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"She's in a critical state, right now the best thing I could do is give her some clean oxygen from all of the spare tanks that we got… besides why are you asking me?! I'm a bot that fixes Claw Hunters not… flesh-skins," the robot said while giving several beeps that told Alban that he was shuddering.

"C'mon you're probably the most qualified person to do this job – there has to be something you can do, besides… Captain won't stop pressing me to tell you the same thing,"

"If Captain wants that flesh-skin to live then she should do the job herself," the bot muttered.

"Don't you have something in that robot brain of yours that could help her out? I don't know like a Pre-world technique?"

The bot gave some slight beeps then came back to Alban with a response, "Surprisingly there's one right here, question is I don't know if we have the right materials to help her out though,"

"Well, what items do you need? And I'll gather them for you,"

Bench started list down the things he required to perform the operation. Alban brought up her arm and a holographic screen appeared, she began typing the items Bench was requesting while giving some confused looks at most of the items he's requested mostly because they sounded weird and even spelled weird.

"Bench… what's a sc-scalpel? what's this thing?" Albas said while pointing at the particular word.

"You can ask me later; do you want me to save her or not?" Bench asked.

Any further questions that were on Alban's mind we put on a hold as she continued to list down the items that looked weird to her but was in the norm five hundred or so years ago.

Louise dodged just in time to avoid the massive blade that would have bisected her mere milliseconds ago. Dodging the sword meant that she was at a weird angle in mid-air, usually this would spell bad for anyone as you practically can't do anything while in mid-air but thanks to her wings and arm propulsions she manager to gain control of her body.

Not even a moment the systems in her brain screamed at her that something big was closing in on her person, she did not deny the system's demand so she crossed her arms just in time to feel the powerful impact of the Ravager's fist hitting her entire lithe body. The impact sent her flying towards the other side of the courtyard at speeds almost reaching speeds of a fired bullet.

She gave a grunt when her back hit and collapsed the granite wall that made up of most of the academy, red flashed in her vision and notifications of her hitting something hard came up, a scream from a girl entered her ears, looking down she could see Montmorency staring up at her – too scared to move. Louise clicked her tongue she tried to move only to feel her right arm trapped. With one powerful tug she wrenched her arm out of the debris, part of the wall collapsed due to the missing support that was her arm. Once she was unhindered she glared at the blonde with fury.

"WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?!"

Montmorency for her part flinched at her voice, she tried to say something only for it to get caught up in her throat. With too much pointless time wasted she looked up and gave shocked expression as the Ravager was only fifty meters and closing in on them in an incredible pace. Not wasting time, she stood up and placed her hand behind her lower hip. A circular compartment opened in her lower hip and from that compartment a black ball landed on her palm. Without hesitation she threw the ball at the Ravager using her enhanced strength – the moment the ball left her hand a small sonic boom echoed across the school.

The ball collided with the Ravager's chest but that didn't hinder it despite getting hit by an object that was passing the speed of sound but that wasn't the point of the ball; the ball then split up in to four quarter-spheres that planted themselves on the ground in a wide square. Once the Ravager's whole body entered the square it was immediately held in place and try as it might it couldn't even gain a single inch of ground. Louise used this spare time to approach the blonde girl with ringlets.

Before Montmorency could say anything though she was immediately lifted off the ground by the pink haired girl and was carried like a how a newly wedded husband would to his wife the only difference being that it wasn't a wedding but a battlefield. She gave an indignant cry but all complaints were tuned out as Louise used her wings to fly her out of the danger zone, of course as soon as the pair left the ground the blonde girl screamed about falling off and other complaints the were again tuned out by the pink haired girl.

"You can complain to me later but right now the only thing that's stopping that Ravager from killing you is that EMP field," Louise said while using her enhanced vision to locate the rest of the class, fortunately she didn't have to look very far as the entire class was two courtyards away from the battle.

Upon landing she gently dropped the alchemist, Guich approached her girlfriend – worry etched across his face. After the two made their reunion Louise was prepared to re-join the battle only to stopped when someone called out to her. Looking to where the voice came from she spotted the headmaster of the school approaching her with worry.

"Miss Valliere what is going on?"

"I have no time to explain, that Ravager should be about halfway down to disabling that EMP field that I made,"

The headmaster contemplated for a second but in the end rested his case for the time being, "Very well but after this I expect you to come to my office and explain the entire situation,"

"If I make it out of this alive," Louise mumbled.

