The system prompt was just the cherry on top.
Everything about that man was irking me. Nothing should be able to exist without flaws, but this bastard dares to be real, in front of me?
The sheer level of repulsion was enough to make me want to destroy that being.
But just as I was sprinting towards the Spawn of Correction, the 12 blobs came to life forming monsters that even I could see were made to counter each of the heirs.
At the same time, it seemed the 12 youngsters were freed from their paralysis.
[Pretender]: "don't fight the one that will come to you! Switch targets in between!"
While I shouted my order that hopefully reached them, I felt my illusion starting to come undone and I knew the bastard was coming to me.
"You need to be corrected."
That's all the bastard said and swung a longsword right at my throat.
I parried with the jian easily, but it was clear.
He has a stronger body. My illusion don't work.
I started moving with the same errancy I was used to and noticed the Correction monster was having difficulties following me up. But that was still not enough. He could simply overpower me.
Every wound I made, he corrected, every spell was useless and I had also passed hours fighting. This was not going to be easy.
Beside my fight with the spawn of correction, the heirs and their teams were fighting against the 12 monster from beyond. But at least it seemed they were able to hear my order.
Seraph that was originally going to fight against what looked like a succubus, changed with Yom who was about to fight against what looked like a mimic since the moment Yom left his shape changed into that of Seraph, but clearly there was something missing.
And so did all the other heirs, Selan with Auriel, Juste with Lyss so on and so forth, the only problem was actually Rovan, Caelum and me.
"Crow let's exchange!" -Caelum
"No, switch with Rovan, this bastard is mine!!!"
I couldn't hear reason, the bastard was mine.
If illusions don't work…
I also had some basic spells from the house of Disorder, after all I needed some kind of alibi.
"You might be stronger than me in body, but what about in magic? [Drunken equilibrium]"
The spawn wavered for just a second before he was able to get back to his bearing, but that in itself was enough for me to take action.
I silently casted a coating of [decay] on my blade and cut his arm clean.
Arm that immediately found its way into my inventory, like hell I would leave such prime samples out and about.
The decayed wound didn't last long, but it was enough for me to notice a glint of emotion passing through is eyes and if there was something I knew, it was that emotions were not perfection, they were usually the cause behind mistakes.
At the moment he was focused and trying to correct his arm, a sudden pain erupted in my neck.
One of my doppelgängers had killed himself to give me precious informations I couldn't relay yet.
I decided to dismiss them all, I needed all my mana for now.
Unluckily, that gave time to the spawn of correction to recreate his arm but I was done fighting with blades.
"It seems you are not really perfect, how could you show emotions?"
I started giggling, if he could feel pain, I surely could feel anger and I was proved correctly.
"Foolish high human, give back my flesh, you aren't worthy."
I didn't answer and threw a mana bullet at the bastard.
Again, a flicker of emotion was quickly suppressed.
Beautiful, his reactions are beautiful.
The feeling of creating the chance for a "perfect being" to make mistakes was exhilarating, I couldn't stop my laughter.
That too was probably getting on his nerves granting my bullet the window of opportunity to pierce his thigh.
"Stop laughing high human! I WILL CORRECT YOU!"
"Yeah, sure! Hahahaha!!"
I fired another bullet, this time I purposely aimed for his sword.
Why not grant him the illusion of reaction without actual illusion?
In the meantime, I was actually buying time for at least Lyss to finish his fight.
I didn't know what kind of conspiracy was behind this attack, nor did I care, but if I could create the best environment for that creature to commit mistakes, I would use everything.
The monster on the other hand, emboldened by "his" reaction to my mana bullet, started to try and close the distance between us. I on the other hand, wasn't even trying to hold back my laughter and started getting closer myself, my bizarre dance exclusively focused on evading his strikes from unthinkable positions was also slowly getting on his nerves.
I could see every thing.
The pupils constricting, the blood vessels expanding, muscles twitching…
I was in a state of ecstasy. And it showed. Worsening the spawn of correction situation.
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Even while fighting, I couldn't keep my eyes off of Crow. There was nothing impure in my head, but honest doubts about him started to pool in me.
Even if we all felt paralysed, he didn't show any reaction, instead he sprang to action trying his best to save us from the creation of beyonder beasts with runes opposing those of the main houses.
These beast could only copy and corrupt runes from Walkers, that's why generally all those who possessed the main runes were forbidden from going to war without being a Runner.
Yet none of the beasts reacted to him, sure, Yom was here and his blood was definitely purer, but then that Beyondspawn appeared to block him preventing him from taking action.
That's when I knew we were fucked.
Those human like creatures were basically immune to all spells, only blades and superior magic worked on them and Crow was neither an archmage, nor even a beginner at sword play.
I was just praying he could resist until we were unfrozen and then switch with me.
So imagine how surprised I was when the unthinkable started happening.
Crow was able to go against the Beyondspawn with relative ease, his bizarre dance was working wonder agains that bastard and when we were finally freed, the first thing that happened was his weird sound magic hitting me, ordering to switch partners in between us, but when I asked to switch with him…
"HE'S MINE!!!"
Even from his voice alone I could feel the pure joy and happiness he was feeling fighting that thing.
Yet I couldn't put a finger on why he was feeling this way.
I couldn't even hear what they were talking about, he was continuously using his spell to prevent people from listening on them.
Then it happened, he was able to cut his arm, but at the same time his hands went to his neck in clear pain.
"What's going on?!"
"Don't worry about him! He's safe!"
Rovan's voice brought me back to reality, the doubt of his hurting still there, but now I needed to fight this fucking priest in front of me.
The beyonder beast that was originated from Rovan was a fucking priest like entity that negated all acts of violence. Rovan could at least hit the boulder like golem that originated from me. But those that were faring worse than anybody else were Auriel and Selan, they stupidly swapped and were fighting a beast resembling themselves in magic and attacks.
"You want peace? I'll give you peace, eternal peace!"
I too was getting fired up by the situation, the other students couldn't even keep up with the sheer pressure coming from the beyonder beasts, I needed to finish my fight fast and go help the others.
That's when I activated my rune resonance at full power.
The wind was quick to answer my call and since the bastard didn't allow for violence, it was time I didn't allow for breath.
The wind rushed to the priest's face, speeding up, faster and faster, obstructing his breathing, at the same time, I was using the wind to accumulate all the dust in the area, every fine debris that was small enough to enter the system of a living being and was pushing everything directly inside the beast through it.
When my foe realised what was happening, it was already to late, I approached so fast riding the wind that the priestlike thing didn't even have time to react in the midst of his suffocation.
"This is mercy, monster."
That's when my twin blades pierced his heart and then severed his head.
That's also when I heard Crow's voice since the beginning of my fight.
"LYSS, 3rd FLOOR, MEN'S BATHROOM, 5th CABIN, THE LOCKET IS THE SEALING ARTEFACT!"
My mind went blank, the beyondspawn eyes bulged and his face was turning red, at the same time, Crow started laughing like a maniac and 9 other Crows run towards the students stealing swords without a care in the world.