Affinity:Chaos

The group bid farewell to the Principal who was still in the middle of fighting before leaving the area. 

On their way, Grey told them about his hypothesis. 

"If what you say is correct, then leaving Teacher's side wouldn't be the best option," Instructor Blake said. 

The Principal was the only one in the Sage Plane amongst the group. If they were to escape without him, it would mean that they would fall into the hands of these people since they could track them. 

There's also the possibility of them having a hidden Sage Plane corpse lying in wait. A single one could easily wipe out the team. 

Grey thought about it and couldn't refute Instructor Blake's words. 

"So what do we do now, return to father?" Klaus asked. 

"We haven't gone far from him, so going back wouldn't be an issue," Instructor Blake replied. 

They turned to head back, but the sky above them suddenly went dark and a skeletal hand came out from the sky, heading towards the group as they tried escaping. 

"What the hell?!" Reynolds exclaimed in fright. 

He wasn't the only one horrified by what was coming in their direction, every single person there was shaken. 

"Move, now!" Instructor Blake yelled while dragging Delia with him. 

Grey snapped out of his shock and followed behind them. Klaus, Reynolds, Alice, and Void went after him. 

Unfortunately, after getting to a certain stage, a black veil appeared, seemingly blocking them from going through. 

"I can't get through," Instructor Blake said after trying to destroy it with his lightning blade. 

Grey brought out his high-grade elemental weapon and tried using it to slash the veil, after infusing all seven elements in. 

Clank! 

The sword bounced off the veil, and Grey almost lost his grip. 

"This is bad," Grey's expression changed. 

The hand was getting closer to the group as they tried to think of a way to break through it. 

'This is a domain. According to what I know, humans shouldn't be able to activate their domain until they at least get to the Sage Plane. And those who do at the Sage Plane are regarded as geniuses among geniuses,' Void explained to Grey telepathically. 

'A domain?' A confused expression appeared on Grey's face. But before Void could answer, 'Is there a way you can get us out of here, we'll speak about this later,' 

'I should be able to if I activate mine,' Void answered with uncertainty. 

Just like Grey, he couldn't access his space element properly, and that's the only element he had awakened his domain. The only reason he's attempting this is that they were not at the center of the lock down, so the spatial lock here wasn't too powerful. 

With Void in the middle, a powerful energy radiated out. 

Everyone felt the energy, but there was no change in their situation. 

'Void…' Grey called out. 

'I'm coming, this is me literally straining myself,' Void said with difficulty. 

The group stayed close to the edge of the veil, resting their bodies on it as if the hand wouldn't be able to get them if they were there. 

'Void,' Grey called out again. 

Void had his eyes shut, not saying anything. 

The hand was only about ten meters away from them. If they tried to move in another direction, the hand would get to them before they got there. 

Eight meters, six meters, four meters. 

Just when the hand was within inches of the group, almost already touching Instructor Blake's head, they fell through the veil blocking them, all falling to the ground with hearts pounding. 

"What… what just happened?" Klaus asked as he saw the hand grabbing the ground where they were previously standing. 

"Void happened, we should get going," Grey answered before picking up Void. 

He could see that doing this put a lot of strain on Void, luckily, he was conscious so it meant he wasn't really hurt. 

….

Somewhere in the woods. 

"How did they escape from that?" A figure dressed in a black cloak with a croaky voice asked angrily after smashing a tree to smithereens. 

"I don't know," Another person dressed in a black cloak answered. 

"I thought there was no one that could use domains, and their Sage Plane expert was stuck with fighting your puppets?' The first speaker said. 

"There's a strange cat with them," A voice said from the ground. 

The ground shook and a small black head stuck out from it. It looked exactly like a human, only the eyes were bigger and teeth were sharp. 

"A cat? What does a cat have to do with this?" The first person said. 

"It almost killed us, even with our higher number," The figure said before coming out from the ground. 

It was around one meter in height, and its entire body was black. Its ears were longer than that of a human, and the tips were pointed. 

"We came here to hide and regain our strength, eating these kids will be beneficial to us. Send out the puppets, we can not let them escape," The first voice said. 

"Yes, Supreme One," The last figure in the group nodded before disappearing from the woods. 

At the time this person was leaving, a third figure came out from the ground. But compared to the first two, it had injuries all around its body with blue blood dripping from the side. 

"What happened to you?" The person regarded as the Supreme One asked. 

"I was almost killed by the kid who disconnected our connection with the puppets," The figure said. 

"What?" The Supreme One asked in shock. 

The figure went on to tell him of how Grey tried to force her out from the ground with the earth element. She sustained injuries even though she escaped successfully. 

"We'll get him soon. I wonder how he managed to achieve that," The Supreme One said thoughtfully. 

"Also, there's a mark on him…" The lady Grey fought against told them about his prowess and that of the Principal and Instructor Blake. 

"This is a nice harvest, you'll get the lightning user once we get them," The Supreme One said.