This of course reached the ears of both Colbert and Osmund, when the war veteran asked she gave a scoff and looked at them both dead in the eye, "You guys don't get it, Ravagers adapt to their surroundings the longer they live. The longer they live they become more destructive they become, "

That was all that was said before she deployed her wings again and left the gathering. Both of the men looked at each other with worry but relented and just hoped that Louise would be able to defeat it while they made their way out of the academy.

Meanwhile Louise spotted the Ravager already destroying the final quarter-sphere that made up the entire EMP field, the cage it was trapped in flickered before finally dying. It looked up and saw Louise closing in on it at great speeds, it tried to block its incoming attack but Louise was simply too fast for the Ravager. Louise berated herself inside her head as she could see the result of her latest attack; a large diagonal slash is clearly visible on the Ravager's chest. The reason she was berating herself was because her attack wasn't deep enough, despite getting a clean hit she never managed to hit the most vital part of the Ravager – the core. Said core was more visible because of the large gash on the chest area, it glowed a bright red before it gave a low, baritone beep sending a wave of red on the lines of the Ravager, the lines travelled throughout the body but it was obvious that it was all of the red lines traced all the way to the Ravager's free hand.

Louise immediately flared her wings pressed her attack; a large crater formed from where she was. She closed the distance between them while pulling her blade arm backwards preparing for another attack. Her blade contacted with metal but unfortunately it was a metal that she didn't want, the blade collided with a wide shield, a shield that was once the Ravager's free hand, she clicked her tongue – for she had been too slow and now it had adapted. Cursing herself she tried to back off only to discover that her blade had embedded itself on the shield, she looked to her side only to see the sword coming down on her. Choosing the easier route, she detached the blade narrowly avoiding the blade that could've cut her arm off. With a backflip she made some space between her and the newly equipped Ravager.

Detecting that Louise was now on the defensive since she lost one of her weapons it was not time for the Ravager to take the offensive. Louise bent her legs in preparation as the distance between her and her enemy became shorter and shorter. Louise jumped up just in time to avoid the sideswipe only to have her whole body fold in half as the tip of the shield collided with her torso, she gritted her mouth hard, red flashed everywhere across her vision but she dismissed it as she was launched yet again to the wall. She stopped herself from colliding against the wall by opening her wings and exerted as much thrust to stop he backwards momentum. Unfortunately, she wasn't given any respite because as soon as she found her balance she was forced to dodge an overhead strike. He alarms yelled at her again as something was approaching her. Cutting off her wings she dropped from the air in order to dodge the shield that was supposed to bash her to the wall.

The Ravager this time was the one in a complicated situation as it thrusted its shield therefore exposing its body to Louise. Louise spanned her wings and entered the Ravager's defence, using the right arm blade she used it to slice the core of the Ravager through the gash that she had created seconds ago. Fate wasn't on her side though was the blade merely scratched it leaving a small gash but nonetheless it was still functioning. Due to her missed attack the Ravager used it to its advantage by raising the sword upwards, despite all of the warnings the system insider is yelling she couldn't dodge just in time, the blade caught her right arm slicing it cleanly off, while no blood came out of the arm the pain receptors on the arm still registered through her brain.

"AAAAAHHH!"

Pushing past the pain she rotated herself in mid air till both of her feet were aiming at the chest of the Ravager, she planted a foot on its chest and unleashed a large explosion that threw her enemy all the way to the other end of the courtyard. While this proved quite effective it was also a double-edged sword as the explosion was too much for her leg, she gave muffled scream as she looked at her now blown up left leg. Ignoring the pain from both her missing right arm and left leg she looked at the Ravager whom was already standing up. Something came to her attention; at the very tip of the Ravager's blade was her right arm, berated herself again now that it had a piece of her, she could have retrieved the arm but with her current condition she thought it would be best not to.

The Ravager placed the torn arm close to the core, a red beam touched the arm. This red beam then started to disassemble the arm down to the molecular level while absorbing it, once the entire arm was 'eaten' the Ravager's entire body glowed a bright red, when the glow finally died down the Louise could finally see the effects of assimilating her arm into the Ravager; the gash that she had created moments ago was not there anymore and any sort of damage that she had done throughout the whole fight was voided. Her expression darkened with her current condition she knew that fighting the Ravager would be suicidal but if she lets the machine lose then it would go on a rampage and could possibly bring about the end of the world.

