He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Division Blink.
He vanished from their sight.
Then—a sickening thud.
A headless body dropped to the floor.
Gasps rang out. They turned toward the sound and saw Noct hovering in the air, holding the severed head of one of their own.
"Well, that's one down," he said, calmly. He was floating, weightless—Gravity Model nullifying his mass, while Wind Flow Vector guided his flight.
"Hmmm... looks like Gravity Model and Wind Flow Vector work well together," he mused, walking down the air as though it were stairs.
He tossed the head toward Eira, landing it at her feet.
Panic erupted. Some classmates turned to flee.
But Noct raised his hand.
Time Gradient.
The fleeing students slowed to a crawl, each step taking an eternity.
"Oh no," he said, mockingly. "They're getting away. Whatever will I do?"
He laughed, dark and delighted.
Eira attempted to sneak up behind him using Glassfade—but with a single word from Noct: "Fall."
She collapsed to her knees, frozen by sheer pressure.
Noct knelt beside her. "Watch," he whispered, "as everything you worked so hard to build crumbles before your eyes... all because of your own greed for recognition and power."
He called Twice to his hand and began walking toward the rest.
But he staggered.
The backlash from Numbers hit hard. His control slipped. Some of the Time Gradient effects dissipated.
Eira saw her chance. "Attack him—now!"
Long-range users fired a barrage of spells and abilities.
Screams echoed.
The hall filled with smoke and dust. After minutes of bombardment, Eira ordered a ceasefire.
The smoke cleared.
A silhouette remained.
Noct, standing.
His shield, a construct of Twice, lay shattered, fragments scattered.
He smiled.
Eira opened her mouth—but before she could speak, Noct used Gravity Model, hurling her into the wall with crushing force.
The wall cracked upon impact.
He floated above them. "How gullible can you all be?" he laughed. "I thought you'd notice it was an act. After all, that's your specialty."
His expression darkened.
"But playtime's over."
He used Wind Flow Vector, Heat Expansion, and Spatial Distortion—creating a new flame: black with a deep crimson core.
Blood leaked from his eyes, but he didn't care.
"I think I'll call it the abyssal flame,"controlling it with his hand, as he smirked.
He unleashed it.
Six fleeing classmates vanished in the black fire.
They weren't burned. They were erased.
In truth, the flame transported its targets to a pocket dimension—an endless furnace where atoms are torn apart piece by piece slowly consuming them until there's nothing left.
Noct dodged an incoming strike—Eira, Kara, Joren, and Thalen attacking together.
Twice returned to his hand.
Noct parried, countered, and summoned every shattered fragment of Twice, merging them into a single glowing form.
The new Twice adapted—perfectly countering Glassfade.
The illusion cracked. Noct's blade found Eira's shoulder.
He pushed them back, finishing off three more classmates with his abyssal flame.
Only four remained.
"You four…" he said, voice dripping with venom. "You have a special place in my heart. So you'll each get a special death."
He started with Thalen.
Noct thought to himself
"Division blink may seem to blink the entire body but it's due to the user wanting to blink their entire body full intact, but you can blink only one part aswell," as he decided to apply division blink on Thalen 's legs and arms.
Screams filled the air.
Noct continued to apply division blink on his body parts as they were laid across the hall and only his head remained.
Next was Joren. Noct understood his ability relied on heartbeat speed. He used Time Gradient—slowing the flow of blood.
Joren attacked, but couldn't channel properly. His veins tore.
As Joren tried attacking again.
Noct accelerated his heart.
Veins burst. Joren collapsed, dead.
Kara was next.
Noct sighed. "Running out of inspiration."
He decapitated her with Twice.
Finally, Eira.
She begged. Pleaded.
"You, begging?" Noct sneered. "That's new."
He combined Heat Expansion and Wind Flow Vector—this time, generating gas.
A burst of plasma surged to life continuing to control it until it formed lightning.
Using Array Formation, he amplified it.
He channeled the lightning into Twice. The blade howled.
He slashed the wall. It crumbled easily.
He raised the blade to Eira—
"NOCT!"
The scream rang through the hall.
Selene stood in the doorway, eyes wide with horror.
And Noct froze.