Chapter 164 Ikritt Magic Academy at the Same Moment

At that very moment, within the Ikritt Magic Academy.

Vice-Dean Ron, who had been in the middle of teaching a class in the teaching building, received an urgent message. His expression immediately turned grave as he announced the early dismissal of the class and hurried to the conference room of the Sage Academy's main building.

He pushed open the heavy door.

Despite the conference room's gentle decorative tones, a tense atmosphere seemed to have solidified within the enclosed space. Each teacher's face was unusually solemn, their gazes fixed on the screen at the center of the room.

"Loren, how are they doing?"

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

Ron had initially believed that the second-tier Shadow World wouldn't pose much of a challenge to Lan Qi and Hibernia. He even thought they could handle a third-tier one.

After all, with their ranks forming a team, they would either enter a more difficult second-tier Shadow World or a relatively simple third-tier one.

However, Ron never expected that these two pure a novice b's, on their first Shadow World challenge, would be caught up in a fourth-tier Shadow World with an exceptionally dangerous background—

The demon kingdom of an unknown time and space, a place where normal humans could not survive.

There were two possibilities for being matched to a Shadow World of a higher tier than one's own.

The first was simply extremely bad luck, triggering a low-probability event, but in such cases, the other teammates were usually stronger than average.

The second was a violation, with higher-ranked individuals deliberately teaming up with lower-ranked ones, wanting to absolutely crush the lower-ranked Shadow World, thus interfering with the normal matching mechanism of the Shadow World.

"...Generally speaking, it would already be a serious accident, but if it's those two, they might not necessarily have poor compatibility with this Shadow World."

Sage Academy Dean Loren, watching the magic screen in the center of the conference room, a broadcast from the Magic Engineering Academy, pondered.

Vice-Dean Ron nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

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

Most challengers, especially those below the platinum rank who lacked sufficient experience, would be unable to perform normally in extremely dangerous Shadow Worlds due to the abnormal environment, bizarre rules, and overly bloody and insane historical scenes. Their wisdom and temperament would be greatly reduced.

But there were also those who, the more insane the Shadow World, the more they could unleash "talents that were difficult to unleash in the real world."

The realm of demons had no human laws.

Once Lan Qi was freed from the constraints of the law…

They found it hard to comment.

…

A small, library-designed阁楼 in the Sage Academy's area.

Tall, ornate carved bookshelves extended 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 capable of actively selecting 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 a building owned by their team, and also a unique activity venue permitted to them by the school.

Although Modan was a Gold-ranked challenger and the leader of this team.

It was obvious who the real boss was here.

The woman in the black纱长裙 was a platinum-ranked fourth-year student, possessing powerful strength and a lofty status that most teachers could not compare to.

"Yes, it seems we won't be seeing him again in the future."

Marquis公子 Modan Gasigas, who had been somewhat gloomy, now looked much more relaxed.

"But you should also be prepared for the possibility that he's not a fool?"

…

In an independent laboratory belonging to the Magic Engineering Academy, the spacious and bright space was exquisitely designed, with white and gray tones predominating, creating a sense of tranquility and focus.

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

Magic artificers were engrossed in their research at workbenches of various shapes throughout the laboratory.

"No way, is that the kid Princess Vivian mentioned? The top student in the Sage Academy this year?"

In the distance.

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

A handsome youth wearing overalls and heavy gauntlets, repairing magical equipment, lifted his goggles and 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 Academy said from the side.

Unlike the youth, her collar was adorned with a silver-ranked registered card maker badge from the Card Maker Association.

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

The youth scratched his head in confusion, muttering to himself.

Girl: "But…"

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

"You don't understand, do you?"

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

He also had light gold hair like Princess Vivian of Hutton, but he dressed very simply, his clothing style like an ordinary commoner that could be seen everywhere.

On weekdays, unless he returned to the royal palace, he would dress like this.

Then, people would often fail to realize that he was actually a prince, only thinking that he had an extraordinary temperament.

Girl: "What do you see?"

Youth: "I don't really understand either."

"…"

The girl didn't say anything more, just stood aside, crossed her arms, and turned her head away.

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

…

The dormitory building of the Knight Academy.

Corridors and stairwells, students who had just finished a day of study walked out one after another, some looking refreshed and others with tired faces, crossed the hall.

It was close to the end of classes and dinnertime, and there were obviously more people in the corridor than in the afternoon.

"Hurry to Gerald Memorial Square, or the steps will be full if we're late."

"I didn't expect there to be such a reckless person in the Sage Academy."

Not far away.

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

Passing students who accidentally noticed Frey looked slightly surprised.

Putting aside the fact that why there was a detective agency in the school in the first place.

The Knight Academy—why would there be a detective?

But when the passing freshmen saw that it was that white-haired, purple-eyed man with the explosive power of a wolf, they didn't find it strange.

"…"

Frey stared at the plaque, silent.

He didn't know what was suddenly happening in the school, causing it to be so unusually noisy tonight.

Since just now, he had already heard several students returning their books to the dormitory and running outside, saying similar things.

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

Frey continued to concentrate on the matter at hand, he said.