The banquet hall was brilliantly illuminated, filled with joyous laughter and chatter. The teachers and students of the Peace Academy were dancing and singing to celebrate this hard-won victory. Fine wine and delicious food covered the long tables, and the air was suffused with a sweet fragrance. Yet, sitting in the seats of honor, Lu Chen and Huo Yao both appeared somewhat distracted.
"What's wrong?" Huo Yao sensed Lu Chen's silence and asked softly, "Are you still worried about the remaining forces of the Dark Mages?"
Lu Chen shook his head, gazing into the distance outside the window with profound eyes, a trace of unease in his tone: "I always feel like something isn't right. Even though the Dark Mages have been defeated, that lingering sense of oppression..."
Chapter 451