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They had found shocking results from the data gathered by Eon so they didn't waste any time and started moving right after confirming the situation of the rest of the city.
The influence of Kaksha in [Shrudha] was so powerful that they didn't need long to impose an absolute lockdown throughout the entire city.
Everything was being searched by the authorities in secret and the outsiders who were only here for a visit were dealt with separately by the other units.
Knights were now walking the streets of the city and no one was allowed to get out of this place... at least not through the gates or any other physical means.
"We need to confirm if this is an emergency or not."
They had to get out of here and show what they had found out to the headmaster as soon as they could since any mishap in this place would mean another conflict that the real demon cultists could use to their advantage to create a case of mass hysteria or perhaps something even more dangerous and potentially deadly.
People would die if that happened and they couldn't have that.
There would be complications, but since their plan had worked so perfectly until now, they wanted it to go just as smoothly going forward as well.
That's why they were at the secret house owned by the academy that had a hidden teleportation system... but even though they were people directly under the headmaster, they couldn't use the system that was supposed to be used only once.
"This IS an emergency. Why do you think the entire city is locked down?"
The head butler and the person in charge of the place did not understand the gravity of the situation.
This was important to them.
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"Is there any connection between the city being on a lockdown and you all having to to use this teleportation network?
Do you know how long it takes for one to create these special teleportation points in various places?"
The head butler here was in his mid fifties like the usual head utters who were trained by the special individuals of the headmaster.
He knew what he was doing and he knew who they were already. But, even if they were in this city for a task directly assigned by the headmaster, they didn't really have a written permission of the headmaster to use this system.
They were only some helpers of the headmaster like the many of the others present all around in this world and he, as someone with the responsibility to guard this place that might be needed when it was actually important, could not let only four people use this device.
The emergency situation they were talking about was also only a mere lockdown.
The city would open up in a few days and they would be able to get out of here the usual way.
There was no need to use something so precious, but the four of them didn't really have the time to argue with him or make him understand why using this device was important for them.
"It takes a decade to create the basic boundary of the spell system, three years to gather all the required materials, a year to invite the special crafters that could make this system, and it takes a good lot of resources just to make one of these points.
And we know just how important they are. That's why I'm asking you to trust that the headmaster puts in us that this is really important.
If we don't report our findings to the headmaster as soon as possible, I'm afraid something might happen to this city and then to the rest of the world."
Eon's eyes were sincere, and the rest of them were looking at him with the eyes that also resembled his.
But, the head butler was stubborn.
"Ahem."
The look the head butler had had completely changed now, and he was looking at the two others with the two of them with a kind of look that even Cradle found amusing.
"Can we use this now?"
"Yes. Though, give us five minutes to prepare the array."
"Yeah. Take your time... it's not like the Grand order and the entire knight units are coming for us."
The way Cradle taunted others was a natural talent of hers that she had honed over all these years.
She was so good at it that even a King ranked Knight mistook her mere words to be something so strong that they hurt his very heart.
It was peculiar, as well as something that affected the head butler as well, so he quickly went out with a bow.
-Oooooooooooooooong!
And it didn't take long for them to vanish from the blessed city of Shrudha.
[{ "Let's move quickly." }]
It was the night Saturday.
The city was in quite a confused state when they left, so they had predicted there would soon be something unexpected happening in that city.
They had informed the other authorities about some external threats as a preparation for something going wrong, but to deal with the real problem at hand, they had to meet the headmaster as soon as they could.
-Ooooooooooooooong!
So, they travelled through the vast plains that they had ended up in after the teleportation, and travelled for hours before reaching a city, form where they teleported to the empire's other main city where the academy's secret gate leading to the island of magic's wealth existed.
[{ "Finally..." }]
And though it took them a while, they were back to the academy island by the time the sun had started climbing up to the horizon.
"He must be waiting for our arrival."
"Of course he would be! If he was concerned about us or something, he would have come to help us when we needed him there.
And that butler bastard! What the hell was his deal?!"
Cradle was upset right now, but it was no time to be upset or angry.
They had to report the things that they found out to the headmaster so that he could prepare to address those things in the upcoming Grand conference.
"Let's go now."
Many lives were on the line now as not only two or three, but more than a hundred individuals in the Kaksha were affected by the curse that was said to hold the power to kill even the divinities.
Something big, and dangerous was going to happen soon... and, they needed to be prepared for that.
Since that was the only thing, that they would be capable of in this particular situation.