Everything happened so fast, some of them barely had time to process it.
As their feet landed on a barren land, utterly devoid of life, the reactions varied among the elite class students who had just been mercilessly thrown into an unknown territory.
Among them was Frey, kneeling on one knee, running his bare hand through the rough sand with a deep frown on his face.
"What just happened?"
It was Seris Moonlight who voiced the question haunting them all.
They were supposed to arrive in the Nightmare Lands, as they'd been told.
But the strange deviation during teleportation suggested otherwise—something had gone wrong.
Of course, they had no way of knowing that this deviation had actually saved them, caused by Frey's intervention through the system.
Had he not acted, they would've ended up walking straight into the ambush the Ultras had prepared for them.
The elite students weren't fools—or at least, not all of them were.
