For a moment, the entire room felt frozen in time.
Everyone had heard it, the sharp, explosive crack of a powerful lightning spell. The air itself trembled as the echo faded.
The ranked students hadn't yet stepped into the portal. Only they and the transfer students remained at the tail end of the group.
Heads snapped around toward the sound, eyes wide. All they could see was Raze's back as he calmly extended his hand forward.
A faint shimmer of dispersed mana floated in the air above them.
What was that just now? Am I seeing this right? Panla thought, her heart skipping a beat.
She had already been on high alert ever since the earlier incident, watching more carefully than usual. But even so, she hadn't expected an actual attack, not this sudden, not from someone like him.
Panla was too far away to intervene, but she wasn't the only one reacting. One person had managed to respond in time.
