NOVPUBAfter Lanci completed the autumn new product presentation in the cathedral.
Suddenly, the scene began to move, and deep yet soothing music resonated from the cathedral’s organ.
The Great Love Poet was seen sitting in front of the keyboard connected to the bellows. Her long, soft gray hair, draped over her fair back, only revealed her slender silhouette. She was playing the organ with great concentration.
"What kind of love can be truly empathetic?"
Lanci’s gentle voice echoed once again, narrating for the audience in the present world.
"It’s hard to describe, but it’s indeed there."
As he spoke, the camera slowly moved, fully capturing the details of every corner of Lichtenstein Castle, which was sacred and majestic.
"You see, everything here is different."
The scene switched to dawn light intersecting under stained glass windows, piercing through every corner, and simultaneously causing the coffin lid to constantly move left and right.
"The air is imbued with vitality."
"The sound caresses you."
"The sunlight fills you."
"Encountering frost, enjoying freedom."
To outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the lush forest on the mountain top, bursting with the vitality of life.
The scene gradually passed through the cathedral’s massive porch, arriving at the garden and lawn where sun loungers were placed. Under the courtyard’s parasols, a few men and women were preparing a barbecue and fruits, enjoying a leisurely holiday.
"If you are lucky enough, love will reside in your life forever."
Lanci’s voice continued with the escalating music and the gradually withdrawing camera shot.
"It’s like a morning star, purifying your soul, flowing in your blood, driving away the depression in your heart."
"Just one glance can make everything meaningful."
At the moment when the music stopped, the scene turned into a black curtain, with only a logo and two lines of words displayed—
[Ju Ai Company]
[From the Capital of Hutton, Ichrite]
[Make your life nothing but extraordinary]
"..."
At this time, at Ichrite Academy.
The students sitting on the steps didn’t quite know how to comment on this, nor dared to.
All they could say was this company better not be drawing in investments.
"Speaking of which, the academic visiting team from the Arolan Kingdom will arrive at school tomorrow morning."
"What a pity they missed this presentation."
The students nonchalantly and rigidly changed the subject.
If not for Lanci’s special attack on the Blood Clan, the Blood Clan would likely desperately switch this annoying thing out.
Although this is a conceptual invention and may not necessarily be practical.
But the design Lanci proposed has spread like a virus, teaching people how to ultimate insults to the Blood Clan.
At the edge of the square.
"Lanci...what is he doing?"
Noe forced a smile, muscles on his face somewhat stiff.
He didn’t know what kind of new species those two things in the coffin were and whether Lanci really had a talent for advertising.
But what Lanci was doing was absolutely a matter of sacrificing merit by the second!
However.
The students’ reactions in the square were much calmer than Noe had imagined.
It might be that some generation gap had formed between him and the young people, making it a bit hard for him to understand.
Or it might be that the people in the Capital City Ekrite were very forward-thinking, and as someone who had been stationed on the border of a foreign country for many years, he couldn’t keep up with the trend.
Had Lanci gone mad, or had the school started to become weird together with him?
"Lanci is doing acts of kindness and accumulating virtue!"
Little reporter Lavisseir next to Noe was constantly taking pictures, laughing joyfully.
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Noe looked at Lavisseir’s absolutely abnormal behavior.
He felt that the bizarre atmosphere of the school had intensified.
Moreover.
The three guys who had dragged the coffin out of the cathedral earlier seemed gentle and solemn, but their demeanor had a terribly eerie abnormality. Just meeting their eyes made him feel as if his grave had already been prepared.
It gave people the chills even through the screen!
They definitely weren’t good people.
Noe was worried that Lanci was mingling with social undesirables!
"Wait, this background, is it really in the school?"
Noe came to a startling realization.
He had originally thought that the cathedral was a building within the school grounds, until the camera angle changed, and he saw the scene outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, as though it was atop a mountain range.
The terrain of Ichrite was flat, and the city contained numerous small rivers, making it an incredibly habitable city.
The mountains seen in the video, on the other hand, looked more like the mountain cities in the northern part of Cerryti Empire, which were definitely not characteristic of Ichrite, the capital of Hutton Kingdom.
"The video is set in the Shadow World."
Noe did not need Lavisseir to answer; the students along the stone steps replied to his question.
This man had surely not seen Lanci’s tense and thrilling march through the Shadow World yesterday.
"Shadow World?"
Noe froze as he asked.
Generally speaking.
If first-year freshmen could acquire a challenger’s license from the South Continent Shadow World Management Association two months into the semester, it would be considered exceptional.
How on earth had Lanci accessed the Shadow World already?
And this Shadow World seems to be of a significantly high level!
Because the three terrifying socialites on screen were definitely not ordinary contenders.
"Yes, sir. You must not know who the man in the picture is, right? He’s the most vicious freshman at our school. Just yesterday, he defeated the Goddess of Destruction from the Rebirth Church, took Princess Alexia of the Cerryti Empire captive, and today he mummified the Count of the Blood Clan."
The students on the stairs started to fill Noe in.
It is also common for city residents to visit Ichrite Academy as a public tourist attraction on weekends.
Not understanding Lanci’s unique style in the Shadow World is entirely normal.
Noe: "???"
His brain was frantically processing the excessive information.
"This... It can’t be... "
"Sir, if you don’t believe me, just grab a copy of today’s ’Hutton Times.’ It has a column recording Lanci and his team’s explorations in the Shadow World yesterday!"
Nearby students began to enthusiastically recommend to Noe.
"Thank you all."
Noe, seeming out of sorts, ran to a nearby newsstand to buy a copy of the "Hutton Times" and began to flip through it.
Very quickly, he found the column.
His gaze wandered ceaselessly on the paper, gradually turning pale.
Meanwhile, the jumbotron displayed new visuals and audio content.
After the commercials concluded, it returned to broadcasting the live coverage of the Shadow World.
In the center of the cathedral.
"Mr. Lanci, would you seriously not consider joining the Church of the Goddess of Destiny? We hope to continue receiving your guidance."
The priest leading the Northern Continent squad made a sincere offer.
"Our faith may diverge, but we share the same objectives and pursuits. We may even meet again one day, and when that time comes, we will certainly still be warriors fighting for a world filled with love."
Lanci encouraged the trio.
"The world will certainly be filled with light and love, love is invincible."
"We exist for love."
"We shall spread Mr. Lanci’s great ideals throughout the Northern Continent."
The executioner, the paladin, the priest; all three of them were chatting with Lanci inside the cathedral.
"..."
Noe slowly turned his head, comparing the photos in the newspaper with the appearance of the three men on the jumbotron
Those three guys...
Are they clergy from the Church of the Goddess of Destiny?
Then, Noe hurriedly read the column detailing the transformation process of these three clergies in the Shadow World.
They transformed from normal individuals into extreme fanatical devotees, a transformation that was unremarkable.
It only took one day.
"Oh, Lady Goddess..."
"If this is a nightmare, I pray that I will wake up..."
The next thing Noe knew, he felt a darkness descend upon him, and he collapsed onto the floor.
"Someone has fainted!"
"He’s still breathing, he probably passed out due to shock!"
"Indeed, Lanci’s Shadow World should not be broadcasted publicly during holidays, it may scare unsuspecting passersby!"
"Who knows communication magic, quickly contact a doctor from the Alchemy College!"
The area in front of the newsstand fell into chaos, with students crowding the place swiftly.
Soon after, the students who knew how to provide medical help transferred this handsome man who had suddenly fallen ill to the Alchemy College for treatment.
