Triss,
You had to believe in your abilities. You had already done wonderfully during this time, but since the last Sage Council had decided Lorenz Riel's future direction—
If you couldn't hold on any longer, come find me.
I would always be behind you."
Anta's words were like the warm sun of spring, dispelling some of the gloom in Triss's heart. Yet the crises lurking both inside and outside the academy still hung over them like dark clouds, making it hard to breathe.
But where Triss could not see,
Anta Lin Yu slowly hid her right hand behind her back. Blood was continuously seeping from her palm.
It was as if she had been cut by some agonizingly sharp weapon.
Yet even so, her ageless face still wore an incomparably gentle expression.
At the same time,
inside Quiet Forest Language Academy,
in an examination room roughly two buildings away,
Joyce and Norma had just finished their examinations with Klosan.
But compared to those two resilient girls, Doctor Miss, with a coffee stirrer in her mouth and two huge dark circles beneath her eyes, looked at Qin, the last one standing there clutching her clothes with tears in her eyes.
She was somewhat helpless as well:
"It's hard to imagine that you Twilight Star Cluster people are Lineage Inheritors known as the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War.'"
But upon hearing that,
Qin shook her head hard, refusing the title:
"That's Joyce's inheritance. I've already undergone a genetic mutation. Can I skip the examination? Sob, sob, sob."
"There are indeed significant individual differences among you.
I have to say,
Twilight Star Cluster's genetic research has reached a level that is practically impossible for me to analyze."
Klosan observed the screen before her.
Strings of extraordinary genetic sequences were displayed in a