From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 366 Inter-faculty Meeting
Chaos Dean Pag raised his voice, which boomed in the conference room. "This is absolutely not allowed! Has anyone figured out his origins? He should not be allowed into the heart of Strixhaven before a strict background check!"

"Perhaps I could remind you that it was Strijhaven who sent him the acceptance letter." Nasari always liked to go against others, even though he was wearing the same robe that represented red mana as Pag.

"So what?" The orc dean did not give in. The fangs protruding from his lips cast a heavy shadow on his face. "I think you still haven't figured out who sent him the admission letter until now? Maybe he just staged a play!"

"The Holy Oracle has allowed him to enroll, and he is a powerful wizard. Apart from the knowledge in Maodian Pavilion, it is difficult for this school to have anything else that can attract him." Ogeta reminded his colleagues.

"The more powerful he is, the more terrible the threat to Strixhaven will be. Strong fortresses are often breached from the inside!" Pag continued his impassioned speech, "Strixhaven has existed on this land for more than a dozen centuries. We should let its history continue instead of constantly introducing external threats!"

"The Holy Oracle believes that he will be a member of Strijhaven," said Dean Shayir of Radiant Light, who believed that she should mediate the dispute. "At least in the last inter-departmental meeting, we reached a consensus. The Holy Oracle will also attend this meeting. It is obvious that she thinks highly of this wizard from another universe. We should carefully consider her opinion."

"That's right." Shayir's words were agreed by the dean of theory, Yingbahan. He was also an owlman, but his feathers were gray, which made him look more like a wise man. "When the Holy Oracle was still studying at the Institute of Analysis, she had already shown a strong talent for foresight. This ability must have been enhanced after she took over the Holy Oracle's cloak. She must have foreseen something beforehand, so she agreed to let this outsider join Strijhaven."

Rather than saying that Yingbahan agreed with Shayir's words, it would be better to say that he was showing off that the Holy Law Oracle came from the Institute of Analysis. Eight out of the ten deans rolled their eyes at his words, and only Qi Anni, who was also the dean of the Institute of Analysis, smiled bitterly and shook her head.

"Alright." Ogeta stopped the quarrel among the deans in advance. "Anyway, let's start today's inter-departmental meeting. The Holy Oracle may join us at any time. Before that, we'd better finish all other trivial matters."

Ogeta looked around at the other nine deans at the round table, and when she saw that they all nodded in affirmation, she used magic to copy the document in her hand into nine copies and distributed them to them.

"The first topic is that in response to Oriko's increasingly frequent activities, Dean Pag believes that we need to send the Dragon Guards to search the surrounding villages and cities."

"That's right." Pag nodded. "Morgasso is so bold that he not only tried to disrupt many student activities at Strijhaven, but also sent people to break into the Dean's Wing of Hengjian. Now he is secretly planning to absorb the vitality of the entire school's teachers and students! In addition to thwarting his conspiracy, we must make a strong counterattack against Mogasso and Oriko. They have been arrogant for too long!"

No one raised any objections. After all, the threat of Mogasso was right in front of them. Although the deans had already thrown it to Ivy as a problem, they didn't need to go out in person to fight against Oriko. It was just a matter of bothering the Dragon Guards. What was wrong with that?
"Okay, let's vote by raising our hands..."

"The first topic was passed unanimously." Ogeta smiled, "Today's progress is very fast, maybe we can finish it early... Next is the second topic, the proposal to expand the fighting tower arena..."

Ogeta still underestimated the ability of the deans to argue with each other. Although the five major colleges of Strijhaven have guaranteed to be united in external affairs, it is naturally impossible for them to act in unison and act as one person in the internal affairs of the college.

Where there are people, there are disputes. This is true among students, and it is no different between professors and deans.

The five colleges would compete with each other for venues and sponsorship from surrounding cities, and would even quarrel over which college could use the construction golem first.

It was not until a gray-haired old man quietly appeared in the center of the circular conference room that he interrupted the bargaining argument between the deans and the vegetable market vendors.

The gray-haired old man was wearing a dirty gray robe. If you looked closely, you could see that the robe should have been dark blue. This showed that the Holy Oracle himself did not often stay in Strijhaven, but roamed around Aqavivo.

However, as a true master of prophecy spells, Holy Oracle Jia Qi always appears when Strijhaven needs her.

Now she sat cross-legged in the air, accepting the salutes from the other ten deans.

"Let's talk about Ivy Dum." The Holy Oracle's voice was as old as her face, but she was a straightforward person. The first thing she talked about was Ivy, who had caused a lot of quarrels among the deans before.

"Yes, Lord Holy Oracle," said Dean Inbahan, "We are in urgent need of your wisdom. May I ask what you see in your vision?"

"I did see it." The wrinkles on the face of Holy Oracle Jia Qi moved, but no dean dared to guess her expression. "He is very complicated... and very important... But there is one thing that is beyond doubt, he should belong to Strijhaven."

"This..." An Cinema Director Amber Bos said hesitantly, "It's too unclear... Our wisdom is not comparable to yours. Please give us more clear instructions, or at least tell us, what did you see? Is he an enemy or an ally?"

"He belongs to Strixhaven," Nathari reminded him. "I think that's clear enough."

"Morgasso and Oriko also belonged to Strixhaven," Ambers said without even looking at the fire giant, "but they almost became a serious threat to the academy."

The Holy Oracle sighed. Apart from sitting in the air, the old man looked no different from an ordinary village woman. The deans could not even detect any fluctuations of magic power or spell power in her. "At first, I only saw him standing under the Strijhaven Magic Vortex in deep thought accompanied by Ogotta," the Holy Oracle said, "so I determined that he would become one of us."

