Returning to the Dark Faction, for once the group thought they might be able to relax a little. They had, after all, been thrown from one situation to the next, one after the other.
The Academy was somewhat a safe haven for a few reasons. One, it wasn't part of a clan and wasn't centered on the border of any of the other factions' territory.
Because of this, there was no reason other than to get to the Dark Magus for someone to attack it. On top of that, the Academy itself was filled with students.
Most of them wouldn't be in the middle stage, and mostly other warriors would ignore them completely.
Which was why none of them would have ever imagined the situation they had actually returned to in the end. It was devastating, and it was cruel at the same time.
