10.22 cycle eight, Ca’thir, of calendar Moonrachia

  It’s been more than 2 hours since I began spamming intermediate magic circles

  And Alias seems to have fallen asleep from exhaustion after crying for a long time

  I couldn’t even maintain my wind barrier now, that is how depleted my mana is

  I can’t even draw natural mana from the air anymore, since it takes a toll on my brain

  With trembling legs, I shot the last lightning lance that I could create with the last mana pool I had

  I could only maintain the wind barrier for a few minutes, it could disappear anytime now if I lose my focus

  But at least the entities were slowly disappearing, from spawning more than a hundred in a second, now they barely spawned 3 to 5 in 5 minutes

  With shaky breath, I knelt to the ground while holding Alias gently in my arms, as my wind barrier slowly faded away

  The moment my wind barrier disappeared, slowly, through my entire body, was now filled with a coldness

  There’s no enemy left

  None of them are crawling back from the shadows

  The academy was too quiet, yet I could hear someone screaming in agony, despair, and the like from outside

  It's just how quiet the academy was

  Everyone was standing silently

  Some were looking around

  Some were looking to the ground

  Some were trying hard to hold back their tears

  I couldn’t bring myself to look at them

  I couldn’t bring myself to say something

  Knowing that I was the one who had caused all of this

  Those who died can’t even leave behind their corpse, only a stain of blood on the ground, wall, and on their weapon

  I could only stare at the sleeping Alias

  Her eyelid was swollen

  Her small hand was still holding onto my shirt even in her sleep

  Can I even face her like usual from now on? While slightly fixing her bangs

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  I just wanted to run away

  Where should I go?

  What kind of new name should I use?

  And amongst the silent environment, someone was deliberately stomping their feet on the ground, as if trying to get all of the attention

  When I raised my face, there was a mage’s staff pointing directly at my forehead

  *****

  10.22 cycle eight, Ca’thir, of calendar Moonrachia

  “Kaleth,” Then I placed the tip of my staff into his forehead. “State yourself.”

  Since the moment the bell began to ring in the sky, I could feel his mana going rogue

  I thought it was just unstable control, given that emotion plays a huge role with mana, or perhaps the curse that binds him goes berserk and tries to bind him fully once more

  But I was mistaken since the start of everything

  The moment that the bell rings, an enormous amount of foul mana covers my entire mana sense, from the academy and beyond the city

  But once we killed the entity, all of their blood shared the same source

  A normal monster doesn’t share the same sources of magic but might share a similar structure if they’re the same race and bloodline

  But could you even consider them the same? When they all have different features

  Which could be only one conclusion

  All of them are monsters that were summoned with magic

  And there must be a summoner out there

  In the entire fight, I was widening my mana sense and couldn't find one, making me think the summoner wasn’t someone from this city

  I sense it

  Kaleth's mana structure was drastically altered, which was entirely impossible, like how a human can't remain completely still, as the heart must continue to beat and the lungs must expand and contract

  How and why did they change?

  And why was Kaleth their summoner?

  “I’m going to repeat it once more.”

  *****

  10.24 cycle eight, Ca’thir, of calendar Moonrachia

  “Kaleth, state yourself before I blow your head off.”

  What does she even mean?

  I can see that everyone present here is now staring at both of us, through the corner of my eyes

  Then I was staring dumbly at Millenia

  “What do you mean…?”

  “I don’t understand.”

  Millenia then pushed her staff lightly, to the point where my head pushed back slightly

  “Don’t play dumb.”

  “You are the summoner of these vile creatures.”

  What did she just say…?

  Did I mishear it…?

  But this is Millenia Mye Lilac… There’s no way she’s lying…

  “I’m not—“ The moment that word left my mouth, everything clicked

  Strange magic circles, a bell from the sky, familiar mana, and lastly

  They stopped spawning the exact moment my mana was exhausted

  But how? There’s no way I am their summoner?

  I can’t maintain that large summoning-level magic

  I was, and might be the one who only opened the door for them

  Then she cast a wind blade at my finger and caused my blood to spill to the ground

  I could feel it, and everyone present could do so, their faces, which were confused, turned into anger in a few breaths

  “Anyone who presents here could sense it, your blood and theirs shared the same structure.”

  “Again, with Eyes of the truth, it feels so obvious, but none had those eyes here other than me.”

  Millenia then pulled her staff and manifested expert-level magic circles with a horn manifested near her forehead

  “I will give you 10 seconds.”

  Everyone was just standing there staring at me, while whispering to each other

  Well… It's expected

  Even I could feel that my own blood shared the same structure as theirs

  Yet, I couldn’t understand why

  Then, from behind, someone placed their hand on my shoulder

  “Stop,” A familiar voice that I often heard

  “We can let the court handle Kaleth.”

  “For now, there are many more important things we should do.”

  Maya is now standing slightly in front of me, with her hand still on my shoulder

  Despite saying all of that, I could feel her fingers twitching on my shoulder

  “You do realize, if he’s doing all of that, it could be considered an international crime.”

  “I do advise you, don’t try something stupid, like shielding him.” After Millenia saying all of that, the magic circle she had manifested before slowly disappeared into thin air

  “I do know it well, but for now and until he gets called into the court, I will take him under the Orlier family name, as the head of the family wants it.”

  After that, slowly, all of them walked away, checking how much damage the city had suffered

  *****

  22.31 cycle eight, Ca’thir, of calendar Moonrachia

  Almost 12 hours have passed now

  At the Orlier family house…

  Currently, there are two guests in this house

  Kaleth and Rheya

  For Kaleth, I really can’t let him out of my radar for now, since I wouldn’t know what will happen to him

  For Rheya, she was feeling restless and worried for Kaleth because the news about Kaleth was that the summoner of the entity had almost reached the other kingdom

  Shaking my head slowly to regain my focus, “I still have a lot of work that needs to be done.”

  The office room was filled with the scratching sounds of pen writing nonstop

  The artificial light is glowing in the ceiling, with a white, pale moonlight showering into the room through the windows

  “But still, this is beyond my scope of work already.” While looking at the mountain of reports on my table

  From the report I got, the academy suffered significant damage from the building to the people

  Which needs a really long time to rebuild and recruit a batch of teachers again

  “Why did I even need to think all of this…”

  Then an envelope catches my sight

  Arnentia order court – Kaleth, cycle eighteen

  Caressing my forehead, “What am I supposed to do with all of this?”

  Noah once said to protect Kaleth no matter what the reason, but I can't stall for much longer

  Turn around and look outside through the windows. “What should I do now? Master Noah?”

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