The news spread like wildfire. Every breathing creature in the Inner Circle heard what happened, and through them, it advanced into the Academy's Heart. The Academy's Heart might be the most isolated place within the Red Claw Academy, but the roots of the formations here extended into the Inner Circle.
"Bastard!"
The young man resembling a piece of glowing ember waited nearby; the other man, apparently a few years older than him, smashed his fist into the ground and blew a large hole in the wooden floor. The eyes of the youth lying among the ice blocks were closed; he clung to life with shallow breaths.
"Do not worry, brother. I will take your revenge sooner or later!"
The man whose body caught fire reined in his elemental energy seconds later. He did not want to melt the ice blocks keeping his brother, whose Martial Spirit was broken, alive. After all, these came from an ally, someone else who had a problem with Mel.
