Mart walked through the corridors of the Academy. The atmosphere was even worse than before, because the Republican Council had sent the recruited troops to the borders. Many were suffering because their relatives were among those recruits.
Mart knew a little about the matter because every time he practiced his cursed arts, he could hear the murmurs coming from the students' negative emotions. Although there was little negative energy capable of being refined into cursed energy, he preferred not to do so because he had read that he should listen to the negative murmurs until he consumed the cursed energy he had refined.
