The Magic Kingdom was a nation where royal authority outweighed everything.
The Queen's power stood above all; the Queen's words were truth, and the Queen's dignity could not be offended.
For such a Kingdom, the Queen Year qualification assessment was a grand ceremony that could neither fail nor be disrupted. If Claw Mark and Black Ash Dawn truly achieved some unspeakable goal during this period and ruined the assessment, it would undoubtedly be a severe blow to the Kingdom's prestige.
Considering that the Queen herself would even be attending this assessment, such a blow would become an insult, a provocation. It was no exaggeration to say that it would inevitably enrage the Royal Court and might even provoke Thunderclap's fury.
But everything had two sides. The more unacceptable Claw Mark and Black Ash Dawn's scheme was to the Royal Court, the more distinguished the achievement of stopping them and thwarting their plot would be. The greater the storm, the more valuable the catch; rewards always coexisted with risks.
Larkspur understood all of this.
Yet when this plan was truly laid before her, she simply could not bring herself to agree.
"...You're gambling with the safety of all the candidates. You'll be putting them in danger."
Yet even as she objected, she felt how powerless her words sounded. "The juniors on my team will be taking the exam too. I cannot agree to a plan that puts them at risk."
"Please rest assured on that point."
Zhe Helan merely explained lightly, "We never intended to truly use the children as bait. No matter what, protecting our juniors is the duty of us seniors. Therefore, we have already begun deploying defensive Spell Formulas and traps throughout the examination grounds to ensure that casualties are kept to a minimum when these terrorists make