She has no choice but to fight it. The black machine gave a low hum similar to a roar of a beast, it charged at her but Louise tuned it out.

She took a deep breath and fell forward and went on all fours except with only the right arm and the left leg supporting her while in this form she also flared her wings.

The distance between them became smaller.

A low humming sound that was slowly rising in pitch entered Louise's ears, the intricate lines that marked her whole body started to glow pink, steam started to escape in between the glowing pink lines, additionally with each breath she took steam also escaped out of her mouth.

20 meters

Arcs of pink electricity started to form around her.

15 meters

She opened her eyes; her vision was surrounded by plenty of warnings but like the time she lost her right arm she dismissed it as well.

10 meters

"Let's see if you live through this!" she yelled.

5 meters

Her wings released a large force behind her destroying the entire wall that was behind her at the same time her left foot also gave out a large force that launched her towards the Ravager at an alarming speed that started from zero all the way up to Mach 5 for every meter she crossed she and additional Mach 5 was added.

By the time she reached the Ravager she was going at Mach 20.

The sound of a loud explosion made it into everyone's ears, students screamed in terror as the ground quaked as the result of the explosion. Meanwhile Colbert had left the group in hopes of helping the young Valliere along side him were both Tabitha and Kirche, if this were any other day he would have told them sternly to go back to class but with the current situation he'll just scold them later.

When they reached the place where Louise and the 'Ravager' fought they were filled with shock; craters littered the entire place, footprints from the Ravager were seen everywhere. Its as if a great battle took place – to which they weren't far from the truth. They glanced up to only have Colbert to drop his jaw at the destroyed wall, from what he understood; the walls in the academy were enchanted with spells that would protect the walls from assaults from catapults so he had to wonder what caused the wall to be destroyed. Aside from that they also saw the Ravager now sporting a hole in the centre that allowed them to see through it, just behind the Ravager was none other than Louise.

They ran up to her only to look at her in horror at her current state, her left arm was bent in such a way that shouldn't even be possible, her right arm was missing and both of her legs looked like it was caught in a very powerful explosion. Steam wafted from her body along with the occasional pink sparks, Colbert had to shield his face at the amount of heat she was giving off, she looked at Tabitha who didn't need to be told twice. With a short incantation she conjured an ice block with which she was going to use to cool her off. She was about to place it on her when a voice stopped her from doing so.

"STOP YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HER!"

The group of three turned around to look at the owner of the voice; it was another golem but it was different from the black ones Louise had fought; its main colour was blue with white lines on its sides, it didn't sport a head instead it was dome, its body was cylindrical in shape, on the bottom it was giving out some sort of glow similar to Louise's wings which made it float.

"Stop, any closer and we'll consider you an enemy!" Colbert said while pointing his staff at the bot.

Colbert would have said more had a certain someone not interrupted, "B-Bench? I-is that…y-you?"

Colbert looked back, worry etched across his face "Miss Valliere!"

"Please… let Bench… come to me… professor," Louise said weakly.

Heeding to her words he moved sideways allowing the now named golem, Bench to approach her. A blue line scanned her entire being, "You've really done it this time Louise,"

"Why does… it… matter… I destroyed... the Ravager," she replied.

"I don't even think I can fix you up, the best I can do would be probably to cool you down so that you don't overheat,"

"Then would… this help?" she asked while letting of a red orb that was giving a low hum.

"Is that what I think it is?" Bench asked rhetorically.

"Y-you bet… it is," Louise said then she gave weak smile.

Like Louise a blue line passed over the orb, "I can't believe it a Ravager's core,"

"Can you…d-do it Bench?" she asked but it was more like a whisper.

"Do you know who you're talking to?" Bench asked with mock offense.

"That's… good," Louise said before finally succumbing to her wounds.

Bench looked at Colbert and gave stern order, "Take me to where your clinic, I have a Hunter to repair!"

A/N: HOOO BOY WRITING THIS CHAPTER WAS TOUGH! To be honest I wanted the whole fight but then I realized that if Louise got out of that fight unscathed then all of you wouldn't be able to gauge how powerful a Ravager would be. How powerful is Louise? I'll give you a hint, her body is unique.

Alright lets get on to the comments!

Robo Reader 21: Thanks for your opinion and I will try my hardest to improve, hopefully this chapter is an improvement from the first chapter.

And without further ado I bid you all adieu

Peace~