The frozen pieces of the dragon fell on the earth. All those who could witness such a scene were agape at the strength of the woman who had just landed on her two feet. All she wore was a sparkling ice blue gown that didn't even seem to be made from fabric.
Her feet bare, she made her way to Mark Wilson who was healing Morial. Morial, who had recovered enough to witness what was going up above in the sky looked at the girl making her way to him, or rather towards Mark Wilson.
"How are you feeling?" Mark Wilson worriedly asked.
"All vessels have been successfully converted." The girl replied in a cold voice, but it wasn't because her voice was inherently old, it was simply due to the side effect of her power. The power that numbed her emotions.
She only had one ally in her life, and that was Mark; other than him, everyone was her enemy.
"Then you should return. You shouldn't push yourself ." Mark Wilson said.
"Very well." She replied before she took to the skies in an instant.
Yue Peng approached Mark Wilson, who had healed Morial, and asked, "Your lover?"
"Yes." Mark Wilson replied but there was uncertainty in his voice. As if it was one sided, or there was something else involved. Yue Peng wasn't one to intrude so she simply asked, "Any news of Wei Jun?"
"No." Mark Wilson replied, "I felt something briefly before I suddenly circled up. I don't know what happened either."
"Hmm..." Yue Peng nodded and looked at Lin Ruan, whose worry couldn't be quelled by anyone. There was no way t get in touch with Wei Jun, and the only clue they had was their contact with him when a surge of emotion rose up inside of them, prompting them to delve into madness.
They were all scared of that feeling, and not one of them could say that those feelings belonged to a person. Those were the feelings of a monster, no, a monster was too vanilla. Those were the feelings of the one even the devil would cower before.
"Don't worry. I can tell he's all right." Mark Wilson said, looking at Lin Ruan. Compared to the others, his connection with Wei Jun was stronger than the rest so he could tell. He could say with certainty that Wei Jun was alive and well.
However, there was another detail that he had hidden from them. Something had changed.
Something strange had happened. Either Wei Jun had changed, or he had changed to who he was. Whatever it was, there was something ominous going on in the world, and it all had to do with Wei Jun.
"Head Professor Clarissa!" A man came running to Clarissa, Natasha's mother, a green-eyed beauty whose charm couldn't be ignored by a man or a woman, regardless of their age.
It was very difficult to believe, looking at her, that she could be fifty-seven years old and the mother of a twenty-four-year-old woman.
"What's the fuss?" Clarissa asked in her smooth voice, unaware of what was happening outside since she was focused on something personal.
"Something has happened. All over the empire, something has happened." The man said, his voice hurried and his tone panicked.
"Calm down and say it clearly. What happened?" Clarissa asked.
"The royal family was taken out." The man took a deep breath and said it as simply as he could. But...
"...What?" Clarissa couldn't understand what that meant. "The Britannia royal family has fallen." The man said again.
"What nonsense are you uttering?!" Clarissa yelled out loud. The fall of the royal family was simple. The entirety of Britannia had fallen. Someone had invaded the empire, and it wasn't someone mild.
"Th-The Thunder Cloud Tempest Sect. They have invaded the empire, and they are taking over cities one at a time. They have already destroyed four magic academies, and three of them are currently underway a defensive battle, but..." The man stopped mid-sentence.
"But what?!" Clarissa yelled.
"The-They have monsters on their side. A girl who can burn everything in cold and the sect master himself. They have all come." The man explained.
"What?" It was unbelievable. The Thunder Cloud Tempest Sect wasn't so idiotic as to do this. They wouldn't invade the entire empire and wreak havoc . It was unprecedented to think something could happen. If they never thought of it, of course, there were no defensive measures for it as well.
"And..." But, it wasn't the end. There was more. Something more than helped Clarissa understand everything.
"Wei Jun Ruan is expected to come soon as well." The man finally said something that helped Clarissa connect all the dots.
'That lunatic.' Clarissa couldn't understand.
Why would someone whose lover was in someone else's grasp do something reckless like that? No, would someone even go that far in the first place?
It wasn't like she was asking him to lay his life and everything for them. She simply desired for him to come to their side, be on their side, live with them, not for them, as equals if he could prove his worth which he mostly had hence the huge trouble the academy was going through to poach him on their side.
Yet, to do something like that. Something so unreasonable and foolish like that. What in the world was he thinking? If lunatic wasn't the proper word to describe him, then what was? What proper term could be used to describe such a person?
"Prepare defensive measures and alert the headmaster. We are their true target. Make sure they cannot come into he vicinity of the academy. Call every student, professor of every rank, and every combat instructor back. We are going to war." Clarissa said all of that before she left.
She made her way to the depths of the castle, her destination a place where no one was allowed to go. A forbidden area, accessible only to her, the head professors of her rank, and the headmaster.
She arrived at a dead end, nothing but a wall in front of her.
"Manum Dacartes." She said the words she needed to say to open the path that was otherwise invisible to everyone. Stairs appeared before her that went down to the depths of darkness. She took a deep breath and descended the stairs, making her way down the stairs.
Finally, she arrived at what looked like a dungeon, where prisoners would be kept. No one in their right mind would consider that the greatest treasure of the academy and the Britannia empire was hidden underneath the castle.