"But it didn't last long. Because there was no concrete, physical evidence, his family's legal representatives managed to bail him out within a few hours."
"They didn't consider the testimonies of the other team members?" Soren asked, his brow furrowing.
Seria hesitated briefly before answering. "His family line holds immense leverage within the Academy Council. They are one of the prominent families in Kalmira City, and they even possess direct connections to the City Lord."
"Oh, I see..."
In a society governed by power and status, the word of a few low-ranking academy cadets meant absolutely nothing against the systemic weight of a family backed by the City Lord and the council. Without hard, immutable data logs or a direct confession, eyewitness accounts could easily be bought, suppressed, or dismissed as mere panic from an unstable dungeon raid.
"They suppressed them, didn't they?" Soren voiced his guess.
