[Island]
The consequence from that earlier vampire attack came quickly. In just a matter of few hours after the attack, all the other five academies came into agreement to work together into fully eliminating the vampire race in this island. It's expected that all 1000+ students would join the attack.
Naturally the five academies namely Orbium, Ascalon, Horoscious, Elludkal, and Ballad Academy students agreed to join the fight bringing a total of 1,069 students in the plan. However the 136 students of Gritonnia Academy refused to partake due to poor conditions.
Of course the rest of the academies understood why the Gritonnia Academy students refused to join, after all they did took a huge hit during the Nighy and for somewhat a majority of them are still fatigue from being tense all night for any vampire attacks. They were not in a tip top shape to fight at all, especially since Shun is also fatigue from stress.
But despite the majority of the students in the five academies understanding the stance that the students from gritonnia academy had taken, there were still some students who out up malicious and false statements which somehow soured the mood from other students who didn't know anything.
Reasons such as the Gritonnia Academy students think highly of themselves, or they plan to backstab all of them, other are disgusted at the thought of cooperating with the other academics.
As this false statement grew, it naturally spreads to their respected camps which soon reached the ears of the students who represents their own schools. In just a matter of few efforts, those rumors were quelled as the student leaders explained the situation.
But even if the situation was explained, there were still dissatisfaction among them.
Not long after all the students from 5 different academies were formed, as they all marched towards the area where the attack had happened. Since the attack had happened in such a place, then perhaps the entrance to their lair would be near that specific area.
Some monster experts among them even deduced that wounded beast naturally doesn't hunt far from their home when injured. So if they wanted to hunt, they usually hunt around or near their territory. If such logic was true for the vampires, then their hideout must be nearby.
Not long after some students who specializes in espionage had returned and informed them of a cave at the size of a small cart to be present in the east from their location.
Following the students words, they soon arrived at the small opening for the cave, as Lorius used some kind of detection magic in order to confirm whether the vampires reside in such area.
However as he continues to widen his search, he realized just how deep the cave is which soon revealed a huge underground area where shapes like castle type buildings exist. Inside this buildings numerous vampires reside which shock him by its sheer numbers.
Based on his scan the number of vampires inside the cave had already reached about 30,000. Its Numbers are far incomparison to the number of vampires that attacked the Gritonnia Academy students.
From that Lorius couldn't help but hide his smile as he got excited for the battle ahead.
In that moment while he carelessly scanned the area, Vesper suddenly felt his presence as their mana made contact causing a slight friction to sting both of their consciousness. In that moment both sides had noticed each other. However there was also one crucial thing he had realized when he expanded his search and that was a huge number of vampires totalling about 200+ had surrounded them, which caused for attention.
Before anyone could react, one of the students got eliminated causing a pillar of light to appear, and warning everyone of the enemy around them. In that moment chaos ensue in the group as 200 vampires attacked the army of Academy students.
What's more due to Vesper noticing the Academy students above ground, he then sent the hounds(a vampire dog) to attack the surface, causing Lorius to react in surprise, as he didn't expect that the voices underground would actually sent some creatures to deal with them when their initial group of vampires had already attacked them on the surface.
With that in order to ensure that they won't get pincered by the enemy, Lorius faced the hounds alone as he expends his mana to create multiple magic circle ready for activation.
With that the sound of battle ensue.
Meanwhile as the raid was finally starting, Shun together with Sephiria, Rosalyn, Goran, and Sonia, watched the battle atvthe top of the waterfall, and saw that the raid had begun when the first death of a student had happened.
From there each of them expressed their own opinion as they watched the battle unfold.
"So the battle has begun, are you sure it's alright to nor join the raid? I mean those bastard do owe us from their attack" Asked by Goran
"My decision is right, we're in no condition to fight, especially when Shun looks like he has been drained of his stamina... most of us haven't recovered our strength yet so if we had joined the raid, that would just be asking for all of us to die" answered by Rosalyn
"Rosalyn's right! Incomparison to us who needed rest, the vampires have unlimited stamina, giving them the edge of always ready to fight"
"Well we won't have to worry about then you know... I mean both Lorius and Akito are participating in this fight and as we all know... both of them are monsters in their own right... in fact I feel like they're stronger than Shun which begs the question, how did you even win against them anyway?" Asked out by Sonia as she looked at Shun
"I don't know? Maybe plot?" Answred by Shun
"What?"
"You wouldn't understand"
As both Shun and Sonia continues to bicker at each other, more pillar of light arose from the ground, as students who let their guard down fell one after another.
The battle lasted for about thirty minutes but in that time frame they had lost about 30 students. Such a record was worse than they expected, especially since they haven't fought the main army yet. But despite all that Lorius had killed all the hounds all by himself and prevented them from reaching the students.
With that under Lorius lead, they delved in deeper into the cave.