49 Familiar Faces

Everyone had gone to bed and few were still awake in their bedrooms.

The Elemental Magicians studied their hearts about the [5 Elemental Movements] and made sure to exert the most effort in understanding their proficient area of magic.

It was not ideal in their circumstances since they were only given a night to study this manuscript.

In the morning there might be a slot for reading the manuscript once more but with the stress accumulating in the group, it would be difficult.

However they were still competent enough to understand the very basis of what Christian desired.

Meanwhile, Christian was in his own room, looking at the paper he received.

There was a bad premonition about the paper he currently held.

A truth that he didn't want to see was the first impression he had but this instead bugged him to pry open what the paper contains.

Sitting there wouldn't do anything.

Opening the scrolls, Christian felt a little speechless. Lying before him were two pictures that he couldn't understand.

The faces were clearly normal but Christian couldn't remember if he had seen any of them before.

One was an overall handsome person with short white hair and clear pristine blue eyes; nothing below the head was seen as it was replaced with a description.

But the person who grabbed Christian's attention was the guy on the other scroll.

Whispering out loud

"Didn't I see him at the dorms?"

Realizing at this point that there had been a sweeping of every dorm in their school. He should've seen the white haired man in the crowd or the dorms but he didn't

Christian came to the rash conclusion that the student was most likely from another school despite Leonard attending Redwood Academy.

It was possibly due to the stress getting to his head that caused this but it was quickly disrupted by his cultivation manual, [Imperial Mandate].

Calming his mind, Christian began to rationalize his prior knowledge

"I was at the library yet no one told me the commotion."

This lead to the possibility that Leonard could have been in a special facility and doesn't rule that idea out.

But that meant nothing as Christian couldn't do any investigations yet.

The other guy was clearly different the scar on his face created a notable image of his face.

Pure green eyes shone out of his average looks and the black hair had a glossy undertone which could be done from tonics increasing cultivation.

Below was a name and a short description

"Insane Beast? A crazed person that only runs on fighting?..."

Below the description seemed to be more nonsense as it wouldn't make sense on how this person could scheme the destruction of the herb he was about to collect.

Thinking that it was the white hair teenager, Christian looked at his information but the only notable thing was his ability to control water and swordsmanship.

Doubt clouded his mind when he thought of N but it was very unlikely that he would make such an offensive move.

Puzzled by the information, Christian set the thought to the back of his mind and when he returned back to the school, would he look for more information.

His first priority was to lay low and not create any useless enmity. Even if there was any animosity directed at him, he made it his first concern to eliminate or cripple that force.

With all those reason behind, Christian still couldn't understand how someone could retaliate with crippled strength or dead corpse.

A hypothesis he thought was that this could be the use of forbidden magic that allowed the two enemies to somehow resurrect as he remembered that there are indeed methods that allow atrocities to be created.

Although it was very unlikely since this world shouldn't contain the possibilities of making or passing on a heritage for revival.

Revival was a possibility but Christian still couldn't accept the fact that he couldn't recognize such faces despite having a high cultivation foundation

The only valid reason he could accept was that they were like him.

It was unfortunate that Anne and Pierre had yet to know that Christian accidentally discovered Dean's existence but for a different reason.

Thinking more about the two people, Christian wanted to know why they tried to sabotage him but sleep was what he first needed.

Pondering would do nothing but disrupt his state of mind.

Christian thought to himself

'Happy thoughts...Imperial Court...'

...

Morning had risen and many students who were now prepared to face a monster, emitted a stronger sense of will power.

They ate their food with a sense of serene peace and chatted with their friends in a delightful tone.

Everyone had gotten a good night rest as they thought the fight would be a cinch with the strategies that were provided and the positivity boost from friends.

Greeting were sent to anybody that walked past in the hopes of creating good morale.

Christian nodded at the sight.

His soldiers were well rested, healthy, full of nutrients, hydrated and are confident. What more could Christian want?

Pierre had reported that all 50 students were now awake and fed.

Once the preparations were done, Christian led his men to gallop across the distance towards a very rural town.

It was in ruins

Christian had been desensitized to such scenes when he remembered his dad. His real dad would drag him to wastelands to learn that life was tough and you were nothing to the heavens.

Compared to him, a few people in the group gasped in surprise as a few teared up when they saw the limbs of humans.

The sobbing echoed within the silent village that was now in shambles

Pierre looked around for any evidence of the Horned Viper Murderer and just out of the corner of his eye did he saw a beast.

It was unfathombly large and Christian had also noticed it when Pierre suddenly stopped.

Acting as a chain reaction, Anne noticed and now the whole group noticed.