Elda's wide smile kept attracting the attention of the rest of the students as we kept walking by. The whole atmosphere of the academy was gloomy, filling a sense of tension everywhere one looked. All the classes were suspended for now as the academy once again faced another set of crises.
'Guess I keep causing the problems,' I chuckled at my thought. I kept waiting around with the hyperactive Elda, who seemed completely oblivious to the surrounding tension. With the news of what happened here reaching the ears of all the powerful kingdoms and empires, things took a turn for the worst, especially when the betrayal came from within their own people.
It is in no way light the betrayals; it meant that the inner structure of power within all the power in the world was completely decayed and dying, with traitors seemingly having bloomed from every position and power. As a result of it, a bloodbath has begun in several places across the entire world.