I Will Survive Till The End: Blood Extermination Academy-Chapter 164: What To Do Now?

Arc 3, Chapter 164— What To Do Now?

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—A few moments earlier—

Crawley had just activated his shard, and the faces of those in the water changed.

They figured it out too late. The trigger was the Shard energy!

Just then, Levon felt a strange suction force dragging him down.

"It’s no use!" he exclaimed. "Our physical strengths, although supernatural, still can’t combat that Drag force."

"Then the only way to flee is by using their shards!" Lilian added. However, it didn’t taking for the her face to turn from.

What?

After unleashed her own shard, the force in the pool grew 10 times stronger.

And before they knew it, it was too late. Levon was sucked away like poop in a flushed toilet.

He found his body spiraling down and down to the deep trenches of the pool. However, some people spiraled sideways towards the walls, and others spiraled to other locations on the ground.

Brmmmm~

Levon was forced through a rabbit hole, spiraling for over 8 minutes. freёnovelkiss.com

Crazy!

He had been tumbling and rolling for 8 minutes in this tube-like hole. And when it was finally over, he and a few others coughed and coughed, feeling their lungs about to explode with water.

Looking around, Levon’s eyes jerked.

Hell! Where are they?

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(Cough, cough, cough, cough)

In the dimly lit space, several emerged from a smaller pond, coughing and spewing all the water they accidentally swallowed.

What now?

Levon found 5 others around him, but no one from his team.

’Artilla and the others must have been dragged somewhere else.’ He concluded. ’The important thing now is to find a way out!’

Please, don’t be silly. With the strange currents and pressure from earlier, it will be impossible to leave the same way they came.

Emerging alongside him was Rita, Rolo, Gorgendoyle, Viren and another from Hendrix’s team.

Viren ran his hands through his damp hair. Hold on, this wasn’t the Viren they knew, but his split personality who emerged—a more direct, sly, powerful, and calculative persona.

"It appears we’re in a pickle," Viren began. "Lights out is closing in.... We can’t afford to play house in this pool, no?"

"Agreed." Pickler added, while Levon and the others subconsciously nodded.

Just then, Levon’s eyes widened. "Over there!"

At the far, far end of this pond, were jagged cavernous stairs leading into a darker tunnel.

"That must be the way out."

All they had to do was make it to the outer side and they are out of here. Everyone felt that should be the general gist of things. But recalling the sly smile on Clara’s lips earlier, how can it be that simple?

Levon smiled

"We can’t use our shards." Rolo advised. "Using it might make the situation worse, burning any time we have left to escape."

Everyone recalled how they got here in the first place, and agreed. At the corners of the pond, were enormous rocks placed strategically. But why?

Levon swam forward deep in thought, but soon found his answer.

What the—

Levon’s sonic hearing picked up strange sounds that left his face pale. "Get back!!!!"

Sweet Mother of Pearls! The group felt no attacks, but soon saw familiar needles that stuck to their bodies like a Porcupines.

"Dammit, we can’t activate our shards, so what now?"

"Wait, wait.... Wait! That’s it! The Origin Breathing technique!"

"That’s it, isn’t it? Winhest has only began mentioning this matter, and now Clara has come with a gift for us."

Levon nodded, agreeing with their thoughts.

Sure, this pool was a gift, a great gift at that. However, it wasn’t an ordinary pool, but one meant to train and enhance their origin Breathing technique!

"Before learning how to walk, one must first learn how to crawl."

Now, they had to master and train the origin technique without the use of their shards. Perhaps in this way, it will be stronger... Who knows...

Without saying anything more, everyone focused on the Origin breathing technique.

’Too fast!’ Levon’s heart skipped a beat when realizing just how many hidden weapons were plunged his way.

Twisting his body, he and several others maneuvered forward and backwards again, in this same loop.

Forward, backward, forward, backward... They were met with all sorts of underwater attacks.

Some attacks were visible, like the tens and hundreds of arrows that whistled through the waters.

Fizz~

An arrow plunged into his pinky toe, almost severing it from his right foot. Fortunately, his skin was supernaturally tough compared to that of an ordinary person’s. So the arrow stopped halfway through after touching his pinky-toe bone.

It hurt like HELL!

Levon calmed his mind, as did many others as they continued understanding the mysterious surrounding this Pond.

’So that’s it.’ Levon muttered to himself, finally understanding what those rocks represented—Difficulty.

After passing each set of stones, the difficulty level in the water rises.

Levon didn’t know how he and the others got to the very end of the pool, but when they did, they were so heavy and exhausted their breathing was raspy... Yet they couldn’t stop for a second.

Leaving the water, they descended up the stairway, which surprisingly took them to another open space where they met others they separated from.

It seems Artilla and Leo were out, but Shugo and Rayna weren’t.

Hendrix spotted everyone in his team, nodded and walked up another stairway path, which led to the main floor.

Eh? Was there always a door there? It was another door they had never seen before.

Success! Hendrix, Payne, and their team were out before Lights out.

"Only 19 minutes to go." Rita muttered, seeing that everyone else except her Boss, Florianna, had appeared.

Rolo, Yimu, Natalia, and Pickler stayed in wait alongside Levon’s group.

Then, with only 5 minutes left, Florianna emerged with Shugo, Rayna and several others.

Great!

With no time to waste, the gang took off, heading straight for the ground floor. Fortunately they arrived at the ground floor just before Lights Out began.