The central hinterlands of the human Manasvir Empire, “City of the Eternal”, Olsylvia City.
Every year, this particular day would be a harbinger of a series of unfortunate events. Even though the Radiant Church had once again emphasized that those events had nothing to do with it, the early arrival of the “Resurrection Day” had caused a flurry of inexplicable panic and horror to spread amongst the student body.
The early occurrence of the “Resurrection Day” was an indication that something huge would happen this year. However, the “Resurrection Day” did not last long. Everything seemed to return to normal and calmed down after just one night. The next morning, when the students of Olsylvia Academy emerged from bring huddled together in fear the entire night, they received a notice that the Academy would be closing temporarily.
Such occurrences were extremely rare and unusual. In fact, this was the first time that something like this has happened within the human empires in the past few hundred years. At the break of dawn, Bella, Lisha, Kriss, and her other dorm mates made their way to the grand hall where the school’s opening ceremony had been held at the beginning of the year. Hopefully, the school’s leaders would be able to provide an explanation as to what was happening.
The main square of the Frank Civilian Academy within the central campus of Olsylvia Academy was already filled with students who were trying to get to the bottom of things. As this was not a formal closing ceremony since it had been brought forward at the last minute, seats had not been assigned to any of the students. At the moment, the students were seated based on the society that they belonged to. Students who were not a part of any of those societies had no choice but to sit further back.
Bella was seated together with the Rose Society, which had expanded from its initial handful of members into a society that had a membership count of a few dozen students. This was due to Bella’s unending efforts to use all sorts of methods to persuade new members to join her society.
When the Rose Society first reformed, it was one of the smaller societies. Since then, it had grown into a large society that would have made the old Rose Society proud. The Wronged Angels Society, led by Charlotte and Demir, was seated beside them. Bella could barely even look at the group of adorable “babes” next to her.
The members of the Wronged Angels Society were either pseudo-ladies or males crossdressed as females. As it was nearly impossible for Bella to make out their true gender, Bella decided to give up and not look at them instead. This was to prevent her soul from being corrupted in the worst possible way. The pseudo-loli, Director Charlotte, was seated in the most prominent position. He gave Bella a little wave and a smile when they made eye contact.
Bella had no choice but to respond. If only Charlotte was still the girl that he was in another world. Over here, he was a cute boy and she did not dare to get too close.
The fraternities were on the other side of the Rose Society. Their faith was unusually unwavering. Even though there were various incredible beauties such as Princess Kriss and President Angelia next to them, none of them took even a little peek at either of them. In this moment, Bella felt almost impressed by their determination.
President Isaman ended up sitting with the Rose Society. Since she said that she was here to visit with her younger sister, Elaine, Bella let her be. However, the next time she did something like this, Bella would have have no qualms about using any of her methods to ensure that President Isaman would join the Rose Society.
Currently, other than President Isaman, every single one of the Top Ten Olsylvia Academy Belles, the chief president and various student union presidents, as well as the Holy Maidens of the Radiant Church, had already been listed as members of the Rose Society. The whispers being spread among the students was that the Rose Society was also known as the “Belle Society”. Thus there were many boys who were willing to volunteer as free labor for the society.
However, there was no way that Bella would allow any males to join her “Lily Society”. Furthermore, the registration area for the Rose Society had basically been set up next to the fraternities’ and the Wronged Angels Society. However, no one knew if that had been done on purpose.
Either way, since the boys still had some sense of self-preservation to protect their moral integrity, they did not dare to approach the registration area. They were afraid that they would be picked up by the “philosophers” next door and be coerced to join their society instead.
“Dear students, I regret to inform you that we have received a notice from the Imperial Union and have decided to close the school for up to two months. The reason for this temporary closure is for the maintenance of the Academy’s history. Further details will be conveyed to everyone by their teachers.”
“Also, you will not have to worry about your school credits. Based on the instructions from the Imperial Union, the school credits will continue to accumulate over this period of closure. The territories and other accumulated points by the various societies will not be affected either and will be maintained until the Academy reopens.”
