Having told his friends nothing of his condition, Owyn returned to the Academy to find classes cancelled for one week in favour of the staff and student volunteers making repairs to the Third Ward and investigating the dungeon. The consensus amongst students seemed to be that because no one had really patrolled the dungeon in a few years, the monsters had grown their numbers to the point of the crisis. The Adventurer's Guild, which had grown increasingly defunct since the descent of the Veil, was being threatened with disbandment.
Rumour had it that the city Knights would be tasked with clearing the dungeon regularly, along with students who took up Knight courses.
