Chapter 755 (1/2)

Chapter 755: Crisis Management

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Barov and Scroll walked into Roland’s office together. “Your Majesty, here’s the statistic analysis of the accident.”

“Oh? So what exactly happened?” Roland asked with concern.

“Fortunately, no one was killed in the accident. Six students were injured. Three got fractures as they were escaping from the classroom. Two lost their hearing, which should be caused by the deafening explosions and one got severely burnt. All of them were cured by Miss Nana.” Roland felt relieved after hearing City Hall Director’s report.

Scroll added, “It happened during a lunch break. Hearing the loud noise, the teachers in the office immediately organized the students to evacuate. Ferlin Eltek told them that it was the First Army on maneuver and that the soldiers were simulating a counterattack against enemies attacking the school. He ordered the students to calm down and act in coordination. By doing so, he successfully controlled the panicked students except those in class six. That class witnessed the awakening of the witch and the all the injured students mentioned by Barov were in this class.”

Roland praised Ferlin at once. “He’s indeed Morning Light. To take advantage of the prestigious First Army as a way to restore the order and calm down the students. What he did significantly reduce the impact of the accident. As long as we take some proper remedial measures afterward, most people won’t think that the awakening of a witch may be a dangerous thing.”

The newly awakened witch had done her best to control her power, this was to some extent, prevented this accident from turning into a disaster. The loud bang had been caused by electric current striking through the air which formed an electric arc with the metal bolt on the window. Similar to a thunder, it was something very loud but not extremely destructive.

Agatha had quickly come to the school after the accident. Naturally adept at fighting fires, she had frozen the source of the fire in several minutes to save the main teaching building. Despite that, Roland still considered replacing the old teaching buildings with modernized concrete in case similar accidents happened again.

Barov asked, “Your Majesty, what remedial measures are we going to take?”

Roland tapped on his desk and asked, “Do you have any ideas?”

The City Hall chief thought for a moment and answered, “We have to notice two points in this accident. The first one is the reason behind the students’ fight. Based on our investigation, this conflict was caused by a quarrel between some kids from the Southern Territory and Eastern Region. They were fighting about whether the Eastern Region was the home of the rebel king, as Valencia was Timothy’s domain. This area hasn’t surrendered to you, so…” Probably not willing to talk too much about the infighting of the royal family, Barov paused for a moment before he finished his sentence and then continued. “The kids could never know these kinds of things unless their parents were talking about them at home. To avoid such disputes, we’d better punish the parents of those kids and ban any discussion about Timothy.”

“Well… you can go ahead with that.”

“My second point is how to prevent a witch’s awakening from causing harm to the public. My suggestion is that no matter what you decide to do about this accident in the end, we should make it a rule in law to avoid disputes.”

Without any comment, Roland gave Barov a meaningful glance, excited about his improvement.

These two years working as the chief of City Hall had indeed opened his eyes and helped him understand things in new ways. Now, he was not the assistant of the Treasurer anymore and was able to dig out the root cause of a fight among students.

However, Roland also noticed some limitations in Barov’s thoughts. Times were different now, as a strong central power had started to replace the feudal aristocratic order. With greatly increased power, City Hall had to shoulder greater responsibilities. Writing a decision of the king into the law could not guarantee that everyone would uphold it. Sometimes, when it went against most of the people, making it a law would even sow the seeds of rebellion. This hidden crisis would break out sooner or later and become a thorny problem.