Before Uvenna, was a young and handsome man in a knight armor. His cascading air shimmered with brilliant light, brownish gold eyes, stared at her. Her soul. Then he spoke:
"Are you hurt?"
Uvenna blinked twice before regaining her mind. She wasn't taken aback by his appearance, rather than the situation before her. Composing herself, she turned and stared at the rest of the students. They weren't hurt. Then she turned to him, and replied:
"No, we are not. Thanks to you?"
The young man's expression changed to a displeased one, as those weren't the words he wanted to hear, but it would have to do. He then walked into the barrier like he was the owner of it, making everyone shocked.
"W-Who are you?" Uvenna stuttered.
The man in the armor didn't answer straight away. Instead he walked around her, inspecting her armor, as they look intriguing to him. He did it unconsciously, but it had already began making Uvenna fell uncomfortable.
"Excuse you!" she proclaimed.
"Oh apologies. I got carried away. Hehe."
Uvenna's bewildered, she didn't know who this person was, or how they had the mind to chuckle in the situation they were in at the moment. Although, his appearance said otherwise.
"I asked you might be?"
With a force expression, she stared at him and suddenly he looked back at her with an even more determined expression.
"We are…"
At this point, all the monsters that had surrounded them had all perished, turning into ash.
"We are…"
Then, suddenly four figures landed in front of the students, one hand and kneel on the ground, while the other was in the air, as though landing like a superhero.
"We are… knights!"
The four figures stood up, and entered the barrier just the same way the first knight did. Among the four were two females and two male. Their cascading armor beamed with light of otherworldliness. Adding the first knight makes them five in total.
"Knights?" Phillip uttered.
"Yes. And we have come to get you out of here."
"Get us out of here? What do you mean by that?"
Uvenna stared at the young handsome man before her. He had a steady and straight expression. There was no sign of one who was frightened by the monster whatsoever. Rather, he held a sense of confidence, and authority.
"Just exactly as I said!" he responded, not giving meaning to her words.
This made Uvenna a bit uneasy, as he moved her sword from her right to her left hand and pointed at him.
"I don't know who you are Mr. But I can't just do what a random person tells me to do."
The young man was backed away, both of his hands raised as though he was surrendering. A smile played on his face, as he stared deep into the Uvenna's eyes. There, he saw determination, and at the same time, fear.
He looked at the rest of the students and saw fear and confusion in there eyes. Then he began:
"You are right." He placed his hands down. " I think I didn't start well. My name is Reynold Bichek Arnan, but you and call me Reynold. And these are my follow comrades. Elysia, Echidna, Alon and Natsu. We are the knights of Luminastra."
While calling out their names, he pointing at each one of them. While he gestured with pleasure.
"I am going to keep this short before we are surrounded by more Echoes, but-"
"Echoes?"
Uvenna asked, as she cut his sentence short.
"Yes, that's why I said." Reynold replied.
"Do you mean this creatures?" Phillip added. And Reynold responded.
"Exactly. That's what they are called… Echoes."
Phillip turn to Uvenna as they both stared at each other, bewildered. They didn't have the slightest idea that the creatures had a name. And that was when it hit one of them.
In Uvenna's thought:
'If these guys know what those monsters are called, then they also know what the hell is happening here.'
"Can you tell us more about this mon- I mean Echoes?* She asked, staring at Reynold with curiosity.
"Like I said I would make this short, but here you go. This creatures that you see are called Echoes. And I'm sure by know you would have noticed how they are born. When a person is bitten by one of them, such a person would either die, or instantly turn into an Echos, under the rage of two minutes."
"Two minutes???"
"Yes. And they are not so much easy to kill. As of now I would say that you have zero chance of winning this battle. You only chance is to come with us."
Uvenna frowned as she heard these words again.
"Are you saying that we should abandon our home just because you say so?"
At the point, the rest of the students began murmuring, in reaction to what Reynold had just said.
"Like I said there is nothing you can do. At the stage you are now, you don't have enough powers to fight them all. You will only die if you get out there. And I am not letting that happen."
"So you are saying that we should go with you because, What? You think we are weak???" Uvenna proclaimed. "Hmph… who do you think you are?"
At these point, she didn't how to react. There was a situation before her that she didn't know if she could come out from, but now she had not been presented with one. But still, it didn't sit right with you.
"Look. I am not saying that you would abandon you home. I am saying that when you are a lot stronger, you could come back and reclaim it. Moreover, it is not as if you are actually leaving your world, since the place we are going to is already attached to this world.
"What do you mean?"
"I will explain some other time, right now we have to get going before we get surrounded by more Echoes."
Reynold turned to his comrades and nodded for them to do something.
..
At same time, D'lean who saw the strang figures that entered the barrier, had no idea who they was. Although he witnessed how the four were able to kill so much echoes. It was like he was watching heroes fight in a comic book.
"Who are they?"
At the time when they had finished with the nearby monsters and entered the barrier, he knew that he had been given a chance. The space was clear for the most part, and he could make his way to his friends
"I have to know who those people were And there they came from."
D'lean who was outside of the barrier was only one who knew how the knights appeared. From another space. Without hesitation, he picked up the pace, a he ran to towards the barrier.
..
Back with the students…
Reynold nodded to his comrades, and then two of his comrades, Elysia and Natsu stretched their hands, and began rotating it. Suddenly, a bright light began forming in the space, and the more they rotated their hand, it grew stronger, and stronger before finally turning into a big space-like portal.
The students were bewildered to see what they wouldn't have normally seen in their entire lives.
"Is this real."
The portal, emitted a radiant flow that look otherworldly.
"Is this also a power?"
Reynold turned to Uvenna and gestured for her to take the first step, when suddenly a voice called out.
"Wait!!!"
The voice suddenly caught everyone's attention, and they all turned to the direction of where it came from. In a distance, a figure was moving abnormally like it was about to fall, but still kept its balance.
"Is that…?" Phillip squinted his eyes, and couldn't believe it.
"I-It can't be!" Uvenna spoke, as saw the figure come clear to her gaze.
"Do you know that person!" Reynold asked, with a curious expression on this face.
"Yes. I do. It is…"
The figure finally became clear to their vision. And in sync, both Phillip and Uvenna spoke:
"D'lean!"