The minor clash between the You Zui Hunter Team and Sephrano had far-reaching consequences.
Admittedly, most young wizards at the school could not see the deeper entanglements and deals among the various wizarding factions. But at First University alone, the sudden incident had already sparked an uproar between Alpha and Jiuyou.
Earlier on April 12, the mood on campus had still been relatively restrained.
As the winning side, Jiuyou Academy naturally had little to complain about. The incident had merely added another halo to the already inflated reputations of Zheng Qing and the others. When Jiuyou students ran into students from other academies, they could not resist offering condescending sympathy for the injured Sephrano or denouncing Alpha's lax campus discipline.
Alpha Academy, on the receiving end, was not about to back down either.
Before noon, rumors had begun to spread across campus.
One rumor claimed Sephrano had gone to Jiu You Academy as a "goodwill ambassador" to meet the student leaders of a sister academy, only to suffer a shameful sneak attack before the meeting. Another claimed the You Zui Hunter Team had dishonorably used talismans made by a Grand Wizard in its fight with him, disgracing First University's tradition of campus duels. Yet another claimed Jiu You Academy's staff and professors had stood by while an Alpha student was attacked and injured on their grounds, appearing only afterward. It was downright dirty.
And those were only a few of them.
The rumors spread so widely that by the afternoon, Alpha Academy students were shouting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," calling on Alpha's hunter teams to attack Jiu You Academy's student leaders and club officers—by any means necessary.
Tensions between the two academies were ready to explode.
Just then, the school released its preliminary disciplinary