Earl stood in front of Jake trying to figure out a way out of this situation, his left arm was still broken, and he knew close to no alchemy spells, of all the people he could face right now, Jake was the worst one he could think of, he needed to escape this and fast, he began scanning the halls to see if he could see any sign of his teammates, but saw none, once again, he sensed the attack, but before he could react, Jake dug his knee into Earl's gut, Earl's face contorted, and he clenched his stomach tightly, before he could even think, a fist came flying at his face, but unlike the other two, Jake gathered compressed wind in his hand before punching him, luckily Earl was able to react in time and threw his left arm to defend against the attack, it was a natural reflex for him, and he hadn't thought about the fact that it was already broken, but due to the sharp pain, most of the attack had landed, and only a small percentage was blocked by his arm, he was sent flying through t
The words of the principal resonated throughout the entire crowd of students, "You are hereby expelled from the Wallace Alchemists Academy'', everyone was dumbfounded by the sudden statement, and didn't know what to make of it, "Expelled?, on our first day?" Henry complained while walking out to the front of the crowd, he then walked up to the principal before continuing, "you can't do that Mr. Glenn, you can't expel all of us", "and why can't I?", Horace said with a smirk on his face, "Well, you can't expel all of us, if you do then.. then...-", "-Then what Henry?" Horace asked, everyone kept quiet as they couldn't find a proper reason for not doing so, "Then your school would have expelled hundreds of students for no viable reason" Ruby said stepping forward, "although you do run this school, expelling all one thousand or so students stood out here will be worse for the school than it is for us", shifting his attention to Ruby, Horace slight smirk left his face as he answered h
Everyone was still a little shook by what had just happened, out of the one thousand students that started the day with them, only a mere hundred remained, they all didn't exactly know how to feel, they hadn't really interacted with most students, and hence didn't exactly have an emotional attachment to any of the expelled students, after all it was only their first day, but regardless it was obvious that many students were already acquainted with one another, it was evident for people like Earl and his friends, and Ralph and his crew, some other students also had acquaintances they got close to, but ultimately chose different decisions, even though most students didn't know each other, just the thought of having a knowing that 900 students decided to leave the school seemed surreal, many began wondering if truly they had made the right choice by choosing to stay at the cost of signing their lives away, all in the name of pursuing their 'dreams', however now was not the time to
Earl, Annie, The strange girl and the other student all stood shook and confused, as well as a little scared, the man that stood in front of them seemed a little sketchy, he hadn't opened his eyes since he appeared out of the Oak tree and hadn't spoken since his invitation to the group, they all stared at him confused and approached him cautiously, "do not fear my younglings, come with me into the sacred tree", the mysterious man then turned around and walked into the alchemy circle, once more the circle glew and just like that he disappeared, everyone suddenly stood in place once more, thinking of what to do next, he had invited them into his 'sacred tree', but he seemed a little too weird, and the students weren't that trusting of a weird person, "what should we do?" Earl asked the group, he looked at Annie hoping to get an answer out of her, but she just raised her shoulders while saying "I don't know", he then shifted his focus to the other girl, "Well, you only live once don't
Everyone was still esthetic after watching Soki's performance, or rather demonstration of Ki, Annie, Alice and Christopher all ran towards Soki, bombarding him with questions, complements, Praise and the likes, but Earl sat with a rather misleading demeanor on his face, one of utter disbelief, fear, anxiety, confusion, he just couldn't believe what he was seeing, no, it's not that he couldn't believe it, he just didn't wanted to, he stared into the blank empty space in front of him, sweat dripped down his face, he palms were shaky, he was panicking, he had been like this ever since a system message popped up in front of his eyes.[Your spiritual energy depletes][Spiritual Energy: 3/50][You must consume life energy in the next 10 minutes] "why now?, why here?" Earl whispered to himself as he silently panicked, he dug his hands into his hair, he buried his face in-between his legs, he ravaged his hands through his hair, he was panicking, the situation had quickly changed for the
Annie, Alice and Christopher, who was carrying Earl on his back, all sprinted through the forest, panting, panicking, frankly they were all scared, and what's more they were carrying an injured Earl, "Who were those guys?" Christopher asked panting, "I think I heard them call themselves the ORA" Alice shouted from the left, "What are we gonna do,... the alchemy return circle is the other way", Annie asked from the right, "without it, we can't get home", she added, Christopher and Alice both also came to the realisation that they would have no way of going back, and currently Soki was preoccupied with the sudden appearance of the ORA, there was no way they'd be able to get help, and although amazed by Soki's strength, they had doubt that they'd get out this situation uninjured, "maybe we can circle back to the return circle?" Alice said while still sprinting through the forest, both Christopher and Annie looked over in her direction and then themselves, before Christopher spok
Earl laid on the floor speechless as he gazed at his entire left arm which laid at the feet of the masked man, blood still spewed from his hand as he sat there panicked, the reality of what had just happened hadn't hit him, or rather he didn't want to believe it, he already had enough to deal with at the moment, and now in hopes of trying to save someone, his arm had been cut off, he was still in the middle of his thoughts when the pain had finally hit him, he could now feel the excruciating pain of losing an arm, both the psychological and physical damage that had been dealt to him was too much to handle, and what made it worse was the system message that followed.[HP: 60/100][Your spiritual energy depletes][Spiritual Energy: 2/50][You must consume life energy in the next 5 minutes] Things just got a whole lot worse for Earl, aside from the excruciating pain he felt in where his left arm used to be, he now felt the immense pain that came with the system message, the pa
Alice and Annie sprinted through the forest, they passed tree after tree but still felt they weren't running fast enough, they could hear two sets of footsteps following closely behind them, they hadn't turned back since they took off, they didn't need to, they had a clear idea of who was giving them chase, all they needed to do was continue sprinting, "Alice..... *pant*.... I have.... *pant*.... an idea" Annie said as she sprinted beside Alice panting, " what.... *pant*..... is it?" Alice replied panting heavily, "Let's.... *pant*.... split up" Annie said, "Huh?" Alice said with a confused look on her face, she couldn't understand her reasoning, they were being chased by two unknown masked people, and her first idea was for both of them to split up?, it didn't make any sense to her, ".... *pant*.... why?!!!" Alice asked, still sprinting, "sooner or later..... we're gonna have to fight... *pant*.... and if we get exhausted before that... *pant* we'll be dead for sure" Annie said, "so