Chapter 204: Six Days Of Nothing

Everyone expected a hard-fought battle from the get-go.

Who wouldn’t expect such a thing when the supposed Black Shepherds were their enemies? But that started to change when the entire versioned battlefield remained quiet amidst its own structures, where towers stood with walls that were cracked, destroyed, or completely beyond repair.

Yet from the first day until almost the last, nothing particular happened, as if everything Willow, Aster, and the rest who had been with Cillian at the time had seen was nothing but a scary joke meant to scare them.

They even had to ditch their own plan because of this claim that nobody had seen except Cillian.

‘Are you playing mind games with me?’

Cillian mused inwardly as he stood at their own tower, gazing at the other side where their opponents had probably set up camp but hadn’t made an appearance.

It had been literally six days of nothing.

On the first day, the whole class was in a state of panic and had to constantly watch out for their surroundings in case an attack happened. Almost everyone was at their wit’s end, expecting a blade to suddenly appear from some direction and kill them.

Thankfully, everyone wasn’t so gullible as to leave themselves vulnerable, so they put defensive mechanisms in place, such as creating protective walls for themselves, others, and the tower they were currently using.

At least, a fourth-tier sorcery spell or above wouldn’t be able to hurt them through the layers of protection placed around.

As for whether it was enough, no one wanted to find out.

The second day was no different, and this continued up until the sixth day, as everyone was still almost the same. However, the way they moved started to change as the days went by.

The whole class started to look at Cillian weirdly, as he was the one who had told them this information.

Of course, Cillian would be blamed. He was throwing out assumptions that their opponents, a whole freaking class, were Black Shepherds.

If not for the fact that Cillian was friends with the Class President and his men, they would’ve already screwed up their current plan and proceeded with their previous plan, which was still viable anyway.

No one would want to waste their Safety Card by not doing their best in their first fight when they could’ve technically won.

That’s why Cillian got back to his first question.

‘Mind games. What for?’

Cillian almost laughed at himself when thinking about it.

He didn’t want to appear deranged and create an image that everything was just a joke. His group or Aster might’ve believed him, but that wasn’t the case for the majority.

That’s why Cillian found his opponents right now rather tricky.

‘I have been overseeing everything happening on our side. I have been watching everyone doing their own thing, and no one has made any suspicious movements.’

It was already the seventh day.

Cillian wanted to reduce casualties if both sides ever fought. He wanted the enemies to come at them, not the other way around, but it could definitely change based on the current events.

At this moment, he was trying to figure out their inactivity because it didn’t make any sense in any way for them.

‘Doing this is a risk for them. They could only execute this one time since the Academy will try to implement another rule by having an overseer later on to avoid encountering the same problem. It doesn’t matter if Xesie is working with the Shepherds or not.’

Suddenly, a thought occurred to Cillian as he couldn’t help but notice that the Shepherds were getting ballsy even though this mission appeared to have many problems.

“Are they trying to throw the Sorcery Academy into a state of chaos now?”

Even though he found it unlikely for the Shepherds to be that daring, Cillian couldn’t help but be amused by his own thoughts.

All of it had to stop when Aster called him from the side.

“Cillian. Willow is gathering everyone else again.”

Cillian glanced behind at the main character who hadn’t doubted him even for a second, which somehow reassured him that he wasn’t alone in this.

Or at least, that’s what he thought.

“I’m right behind ya.”

Cillian left the top of the tower and started following Aster without starting a conversation. It didn’t take long before he saw a bunch of people already gathering around.

[Death Flag x2]

Cillian started walking around while continuing to activate his Nearby Flag Presence, which he didn’t even turn off, not even for a second, during the six days of nothing.

[Death Flag x12]

He watched the doubtful faces they were giving him. If not for him and his wild accusations, they wouldn’t have been in this situation. Well, all except for those people who knew him, of course.

Cillian merely ignored them and continued walking forward. It seemed like they were the only ones everyone had been waiting for to start this meeting yet again.

[Death Flag x29]

Slowly, Cillian started placing himself in the middle, where he could take a look at everyone while also making use of his Nearby Flag Presence to the fullest.

[Death Flag x40]

Eventually, it reached the desired result.

That was until something made his eyes knit together.

[Death Flag x41]

The Death Flag increased by one when it was only supposed to be forty.

‘This…’

He felt as if his skin were being pricked by knives when he realized that someone had joined them without anyone noticing at all.

Someone from what he presumed to be the enemy.

[Death Flag x41]

Even after waiting a few seconds as the meeting began, Cillian’s eyes stayed glued to the screen in front of him, which showed the number of people in the area.

‘Calm down.’

Cillian was almost thrown off guard because the number of his Death Flags hadn’t changed once during any of the meetings Willow had held each day for the past six days.

Only this time.

‘They are making their move.’

After taking a silent breath, Cillian immediately called out to the person he could alert right now without alerting the ‘individual’ who had invaded their territory.

‘Aster.’

Even though there were no apparent changes on Aster’s face, he somehow reacted, which was enough for Cillian to notice since he was secretly looking for him.

Then, he continued by bringing the grave news.

‘A Black Shepherd is among us.’