[Arcane Academy City · Lanmen Academy · Unknown space?]
"That demon from Imperial Sequence really is extraordinary. His strength has grown far, far faster than any genius of any past era. In less than two years, he already rivals a top-level train conductor...
What a monster."
The strongest Academy Dean in this city was Helen, herself a former Homecomer.
She was watching everything happening in Arcane Academy City from this unknown space.
Beside her were also the Academy Deans of the other six great academies of Arcane Academy City.
They were:
Carlot Academy · Chels.
Stalem Academy · Fan Xindi.
Amata Academy · Wang Jiu.
Anhe Academy · Bu Li.
And lastly, Kelaidewen Academy · Jiekehei.
Including Helen, there were six Academy Deans in total, all powerful top-level train conductors.
Yet now, when Arcane Academy City faced such a crisis.
All of them remained hidden in this space, never leaving.
They let the apostles of those false gods and the assassins from the City of a Thousand Stars slaughter the teachers and students of Arcane Academy City with all their might.
Helen adjusted the Magic Crystal Glasses above her eyes, shifting her attention from the livestream footage to somewhere else.
The sight beneath Arcane Academy City.
Arcane Academy City itself floated above an endlessly dark pit.
Compared with this pit, the enormous Arcane Academy City was as tiny as a toy building block in a child's hand.
But that was not the point.
The point was that, at this moment, dark creatures were crawling out of the pit in an unending stream.
Helen's expression gradually grew grave, and she touched her wand to the surrounding spell nodes.
The six Academy Deans expended their mental energy simultaneously, converting it into magic power to replenish different nodes.
The places where they stood