For Titan City-state, it should have been a quiet night.
But the Academy's major operation had shattered that quiet. For the whole second half of the night, the vast city-state had felt like a pot of thick soup on the verge of boiling. The surface had yet to bubble, but flames were already roaring beneath it, churning the soup into a simmer. It was only a step away from boiling over.
For now, the explosive news had simply not been made public.
Once it was, the entire Titan City-state would inevitably be plunged into a terrifying vortex, with everyone fearing for their safety. Since its founding, the Academy had never lost a Grand Scholar within its walls—never had one been killed there under such mysterious circumstances.
Technically, this was almost impossible.
Titan Academy was the holy ground of the entire Underground World.
A place like that had always been shrouded in a sacred aura. Mysterious and noble, it was like the realm of the gods, inspiring awe and seeming utterly beyond reach.
To ordinary members of the Underground Race, the five Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholars were no different from gods. They were indestructible, immortal beings.
Who could kill a Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar? And inside the heavily guarded Academy, no less?
If the news came out, it would deal an incalculable blow to Titan Academy's authority.
The Academy, sacred and inviolable, a perfect institution in the eyes of the masses, would suffer a massive decline in its public image.
What? Even your sacred Titan Academy could let a killer sneak in? Perhaps you aren't as powerful as you'd like people to think.
Even Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholars, who were like gods, could be killed? It seemed those lofty Grand Scholars might have been over-mythologized after all.
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