On Sunday evening, while a few young wizards from the You Zui Hunter Team were discussing "Shadows Under The Sun" and "what constitutes objective and fair reporting" before their class meeting, in a certain lounge of Alpha Castle, the president of another club was having an interesting conversation with his members.
This was a spacious lounge with white upper walls, black lower walls, and a bare floor without any carpets. Aside from a coffee table and several sofas at the main seat, there was nothing else in the room.
There were no suits of armor standing in the corners with ghosts lurking inside, no portraits of predecessors hanging on the white walls to serve as advisors for later generations, and no golden chandeliers or green potted plants hanging from the ceiling like in other lounges throughout the castle.
The balcony of the lounge was very large, and the lighting was also quite abundant, but this sunlight failed to bring even a shred of warmth into the room. The decorative style of the entire lounge was extremely plain, even to the point of being crude. The only decoration material matching the size of the lounge was the row of matte wall tiles running around the entire perimeter, with white Ouroboros carved into their surfaces.
At this moment, this slightly shabby lounge was crowded with young wizards draped in white robes.
Among most of them, one or two black borders were inlaid at the collars and cuffs, while the remaining wizards with three black borders or no black borders at all became the minority.
These wizards belonged to an emerging club of First University, the Xiangqi Society.
Because Alpha Academy did not institutionalize the weekend meeting system like Jiu You Academy, the self-governance degree of the student union was very high. What