Hunter Academy: Revenge of the Weakest novel Chapter 127

127 Chapter 29.10 - Banquet

"Huh….This was hard…."

After Ethan had his own awakening, the group of youngsters was able to deal with the enemies coming into them with a lot more space to spare. Adding the fact that the mana disturbance was also about to go down, the battle reached the point where demonic humans were losing.

Thanks to the Anti-Demon Team that also arrived as support, the situation was already under control.

And because of that, they now had the chance to look around. Since the enemy's strength wasn't something to scoff at, all of the members were busy themselves.

<nulli>SWOOSH! BOOM!

Though, there was a girl who now had the chance to show off.

"DIE! DIE! DIE!"

Irina, with her red hair fluttering between the ashes of her fire, was taking her anger out of the demonic humans, using her fire magic.

"She is mad," Ethan said as he looked into the figure of the girl.

<nulli>THUD!

"Yes, she is," Lucas added immediately, leaving himself on the table and lying there. His clothes were tattered, and there were some bleeding wounds, but even then, he looked fine. "She probably felt useless when the mana disturbance was around. Contrary to us, she is a mage, so without mana, she is quite a baggage."

"You know, you better not say it into her face, right?"

"Of course, man. Do you think I have a death wish or something?"

"Lucas, don't slack off." At that second, a man with a bulky build came. He was carrying a Warhammer in his hand.

"Yeah, yeah…. Just leave me alone, Carl."

"We can't stop now; the enemies are still there." Contrary to Lucas' dismissive tone, Carl didn't budge in. His serious expression and eyes were piercing through the young man lying on the table.

"Man, can't you see the battle is already over? Just cut me some slack."

Just as Carl said, there were still some sounds of fighting that could be heard, but most of the demonic humans were retreating back to portals, and those portals were closing one by one.

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"ATTEND THE WOUNDED!"

Like a battlefield, some of the Blackthorn Family's forces were trying to pursue the retreating enemy, while clerics that were called were attending to the wounded.

"Yeah, we can afford to rest a little now." Julia also approached the group, in her hand, a broken sword.

"You broke your sword?" Ethan asked.

"It was just a random crap. Our family's swordsmanship can not be used with any normal sword." Julia replied, shrugging off.

Just as she said, both she and Lucas needed to change their swords frequently in this fight, and that almost cost them their lives.

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"I guess that is true." Ethan nodded as he also watched the fight. His body was also tattered, and the injuries he had sustained were a lot more severe than others.

"You know, you need to get treatment," Julia said, looking at his wounds. "This is not something that you can ignore."

"Treatment?" Ethan looked clueless for a second, but as his eyes followed Julia's fingers, he finally realized the wounds he had accumulated.

"You were into fighting, weren't you? The fact that you are not even feeling the pain."

"..." Ethan didn't answer, but he only looked at the dead bodies that were carried by the personnel. He remembered the words that were spoken by the demonic human at that time.

<nullb>'Humanity is a weakness.'

The reason why he remembered those words was not because they were meaningful. It was because they conveyed how distorted these people were, if you could call them even people.

"You don't need to think about it too much." At that moment, Julia spoke. She was also looking at the same place.

"..."

"Demonic humans," Julia said, echoing Ethan's thoughts. "They're nothing more than monsters. People who've abandoned their humanity in exchange for power."

"….."

"So, you don't need to think of them as humans anymore. They are nothing but thrash that lost their own purpose in this life." She said as she slowly touched the metallic part of her blade. "This is the only thing they deserve."

"Yeah, you may be right," Ethan said, slowly standing. "But, I don't believe every evil in this world is irredeemable."

"Redeeming…..They won't ever want to redeem themselves, and you know it too."

"Yeah….But, it is the 'humanity' that makes us at least try, isn't it? Some people are just misunderstood or broken, and if we had just discarded them, this would make us no different than them."

As he said that, a certain gloomy boy came into his mind.

'What would he say if he was here, I wonder?'

Ethan thought as he started walking, with a slight smile lingering on his lips. For some reason, he wanted to exchange punches with him right now while talking. Those practical lessons were something he did enjoy.

'I guess I will talk to him when I return to the academy.'

However, right now, it was a little hard for him to do that since the pain in his wounds slowly started coming back.

"Please come here." Just as he was walking, a clerk came to him and immediately started attending to his wounds.

"Please drink this." First, she gave him a potion, and then she accelerated the healing process using her healing trait.

"You can leave now."

"Thank you."