Chapter 49 - Sanctuary (3)

A sudden emergency alarm rang in the Academy's medical department. Startled by the unexpected noise, all members, including the sleeping medical professor, hurriedly returned to the medical department building and checked the location where the warning was triggered. Then they all showed strange expressions.

"This is... the place we used as an injured reception area during the combat department entrance exam," the professor muttered.

On the Academy map placed in the center of the medical department's emergency room. Three red lights were blinking at the entrance of the southern forest.

The residual magic of the alarm was too strong for it to be a malfunction. A signal clearly sent with someone's intention.

It was nonsensical. The magic used during the entrance exam was currently not in use.

Yet now, suddenly, that magic was activating. It wasn't something made by a mediocre mage, how could this be possible? It was more plausible that residual magical power from back then had reignited now.

But... the professor somehow had a feeling this situation wasn't a simple incident.

It was in the realm of intuition. All her senses, honed by rolling through battlefields as a healing mage, were telling her to head to that forest immediately.

Her intuition, cultivated over many years, had never lied to her.

She hardened her expression and spoke to those gathered in the emergency room, "Let's check it for now. Everyone prepare."...