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[Chapter 132 Comments]

A moment earlier.

Theo received the message from Mia and couldn't help but furrow his eyebrows. "Li Wei and Jayden are possessed?"
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On the one hand, he couldn't imagine the fact that these two would be the ones to fall for possession. On the other hand, it showed that his enemy was much stronger than anything he had faced so far.

Theo was trying to find a link between the energy that isolated the hotel as well as the enemy's movement.

As one would expect from Theo, it only took him several seconds to notice something was wrong..

"Wait a minute." Theo opened the map. He had marked all the plants positions so he could actually place them back.

But when he opened it again, it didn't really make sense until he removed one of the plant positions, which happened to be around Li Wei and Jayden's position.

"This is…" Theo sucked a cold breath. Although he didn't know much about the power system of this world or other worlds, he could definitely sense something was wrong the moment he saw an octagram on the map.

That was right. If he replaced one of the plants with Li Wei and Jayden, it would form this shape. While normally, he didn't care about shape, there was a reason why the enemies would form this kind of shape and the hotel became the center point.

If he followed what was reported by Aurora, the image would have become pretty clear. Aurora's location was not far from the plant. So, the contamination that Luca found must be related to the plant.

However, there was one thing that didn't make sense. When he marked the plants, he didn't notice anything. In fact, there was no suspicious energy. Only today did everything become different.

There was one thing he could think of. Whoever's behind this must have sensed him looking around the plant and misunderstood his action as aggression. Hence, that monster finally began to move.

If he added the fact that it began to change when the students dispersed in all directions, the monster was clearly wary of his action.

"Mia and Haruka are handling that problem. Can they do it by themselves? I want to help them, but…" Theo hurriedly messaged all the students, signaling the end of the assignment due to unexpected circumstances. But this was the time he noticed the next change.

"The signal is gone?" Theo frowned. The situation must be felt by those inside the hotel as well. It seemed that they were going all out this time. "What should I do? Rally the people inside the hotel? Can I inform anyone without the signal?"

Theo looked around. In the past, he never had a problem with the signal, so he didn't think much about it. But when he experienced it, having no signal would be quite troublesome, especially for a large group.

Ultimately, Theo decided that the hotel must be in panic. It would be hard to rally them, so it was better to regroup with his students first.

After another glance at the map, he calculated the monster's movement. Since Mia and Haruka didn't encounter the monster, it must have gone in the opposite direction. That was where he found another group: Lancelot and Lucas.

Without hesitation, Theo jumped off the building, heading to these two.

…

As he predicted, Lancelot and Lucas had encountered the enemy.

It was the same old lady as the one that Li Wei and Jayden met earlier.

"Oh my, more students?" The elderly smiled at them as though she was trying to lower their guards.

"More students?" Lancelot was quite surprised to find another person in this place, especially given the fact that he couldn't sense her before it was too late. Lancelot knew that this person was strong, so he respectfully replied, "Dear Ma'am. Have you met our classmates?"

"Of course. I happened to meet them when strolling around, just like how I found you both." The old woman took out a candy from her pocket and said, "Well, you are searching for unique plants, right? Good luck. Here, have some candies."

"Thank—" Lancelot wanted to grab the candy, but Lucas suddenly shouted, "Stop! Don't take that candy and get away, Lancelot!"

"Huh?!" Lancelot was confused, but he believed his classmate more than the old lady, so he leaped away out of reflex. "What are—"

He was still in a state of shock, while Lucas was already releasing his essence. "That person is not a human. I don't think I have seen that kind of energy before. It's similar to contaminated energy. I'm afraid she is the culprit."

"!!!" Lancelot widened his eyes and raised his stance. Unfortunately, he didn't have his shield and sword with him.

Seeing Lancelot's reaction and the confidence in Lucas's eyes, the old lady smirked. She didn't bother hiding it anymore. "Since when did you realize it?"

Both of them could hear bushing sounds from all around them. Something was coming, but they couldn't determine what it was from the sound alone.

Lancelot and Lucas couldn't take their eyes away from their opponent, fully knowing that this person was so strong that even a slight gap would be fatal.

When the sound was about to arrive, Lucas shouted, "Jump!"

Both of them surprisingly jumped at the same time. A few branches suddenly extended to their previous locations. If they hadn't avoided it, those branches would have impaled their bodies.

Luckily, Lucas could sense the contaminated energy. Since it was the old woman's ability, the energy contained within it was also impure.

"Hmm?!" The old woman pointed her palm at them.

"!!!" Lucas and Lancelot suddenly felt an immeasurable pressure that was crushing their bodies. If they didn't do anything, their bones would be crushed.

"Haa!" Lucas roared while clapping his hands. A burst of pure essence overwhelmed the contaminated energy, freeing them for a second. "Attack her!"

Lancelot nodded and formed a circle with a pentagram in the middle. "Tier 2 Magic: Energy Blast."

