You call this the mastermind?

The horn sound outside the window continued to come.

In the meeting room, facing the inquiring eyes of the people around him, the childlike principal did not respond. Instead, after a moment of silence, he suddenly stood up from his chair.

"Let's stop here first."

He said, "I need to deal with some things, you guys can do whatever you want."

Having said that, he seemed to be very stable and turned to leave the meeting room, leaving a group of school leaders with confused expressions.

"Old campus... horn sound... This doesn't seem to be a simple horn, but that antique?"

After a little silence, someone suddenly said, "Could it be that there was a problem with the successor trial?"

"What could go wrong?"

"For example, Egg Wilson succeeded?"

"Are you kidding?"

After denying this first, they had no other clues, so they could only look at each other.

The sound of the horn alone would not make people feel anything, but if you look closely, this horn is clearly a special item called Burne-Jones' Howl, which is collected in the ancient collection room of St. Grant Castle.

This thing is an antique. It is said that whenever the school faces a major event, it will sound by itself.

But in fact, no one has heard it make a sound by itself, so people can only hear it being blown by humans at celebrations related to the school.

And now, it seems to sound by itself?

It is actually possible that someone broke the rules and went to blow the horn secretly, but if this is the case, the principal who has always been "mature and steady" would not react like this...

The people in the meeting room are therefore suspicious.

Rationally speaking, they don't think that the so-called successor trial can succeed.

But if not, could there be another major event?

This is even more confusing...

In short, a group of senior executives are currently a little surprised and doubtful.

Except for a certain black-haired young woman.

Unlike others, Juliana is full of confidence in someone, so much so that when she saw something abnormal, she immediately thought of whether someone really passed the trial.

However, after seeing the people around her whispering about it, Juliana did not speak out. Instead, she calmly turned the book of secret words to the page marked as "Old friend with corrupt private morals and shameless evil", and then wrote some words on it.

"A horn suddenly sounded in the school, suspected to be related to Burne-Jones's howl. Browning seemed to have noticed something and has left the meeting room."

"He looked a little panicked."

"I suspect he ran to find Mellen, but I'm not sure how he would react after seeing people."

Before these few words, there were many chat records, all of which mentioned topics related to the trial of the heir.

In fact, after discovering the occurrence of anomalies during the "invigilation", Juliana had already begun to contact her old friend, Mrs. Chelsea -

She originally didn't want to pay attention to the other party, at least not in the short term.

Because it is said that as soon as she left Chelsea Manor, the other party took the opportunity to entangle her sweetheart, which was simply shameless and vulgar to the extreme.

However, this matter is very important at the moment. She is not sure how the school will react to the appearance of the heir, so she can only temporarily put aside her grudges and discuss with her "old friend" how to deal with it.

"It is unlikely to be related to Mellen, right? Didn't you say that becoming an heir requires saving many people?"

A voice came from the other side, obviously puzzled by this.

The knowledge reserve of senior wizards, the physical fitness of senior hunters, and the history of "good deeds" of saving no less than 500 people.

In the eyes of Mrs. Chelsea, her students only meet the hunter requirement, and the others are not related at all.

Therefore, she actually had no expectations for this before.

So now, when she heard Juliana say this, her first reaction was to disbelieve it.

"But if it is not this matter, what else can make Browning leave suddenly?"

"A major event related to the school but not related to the heir suddenly happened during this period of time?"

"It can't be such a coincidence, right?"

Juliana asked three questions in a row.

In comparison, she did not know Mellen's details as well as Mrs. Chelsea, so her self-confidence was much heavier than the other party.

"Many coincidences happen every day in the world, so this is nothing to be surprised about." The other side responded.

"...Forget it, anyway, you should be careful. If possible, it's best to rush to the scene quickly to avoid any unexpected situations."

Juliana is confident, but she is not blind.

Merlen is indeed very strong, but she doesn't think she can beat an "old monster" like Browning.

Because just like her good friend Isabella, as the principal of a top wizard school, Browning's strength is no longer limited to the level of top wizards.

And now, there is a suspected heir to Saint Grant Castle.

What will be the reaction of the current principal?

Will he be willing to be demoted from principal to butler and accept this reality without hesitation?

Obviously impossible.

It's like living honestly in your own home, but one day a stranger suddenly breaks in and declares that this house and even this piece of land are his, and if you don't move out, you need to obey his orders...

It's hard for normal people to have a good attitude towards this, let alone obey.

In fact, if she didn't think that running over was useless and might hinder Mellen's escape, she would have wanted to go to the scene.     Instead of staying in school to do this kind of surveillance.

"If this matter is really related to Mellen."

When Juliana was worried about this, a sentence came from the other side of the Book of Whispers, "According to my prediction, Browning should not take action directly, he will only find out the truth of the matter first."

"But you can't guarantee this, right?"

"Yes, so I'm already at the scene."

"That's good, if you are here, I can rest assured-"

The words stopped abruptly.

Looking at the message sent by her friend, Juliana's heart suddenly rose with a trace of vigilance.

In such a short time, he actually rushed to the scene?

Although she had realized that her former friend wanted to snatch a man from her, it was one thing to realize it, and it was another to realize that the other party was so "active".

A rival who is rich, beautiful, powerful, and has a good personality is too difficult to deal with...

"Fortunately, Mellen came to school."

This is the only thing she can be thankful for now.

"Otherwise, if he stays in Graham City, he will be eaten up by Isabella, a sultry woman, sooner or later."

...

The entrance to the "basement" the size of a suitcase is narrow, but Mellen is not fat, so he can barely squeeze in.

Then he found that "under" the suitcase was a marble corridor illuminated by a faint blue torch.

The corridor was white, and there was a corner at the end of the field of vision, and the situation behind the corner could not be seen.

After his footsteps were stable, Mellen just took a step forward, and a gentle voice suddenly rang from all directions.

"Welcome, Mr. Egg Wilson."

"...Who are you?"

This inquiry did not receive a response.

After thinking about it, Mellen stepped back and then stepped out again.

"Welcome, Mr. Egg Wilson."

The gentle voice sounded again.

So Melen could be sure that this was just a simple "procedure".

So he ignored it and started walking forward along the corridor.

When he reached the corner at the end and looked inside, there was a fork in the road ahead, separating the two sides. There was a door at the end of one side and another door on the other side.

Melen randomly chose one of them and pushed open the door to look. A room full of bookcases came into view.

After stepping in and taking a quick look, he looked at the surface of the desk in the center of the room.

At this time, there was a huge yellowed map quietly spread out, with a large number of black lines entangled and combined into a seemingly huge building complex.

And among these lines, there were countless small black dots quietly existing, some motionless, some gathered together, and some slowly moving.

"What is it? The live point map?"

Looking closer, Mellen raised his hand and touched a particularly conspicuous black dot on the map, and above this black dot, a person's name appeared.

Priestley Browning.

This name made Mellen feel familiar. After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized that it seemed that the principal of St. Grant Castle was called Browning?

"It can't be him..."

Mellen was surprised.

Because on the map, in addition to this name, there are some seemingly special "options" extended-

Drive away.

Hostility.

Call.

Isolate.

Restrict the scope of activities.

Specify taboo behaviors and speech.

Permanent expulsion.

I may have to take a day off tomorrow. My cousin is moving, and I have to work as a laborer. Alas...

Not necessarily. Let's see when I come back in the evening. If it's early, there should be an update.

But don't expect it.