An hour later, in the vice dean's conference room, the Seventh Trial Ground accident had been contained within the academy. Ordinary students had only been told that an experimental magical beast facility had malfunctioned and that the freshman screening needed a new location.
The deaths of eleven researchers, the artificial Astral vessel, and the Abyss Induction Crystal had all been classified at the highest level.
Only four people were in the room: Albert, Cecilia, Victor, and Leah.
Spread across the center of the table was a magical map that clearly had not been used in years.
\[Third Enclosed Ecological Zone\]
The zone was almost half again as large as the Seventh Magical Beast Trial Ground. Its layout was entirely different, too. It was not simply a forest, but a combination of woodland, rocky valleys, wetlands, and underground caverns. Numerous old research facilities that had ceased operating were scattered throughout.
