After hearing the sudden commotion, the Academy Knights of the Green Corps—the lowest division tasked specifically with handling the academy's ground-level disciplinary issues and crowd control—arrived on the scene. Four heavily armored guards rushed toward the grand junction, shouting commands and asking what exactly was going on.
Cedric looked at the approaching guards from a distance and stroked his long white beard. "Oh, dear. It would be troublesome for my old bones to get caught up in a bureaucratic incident report right now. Bye for now."
He snapped his fingers.
The very next second, the world around Solomon warped. The marble junction, the groaning nobles, and the shouting guards vanished entirely. Solomon blinked and found himself standing completely alone in a random, quiet courtyard somewhere deep within the academy grounds.
He had absolutely no idea where he was.
