NOVPUBAt the same time, in Ichrite Magic Academy.
Vice-Dean Ron, who had originally been teaching a class in the teaching building, immediately declared an early end to the class with a solemn expression upon receiving the urgent message. He hurried to the conference room in the Main Building of Sage Academy. 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
Pushing open the heavy door.
Despite the soft décor tones of the conference room, the tense atmosphere seemed to be frozen in this closed space. Each teacher’s face was exceptionally serious, their eyes firmly focused on the fluorescent screen in the center of the conference room.
"Loren, how are they doing?"
Vice Dean Ron anxiously sat next to Dean Loren and asked.
Originally, Ron had only thought that the Second-order Shadow World was not challenging for Lanci and Hyperion, even if it was Third-order, they were probably also able to handle it.
After all, with the two of them teaming up, they would either enter a more difficult Second-order Shadow World or a simpler Third-order Shadow World.
However, Ron didn’t expect that the two newcomers would be swept into the exceptionally dangerous Fourth-order Shadow World on their first challenge to the Shadow World—
The unknown time-space demon kingdom is not a place where ordinary humans can survive.
There are two possibilities for matching to a Shadow World that is excessively higher than one’s own order.
The first is simply bad luck triggering a small probability event, but in this case, the other teammates are often stronger than the average level.
The second is the occurrence of rule violations, where a high-order intentionally teaming up with a low-order, intending to absolutely crush the Low-order Shadow World, disrupting the normal matching mechanism of the Shadow World.
"...Normally it’s already a serious accident, but if it’s the two of them, they might not necessarily have a bad compatibility with this Shadow World."
Dean Loren of Sage Academy stared at the magic fluorescent screen in the center of the conference room, broadcasting pictures from Magic Engineering College, and mused.
Vice Dean Ron nodded when he heard those words.
He probably understood what Loren meant, it’s just that some things Loren, as the dean, can only express subtly.
Most challengers, especially those below Platinum Level with insufficiently deep qualifications, will be unable to play normally in the extremely dangerous Shadow World due to the abnormal environment, weird rules, and overly bloody and crazy historical scenes, resulting in a huge discount to wisdom and mind.
But there is also that kind of person, who can show "talent that is difficult to show in the existing world" in a madder Shadow World.
The Demon’s Kingdom, devoid of human law.
Once Lanci is free of the shackles of law...
It is not very easy to assess their situation.
...
In the Sage Academy’s area, there is a small loft designed like a library.
The tall and gorgeous carved bookshelves, they extend to the ceiling along the walls, like the ramparts of an ancient castle.
On the second floor of this building, there is also an independent magic fluorescent screen, which can even actively choose from the rotating images.
"Hahaha, Modan, you were tricked by a fool today."
A young lady in a black dress sat in the main seat, watching the picture on the screen and laughing so hard that she held her stomach and kicked her legs.
This is the building owned by their team, and it is also a unique activity place for them approved by the school.
Although Modan is a Gold-level challenger and also the leader of this team.
But who the real boss here is can be known at first glance.
The woman dressed in a black gauze dress is a Platinum Level fourth-year student, with formidable power and lofty status that most teachers could not rival.
"Indeed, it seems that I won’t be seeing him in the future."
The Marquis’s son Modan Gasigus, whose expression was somewhat gloomy initially, now looked much more relaxed.
"But you have to be prepared, in case he is not a fool, okay?"
...
In an independent laboratory belonging to the Magic Engineering College, the spacious and bright space is exquisitely designed, with a color scheme mainly in white and gray, giving people a feeling of tranquility and concentration.
The high ceiling is evenly illuminated by lights in every corner, the entire circular wall is embedded with magic fluorescent screens, displaying various kinds of data and information.
There are also magic artisans who are concentrating on their research at the variously shaped workbenches around the laboratory.
"No way, is this the kid mentioned by Princess Vivian? This year’s top student from Sage Academy?"
Off in the distance.
Having heard the voice of his companion in front of the magic screen.
A handsome young man dressed in work clothes and wearing thick gloves, repairing magic equipment, lifted up his goggles and also looked at the picture on the screen.
"It’s a good thing we didn’t recruit him."
A young girl dressed in another style of Magic Engineering College uniform said from the side.
Unlike the young man, her collar pinned a Silver Level Registered Master Cardmaker badge from the Cardmaker’s Association.
"This young man’s thought process is said to be quite different from ordinary people, maybe he did it on purpose."
The young man scratched his head in confusion, muttering to himself.
Girl: "But..."
But looking at the completely destroyed mechanism in the Demon Examination Field now, it seems like a dead end no matter how you look at it.
"You don’t get it, do you?"
The young man took off his gloves, put down his tools, sat on the table, and said thoughtfully while looking at the magic screen.
He also has the same light golden hair color as Princess Vivian Hutton, but is dressed very simply, his clothing style like an ordinary civilian you can find anywhere.
Usually, unless he returns to the palace, he always dresses like this.
Then, people often can’t realize that he actually is a prince. They just feel his extraordinary demeanor.
Girl: "Did you see something?"
Youth: "I don’t really understand either."
"..."
The girl didn’t say anything else, just stood to one side with her arms folded and her head turned to the side.
If it weren’t for the repercussions of beating a member of the royal family, she would have taken action by now.
...
The dormitory building of the Knight College.
Several students who had just finished a day of study hurriedly walked through the lobby from the corridor and the staircase. Some were refreshed while others looked tired.
As it was close to the end of class and dinner time, there were noticeably more people in the corridor than in the afternoon.
"Hurry to Jera Memorial Square, if you go any later the steps will be filled."
"I didn’t expect that there would be pure brutes in the Sage Academy."
Not far away.
At the dormitory entrance of the first floor corridor, a student with grayish-white hair, the sunglasses on his nose bridge making his posture look a bit arrogant. He had a couple of nails in his mouth and was fixing a nameplate that said[Frey Detective Agency]next to his dormitory door.
Passing students who accidentally noticed Frey looked somewhat surprised.
Retreating a step, ignoring why there would be a detective agency in the school for now.
Knight College—why would there be a detective?
But the freshmen who passed by and saw the silver-haired, purple-eyed man with the explosive power of a wild wolf on him didn’t find it strange.
"..."
Frey stared at the nameplate, saying nothing.
He didn’t know what had suddenly happened in the school, causing unusual bustle tonight.
From just now, he had heard several students returning their textbooks to the dormitory before running out, all muttering similar things.
"Forget it, I’ll go check it out later."
Frey continued to concentrate on what he was doing, he said.