"Then I tried to understand his past, but found nothing. I thought this was normal, as my vision rarely goes beyond Aquavivo. So I tried to explore his future in Aquavivo. I...saw many pictures," the Oracle said. "They were contradictory and very complicated. But each one was extremely clear, as certain as if I would have strawberry pudding tomorrow morning."

"This has never happened before," Jia Qi ignored the doubts on the deans' faces and continued to explain his vision. "Sometimes, I saw that Strijhaven was honored because of him, and we really began to recruit talents from the entire multiverse... Sometimes, I saw him razing Strijhaven to the ground, and the five founding dragons were either dead or disabled, and he cut off the heads of the dragons and used them as a symbol of his establishment of a new college... Sometimes, he stole all the power of Strijhaven's magic vortex, causing turmoil in the entire Akaivivo... Sometimes, he became a hero who saved Strijhaven, leading all the teachers and students of the school to fight against the boundless darkness pouring out of the portal... But more often, he just studied silently, got what he wanted to know, and then left quietly."

"Akavivo showed me countless possibilities, but what I can't understand the most is that I haven't seen any of his failures." Jia Qi's voice conveyed his confusion without reservation, "Although he will encounter obstacles and difficulties, he will always get what he wants in the end... I don't know what's going on... Maybe my vision has been affected by some kind of spell, or maybe Akavivo is conveying his warning in this way... But in any case, Ivy Dum is someone we need to treat with caution."

"There are always countless prophecies in history, and most of them are ambiguous. Only when the course of history reaches that point can we see the full picture of things." The impatient Chaos Dean Pag was the first to speak again, "If the prophecy is not reliable enough, then we'd better pretend that it never existed!"

"Be careful!" Theoretical Dean Ying Bahan shouted, "Those prophecies were made by the Holy Oracle himself! This means that there must be some meaning, but our wisdom cannot interpret it yet!"

"Perhaps we should take a compromise stance. We cannot easily push him to the opposite side of Strijhaven, nor can we unscrupulously approve any of his actions." Dean Wuweida of Jingjin said, "Both will lead to unpredictable results. We should be more cautious and more peaceful."

"He is a ball of fire! Not a weak raindrop." Nasari interrupted his colleague who shared the same dean's building with him, "Strijhaven should add more firewood to him, and then enjoy the light and heat brought by his burning, instead of constantly tempting a hungry beast with blood and flesh! Those of you who stayed in Strijhaven should know better than me. Unless necessary, he spends almost the whole day in the library of Maodian Pavilion! Just like the judgment made by the Holy Oracle last time, the only valuable thing for him in the entire Strijhaven is knowledge!"

"We have vowed to make Strixhaven's magic better serve the whole world!" Dean Brilliant disagreed with Nasari's words, "What if he goes astray?"

"I saw with my own eyes that on the first day he came to Aquavivo, he mastered the other four types of mana except green mana. No matter how reluctant we are, Strixhaven can't stop him from entering Maodian Pavilion with just a ban. Neither you nor I can do it." Ogotta said, "At least now, he is willing to abide by Strixhaven's rules. Why don't we keep this tacit understanding?"

"No one can get something for nothing. Seeds also need the right fertilizer and rain," said Lisette, the head of the Root System. "But Ivy Dum was already a big tree when he came to Aquavivo. The soil provided by Strijhaven will determine what kind of fruit this giant tree will bear, whether it will be a rotten and poisonous fruit or a sweet and delicious fresh fruit."

"Without investigation, there is no right to speak." Dean Qi Anni of the Material World said calmly, "Except for Ogeta and Nasari, and the Holy Oracle himself who observes the future through vision, no one sitting around this round table knows him. It is foolish to judge people and things that you are not familiar with."

"We really need to know more," said Dean Valentine of Bloodline. "Let's treat the practical course where he leads students to fight against Mogasso as a teaching evaluation. We should select two deans as judges and carefully observe what kind of person he is."

The wisdom of the vampire caused the round table to fall into silence. The Dark Theater Director Ambers raised his arm: "I will be the judge. Who is willing to go with me?"

"Of course it's me, the initiator," the vampire laughed hoarsely, "Our spells will be strengthened in the Ruins of Seidun, which is shrouded in ghosts and shadows all year round. It is our home ground."

"I'm glad to see that you have reached a consensus so quickly." The Holy Oracle laughed happily. "I am no longer so worried about Ivy Dum. If his presence can unite the ten deans of Strixhaven, then it doesn't matter whether he is good or bad. I believe Strixhaven needs your unity more than ever before."

"What about Ivy Dum's application?" Ogeta looked down at the document in her hand, which was the one Ivy had written with the Wizard's Pen. "He applied to study Strixhaven Magic Vortex. It was because of this application that we sat together."

The atmosphere at the round table became dull again. All ten deans kept silent. No one could afford the "just in case" accident that might happen to Strijheimer.

"We must give him our consent ..." said the sacred decree.

"But!" Pag stood up, "That is the heart of Strixhaven! It is a gift from the founding dragons!"

"I mean, only half of it should be promised to him." The Holy Oracle smiled cunningly, "The other half will be given after passing the review of the deans. He is also willing to abide by the rules of Strixhaven, which means we have a certain advantage. Since he may not take Strixhaven seriously, it also means that he does not take Strixhaven's troubles seriously."

Although they were essentially research scholars, those who could become deans were no fools, and they quickly understood the meaning of the Holy Oracle.

The hope is that Ivy can deepen the connection between the two while solving the troubles facing Strixhaven.

"I... have no objection." Pag shook his head and sat down again.

"Since we have reached an agreement," Ogeta smiled like the other deans, "let Ivy Dum come in!"

(End of this chapter)