After the young teaching assistant left contentedly with the Merlin Gold Medal, the relaxed atmosphere among the three Legendary Wizards in the office abruptly vanished. Rays of light in different colors spread outward, washing over the empty office like a tide. The three Legendary Wizards seemed to remain where they stood, yet their figures stretched infinitely tall, as though they had entered another unknown dimension.
Strange magical fluctuations echoed clearly around the small teaching building, yet First University's Guardian Formation kept its "eyes" and "ears" tightly shut, pretending that everything on campus was perfectly normal.
"Some important figures in the Alliance are deeply uneasy about First University suddenly opening a new academy." Shi Hui's somewhat cool voice reverberated through that unknown dimension. "They think the school has overstepped its bounds."
"How does opening a new academy count as overstepping?" Old Yao, who had only recently entered the Legendary realm, did not yet understand all the twists and turns involved.
"First University is the highest institution in the Wizarding World, recruiting the Alliance's finest wizard prospects... It has already taken the fattest piece of meat on the plate." Shi Hui used a somewhat inappropriate metaphor.
"But founding Edge Academy is like scraping every last crumb off the plate with a spoon after eating that fattest piece of meat." Old Yao immediately grasped the subtlety of the analogy. Clenching his pipe between his teeth, he thoughtfully added, "Taking all the good students, then taking all the poor ones too... Do they think First University is going to monopolize the entire Wizarding World's future?"
"Trouble invented by mediocrities." The witch sneered.
Hearing this, Old Man Ruo Yu, who had been silently leaning on his cane, finally spoke. He asked succinctly, "What do they want?"
"An exchange."
The witch summed it up in one