Feeling tired and exasperated, Adrianna placed her wand back into her robe and asked Ziu, "Professor, I would like to talk to Isidorus."

"Adrianna, you can talk to him after class is over. The competition will commence three days from now," he replied.

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"Professor Ziu, have you been able to talk to the headmistress about it?"

"There was a meeting regarding the competition, and this topic was raised then, but she said that her hands are tied since the competition details come from the ministry," he replied with his eyes looking at ground. He seemed helpless.

Adrianna narrowed her eyes and said, "Okay." She knew what she had to do.

She continued to keep practicing the spell until class was over, however, she couldn't reach anywhere near pronouncing it correctly. Ziu had instructed that it was important to entirely focus and say the spell properly. He said that unless you feel the intensity to kill someone, the gates wouldn't open. It truly wasn't an easy spell to learn…

Adrianna left the academy having failed for the entire day. The death spell required a lot of negative energy from within her - a lot of hatred and despair - for the spell to work. All that negative energy drained her of most of her positive energy and she wanted to go Dmitri as soon as possible.

However, when she reached the palace, she saw Isidorus waiting for her

"You summoned me," he stated.

Without wasting time, Adrianna said, "The competition's first stage is not acceptable. You must change it."

"I can't change it because there was a consensus in the ministry on the clause," he replied.

"Then what about the treaty? Are you going to break the treaty?" she asked, getting more and more furious.

Isidorus pursed his lips and looked away.

"Oh, does that mean that the wizard kingdom is trying to wage a war against the werewolves?" she asked, feeling a little apprehensive.

"There are some people in the ministry who are behind all this. The main culprit is Lia. She has gathered support from various people. If you want to deal with one person, it would be Lia."

"Does she know that it doesn't work that way in my world? I like peace and harmony, and if anyone tries to steal that from me, I will make sure that the rebellion is subdued," spat Adrianna. She started pacing back and forth in the main hall, trying to figure out what her next plan was. After a while, she demanded, "I want to meet Lia."

Isidorus nodded his head, "I'll get her." He disappeared and was back within five minutes, but there was no one with him.

"What happened?" she asked.

"She refused Adrianna. Obviously she would never ever discuss it with you."

"Then can you bring me to her?" she asked.

"No! It is way too dangerous!"

"Don't worry Isidorus. With you by my side, nothing is dangerous."

Isidorus held her hand and they got sucked into a vortex.

Lia was sitting in her living room when they appeared. She was feeling very satisfied with herself for having denied Isidorus' request on the pretext that this was the collective decision of all the members of the ministry.

When she saw Adrianna and Isidoris again, she smiled, feeling completely satisfied with herself. She was ecstatic with how agitated they were. She lifted her wine glass and sipped on it.

"Isidorus, I already told you that nothing can be changed," she said.

"So you are planning to break the treaty between the werewolves and the wizards?" asked Adrianna.

Lia didn't answer and looked away.

Suddenly, the glass in her hand broke, spilling the wine on her. "How dare you?" she shouted at Adrianna as she dug her hand into her pocket to take her wand out, but found herself frozen in place.

"Unless I want you to, you can't move Lia," said Adrianna very quietly.

Isidorus went and sat opposite Lia.

"Now tell me the truth," said Adrianna, pointing a finger at Lia.

"You do know that I am a witch and know all the spells, right?" Lia smirked. "I can easily break any measly spell you put on me!

"Try it!" dared Adrianna. "Now tell me who made the details of the competition."

Lia wanted to say that it was a collective decision, but she found herself saying, "Me!"

"How many people were in its favor?"

"Three!" came the prompt reply.

"Out of how many?"

"Ten!"

"Then why did you paste the notice? It seems to me that you are openly defying the ministry's orders."

"The ministry is not concerned about the stages. They assigned the duty to me; I can do what I want."

"Don't you need approval?"

"Yes!"

As soon as she said that, Adrianna released her from the spell. Adrianna smiled and looked at Isidorus who knew what to do. Because of Adrianna, a huge problem had been averted.

"For the next two days, you will not be able to leave your house," said Adrianna

"What nonsense! You bitch! Who do you think I am?"

Despite her efforts, for the next two days, Lia couldn't get out of the house no matter what she did. Regardless of whatever method she used, she would only end up in a different part of her house.

On the third day, she received a notice that she had been suspended indefinitely from the ministry for irregularity at work.