as though sniffing something. Then, her gaze quickly moved away from the two bodies, towards one of the people in the crowd.

Bloed's expression changed immediately.

"Aya, no!"

However, the cat girl had already moved.

With a dagger in each hand, the cat girl moved through the shadows, appearing behind the man and stabbing one dagger towards his waist and another towards his back.

"… Don't move." Aya said with a deadpan voice, surprising the man.

But then, the man's eyes glowed with a light of craziness.

And in the next instant, his mana burst out in a powerful explosion!