Transmigrating as an Extra Third-Rate Villain

Feeling the ground shake below him, Liam immediately tightened his grip on the sword before stepping backward until his back was the hard stone of the statue.

By doing this, he was eliminating the possibility of being attacked from behind and from the right and left sides unless the attacker had an angle on him.

As the rest of the main cast followed suit, making their backs touch the statue, Liam looked upwards.

The sky was pitch-black, as there were no stars or moon in this magic space to light it up.

Looking up at the glowing yellow orb, the only thing preventing the magic space from plunging into darkness, Liam yelled.

"LILY, EVERYTHING ALRIGHT UP THERE."

A moment later, a sound from the yellow orb echoed down the statue.

"YES!"

Though it was in no way confirmed that Ren, their biggest weakness due to him also ahving knowledge of the future like Lily, was part of the last three students, the main cast had decided to assume it was.

Thus, Lily, having some knowledge of Ren's abilities through their various encounters, was camping the light-yellow orb.

From his display during the fight with the spirit who had passed Zach, Lily assumed that Ren had some power or boost in power when fighting in darkness.

Lily, oblivious to the slight and slow raises in the height of the statue, looked downwards, scanning the classroom-sized magic space for any students.

However, things soon became obvious for the recruiters watching on the jumbotron back in the room.

"hey...is the tower tilting?"

"...was it always like that?"

"Is this the leaning tower of fireballs?"

Lily, obviously realizing that the tower was starting to tilt to the right, immediately yelled.

"T-THE TOWER IS FALLING! THE TOWER IS FALLING!"

Swiftly turning back around, Liam stood there shocked for a moment, watching as the tower slowly tipped over, like a tree being chopped down from the stump.

Lily, losing her balance as the statue began to fall to the right, got propelled on the shoulder.

Knowing that if the statue fell, the magic space would lose its only light source and be plunged into darkness as the light-yellow shining orb would break, Lily clung onto the statue's shoulder with everything she had.

Down below, Liam and the other main cast members immediately regained their composure before coordinating a plan.

Alya, having done something like this before in the Elven Kingdom since trees often fell over and caused a huge damage risk, yelled out.

"I CAN STOP ITS FALL WITH MY ICE MAGIC! KEVIN AND LIAM USE YOUR SWORDS TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING UNTIL I'M DONE!"

Heeding Alya's instructions without any hesitation, Liam and Kevin sprinted towards the right, where the statue was about to fall.

Right now, there was an imbalance in forces as more force was being exerted on the left side of the statue, causing it to fall.

All Liam and Kevin had to do was temporarily stall the falling of the statue, giving Alya enough time to freeze its base and restabilize it by exerting equal force on the right side.

This would create an equilibrium in forces, causing the statue to remain at a standstill.

However, this did mean that the statue would be permanently slanted instead of upright after Alya froze its base.

If they wanted to make it upright again, Liam and Kevin would have to exert more force on the right side than the left, making it lean left.

But, this was highly risky as if they exerted too much force on the right, the statue would just fully fall to the left before Alya could freeze it.

Coming to the same conclusion, Kevin and Liam nodded at each other before pulling out their swords.

Each of the two used various sword arts and techniques they had gained from progressing in sword art mastery.

Liam, using his "gigantamax" skill, which he gained from progressing in mastery, instantly made his sword quadruple its original size.

This allowed his sword to reach all the way up the falling statue's side and exert force on it to stop it from falling.

On the other hand, Kevin used his sword art mastery progression skill, "Piercing Sword."

The tip of Kevin's sword immediately soared forward, becoming sharper and sharper as it expanded further away from Kevin.

Eventually, the tip of Kevin's sword touched the statue's side and began to exert more pressure on it.

However, as Kevin's sword tip began to exert pressure on the statue, the boys quickly realized something was off.

The statue was no longer falling to the right... but it was falling to the left.

They had exerted too much pressure.

On the statue, Lily flung to the left, falling back onto the glowing yellow orb and feeling a huge amount of pain.

Realizing their mistake, the boys immediately lost their grip on their swords, exerting less pressure on the statue.

Yet... this again caused the statue to flip to the right and immediately start falling.

And once again, Lily was propelled right, hitting the ear of the statue stomach-first, barely managing to cling on.

As the boys tried to find the equilibrium of the statue that stopped it from falling, Alya dashed towards the base of the statue.

Despite not being told anything, Kevin followed suit, running after Alya.

Ruby and Irene, seeing Zach, headed over to Kevin and Liam, helping them find the equilibrium and casting stamina buff spells.

While being flung from side to side as Kevin and Liam attempted to find the equilibrium of forces, Lily was still keen.

Whenever she had the chance, she would look at the magic space, attempting to find any signs of Ren or any other student.

Yet... there was nothing.

Reaching the base of the statue first, Alya was about to pull out her wand, but suddenly, the ground began to shake.

*RUMBLE*

However, this time, it wasn't all of the ground in the magic space that was shaking.

*RUMBLE*

Only the ground right under Alya and in the proximity was shaking, looking like it was about to give in.

*RUMBLE*