Because Nora had already killed all the students from the A-level House.
These students came from various prominent families.
Their deaths were being covered up by the academy.
The academy would inform one family at a time, after some time, minimizing the incident’s impact, almost unnoticed.
Moreover, the students of the A-level House seldom interacted with students from other academies, which allowed the academy to pull this off.
However, if there were any more attacks on students…
The days ahead for Karea Academy would be extremely difficult.
Fortunately, this spell beast didn’t land within the academy but instead chose the back mountain, a relatively insignificant place.
This could be considered a stroke of luck in an unfortunate situation.
The only one who was truly unlucky was the teacher who was injured by the fire barrier.
Eileen had just witnessed this scene while riding on the back of a snow eagle, leaving her deeply shocked.
It was Nina who had brought her to Crossbridge Academy on the back of the snow eagle.
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Eileen initially thought that this snow eagle was merely a tool for traveling.
She hadn’t expected the snow eagle to possess such terrifying power!
Not to mention the icy winds capable of freezing magic!
Such a spell beast…
It behaved so obediently in front of Nina, a girl who seemed so small and unthreatening.
This was beyond Eileen’s imagination.
At the back mountain of the academy, there was a clear spring.
This was the place where Nora had once mentioned to Eileen that she had felt an unusual power.
At that time, Nora hadn’t had much opportunity to investigate further.
So, she had handed the matter over to Eileen.
But before Eileen could reach the spring, Nina had already taken her away.
This was Eileen’s first time at this place.
However, it seemed perfectly ordinary.
Eileen immediately looked toward Daniel.
She thought, the headmaster of the academy must have a way to deal with this.
Upon seeing the spring, Daniel immediately began observing it closely.
Around the spring, there were numerous intricate magic arrays.
Naturally, it didn’t take long for him to deduce that the power of gods and devils was likely contained here, corrupting the world’s essence.
Daniel didn’t say much but immediately began breaking the magic arrays one by one.
When the last array was destroyed, the hidden anomalous power began to radiate its energy.
Even the people behind Daniel could feel the difference in the atmosphere.
“This power… doesn’t feel like something from our world.”
Reed frowned and said.
“Even the rules… seem vastly different.”
Rose instinctively felt a deep aversion to this energy.
As for Ryze, he immediately realized that this sensation and aura were likely what their teacher had described: the power from the gods and devils.
A dark hole appeared before them.
“Let’s go in,” Daniel said, leading the way into the cave.
After a while, they reached the end of the cave.
The walls were covered in black patterns.
In the center, there was a stone platform, upon which rested a substance that looked like black sludge.
“Is this the power the headmaster spoke of, the one that’s corrupting our world?”
Reed asked, looking at the object on the stone platform.
He stepped forward to take a closer look.
However, as soon as Reed’s foot touched the ground, black fur began growing on his leg.
The fur seemed to sway in the wind.
Reed felt no sensation at all from the sudden appearance of these strange things on his body.
If Daniel hadn’t warned him, he might have continued to walk forward.
The fur… No!
They seemed more like tentacles.
They moved around on Reed’s clothes, as if trying to burrow into them.
They were surprisingly active.
As Reed pulled his leg back, the black fur seemed to leave its comfortable position and quickly withered, turning into dust.
At that moment, Reed suddenly exclaimed:
“Headmaster, these things… they seem to be absorbing the mana in my body!”
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Reed had done nothing, yet the brief contact with these strange tentacle-like creatures had caused him to feel that part of his mana had been drained away.
So… was it these black things that consumed his mana?
“Did those people use such disgusting things to corrupt our world?”
Rose’s expression was more disgusted than before.
Daniel reached out and touched the area near the stone platform.
He watched as black fur began growing on his hand.
These things were absorbing his mana to strengthen themselves.
This was an existence from another world.
Thus, the living beings of this world found it difficult to resist.
That’s why those beings from another world had succeeded.
This kind of power corrupted the Source of World, and the Source of World couldn’t fight back.
Just like Reed, if he hadn’t withdrawn in time, these creatures would have drained all his mana.
But the world couldn’t withdraw. It was simply being corrupted.
That’s why the oracle group planned to save the world.
“Father, are you alright?”
Rose asked with concern.
“I’m fine.”
Daniel replied lightly, as if the matter wasn’t a threat.
In the next moment, Daniel’s hand produced a sprout of the Tree of Origin.
The black fur seemed to sense the power of the Tree of Origin and immediately recoiled from Daniel’s hand.
Daniel walked toward the center of the stone platform, where the strange object was kept.
As Daniel approached, the black sludge-like substance bizarrely disappeared, revealing the true object within the stone platform.
It was a broken pen.
From its aura, it was clear that it contained a powerful energy.
The pen was imbued with significant power.
From its aura, it was evident that this was an item left behind by the gods and devils.
It carried a power that did not belong to this world.
This interaction with the world’s energies had led to this result.
The power of the gods and devils began to corrupt the world.
Daniel immediately planted the Tree of Origin.
As soon as the Tree of Origin touched the ground, the broken pen reacted violently.
It was as if the pen’s original owner had never died and was still fighting with their final will.
The black force, like sludge, resisted the Tree of Origin.
The Tree of Origin, which had been called the world’s savior by the elders, had the power to resist this corruptive force.
Through Daniel’s special perspective, it was as if the two forces were in combat.
At first, the broken pen held the upper hand.
But as time passed, the black energy emanating from the pen began to be absorbed by the Tree of Origin.
Each time a part of the energy was absorbed, the Tree of Origin grew taller.
The absorption rate also increased.
This process surprised Daniel.
Through this method, the Tree of Origin was growing even faster than when it was nurtured by the colorless forge.
Eventually, the Tree of Origin completely absorbed the remaining power of the gods and devils from the broken pen.
The Tree of Origin took the place of the pen on the stone platform.
However, the cave was too small.
Daniel wanted to set up a magic array to allow the Tree of Origin to grow freely.
He hadn’t forgotten how the Tree of Origin at Crossbridge Academy had grown from a sapling into a towering tree in such a short time.
Now, either the cave needed to be enlarged, or the surroundings of the Tree of Origin needed to be altered to accommodate its immense height.