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Chapter 128: Reason for Berserk

Being surrounded by students with red eyes, holding folding chairs, and forks with the intention to hurt people are really sinister. If not for Raigaki putting down the barrier fast, we would have been easily knocked out. It was intended as a sneak attack on us since the three of us; Yaya, Godou, and I are all sitting in the three chair table while Raigaki is sitting in front of us. Seeing Raigaki as a mute, they have thought that we won't be able to understand what was Raigaki is going to say since he has not even made any kind of sign language, communication will be tough. 

But it backfired when Yaya undo the spell she put on Raigaki, erecting a barrier in the last second before the assault of the berserk students hit us. Now, we are besieged by enraged students.

Raigaki's barrier is not as strong as the Domain of Balmung that can take on an extreme amount of blows from enemies since it starts to collapse after a few hits from a folding chair, forks, and fists of the students but it was clear that we can't just stay inside the barrier forever, we have to deal with it.

Before the barrier fall, I immediately activated the Mirror World. Based on the number of students attacking us, it was more like the number of students in one class in a typical classroom. This means there is a big chance the civilian's witness this spectacle once they enter the cafereria.

"Mirror World!"

The surroundings started to break like the mirror immediately.

"Good thinking Kazuma! I never expected I forgot to cast that earlier!" God said.

"Idiot, you are just trying to rush in a fight without thinking about the witnesses. We can't let this small scale event to cause a riot from the civilians. We can just handle this nicely!" Yaya said.

"Hehe, my bad. I am just too excited."

"Guys, please be ready, the barrier will collapse any second now. I will not be able to maintain it materialized!" Raigaki said.

Hearing that, everyone returned to battle stance as we prepare to attack too.

"Ignition!"

Flames start to erupt on my fist. For faster activation of my magic, I decided to say Ignition to activate my magic skills. These flames on my fist might burn a lot to these guys but we have no choice. The energy they are releasing is the same vibe as the miasma released when I was purifying the Skull Knuckle, just that it is more bearable and less tainted than the ones being released by my weapon. Which means they are more equal to actual mages.

As soon as the barrier that Raigaki erected collapsed and fell to pieces, the students immediately rush to our position, readying all of their arsenals to us.

"Earth Wall!" Godou punched the ground and a wall made of earth appeared on the tiles, knocking all of the students attacking who is standing where the wall emerged.

The others just dodged it and attack us with frantic energy. Even a girl who looked so delicate looking is now wielding a folding chair and swings it like a wrestler on my face. Before it can connect to my face, I blocked it using my elbow and punched her gut with enough force to knock her out without damaging her organs.

BANG!

When I got into the better footing, I crouched and touched the tiles to cast another spell. It was a spell I got when the inheritance of Suzaku was given to me. The berserk students were like zombies ready for the kill as they rush towards my location and swinging their weapons to me. As the right timing arrived, my hands immediately moved and applied pressure to the ground, activating a spell I already stored beforehand before activating.

"Flame Shockwave!"

BOOM!

A circular pressure appeared on my surroundings and caused all the students rushing in for the kill knocked out. The pressure was too strong that the tiles in the cafeteria are now destroyed. I made sure they flock together so that I can clear them all in one go. My side was done with the berserk students. The others also managed to defend their ground too, which resulted in the students who berserk to end up on the floor unconscious. It was quick but it was also troublesome. If everywhere in the school is like that, innocent individuals will be in constant danger.

All of the students are unconscious and injured but they are not in grave danger after we didn't hold back to them. The dark energy that they are exuding is also gone from their body which means the thing that is affecting them has finally been removed after they were knocked out.

"Check these guys out if they are wearing those red strings on their pinky fingers. Going berserk like that might be the cause of the red strings. But if that was the case, why did they go berserk? Did anyone ever did the ritual while we are still eating?" Yaya crouched and checked the pinky finger on one of the collapsed female students.

There was indeed a string currently on their pinky finger but it was awfully red. Almost every one of them is too red. More similar to Crimson Thread. I am a bit curious if it was really this red or another thing so I untie the string from one of the victims and sniff its smell. I was then surprised to smell something awful. The string smelled like stagnant blood.

"Guys looks like they have used the bloody crimson thread. The smell is so bad, that I can immediately tell it was stagnant blood," I said,

"Crimson Thread!? Do these guys are actually trying to do the original ritual for real?!" Godou freaked out.

"Looks like it. And from the looks of it, all of them are using the same kind of thread. And just like what Kazuma said, these Crimson Thread is so smelly that you will have the urge to barf. This isn't just an imitation like what the website of the ritual says. They must have revised it again causing a phenomenon of this scale. This is so dangerous and will put the victims in more danger," Yaya said.

"Can we trace off the enemy using the mana residue using this Crimson Thread? I can sense some leftover power in this crimson thread," I said and presented the Crimson Thread that I have untied earlier.

"It's plausible but it is also dangerous since some dark magic practitioners excel in using dark magic that can counter tracking magic skills. Once we use tracking magic, they can use some trickery that will harm us."

This is not going well. If this continues, the rituals will just continue to manifest and gather victims more.