As expected, Professor Raiden couldn’t keep his promise. Something had come up that prevented Anella’s transfer.

I had a rough idea of what that “obstacle” might be.

‘So the principal has accelerated his research into dark magic detection.’

As I left the First Main Tower after parting with Professor Raiden, I organized my thoughts.

Dark mages hide their identities perfectly, infiltrating various parts of the magical world. Due to mages’ inability to detect them, dark mages were free to cause chaos, which formed part of the original story's world-building.

But that didn’t last forever. At a certain point, Elteman Eltewin …