The deans and senior wizard instructors of Rain-Marsh's Wizard Academies exchanged bewildered looks. They all knew there were dubious practices within the White Wizard Association, but none had expected someone to resort to such vicious underhanded tactics merely because she disliked someone and he had rejected her.
It made so little sense that quite a few wizards even questioned whether the recording had been fabricated.
But they were all wizards of the Second Ring or higher, with judgment of their own. They knew that bitter wood, a superior representative species of the bitter love tree genus, had a Memory World that could not be extensively altered with a Second-Ring Wizard's mana alone. In fact, even a Third-Ring Wizard would struggle to accomplish that, particularly on such a large scale. That magical bitter wood plant possessed powerful magic and would certainly resist alterations of that magnitude.
In other words, this footage was, for all practical purposes—real!
But if it was real, this revelation was far too explosive.
A Sun-Ring Wizard murmured, "If I remember correctly, the Association merely entrusted the Genesis Problems to these Third-Ring Wizards for safekeeping. They aren't their private property. Every use must be documented and approved by the Association. If that's the case, how could this Third-Ring Wizard let Probus and the White Frost Witch enter it and wager as they pleased? And on such a ridiculous pretext, too."
His Moon-Ring Wizard friend kept shooting him meaningful looks, urging him to say less.
The Sun-Ring dean sneered instead.
"She did something like this, and most importantly, despite being a Third-Ring Wizard, she actually let someone expose her disgraceful conduct to the public. What a humiliation. I may be a Sun-Ring Wizard, a Low-Ring Wizard compared to her, but even Sun-Ring Wizards have their dignity."
"Her conduct has