Unlike the adults, the first floor was mostly filled with young people interacting with each other.
Among them was Leonard Tarvian, standing amidst a group of youths.
"By the way, how is the World Academy?" one of them asked Leonard.
"It's fine," Leonard replied, maintaining his smile.
Osbert had made sure that his son knew how to act in every social event.
No one would look at Leonard and think he would be scheming their demise while smiling and conversing with them.
Leonard's friendly nature was one of the reasons Kevin decided to join him when they would leave the World Academy.
Although Reece being friends with Leonard was a significant factor for Kevin joining them.
"By the way, I heard Reece Williams will be coming to the Gala as well?" one girl asked Leonard.
"He told that he would co," Leonard replied.
While Leonard continued conversing with these young people, who hailed from families powerful enough to be invited to the Kalvas Gala, he made sure to pick out people that could be useful for him.
"I heard your family found a new way to use certain artifacts," Leonard asked one of the boys standing there.
"Oh, it seems the word got out quite fast," the boy replied, pleased that his family was being praised.
"But our research is still focused only on support type artifacts, and it will take years until it can be implented," the boy added.
While Leonard was conversing, other elite families' children were sitting with their own groups.
At one of the big tables, Damian and Alia were talking with each other, sizing up the people they were seeing.
Alia was chatting with Damian when she saw Lucas and Livia coming down to the first floor, guided by a servant.
Livia cheered up as she spotted Alia, who was sitting at the table with Damian.
Both twins and Nate headed towards their table and sat with them.
Their arrival did not go unnoticed as a few people were looking at the twins.
"Did you get bored?" Alia asked Livia as she sat beside her.
Damian was smiling, but he noticed Nate's expression.
"Did sothing happen?" Damian asked.
"We t so woman nad Casie Hargrave who was rude to them," Nate said with an annoyed look.
"Casie?" Alia echoed.
'Is it Uncle Ivar's fiancée?' Alia rembered hearing about her once.
"Big Sister," Livia said as she poked Alia's hand.
"Yes?" Alia answered.
"Was that woman really engaged to our father?" Livia asked Alia, looking slightly saddened.
Lucas looked at Alia, as he too wanted to know the answer.
Even Alia didn't know the full details about it, but she knew that it was not better to hide things from the twins.
"If I rember correctly, Uncle Ivar was forced into an engagent with Casie Hargrave because of a promise between the families," Alia said.
"It was only a verbal agreent as Uncle Ivar didn't want to marry that woman," Alia continued.
"But even I don't know the full details," Alia said as Livia took a deep breath.
Even Lucas felt a bit happy without knowing why.
But Damian knew a bit more about this topic as David had once told him during their training session.
'I should keep it to myself,' Damian thought as there was another reason Ivar couldn't break off the engagent even if he wanted to.
As the promise was about one Greville marrying a Hargrave, there were two people that fit the bill.
One was Arthur and the other was Ivar.
"When you guys go back, make sure to avoid that woman," Damian said, looking at the twins.
"Okay," Lucas replied while Livia just nodded with a smile.
'I think they don't understand why I am saying this,' Damian thought as he looked at the facial expressions of the twins.
Even Alia wasn't that worried because she didn't know much about Casie Hargrave, but Damian did.
David would usually tell Damian about Ivar, as he grew up and this made Damian very curious about Ivar.
And that curiosity made Damian realize how dangerous the rumors about Casie Hargrave were.
But he decided not to tell them until he asked his father about it.
As they were conversing, Alia ordered various treats for the three kids, and they were enjoying their quality ti when a few people started coming their way.
"Are these the famous Ivar Greville's children?" one of the guys asked as he looked at Lucas and Livia.
Alia looked up and saw they were the sa people that were conversing with Leonard Tarvian previously.I think you should take a look at
The guy glanced at Alia and admired her beauty.
"Hey, I am -," He was going to introduce himself but Alia spoke first.
"We didn't invite you here," Alia said, her cold gaze falling on them.
"Uh?" The guy was confused by her reply.
"Okay," He said as he turned to leave, causing the others to leave as well.
Alia squinted her eyes, as she noticed all of them were looking down on the twins.
It wasn't hard to guess that they only used the twins as an excuse to get closer and talk with Alia, who was one of the most beautiful girls present there.
And seeing a group of four guys going back as soon as they arrived, a few others with similar ideas gave up the thought of approaching them as well.
Alia continued talking with the kids as they watched various artists perform. Many of them even amazed Lucas and Livia.
As this floor was only ant for young people, Cristina made the music and performance cater to their tastes.
"I think we should go back," Lucas told Livia, who was happily spending her ti with Alia.
He looked at the ti and the formal dance was about to begin in half an hour.
"Okay, but take care. Mom and Dad would have co back from the gathering as well by now," Alia said as she called two servants to accompany them back to the second floor.
The twins and Nate waved goodbye as they returned to the second floor.
Alia had already ssaged Sylvie about sending the twins back and included the fact that they had encountered Casie Hargrave.
At this mont, Reece and Raelyn had entered through the portal and were making their way to the White Castle.
"This is different than I expected," Raelyn said as she observed the colored waves of mana traveling throughout Mzelm Island.
Reece was also a bit surprised with Cristina's work, as the previous Gala he attended wasn't like this.
"Let's take the portal to the White Castle," Reece suggested, looking at Raelyn who nodded in agreent.
"Yeah, I don't want us to be too late," Raelyn replied.
With a smile, Reece extended his hand to Raelyn, who accepted it as they walked together towards the portal.
***
At one of the operation towers built by the World Association, a man was sitting in one of the surveillance rooms, recording the mana readings around the surrounding area where the building was located.
"Make sure that the connection with the Kalvas Gala remains stable," the Head Chief said, looking around.
"With so many SSS Rank people gathered in one place, the mana connectivity might beco unstable," he reminded them.
The formal dance would be shown to the whole world, and it wouldn't reflect well on them as they were responsible for maintaining the channels where the broadcast would be held.
"I have set the mana sensitivity, we just need to get permission from the people at the Kalvas Gala," one of the n working on a device spoke.
But as they were speaking, the man in charge of surveilling a certain area squinted his eyes.
"Why are the mana readings increasing?" He muttered in confusion.
Instead of decreasing, the mana readings did not stop at all; they kept rising to ridiculous heights.
Seeing that, the man's hand began shaking with fear, as he knew what this ant.
"H-Hey," As he was trying to gather other's attention he turned his head, but the sight he saw shocked him.
"WHAT?!" He shouted as he saw a single masked man killing everyone in the room.
"Shush," The masked man spoke as he put his finger on his lips.
The man tried to reach out to a certain button but he died before he could even move his hands forward.
"I got the control over this room," Dane said as he looked around a room full with dead people.
Dane heard Tom's instructions and he started ssing with the controls.
"Is it done?" Kai asked as he carried the dead body of Erwin.
"Yeah," Dane replied.
Kai surveyed the ss Dane had created in the room, but it was necessary for their plan.
After all, bringing Erwin here using the teleportation artifact was part of their strategy.
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