Chapter 2528
"...Yesterday at noon (Sunday, March 14), the First University Teaching Assistant Group convened all its members for a secret meeting, with no outside observers invited. It is reported that deans or wizards of equivalent rank from all four academies and the School Labor Committee attended. According to reliable sources, the Teaching Assistant Group discussed many surprising and unsettling topics at this meeting..."
"...Later, Gongsun Xiaoli, spokesperson for the First University Teaching Assistant Group, confirmed to the media that claims of Edge Academy and the Teaching Assistant Group jointly developing a 'secret weapon' were utterly fabricated and groundless. We were unable to verify this. However, in subsequent communications between reporters and Edge Academy, its spokesperson stated that as construction of the New Academy gradually got on track, Edge Academy would possess strength befitting the status of an academy under First University. Edge Academy would always remain the firmest defender of First University's security and unity, contributing its own strength to the inheritance and development of the Alliance's magical arts..."
"...This statement from Edge Academy was tantamount to publicly admitting certain rumors circulating both inside and outside the school. Yet at the same time, the relevant institutions refused to confirm them. This one-sided policy founded on ambiguity and opacity only deepened the unease of many wizards within the Alliance..."
"...An insider close to the Teaching Assistant Group told reporters that the group had indeed reached a cooperative agreement with Edge Academy on certain magical experimental projects, but the specific terms had been tucked away in the deepest drawers of the school's High-level Wizards..."
"...Mr. Zhang Yu, the newly appointed head of the Teaching Assistant Group, stressed in an interview with this paper that the magical project collaboration between relevant First University departments and Edge Academy fully complied with the relevant