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Chapter 78 - The Witch and the Golden Rusted Blade

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Breakfast Hour,

The Great Refectory,

Rina’s POV

The atmosphere in the Great Refectory was a thick soup of adrenaline and sweat.

Hell Day had officially arrived -the one day of the week the academy turned from a school of higher learning into a brutal military staging ground. It was the day the high-born were reminded that their titles didn't stop a spear, and the low-born were given a chance to prove that mana was the only true currency.

Most students were already dressed for a war zone. They
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