Chapter 1 - Falling into trap

"Aahhhhh! Why did this happen to me!" A figure of a woman is seen falling from the sky. This person is none other than our main character, Lily Cartel. To know what happens to her, we have to rewind 30 minutes before this event.

30 minutes before,

"Lily Cartel! Standing here, today all of us will give you a punishment for hurting our campus belle!" said side-kick A.

"Right! Do you think that we will just stand and do nothing? Don't you have any shame?" Another side-kick B said. Lily Cartel right now is surrounded by people who is condemning her. Standing behind both of the woman is none other than the famous Historia Magic Campus's belle, Arya Falkor.

"Stop it, you both. I believe by now, Miss Cartel probably has already regret her action." Arya Falkor patted the shoulder of both of the woman defending her. Her eyes are misty, asking for a sympathy from the people surrounding. She faintly smiles before moving towards Lily.

"As long as you apologize, I'll forgive everything that you've done to me." Her voice is gentle with a trace of weeping. Both her conducts and appearance will make anyone present there wanting to pull her in their arms comforting her. She looks like a pitiful victim.

'This vixen. When did I ever bully her? She's throwing a false accusation.' Lily was just walking towards the campus garden before suddenly being surrounded by people whom she's never seen. Due to shock, she couldn't comprehend and react with the situation when suddenly a storm of accusation of something she's never done rain on her. Saying that she's been bullying the campus belle, when she herself has no memory of meeting her.

Arya Falkor is not an easy person. She is the daughter of the prime minister and also the fiancée of the crown prince, Gerhard Westoria. Historia Magic Campus is not a school for ordinary people. Almost everyone is the campus are important person. Even if the person who attends this campus is not a noble, they will have tremendous talent which can affect the future of the kingdom. Messing with them is basically messing with the king. Thus, that's why Historia Magic Campus are known as the best campus throughout the continent. Knowing such things, it will be an idiot move for Lily to do, especially to mess with the crown princess.

"Miss Arya. I believe we have a few misunderstanding here. We have never met, how can you accuse me of bullying you? Do you have any evidence stated that I bully you?" Lily Cartel is also not an easy person herself. If there is a ranking of 'Top 10 Most Important People in Historia Magic Campus', then she will be in the third place. Being the daughter of head magician, she is both known for beauty, academic and talent in magic. She is known as the second strongest magician in a kingdom before her father.

Her nickname is Whale Wizard. People call her that because she has a whale as her familiar. Her familiar is also not to be taken lightly because it is none other than the ocean guardian of the Westoria Kingdom. Westoria Kingdom is known as Water Kingdom as it is surrounded by water in most of its parameter.

Messing with her is the same as wanting a destruction to befall the kingdom. It is surprising enough that there's still even some idiots out there who brave enough to mess with her.

Unfortunately, due to some dispute occur in the Mermaids Kingdom, she was sent there to solve it, which cause her to have what people here call 'mana deficiency'. Thus with her low mana in the current state, she cannot summon her familiar. And unfortunately, these peoples who accuse her has chosen today to condemn her.

Hearing Lily response, Arya and her companions grew frantic. The people surrounded them started gossiping.

'Hey, what Lily Cartel said also make sense. I rarely see her in campus. She is always overseas, how can she have a time to mess with campus belle?'

'What you said is true. Does that mean that the campus belle lie?'

Hearing people talking back about her, Arya Falkor started to feel nervous. She throws her glance towards her two companion whose Lily never bother to know. Their eyes met before they nod in unison. 'What's now?' Lily don't have much time to play around with them. She needs to go to the palace to report to the king about her mission in Mermaids Kingdom.

"Miss Lily, we have already give you a leeway. Since you don't want to admit it, then it is our responsibility to upright you." Suddenly, a magic circle appeared under Lily. 'This is teleportation magic?' Before Lily start to chant for a spell to repel the magic, she sees a familiar figure walking pass the people who surrounded her. Because the people who surrounded her are mostly female, their height cannot hide the tall figure of the male behinds them.

"Your highness, crown prince!" Seeing the crown prince herself, she thought that she finally has find a way to get out from this mess. Hearing Lily calling out to crown prince, Arya Falkor and her gang stop chanting to look at the figure behind them.

'Gerhard! Oh no! How should I explain it to him? No! Lily Cartel needs to go. Less the trouble she'll need to face.' Arya Falkor thought before looking back at Lily and start to chant.

Too happy to see the crown prince face, Lily lose focus to her surrounding. Forgetting her tight situation. Hearing her shouting for his name, the crown prince looks at Lily, raising his hand in apology manner before sprinting away from the garden.

'Damn! That guy, he dares to ignore me. Once I came back, just you wait, you idiot crown prince!'

The magic circle under Lily shines brightly before Lily figure gone from their sight.

"Miss Falkor, where did you send her? I'm afraid that once she's back, she will tattle about us to the king." The side-kick A said worriedly to Arya. She is just the daughter of a count from a remote province. To help her family, she became friend with Arya Falkor, an important figure who can give rise to her rank. But her action just now is enough to exile her and her whole family.

"Don't worry she won't come back. I've sent her to the Ghost Palace." Going to the ghost palace is the same as going to die. Those who goes into the Ghost Palace never returns. Arya laugh, amuse with her own evil plan. 'I must be the world genius. Now that you're gone, Lily Cartel, people will finally start to pay attention to me.

"Ghost Palace? No one know the code to Ghost Palace. The only person who knows the code is the emperor and the notorious cursed prince. How did Her Grace gain the code?" Side-kick B asked, shocked by the news she heard.

Teleportation circle require a code for its to function. Every code has its own destination. Some code are use publicly and privately. For example the code for the Westoria Palace is only known by the emperor. If the code is leak, the enemy kingdom can invade anytime. The codes that are used publicly is the location for shopping mall or market. But not everyone can use teleportation magic as it consume lots of mana. Since Arya use once, she will at least need 10 days to fill her 'mana space' in her body.

"I buy it from someone. I don't know who he is, but thanks to him, we can finally get rid of that pest. Since the crown prince has witness us, we can just use someone as a scapegoat. After all, not everyone knows the code to the Ghost Palace after all."

"Who is the scapegoat, Your Grace?" Side-kick A and B asked in unison. They are scare that they will be chosen to be the scapegoat for her evil scheme.

"Fret not, it won't be you guys. The scapegoat will be the cursed prince, Arden Westoria. As long as you both shuts your mouth, no one will suspect anything."

"Yes, Your grace!"

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