With the break of dawn, the chirping of birds whistled from the trees that were left untouched from the catastrophic battle between the Rising Smoke and the Mountain Sieger - their chirpings were like an opening choir.
Everyone who was involved in the incident was either rushed immediately to a medical facility by the academy staff or left, no longer wanting to stay in a place where their lives were so recently threatened.
But. There were always exceptions.
Some people decided to stay back at the academy, ogling at the newly repaired buildings that were reconstructed with the help of the golden runic array.
What was that phenomenon, you may ask? The golden runic array was called—
"[The Hidden Array of the Golden Hour]..." Kuro muttered quietly as he climbed up the stairs to the surface, "Not once did I imagine that I would be able to partially witness it in action during my time here..."
