The following noon.
Xia Zhou and his companion, clad in standard academy uniforms, stepped out from behind the academy's low walls.
Their uniforms and picture book allowed them to freely enter and exit the exhibition hall. Which was a short distance from the academy and made for a nice post-meal stroll.
The resident mage of Starry Night City was Bictris.
This wise female mage, well over two hundred years old, had witnessed the ebbs and flows of the world. She knew that pure light only gives birth to deeper darkness.
She retained a corner of the southeast part of the city called the Broken Kiln District, a rundown area teeming with poverty.
This was a forbidden place for academy students. However, students could freely move around all other districts without fearing any trouble.
Not just Bictris provided protection for the students.
Dim, the castle manager, had written the following in the Castle Rules:
