A series of scenes flashed suddenly in Sephiram's head as he couldn't take the pain further.
A scene of battle between two armies, one clad in white uniform and the other in black, clashing in an ongoing war. 'What?'
Corpses of fallen soldiers on both sides scattered throughout the battlefield. 'Why?'
Vampires march through a large castle, while the sky is red in smoke and fire. 'No.'
A bloodied flag is the crest of three angels: two on both sides playing trumpets while the center is carrying a bouquet of white and purple lilies, forming the fleur de Lis; lying on the ground. 'No.'
A man with dirty blond hair looked at him with lust in his eyes as he licked his lips in seduction, fangs showed...' Who?'
Then another scene, this time in daylight with another man with ashy blond hair who is sitting under a huge tree, with a smile on his face...' Ci-'
The pain in his head suddenly stopped.
"Sephiram!" Sasha called him out while approaching him. "Are you okay?"
Sephiram grabs his weapon while standing up and gripping its handle tighter. "I'm fine," he said in a monotone voice. He lifts his face and looks at the General Vampire, eyes void of life and a blank look on his face.
Suddenly, he leaped towards the vampires who were now taking formation to protect their general and performed a series of slashes while dashing towards the general. The unfortunate vampires are sliced into pieces, making them hardly recognizable.
Sasha saw it with her own eyes. 'What on earth is that strength?' she thought as Sephiram dodged the attacking vampires and killed them in an unfathomable speed. 'There is no way an ordinary person can kill this many!'
Another horde of vampires is now approaching Sephiram. He gazed at the approaching vampires and began to chant a spell. A magic circle appeared beneath his feet.
"Inferno", a pillar of fire suddenly engulfs the entire army, which shocks not only Sasha but his other classmates further.
"A-rank Fire Magic?" Mark exclaimed, jaw agape. "How on earth can Seph cast those?!"
"Does his family have those?" Marcus asked.
"They are only a normal family aside from his big bro who is above average when it comes to magic, duh! Even he doesn't know that he has high-level magic under his sleeve!" Ian answered in shock.
*
-Training Room-
"Sir! Davis' status level is off the charts!" One of the staff exclaimed that Sephiram's overall chart suddenly increased and it reached a maximum. "At this point, he will destroy the training room within an hour!"
"On top of that, he has displayed an unlimited amount of mana!" Another member of staff reported that he checked his mana chart, which is also increasing in number. "No normal person can do that, let alone that amount of mana."
"Shit." Westeria cursed under his breath. 'This is bad, if this continues, the entire room will be on fire.' He thought that he decided to abort the mission. "Vidal, press the abort mission now!" He ordered through the speaker.
*
-Training field-
Sephiram already clashed with the General Vampire. The creature blocked his attacks with his sword, but Sephiram leaped behind him and attacked him from behind, but the creature deflected it.
Sasha received the orders from their instructor. "Professor, we can't do that!"
'What on earth did you mean?!' Westeria exclaimed.
"The abort mission button has been turned off!"
"Hey!" Lena exclaimed as she pressed the abandon mission button multiple times. "The button isn't working."
'Hang on! I'll check with the staff!" Westeria ended the call, and the students were struggling against the reinforcements as Sephiram continued his battle with the Vampire.
*
-Training room-
"Do something about this!" Westeria instructed the staff. "Make sure that we abandon this training in an instant!"
"Yes sir!" The staff are now working rounds and the hurried typing of the keyboard can be heard. He is looking at the monitor in a panic that he didn't notice that the door was automatically opened, and two instructors entered the room. One is a red-haired man in his thirties with tired yellow eyes with his instructor uniform unbuttoned on the upper chest while the other is a man in his twenties with slick black hair and wears glasses. Unlike the previous one, he was wearing his instructor uniform correctly.
"Yo, Richard!" The red one greeted Westeria. "I never thought that you were in charge of the-" he cut off when he saw the monitor showing Sephiram unleashing several slashes toward the General Vampire at an impossible speed and strength. "Holy cow, Rics! What kind of student do you have here?!"
"We don't have those types of students in our respective classes." The black-haired one said adjusting his glasses as he saw the battle. "Something like that can have a minimal casualty in a real battlefield."
"Oh great." Westeria finally noticed the two instructors. "Why are the instructors of both Class Beta and Class Charlie respectively doing here in this training room?!" he irately asked.
"We want to say hello." The red-haired man responded. "But it seems like you have a problem there." He continued as he saw the staff working on the solution.
"The abort mission button isn't working." He answered.
"What?"
"Weird. It did work in our class before."
"Not today," Westeria said, and he looked at the monitor. "We need to do something before the entire room will be on fire!"
"Hey! So that's why we smelled something burning on the way here!"
*
-Training field-
Sephiram cast a series of fireballs on the Vampire which deflected with his shield.
"Tch!" Sephiram was now irritated and saw another reinforcement to the vampires' side, marching towards him at full speed. He cast a mighty wind spell to slice the approaching army, screams of pain can be heard from them.
Once the army had been dealt with, he saw the Vampire General forming a battle stance.
"Decimate." He said as he reached out his hand again to chant another spell.
"Oh no!" Lena exclaimed as she saw Sephiram begin to chant a spell. "Mayday! We gotta run!"
"What?" Fred reacted as he and others ran for their safety.
The entire class withdraws from the battlefield while killing the vampires blocking their path. Mina turned to Sephiram one last time before he finished his spell.
"Holy Judgement."
As on cue, a bright light suddenly appears in the sky, accompanying the sound of trumpets. A magic circle appeared beneath the Vampire General and before he knew it, holy chains came out of the magic circle binding the creature. The creature struggled to break free when holy lances began to spurt out of the magic circle, impaling him. The vampire shrieked in pain as the lances impaled him and the chains bound him further.
The bright light descends from the sky like a single small light but when it reaches the captured vampire, it morphs into a pillar of light, engulfing the creature. Sephiram laid his hand down, satisfied with the result.
"What is that?" Fred asked his classmates after he saw the Vampire General was destroyed in the pillar of light.
"Even us doesn't know that he has that kind of magic!" Mark answered.
"Impossible!" Leon exclaimed. "Holy magic is considered as S-rank magic. How can he produce such a high level of magic?!"
'Alert! Alert! Training Area is under red alert! All personnel must evacuate immediately!' The students jolted as the system PA suddenly announced they witnessed the battlefield was reverted to the training room, which is now reduced to a mess, with slashes imprinted on the walls, cratered floors, electricity sparks throughout the whole room, and fire spreading out.
The water sprinkler suddenly turned on to douse the fire. The entire class was now soaking wet.
*
The red-haired instructor whistled in awe. "Sheesh, never thought that we have a future SS-rank soldier here."
"I think this will serve as a motivation to my class." The black-haired instructor said.
"Huh?" The red-haired one looked at his companion in confusion. "You are still competitive as always, Claus!"
"You're the slack one here, Axiom," Claus said coldly.
"Emergency button, success." One of the staff declared, forehead sweating due to the situation. On her hand is the emergency button which she pressed to force abort the training.
"Good job, Now I can check on the students. Also, call Doctor Kyle immediately!" Westeria ordered as he went towards the door connected to the Training Area.
"Yes, sir!"
*
"Seph!" Mina called out to Sephiram as she took off her VR gear and dropped her weapon while running towards him. The rest of the class follows suit. "Are you okay?"
Sephiram stood still, VR gear still intact. He tried to breathe normally but only produced a coarse breath instead. The grip of his rapier loosened as it fell out to the floor.
He also falls without him knowing.
"Davis!" Before Westeria reached him, Sephiram passed out.