Silver Star City.
Inside the City Lord's mansion, the City Lord listened to the latest developments with a deep frown etched on his face.
"What is really going on?" he muttered after the guard departed.
The situation around the region was growing more complicated with every passing day, and everything centered on the new Master Teacher profession.
Although the Gong clan and many others had labeled the two academies an evil force, they declared the heaven-blessing to be a lie that bore little resemblance to true heaven's blessing.
Yet those with intelligence knew this was not true.
The heaven blessing, in fact, was a genuine blessing witnessed by thousands of people.
But the sudden spread of a deadly disease around Mystic City and Frostwind City left everyone bewildered.
Many had tried to trace the source of the incurable illness but could not. Any village or town afflicted with the disease was as good as doomed.
