"So, are we hosting the Gala as planned?" Karon asked the sa old man who managed the eting of the Seven Heads.
"No, it will be pushed ahead by 2 months, but it shouldn't matter as the dates were never announced," the old man replied.
As the Gala was not announced yet, they could postpone it just enough to maintain the pride of the Elite families.
The security issue with the Vault was not a minor one that could be overlooked. Even now, half the manpower of the Authority was working with the World Association to find traces of the unknown group, Zephyr.
"Did the results co in?" the old man asked while sipping his tea.
"No sorts of drugs were found, but Louis Rothschild did say that the drug or whatever poison the intruders used affected their mana circulation," Karon replied.
"I can't even trust what that guy says," Karon said as he grabbed his forehead.
Nothing that ca out of Louis's mouth made sense to them.
An unknown drug that could affect the mana of an S Rank hunter and below.
Only three people below S Rank managed to escape a peak S Rank Hunter.
"Wasn't there an incident that happened with Louis Rothschild during the party of the Heir of the Greville family," the old man said as he rembered the rumors around that ti.
"Is he holding a grudge for that long? I can't even do anything extre because of his status," Karon said with an irritated look on his face.
"His delusions are the reason our search is not going anywhere," Karon spoke.
They had no clue about the intruders, and the statents they got from Louis didn't make sense and were not helping them at all.
"Karon, sotis it's not good to overlook things," the old man said.
"So, what should I do? Interrogate the heir of the Greville family who is still in his first year at the World Academy?" Karon replied.
"Hey, I heard you fought and escaped an S Rank Hunter?" Karon said.
The old man just laughed seeing Karon's antics. He himself knew why Karon was behaving like that.
The pressure to find the identity of this unknown group was high, and even the Chairman of the Artisan's Association got involved as the Vault's security was breached.
"Well, I am glad that only two artifacts were stolen," Karon said.
After searching and verifying, it was found that only two artifacts were missing.
But they didn't know what they were as most of them were not analyzed by a Runemaster.
They were ant to be auctioned and the difficulty to analyze such high-ranking artifacts was too hard.
"So are we announcing the Gala this week?" Karon asked.
"Yes, after confirmation from the Seven Heads and after we decide who will inaugurate the Gala this ti," the old man said.
"Whiteheart are not a good choice anymore," he said.
"And Hargrave's Head doesn't want to be the one to do it," the old man sighed.
"Why?" Karon asked.
Opening the Gala, and being the Main Host was considered a great honor so it didn't make sense to him.
"Let's just forget it," the old man said with a tired look.
And it was his hint to Karon to not dig any further.
"And make sure you deliver the estimated dates to the World Academy in advance," the old man reminded Karon.
"Ok, then I will go back," Karon understood the orders and stood up.
Seeing the old man nod, Karon left the room.
"Well, it's a good thing they only did such little damage," the old man said to himself.
He was thinking about Zephyr, and the people behind it. And he knew that their movents would be extrely difficult knowing that many forces were searching for their tails.
"Well, that's what you get for going against the Elite families," he muttered.
He was sure that none of the existing illegal organizations were behind this attack.
And if they were, things would get extrely difficult for them considering the cri this ti.
In the World Academy,
"What? Blake Cranston lost a spar against Asher Greville?" A second-year student asked.
"Don't you know, almost everyone knows about this," his friend said.
"But how?" the second-year student asked.
"It doesn't make sense. You're telling that the Blake Cranston we know of lost to a first-year student," he had a shocked look on his face.
But it was not just him, this news had spread like wildfire inside the World Academy, that even the Professors knew about it.
Sothing like that had never happened in the history of World Academy.
There were tis when a first-year student would defeat their senior but defeating the Rank 1 student was an entirely different thing.
Not only was Blake the most powerful student in the second year, but he was also known for attempting the most dungeons out of all second-year students.
He had the most battle experience out of all second-year students, so him losing to a first-year student was an insane shock to the second-year student.
"Hey, doesn't that an a first-year student is better than the whole second year?" One of them said as many eyes turned towards him.
"Wait, why is everyone glaring at ?" He noticed the stares.
It was obvious why people were reacting like that.
Knowing that a first-year student who had just joined was better than all of them was not the best feeling in the world.
"But, it was just a spar anyway," one of them spoke.
"It's not like they used Aura or lethal moves," he continued.
"Can you beat Blake Cranston in a spar? He never lost a single spar in the Duel Class. Almost all of his spars were a win, and few were a draw, never a loss," one of the students spoke out.
Blake Cranston, was not a simple guy either. The second son of the Cranston Family who had all the resources and the rough training of the Cranston Family.
Inside the Ranker's Dorm,
Leonard was sitting in front of Blake and Jack.
And his expressions right now were not bright at all. Usually, Leonard would maintain his smile, and mask his true intentions all the ti but right now he couldn't control the frustration he was experiencing.
"How?" Leonard asked.
Blake was clenching his fist as he knew what Leonard was asking, and he felt that answering it was too embarrassing for him.
"In one day, your one loss will result in almost half of the people that we brought on our side crumbling and stepping back," Leonard said.
"If you can't even win against a first-year student, how were you so sure about winning the End Year Tournant?" Leonard asked while staring at Blake.
"Haah," Leonard was controlling himself from losing his temper but it was hard to do so.
But even though he wanted to strangle Blake right now, he couldn't act too rudely against Blake knowing that he was from the Cranston family.
"I will duel him again," Blake said looking at Leonard.
"Last ti, I focused too much on Swordsmanship, but in a duel, it will be different," Blake replied.
"No need, just forget about Asher Greville for now, and this ti follow my orders," Leonard glared at Blake.
Blake wanted to deny but seeing the look in Leonard's eyes he stopped.
"Let the Midterm Examination happen, I will handle matters regarding Asher Greville," Leonard said looking directly at Blake.
"Just focus on regaining your image, challenge people to duel from the third year, I will give you the nas," Leonard said.
"And clear your reputation a bit," he said.
"And Jack, spread rumors that Blake went easy on Asher Greville and it was not an actual spar," Leonard said, and Jack nodded at him.
Right now, losing influence was not sothing Leonard wanted. Most of his influence was there because of the top mbers of the Blood Faction.
"And tell Alan and Gavin to increase the speed of the task we gave them," Leonard spoke after thinking a bit.
"Make sure most of the people lean over to the Blood Faction's side rather than the Student Council," Leonard said.
'This is getting annoying,' Leonard thought as he leaned back on the chair.
'Everything goes wrong around Asher Greville,' Leonard thought.
Since the mont Asher entered the World Academy, everything went wrong for him. And this made Leonard even more aware of Asher's existence.
"I need to be careful around him," Leonard muttered to himself.
He beca even more focused on Asher, as he was the only one Leonard couldn't read properly.
'That guy would be a good card,' Leonard rembered Kevin and the deal he made with him.
Although Kevin made it clear that he would always side with Raelyn in matters concerning the Student Council, he accepted the proposal that Leonard gave him.
Now all Leonard needed to do was to make sure that Kevin, who was estimated to be the Rank 1 student, would be able to stand against Asher Greville.
"Right, the Gala will be announced this week," Leonard said, looking at Jack and Blake.
"Make sure all things I said will be done before the Gala happens," Leonard reminded them.
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