Rise of the Lustful Evil Monarch (Re)

Chapter 613: The Voice That Echoed Across the Academy

Third Person’s POV

Her current strength was still far too weak to protect herself from the greed of others.

She knew that many ruthless underworld organizations, hidden forces, and even powerful noble families would not hesitate to kidnap a talented potion master and force them to spend the rest of their life refining precious potions for them like nothing more than a prisoner.

Therefore, she had patiently suppressed her own achievements while quietly continuing to improve both her cultivation and her alchemy, waiting for the day she possessed enough strength to reveal her talent without becoming someone else’s tool.

However, the greatest reason behind her relentless pursuit of becoming a potion master had never been wealth, status, or fame.

It was Ethan.

She wanted the prestige, influence, and backing that accompanied the title of a genuine potion master because she knew those things would open countless doors that would otherwise remain firmly shut.

They would allow her to travel farther, establish connections with powerful people across different regions, gather information from influential organizations, and continue searching for Ethan long after everyone else had abandoned hope.

In her heart, becoming a potion master had never been the destination.

It had always been the means to continue the search for the person she had refused to give up on, even after all these years.

These thoughts went through her mind as she drank a potion brewed by her for the first time in her life.

It was precisely at that moment that the blue crystal embedded within her academy badge suddenly began flashing repeatedly.

A solemn, dignified voice filled with indescribable authority echoed directly from it.

"Everyone...This is Dominic IceHeart, Headmaster of the prestigious New Moon Magic Academy."

The moment those words reached her ears, Aurelia’s pupils contracted, and she instinctively lowered her head to look at the glowing crystal attached to her robes.

It was actually the legendary Headmaster himself speaking.

Dominic IceHeart was almost a mythical existence within the academy.

His reputation had reached legendary proportions long before Aurelia had enrolled.

Many students completed their entire five to ten years of study within the New Moon Magic Academy without ever catching even a single glimpse of the mysterious Headmaster.

His existence within the academy was almost like a legend.

Everyone knew that such a person existed, and everyone had heard countless stories about him, yet very few could truly claim to have ever stood in his presence.

For the overwhelming majority of students, he was little more than an elusive figure who remained hidden behind layers of rumors, prestige, and mystery.

As for witnessing his strength, that was an even greater impossibility.

The tales regarding Dominic IceHeart’s power were even more famous than the man himself.

It was widely believed throughout the entire Northern Glacial Region that he had already reached the very threshold of becoming a true Forbidden Existence—a Rank Five Heaven Connection Realm powerhouse.

Merely hearing that title was enough to make countless mages and warriors instinctively lower their voices in reverence.

A Forbidden Existence represented far more than overwhelming magical power or an impossibly long lifespan.

It symbolized an individual who had already stepped beyond the conventional limits that governed the magical world and had begun touching laws and mysteries that ordinary beings could neither comprehend nor approach.

Such existences gradually transcended the common order of society itself.

Everything concerning them slowly became sacred, untouchable, and almost taboo to ordinary people.

Even speaking of them casually in public was generally avoided.

Ironically, despite the awe surrounding such legendary beings, almost nobody actually knew their true names.

By the time someone ascended into the Heaven Connection Realm, they had usually lived for so many centuries or even thousands of years that every person who had once known them in their youth had long since turned into dust.

Their true identities had been buried beneath the passage of countless generations, leaving behind only the magnificent titles by which the world remembered them.

To ordinary mages, they were like eternal stars suspended high above the heavens.

Their radiance illuminated the world generation after generation, yet no one could truly approach them or understand how long they had existed.

Because of that, almost everyone addressed such legendary figures only through the honorific titles they had earned over the thousands of years, rather than by names that had already disappeared into history.

During the five years Aurelia had spent studying within the academy, she herself had never once laid eyes upon Dominic IceHeart.

Yet now, that calm, dignified, and commanding voice echoed directly from the crystal embedded within the badge attached to her academy robes.

Until this very moment, she hadn’t even realized that every student’s identity crystal possessed such an advanced communication function capable of transmitting the Headmaster’s voice throughout the entire academy at the same time.

Every student, every professor, every deacon, and every member of the academy staff carrying an official academy badge was hearing the exact same announcement at this very moment.

The academy, which had been filled with panic only moments ago, gradually fell into complete silence.

Even the howling wind and the cracking of newly formed ice seemed insignificant compared to the calm authority carried within that aged voice.

"I hope every one of you is safe despite the increasingly dense concentration of icy elemental energy surging throughout the academy’s surroundings at this moment.

You are all ordered to remain close to your professors and fellow academy members so that you may resist this abnormal cold together.

This is a compulsory order for every student belonging to the Acolyte Mage Batch and the Elemental Sea Mage Batch.

No one is permitted to disregard my instructions.

Any student who deliberately ignores this order shall be expelled from the academy immediately, regardless of their talent, achievements, family background, or social status."

His voice remained calm throughout, yet the unquestionable authority behind every word left no room whatsoever for argument.

No one doubted that the Headmaster would truly carry out those words.