Chapter 21 The Situation of the Students

At the same time, inside the Icrete Magic Academy.

Vice-Dean Ron, who was teaching a class in the teaching building, received an urgent message and immediately announced the early dismissal with a grave expression, hurrying to the conference room in the Sage's Institute main building.

He pushed open the heavy door.

Although the conference room was decorated in soft tones, the tense atmosphere seemed to have solidified in the enclosed space. Every teacher's face looked exceptionally serious, their eyes fixed on the screen in the center of the room.

"Loren, how are they doing?"

Vice-Dean Ron sat anxiously next to Dean Loren and asked.

Originally, Ron thought that the Tier 2 Shadow World would be no challenge for Lanqi and Hibernian, and they could probably handle even Tier 3.

After all, when the two of them teamed up at their ranks, they would either enter a more difficult Tier 2 Shadow World or a simpler Tier 3 Shadow World.

However, Ron never expected that these two complete novices would be drawn into a Tier 4 Shadow World with an unusually dangerous background on their first challenge—

The Demon Kingdom of an unknown spacetime, a place where normal humans cannot survive.

There are two possibilities for matching a Shadow World that is excessively higher than one's own rank.

The first is simply bad luck, triggering a low-probability event, but in this case, the other teammates are often stronger than average.

The second is that there is a violation, with a high-level deliberately teaming up with a low-level, wanting to absolutely crush the low-level Shadow World, interfering with the normal matching mechanism of the Shadow World.

"...Generally speaking, it would already be a serious accident, but if it's them two, they may not necessarily be incompatible with this Shadow World."

Dean Loren of the Sage's Institute stared at the magic screen in the center of the conference room, the image relayed by the Magic Engineering Institute, and pondered.

Vice-Dean Ron nodded in agreement.

He roughly understood what Loren meant, but some things Loren, as the dean, could only express euphemistically.

Most challengers, especially those below the platinum level with insufficient experience, would be unable to perform normally in extremely dangerous Shadow Worlds due to the abnormal environment, bizarre rules, and excessively bloody and insane historical scenes, and their intelligence and mental state would be greatly reduced.

But there are also those who can unleash "talents that are difficult to unleash in the real world" in crazier Shadow Worlds.

The Demon Kingdom has no human laws.

Once the shackles of the law are removed from Lanqi...

They didn't quite know how to evaluate it.

……

A small library-designed阁楼 (gé lóu) in the Sage's Institute area.

Tall, ornate carved bookshelves stretched along the walls to the ceiling, like the ramparts of an ancient castle.

On the second floor of this building, there was also an independent magic screen, even able to actively select from the rotating images.

"Hahaha, Modan, you were tricked by a fool today."

A young woman in a black dress sat in the main seat, watching the scene on the screen, laughing so hard that she kicked her legs.

This was the building owned by their team, and also the unique activity venue permitted to them by the school.

Although Modan was a gold-level challenger and the leader of this team.

But it was clear at a glance who was the real boss here.

The woman in the black纱 (shā) dress was a platinum-level fourth-year student, with powerful strength and a lofty status that most teachers could not match.

"Yeah, looks like we won't be seeing him again."

Marquis Modan Gasigas, who originally had a somewhat gloomy expression, now looked much more relaxed.

"But you also need to be prepared, in case he's not a fool, okay?"

……

Inside an independent laboratory belonging to the Magic Engineering Institute, the spacious and bright space was exquisitely designed, with white and gray as the main colors, giving people a feeling of serenity and focus.

The high ceiling evenly scattered light in every corner, and magic screens were embedded in the entire circular wall, used to display various data and information.

And on the worktables of various shapes around the laboratory, there were also magic artisans who were concentrating on their research.

"No way, is that the kid Princess Vivian mentioned? The top student of the Sage's Institute this year?"

In the distance.

Hearing the voice of a companion standing in front of the magic screen.

A handsome young man wearing work clothes and heavy gloves, repairing a magic device, lifted his goggles and also looked at the scene on the screen.

"Good thing we didn't recruit him."

A girl wearing a different style of uniform from the Magic Engineering Institute said.

Unlike the young man, she wore a silver-level registered card maker badge from the Card Maker Association on her collar.

"This young man's thought process is said to be different from ordinary people, maybe he did it on purpose."

The young man scratched his head in confusion, muttering to himself.

The girl: "But..."

The current scene in the Demon Exam, where the mechanism has been completely destroyed, looks like a dead end no matter how you look at it.

"You don't understand, do you?"

The young man took off his gloves, put down the tools in his hand, sat on the table, and looked at the magic screen thoughtfully.

He also had the same light-golden hair color as Princess Vivian Hutton, but he dressed very plainly, and his clothing style was like that of an ordinary commoner.

Usually, unless he was returning to the palace, he would dress like this.

Then, people often didn't realize that he was actually a prince, only feeling that he had an extraordinary temperament.

Girl: "What did you see?"

Young man: "I don't quite understand either."

"..."

The girl didn't say anything more, just stood aside, crossing her arms and turning her head.

If it weren't for the problems that would arise from beating royalty, she would have already taken action.

……

The Knight's Institute dormitory building.

The corridors and stairwells were filled with students who had just finished a day of learning, some refreshed and some with tired faces, hurrying through the hall.

It was close to dismissal time and dinner time, and there were obviously more people in the corridor than in the afternoon.

"Hurry to Gela Memorial Square, or the steps will be full."

"I didn't expect there to be such a pure莽夫 (mǎng fū) in the Sage's Institute." (reckless person)

Not far away.

At the dormitory door in the corner of the corridor on the first floor, a gray-haired student with sunglasses cockily perched on the bridge of his nose, with two nails in his mouth, was fixing a plaque engraved with [Frey Detective Agency] next to his dormitory door.

Students who accidentally noticed Frey passing by were slightly surprised.

First of all, let's not talk about why there would be a detective agency in the school.

The Knight's Institute—why would there be a detective?

But when the new students saw the white-haired, purple-eyed man with a wolf-like explosive power, they didn't find it strange.

"..."

Frey stared at the plaque, pondering silently.

He didn't know what was happening in the school that suddenly caused such a commotion tonight.

From just now, he had already heard several students put their books back in their dormitories and run outside, saying similar things.

"Forget it, I'll go take a look later."

Frey continued to concentrate on the matter at hand, saying.