Chapter 9: Phantom Association

A couple of seconds after Stroph`s words, the teachers broke into the hall. They were ready to fight and kill the Demonic Armored Ogre themselves. But when they got to the scene, they saw two young men and one girl standing next to the huge corpses of the monster. Also, there were bodies of the pupils and purple ghouls spread everywhere.

"What`s happened here? Are you the only ones who survived?" The speaker was a middle-aged man, with black hair and a large build. He was wearing a white shirt and black pants.

"Mr. Simon, you are late." Charles said, slowly shaking his head. Then he continued: "Mr. Tyrone was killed by the Demonic Armored Ogre, something went wrong. We ran for weapons to the arsenal, but when we came back, we saw that the monster had killed all the pupils. There was no one left here except us."

Hearing this, Simon`s face turned pale, he began to shake with fear and slowly muttered about himself: "How so.... all the students died, what should we do now..."

After a while, he regained consciousness, looked at the carcass of the monster and said: "But how could you kill the Demonic Armored Ogre if even Mr. Tyrone was killed? He was a second rank fighter!"

Charles did not answer anything, and only pointed to two Steyr HS .460 which they left at the south gate. After Simon looked at the guns and the monster several times, he said: "Stroph shoots well, 2 shots to the unprotected eyes, enough to kill Ogre. If it was not for his incredible accuracy, most likely we would have died already."

"We have already reported this to the Association of Phantoms, a fighter of the third rank will arrive here soon, you guys are good, if not for you, the Demonic Armored Ogre could have killed many more people and completely destroy all the equipment or a part of the school...". Simon just couldn`t believe what happened at the originally simple test. It will be an incredible scandal, and so many students died here only for one day.

Five minutes later a pumped-up man, with a large two-handed sword behind his back, arrived, he wasn`t very high, about 7 feet (2 m), but a powerful suppressive aura came from him.

"My name is Richard Bailey, I came from the Phantom Association, I was told that one of our fighters failed and was killed by a monster of rank 3, the Demonic Armored Ogre. But as I see it, you have already dealt with everything." Saying this, he carefully examined the corpses of monsters, as well as 3 students standing near him.

After a short silence, he continued: "Which of you killed the Demonic Armored Ogre?"

When heard his words, Stroph slowly raised his hand without saying anything. Richard looked at him in surprise, after which Stroph slowly pointed towards the southern gate.

After a couple of seconds, the muscular man laughed.

The teachers did not understand why he was laughing and only looked at him with perplexity.

"You are not bad! Made two perfectly accurate shots being a simple high school student and killed the Demonic Armored Ogre! Come with me to the Association, there you will be rightfully rewarded" After these words, he stared at Stroph waiting for his answer.

Stroph slowly pointed at Charles and said: "He was helping me, he`ll come with me."

"Go ahead" The man turned around and started leaving, but at that moment one of the teachers said: "Mr. Richard, what should we do with the corpses and everything else...". His voice was quiet and intermittent, he was afraid to insult the 3rd rank fighter somehow.

"As Ogre is over, I am not needed here. Soon the Phantom Association staff will come here and will clean up everything, don't worry. Guys don't lag behind."

Hearing him Stroph and Charles immediately rushed after him.

The teachers and a couple of pupils, who stayed in the underground hall, were pale from the fighter's attitude to so many deaths. But they quickly came to their senses, waiting for people from the Association, they began to inform their relatives about the death of the pupils.

Next to the school there was a big black jeep. A muscular man approached him and there were two young men next to him.

"I thought that the fighters were running much faster than the cars," Stroph said, in his opinion, Richard would have got to the school much faster using only his legs.

"You're right kid, but it's only if you use the Spirit, and that's for your information, a very energy-intensive thing, if I used the Spirit to come to school, I could and would arrive a minute or two faster. But with the rest of my strength, I definitely could not defeat such a strong monster as the Demonic Armored Ogre. So, sit down and don`t ask any more questions". Having said that, Richard opened the front door of the jeep and quickly got behind the wheel.

The first thing they saw in the car was a lot of sweets, they were everywhere. There were all kinds of sweets, chocolates, an unopened box of doughnuts, and a couple of packs of cookies lying to the right of the driver's seat.

Stroph and Charles were greatly surprised by such a scene. When Richard saw their faces, he said them with a little laugh: "Why are you so surprised? I just love sweets. It cheers me up and helps me think, a very useful thing. Do you want something? It's my treat".

"If I could, I would take one donut," politely said Charles.

"I want all this." Saying this, Stroph pointed to several white chocolate bars folded together.

"Take whatever you want, I'm not sorry. Okay, we have to drive now." Saying this, Richard took a large chocolate candy, opened it and put it in his mouth, then pressed the pedal.

They were driving to the Phantom Association for a long time, it was very far from the school. Richard was able to come to school so quickly, only because he was nearby and immediately rushed to help.

But they were going only to one of the branches of the Phantom Association, their headquarters was in the capital of the empire. Their city was called 'City of Silver Wings'. This city belonged to the so-called cities of the "Outer Circle", except for it, there was the "Inner Circle" in the heart of which the Phantom Association was located, as well as the so-called "Slums". They were the closest to the monsters, and if there is an invasion, the first to suffer will be the residents of Slums. There were fewer strongest fighters and very few resources. But that doesn`t mean that the monsters could not appear in the Inner and Outer Circle. Their territories were huge and there were many places where monsters could get in from outside, but unlike Slums, usually only in small numbers.

After about an hour, they began to arrive at the branch, by this time a huge number of wrappers and packages of chocolates were piled up in front of the windshield. Only for an hour Richard could eat such a huge amount of sweet. But if you look at the back seat, you could see even more terrifying situation. Stroph was just a real sweet exterminator, without touching only those, which was made or contained black chocolate.

"Ahahahahahaha, I like you, guy, but it's time to interrupt our feast, we came." Seeing that his stock of sweets was empty, Richard wasn`t angry at all, he just laughed, it wasn`t a problem for him to buy as much.

"Okay, guys, let's go out and get the awards!"