[After Three days]
Outside the academy, exactly besides the front gate, the teachers start building a huge wall on the front gate, they use snow magic and stone magic for that, as they do, students who use magic and archers start preparing on the top of the wall, while inside the Academy's side of the wall, Aldric and Arnold are preparing with the rest of the students who use a close range fighting style.
While all that's happening, John is preparing in his room as well, after he wears the gray coat he turns to face Elesa who's sitting on the window frame.
John: you still remember the plan right?
Elesa: yeah yeah, don't worry about me, you should be focusing on yourself since I won't be there to aid you.
John: well, all that preparation wasn't for nothing, just stick to the plan.
Elesa: if you say so.
With these words Elesa jumps from the window. as that happens, John hears a knocking on his door.
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
John instantly knew the time has come, he opens the door and finds Lania standing there, neither of them say anything, John closes the door and they start walking.
After a few minutes, they reach the principal's office, and John takes the two golden swords from Thorn.
As every student and teacher is heading to the front gate, John and Lania are going the opposite direction, exactly to the bell tower that's located in the back of the main Academy building, they climb to the bell room that has big Horizontal windows, and now they wait.
Almost an hour goes by, the only sound that can be heard in the Academy is the sound of cold wind Echoing through the empty rooms and hallways.
The high ranking students and the other students along side the teachers are waiting at the front gate, Thorn is inside his office hiding under his desk, John and Lania are still in the bell room waiting for something.
Suddenly, John and Lania notice three humanoid figures from the horizon walking towards them, and without warning an arrow covered in mana is heading to Lania's head, John, who's senses got sharpened by the Arcane arts manages to catch the arrow just inches before it entered Lania's skull through her eye, Lania instantly collapse on the ground and hides under the window frame.
Lania: (NO, PLEASE NO!! I'M NOT READY FOR THIS, I'M NOT READY FOR THIS!!).
John didn't need the Arcane arts to realize how anxious she is, her heart beat is already loud enough, John's eyes glow as he focused his vision on the three figures as they're calmly walking, the Three snow Elves are all smiling, walking on the right is Bukke who slides his thumb on his neck in a threatening gesture.
John takes one last look at Lania who's still shacking in fear.
John: stay here and try not to expose yourself.
With these words he jumps from the bell room window and Lands on the ground and starts approaching them.
[At the same time]
The situation in the front gate is strangely calm, even some students start to question if the snow Elves attack is real or not.
At the top of the wall, Cohly and Lona are talking about their current state.
Lona: every second that goes without any signs of the snow Elves is making the students more and more enrage.
Cohly: I agree, the more we wait the more our defenses becomes weaker.
"Whoosh!!"
Suddenly, something is reaching for Cohly's head quickly, but it doesn't hit Cohly, instead, it slams into an iron bucket that was thrown from the ground, when Lona and Cohly take a closer look at the bucket, they find a knife stabbed into it, Lona looks at the ground and sees Aldric from where the bucket came from.
Aldric: COHLY, LONA ARE YOU ALRIGHT?
Lona: YES WE'RE FINE THANKS FOR THE HELP.
Lona looks at Cohly and gives her the sign to start building the mana shield.
Lona: Cohly, I want you to focus on maintaining the mana shield with the teachers, right now this is our top priority.
Cohly: don't worry I got it.
Lona turns and starts shouting at the students while lining them.
Lona: EVERYONE, THE ATTACK HAS BEGUN, ALL MAGE CLASS STUDENTS AND ARCHER STUDENTS STAY UP ON THE WALL AND AID YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS WHO'S FIGHTING ON THE GROUND, ALDRIC, ARNOLD YOU TWO HANDLE THINGS ON THE GROUND.
Arnold: EVERYONE, YOU'VE HEARD HER, WE'RE NOW IN THE FIGHTING ZONE, IF YOU SAW ONE OF YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS GET INJURED DRAG THEM BACK INSIDE THE ACADEMY'S GATE, THE MEDICAL TEAM IS INSIDE WITH THE SUPPORT MAGE STUDENTS, AND AS ALWAYS, BE CARFUL.
Aldric: Arnold, look over there!!!
When Arnold looks at where Aldric is pointing, he froze, a large number of snow Elves are heading towards the Academy's gate where they're standing, all the students on the ground starts preparing for the battle.
Aldric: (this is it, a real fight just like the consul one, holding back now will mean the end).
As both sides clashes, the sound of metal swords and weapons hitting each other filled the Academy.
[At the same time]
As both John and the three snow Elve princes are calmly walking towards each other, Lania couldn't help but feel useless to John at this important moment.
Lania: (damn it, what am I doing? I'm not fighting with the other students at the front gate, and I'm clearly useless to John here, I really want to go with him, why am I so pathetic).
Suddenly, John and the princes stop, only 20 feet is Separating the human from the snow Elves, even though he knows what danger is in front of him, John surprisingly remains calm, but before he could open his mouth Baldur starts speaking in a confident and malicious tone.
Baldur: well well well, if it isn't the human who visited us a few days ago.
John: may I ask how did you know it was me?
Baldur: it's actually simpler than you imagine, snow Elves take some advantages in cold weather like this, our speed and strength gets boosted, and one of these advantages happened to be that we can see the mana traces people leave behind, and after taking a closer look at you, I can confirm that person was you, no ordinary human has that red blood mana color.
After hearing that John couldn't help but to smile gently.
John: is that supposed to be a compliment?
Baldur: don't get ahead of yourself, if I wanted to compliment you, i would say that I'm impressed by how you managed to make all those noble kids work together to fight our soldiers.
John: what can I say, I have my way with words.
Baldur: almost every noble we met through our journey was ready to throw their own family in fire just so they can live.
John: that's not surprising.
Baldur: well, I assume that brat hiding over there is with you, which means she already told you why we're here.
John: yes, the spell.
Baldur: hehehe.
John: but before that let me ask you this, is a spell really worth getting your name on the enemies list of ASTREVAL?
Danish: Baldur.
Baldur: don't worry you two, this mortal won't make it to tomorrow, so why don't we make his soul rest in peace.
John: . . .
Baldur: a few years ago, there have been a huge robbery on the white mountain in the far East of the Kingdom, it's the same mountain where the Snowflake Witch lives with her students, back then, a lot of items got stolen but eventually returned, except for one thing.
John: let me guess, the great winter spell.
Baldur: exactly, and as I said before, snow Elves get an advantage in cold weather like this, and what that spell actually does is trapping a big area in a snow storm.
John: How big are we talking?
Baldur: let's say all of ASTREVAL.
A normal person would be Tense, but instead of that, John just laughs.
John: hahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Baldur & Bukke & Danish: ?!!
Even Lania who's watching from afar is shocked to see him laugh.
John: you know, everything is making sense now, instead of getting a stronger army than ASTREVAL, you're just going to make the battlefield your biggest advantage, but I must admit, All this time we were talking together, and you still haven't realized that. . .
John puts his hand in his Pocket and takes out a paper, but it's not a normal one.
John: the spell was in my Pocket the whole time.
To Be Continued . . . . .