On the way to the apprentices' quarters and training grounds, Arcanists continually stopped to greet the Emperor.
The young Arcanists who had attended the Vatoum Temple meeting returned to Kamar-Taj after completing their mission and told their companions everything they had seen and heard. Although rumors had long circulated among the Arcanists that the Sorcerer Supreme would divide her titles and hand the position of Lord of Kamar-Taj to the Emperor, only now did they realize that moment had arrived.
The massacre at the Vatoum Temple deeply shocked every Earthly school of magic, including Kamar-Taj. Even the trading markets of the Dimensional Rift and the Sorcerers' Alliance received the dreadful news. Everyone realized that the future world would no longer be as tolerant as it had been under the current Sorcerer Supreme. In the eyes of some spellcasters, the Emperor was leaving trails of bloody footprints across this world. The next Lord of Kamar-Taj would forge his irresistible New Order from blood and corpses. Some even believed that the Emperor's butcher's blade would one day fall upon their own heads, and they were willing to prepare for a complete break with Kamar-Taj because of it.
Based on what they had learned from those knights and the Vatoum Council, some people connected the future Lord of Kamar-Taj with the ruler of Latveria. However, because of the Sorcerer Supreme's measures to protect the Emperor's true name, those schools of magic could not delve further into the secret. Still, the news had already revealed a great deal. It not only meant that Latveria had Kamar-Taj's covert support behind it, but also that Kamar-Taj would break its principle of seclusion and actively intervene in secular society. Although it was currently unclear why the Sorcerer Supreme, who had previously held power, had sent her disciple