At the academy, the entire council of esteemed Great Instructors had gathered in the meeting hall of the new Dean’s House.
As they exchanged uneasy glances, the weight of hurt and anger was palpable among them.
All of this stemmed from a revelation that shook them to the core.
It had all started when one of the two Tier 8 mages who is responsible for guarding the space passages to the Orc regions approached the new Dean with grave news.
That the portal that had functioned flawlessly for years had undergone a drastic change, and the once serene blue light had transformed into a forbidding shade of red, impeding any mage from entering the space passage.
This development alone was enough for the academy to realize that the city in the Abyss was under attack.
But what infuriated the new Dean even more was the discovery that there were no assigned High Tier mages within the based city in the Abyss.