Even though two weeks had passed since the spectacular auction, the Green Shadow Academy had not hosted an event of such prestige since that day.
Martial artists were constantly challenging each other in the training grounds provided by the academy, in the arenas, and frequently right in the middle of the streets.
To further the advancement of these brutal types, the students of the Alchemy Division worked through the night and rested in their dark rooms during the day. For some unknown reason, the efficacy of elixirs brewed under the moonlight was distinctly superior to those brewed under the sunlight.
The Botanical Division was perhaps the quietest place in the academy; even though Mel's achievements fueled the ambition of those he left behind, most of the clamor remained confined within the botanical gardens. On a day like this, Mel, his lover Kristin, and the ten youths he entered the academy with were in high spirits as they exited the Twentieth Garden.
