"Yes, you do." Friya sneered. "We resisted the temptation to knock you out only because none of us is strong enough to carry you around in case the enemy attacked while you were still unconscious."
The group started quarreling, giving Lith the time to think of an excuse for his sudden leave.
"I'm sorry to have made you worry, but Kalla and I had some unfinished business." Lith lied through his teeth.
"She confirmed my hypothesis." He winked to them, referring to the undead's hive mind, hoping it wasn't all in his head.
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"Why you, of all people?" Quylla asked.
"She is afraid that because of her evolved form, other beasts could ostracize them and I'm the only human she trusts." Once again, he chose to mix together truth and lies to make his story easy to remember and play their feelings like a fiddle.
The always lingering fear of death and the sobbing story Lith made up about the cruel fate that would await Nok without his help, prevented them from asking questions he wouldn't know how to answer.
The mood turned gloomy, but even Solus agreed it was a small price to pay for lessons about true magic.
They had barely finished eating, when the alarm resounded, prompting the students to go back to the town plaza.
Soon the array was visible again, making them realize that Balkor's undead had already entered its perimeter. Lith trusted Kalla's judgment about Scarlett's strategy, but he reminded everyone about their contingency plan, just in case.
"I don't know what the master plan is and honestly, I don't care." Lith said.
"If anything happens to Kalla, that's our cue. It's better to run away to live and fight another day than dying an idiot's death." Everyone nodded, agreeing with the plan.
The seconds turned into minutes, but nothing happened. This time, instead of simply swarming the place, the Tox Spitters slowly marched into the town under the Valors' supervision.
Back in his lab, Balkor was amazed discovering that despite the modifications he had applied to his creatures, the array was back to full force. Yet it was within his calculations. The Valors had the Spitters positioning themselves in the key points of the array, before forcing them to self-detonate.
Kalla's Deathbane array crumbled, plunging the town into darkness. Back at full strength, the undead attacked with unparalleled vigor, easily cutting through the enemy lines.
Without support from the array, beasts and Professors quickly found themselves on the back foot. A single Spitter was nothing compared to their strength, but they were outnumbered over ten to one and every wound they suffered required specialized medical attention.
"Rise my legions!" Kalla roared, calling forth his undead army once again.
Two Valors approached her, moving so fast that none of the lesser undead at her command could react quickly enough to even slow them down.
"Filthy beast, your time has come." Said the first Valor.
"Filthy beast, your time is now." They both unsheathed their swords, moving in unison. The Valors attacked her at the same time from opposite directions, leaving Kalla no chance to defend herself.
Two deep wounds opened on Kalla's front shoulder and her back.
Kalla laughed bitterly, admitting her defeat. If she stayed, she would definitely die. Even if created with fake magic, those creatures were greater undead. Kalla had only recently become an Awakened one, she was still too weak to fight them and control her army at the same time.
If she left, her army would crumble, leaving her allies without any hope of victory.
Whatever choice she made, without her guidance, the lesser undead she had reanimated would attack indiscriminately friend or foes.
"Well, played creatures." Kalla's tone was sad, but devoid of despair.
"You have destroyed my array and turned my carefully prepared army into a liability in one fell swoop. It seems I have underestimated Balkor's ingenuity, but alas, he made my same mistake.
"Your master should have known that a cornered beast is the most dangerous one. I'm really curious to see if his plan can survive losing two of you right off the bat!"
Having her army become useless, Kalla recalled all the darkness magic she had infused into it back to her body, causing her mana core to overload. It resulted in a silent but massive explosion that engulfed all the nearby undead and briefly managed to cover the sky.
The collective death throes of the fallen threw both armies into chaos.