Chapter 22 Empyrean Blue

Lately, Professor Bathilda had been giving a lot of very difficult assignments. Peter was still in treatment for a week and was just doing chores, while Lucas was carrying stacks of books.

Even though there is more direct training, the learning material still comes with stacks of books.

"Lucas, you are a very cruel friend. Peter just got out of the hospital, but you took him to practice."

"Since when do you care so much? Didn't you almost depress Peter yesterday with your cruel mouth?"

Lucas just kept a straight face, but he was able to stick it in. Cloe was embarrassed and coughed. "I-i-it's just encouragement."

Absolutely not.

And when he returned to class, Professor Bathilda still had a straight face. The whole class could feel the tension in the aura of a powerful wizard. Professor Bathilda always let off steam by pounding on the table and looking out from behind her glasses with an eagle's sharp gaze.

"Evaluate for the next few weeks, then the semester exams you will face in five months. There's no need to protest if I give you so many tasks. After that, you must practice even harder before the semester exams."

Semester exams? Five months from now?

What kind of exam will they give?

Professor Bathilda just gave her a pile of books to finish immediately, not to mention extreme training.

In the afternoon there were four of them. Lucas, Peter, Hannah and Cloe spent time doing homework. They looked so serious. But of the four, only Lucas was playing with the cell phone in his hand.

Not playing online games, but wildly surfing social media. The attack at the Illinois Magic Academy became the number one news story. What surprised him, however, was that the attacker turned out to be a former student of the Illois Magic Academy.

Archie Stephan, a seventh grade student and criminal wizard, dropped out of school after committing a betrayal and crossing over to the side of dark magic.

The incident of the attack on the Illois Magic Academy was heard by the nine Empyrean Blue factions. The five heads of the magic academies held a closed meeting with the nine Empyrean Blue factions.

A cursed black magic item stolen by a former student of Illois Magic Academy has become a very serious problem. Grandfather must be busy at the moment with his growing government duties.

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TThe incident at Illois Magic Academy has caused a stir in the other four magic academies, especially in the government center of Moonland. Such an incident happened thirteen years ago, and now it is happening again with the same culprit.

The important meeting was held in the government building of the Land of the Moon, the capital of the Moon Rift. The most iconic building, it had the appearance of a white palace with two floors. The meeting was held on the second floor, attended by representatives of the respective heads of the magic academies and members of the nine factions present. They were all seated in their respective seats and the microphones were turned on.

There were no journalists, media or flying cameras covering the important meeting, the media crew gathered in the courtyard of the White Palace. Very tight security, from the non-magical military to the Adept wizards.

The nine factions were named after the most beautiful constellations in the sky. However, this beauty did not necessarily make the leaders of the nine factions reconcile.

The factions are Andromeda, Auriga, Corvus, Fornax, Grus, Hydra, Lacerta, Pavo, and Tucana.

From all nine factions of the Moonlands. Four factions of non-magicians and four factions of mages that rule the Moonlands. Of the nine factions, however, the Lacerta Faction, led by Orion Kastanis, holds the ultimate leadership of the Moonlands.

The situation became very heated during a closed meeting.

"Again and again, one of your former students has caused trouble. One of the twelve cursed magical items. He took two of the Keys of Death." The old man with the bushy black moustache fiddled with his favorite moustache, but did not take his eyes off Torin Othello, head of the Illois Magic Academy. "For a thousand years, we have carefully guarded against opening the prison of the shadow under the shadow, and just because Archie is your favorite student, you act so weak."

If that was the case, Torin couldn't say anything when Hiraldo pressed him. An old man with a bushy black moustache from the Andromeda Faction.

"We should be in a period of calm right now, but that calm is beginning to erode. Archie Steaphan is a criminal magician. With evidence from what has been gathered. He has crossed over to the side of dark magic and has taken extreme measures that have allowed the opening of the Shadow Prison Under Shadow. We will prioritize the hunt for him by assigning expert wizards. I recommend that expert wizards be included in the Special Wizard Squad."

"Mr. Ximon, I hope your decision can make the non-wizard population feel calm and peaceful. There will be no more fear where non-wizards experience discrimination, immoral cruelty. There will be no more genocide of non-wizards."

The handsome man with straight, long hair down to his waist gave a small smile. Although he looks so handsome and young, Mr. Ximon actually has quite a long life. Mr. Gerd really finds it hard to believe, how can some wizards have a youthful physique and face, but their actual age is no longer young?

It is possible that there is a magic technique that some wizards can use to make themselves look youthful even though they are getting older.

"Mr. Gerd, I am very grateful to you. Mr. Cram, Mr. Fedde and Mr. Lothar. I am very grateful for your trust in me as a faction of non-wizards."

There was no such response from Mr. Cram, Mr. Fedde, and Mr. Lothar. Only Mr. Gerd responded with a nod of the head in mutual support.

The situation in the room became more and more tense and the heat more and more noticeable. Even turning on the air conditioning didn't help these people cool down.

The five Heads of Magic Academics who came today, aside from Head of Magic Academics Illois. Headmaster Dominia, Headmaster Alzeer, Headmaster Hamna, and Headmaster Lotus.

"Mr. Torin, how can you handle all this? Your former student misbehaved, and you can still relax in your comfortable study."

From the beginning, Ms. Wanda and Torin never had a good relationship. In fact, it was always believed that the Illois Magic Academy was the birthplace of dark wizards and criminal wizards who brought chaos to the world.

On this occasion, the woman with the long silver hair hanging down made the situation worse by continuing to corner Torin. Her rosy lips lifted. A smile of satisfaction.

"We had planned to treat Archie to the Special Wizard Squad."

"When? I just heard about it. Maybe you just wanted to act after being pushed. Very hypocritical."

Unless it was in front of the nine faction leaders, Bathilda didn't need to be polite to her elders. Even though Ms. Wanda is the Academic Head of Magic of Dominia and a senior. Right now, Bathilda would go crazy.

But she stood her ground and was calm, unlike Bathilda who had to restrain the Abbe. The man seems to have become emotional as well. If you start a commotion here, Torin, as the academic head of Illois Magic, will be at a loss. In front of the faction leaders and the other Academic Heads of Magic.

Small coughing sounds came from behind the corner of the chair. When it came to humiliating Illois Magic Academy, the woman with the straight, shoulder-length hair would not remain silent.

Ariana is a former student of Illois Magic Academy and Bathilda's senior. In addition to being a grade 0 wizard, Senior Ariana worked in the Special Wizard Squad. The Special Wizard Squad's missions are very dangerous, capturing dark wizards who commit crimes or destroying cursed magic that threatens citizens.

Senior Ariana was a member of the Special Wizard Squad a long time ago, but she was still on good terms with Torin and the former academic head of Illois Magic, who was currently still alive.

"Hunting and catching criminals is easy. Just put them in jail. But it's very stupid to just throw them in jail without finding out their real motives. It doesn't matter if you catch the lion king, his pride will attack you."

"Stupid act?!" The veins in Ms. Wanda's head were clearly visible. She hated having to confront Senior Ariana. Every time she fought, Ms. Wanda would lose.