"That madman!"
Professor Emma stood in the void, staring at the enormous vortex that had suddenly appeared above Silent Forest, and muttered with a frown. Her hair resembled a blazing mass of fire, scorching twisted streaks into the air and dyeing half the sky crimson, a stark contrast to the gloomy Silent Forest below.
Several wizards in robes of different colors floated behind her, looking in the same direction.
"--It's Yuanshi's aura."
Professor Tesla adjusted the enormous Black Frame Glasses on his face, scratched his messy hair, then tugged at the collar of his yellowing white robe. There was an unusual gravity in his voice. "--If the news sent back from there earlier was correct, then this means..."
"Wasn't Mister Ruo Yu over there? Why did he let it return?" Another wizard draped in a blue cloak looked both uneasy and baffled.
"Just as Madam Shi Hui was lured away by Kotos and Six Fingers, I believe there must be other beings over at the Sea of Clouds distracting Mister Ruo Yu." Professor Yi lifted his gaze from the compass in hand, paused, then added, "--If my calculations are correct, this passage will be completely opened in fifteen minutes at most."
"That's truly terrible news."
One of the Black Robes shook his head, his tone conflicted. "Before I came out, Professor Dragoon Barton specifically told me to keep the commotion down. The Golden-Furred Mao Hou in his garden just miscarried and can't handle any fright..."
"Professor Li also has several Heavenly Dew Grass plants that have just flowered, and they're especially sensitive to the world's Qi Mechanism." Old Man Stad, dressed in gray robes and leaning on a Pickaxe, sighed painfully. "...That Monteria!"
As the saying went, those with nothing to lose feared nothing.
First University had a great many