With the gate reopening, Baybars had already rounded up the students under his command and hit the road toward the barracks; Mel could fend for himself one way or another, but half of the others were injured. Today, they had faced a Leader Beast for the first time and even managed to slaughter it. They had no obligation to go toil in the Energy Crystal Mine, and they vanished out of sight within seconds before anyone could tell them otherwise.
That diurnal cycle, the biggest news was the Fifteenth Ward completely wiping out the wild beast incursion and Mel—looked down upon as a cripple—slaughtering the Leader Beast. First through the Academy Overseers, then the other wards waging their own battles that day, and finally through the Kapos, absolutely everyone present within the Energy Crystal Dungeon caught wind of the latest developments.
