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The loud bang made the whole bastion freeze for a moment, making the situation tense and about to burst at any time.

And I was right to suspect that, as the iron doors were suddenly swung open, and everyone got out of the classrooms without looking back.

But there was something wrong with this.

Only 2 classrooms seemed to have students, so where were the rest?

Unfortunately, I didn't have the luxury to stay to much on this question, since I had to make a decision.

Should I follow them down and join the fight, or explore those classrooms since now they were all empty?

"What do you think I should do Alexa?"

Alexa was right.

The Mad Prince was too reckless and attacked without a plan, or at least he didn't tell me of any.

So I have no obligation to join him now in battle.

Maybe he knows something that I don't, but I'm sure I'll find some answers if I search in those classrooms.

With the decision made, we quickly entered the -Combat Classroom- which was now empty.

This whole place was a mess with chairs and wooden weapons all over the floor, since everyone rushed outside.

But I calmly walked towards the teacher's podium and studied the place.

There, I found a lone chest.

Curios, I tried to open it, but to my surprise, it seemed locked.

"You can lock your chest now? Where was that information when I built my base? Did you know about this Alexa?"

I guess that made sense.

But even if you want to steal from a chest that way, it wasn't something that anyone would do unless they really wanted what was inside.

After all, if you broke a full chest, all the items would explode and could end up killing you.

The items in this world don't act like in the game.

Sure, the items when broken, reduce their size to one-quarter and could be stacked.

That still resulted in a big explosion from all the placed in one space.

It would've been a good bomb if it wasn't so dangerous.

"There must be a reason why they put a lock on this chest."

That was one way to deal with thieves.

But if they are willing to destroy the contents of the chest, that must mean that the items were very valuable.

Since I didn't have the energy of the Wither and Alexa couldn't replicate it with this body, the only option left was to use the Crystal.

So I placed an obsidian block and put the Crystal on top before touching the chest with my hand.

Soon, a tab appeared in front of me, and I could see all the items in the chest and what they did.

The chest wasn't full, but it did have the same item.

The Black Star.

More exactly Black Star: Combat skill.

Does that mean if I eat this Star, I would gain the Combat Skill?

Is it that easy?

Then why didn't everyone who chose to follow the Wither have skills?

But after I read the description of the item I quickly realized why there were such a small number of students in this class.

It seems that there's only a 20% chance you'll get the skill, and if you didn't, the Wither energy will consume you and make you one of his many puppets.

Not only that but if you want to get another skill, there is a 1% chance you'll get it. Otherwise, you'll end up as a skeleton.

And if by some miracle you manage to survive that, and still wanted another skill, your chances would drop to 0.01%.

It was brutal.

But why were they eating the stars if they already had the skills?

"Alexa, can you please look closer at those items?"

While I learned how to use the Crystal, I was still a beginner at this and didn't know how to use all its functions.

Luckily, Alexa didn't have this problem, since it moved from one tab to another at lightning speeds.

After a few moments of silence, all tabs were closed, and I waited for the report.

"Care to elaborate?"

That was a smart way to deal with a problem like that.

But the prisoner had a permanent skill from what I remembered.

Maybe he was part of the initial testing and he was lucky enough to get a permanent one.

Or I should say unlucky since he was sent on the front lines most likely to die.

But this method would also make the soldiers stay loyal once they get a taste of this power.

"Do you think you could replicate this method, Alexa?"

As long as I was getting a skill out of this I wouldn't mind.

Wait a minute.

If the Crystal works similarly to a supercomputer, and my mace works as an infinite energy storage, couldn't I make skills?

"Alexa, when you succeed with this research, please give me a detailed report. Make it simple enough for me to understand it."

Since we couldn't open the chest even with the Crystal, we decided to visit the other classrooms as well.

The -Shadow Classroom- had only one chest like the previous classroom, with the exception that the Black Stars were labeled with the Shadow skill.

