The clamor surged like a tide on the expansive stone steps of the square.
The seats on the steps had been swiftly occupied by students, and even the surrounding roads were no exception. Teachers and students of Ichrite Academy seemed drawn by this force, stopping in their tracks and focusing their gaze on the giant screen.
They shouted excitedly and screamed from time to time.
The Ichrite Academy seemed to be in festive spirits.
"Loren, you've returned!"
"I knew you weren't dead. A man like you couldn't die so easily."
Though Loren's right face in the image was engraved with a black centipede mark that was not there before, like the price of returning from hell, the divine light of the God Era from the Original Slabs and the ninth-order Wind Magic indisputably confirmed his true identity as Hell's Loren.
