Chapter 167: The Battle of Norneau - Part 2 - Bad Stuff
Kordia hopped back two paces as she looked over the battlefield. She hadn’t had time to pull mana from the air to make her silver flames, and now there was too little available mana to do so as every student of the Academy had drawn on the same supply.
"Guess we’re doing this the hard way," Kordia said.
Concentrating on the room, she watched and watched as the melee continued to evolve. Lugh was fighting fiercely, a squad of cadets against a squad of lesser demons. So far the mix was roughly even throughout the room, and with fewer frontline fighters, the Academy students were mostly fending off the demons that got around the Knight cadets.
Already, the bodies of four Academy students lay injured or dead on the floor. In the press, it was hard to tell.
Kordia bit her lip to shake off the awful thoughts surging in her mind.
"Let’s do some rearranging..."
Dropping her personal shield, Kordia distributed it around the battlefield in hexagonal-shaped shards, simultaneously she broke them each into smaller triangles, enough to place one on each student and cadet’s chest.
Starting with her right, she suddenly pulled back most of the students into a rough formation, before doing the same thing with the cadets. Then, letting those shield bits disperse, she repeated the gesture with the students and cadets on her left.
The demons were surprised by it, and some even took a step back as they assessed what was happening, but all Kordia did was push everyone into formations, which had been something Rain enjoyed telling her about often. Guess it stuck, she thought to herself as she stepped back and let the natural flow of combat take its course.