Glory Academy.
Three days had passed since the devastating assault within the pocket world—a violent ambush led by demonized humans that left trails of destruction and blood-stained memories across the cadet battlegrounds.
By the time Nero collapsed beside Khione, his blood mixing with the snow-covered plains, help had finally arrived. Through the fracture in the sky, instructors clad in glowing robes and enchanted armor descended like divine messengers. Arcane magic surged through the air as emergency protocols activated.
Without delay, they retrieved the fallen cadets, their forms battered and broken. Nero and Khione were barely conscious—Nero's body scorched and torn from invoking Dragonification far beyond his limit, and Khione pale and unmoving from blood loss and magical exhaustion. The instructors swiftly extracted them from the pocket dimension and teleported them back to the real world.
Back on academy grounds, the situation was grim.
