You call this the mastermind?

On the other side, just after leaving Mellen and others, the middle-aged vice-president named Ivan angrily said that the school's decision was completely wrong.

What the school should do is to punish this disobedient and clever mixed-blood freshman, rather than compromise.

He wanted to say this in front of Mellen before, and even wanted to scold him, but with Juliana, the principal's side, it was difficult to say it.

The white-bearded old man, the vice-president, did not comment on the words, but he did not interrupt the other party's nagging, which shows that he agreed with it.

This is actually a normal idea. After all, in their opinion, even if he has the status of an heir, the school should not be restrained in front of Mellen.

After all, he is just a wizard apprentice, how can he have an equal dialogue with the school?

However, things have come to this point, and now nagging these things will have no other effect except to aggravate the inner resentment.

So seeing that Ivan was talking endlessly, the vice-president raised his hand to interrupt him and signaled that he should focus on today's work.

However, just when they thought the matter was over, an unexpected incident occurred, forcing them to put the issue of succession on the meeting table again.

"Regarding the tragic death of Professor Jenkin, we have made a new progress."

Today is the start of the school year, so the school's senior management participating in the meeting are not all present, but the most important people are already present.

Especially the principal himself, who looks less than ten years old.

His expression is extremely serious at this moment, which makes others quite surprised.

Because even if a professor is killed, it doesn't need to be paid attention to by the principal to this extent, and even an emergency meeting is held?

"What new changes have occurred?"

The vice-president who had signed the contract with Mellen before could not help asking: "Is the identity of the murderer very special?"

"The murderer has been confirmed to be Director Ackerman Corey of the Contraband Items Processing Room."

The principal said: "The campus security team leaked the news when they went to arrest him, and he escaped. But in his bedroom, we found some unusual clues."

As he said, he raised his hand to signal, and the assistant standing beside him distributed some documents to the people participating in the meeting.

Then, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became solemn.

Because the news recorded in the document was too shocking-

The murderer who killed the old professor had been lurking in the school for many years, and was conspiring with others to occupy the school!

At first glance, this matter even seemed a little funny, because St. Grant Castle was a top school in the wizarding world, with many masters inside and excellent defense capabilities.

Not just any cat or dog is qualified to destroy it, let alone be occupied.

Moreover, although the school has a great influence in the wizarding world, it is not a key place. What's the point of targeting here?

Want to take a group of students as hostages?

"The murderer's biggest reliance should be three secret passages leading to the heart of the campus."

Seeing that everyone around was puzzled, the principal said in a deep voice:

"We can be sure that one of them is real, but there is no clue about the other two."

"Could it be that the murderer deliberately released false information to confuse the audience?"

Someone couldn't help but say: "Since he can commit such a murder, he should have considered the possibility of being searched and arrested. Why would he leave such an important clue in the bedroom?"

"I didn't believe it at first."

The principal said: "But we have used the floating observatory for divination, and the results show that all this has a high degree of authenticity."

Floating observatory?

The appearance of this name left the people in the meeting room speechless.

Among the many magical means, divination is the most mysterious and fascinating magic for wizards, because it involves seeing through the future and even seeing through the various secrets of the world.

The Astrology College, one of the three major colleges, is mainly engaged in research in this field.

The floating observatory is the core facility of the college, equipped with top fortune-telling masters.

If fortune-telling is done seriously, the effect it has can be ranked in the top three in the entire wizard world.

So although they still cannot understand why someone wants to target Saint Grant Castle, they have to consider how to deal with it.

"Since this unknown enemy has this plan, they must have sufficient preparations to make them confident in doing it."

The white-bearded vice-president pondered and said, "I suspect that there are not only secret passages in the school that we don't know about, but also traitors."

"Will it be related to that heir?"

Someone suddenly said, "He just became the heir not long ago, and then someone wanted to target the school. How could it be so coincidental?"

"If we hadn't signed a blood contract with him, I would think your guess is very likely, but now..."

The principal said while looking at the vice-president with a snow-white beard beside him.

"Ivan and I just signed the contract with him."

The other party said, "There will be no accidents."

If it is not the real person, the blood contract cannot be signed, because the fake identity does not have the corresponding power, and of course it is impossible to use this power to sign a contract with others.

In other words, the contents of the blood contract must be true and valid before the contract can be signed.

