On the surface, they were arguing over who was right and wrong in the incident involving the two students. In reality, the two academies were competing for superiority. Professor Yao understood this perfectly well.
Professor Yao knew about the friction between Jiuyou Academy and Alpha Academy. He was not deaf.
He also knew who was right and wrong between Zheng Qing and Sephrano, whether the defense had been excessive, and whether school rules had been violated. He was not blind.
Originally, he had not intended to make such a big fuss that the entire school knew about it. Nor did he want to lift the lid on the school's internal conflicts at the critical moment when the Xuanhuang Wood was flowering and bearing fruit, throwing the situation into even greater chaos.
But when he had chatted with the Yellow Flower Cat yesterday, its remark—"That's your school's own business. Handle it however you want."—had suddenly reminded Dean Yao of something.
That was right. Whether it was Zheng Qing or Sephrano, the Merfolk Tribe or the Centaur Tribe, Jiuyou or Alpha, these were all First University's affairs. Their conflicts constantly affected the stability of First University. Though it had not yet reached the point of "pacify the interior before resisting external threats," if these conflicts could not be eliminated before the possible attack by demons arrived, things might become even worse in the future.
Professor Yi had warned more than once at the Professor Joint Conference that this attack by Wizards and Demons would be extraordinarily dangerous for First University. That was why the school had recalled large numbers of hunting teams from the New World at any cost, using them to supplement its fighting strength.
Yet even after recalling more than a hundred hunting teams, Professor Yi's divinations had shown no