Exposure

After training for ten months in the Carvewood Academy, the fresh batch of apprentices came to the Pyrowork Academy. In the same day they honoured their masters, they broke the "no-kill order", and began a new round of slaughter.

In order to differentiate these two batches, the manager of the East Castle named them the Dragon Year apprentices and Snake Year apprentices, according to the year when they came in.

After the slaughter last year and the upcoming monthly tests, the remaining Dragon Year apprentices now numbered more than one hundred and thirty. This batch was universally acknowledged as the fiercest batch in recent years, yet so far no one had earned the name of "killer".