Three days after Klein killed three lower-class noble students, five corpses of peasant students were found mangled and dumped in dumpsters.
Noble students quickly left the dormitories and began residing in inns within the capital in fear of retaliation. The situation was escalating even faster than Sol had expected.
Everyone was waiting for the other pillars to make a move, but no one did. For some reason, all the pillars stayed out of sight, except for the first pillar who lived in the dormitories.
More fights were taking place within the cities and since student conflict was not against the rules. This system was the reason the fatality rate in the academy was high and why Lord Ross begged Sol to protect Cedric.
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The Hail family carriage rode into the academy, heading straight to the administrative block. He had received a letter from Martial Saint Kratus requesting his audience.
