Liang Taibai asked about Xiao Lin as well, but he really did not know anything about Xiao Lin. That was quite normal. As an official who was always in foreign lands, Liang Taibai would not know too much about the academies, especially when it came to the new students.
“To be honest, the monthly examination is very strange this time. I heard of the change in curriculum, but sending the students to such a chaotic country is really crazy!” Liang Taibai did not understand the meaning of the monthly examination. Even if there were resurrection towers, he knew very well that 20 years were very precious to new students.
“I heard that it was arranged by the military,” Xiao Lin muttered softly.
Liang Taibai looked at him, surprised at Xiao Lin’s information, but he quickly said, “Well, our superiors know best. We should just do our part. That’s right, this information was supposed to be given to you all when you arrived. I’ll give it to you for now. You can pass it along once everyone is here.”
In the man’s hand was a thick folder of information. On top was the assignment for the monthly examination, and the list of names they would need to send. There were over twenty people, princes and princesses included. However, after looking through it, Xiao Lin said curiously, “There’s no king?”
The only one missing from the list was the king of the Rosa Kingdom. Even if Dawn Academy did not plan on taking the king away, based on the current situation, the kingdom being taken over by the rebels was just a matter of time. The people outside who were trying to get into Dawn Academy’s territories were the best proof. Everyone understood that there was no way to protect the city.
“The rebels are getting powerful. We’ll need something to placate them. Otherwise, how would we continue our relationship with them?” Liang Taibai said meaningfully.
Xiao Lin understood; they were basically going to sell the king to the rebels in exchange for the rebels assuming and maintaining Dawn Academy’s status as their superiors. Even if he knew the kings in the New World were not necessarily tyrants, most of them still exploited their people. Basically, not many of them were good people. However, to betray their own subordinate country so easily still felt wrong.
Xiao Lin shook his head, opening the document and earnestly saying, “Let’s forget about the monthly examination for now. There are some things I need your help arranging.”
“Alright.”
“The first is to send someone to stand guard at the resurrection tower. There might be other monitors who will resurrect there soon. The second thing is to continue investigating where they were kidnapped; the best is if you blanket search everything. This should not be delayed. I’m afraid something will happen if we’re too late. The third thing; I hope you can issue a search warrant for a little girl named Ibeiya. It’s best if the embassy does this. Don’t let the royal family interfere.”
“Alright.” Liang Taibai paused for a moment before agreeing.
Xiao Lin let out a sigh of relief, and decided to ask for a room to rest. Restructuring of the soul and the creation of a new body made resurrection extremely tiring. On top of that, resurrection did not alleviate mental stress. Basically, Xiao Lin needed to sleep.
It was already the second day since they left Dawn Academy. There were only eight days left until the end of the monthly examination.
Liang Taibai was quick to act. Xiao Lin had slept till the next day, and he received Liang Taibai’s notification when he woke up. First of all was the resurrection towers. After Xiao Lin, there were four others who had resurrected. They were Li Jiayi, Chen Dao, Cheng Ming, and An Luo.
“They resurrected at a later time and are resting now. Other than that, I managed to get some information about the capture from them, and I’ve gotten the kingdom’s troops to investigate. We managed to find somewhere similar this morning, but we’re still not sure. Do you need to come with me?”
“That fast?” Xiao Lin paused, immediately asking, “What about the others? Other than Cheng Ming and the rest of them, if you found the prison, were the others not there?”
“It’s regretful.” Liang Taibai shook his head.
Xiao Lin’s heart sank. He now hoped that the promising location they had found was wrong. Since the others were still resting due to the weakened state of their bodies after resurrection, they needed to rest to recover, so he did not look for Cheng Ming and the others. Instead, he went alone with Liang Taibai.
What confused him was that they did not walk toward the outside of the city. Instead, they went right to the heart of the city. The building in the middle of the city was the palace.
Liang Taibai saw his confusion and said, “Actually, there are only a few prison cells close to the city, so it’s not hard to investigate… We have eyes within the palace, and they told us that the royal prison had a few special people locked up recently, and had not allowed anyone to get close. They were suspicious… Unfortunately, the prisoners had been moved when we got there.
Borrowing the status as envoys from Dawn Academy, they were allowed through all the checkpoints with no issue. When they walked into the royal prison, Xiao Lin squinted, and the familiar surroundings basically confirmed that was the place immediately. To be sure, he had checked the two cells in detail, and managed to find a stone with dried blood on it. There were also visible remnants of blood around it.
Liang Taibai guessed the answer from Xiao Lin’s expression, and his face darkened–even a bit of rage was visible. “The Rosa Kingdom is really crossing the line. I won’t talk about the ambush on me, but now something like this happened. Ahem, I think they’re forgetting the power of Dawn Academy!”
“That’s right. You said you were ambushed. What happened?”
“I was killed by black magic. It was really unfortunate, I never had much resistance against black magic.”
“Was it the dark races?”
Liang Taibai shot him an astonished look. “You know of the dark races? The Rosa Kingdom is one of the places the dark races dwell, but Planet Norma’s dark races usually keep a low profile. It’s not like the myths on Earth where they only know to kill. They usually know how to protect themselves, and would not voluntarily participate in any troublesome matters.”
“Let me stay here for a bit. I want to see if there are any clues,” Xiao Lin suddenly said.
Liang Taibai agreed, and told Xiao Lin he had already helped Xiao Lin greet the royalty. The investigation would need to be accommodated unconditionally, so no matter what happened and no matter what he needed, Xiao Lin could just look for those within the palace.
Xiao Lin thanked him. Once Liang Taibai left, Xiao Lin sat down cross-legged. The current pressing matter was to locate the other class monitors. No one could help him with that, because until now, he did not even know who was behind all of it.
However, now he had a good chance to understand it. He lightly touched his forehead and started to focus his mental strength. Quickly, the third eye on his forehead started to surface. The third eye Silverlight had given him back then was still not very stable, and even opening it caused Xiao Lin to feel tired.
