Second Attack

"What's going on?"

At Pamir Academy, Anvis's expression abruptly changed.

Pomona's utterly decisive attack had caught him off guard, but it also made him faintly grasp something crucial.

Attacked by the Star Praise Sect... requested aid from the Duke... returned wounded... the Family Guardian at the Ninth Rank Limit left to investigate... temporarily took Fiona's place as her protector...

"Wait... there's something wrong with Pomona?!"

As this terrifying possibility flashed through his mind, an indescribable chill spread throughout Anvis's body.

An insider was always harder to guard against than an external enemy. If Pomona had truly betrayed the family, then Fiona was already in grave danger.

But Anvis could not understand it. As a Ninth Rank, what reason could Pomona possibly have had to betray the family? Even in his previous life, when the Olyvendi Family had nearly fallen apart and numerous vassal nobles and some collateral family members had betrayed them, there had never been a case of a Ninth Rank betraying them. Pomona had even died fighting for the family.

As for benefits, what benefit could possibly outweigh the family's ongoing experiment to break through the Legendary barrier for a Ninth Rank?

Even if the Star Praise Sect had offered the prospect of a Breakthrough to Legendary as bait, a Heretic God Cult like them had no credibility whatsoever.

Anvis felt that he was still missing some crucial piece of information.

Although there was still much he did not understand, whether Pomona had truly betrayed them or not, judging from how he had just attacked Leivin Bolley, the City Lord's Adjutant, without hesitation, this dangerous factor had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

There was no time to lose. Anvis immediately left the academy through the Teleportation Array, establishing proof that he had suddenly departed from the