'There's 8 of us currently.. And one is a secret killer, this is bad.. I'm getting kind of excited to see outcome of this..' Calea thought while holding out the urge to smile, her lips are shaking, but thankfully she managed to suppress it.
"Enough" Said Scythe out of the blue. "Don't waste anymore time, go outside now."
"Tch.. Fine.." Deon scoffed, while the others nodded.
The students then followed Scythe outside, they were about to do their usual morning routine, and as they walked out of the wooden shack..
"Calea, do you have any clue?" Zayn asked while looking at her.
"Huh?— Ahh, i don't want to think too deeply right now, though if i had to give a blatant answer, i'd say Deon, Endi, or... You." Calea replied, her gaze became tense as her eyes moved to the side to take a peek at Zayn.
"W- what? Why would i be the killer?.." Zayn tried to rebute Calea's claim and convince her his innocence.
"You're quiet, barely talks to anyone, you avoid potential attention, and your strength is one of the weakest here, isn't that the perfect situation to be doing something in secret?" Calea said, she made some pretty good reason as to why Zayn could potentially be the killer using his usual behaviour. "Who knows if you're hiding your powers, you maybe have awakened your aura already, but decided to hide it from us.. And even Scythe."
"T- that's crazy don't you think? I have no reason to kill anybody? S- sure they maybe have done something in the past.. But its not that big of a deal for me to kill them.." Zayn responded, his voice kind of stuttering, he clearly had some fear on his eyes and with everyone infront of him listening to his and Calea's conversation, he was being targeted as the number one suspect.
Although everyone could hear their conversation, no one was actually responding to them at all, the other students except Calea and Zayn kept on walking as if nothing happened, they're just hearing, not responding.
While everyone was arriving at the open field that they've seen daily, something peculiar grabbed their attention, it was a monster, its appearance looks human but with grotesque face and disproportionate parts, its skin painted green like the color of tree leaves, standing at one of the corner of the field, approximately 140cm, was a monster called Goblin.
"Huh? What's that?" Said Seir, he saw the goblin first, then followed by everyone looking at the same direction as him.
"What? That's.. A goblin right?" Hughen was confused with the appearance of the Goblin, for the students, this was the first time they encountered a monster in this forest, despite living for almost a month, they have never once met any of the forest inhabitants, its as if there was a barrier that prevents monster from approaching this place.
The goblin was just standing there clueless, it doesn't seem to have seen everyone from the other corner yet, its head turning left and right as if its searching for something or some way out.
Kiekk?...
"Did one of the outpost guard got killed?" Scythe uttered to himself, his voice quiet almost couldn't be heard by the students.
'Outpost Guard?' Calea thought, she was able to pick up Scythe's words thanks to enhanced hearing from her awakening.
Ki.. Kiek!?
KIEKK!!!
The goblin finally saw Scythe and everyone else, it knew that it was all alone, seeing a group of humans that looks rather strong especially with Scythe's appearance, caused the goblin to jolt from the shock, it may be a monster and stupid, but not that stupid to kill itself.
The goblin tries to run away, it was just about to take its first step, when suddenly..
SWOOSH!
THWACK!!
After gathering his strength to his legs, Scythe dashed towards the goblin, as soon as his body moved, a strong wind followed behind him, the air pressure was strong enough to make a wind that almost rip the student's clothes apart. Within the blink of an eye, Scythe arrived infront of the goblin and grabbed its head with his hand.
"Disgusting." He said before crushing the goblin's head into hundreds of pieces, scattering its brain matter and blood all over the field.
"SO FAST!" Deon reacted a little too late, his eyes couldn't keep up with Scythe's acceleration speed.
"T- that's.. Him dashing!? I couldn't even see it.. It's like he teleported!" Seir also shocked from seeing it, his jaw struggle to stay in place.
While many people dropped their jaw in disbelief, Calea and Carsel was the only one who managed to stay on their ground and not show any reaction, instead they were both angry.
'What the fuck... What's with that speed, even i who have aura couldn't see him.. How do i kill that bastard!?..' Calea said to herself, she bit her nail repeatedly, trying to come up with a plan in the future. 'That shitty instructor haven't showed all of his strength yet.. He could still be hiding something..'
On the other hand, Carsel also had a similar thought with Calea..
'Fuck, even with my enhanced sense, i still couldn't keep up with him, just how strong is he!?' Carsel thought, clicking his tongue in frustration. 'Are you saying that all of the instructors also have the same power as him!? Shit.. Just what is this place, where do these people come from, i never heard of them before.. Their strength couldn't just appear in one day, did they trained at a secret place? Isolated from the world, just like this one?..'
RUMBLE!
RUMBLEE!!
It was a sudden premonition, everyone felt like something was wrong, and then it happened. The ground shook violently, an earthquake was raging beneath them, tearing everything apart as the wooden shack behind them in the distance collapses on itself, it was destroyed and only debris were left from it.
"W- WHAT!? HEY, WHAT'S HAPPENING!?" Kalios screamed, his body swayed in every direction, he was having a hard time keeping his balance.
But it wasn't just him, everyone else also struggled to keep their body straight as the earthquake was way stronger than they expected.
"This— Is not a normal earthquake.." Said Scythe, he was the only person who somehow still keeping a stable body, although he's still swinging a little bit.
As everyone was still occupied with how to survive and not fall, Calea looked up into the sky, and there far in the horizon, beyond the countless trees infront of her, was a giant humanoid rock golem that emerged from the ground.
'That's!.. A Giant Golem!? How did it managed to awaken!?' Calea thought, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.