I created my own system

Chapter 225 Fifty times

"Stay together you jackass!" Matilda yelled, though she could barely get the words out. She was annoyed they had to interfere but since they saw the situation they couldn't really leave them to die.

Desperation swelled up and Emily finally wrested herself free of her thoughts and sent out a powerful, though unstable, wave of arrows. Her energy surged forward to catch several of the beasts off guard, hurling them to the ground.

"Nice!" Niko commented while Agnes stayed by his side to cast more spells.

Hearing such words Emily felt her heart pounded in her chest, but now a spark of determination began to cut through the tangle of fear.

"I can do this!" she motivated herself and pulled the string of her bow.

The tide of the battle was changing again and this time Apollo zoomed out of the dense forest and immediately cast a spell on the pack of enemies.

The beasts, momentarily stunned due to the lightning spell, felt numb and afraid of their attacker. Knowing their death would be guaranteed they began retreating into the darkness.

The students upon seeing their enemies leaving could finally breathe, they began panting and drenched in sweat. They remain in the aftermath, their emotions still in chaos but they are happy to survive. They had fought hard and had emotions left raw from the encounter.

The circumstances of this fight only left them shaken to the core. It is due to fear of the wolves themselves and their own vulnerability as well as the uncertainty about their capabilities. They began to doubt what they learned and even realized their incompetence in some areas.

As the dying roars of the beasts faded away, the students gathered there, mentally fighting with adrenaline and fear that still clinging to them. The forest breathed with them as the sun fully disappeared and a night full of unspoken anxieties and worries crept in.

This day literally gave them the knowledge that being good in theory alone won't be able to save them in real-life situations. Knowing base only in books won't be enough to save you once the fangs of danger are bare.

Even when they were camping peacefully their bodies were still extremely trembling from fear and pressure. None of them could speak about what happened and a resounding silence envelopes the camp.

"Well it seems nothing will happen here" Mckenzie said so all his classmates prepared to leave however before they could go someone suddenly stopped them.

"Wait please!"

Samantha the president of the combat class said as soon as she saw Apollo and his friends moving to leave the camp.

"Can you please stay, don't leave us here, I think it would be safer if all of us were to stick together" she reasoned though McKenzie and Apollo didn't seem to pay heed to her words. They only looked at her for a second before walking away. This causes Samantha to run after them followed by the entire Combat class behind her.

"Please just stay!" she said, though Apollo and McKenzie continued walking.

"Please stay, we need your support, please it's too scary here, don't leave us" her voice was close to crying, while her classmates behind her back were feeling sorry, they pleaded for Apollo and his classmates to stay.

"Alicia" Apollo called her and so she answered.

"Yes?"

"Were there any rules that forbid us from camping with other class?" he asked to which Alicia answered by shaking her head.

"I didn't read anything about that, however, we mustn't interfere too much with their task since it might affect their evaluation"

"Alright got it" Then he looked at the rest of his classmates before saying "We will camp here"

None objected and they immediately camped a few meters away from the camp of the Combat class.

"You can return now," Apollo told Samatha.

The girl with her eyes reddened due to tears can't help but smile a bit.

"Thank you," she said, the little girl was already frustrated as it was. She was the class president and being the leader in this situation put all the pressure on her. She just saw Apollo and his classmates as a source of strength to help them complete their tasks.

"Please don't think of us as a burden, we will just ask for assistance and nothing else" she clarifies though Apollo only nods his head as he returns to his classmate's side.

"President, how did it go?"

"They won't leave but they won't stay for too long so prepare yourselves" she only says as she heads back to her tent.

That night Alicia cooked the wolf meat while Apollo took their hide.

"Are you planning on selling them"

"Yup why not"

He only answered until his eyes saw Agnes, Vesta and Arabella on the side of the camp, they were busy creating a barrier system to protect them in case of an attack.

Apollo can't help but smile as he realises they really have grown, what is even more funny is that Samael, Nino and Braiden were by their side.

"Aren't you guys way too slow?"

The peaceful atmosphere around the six was immediately broken as soon as Casper and Matilda arrived.

"You guys are already finished setting traps?" Vesta asked finding them a bit too fast since they were only two of them.

"Of course, traps are a piece of cake after all"

"Shut it Cas you didn't even help me out" Matilda retorted while slightly pushing him on the side.

"Let's go I am hungry" She told the three girls causing them to rush to finish the barrier system.

While they laid out the defence of the camp, Apollo made another layer of defensive barrier meant to attack the moment it sensed danger.

"You looked weak a while ago"

Alicia could finally ask about the pressing matter that made everyone worry.

"Ah, that..." Apollo began to contemplate his words while he drew the magic circle required for the barrier system to work.

"Someone killed me" he started to say causing Alicia to look at him in shock.

"Based on your expression you do not believe me"

"I know you are not the strongest yet but not just anyone can kill you, no one can even hurt you right now!" She exclaimed and even Apollo could agree with her.

"I also felt it was impossible, you know I even think that perhaps it was because of exhaustion from letting the spell run active for weeks, that made me mentally exhausted. I thought because of that, however, I did not die just once," his voice began to tremble while his hand began to shake as well.

"Alicia, I was killed fifty times today, with only minutes of the interval from each of my deaths"

He stops drawing the magic circle while his other hand holds the one holding the engraving pen, that hand was shaking so Apollo tried to stop it. However, trying to stop his hand from shaking made it worse since he could not help it.

Seeing this situation Alicia decided to calm him down, she began to hold him.

"I never knew that death could be so painful, although I already experienced it before I could never get used to it," he said while being embraced by her.

"Silly, no one can get used to death, especially the pain it brings. It will always be painful no matter how many times you experience it"

"Why do you sound as if you died already"

"Maybe I did" she playfully answered though her arms completely wrapped around Apollo's body. His head was resting on her chest, while Alicia began patting his back.

Initially, she wanted to ask how he died, but seeing how the question brought a very painful and traumatic expression on his face made her rethink her question. She knows how strong his mentality yet it is slowly shaken after dying fifty times in a single day. And yet Apollo manages to defend his friends while fighting his crumbling mind.

But there is a problem now, someone out there can overwhelm Apollo this much. Not even Nirvana was able to put him in the corner yet fifty mysterious beings were able to kill him.

She couldn't help but sigh, so to ease her mind as well she continued Apollo's barrier system while using a spell to make the engraving pen move. Since Apollo is in her arms she can't draw and all she can do is move the pen using spells.

"Um... Ali" Jilian called her so Alicia's attention suddenly shifted, from the barrier she was making to her.

"What is it?"

"Well I was about to ask you and Apollo to join us but it seems, he can't go in that state"

Alicia knew what she was saying so she only asked for them to leave some food for the two of them.

"Just tell us if you need anything alright"

Jillian told her before returning to their makeshift kitchen.

*Sigh*

Alicia then notices Apollo's breath becoming calmer. "Well it seems he only needs rest" she concluded while stroking his head.

That night some student of the Combat class went over to the camp of the Lower class to ask for their help since they never tried eating wolf meat before. Gladly Mckenzie showed them how to skin and cook a wolf.