Chapter 68: School is finally starting, Lord Demon
First, Grand Duke Fengxi's heir was assassinated, and then when the academy was busy catching the murderer, the mage tower was destroyed from the inside. Later, Grand Duke Fengxi, who came to ask for an explanation, was assassinated in public while talking to the king...
Everything was full of conspiracy from beginning to end, and even Robert, who had a slow political sense of smell, noticed something was wrong. Therefore, both the king and the Grand Duke of Fengxi calmed down and began to collect information. The whole city seemed very calm, but the airship troops and the Knights outside the city warned everyone that everything was just the tranquility before the storm.
All the power that can be used in the city was mobilized, secretly investigating all clues. But unfortunately, no matter whether it was the murderer who assassinated Figueres, the murderer who assassinated the Grand Duke Fengxi, or the culprit who destroyed the mage tower, these were found. However, the mastermind behind the scenes had been determined - a Xianlong who had a criminal record of causing a civil unrest!
If the dragon had not destroyed the surveillance system in the academy, all this would not have happened afterwards. What's more, the surveillance system was destroyed until Figueres was assassinated. The interval between the two things was too short. If no one had leaked the information, how could those killers sneak into the academy so quickly? No matter how she looked at it, she was the most suspicious, right? Moreover, the disappearance of the dragon confirmed this suspicion.
Orphesolaka said that he was innocent. Although he did destroy those peeping eyes and did sneak into the mage tower while in the chaos, it was not us who detonated the magic pool! All of this is the choice of the Stone of Destiny and has nothing to do with us!
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Well, those humans certainly won't believe these words. In order not to be involved in unnecessary trouble, Orphesolaka chose to slip away while the city was in chaos.
Anyway, after the Mage Tower was destroyed, the line of destiny within the area has returned to normal, and it is meaningless even if we stay there. Orphesolaka can only express regrets about this.
Orphesolaka had left, and soon after, the son of Grand Duke Fengxi, Figueres, also woke up. Although the assassin was not found, the wanted order had been issued. It seemed that the whole incident had passed. But in fact, the impact of the previous series of events had just begun to ferment and erupt, and even the Billya Magic Academy where Oz was located was implicated.
The Billy Magic Academy has many inhumane regulations that seem to be somewhat unkind to the nobles. For example, students can only leave school every weekend, and students are prohibited from bringing servants and bodyguards to the academy.
These rules are very beneficial to prevent external influences and allow the royal family to completely control the academy. As long as education is carried out reasonably, most students can be brainwashed into loyalty to the royal family, thereby strengthening the king's control over the army and the entire kingdom.
The reason why these regulations can be implemented is that in addition to the perfect monitoring of the academy itself to ensure the safety of the students, what is more important is that the royal family's prestige forces the nobles to be unable to interfere with the academy. Without strong security guarantees, who dares to let their heirs not even have a bodyguard around? If it is not the royal family's prestige, how could those great nobles with fiefs and army not penetrate the magic academy? How could they not poach and buy those talented students early? Any qualified magician is the ready-made army main force! The gun is a common law in all worlds.
With such a big incident this time, even the heir of Grand Duke Fengxi was assassinated in the academy. No matter what the reason was, the royal family could no longer stand the point if they wanted to completely control the Magic Academy. Grand Duke Fengxi even shouted that he would keep the entire Wind Knights in the academy and protect his precious son!
What a big deal to protect! Let you leave the entire Knights in the academy, what's the difference between giving the entire academy to you?
Although Robert's political sense is bad, he is not stupid; although Robert often ignores government affairs, his control over the army has never been relaxed. Robert does not want anyone to penetrate his mage troops like a sieve. Although Robert is not willing, he has to make some concessions in the face of the "legitimate" demand of the Grand Duke Fengxi.
"You can send guards to the academy to protect your children, but you can only have one person at most!"
"At least three people! The guard also needs rest. It is impossible for a guard to stay by his side for 24 hours a day."
"Only one person!" Robert refused to give in at all.
Oz didn't know the troubles of the nobles. However, Oz was extremely upset about the magic book in his hand. Because Oz found that the chain in the book was not a decoration, but a seal! A book that needs to be sealed should not be opened casually no matter how you think about it. If the seal inside was a scam, it would be really going to be scammed!
In order to figure out what was sealed inside, Oz began to investigate, but unfortunately, Oz did not study any seals or something. Even after fiddling with them for two days, he couldn't understand what was sealed.
Time passed in a blink of an eye.
Two days later, on the fourth day after the Mage Tower collapsed, Oz still did not understand the effect of the seal on the magic book, and the opening ceremony, which was postponed for four days, finally came late.
Perhaps the principals of every world have the habit and instinct to talk nonsense, so Oz sat in the auditorium and listened
After an hour of nonsense and nagging for the new principal, Oz and other new students returned to their respective classes according to the instructor's instructions.
Although the area of the Magic Academy is much smaller than that of the university towns on earth, it is actually very large, and the number of students is much smaller than that of universities. Therefore, the college is still very generous in the classroom area. For example: there are only more than twenty students in Oz’s class, but the area of the classroom is enough to sit down hundreds of people!
Although the classroom is large, it does not appear empty at all, because the classroom is placed not cold tables and chairs, but soft sofas, and even drink cabinets. It doesn't look like a classroom at all, but a salon for drinking and chatting. If it weren't for the class sign hanging outside the classroom, Oz would even doubt whether he had gone to the wrong place.
The students stood in the classroom and looked around excitedly. At this moment, the class tutor finally walked in.
Director Ban is a very energetic middle-aged man, wearing a slender mage robe like an evening dress and a four-ring mage badge on his chest. Judging from the patterns on the edge of the badge, he is a magician who specializes in earth magic.
"Everyone sit there." The head of the house stood on the podium in front of the blackboard and said very gently.
According to the instructions of the class leader, Oz held a book and found an inconspicuous position to sit down, while the other students who were already familiar with each other gathered together in groups - Oz himself was not interested in communicating with these little ghosts, and most of the children from wealthy families also had little interest in Oz, a poor ghost.
After seeing the students sitting down, the class director said again: "I am your class director Professor McGonagall, majoring in earth magic and summoning magic. The academy divides you into six classes according to your respective levels. As Class A, you can choose a major in magic and any number of additional courses. If you are planning to major in earth magic, then I will also be the instructor of your earth magic course."
"The courses and treatments of each class are different. As the best Class A in the grade, you enjoy the best classroom and the most free teaching. Even if you don't come in the ordinary courses, it doesn't matter. As long as the final exam can be passed, you will be sent to other classes... I personally recommend that you better go to the classroom of Class F first. That will make you motivated in your studies."
Ah? Why did you specifically remind us to see the classroom in Class F? Oz looked at the direction of Class F classroom. Wait, there were at least 400 freshmen seen from the dormitory, but our class only had twenty people, so the classroom seemed to be very large, but the remaining classes... how many people would have to squeeze in each class?
Chapter completed!