The Swordmaster and the Great Mage (6)

An emergency faculty meeting was called.

Although meetings had been called with unusual frequency this year, emergency summonses themselves were not particularly unfamiliar to the professors.

Raymond alone was an old fossil who flaunted his authority as head of the academy's most successful department, the Magic Department, and summoned every professor from every other department whenever something trivial came up.

But this faculty meeting had a different atmosphere.

That was only natural, since the one who had called it was none other than Scadi, head of the Swordsmanship Department.

Department Head Scadi usually had no interest in the academy's internal politics or administration and was obsessed solely with shutting himself away in the Swordsmanship Hall to train himself and put his disciples through their paces.

And he had called an emergency meeting?

He had even ordered Department Head Raymond—the academy's second-in-command and de facto power—to attend without fail?

This was no ordinary matter.

Under normal circumstances, Department Head Raymond would have snorted at the notion of ordering a busy man around and delegated his authority to an assistant, senior professor, or chief professor, but this time, he appeared in person in the conference room...