Listening to the Council Members drone on in the courtroom, Blanc was starting to feel sleepy.
He lowered his eyes slightly, looking as though he was dutifully listening to their lecture, while his idle mind wandered back to Siegrain.
When Blanc first reported the matter concerning Jellal, it had caused quite a stir throughout the Magic Council.
The Tower of Heaven, also known as the R-System, was a forbidden form of black magic that used large numbers of living people as sacrifices to forcibly reverse life and death and resurrect the dead.
Because its methods were so cruel, the Magic Council had classified it as an absolute taboo of the highest order.
However, this was not the first time the Magic Council had discovered the construction of a Tower of Heaven.
Long before that, the Magic Council had uncovered signs that the Dark Magic Cult was secretly building Towers of Heaven, intending to use this forbidden magic to resurrect the Black Wizard Zeref.
After a massive mobilization, the Magic Council had eventually located and destroyed seven unfinished Towers of Heaven.
They had thought that was all of them, only to learn that an eighth was being built in secret somewhere unknown.
Yet even after months of extensive searching following Blanc's report, the Magic Council had still failed to locate the eighth tower.
If their sweeping raids had not uncovered evidence of the eighth tower's existence in some of the dark guilds they wiped out, the Magic Council would likely have believed Blanc had filed a false report.
Once the existence of the eighth Tower of Heaven and its mastermind, Jellal, was confirmed, Siegrain-a member of the Ten Wizard Saints and Jellal's elder twin brother-was immediately thrust into the eye of the storm.
But that man's disguise was flawless.
Not only