With eyes wide open from shock, Ray sat in silence as he kept looking into the void. Looking at him, one would feel that he was merely shocked or excited by the performance of his team.
However, the truth was vastly different as the reason for his shock wasn't his team doing well or anything as such. Ray was shocked due to another reason and that reason came from his understanding of the magical world.
He understood that the magical world was a place where the Strong Preyed On The Weak and the shock he felt came from the fact the magical world didn't see if anyone was a child or a grown-up, man or a woman, human or not. It didn't see any of this, it only used the rule of the jungle to judge all species as one and didn't favor any.
Understanding and knowing about how the magical world operated, Ray grasped the reason why most of the higher-ups including the dean and other strong personnel opposed the merge as much as they could.