Chapter 268: The One Behind It All

Raze went into detail, asking Safa why she thought that her brother might be involved, but she was unable to provide too many details. She could only overhear them talking as the struggle against her parents and more had taken place.

If anything, it sounded as if her brother was attempting to defuse the situation before everything went awry. It looked like the clan elder who had assumed that Safa or he might have something to do with it all was right on track in the end.

Unfortunately, since she seemed to know nothing else about her brother's doings, Raze was unable to get into further details.

'It makes me wonder, Alter investigated the case because there had been similar instances of entire families being wiped out before, but is it really the doing of some item? Physical assassins were what had gone after our family.

'The Bonum society attacked me as well, but whether that was to do with me being part of Alter or the past, it's hard to tell.'

"Continue practicing the light magic, gathering as much as you can. For now, I don't know much about light spells or how to increase the strength of your core. But I have my ways to find out that information."

Raze could always go back to Alter with his new astral projection skill, but it put him in a vulnerable state, and with everyone after his life, he had no time to do such a thing. He still even had the level 5 crystals he planned to use to try and propel himself to become a 4-star mage.

However, there was a high chance that it would make a portal break, and down here in the short space they were in, that was far too dangerous.

Before letting Safa go off to do her own thing, he pulled out a pill, although it was hard to say it was a pill since it was larger in size, around the same size as a fist. It still had the same outer hard casing on the outside as regular pills.

"What is this?" Safa asked. "Is it a Qi pill? Or a Qi ball, but I can't feel any energy from it?"

"I guess you would think it's that," Raze replied. "That is made from the same ingredients needed for the Qi pill. The outside has always been digestible and has nutrients that one can use to eat. You must be starting to get a little hungry, right?

"Well, I made that just using the other ingredients. There's no power stone, so you can eat that to satisfy your hunger."

Safa looked at it as she stood up, ready to leave the seclusion room. She thought in her head that there was a particular eye-patched boy that was suffering from the lack of food a lot more than her.

"Thank you, Raze. You have helped us out a lot, and I hope as I continue to learn these skills that I can help you more in the future."

Raze didn't turn around, and instead, he just waved her off with the back of his hand. 'With that, I don't have many ingredients for myself. I don't know how much longer this will last, so I might have to find a way to get food for myself as well.'

For now, though, he continued to learn the next move sets in the Noctis Clan's book. If anything, he wasn't going to waste his time, and he was going to continue getting stronger. The first formation worked out well, even though there was no magic used; now it was time for him to learn the next set of formations.

'I also need a way to increase my Oagna stage from the 3rd stage to the 4th. I have a feeling that I might get caught up in a whirlwind of mess soon.

Things soon got somewhat back to normal. In the end, out of all the students, Ricktor had decided to pick up the head that was lying on the floor. People were treating it like it was infected by an incurable disease, and the area felt smaller because of it.

When he took it into the seclusion room, he quickly returned, and as he did, he held out his sword, with his fist in his hand, and continued his training.

Most of the time Ricktor would do visual training, but for around 2 hours a day, he would train on his own in the training area. What amazed the others who had been watching him so far was that each time he performed it, he looked just as sharp as the last time.

Making the other students wonder if he was getting food or not. Another day had gone past, which meant the hunger was increasing for them all another time.

The remnants of Alfred's group were being affected the worst, and there was a huge concern. Currently, Ricktor was training just as he had done before, and those who were from Alfred's group came over to the other five disciples.

"Are you not going to try and do anything about Raze and his group?" the student asked. "He killed so many of us already, right in front of our eyes. If this continues, he will go after you guys as well.

"You know you lost to him already; if we don't team up together, we won't be able to get rid of him."

Lisa moved forward but was stopped by Mada. His fists were tensed. The student could tell that he had struck a nerve with the main disciples, but it was getting to the point that they wouldn't do anything about it.

"If you want to fight, then fight on your own. If you're hungry, then find your own way to get some food," Mada replied.

Seeing this, and sitting with his free group of friends, was Tinson. He let out a big sigh as he brushed the dirt from the top of his thighs.

"Hey, where are you going?" Violet asked.

"Me... I'm going to try to get us some food," Tinson gulped. "I'm going to go speak to the White Dragon."

His friends wanted to stop him, they wanted to try and convince him not to, but they didn't even have the energy to get up. If they didn't get any food soon, then there would be no hope for them.

They could hardly sleep right now due to the fear of someone slitting their throats in the middle of the night.

At the same time, Dame was on his own in the training area. No one seemed to pay him any bother, he had his arms folded and was watching Ricktor practicing. He was thinking back to yesterday, a moment the two of them had.

When Ricktor went to return the head to the seclusion room, him and Dame had crossed paths and made eye contact for a moment. Dame was going to say nothing and continue on, but that was when Ricktor called out to him.

"I'm very curious about your actions," Ricktor said. "You have certainly made things very interesting in this place. However, no matter how hard I think, I just can't come up with a reason, a reason as to why if you were on Raze's side, that you would have done that.

"Do you mind explaining to me why you decided to kill those students?"