[Meanwhile]
In his office, nailing the windows with wooden boards, and complaining about everything that happened in this year.
Thorn: *sighhhh* at first it was the demon in the library, then the consul taking over the Academy, and now snow Elves, this year is full of bad events, but the worst of it all is that little brat, ooohhhhh I hate him, and I hate this chain tattoo around my neck, I can't meet with anyone without looking hideous, not to mention I can't do anything to him, ooohhhhh I HATE JOHN SHON.
Just when Thorn said that, The office door flung open, and John and Lania enters the office.
John looked pissed about something while he enters Thorn's office.
John: Thorn!!!
Thorn's face becomes pale as he heard his name from John's mouth, so the only thing left for him to do is beg for his life.
Thorn: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, M-M-M-M-M-M-M-MR, SHON?!! P-PLEASE, PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON THIS OLD MAN, PLEASSSE!!!
John: Let Me Have it.
Thorn: w-what?!
John: I SAID, LET, ME, HAVE IT.
Thorn has no idea what John is talking about, but if he didn't act fast enough, these will be his final moments in the living world.
Thorn takes a book from his desk and walks towards John and hands it over with shakey hands, John's expression immediately changed, trying to understand what the hell he's holding.
John: what the? "I'm stuck between two rapists: special edition", huh?!
Lania & Elesa: (*gasp* SPECIAL EDITION?!!).
as John throws the book behind him, Elesa and Lania jump to catch it.
Both the cat and the elf look at each other with a surprised expression while holding on the book.
Elesa: meow?
Lania: huh?
As Lania and Elesa try taking the book from the each other, John was more focused on the important things.
John: okay Thorn, I've had enough playing around, hand me the spell.
Thorn looks confused as he hears that.
Thorn: w-what spell?
John: the spell that the snow Elves are looking for, I know it's here so hand it over.
Thorn: but, every spell in the Academy is in the library, I don't keep any spells here.
John: (huh?! If that's true, then does that mean the spell isn't even here in the Academy? No, I need to make sure it's not hidden, if I don't find it then we'll have to continue the plan without it).
John's eyes glow with red mana as he uses the Arcane Art and looks around the office, at first he didn't see anything unusual, but when he focused more and more on a book shelf in the left side of Thorn's desk, the more he realizes the consul's mark is on one of the books.
He walks past Elesa and Lania who are still fighting over the novel book, and reaches the shelf, John instantly understood what is going on.
John: heh, the consul, I should've expected that, I wonder what this book has inside it.
*Clink*
As he tries to pull the book with the consul's mark on it, a metallic sound comes from behind the shelf, and The shelf itself could be moved easily, as if the wheels' locks had been released.
While John pushes the shelf to the side, everyone's frozen in disbelief, a hidden door with the consul's mark was right behind the shelf, even Thorn, the Academy's principal was stunned.
Lania: a hidden door?
Thorn: how have I never knew about it?
John: have you ever read a book from this shelf?
Thorn answers Awkwardly with one word.
Thorn: no.
John: that answers your question.
John tries to open the door, and to his suprise the door isn't locked.
As the door opens, they can only see A staircase leading down into the darkness, John lights a fire ball in his palm and says what Thorn and Lania were afraid to hear.
John: alright, let's go down.
Lania & Thorn: DOWN?!!
John: yes down, stay close, let's be careful there might be traps in here.
John started going down the stairs, Lania and Thorn didn't even bother to stop him so they just followed him.
The deeper they go, the quieter the sounds of the students in the Academy becomes, after a while,Finally, they reach the bottom of the stairs, where a flat surface in a big room awaits them.
John immediately lights the room and stops them from getting down from the stairs, then he points at a lever.
John: wait here, They must have put traps in this room to stop whoever tries to sneak in, that lever over there must stop the traps, I'll go and deactivate it.
As John takes the first step, an arrow comes out from the right wall, John quickly dodges it but not one second after dodging the first arrow, another one came from the left wall, followed by a bunch of arrows from every wall, as John continue dodging the arrows both the ceiling and the ground starts shooting arrows, With agility, John dodges it, then, he finally reaches the other side of the room, and pulls the lever to disable the traps.
Lania who's holding the novel book and Elesa, and Thorn were shocked by John's tremendous agility.
Lania: (HUh?!! Where did he learn to do something like that? I feel so fat just by watching him).
John: there's a door up ahead, let's go.
They continue walking until they reach a giant wooden door with a smaller one on the right side of it, they enter through the door to a dark and cold room, the room seems to be so massive that even the fire ball in John's hand can only light a very small distance.
John looks around and finds another lever on a nearby wall, so he pulls it.
As the room starts lighten up the four of them can see why this room was hidden.
Mountains of golden coins and Jewellery and weapons shines under the rooms light, John, Elesa, Lania, and Thorn, All of them are stunned by the scenery, Thorn immediately starts crying from joy thinking he just hit the jackpot.
Thorn: I. . .I. . . I'M RICH, YEAAHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO.
John looks at him with a twisted look on his face.
John: Huh?
Thorn looks pale as he sees John's twisted look and trys to change what he just said.
Thorn: *gasp* I-I meant, we're rich.
John puts on an even more twisted look as he hears that.
John: HUH?!!
Thorn looks scared and disappointed as he repeats what he said.
Thorn: I meant, you're rich.
John sounds and looks happier after hearing that.
John: much better.
The group walked until they reached the middle of the room.
Lania: where did all this gold come from?
John: this must be the Consul's treasure room.
Thorn: but I thought the Consul's Base has been destroyed and disappeared, then why's this room still here?
John: because the Consul's Base was in a deeper place than this room; this room is exactly under the Academy building, while the consul's base was probably 1 km under the ground, and the reason why it's still here, do you see another entrance for this place, other than the one we used?
Thorn and Lania looked around and found only doors closed with Stones.
Thorn: All the other entrances are closed, then how. . . ?
John: I suspect they used some kind of teleportation magic to get in here, well since the consul doesn't exist anymore we'll be happy to use their money to upgrade the Academy, right Thorn?
Thorn looked so sad as hears that, but he doesn't have a choice.
Thorn: you're right Mr, shon.
John: okay, enough chit chat, Elesa come here.
Elesa jumped from Lania's hands to John's shoulder.
John: everyone pick a corner and let's start searching for the spell.
To Be Continued . . . .