So this act, which was originally used to limit the power of the heirs of the old era, now allows Melen to be cleared of suspicion in the first place.

However, this makes things even more troublesome.

Because they have no clues about the traitor. "If the murderer was conspiring with others to occupy Fort St. Grant, then it is very likely that he has not left the school area."

The vice-dean named Ivan said: "As long as we catch him, we can get more information."

This is easy to think of.

However, after the principal heard this, his expression did not look good.

"It has been investigated and there are no traces."

He said: "That person is very weird, and some of his methods are unheard of even to me."

Have you investigated?

People in the conference room looked at each other in shock.

Unlike professions such as hunters, the strength of a wizard is not only judged by pure combat power or even destructive power, but by overall quality.

Because many of the problems faced by wizards cannot be solved by simply fighting.

And since he can be elected as the principal of a top wizard college, Browning's overall strength is of course extremely strong and is completely enough to convince the public.

But now, the meaning of his words is obviously that he has personally investigated it, but there are no clues...

Of course, this cannot be because our own side is too weak, but because the enemy is too "strong".

In other words, the enemy has been planning for a long time and is well prepared.

This is causing a headache.

Because even the principal didn't find anything out of the investigation, others present were even less confident.

"Maybe we can try to cancel the blood contract and ask Aige to use the heir privileges."

After a moment of silence in the conference room, someone suddenly asked: "This might have a miraculous effect?"

The heir's privilege comes from the entire Fort St. Grant, which was built in an era when the demonic tide had not yet faded.

Although the wizards' methods in that era were not as diverse as they are now, in terms of mystery and intensity, they were much higher.

However, these words made the atmosphere in the conference room a little awkward.

During the last meeting, someone had already mentioned that the heir should cooperate with the school to investigate the murder case, but the other party refused.

The reason is that the agreement between the two parties was to prohibit the use of the heir's power in exchange for corresponding preferential treatment. And if you want the heir to cooperate with the school to do something, then of course you have to discuss improving the salary.

However, many of the school's senior officials did not agree with the original treatment, and of course they refused to increase it, including Principal Browning——

It's not that they care about some interests, they care about the school's face, and they think it is a shame to continue to give in in front of an apprentice.

In addition, they did not believe that the so-called heir power was of any importance to the school. If certain restrictions were relaxed, there might be consequences.

So the matter fell through, and the contract was drafted as originally planned.

And now, he wants to go back on his word just after signing the contract. Where does this put the school’s face?

"Although the heir's power is special, it may not be of any use in this matter."

The white-bearded vice-principal sitting next to the principal said: "Furthermore, even if the enemy is very mysterious, his goal of occupying the school is just a wishful thinking."

Being able to hide well does not mean that you are powerful in combat. The enemy who is hiding can only be said to be a beast in the dark that wants to devour people, but it cannot be called a formidable enemy.

Everyone then nodded one after another, and then those who arranged the defense arranged the defense, and those who went to conduct the search went to conduct the search.

All in all, although they take it seriously, they don't think this matter will really be a disaster for the school.

However, with the emergence of a new piece of news, their confidence suddenly disappeared——

There are clues confirming that William Pantoria, who broke into the Tower of the Abyss, the largest prison in the wizarding world ten years ago and was listed as one of the ten pirate kings, appeared near Fort St. Grant!

The timing was so coincidental that it was difficult to tell whether this was just passing by, or whether one of the beings behind the scenes who conspired with the murderer to break down the school was William himself.

But if this is the case, the problem becomes very serious.

Is it a top prison like the Tower of the Abyss that is heavily guarded, or a top school like Fort St. Grant that is tightly guarded?

No one thought it would be the latter.

…

Because of this, the school's senior officials felt like they were facing a formidable enemy, but as if it was the calm before the storm, the atmosphere in the lobby where the entrance ceremony was held was joyful and lively at the moment.

Young students are pouring in from outside at this moment, all with excited expressions and full of expectations talking about everything that will happen next, completely unaware of the seriousness of the matter.

Mellen didn't either.

After all, he never expected that someone would come and attack a school out of nowhere.

After arriving here, Mellen originally wanted to find several classmates who came with him from Graham City.

As a result, before he could find those people, he was approached by an unexpected existence——

A young man with brown hair named Jonah.

He also has another identity, that is, one of the clones of the Holy Spirit hidden inside the school.