Purgatory Corridor Academy's Basic Level.
A group of figures stopped in front of a massive Mithril door.
This was a shortcut to the second-level corridor. Ancient runes were engraved across the door, appearing mysterious and unfathomable in the candlelight.
With the vice principal's gentle push, a rumble echoed between the ancient stone walls, and a fresh candle-scented breeze rushed toward them.
As they stepped into the grand transitional corridor, they saw several-meter-tall demon statues standing on both sides of the passage like a pitch-black forest. The dark golden light seemed to recount the long history of the academy since its founding.
As they walked along the passage, the footsteps and whispers of the Blood Race Envoy, the guards, and the academy's upper management intertwined, producing waves of deep echoes.
"Stop."
Suddenly, Baron Sanchez, the Blood Race Envoy at the front of the group, halted.
The entire group gradually came to a stop as well, turning all their attention toward him.
"What is it?"
Poet of Great Love, who was leading the group, turned around and asked Baron Sanchez, the Blood Race Envoy, with a puzzled expression.
"Miss Lanfu, why did we skip Corridor 24?"
Sanchez raised his hand, signaling to the demon officer responsible for guarding him to pass him a map.
Once he unfolded the map and confirmed what he had suspected, his expression gradually turned colder. He stared at Poet of Great Love and the vice principal as he questioned them.
Although the academy's terrain was complicated, and the connections between its corridors were constantly changing,
Baron Sanchez had memorized the academy's general layout in advance.
On the Basic Level, they had passed by many classrooms, yet after going around and around, they had never entered Corridor 24.
As a baron of the Blood Race possessing the Blood