The team of Eric Partizan, Ailyn Shrier and Igor Vankov waited by the entrance of the student hunting ground for about an hour, and they finally saw the ones they were waiting for - one student, one junior researcher, and one teaching assistant. These were of course, their public personas and profiles they had when infiltrating the academy. Their official identities were actually spies from the famous, or in this case infamous Vyn crime syndicate, which was something not known to many.

Katrina, the teaching assistant with straight long black hair in a civilian style suit, was the leader of the team, and according to Eric Partizan’s memory, she was also a recruiting agent for the Lady Vyn’s team; Lia, the student, some sort of water magic protege, was a core member of Lady Vyn’s team and possibly the member of a coven; Gregory, the junior researcher, the medicine and toxicology expert, who was here probably for the purpose of verifying the quality of product.

The team of three shook hands with the ranger that was in charge. They chatted for a while and then another ranger came to the entrance and with a very normal and even mundane looking brown paper bag with the badge of the academy printed on the forefront - the kind of bag that was commonly used by the academy to transport all kinds of non essential things, from books, to food, to random non-toxic and non-radiating magical materials.

The team of three took the humble brown paper bag, finished their exchange of pleasantries and were about to be on their way.

“Okay.” Eric Partizan infused his magical energy into a medallion in his hand, and activated the portable confusion array he placed around the entrance.

The portable confusion array scroll activated, and without the team of three noticing anything, an almost completely transparent light purple energy bubble covered a whole area in which they were in. The information they received from the environment started getting distorted, and gradually, their cognitive functions were slowed and thus their reaction time became much longer than they previously thought. Their actions were also slowed due to a similar effect, and right now, if one was to take a look at them, they would be walking in slow motion like in the movies.

“Go!” Eric Partizan said to Igor Vankov, and they both rushed out from their hiding place and charged towards the team of three that worked for Lady Vyn. Ailyn Shrier, as the bow mage of the team, had an enchanted arrow on her short bow aimed at the team of three and was ready to cover for them just in case something went wrong or there was someone hiding in the shadows covering for their target.

The effects of the confusion array was strong due to the meticulousness of the scroll, but it was also quite easy to shake off as Eric Partizan used only the portable scroll to conjure it without any preparation or added powerful materials at all. If their target noticed something was wrong, it would only take them a couple of mind clearing spells to break out of their confused state and illusion.

Eric Partizan and Igor Vankov rushed to the side of their rival team member who was holding the paper bag. Eric Partizan had a restraining spell ready and the moment he got close enough he just slammed his hands onto the ground and the rival team of three were all locked in their places and put in chains by purple energy chains and ropes. Igor Vankov took the brown paper bag with his left hand, then raised his right hand in the air and released a blinding bright flash of white light.

“Fuck! ” “Who is it!” “Shit! My eyes!”

There seemed to be no one covering for the rival team of three, so Ailyn Shrier rushed out of her hiding place and tried to catch up to her teammates.

“You, Partizan!” Katrina instantly broke out of her confused state. But Eric Partizan did not look back to check how long it took them to break out of his restraining spell. The images were getting blurry again, it seemed that Eric Partizan was getting emotional again during this part of his memory. Professor Barnes could sense that the emotions stirred up here were mainly anger and regret, with a little touch of sadness.

Just when Eric Partizan and his team was about to reach a dark corner inside of the campus, he sensed that a dangerous attack was shooting at his back from behind. So he immediately used his flow magic to push him to the side then rolled on the ground. A sharp fiery energy spear stuck into the ground just slightly before his previous position. If he kept on going, the energy spear would have impaled him.

“Fuck! Katrina, did you just aim for my life?” Eric Partizan continued his way forward, but still turned back and asked.

“You shouldn’t have taken what’s not yours!” Katrina conjured four more fiery energy spears and with a loud roar she hurled all of them at Eric Partizan’s team: “How fucking dare you!”

“Bang!” Ailyn Shrier shifted to the side, turned around and her bow string made a loud sound as she fired a bright light red energy arrow at Katrina. 

“Boom!” the energy arrow exploded midway between Eric’s team and Katrina, dozens of fireballs shot out in a cone direction at Katrina like pellets from a shotgun. Katrina’s figure shifted left and right in the gaps between the fireballs, smoothly dodging all of the incoming attacks.

Lia and Gregory also broke out of the restraining spell, and they both rushed after the team of Eric following the lead of Katrina.

Ailyn Shrier unleashed a lightning arrow at Katrina while she was just out of the range of the fireball attacks. This time the attack was much faster and the angle was much more difficult to dodge, and Katrina had to block it using a magical shield she conjured using her enchanted gloves.

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