Moonlight After Sunset's
[S2E85] Arrest

"You can hide from time but that doesn't apply to destiny."

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The inner region was one of the regions in the Green kingdom that was heavily guarded by the Guardian Master. The region had many wild animals and dangerous monsters. Even the region is said to be more dangerous than Marques Winter's dark forest.

Therefore the master guardian is believed to take care of the entire area. The Guardian Master created a giant dome that would protect the core region from the attacks of wild monsters.

Therefore if an outer region student bravely entered the inner region without approval, then that student would instantly become the food of the wild monsters there.

Other than monsters, the inner region also had a level where it was twice as good as the middle region. Even so not many students were allowed to practice excessively.

They are only allowed to train for a maximum of 12 hours. If it was more than that then the Mana they absorbed would turn into poison and would harm the student's body.

It can happen because the Mana possessed by the inner region has been mixed with the Mana nature possessed by the monsters there.

So that the inner region students will only practice during the day and at night they will continue to practice in the middle region.

"Interesting color variation," murmured Dusk softly upon seeing the Aura Color emitted by the inner region forest.

The forest has a clear green and yellow color with a red color interspersed with a collection of gray.

The four colors are bound together and sometimes come together to form another color. It made Dusk interested and subconsciously stopped his steps.

"What's wrong? Are you all right?" sam asked as he realized that Dusk was just sitting in his place.

"..."

Silence, Dusk did not respond at all. He was only fixated on seeing the color of the aura from the Mana emitted by the inner region. Aside from the forest, the most striking color of aura was behind the mountains at the end of his eye view.

The mountain was surrounded by a thick cloud fog. The fog also occasionally let out water stubs in a frequency of ten minutes.

Dusk knew that the inner region had more than one Sage yet what he saw on the mountain range was even higher than that of a Sage.

"Whatis that? Why is the color of the aura more concentrated than Sage in general." Inner Dusk confused.

Dusk had never seen such a dense aura color, even the color of Prof Edward's aura could not compare to the color of the aura possessed by the figure behind the mountain.

"Senja," call Sam again.

"Alley!" Sam began to approach Dusk and wiggle his shoulders.

He did not know the cause of the silent twilight at all. Usually the student who first set foot in the inner region can only be silent with a trembling body.

But it did not happen to Dusk, he was silent but his body did not tremble at all. Rather than that, the expression of the face of Dusk is more curious and confused than afraid and uncomfortable.

"Senja, are you okay?" ask Sam again.

"Huh, this is my reason why I didn't let her in here." exclaimed Carla on the sidelines of Sam's question.

"Carla, don't be so frontal" whispered Sam softly.

"This is also our sala, we should give him a warning first..."

"Who's on that mountain?" cut the twilight just before Sam finished his sentence.

"Mount?" carla asked confused.

"Yes the mountain, who's on the mountain?" ask Dusk back.

"That's..," Carla looks confused, she then takes a quick glance at Sam and his three other friends.

"That's where Prof Xei, an uninterested student, is forbidden to come." explains one of Sam's colleagues.

He then explained some of the rules that apply in the inner region. About what every student in and out of the region should do.

"Because your only interest here is him, then you are not allowed to go beyond that area" he continued, pointing the index finger around the core area of the inner region.

"The area is called the core area, even those of us who are level eight students are not allowed to go in and out of the forest at will." Sam later said.

"Is that where Porf Xei is?" the Dusk who felt unsure.

Because he had already seen how concentrated Mana possessed by Prof Xei, so it was a little Dusk to be confused who actually owned the Mana.

"Uhm, alright I understand." exclaimed Dusk after being silent for a while.

"Like a picnic," Inner Dusk as it saw several tents surrounding the campfire.

Sam then guides Dusk walking through several camps belonging to other students. He then brought Dusk to the south area of the field. There Dusk can see two tents in front of which there are already piles of firewood.

"Side we will spend the night" exclaimed Sam as he pointed at the two tents.

"Roy and Fei, take this and clean it up in the river." continued Sam while giving the four deer they had.

Two of the deer are their catch while the other two are the gift of twilight.

After receiving the order, the man called Roy and Fei immediately left the group. Afterwards Sam asks Carla to light a bonfire helped by Popei.

"While you are, follow me." continued Sam after seeing his colleagues busy with their respective affairs.

After saying that Sam then went towards the other tents. On Sam's side was Dusk who had followed him like a duck.

In the first tent Sam and Dusk met a party that was relaxing. There Sam asks about senior number 46, but no one knows him.

Sam then turned to other tents to ask about the senior. But again the answer remains the same.

The bored twilight continued to follow Sam's steps around the tents. Until by chance a young woman passes the second. The woman had brown hair with a height of 170 cm.

With a mischievous smile Dusk glanced at the woman, he then stepped closer to Sam then whispered softly. "Senior Sam, I'm going to the toilet for a second, my stomach hurts."

Sam who was confused about to stop Dusk, he wanted to accompany Dusk to the toilet but Dusk managed to hold it by saying that he was fine to go alone.

"Is he ashamed?" muttered Sam with a gaze that still leads to Dusk until he disappeared from behind the tent of other students.

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"How did he get here?" inner Noime as he passed the figure of a young girl walking with Sam, his classmate.

"Did Sam bring him in here? But why?"

Noime continued to ask, he was confused instead of being a bitch because he saw the outer region students were in the inner region. Because there has never been in the history of outer region students entering the inner region in their first year of studying at the academy.

"I know something is wrong with the boy" Noime muttered before leaving the field area.

Noime was currently carrying out the mission he had just taken at the mission building this afternoon. There he and Evan take on a mission to collect medicinal plants in the forbidden forest.

Not many students could complete the task because the forbidden forest was a forest inhabited by rare sacred animals as well as dangerous monsters.

Most of those who entered the forest would return with heavy injuries and some even lost one of their limbs. Therefore, the only ones who can enter the forbidden forest are students with levels over eight.

"Because Evan and I were level nine, we were allowed to enter the forest. Even so we are only allowed to roam around the forest lips."

Noime looked disappointed, he realized that his ability was not comparable to a Swordsman. Therefore he hoped that his mission this time could raise his level by at least one level only.

In the Adeline academy the students who can be declared to graduate are those who have already reached level 10. If below that then they must follow the trainee and take the mission to be able to level up.

Not only that they also had to graduate on time which was around three to four years after entering the academy. If more than that then they will be issued without a letter of recommendation at all.

Therefore many of the students are desperately trying to level up in their final years. Most of them would more often take on missions and side tasks in order to be able to level up to level 10.

This makes Noime very busy and has no time to guide first-year students in their midterms. For him to pass and level up was the most important first thing besides a high achievement point.

"Huh, it's time." shrieked Noime when he saw the time had shown at 11:15 p.m.

Noime and Evan plan to go to the forbidden forest at 12 p.m. They deliberately chose that time because most of the wild monsters would return to their lair so that the path they went through would be smoother.

Noime then walked towards the transmission building where the magic portal was located. Most inner region students would use those magic portals whenever they were on a mission.

When going to the building Noime had to pass through the laboratory building and several parks. At first Noime's journey felt safe but when he was about to pass the last park he suddenly stopped his steps.

There, at the end of the garden Noime lips can see the figure of a little girl standing stiff. The girl put on an annoyed face with a strange smile that revealed her fang teeth.

In a panic Noime turned his body and was about to leave the park. But what Noime did not realize was that he had entered into the trap of the girl.

Noime could not leave the garden at all because it was covered by a transparent dome that not even a Mage could damage.

"Caught," the girl shrieked as she approached Noime who still looked confused.