"Looks like we can only keep them here."
A tower master wizard sighed softly. "Face-to-face guidance from a Fifth-Circle Wizard, with three full opportunities—this is exceedingly precious. Perhaps it will allow us to finally take that step and embrace Miracle."
Someone beside him nodded in agreement, but another soon spoke with an odd expression. "The Astral School knows our circumstances. They must have long guessed that we would report the matter of the legacy to headquarters at the first opportunity."
"What do you mean?"
Someone frowned. The latter added meaningfully, "Don't you think the second of those two conditions is far easier to accept than the first?"
Everyone froze at those words. Then someone blurted out, "They came for a person from the very beginning?!"
"Dago Heka!"
"What the Astral School truly wants is Dago Heka himself!"
In an instant, several people who had figured it out sucked in cold breaths.
Only now did they suddenly realize it. Yes, everyone had focused on "Isidore's Innate Law Wielder Legacy," to the point that they had almost overlooked—
Compared to that legacy, there was another prize that was no less remarkable: the inheritor who had emerged first among countless gifted prodigies.
Dago Heka, a monstrous genius of their Thorn Ring, had, before even reaching thirty in soul age—
Accomplished a feat no one in the Southern Wizarding World had achieved in a thousand years. He had cleared the "Isidore Blood Battle," even defeated top wizarding geniuses from the central region, and ultimately become this generation's Chief Prodigy.
He should have shone brilliantly, yet because of a massive bloody upheaval, his fame had still not fully spread.
They had always believed that the Astral School coveted the legacy in their "hands." Never had they imagined that the Fifth-Circle Wizard standing behind the Astral