Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 376 Butterfly Mask
Beside the tower.

After the Goddess of Bath and her entourage returned to the most intense battlefield in the fortress city, they looked up at the sky and were lost in thought.

Three enormous holes ripped open in the sky, each reflecting the face and hands of a woman. These body parts undoubtedly belonged to the now-unveiled leader of the Darkin, the "Wanderer."

"What the hell is this."

At this moment, the Wanderer appeared to be lost in thought. With her eyes closed in silence, the ten fingers of her hands twitched slightly. From the scene, the Goddess of Bath and the others couldn't immediately discern whether the ten red threads on her hands were controlling something on the other end, or whether her fingers were being manipulated by those threads.

"Professor, and Miss Charlotte and the others."

Millie looked around but didn't see any of her companions.

Along with her words, the four people, including Little Ritas and Sofia, focused their attention on the huge red sphere connected by the red lines extending down from the sky.

Blood-like substances kept dripping from the edge of the red ball, but these substances were quickly absorbed back into the red ball.

Although the four of them didn't know how to express their feelings, the scene inexplicably made them very uncomfortable.

"They must have all been trapped there."

As Little Ritas spoke, he gazed at the Wanderer in the sky, his brow gradually furrowing, as if struggling with something within himself.

"all!?"

After putting Little Ritas down somewhere, Sofia's eyebrows immediately rose.

If nothing unexpected happens, the three people who were here before should be Ritas, Charlotte, and Wayne.

In other words, it all belongs to her.
In an instant, Sofia ran to the side of the red ball. Without saying a word, she summoned a powerful gust of wind, which slammed directly onto the red ball.

The red ball demonstrated excellent resilience, not only catching the sudden gust of wind completely after slightly deforming, but also bouncing it back partially.

The Bathing Goddess and Millie, who were following Sophia to check the red ball, were nearly hit and were quite startled.

"Calm down a bit!"

"The goddess of the bath complained, while Millie observed the red ball from the side."

"Hmm, this seems to be the case."

Looks familiar?

Millie thought about it carefully and realized that the feeling this red ball gave her was very similar to the one that had appeared in the academy before.

No, it's not similarity. Since the Wanderers are currently "above" them, then this red ball is of the same kind as they were back then!
Millie quickly shared her discovery with her companions.

"How did you break that blood sphere back then?"

After trying it out and realizing that she was powerless with her current strength, Sophia calmed down and asked Millie a question.

"At that time, on one hand, the people inside the blood sphere unleashed tremendous power to resist. On the other hand, huh?"

Millie suddenly paused, then covered her head with her hand.

"On the other hand, it was like this again..."

Millie realized she was experiencing a very strange phenomenon.

She remembered very clearly how Melsie and the other members of the "Bathing Symposium" were trapped in the Blood Sphere by the Wanderers, and how she, having just obtained the Holy Sword Kaum, managed to reunite with Adeline and the others in time.

Furthermore, Melsie did not succumb to the Wanderer's instigation while inside the blood orb. But she still remembered the incident that caused her power to go berserk.

But when she tried to recall what she did next, her memory suddenly became very blurry. Moreover, this blurriness was very strange, as if it was trying to induce her to ignore the event.

If it weren't for the identical blood sphere right in front of her, which was causing her to repeat a cycle of forgetting and remembering, she felt she would soon succumb to that force.

"Hey Millie, don't always choose crucial moments to have amnesia. Anyone who didn't know better would think you're doing it on purpose!"

Just as Millie was listening to the Bath Goddess's complaints and trying to defend herself, saying that her amnesia was not intentional and just happened at the right time, the Bath Goddess seemed to remember first.

"It was An, wasn't it? Did An help out back then?"

"install"

Repeating the somewhat familiar name, Millie's expression cleared up again.

"By the way, it was Teacher Ann who gave Teacher Adeline and me a power back then. Teacher Adeline was the 'fortress,' and I was the 'bishop'!"

"?"

Now, it was the goddess of the bath's turn who couldn't understand what Millie was saying.

In any case, Millie started to take action.

She once again conjured the "holy sword," which appeared to be made from a bolt of lightning, into her hand.

This time, Millie's sword had changed. The hilt of the sword shimmered with gold, taking on the appearance of half a scepter.