The magic circle released an explosive essence that flew straight to the old woman. The latter surprisingly didn't bother to move.

When the energy tried to crush her body, the old lady had her body slowly disintegrate, leaving only her head.

In fact, her face changed. It became much more youthful, but the face was covered with thick white makeup. The hair became longer and covered a part of her face.

Her appearance became even more terrifying because the body that contained the contaminated essence had gone, allowing all that essence to gush out into the air.

Even Lucas couldn't stop this energy from coming into the sphere that he had purified.

"I can't hold on!" Lucas bit his lips.

Lancelot noticed that the trees looked like they were alive. But if he took another look, he would notice that the woman's hair became much longer. Some of them penetrated the ground while others turned into tree's branches.

Lancelot formed another magic circle to stop her, but the contaminated essence that penetrated the purified sphere actually corroded his magic circle.

"What?!" Lancelot was stunned. He did his best to control it, but it was useless. The magic circle withered away without him being able to release its power.

If this continued, they would be swallowed by this contaminated energy.

When the situation looked bleak, Theo suddenly fell from the sky and stomped the ground as hard as he could.

Bam!

The force was so strong that it created a crater and crushed all sorts of obstacles that the ghost had created.

"Teacher!" Lancelot and Lucas called him out loud, feeling relieved.

However, the battle wasn't over. Theo's clown suddenly came out behind the ghost. The head turned around, but it was too late. The clown had slapped his head with both hands, trying to kill it like a mosquito.

But to his surprise, the head simply disappeared and returned to its energy form.

"It seems that the teacher has arrived. I should get going."

Lucas could faintly sense the concentrated energy and pointed to the east. "Teacher. It's going that way."

Theo frowned. On the one hand, he wanted to chase after this ghost. On the other hand, it was going in the opposite direction of the hotel. If he chased after the ghost, he might move too far away from the students.

Since the enemy had a strange ability, it might be able to return him without anyone realizing it. His students would just become its prey.

At the same time, there was one more problem that he had to solve. It was the energy that isolated the hotel.

"No. We should regroup with the rest. Besides, can you sense the energy around the hotel building?" Theo turned to Lucas.

"I can only sense the energy around me. Unless it's concentrated so much that it is visible to the naked eye, it's impossible." Lucas shook his head helplessly. "In fact, how does Teacher resist the dense contaminated energy?"

"This?" Theo looked at himself before observing the purified sphere Lucas had. He could feel that there was something wrong with the essence, but he didn't know it was a contaminated one. He only resisted the energy by creating a layer of his own energy on top of his skin.

But the purified sphere gave him another idea. With a wave of his hand, the essence suddenly turned into something similar to what Lucas had. This was the second authority he got from the Toon Demon: the ability to control the environment.

"What? How did you do that?" Lucas gasped and finally stopped maintaining the purified sphere before landing on the ground.

"It's better if we find the others first before discussing it." Theo brushed the question aside. "Mia is gathering the others from the opposite direction, so we should go this way and grab a few."

Although Lucas was curious, he still nodded his head. "In that case, I will be flying to see everything around us, including the others."

"I'll leave it to you." Theo agreed and noticed that Lancelot was a bit more silent than usual. It seemed that the previous mistake was the cause.

Lancelot thought that if he had his overwhelming fire magic, he might be able to resist that person in one way or another. In fact, he might burn this contaminated energy.

However, he couldn't do it because his ability was nowhere near that level.

"Teacher. Can you teach me how to use my fire?" Lancelot asked.

At first, Theo wanted to reject that request right away, but seeing Lancelot's face caused him to rethink his decision. Lancelot would blame himself too much if he rejected him, so he replied, "I will teach you about it after we regroup with the rest. Your fire might be useful in this situation, so I'll teach you a simple trick later."

"Thank you." Lancelot nodded furiously.

Fortunately, the other students didn't seem to be harmed. The monster actually retreated when Theo came. It seemed that he was just trying to gauge Theo's power.

The fact that the enemy had this level of intelligence made it even more dangerous. If he sent someone to go down the mountain to get some reinforcement, they might be possessed like Li Wei and Jayden. But he didn't know how many fighters the hotel had, both among the hotel's guards and tourists.

Theo ended up bringing Aurora, Luca, Maya and Serena with him before meeting with Mia's group who had found Avalon and Oliver.

As he expected, something was going on within the hotel. Luca and Lucas were terrified by the energy within the hotel. If not for the Toon Demon's second authority, these two wouldn't enter the hotel.

Meanwhile, Haruka was on the edge all the time. She even held a talisman in her hand as if it were trying to protect her from this energy. Some of them couldn't feel anything, but some of them somehow noticed the change in the air.

Ultimately, Theo chose to enter the hotel since the students needed their weapons and he had to find more fighters to handle this situation.