Chapter 86: Not Yet Over

Watching the young boy’s back, Leanna tightened her clothes and bit her lip in frustration.

She thought this time she could close the distance a little.

As expected, in his heart, she still turned out to be an untrustworthy bad person.

“The collaboration has officially ended. I should also withdraw from the Student Council.”

Leanna clenched her clothes, wanting to make a joke like usual, but the words got stuck in her throat, and she couldn’t speak.

Is this really how it ends?

“Anyway, if you need anything in the future, remember to contact me. Oh, and next time, write normally. You really messed me up last time.”

“Huh?”

“What do you mean ‘huh’? Are you even listening to me?” Roy couldn’t help but complain as he turned back.

“Now that the collaboration is over, is there really a need to stay in touch?” Leanna looked a bit dazed.

Roy twitched his lips: “You’re so heartless, aren’t you? Do you really see me as a tool?!”

“Even though the collaboration is over, we’re still senior and junior, right? It’s completely normal to look out for each other if anything comes up in the future!”

At this, Leanna finally lifted her head, revealing a smile.

In the dim night, the girl seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, her pure and beautiful expression more dazzling than both the moon and jewels, making Roy’s heart race faster than their previous teasing and contact.

“What’s wrong? Are you going to miss your senior?”

“Who would miss you?! I’m leaving, I’m leaving!”

Roy rolled his eyes, hurriedly putting on his shoes and rushing out a bit flustered.

In the now-empty room, the brown-haired girl lay back on her bed, turned over, inhaling the lingering scent that belonged to him, closing her eyes and smiling dreamily.

It turned out they were not yet finished.

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In the northern district of the Academy City, there was a hidden and remote alley that even drunks and thieves didn’t know about.

Red Mage Malfoy walked through the alley, strolling forward under the broken moonlight, passing through what should have been a dead end, and suddenly the scenery changed dramatically.

This was the world of the mages.

Twisted willow trees, flocks of owls, boilers spewing colorful steam, and in the center stood a café painted in bizarre colors, with tables and chairs made of pumpkins and tree stumps, where mages in various robes chatted casually.

This was the stronghold for mages, the Mage’s House.

Unlike the bustling Mage Academy that everyone could enter, this was the place where elite mages communicated with each other, discussed, and shared information and resources.

However, Grand Mage Malfoy didn’t seem as relaxed as usual.

He scanned the area, noticing that there were noticeably more people around than usual, but there were none of his peers in purple robes, causing him to frown.

And the mages weren’t at ease either. They glanced at Malfoy and began whispering.

“The [Red Star], who deals with cultists, is here? The rumors seem to be true.”

“Tsk, is there really a traitor in the Purple Mage faction? Are they colluding with the cultists? Have they gone mad?”

“Looking on the bright side, at least we’ve caught a traitor. Now the question is, just how many purple mages are involved…?”

Malfoy unabashedly sat down among the group discussing, coldly asking: “Where’s Xue Nuo?”

Everyone was stunned.

One mage in a blue robe cautiously replied: “Lady [Ice Rose] was entrusted by the Empire to investigate the [Cult of the Evil Dragon]. She won’t be back for at least a few months.”

“Hmph, the Empire is as useless as ever, only able to squeeze her talents.” Malfoy coldly snorted with dissatisfaction.

The others exchanged glances, not daring to agree.

Even the Grand Mage of Sequence 6 wouldn’t openly criticize the Seven Forces of Veszyra like Malfoy, especially since they were merely Sequence 7, barely qualified to attend the Mage’s House meeting.

“[Red Star], could you share if the rumors about the underground auction are true? Is the Purple Mage faction really collaborating with the cultists?” one person curiously asked.

So many ears perked up, wanting to hear firsthand news about the cultists from this Red Mage.

Malfoy couldn’t help but sit up a bit straighter, haughtily lifting his chin.

“That is indeed the case.”

“But the big names involved are far more complicated than you might think…”

“Please elaborate!”

“Duty bound, I can’t reveal too much, but…”

Just as everyone was intensely focused on him, the sky suddenly lit up with a gigantic magical projection, successfully diverting their attention.

Malfoy twitched an eyebrow, cursing inwardly that the projection had come at the wrong moment, interrupting an opportunity to feed his vanity.

But he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

Because the blurry figures that lit up in the projection represented direct orders from the Seven-Color Mage Council, which no mage could ignore.

Just as he suspected, the purple figure was already absent.

And the mages who noticed this immediately started to buzz in disbelief.

A weathered voice echoed.

“I trust you all have heard about the underground auction.”

“The good news is, we’ve finally caught the traitor’s footstep. All along, these traitors, harboring and colluding with the cultists, have directly or indirectly assisted the cultists in committing crimes such as the [Terrorist Attack of the Blue Trial] and the [Terrorist Attack of the Blue Moon Theater] are hiding within the Purple Mage faction!”

There was no chaos in the scene, just a few murmurs of sentiment.

The matter of the Purple Mage faction and the cultists was not a secret; rather, the fact that they could finally prove it and reveal the true faces of the traitors surprisingly relieved everyone.

However, Malfoy’s expression, along with the few mid-tier extraordinary beings privy to the inside story, remained serious.

Although it was called an investigation, regardless of whether or not they were colluding with the cult, how could the Purple Mage faction ever sit idly by?

In a kingdom, even a noble insulted by the royal family could easily rebel. The internal structure of the Mage’s Association was even looser than that of dukes and nobles.

For nearly a decade, the Seven Forces of Veszyra had not experienced significant conflict or internal strife.

The Mage’s Association, which ruled the land of magic, was the same.

Yet starting today, the tranquility of the Academy City was about to officially count down.

Meanwhile, in the basement of the Black Mage faction.

Accompanied by a painful groan, the terrifying and distorted extraordinary fluctuations spread, outlining nine enormous, terrifying shadows of snakes, filled with a violent aura.

   

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