Inside the Akademiya, after finishing his heavy workload for the Sabzeruz Festival, Azar indulged in a habit shared by most leaders: making his daily inspection of his House of Daena, like a male lion surveying his territory.
Watching the careworn students and scholars burn the midnight oil in the House of Daena's library, constantly exhausting their brain cells, always gave Azar a peculiar pleasure.
However, when he took the elevator to the first floor of the House of Daena, an inexplicable feeling came over him.
Wasn't... wasn't it far too quiet here?
Although a library was no place for loud chatter, quiet and peaceful were entirely different descriptions.
Peaceful meant people were present but made no noise, whereas quiet described the atmosphere when no one was around. With no one there, what sound could there possibly be?
Today was the Sabzeruz Festival, yet only two or three scholars remained engrossed in their studies in this enormous library. Had the Akademiya's academic atmosphere really deteriorated this much?
More importantly, he had not seen a single guard on duty all the way here. Wasn't this far too lax? Had they all skipped work to slack off?
Azar immediately shouted in the House of Daena, "Guards? Guards-where have all the guards on duty gone?"
At that moment, Uday, the Akademiya official on duty, approached and asked, "Great Sage, sir, what are your orders?"
Azar said unhappily, "I called for the guards. What are you doing here? Never mind. Do you know where all the guards have gone?"
Looking thoroughly puzzled, Uday said, "The guards in the Akademiya have all gone into the city to carry out an arrest, as ordered. I thought you knew."
Uday's words left Azar utterly confused, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart. "An arrest? Arrest whom?"
Uday