For Cassian, staying inside the academy has lost all meaning. There's nothing left to learn, no one left to surpass, no one to challenge to prove his strength.
It's a decision Lilvyra had already made by the end of the final duel of the semester exams, and Eiric's death only made clear what Cassian had only just begun to understand: his time there is over, and that night will be the last.
They will leave the academy and begin a journey toward an unknown destination — a place Cassian neither knows by name nor by location, but one Lilvyra will soon reveal to him.
Under the cover of darkness, the two quietly leave the building. The Sereltha Magic Academy, standing tall atop a hill on the outskirts of the city of Miriar, looms behind them as they descend the slope facing away from the residential district and move into the forest below, aiming to reach the Vassisthar Desert before dawn.
