Tiara could be seen sitting with her leg crossed over the other.
Her bright red hair flowing over her shoulder as she just sat down there.
She was reading the books she took and paid for from the library.
Taking books from the library to your room also required extra points, this is why some students prefer to read in the library.
The library also doesn't have any closing hour or opening hour, it was basically open 24 hours a day making it perfect.
Tomorrow was the written exam so she was going over everything possible.
She had pushed herself more since the last time she witnessed Anthony's brilliance.
Which was on the ship when he fought Clement.
She was surprised by Clement's strength, she didn't expect that the gap between them would be that big.
But she felt she could close the gap in no time.
But her hopes were shattered when Clement and the rest rank amock.
She closed the book and sighed.
In the previous written exam she was just a point behind Bryan.
She won't allow that to happen this year.
But as for the battle exam, she wasn't so sure about it.
She had fourteen people all fighting for the first place with her.
She wasn't so optimistic that could even stand on the first place, she wasn't that delusional.
But what she didn't know was that neither Bryan nor the Storm brothers or even the ten fingers were vying for the first rank.
The thirteen of them had seen Anthony's abilities in the illusion so they weren't so delusional about getting the first rank.
They all knew Anthony remained undisputed.
As Tiara was about to pick up another book, a portal suddenly opened beside her.
Tiara didn't react as this portal opened, she had seen this sight a lot.
This was how she met her master, or rather this is how her master usual calls for her.
She just opens a portal directly in front of her and all Tiara had to do was step in.
Tiara sighed as she saw the portal.
She had no qualms meeting her master, she was already done reading, she was just revising to be sure there wasn't anything she missed.
Then she stood up and entered the portal which immediately closed when she stepped into it.
Tiara arrived in front of the Blood Empress who had an aura of command and authority radiating off her body.
She held a file on her hand as she went through it.
"The disciple greets master"
Tiara quickly greeted as she bowed the moment she arrived.
The Blood Empress raised her head and her blood red eyes met Tiara who was still bowing.
"How many times do I have to say you don't have to do such nonsense when its just us"
The Dean said to Bryan with a nodd.
Bryan smiled in return as he appreciated his master's praise, which shows his hardwork wasn't going to waste.
"Have you spoken to Anthony for the past three months"
The Dean asked Bryan.
Bryan replied immediately.
"I haven't seen him since the day he paid for our classmates to eat lavishing meals"
The Dean heard Bryan's reply then fell into thought.
'Where is he?'
The Dean could sense everything happening in the Academy whenever he wants.
The day after the feast, the Dean had received news of Anthony's spending seventy million Academy points.
So he spread his senses to sense what Anthony was doing, but Anthony had mysteriously disappeared.
He looked throughout the Academy and even the Domain as a whole but not a single clue was found.
He came to a conclusion that Anthony had left the Academy by teleporting.
Although this was against the rules since the students aren't allowed to leave the Academy Domain unless they took a mission or it's during a holiday.
But the Dean ignored this and didn't make an issue out of it as he remembered Anthony's power and abilities.
He felt that the Academy may have become stuffy of some sort for Anthony.
So the Dean just let Anthony to do his thing.
Bryan looked at his master and asked cautiously.
"Master, did Anthony get criticallly injured during his mission or is his core having issues or is it damaged"
Bryan had also heard the rumors and speculation that Anthony was critically injured and went into hiding and was trying to heal himself.
Normally Bryan won't even give these speculation a single thought, but when he connected the illusion Anthony showed him together with the rumours, it seemed true.
In the illusion Anthony had many injuries and even ran out of potions, coupled with the fact that Anthony had literally just thrown them out of his room as he was done showing them what happened during the mission, this has never happened before, so Bryan had no choice than to somewhat believe these rumours.
The Dean heard this question and almost laughed.
'Injured? Critically? damaged core?'
The Dean thought, but didn't say anything as he didn't even know where Anthony was at this very moment.
But he needed to at least give his student a reply, and as he was about to give it, he sensed a presence, a presence he hasn't sensed for three whole months.
'He has returned, it must be for the exams'
The Dean thought.
Then he looked at Bryan and said.
"Tomorrow is the exam, you will meet him then, do you best and also get some sleep"
Then Bryan immediately disappeared from the secret realm under the Dean's control.
The Dean's looked at Anthony's direction then shook his head as he saw Anthony taking off his clothes in order to take a bath.
He removed his eyes then disappeared.