Extra Pages: The Author's Odyssey
Chapter 77: After the Incident

-Spurt!

"M-my lord!"

Splurting black blood on the ground, inside a dimly lit room, a figure clenched his heart.

A black silhouette appeared next to Patrich who had just splurted black blood on the ground and hastily helped him sit on his throne.

Though his breath was weak, his presence remained majestic as the servant did not dare utter a single word.

Gripping the armrest of his throne, the patriarch whose figure was now incomparably pale said

"He failed…"

-Crack! -Crack!

Tightening his grip on the armrest, cracks started appearing on the throne as a red glow started emanating from the patriarch's figure.

"…Fortunately because he was much weaker than me, his death has only cost me a small internal injury"

Hearing what the Patriarch had said, the servant worriedly asked

"How long do you need to recuperate?"

"I should be healed in about six months…"

Turning his head to the servant that was next to him, he coldly ordered

"Get someone to send me all of the information regarding the incident that Samuel was responsible for"

"Yes My Lord"

Nodding his head, the servant disappeared into the darkness

As soon as he disappeared the red hue around the matriarch increased many folds enveloping the whole room.

"Once I replace out who was responsible for killing my pawn…"

-BOOM!

The throne behind the patriarch suddenly pulverized as he stood up. With a distorted face and eyes that were dyed red in rage, he slowly spat

"…I will personally make sure they suffer a pain worse than death!"

…

The next morning, Nova Academy is full of reporters. They are here for the press conference that Nova Academy held.

"How can Nova Academy, which is said to be the number one in the whole continent, Allow this incident to happen?"

"Is Student Safety in danger?"

"Samue Ascal student of [3-Hero-3] was the fallen human. How Can Nova Academy let Fallen Human enter the Academy?"

"There were Ten, First-year Hero Class students who got severely injured, what will the Academy plan to do with them?"

"Isabella Evergreen, Princess Of Evergreen clan and daughter of Dreack Evergreen, The Supreme Mageus of all mages also fought to defend the lives of students, what are the comments of the HeadMaster on that?

"Is it true that Final Hit came from Lucas Darkhart Of class [1-Hero-1]?

"Please be quiet." the woman spoke, as soon as she said those words, all the people who were asking a question became quiet, not quite per se, their bodies refused to follow their command.

With just one word, everyone is under her control. If she wanted she could kill anyone in this large hall before they could blink.

Sadly she could not do that, Because she is...

"As you know I'm a Headmaster of Nova Academy, Hera Longbern."

She is a woman of great beauty. Her figure was slender and graceful, and her movements were elegant and refined. From the sound of her voice, anyone could tell that she was in a bad mood.

Her long hair cascaded down her back in soft waves, and her clothing was tasteful and sophisticated.

Overall, Hera exuded an aura of effortless beauty and grace, which left all the males in the auditorium feeling both awestruck and intimidated

Behind her stood the instructor of all classes of Nova Academy and the student council, Every instructor focused on Lillian because her students were mainly involved in this incident.

They kept sending her a glance now and then and whispered to each other.

Seraphina Everglow the head of the Student Council, stands there without any emotions on her face and stands beside her is Eric Blackthorn Vice President of the Student Council.

"Now I will answer the first question that the report asks me," Hera said, the report had asked the first question had sweat rolled down his face.

"You asked how can Nova Academy, which is said to be the number one in the whole continent, Allow this incident to happen?"

"We can't see the future, can we? This was something even Nova Academy could not expect. Will that be enough?"

"Yes, Mam." the reporter said as he was finally able to move.

"Nova Academy did not know that Samuel had fallen."

"Nova Academy will take full responsibility for Injured students, we will provide them with a perfect rank healing potion, so they can heal in a matter of minutes."

"Isabella Evergreen did her best to defend herself and others around her from Samuel for that I offer her my thanks."

Now here came the final question, the most awaited one too, everyone wants to know whether what they have seen in that footage was true or not.

Whiteout any emotion on her face, Hera continues.

"As you know Nova Academy is an island surrounded by sea, and many wild beasts are roaming around the Forest, So we have installed CCTV cameras all around for security measures, and there are also many cameras in Eplics Forest.

"Unfortunately almost all the cameras were destroyed by Samual but there is one he forgot to destroy, and in that camera, we found out that it was indeed cadet Lucas was the one who killed Samuel Ascal.

After she finished speaking, hell broke out in that Auditorium Hall.

-is what you said is true?

-But Lucas is bottom of his class, isn't he?

-Can you please say anything else?

"That's be all."

Hera said and walked away from the stage, despite, the protest from reports she said nothing anymore.

the instructor and student council also started walking with her.

On the way to the Headmaster's Office Hera turned to Lilian and said.

"Call the Yato from Western Border, and if he refuses to come, tell him it's my order."

Lillian and the instructor beside her took big gulps at the name of Yato.

One of the instructors of [ Astronomy Department ] asked a question.

"But Headmaster won't world gov-"

"I don't give a fuck about the world government."

Before he could finish it, Hera cursed. all the instructors were in shock, The Headmaster they knew always had a kind demeanour they also never heard her saying any curse.

And here she just curses at the World Government...

It's mean she is very pissed at the moment.

"I will tell him, Headmaster."

"Good." Saying that she left for her office, leaving others standing there.

***

Isabella's consciousness was awakened by a dazzling light coming through her eyelids, stimulating her pupils

Waking up in a large spacious room, Isabella blankly stared at the familiar ceiling she had been seeing for the past month. Lightly lifting her head, Isabella stared at her room.

The room was large, and beside her, there was a massive bookshelf of magic and herbs filled to the brim with books. A large desk stood in the right corner of the room. On it, a white desk lamp sat on the right corner of the desk with books neatly piled around it.

The room had a nice woody, tranquil feeling around it that could calm anyone who was in it. The sunlight directly entered the room from the large windows around the room, brightening the surroundings. Before entering the academy, because of her outstanding results, she was asked by the academy how she wanted to design the room and this was the outcome.

The tranquillity and silence in the room calmed her mind.

"…ugh!"

Touching her head, she felt a strong headache whenever she tried remembering what had happened the night prior. It felt as if her head was being split into two.

The last thing she remembered was seeing two emotionless eyes staring at her.

Recalling Lucas who was responsible for killing Samuel. Isabella's head was filled with questions.

She is thankful for what he did for her but how did he know that she was going to be targeted by Samuel?

Also, he was not shocked after seeing Samuel's demon form.

That must mean he was already aware of it.

Although she had never paid much attention to him, she thought he was crazy as they met first day of the Academy. And after that, he became her teammate.

Now he was in her team she started to observe him from time to time. Because he tended to do weird things, she more or less had an impression of him.

In both crew and classes, he looked like someone sloppy. He cared for no one around him and always seemed to be bored in class. Especially in the crew where he would forcefully try to pay attention to the lecture, though it always ended with him making strange faces.

…However, after the happenings in the Forest, her previous impression of him had completely shattered.

She thought he abandoned her and ran away at first when Samuel attacked her but not only that he come for her but he even defended her. He fights with all the student who is under the control of Samuel's ability.

she couldn't help but want to replace out more about him.

Bam!

Snapping Isabella out of her thoughts was the sound of the door opening as two stunning girls accompanied by two extremely handsome boys entered the room.

Rushing next to Isabella, Emma worriedly looked at her as she patted her body all over to make sure she was okay.