Within the Old Days Secret Scripture, Anvis watched everything outside without the slightest ripple in his heart.
The beam of light had been an emergency warning he had set up in advance within the Seer Silver.
The moment he left Fiona's room against his will, the beam would activate simultaneously, triggering the academy's Mystic Lock defense mechanism.
This way, the enemy would have to make a choice.
Would they immediately flee with the important target, "Fiona," or risk being discovered and besieged by the academy's Ninth-Rank Lords in order to strike at the other "Anvis"?
The appearance of that beam meant that his arrival had been discovered.
At the same time, there were likely other defensive measures within the room.
It was a simple psychological trick: given a one hundred percent chance of receiving eighty coins and an eighty percent chance of receiving one hundred coins, most people would choose the former.
Anvis was gambling that after succeeding, the attackers would not insist on targeting another, relatively less valuable objective. Instead, they would play it safe and leave first with the most valuable target—her.
As it turned out, he had won the gamble.
When they appeared again, their surroundings had become a primeval forest beyond the academy's Mystic Lock, along with a desolate mountain range of rusty-red rock.
Behind them, the academy's enormous Mystic Lock suddenly rippled. A figure instantly appeared beneath the moonlight, and the vast Spiritual Power of a Ninth-Rank Spellcaster spread out, sweeping across the entire area.
But when his Spiritual Power passed over the location where Xing and "Fiona" had appeared for the second time, only a trace of spatial ripples left behind by an ultra-long-distance teleportation remained.
After hesitating for a moment, the Ninth-Rank Lord ultimately chose not to pursue. After recording the direction of