NOVPUBThe morning light of the Royal Capital slanted down, spilling into the magnificent campus of Ichrite Academy.
Today was another day full of hope.
On the first-floor terrace garden of the Sage Academy Dormitory Building, green vines grew along the wooden railing, its leaves shimmering with vibrant green life. The railing below was filled with elegant potted plants.
The scent of flowers and fresh soil permeated the air, a group of birds chirped and chatted on the wooden open-air terrace, occasionally hopping onto the stone bricks beside, singing energetically as if celebrating the beginning of a new day.
Two weeks of vacation passed in a flash.
Today, Lanci was finally going back to the Sage Academy school building to resume regular classes.
Even waking up in the morning seemed a bit more difficult than usual.
During these two weeks, Lanci mainly hovered between his dormitory and Talia’s house.
He usually spent the first half of the day under Talia’s supervision, undergoing intense card-making training.
While staying at Talia’s house, his card explosion rate noticeably decreased.
It was not until afterwards, when he blew up a card thinking all would be lost, that he discovered Talia had arranged a protective enchantment beforehand.
The previous scare was just to immerse him into a focused state.
Similarly, Talia also instructed Lanci that after returning, his card-making practice should focus on researching the Sealing System, and choose the Magic Card of Sealing System as the production object for the Registered Card-making Master’s exam.
She was not very proficient in sealing skills, so many of the Sealing-System magic required Lanci to research on his own.
As for the "Hair Modification Spell", she had already begun to analyze the principle of the original "Monster Hair Processing Magic", and would share it with Lanci once there was progress.
However, this magic that originated from the Fourth-order Shadow World, even if produced, the full-effect product would be Fourth-order, and Lanci was temporarily unable to participate in it. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝖕𝖚𝖇.𝖈𝔬𝔪
So, Lanci also purchased a set of protective enchantments and placed them in the card-making laboratory remodeled from his dormitory’s storage room.
Every afternoon, he busily researched the sealing skills, and also developed a new type of magic card. In the evening, he would take a short rest and practice running.
Because Talia told him that he’d better be good at both sprinting and long-distance endurance running, otherwise, he would easily be caught and beaten.
Although Lanci didn’t understand why such a kind person like him would be chased.
But he still trusted Talia’s teachings.
After all, he had full faith in the Teaching Methods of the Demon Clan.
Through Lanci’s diligent research these days and the advice he sought at the academy, he found out that very few people are good at Sealing-System magic because it has an extremely complicated structure principle. At the same time, it is also very restrictive.
Either a high-order caster needs to use it against a low-order enemy to achieve a strong seal, or it can only cause weak or temporary seals on an enemy of the same order.
Sealing skills that contradict this principle require a hefty price to trigger and take effect, even to the extent of using life to seal other enemies.
"The seal that ignores the level, can only start from some small sealing functions first."
Lanci fed the birds on the terrace in the early morning, muttering to himself.
Although he had fully woken up from his sleep, his mind was still immersed in the sealing skills he had been engrossed in for the past two weeks.
The Great Love Poet who was watering the flowers quietly on the side gave him a glance.
She would occasionally be released by Lanci to act as his card-making assistant, and she had also learned a little about the sealing skill.
Sealing enemies who are lower than oneself is meaningless, and if you want to ignore the level to seal an enemy stronger than yourself or even to seal them completely, a magic card that can achieve this level is probably at least Epic-level.
It’s not something Lanci can make on his own in a short time.
However, thinking that Lanci might master sealing skills in the future and could remove a key magic card of the enemy while fighting, seemed like a cool thing in itself.
"Keep going, Lanci, you must become a Super Removal Saint," the Great Love Poet finished watering the flowers, squatted down, patted Lanci’s shoulder, and wished him.
"...?"
Lanci looked at the Great Love Poet, bewildered.
The Great Love poet chuckled and shook her head, scattering into orange luminescence and returning to his body.
On the terrace filled with bird songs and flower fragrances, Lanci cocked his head in confusion for a long time.
...
After simply tidying up his clothes, Lanci left the dormitory building and headed for the long-missed school building.
A truly good student should never be absent from any class without reason. This is respect for the teachers and a positive role model.
In the heart of the Sage Academy’s area, a three-story stone teaching building stood tall. The dark exterior carried a classical limestone tone. Stone pillars, arched windows, intricate stone carvings, and meticulously polished iron rails were all deeply imprinted with traces of the Victorian style.
The corridor was filled with scholarly air, as if one could hear the whispers of the wise ancestors.
Following the familiar route and just stepping into the classroom, Lanci heard the chattering of his classmates.
"There’s always an explosion noise in the afternoon at our academy’s dormitory building, I wonder which house is under renovation."
"It’s strange, prohibited items shouldn’t be allowed in the dormitory."
"The dormitory manager seems to be a bit scared, he recently applied to the school to purchase a set of fire-fighting equipment."
Notice Lanci’s arrival, they instantly focused their gaze on him.
Their gaze was neither awe nor fear, but somewhere in between, more like the discovery of a new rare creature of the "Lanci" species.
Lanci effortlessly made his way through the aisled walkway, naturally finding himself back at his familiar spot in the back of the classroom.
Just by sitting down and glancing at the front, he couldn’t help but sigh - Just two weeks ago, at that dream-like academy, he woke up in almost the same position.
Any student in the front row who wanted to cheat would not escape his eagle eye of justice.
Immediately after, Lanci shook his head, realizing that he was back in hell, this here was Ichrite Academy.
"Good morning, Hyperion," Lanci turned his head and smiled, greeting Hyperion.
"Good morning," Hyperion responded to him calmly this time.
In the days they haven’t seen each other, Hyperion came to the classroom every day, still the same lonely person as before.
Now that Lanci is here, she finally has a companion.
"How have you been these days?" Hyperion looked at him and asked.
She felt that Lanci must have been busy, so she didn’t go look for him.
"Enriched and real," Lanci laughed heartily.
He was not only immersed in practicing card-making every day, but also frequently visited by classmates from time to time, gave him a real sense of a bustling campus life.
"Lanci, have you rejected many team invitations?" Hyperion asked guiltily.
She had heard.
Many teams have approached Lanci, hoping he could join their team, and offered Lanci generous terms.
But Lanci didn’t agree to any of them.
She knew that it was definitely because of her.
