It was exactly as Raze had expected. Inside the main building, the entire place was practically deserted.
All the students were outside, enjoying the grand event, and it appeared the same was true for the professors and faculty as well.
In many ways, mages were more comfortable than most in leaving things unattended. With the safeguards of magic, there were countless spells, locks, or automatic triggers they could implement. Some enchantments would alert them instantly if something were tampered with. Others would activate defensive mechanisms, buying the caster time to return.
But no one would ever expect a Nine-Star Mage, especially one from a rival academy, to be strolling through their halls, walking with purpose, knowing exactly where to go.
No one could imagine that a powerful mage like him, one who had every reason to disrupt the main event, would instead slip through the shadows… and aim for the principal's office.
