Chapter 2900: Loose Lips Sink Ships
Even as he cursed inwardly, Zheng Qing instantly sorted through a chain of key points.
To impersonate an Archwizard before an old-school Legend, one first had to be at least Archwizard-level; second, one had to know Old Man Ruo Yu well enough; and finally, most crucially, the impersonator had to have had direct—or rather, close—contact with the person being impersonated recently.
Besides that, timing was also extremely important.
Before Colmar was confirmed as an Aptitude Candidate for "Yuanshi," she still had a great deal of freedom. The school's attention toward her was limited, so theoretically, that stage would have been the easiest time to carry out the impersonation.
But when she became an Aptitude Candidate, she would inevitably undergo a thorough and comprehensive examination at the school. If her identity had been switched before then, the risk would have been enormous, and the chances of exposure extremely high.
More importantly, only after Colmar had been confirmed as Yuanshi's Aptitude Candidate did switching her identity have any meaning.
Therefore, the switch could only have happened recently—after the school confirmed that Colmar would replace the Archwizard who had given up the status of Aptitude Candidate, and after she had made her final choice between the two vice presidents of Edge Academy.
Without question, once Colmar had been confirmed as Yuanshi's Aptitude Candidate, she would certainly have received more attention and protection from the school. Replacing her without a sound would have been extraordinarily difficult.
The best possibility was that Colmar had agreed to, and actively cooperated with, this "The Raccoon Dog Replaces the Crown Prince" scheme. But considering the hope and resolve she had shown during her several conversations with Zheng Qing, she did not seem like someone who would voluntarily give up on Yuanshi.
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