Earth's Greatest Magus

"Those bastards are crazy enough to attack the headquarters." Turning to Headmaster Delbrand, Magister Barty said, "I'm sorry, but I need to go now!"

Without waiting for an answer, the magister turned around and sped down the hallway making his return to the construct that would bring him to the surface. Leaving the flustered Warden and his entourage of four magus accompanied Emery and Headmaster Delbrand.

Meanwhile, the captives inside the cell who could also feel the tremors through the ground stood up and started to gather in front of the glass. Some looked worried for their safety, while some were smiling excitedly.

Realizing the situation, the Warden quickly spoke to Headmaster Delbrand. "I'm afraid the interrogation has to wait, Headmaster. We need to secure this place first."

The suggestion was certainly a wise call considering that whatever was happening outside most likely had something to do with these captives. Their utmost priority now should indeed swiftly deal with the happenings above, before continuing the interrogation.

Nevertheless, Headmaster Delbrand looked at Magus Cassian once again before deciding to follow the plan. His gaze clearly conveyed his intention. In the meantime, the same thing happened to Emery whose gaze was cast upon Annara.

He stared at her and noticed that there was a certain look on her face that seemed to be telling him that she wanted to say something. Alas, she seemed to decide to not do so, eliciting a silent sigh from him.

"Let's go!" the Warden said, ordering his men to lead the way.

When they arrived at the metal door of the construct leading to the surface, another wave of tremors could be vividly felt; and this time, it was followed by a sudden blackout of the entire facility.

As darkness enveloped them as all the lights went out, one of the Warden's men seemed to lose his cool as he spoke in a panicked tone. "Did they manage to destroy the headquarters power crystal? If that's the case, then the formation seal would not hold for long, Warden!"

"I know," the Warden said, his tone annoyed.

It was apparent that the situation was worse than it seemed. Noticing this, Headmaster Delbrand quickly offered help to the Warden. "Tell me, what can we do to help?"

With an exasperated look, the Warden said, "Most magus-level convicts won't be able to break through our Tiberium Glass and Meteirute Metal. My only concern is those who are being held at Level 5."

The Warden explained the severity of the situation in a concise manner. Now that the power was gone, the Tier 6 anti-magic formation that held the prison would only last about 15 minutes with its backup energy.

However, he planned to turn off the formations that affected Level 1 to Level 4 to give them an extra hour of time to hold the Level 5 prison which was the most important of this facility, hopefully enough until the power crystal was fixed or reinforcement came.

With this, quickly a plan to respond to this unexpected situation was drawn. The four magus under the Warden would go turn off the formation of all the levels except Level 5 and look for help, while the Warden himself would guard the Level 5 prison, making sure no one escaped from there.

"There are five grand magus convicts locked down there, and I need to keep them in. I hope you can stay guard on this level, Headmaster. Be careful, without the anti-magic formation, a few of them might be able to break out of the cell."

Headmaster Delbrand nodded in agreement with the plan, and without further ado the Warden and his men proceeded to do their job, with one of the four magus staying behind to turn off the formation of this level.

Knowing that all this was most likely a battle between magus and grand magus, Emery understood that he could only stand close to the headmaster, waiting for his direction.

Noticing this, Headmaster Delbrand said, "Is your spatial magic working here?"

Emery immediately expanded his Spirit Reading and tried to use his Spatial Gate hearing the question. After a while, he turned to look at the headmaster and said, "It's difficult, but I should be able to jump one level at a time."

"Good," said the headmaster before his gaze returned to the row of cells in front of them. He was waiting for the formation to be turned off. "If anything goes wrong, I need you to leave immediately."

After saying those words, Headmaster Delbrand told the two magus that were his escort to stay on guard while he himself walked back towards the cell where Magus Cassian was held. Evidently, he didn't seem to have given up.

"Tell me what you're planning!"

While the headmaster was busy with the magus captive, Emery decided to approach Annara's cell. When he saw the crouching figure of the girl, he without the slightest hesitation accessed the cell to be able to talk to her.

"You know something, don't you? Tell me." Emery said with a calm tone.

Annara was silent for a while before she said. "I guess you didn't kill Eeshoo, huh..? I wonder if Xion will be happy or sad about this."

Emery's gaze hardened when he heard this. "Stop playing around, tell me what's actually going on."

At the same time, another wave of powerful tremor was felt throughout the facility. Immediately after, Emery saw hundreds of light runes appear all over the walls before they slowly dissipated into nothingness.

He knew that this meant the anti-magic formation had finally been turned off. With that, sounds of laughter and curse could be heard from all the cells in this Level 4, before multiple sharp sounds resounded in the air as the inmates tried their best to escape from their cells.

Emery decided to ignore the events around him and focused his attention on the girl in front of him. He heaved a sigh and said as he said calmly "I have seen you for quite a while and I know you are not a bad person. Tell me what's going on, let me help you."

The red-haired girl was startled for a second before smiling and said "I guess there's no harm in telling you right now.. From killing that poor Roran to coercing you to kill Eeshoo, the night incidents all to put the heat of the alliance into the half blood, a distraction"

"Distraction?.. Distraction for what?"

"They are coming Emery"

Before Annara could explain, Emery felt a powerful gravitational pressure cast by Magus Cassian on the opposite cell.

It created high pitched tremors that hurt his ear and immediately created hairline cracks on all the cell glasses.

"Free yourself my friends! Free yourself"