Winds of Change

After careful consideration, Green decided to keep Nightmare Kingdom in the Graveyard and leave things as they were for now. He could decide what to do with it later.

Green withdrew his consciousness from the Graveyard and finally looked down at the newspaper in his hands. Then he casually picked up the tea in front of him, still warm, and took a sip. As usual, he waited for the workday to end so he could go home, as though a siege involving tens of thousands of people had never happened and he had never acquired a Curio that countless people would go mad to possess.

Green's composure, however, could not stop the news from spreading like wildfire.

An hour later, thanks to Lucas and Ferdinand's deliberate efforts, a report that an entrance to a Primordial Void World had appeared in Landon City, Northwest Province, landed on the desk of Nikolayevich, who still served as director of the Northwest Province Anomalies Bureau.

Across the desk, Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia stood with a grave expression. She had brought him the news as soon as she received it.

"Teacher, what do you make of this? Should we report it to Kingdom Bureau Headquarters and the Mages Association immediately?" Cynthia asked tentatively when she saw Nikolayevich finish reading the brief report and set it on his desk. She felt uneasy. Ever since her teacher had resigned as president of Saint Tower Academy, his temper had grown increasingly unpredictable.

Cynthia suspected that Nikolayevich had drawn on a trace of Divine Power while resisting the otherworldly allied forces last time. Without a Divine Artifact to help him, he could hardly have avoided being eroded by it. That would explain the change in his temperament.

Nikolayevich pondered for a moment, then said coldly, "Send a copy to Headquarters