When the young wizards of the Absolution Hunting team stood on a small hill discussing the sudden burst of red light and the rumbling explosions just outside the academy, the lawn outside the Ascend Dimension Laboratory of the First University's Magic Research Institute was already filled with many black-robed wizards who had rushed here.
Everyone stood there, staring blankly at the scene before them, bewildered.
The originally neat, square, grayish-brown building now slowly melted like wax in the dim red light, occasionally transforming into various monstrous shapes with bared teeth and claws as if it were alive.
Through the red light, the wizards could see a giant fox sitting in the middle of the building ruin, holding a massive sphere of light. Around it, many black-robed researchers had gathered, animatedly gesticulating.
Strangely, it seemed as if the fox and the many wizards within the red glow were merely illusions.
