When the legal priest produced the warrant for Cook's arrest, everyone in the Arcane Society was stunned.
The charge was "endangering public safety"!
Cook was one of the Arcane Society's senior members and the head of External Relations. Though he usually abused the Society's authority to flirt with a few girls or skim some spellcasting materials, any issues he had were merely matters of personal conduct—not serious enough to warrant more than an official reprimand. But this time, Cook had clearly committed something major. Even enforcers from the Temple of Order had come.
The sun emblem gleaming on the warrant could not be faked. The moment Cook saw it, his face went pale, his mind went blank, and he could not say a single word.
To everyone else, that expression meant the truth had come out, and he had lost all hope.
In reality, Cook had simply been frightened senseless. When two expressionless paladins seized him, he finally tried to offer a few words in his defense, only to be silenced on the spot by [Silence]. Once the paladins touched him, he even lost control of his body and could only be escorted away in terror.
When Cook was taken out of the Arcane Society, the entire academy erupted in uproar. Cook was one of the Dupont Family's heirs in the line of succession. Taking an heir away in public—wasn't that a slap in the Dupont Family's face?
Yet someone noticed that from the moment the legal priest entered the academy until Cook was taken away, not a single academy teacher had stepped forward to say anything. Did the Dupont Family truly know nothing about such a major incident? No one even came out to ask questions. It was obviously abnormal!
After Cook was taken away, Lisper immediately ordered everyone