After listening to the speech of the duty principal of Olsylvia Academy, Principal Elvis from the Filomena Nobility Academy, Bella finally understood that the request to close the Academy had been made by the human empire’s Imperial Union. Other than Olsylvia Academy, other nearby schools such as Antoinette Academy, which was the “arts school”, and the “external school”, Alessandra Academy, had to close temporarily as well.
Academies all over the human empires were all ordered to close. There was no knowing what went through the minds of the management of the Imperial Union when they made this insane decision. They must have had an aneurysm or suffered a temporary loss of IQ. Furthermore, the Radiant Church was extremely cooperative and had put their full support behind the human empire’s combined decision to close the schools.
Bella knew that the truth was definitely not so simple. According to the holy spirit of the third generation Holy Pope McPherson, there was a possibility that the Twelve Demon Kings would make a return. Not long ago, one of the Demon Kings whom McPherson had made a deal with had tried to summon him.
Since McPherson had entered into another deal with a new Demon King, Bella, the initial transaction was now rendered null and void. McPherson was now waiting and observing the current situation before making his move as he had not revealed the identity of the Demon King who tried to summon him.
This was the first time that McPherson had experienced a transfer of deals where both sides were Demon Kings. He did not know what kind of relationship both parties had and thus McPherson decided it might be best for him to toe the line for now and remain neutral so that he would not unintentionally offend anyone.
Only a few students decided to return to the classrooms. Many of them left to pack their bags once they knew that the school would be closing. The male students from the “arts school” who had lovers quickly made plans for one last “crazy romp between the sheets” as a final farewell. Human academies typically did not keep any of their students once they closed.
These changes would not affect any of the student dormitories. For example, private dormitories, such as the one built by tycoons like Bella, would definitely be left alone, therefore it did not matter if the occupants did not move their things. Because of this, President Isaman had moved her belongings over to Bella’s dormitory building for temporary storage. There were so many signs pointing to the fact that Isaman’s eventual corruption would be inevitable.
After speaking to Teacher Ingrid, Bella found out that there had been quite a bit of unrest within the human empires. At the northern borders, the allied army of the four main demon empires had once again attempted to embark on an attack on the Octavia Empire. They had taken over many of the small islands nearby as a stronghold and the Octavia Empire was now engaged in a long drawn battle.
This was the eighth continuation of the war between the human race and the demon race. Since the mysterious disappearance of the Magical Knight Lisha’s team of “Demon Slaying Knights”, the demon race had gained the advantage in this war. At the moment, the nation of archers, the Kristoff Empire, as well as the Manasvir Empire, located at the central region of the continent, had activated large numbers of their troops to provide support to the battle in the north.
As for the magical nation in the eastern part of the continent, the Aldridge Empire, it had met with quite a fair bit of trouble. Firstly, one of their ships had met with a “maritime disaster” while away at sea and many female students from Frederica Academy had mysteriously vanished. This included the President of their student union, Caroline.
Frederica Academy was now stuck in a half-paralyzed state. Without their student union president, the order to close the school was a blessing in disguise. Many of the coastal cities of the Aldridge Empire had been attacked by the oceanic race. This was the first time that the oceanic race, which had remained quiet in the past, had launched an attack of this scale on the human race.
Both of these incidents were related to Bella. As one of the biggest masterminds, Bella kept a straight face when she heard the news, as though she had nothing to do with it. The girls from Frederica Academy as well as the two princesses of the oceanic race had been “held captive” by Bella. Therefore, she definitely shouldered most of the responsibility for what was going on.
As the line of defence in the eastern region was not strong, the Aldridge Empire could only send out a small batch of mages to support the battle in the north. Most of their military had been sent to the east to fight the oceanic race’s invasion. This time, the Ogres in the north were playing dirty as well.
According to the intelligence from the scouts in the north, the Ogre army was gathering and had immediate plans to attack the Gabriel Empire in the south. The Gabriel Empire was the basis of the human race’s main food supply and was of equal importance to the Manasvir Empire in the central region where the human gold reserves were.
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