Chapter 401 - The Host (10)

William snapped his fingers, instantly creating double fortified barriers around us. Meanwhile, Joanna appeared annoyed that Ailes was preventing her son from going up the stage yet. She glared at the teacher to quickly get rid of the s-class monster so they could resume the event again. However, the teacher and the dean were still frozen in their spots in fear like the rest of the people in the audience.

"I can't believe they're not even trying to resolve the issue," Alex's father scrutinized them.

"My nephew and niece aren't going to go on the stage at this rate," Alex's mother, Juliana agreed.

While Ailes punched the barrier, everyone in Luke's family, including the Suilett family who sat in the same row, appeared equally frustrated. The celebration that the Pelargonium family organized for them would be delayed at this rate. I wondered if they could get rid of Ailes like Luke's grandfather had done to the A-class monster. I began to relax as more of them complained about the poor security inside the safe barrier.

When I looked at the other rows, it seemed other families had also formed powerful barriers almost equivalent to ours. Except since Luke's family was known for having more mana than others, ours had a noticeable difference. Explosion spells and fireballs became merely fireworks, tornadoes were a water show and laser beams lit up the auditorium. Anything that Ailes did, whether it was his large spells or pure physical force, didn't do anything to dent the barrier. Feeling a bit bored when this persisted for more than an hour, I began to count the number of people in the seats.

"You think I'll be as generous as last time? Think again!" Ailes continued to target us.

Deciding that he wouldn't be able to do this alone, Ailes began to call for the swarm of monsters under him, including his fellow reincarnated monsters. This made Joanna shift out of her seat for the first time. Worrying for her son who wasn't under the protection of the barrier, she shouted, "Lucius, Belle, come here. We're leaving this place."

"Do you think I'll leave your son and daughter alone?" Ailes switched his target.

Ailes sprinted towards the backstage, choosing to use them as hostages. But before he could get close to the stage, William surrounded him with barriers, making him unable to move from the enclosed area. With both Lucius and Belle getting the hint as Ailes pounded on the barriers, they ran to our row. I gasped as they were very beautiful in their outfits, standing out from others in the crowd. They were glimmering with mana hugging the fabrics, jewels subtly adorning their clothes among perfectly tailoring their bodies.

They were striking like fairies, gathering everyone's attention with a single glance from them. I began to pity them as it showed they placed many efforts in dressing up for today. Since the barrier around Ailes wasn't as fortified as the one in our row, it quickly shattered, vanishing into thin air. But all of us were at least safe, other graduating students also running to their families in the audience.

"Do you think you can escape this?" Ailes grinned when we could spot his reinforcements above the hole.

"Let's start walking," Joanna paid no attention to them.

I followed everyone else, rising from my seat. My eyes widened when the powerful barrier moved with us. All the monsters flying or running towards us automatically bounced off like a rubber band. Meanwhile, the only people unprotected were the staff at this school. But I didn't feel sorry for them when they left us to fend for ourselves during the time the circus members weren't friendly to us.

"Rika, follow along, don't get distracted," Joanna told me to not get behind.

I nodded my head as I increased my pace instead of taking a few peeks at Ailes. Once we were outside, larger hover cars inside more fortified barriers drifted down towards us. I couldn't believe it was this easy to escape with them. It was nothing compared to all the suffering I had gone through for this month. However, before we could get into the car, Ailes and the girl who hated the Roselia family, combined their strength together to explode the cars.

"We're leaving to not kill you since we pity you," Juliana shouted at them.

"You pity us?" Ailes laughed.

"Why not?" she didn't think anything more about them.

"He was the one behind who almost killed us mother," Alex reminded her about the tale where the magician targeted them.

"You should have told me," her voice dripped with warm honey.

"Can you get rid of him, William?" Juliana turned to Luke's father.

With a single nod from William, Ailes crumbled into ashes with the girl beside him. I froze in shock, discovering another cheat character in front of me. Were s-class monsters ever this easy to kill? I wondered why they didn't eliminate the rest of the monsters in the district with their power. Could I start getting on their good side at least now as well? I sighed as there were more people I had to suck up to now.

Thinking everything was over since they were dead, it was odd that the sky was starting to turn pitch black again. It couldn't be that the circus was beginning again. Looking above me, I found the circus members drifting down towards us. Why were they here?

"You!" The magician rushed towards William.

"How could you kill our host?" His eyes were full of fury.