What You Know Isn't Scary; What You Don't Know Is

The Empire did not blame anyone at Imperial Capital Academy. First of all, this was not an unusual occurrence. Being infiltrated did not mean Imperial Capital University had been negligent.

This did not prove anything.

Secondly, according to Imperial Capital University's explanation, it had discovered the issue during an internal investigation and immediately reported it to the Empire.

Hmm, Imperial Capital University had even rendered merit.

If someone else had exposed it, Imperial Capital University would have lost face and been humiliated. But since it had uncovered the matter itself, it meant the university had done well. The number involved was not large either, so it counted as a merit.

Lastly, Imperial Capital University had reported what happened to the Empire, and the Empire was also arranging trustworthy personnel to begin an investigation.

This was the most important point.

What was known was not frightening. What was unknown was what truly frightened people. Even a place like Imperial Capital University had encountered such a problem.

What about everywhere else?

The Empire had been at peace for too long, so long that it had lost its sharp instinct for danger.

Imperial Capital University was an example, and also an alarm bell.

The will of the Seven Divine Pillars descended.

As for the Twenty-Four Heavens, they still did not know about this matter.

The Twenty-Four Heavens were no longer trusted. From the previous incident until now, the Seven Divine Pillars had directly bypassed the Twenty-Four Heavens.

This showed their distrust and suspicion toward the Twenty-Four Heavens.

This was not a good sign.

But it was also normal. Based on what had happened before, it was not impossible for problems to have emerged within the Twenty-Four Heavens.

And now, such matters had even appeared at Imperial Capital University.

Behind many of those suspected