Millie raised the Thunder Sword, which suddenly seemed more expensive after the hilt was changed, high and slashed it forcefully at the blood orb.

Millie's attack was clearly more effective than Sophia's attack before.

In an instant, a corner of the blood sphere was neatly erased, and the scattered blood was evaporated before it could spread to the surrounding area.

However, compared to the overall power of the blood orb, Millie's slashing power is still quite limited.

"Try cutting those lines, Millie!"

Seeing the visible fatigue on Millie's face after she unleashed a single slash, and realizing that wielding the mutated holy sword would consume a great deal of energy, Millie suggested that she probably couldn't swing it more than a few times in total.

"Okay, let me try!"

Millie wiped the sweat from her forehead, took a deep breath to regulate her breathing, and then leaped high into the air.

A sharp flash of lightning streaked through the air as Millie severed the five blood threads connecting the Wanderer's right hand in one swift motion.

"!"

"And what are you people?!"

Suddenly, the wanderer, who had seemed to be dozing, awoke with a start and roared reflexively.

Millie ignored the screams coming from the other side of the tunnel, and after landing, she leaped up again, ruthlessly severing the other five connecting bloodlines as well.

Instantly, the wanderers in the sky flew into a rage.

She threw all ten red threads, each of which had broken, into the fairy tale world.

Once the red lines touched the ground, they transformed into giant, blood-red pythons, roaring towards the area surrounding the red ball.

Before the blood-red giant pythons could even get their footing, a series of pure white teleportation arrays below them began to glow.

In a flash, the blood-red giant python had vanished without a trace.

"Now!"

Not far away, Little Ritas gave instructions in a weak voice before collapsing to the ground, seemingly having lost consciousness due to overexertion.

Millie and Sophia, of course, wouldn't miss the opportunity that Little Ritas had secured.

Millie unleashed another horizontal slash, slamming it hard into the blood orb.

The blood cell deformed again and shrank in size, but it was still far from being broken open.

"."

Millie gritted her teeth.

Unlike her previous situation at the academy, where she faced both the rampaging Star Marker and Adeline, she now had to confront the Wanderer's special abilities alone. And just as Millie resolved to risk everything rather than disappoint the others again...

Suddenly, countless golden cracks appeared on the surface of the blood sphere. Intense golden light seemed to burst forth from within the sphere.

It's now!

In an instant, Millie understood that Ritas and the others trapped inside the blood sphere would not sit idly by and wait to die, so she sheathed her longsword.

Millie gripped the sword hilt, which resembled the tip of a scepter, and concentrated all her strength into a single point, unleashing the strongest attack she could currently deliver.

boom!
A powerful bolt of lightning struck the blood sphere, which felt brittle and cracked.

Along with the force emanating from within the blood sphere, it was instantly blasted open with a huge gap.

Sofia jumped directly into the gap.

In the sudden darkness, Sofia couldn't see the whole interior clearly.

All they could see were Charlotte and Wayne being dragged into the darkness, and Ritas, who was emitting golden light but whose body was being pounced on by a blood-sludge-like monster that kept calling out "Dear Mischi".

"What are you doing to my children! You bastard!"

Instead of using wind elemental magic to lift herself up during her fall, Sophia used it to accelerate herself, her body transforming into a sharp arrow that precisely shattered the bloody, muddy substance.

Seconds after Sofia entered, the entire blood sphere suddenly exploded, spitting out all the people trapped inside.

"Little Li!"

"professor!"

After the blood sphere completely exploded, the area around the tower was a mess.

After rolling around on the ground, Ritas opened his eyes and saw the surprised faces of the Bathing Goddess and Millie.

Although they were saying things like "I'm not willing to accept this," as if they were going to settle scores with Ritas, they came to the very center of the world with great momentum.

But upon finally seeing Ritas again after so long, the joy of the reunion surpassed all other emotions.

"You guys, calm down! Believe me, you'll be the ones who feel incredibly ashamed and regretful afterward! And now is not the time to celebrate!"

Ritas warned, his face revealing a genuine panic unlike that he had in the memory.

But now, all his words were in vain, and the goddess of the bath and Millie still pounced on him.