We still don't know what it does since we couldn't get our hands on the Stars, to our frustration.

The next one was the -Magic classroom- which had more results than the previous ones.

There were 2 chests in this room, and while the one with the skills was locked, the other one was normal and could be opened.

Inside, there were a few books with instructions about the Magic skill.

It seemed to be similar to Enchanting or Brewing, where you're able to do more complex stuff the higher the level.

What I saw a few moments ago was a level 5 skill "Summoning Skeleton", where it would summon a skeleton based on the amount of experience you had.

What was even more amazing about this, was the fact that it could be done in a group to share the burden of the experience and summon a stronger skeleton.

I wonder what the strongest skeleton would look like and how much experience would that require.

There were some other magic formulas in here, such as the classic fireball and even earth spike.

Now that I was looking closer at it, this is the most valuable skill of them all.

It's only a shame that there are not a lot of magic spells created yet.

"Alexa, record everything in those books. This information is too valuable to leave it like this."

With the obsidian room finished, we went onto the last room, which I suspected was the most valuable one.

After I opened the door, I was taken by surprise that it was empty.

There were no chairs or tables, not even the locked chest.

Was this a skill still under development?

Unfortunately, I couldn't get the answer here, and since I already got everything I could from this place, that meant that I would have to go and join the fight.

I let out a big sigh and went towards the stairs.

After I took a few steps down, I could see the chaos that was happening all over the place.

Since the whole building was empty in the middle, only with some stairs on the walls. I could see the whole battlefield from here.

The Brutes, as their name implied, were vicious with their attacks, but the sheer number of enemies was too much for them.

If things continued like that, we would lose this battle in half an hour.

This was very annoying to see.

If they wanted to attack, at least do a good job and not make it hard for me to infiltrate afterwards.

Not wanting to lose this fight, I jumped off the balcony and let myself free fall until I was about to reach one of the big floors.

Just when I was about to pass it, I grabbed the edges of my cape and slowed my descent until I safely reached the ground.

I was surrounded by enemies, but they all moved past me like I wasn't even there.

Calmly, I took a bundle bag from my inventory and took out the mini golems.

But before I threw them on the ground, I purred a few potions on them so they would be stronger.

Once the particles appeared, I threw the 10 golems and soon they all grew to their original sizes and began attacking everyone in their path.

"Attack only the ones with the dark energy!"

The eyes of the golemes flashed and continued their assault.

Because of the suprirse attack, a lot of skeletons and corrupted ones were now on the floor dead.

And the Brutes had finally some room to breathe.

"You there! What was the plan for this attack? No matter how I look at this, it's suicide."

The Brutes looked with admiration at the golems before quickly turning towards me.

"We were ordered to distract as many enemies as possible while the main squad would attack the heart of this place."

No wonder they were so little in numbers.

I initially though they died in battle, but looks like they split their forces into two.

In my opinion, that's not the best way to deal with this kind of situation.

But those weren't my men, so I wasn't going to say anything about it.

Just as I was about to ask them more questions, a golem flew past me and hit the wall with a laud Bang.

I quickly turned around to see who did this to my precious golems and quickly recognized the culprits.

Those were the students I saw upstairs.

And they were putting quite a good fight against my golems.

The magicants were sealing the movmets of my golems, while the fighters were dealing heavy damaged to them.

No one died yet, but at this rate they would all be scrap if it continued.

I was about to join them in fight when one of the Brutes stopped me and looked deep into my eyes.

"You have to go and help Boss. That's what he told us to tell you if we see you. Don't worry, we can take care of the enemies in here."

I looked at them with suspicion.

I didn't want to trust them with my precious golems, but I knew the real action wasn't here.

"Here are some iron ingots, give them to the damaged golems to heal and don't you dare let anyone die."

The Brute took the ingots from my hand and smirked.

"Wasn't planning to."

With that, I ran towards the rails and jumped into the dark mist.