NOVPUBLanci, who was originally preparing to return to the Sanctuary to find Hyperion and Frey on the second floor, stood still on the spot, watching the castle scene gradually dissolve.
"Well, it looks like I don’t have to walk anymore."
As the walls of the castle gradually disappeared, the light of dawn, at its most intense moment, was suddenly replaced by profound darkness.
Only in the blink of an eye, Lanci found himself in a transparent house, seemingly wrapped in eternal starry skies.
Only a few stars were sparsely twinkling, telling stories of millions of years, brilliantly shining, while Frey and Hyperion were also here, illuminating the scene before them brightly enough for them to see clearly.
This was a wonderful space, where the real world and the Shadow World interwove, forming a critical edge.
On the translucent barrier not far away, a spreading crack quietly appeared, and from the crack spilled out strands of tranquil purple light. Soon, they could return to reality, back to their familiar life on the Ichrite campus, just by passing through this Mini Void Door.
But the settlement of the Shadow World hasn’t appeared for the moment.
From the experience of the last time, Lanci and Hyperion were confident that if there were too many situations in the real Shadow World challenge that did not follow the mechanism, the settlement process of the Shadow World would be slightly longer.
They didn’t know how much longer this one would take.
Lanci smiled and looked at Hyperion and Frey, ready to chat with them.
"We should have a good reward this time."
Lanci assured the two of them with confidence.
"After all, it’s the merit from the sacrifice that brushed up the score..."
Hyperion covered her cheeks. To make her reward better this time, Lanci had her activate the Solar energy virtue unlimited machine several times.
Though she was very grateful to Lanci, the longer she stayed with him, the less she could be human anymore.
"I’m starting to look forward to it."
All the Magic Cards on Frey were given to him by his teacher, Dean Sphintos of the Knight College. However, he had only given Frey Magic Cards up to the Purple Rareness grade so far.
Picturing that he might earn his first Pink Holy or even Orange Epic grade Magic Card, Frey had a happy problem - whether to use it himself or sell it for money.
"Frey, if you get a top-tier Magic Card that suits you and then sell it, I don’t think Dean Sphintos will let you off..."
Hyperion naturally knew about the elderly dean of the Knight College.
He had been Duke Migaya Aranzar’s teacher as well.
The fact that Mr. Sphintos had taken a fancy to Frey indicated that Frey had a talent no less than the all-around Migaya.
Just when the three of them were chatting as they usually did in the student council, the information that suddenly appeared in this quiet and strange space finally started to flash. The pure white halo scrolled line by line in the dark space.
[Sanctuary Evil Banquet in the Shadow World has been cleared.]
[Settlement complete, rating in progress.]
[Since Challengers Lanci, Hyperion, and Frey formed a team to enter, team settlement method is adopted.]
[In this reasoning class Shadow World with a total duration of 120 hours, the challengers identified the Traitor in 11 hours 30 minutes and completed the full information disclosure in 17 hours 58 minutes.]
[The team achieved the following achievements.]
[High-minded Educator SS - Under your influence, most creatures evolve within a day, and for those that cannot, you help them evolve in another way.]
[Evil Banquet A - Successfully achieved the Traitor’s objective in this reasoning class Shadow World, rescued, and controlled Viscount Augustin.]
[Battlefield Expert S - The Traitor fell into your trap and was tormented by you.]
[Enlightenment of Ritual Music E - At your request, the Great Love Poet played the organ seriously, instead of turning it into a shocking kitchen utensil as she favours.]
[Vampire Released SSS - You collectively released and sealed Viscount Augustin more than 10,000 times.]
[Conscience D - You are a kind Witch, only you are being human.]
"These should be mine and Hyperion’s."
Lanci looked at the refreshing screen and happily said to the other two.
"...What the hell is that Instruction on Music and Etiquette?"
Even though there were a lot of things to complain about, Hyperion found the achievement related to the Great Love Poet the most incomprehensible.
"So the Great Love Poet has been thinking about that organ all along?"
She asked curiously.
"I thought she was always staring at the organ in the chapel because she wanted to play a little longer."
Frey nodded, finally understanding the Great Love Poet’s inclination.
Turns out what she had in her eyes wasn’t the soul of music, but the soul of a craftsman.
"I need to keep a closer eye on my summon, she’s too strange, I can’t allow her anywhere near expensive instruments."
Lanci was slightly terrified.
The Great Love Poet had her own consciousness, even Lanci couldn’t guess what she was thinking, it turned out she was a bit ill.
If she accidentally damaged some priceless instrument, the damage caused by the summons was always the responsibility of the summoner, Lanci might have to pay for it with everything he had.
As they were communicating, the evaluation of the Shadow World was still refreshing.
[Famous Detective SS - You are a detective with wisdom and strength, even the enemy can’t tell if you are solving the case with strength or intelligence]
[Castle Guardian C - Due to efficient case solving, there was no case of bedroom doors being destroyed by the traitor on the first night, you perfectly protected Lichtenstein Castle]
[The Gospel of the Vampire S - With your efforts, the vampire has found an unprecedented evolution direction, Mummy]
[Achievements sorted, Evaluation generated.]
[A killing game changed in nature due to your presence, the two traitors originally referred to by the Sanctuary Evil, seem like two persons compared to you.]
[Overall Evaluation: SSS]
[Level Increase: Lanci Third-order → Fourth-order, Hyperion Fourth-order → Fifth-order, Frey Fourth-order → Fifth-order.]
At the moment of the calculation of the rewards, all three had a level breakthrough.
Lanci even discovered that he had just reached the fourth-order, and was not that far away from the fifth-order.
His challenging the Fifth Order Shadow World as a third-order was an excessive reward, let alone with an SSS evaluation.
And beside him, Frey, who was experiencing this kind of god-gifted breakthrough for the first time, was holding his fists in surprise.
"Frey, how does it feel?"
Lanci asked.
Compared to him and Hyperion, the changes brought about by Frey’s level increase would be the most obvious.
"...is this the fifth rank? If I had to fight the Goddess of Destruction one-on-one in the woods at night, I could kill her."
Frey was confident. As his level rose, part of his wolf clan traits were awakened.
Lanci nodded.
Frey at the fourth-order already had power comparable to the fifth-order.
Now that he was at fifth-order, even though there was a watershed between fifth-order and sixth-order, Frey with racial enhancements at night should not be underestimated even among the sixth-order.
He could be said to have the strongest combat power in their team now.
[Reward Settlement: Undying Lapis Tears (Fourth-order Epic Equipment Card), Wolf King’s Pride (Epic-level Material), Witch’s Warm Accompaniment (Fifth-order Sacred Equipment Card).]
Soon, with the appearance of this piece of information, three light balls woven with misty light also floated towards them.
