She looked at Raghnall in suspicion.

"Do you think he did it on purpose?"

Raghnall looked at her with an eyebrow raised.

"Did what?"

"Create chaos. Like the students fighting and all."

Raghnall looked at Inna like she grew a third head.

"And why in the world would he do that?"

"I dunno. But somehow, all of this feels like a show. I mean, it just felt too…. unnatural… how the fights all started."

Raghnall furrowed his brows and looked at her with slight confusion in his eyes.

"I think you're thinking too much. No matter how much I think about it, if you give these greedy monkeys the chance to make connections with either the strong or the higher cla.s.s, they would react the same way. I'm actually quite surprised no one died."

Inna looked at him with a glare of disbelief.

"Now you're just exaggerating."

"No, really, last year, someone fainted from being beaten black and blue. And when they finally calmed the crazy students, they found that he can no longer be healed and he died naturally."

"Wait, how did you know the things about last year? I thought the happenings inside the academy should be kept in a tight leash?" Well, that's what Solomon warned her about.

Raghnall's eyes widened slightly.

"Hahaha…. N-no matter how hard they try to keep it a secret, people will always know them, one way or another."

Inna just rolled her eyes at his poor attempt of an excuse. But she didn't see any need to dwell on it so she decided to just let it go again.

Then suddenly, she felt her body moving against her will. Her feet started walking while her arms were clipped to her sides.

"Holy s.h.i.+t. What the f.u.c.k is happening?!"

She felt herself slowly walking backwards towards an unknown direction against her will.

In a panic, she looked at Raghnall for help.

Seeing her helpless and confused expression, he almost laughed out loud. Looking at her so frazzled was like looking at a cute cat being confused on what she just sniffed.

"Ninny, relax. It's because of a curse. Actually, since you kept chattering, you didn't hear Elder Fang's instruction. He's casting a 'Puppeteer' curse to solve the problem. It's a kind of curse where you can control a person using strings infused with magic. My guess is that he'll use the strings in the curse to connect the strings your limbs towards four other people. But since he claims it to be random, then he must have connected you with other randomly chosen people in the same string and you'll probably meet towards a certain common point."

Inna barely heard what he said because she was full on creeped out by the freaky thing happening towards her. Her eyes were wide and filled with panic while her mouth was agape in shock. Her eyebrows were furrowed as well as her whole face was fully drained of color.

Raghnall stared at her hilarious expression for so long because he wanted to imprint her expression in his mind. That's so that he can laugh at it later.

But, soon, he sensed the curse's presence in his body as well.

"See? It's happening to me too."

He said as his body started moving backwards as well. He expected that the spell was easy to manipulate so he tried to go to Inna's direction. But for some reason, the direction he way moving was the opposite way where she was going.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Why am I going away?!"

He exclaimed as he tried to nullify the spell on him. But it seems that his rank was a bit lower than the spell and somehow, he can feel someone interfering with his spell. This soon resulted to his nullification to be disrupted, dissipating the concentrated magic in his palm.

Within a minute, people were neatly grouped together. They were located in different sections in the room. And all of them were back to back towards each other, others not even knowing who their teammates were.

And Inna was part of these 'others.'

Feeling the back of her other teammates, she tried to check who they were.

Hmmm, the one beside her had a skinny arm so it must be a girl.

And the one on the other side of her was quite short, that person's shoulder was a few inches lower than her own.

Suddenly, she felt the weight in her legs and arms finally disappeared and she was able to control her body again.

With her curiosity at its peak, she didn't waste time and immediately turned around to see her newfound teammates.