Reincarnated As The Heroes Guide

The majority of the invading men were not awakened, they were just desperate people who thought that they could kidnap Kalli to keep the rewards for themselves. They were following the leadership of the few powerful ones in their group. But neither the awakened nor their followers were bulletproof.

It took a second for the students to realize what had happened, and then they snapped out of their shock and realized that they were truly under attack.

”Drive them out!” One of the warriors shouted, as the sound of blades being drawn echoed through the Academy.

Kalli looked down at her hand and realized that the pistol was empty now, with a wall of dead men in front of her, all holding improvised weapons. They had only brought one gun with the entire group, and he had fallen first.

The battle was over in seconds.

There was no way for a bunch of unarmoured civilians to resist multiple [Cleave] attacks coming from the warriors on both sides of them, and now the courtyard was littered with corpses.

Even the special forces were a bit horrified with the ease that a warrior could wipe out a whole group of people.

And it reminded them just how tough the monsters were to take that level of punishment and survive.

Kalli stood with the smoking pistol in her hands, her expression frozen in a neutral glare as her brain tried to process everything. But the others didn’t see the inner turmoil.

They saw an ice faced Princess in elaborately layered robes standing over the bodies of men who had tried to kidnap her.

”Damn, girl. No wonder it didn’t give you a combat class, you’re already scary enough,” one of the boys joked, trying to break the tension.

Kalli smiled weakly and absently wiped the pistol down, then cleaned the action, just as her old boss had taught her, before putting it away.

”Well, that was... unfortunate. We should clean up the courtyard before people finish the quest and get the wrong impression. We don’t want to scare away other students.”

”Right, we need to go get the points and rescue the others. What do we do with the bodies?”

One of the mages pointed to the corner of the compound. ”Put them in the compost pile and I will turn them to ash. I have fire magic for that.”

The courtyard was quickly cleared, and someone brought out a large hose to wash off the cobblestones.

That brought the Academy’s yard back to an acceptable state, and the teams quickly rushed out, not wanting to remain here any longer, while the memory of what had just happened was still fresh.

If they left and came back once the signs were gone, they could pretend it never happened.

That would be better.

Kalli walked over to one of the benches that sat by the driveway, and slumped down to stare at the sky and contemplate just what had happened to her life.

Or afterlife, as the case might be.

One of the soldiers sat down next to her on the bench.

”First body?”

Kalli nodded.

”You did well. I would say that it gets easier, but it doesn’t. You just learn not to hesitate and to lock everything away so you can function.”

He smelled like hot brass, blood and gunpowder, the aftermath of the battle. But Kalli realized that she likely didn’t smell much different, as the first man had been standing so close that she got blood on her clothes.

”If you want to change, you should do it now. The first teams that went out to kill rat demons will be back in ten minutes. There are a lot of them nearby.”

”Right, change.”

Kalli absently swapped off her robes, as she had pants and a blouse underneath, and the soldier stared at her.

”Where did the robes go?”

”Storage? It’s a function that the System gave me. The same space where I stored the pigs.”

”Oh, that is handy. If you want to take them back out, I’m doing a load of laundry anyhow, and I’m good at getting blood out.”

”Oh? That’s a valuable skill. Thank you.”

Kalli took the white robes out with very little hope that the blood stains would ever come out, only to find that they were pristine.

”How does that work? You were soaked in blood a second ago, now they’re clean? Are these the same ones?”

”I’ve only got the one set. It’s an armour drop from a loot box.”

They both stared at the clean white clothing, confused as to how putting them away had made them clean.

The soldier frowned, and then took a shirt out of his backpack.

”Try it on this.”

Kalli put the shirt away, then brought it back out.

”Nope, same as it went in.”

”What about this? It came from the loot box.” He offered up a coat, which was filthy from wherever they’d been hunting rat demons.

Kalli put it in storage, then pulled it out, and it was spotless.

”So, it only works on things we get from the loot boxes, or your store? Alright, that’s good to know.”

”It is. Now I’ve got clean clothes to put on. What a day. We’re definitely going to have to work on our security procedures. How did they get so close without alerting anyone?”

The guard shrugged. ”We spotted them, but it looked like any other group, and they looked friendly until the last second when they rushed the gate. We should have known better, but we let our guard down because we were expecting a bunch of new awakened visitors.”

”Ah, right. Because we’re trying to find students and bring them back, we didn’t close the gates, and that let them in. We’re going to have to stop being naive about the intentions of visitors.

Given a couple more days, people are going to start getting truly desperate, and then our mission teams will start to be in danger from the survivors as well.

But I don’t know what to do about that.”