In the end, Dunn still let Elvita and the others take Igneel away.
Just as Elvita had said, the Wizard Council was now the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.
Once the Wizard Council steamrolled the Lyon Empire, those scraping out an existence in the cracks would be next to face a reckoning.
So those who stood against the Wizard Council absolutely could not turn on one another at a time like this.
Indeed, the Seven Deadly Sins were also enemies of the Wizard Council, and their seven Legendary Classes had long ranked among the top thirty classes into which the Wizard Council expressly forbade advancement.
Moreover, according to Elvita's veiled disclosures, although they would not join the main battlefield, they would undertake something major. If they succeeded, it would cause the Wizard Council considerable trouble and ease the pressure on the Lyon Empire.
Even so, at most, it would only delay the Lyon Empire's downfall a little.
This time, the Wizard Council was determined to eliminate the threat of the Lyon Empire once and for all.
Their petty efforts could not shake that in the slightest.
Howenshire, on the Old World.
Inside a room in the Pure White Tower.
The entire room was empty, its walls, floor, and even ceiling pure white.
Only a jet-black box in the center of the room contrasted with its surroundings.
An old Wizard with white hair and a white beard, dressed in a white Wizard Robe, formed a hand seal toward the box.
A milky-white light flashed, and the box seemed to activate.
A cloud of black fog burst out and gathered into the outline of a human body.
Bones slowly took shape, and finally, a sickly green flame suddenly ignited inside the skull!
The skeleton seemed to come alive all