Ritas, who can spin the golden apple, water the Livis flower, and flip through books, is clearly a physical being with a collision volume, even though he is in a spirit state.

Thus, Professor Ritas, who was completely pinned to the ground, was ultimately unable to break free immediately.

A short while later.

"That's why I advised you, you'll definitely be the ones who regret it."

Ritas, who had already been "released," looked at Millie, who had lowered her head slightly and turned her gaze away, completely unable to look him in the eye, and said with some helplessness.

"I don't understand what the professor is talking about. I was just trying to prevent him from escaping again."

Although her gaze was still not quite right, Millie's tone was much calmer.

"Again? I didn't intentionally run away from you. Rather, what are you doing here? You could have just waited quietly and gotten away from here very soon."

There was a hint of blame in Ritas's tone.

"Needless to say? Of course, we're here specifically to teach you a lesson!"

"?"

The goddess of the bath feigned a fierce demeanor, only to be met with confusion on Ritas's face.

So, the bath goddess, who immediately became embarrassed after being glared at a few times, coughed lightly and changed her tune.

"Well, we do know that. If we entrust everything to you, we can smoothly face the end of this world. But how should I put it? Because of your character, the ending you bring will likely only be a 'normal ending,' a safety net. However, we've spent quite a bit of time in this world. We've gained a lot from those scenarios, and we've developed a certain attachment to some beings that only exist in these worlds. So! Building on the 'normal ending' you bring, we will strive for a 'good ending,' a 'true ending,' ourselves!"

The goddess of bathing said firmly.

Millie, standing to the side, couldn't help but shake her head slightly.

Sister Yu is really something.

Finally, we caught the professor, and he was saying things that no one else could understand.
"I see. Since this is your idea, then it is your freedom to act as you see fit."

Eh--?
Millie was greatly surprised to see Ritas simply nod calmly.

The professor could actually understand what the bath girl was saying!
As she was surprised, Ritas glanced at her, and Millie quickly turned her head away.

"Besides, if we hadn't acted on our own, how could we have rescued you from the fire and water?"

The bath goddess, who had basically done nothing, said smugly, raising her chin.

"'save'."

Unable to stop himself from tilting his head, Ritas stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

"Should I thank you?"

While Ritas was talking with the goddess of bathing and Millie, a rather peculiar atmosphere was also permeating the area where Charlotte, Sophia, and Wayne were on the other side.

"mom!"

After escaping from the blood sphere, the first thing Wayne did upon getting up was to run to Sofia and throw herself into her arms.

Sofia instinctively stroked the head of the girl in her arms, gently comforting Wayne, who had endured hardship, injury, and fright.

Then, Charlotte, who had also walked up to Sophia, stared at her with a particularly strange expression.

"You wouldn't happen to be my mother, Sofia Elson, would you?"

Even in a fairytale world where anything can happen, Xia Luoluo still found the scene before her truly bizarre.

So many years have passed, and the family members are afraid of causing any distress. Therefore, Xia Luoluo, who can hardly even see a portrait of Sophia anymore, has long forgotten what Sophia looks like.

Even so, she recognized her mother immediately.

"Cough, I really don't know what you're talking about! I was just, uh, Butterfly Mask who happened to be passing by!"

In the fairy tale world, Sophia and Charlotte never managed to reunite, which was clearly not just due to a series of coincidences.

Sophia deliberately raised her voice, then produced a golden butterfly mask from somewhere and covered her face, before speaking to Charlotte in a serious tone.

"Who are you trying to fool?! And why did you become Wayne's mother?! Explain yourself clearly!"

Xia Luoluo felt her mind and heart were in complete chaos, and she had a strong urge to go crazy.

She tried to tear off Sophia's mask, but was blocked by Sophia's long arm and a short arm in her arms.

Seeing Sophia and Wayne united as mother and daughter, Charlotte was undoubtedly even more frantic.

Fortunately, before Xia Luoluo could completely explode, a thunderous sound from the sky dispelled the "warm" atmosphere in both places.

"Damn it!!! Damn it!!!"

"Do you even know what you've done?!"

"That was clearly the last chance! Now, all of you will perish here!"

In the direction of the horizon, the Wanderer began to roar once more.

(End of this chapter)