Chapter 136 Glistening Shoes

"What?! What are you even talking about?"

Rira casted an irritated look at Raghnall.

"Are you really against talking about him to me?"

Raghnall was really lost in the conversation so he decided to just keep his mouth shut.

"Oh come on! Don't be like that! He must've passed by this gate to leave! So it's impossible for you to miss him! Especially when he was carrying that idiot."

Huh?

Then, it suddenly clicked inside Raghnall's head.

Ohhhhhhhh, so her 'little baby' wasn't a literal baby that she had with Favian.

It was actually him!

Raghnall cringed at the realization as he tried to hold in his disgust from coming out of his face.

How shameless is she to claim him as her little 'baby'?

He is no one's little baby!

Raghnall expression darkened as he abruptly stood up.

"I have nothing to say to you nor am I obliged to say anything about my dear brother to you. Who do you think you are?"

With her pride hurt, Rira angrily stood up as well, as she tried to make sense as to why Favian suddenly had a change of mood.

"What's up with you today?! I was just asking about my little baby! You don't have to give me that attitude!"

Raghnall, still disgusted by the endearment, walked away briskly while ignoring her. Seeing his rude action, she realized what he was doing so she ended up shouting in anger.

"Are you kidding me?! Just for asking about him, you're ignoring me?!"

But, Raghnall just drowned out her frustrated screams as he made his way to the testing site.

After a few minutes of walking at a fast pace, he finally reached the place. Back when he was guarding the gates, the noise he heard from there weren't much so he figured that it must've been just a small commotion. But now that he's actually nearer, he realized that it was no way near a small commotion.

Screaming here, shouting there. People pushing each other towards the stage, people throwing objects at one another.

To say that the situation was chaotic would be an understatement.

The students from the audience were standing up and were screaming at the three remaining contestants. Their screams were something about accusing them of cheating and of being a fraud. The Keepers that were assigned for crowd control were doing their best to appease them but nobody seemed to listen to them.

Instead, some students decided to scream at them for being incompetent due to the fact that a Lily class student was able to enter the exams. They held in their complaints since Professor Gnarly was present but now, since he was gone to report something, everyone's mouth has now been let loose.

They began to condemn Inna for being the demon of bad luck.

And then, one began to say that Rose class students weren't much of a big deal if they weren't even able to heal a Lily class student. A Rose class student took offense and decided to retaliate back by saying that Oleander class curses aren't much of a big deal when faced with Rose class students' willpower. Other Oleander students treated it as an insult and decided to throw shade again. Saying that their curses are at the very least, better than the healing spells that can't even heal people completely. Lotus class students heard the conversation and decided to step in, defending their dignity as healers. They began to say that they were the lucky ones since they actually help save a life rather than mages who can't do anything but watch and help with meager stuff like boiling water. The students from the Pansy class heard the comments and felt insulted. So, they joined in the fight as well, making the commotion bigger and bigger until almost all students were involved in the fight.

Then, it escalated so much that some students even got so worked up that they decided to push the other students which made them push back. Soon, it became a riot of people pushing each other that some students began to fall down the bleachers and into the floor.

Seeing the physical fight, the Keepers had no choice left but to cast an immobility curse on all of them and used another spell to move them back towards their seats.

Raghnall looked around at the chaotic place and he shook his head in dismay. Last time he visited the Plant Sanctuary, it was a vibrant place filled with different kinds of plants and insects that made melodious noises. The whole sanctuary exuded serenity and it was one of his most favorite places in the whole nation. Whenever he gets to visit this place, he always took a nap by the center of the whole sanctuary.

But now that he returned, he couldn't do it anymore because his napping spot has been cleared out and was made into a testing site for the students.

Recalling all those, Raghnall sighed again with a heavy heart.

He looked at the angry faces of the students that were screaming and at the indifferent faces of the students who didn't care wether other students were to harm themselves.

To think that it was reduced into something like this now…

A place of cheating…

A place of selfishness…

A place of greed…

A place of chaos…

Then, thinking that Rira must've left in anger by now, he was about to return back to the gates when he saw a movement that caught his eye.

Abandoning the thought of leaving, Raghnall stood in an inconspicuous area as he tried to look at the person that caught his eye.

Under his watch, he saw Galen and Herad were both smiling gleefully while Drona discreetly glared at them.

The action that caught his eye was actually the faint glistening of Herad's shoes when he took a step forward. He didn't understand why the shoes that was made of grey cloth would suddenly shine. If it weren't for the fact that Herad was wearing light armor on top, the glistening of his shoes whenever he took a step would've been unnatural. But since he was, the glistening would normally been disregarded since his armor was also glistening.

But now, Raghnall was able to notice its weirdness quickly amongst the chaos.

And for some reason, he couldn't help but think that it's something that he should really look into.