"What's going on?"
Everyone who heard the bell instinctively looked up.
The sound had come from overhead.
Yet there was nothing up there.
Only the patterns of the Protective Magic Array were visible through the clouds.
"The Protective Magic Array's alarm system?"
"Probably."
"Then something's happened."
The well-informed members of the manor could hardly fail to realize what was happening.
After a brief moment of surprise, they quickly recovered.
"Did those fellows from the Magic Array Research Association make a mistake and set it off?"
"Do you think that lot would make a rookie mistake like that?"
"Fair point..."
"Xiao Feng, what's going on?"
Ignoring everyone's discussion, Lan Qingyou turned toward Xiao Feng, who was covering one ear.
He was probably receiving some sort of message.
"Night Owl is here."
At his teacher's question, Xiao Feng answered Lan Qingyou with a dark expression.
"Night Owl?"
"What's that?"
"An enemy? Is it an enemy?"
The sight of Xiao Feng's grim expression instantly perked everyone up.
They had thought that after coming here and taking a look around, all that awaited them was the tedious dead time of a boring banquet.
Who would have thought someone had even prepared a little "warm-up exercise" for them?
They had to admit, the Karim Continent offered far more surprises than a dull place like Storm Island.
Everyone's eyes lit up.
They wanted to see just what sort of character this "Night Owl" was, to put such a grim expression on the face of this "little girl," whose magic power matched their own in both quantity and purity.
After all, that alone qualified him as quite a formidable figure.
Yet even someone like him was frowning.
Didn't that mean they might find this opponent troublesome too?
This...
This was absolutely wonderful!
At the thought of an