Recap
Ji Huaizhe subconsciously grabbed the little doll and glanced around, finding that a voodoo doll was missing.
He spread his hands and asked, “Where is Vicente?”
The dark coloured doll shook his head.
Just as Ji Huaizhe was about to continue asking, the priest’s soul floated down from the ceiling. After saying hello to him, he pointed to the ashes on the table with a look of resentment.
Ji Huaizhe looked at the ashes, then at the priest, finally his eyes fell on Chu Shici, “Did you do this?”
The little doll sat in his hand and tilted his head in confusion upon hearing his words.
Ji Huaizhe thought for two seconds and looked away.
So small and well-behaved, he shouldn’t be the culprit.
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Ji Huaizhe held the wand and knocked on the table. Red light spread rapidly from the bottom of the wand, covering the entire room.
The results showed that there was no trace of any magic casted, and no outsiders had entered the dormitory.
Ji Huaizhe looked at the priest floating in the air, “Who did it?”
Vicente pointed to the little doll in his hand.
Ji Huaizhe frowned slightly as he looked at the little doll playing with his fingertips and then at the pile of ashes on the table.
Chu Shici knew that this matter could not be hidden. After all, the soul of the victim was floating on top, and Zhe-ge is not stupid.
He was just thinking about what he should do next.
Should he confess to his evil deeds and portray himself as an evil person who is wickedly evil? Or should he confess to killing the scumbag priest in order to protect him?
The former is in line with the wishes of what most sorcerers would expect of their evil servant dolls, but it may make Zhe-ge wary of him.
Although the latter can catch Zhe-ge off guard with a curve ball, what if, as a wizard, the hero only wants an evil little follower?
After all, he didn’t know enough about Zhe-ge in this world.
Chu Shici hesitated for two seconds, “Ge, listen to my defense first!”
He was about to explain when he suddenly felt that the male protagonist’s hand seemed to be shaking slightly.
Chu Shici felt that Zhe-ge might be too tired.
He stopped joking around and said, “It’s true that I burned him to death, but it’s very difficult to explain. It’s already very late today and you haven’t rested yet. Why don’t I explain it to you in detail tomorrow morning?”
The man wearing the goat skull mask said nothing, and Chu Shici couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.
He touched the pale fingertips in front of him and felt a little distressed: “Your hands are shaking. If you don’t trust me, you can lock me up first.”
Chu Shici looked around and pointed to the small drawer not far away: “Lock me in there and let me out tomorrow. I won’t be able to escape.”
The room fell into silence. After a few seconds, Ji Huaizhe nodded slightly.
He took out a piece of yarn and seemed to want to wrap it around Chu Shici’s neck, but unfortunately the doll has no neck.
Ji Huaizhe wrapped one end of the yarn around the doll’s belly and the other end with a heavy candlestick.
Then he took out another necklace to contain the priest’s soul, stuffed it into the drawer and locked it.
Vicent …
What should he be imprisoned for? He was not the one who asked for confinement in the drawer.
After solving the two problems, Ji Huaizhe turned around and wanted to go back to bed to rest.
As soon as he laid down, he found the dark coloured doll sitting on the table, looking up at him eagerly.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and Ji Huaizhe couldn’t help but stretched out his fingertips and tapped the doll’s little head.
The candles went out and darkness instantly enveloped the bedroom.
In the darkness, Chu Shici could vaguely make out the person on the bed taking off his goat skull mask.
It’s a pity that it is too dark and he can’t see his face clearly.
Chu Shici lay down on the parchment and pulled on the quill a few times to cover himself with the long feathers at the end.
After making the bed, he started chatting with the system.
After helping the system sort through the photos all night, they finally finished the photo album.
It asked Chu Shici if he wanted to choose a photo to enter in his dream tonight.
Chu Shici shook his head: ‘I won’t sleep today. What if I get up late tomorrow and that garbage takes the opportunity to coax Zhe-ge to sign a contract.’
[I’m going to stay up all night watching dramas, so you can sleep peacefully. I’ll call you if anything happens.]
With the promise of the system, Chu Shici felt relieved. He yawned a few times and his eyelids became heavier and heavier.
While he was in a groggy state, he faintly heard someone moving around in the room.
The sound of footsteps walked from one end of the room to the other, accompanied by heavy breathing.
The man walked around several times and finally stopped in front of the cabinet.
The cabinet door was opened, and the sound of things being turned over in the dark sounded particularly loud.
Chu Shici was woken up and asked the system in a daze: ‘Tong-ge, why is it so noisy?’
The system poked its head out and looked around, [I don’t know what your man wants to do.]
When his brain came to his senses, Chu Shici stood up and stepped on his feet to look around.
The room was too dark and he couldn’t see anything.
Ji Huaizhe seemed to have dug something out of the cabinet, and a chewing sound suddenly came from that direction.
At first, Chu Shici thought that the male protagonist was hungry, so he got up in the middle of the night to look for food.
But after listening for a while, he realized something was wrong.
What is Zhe-ge eating? Why is he chewing so hard? It will make his teeth hurt.
It can’t be that he gets up in the middle of the night to eat chicken feet* and accidentally chew on the bones too.
*(
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It took about half an hour for the chewing sound to disappear.
After a long time, Chu Shici gradually adapted to the darkness. He could see the outline of a human figure, closing the cabinet door and walking back to the bed.
Maybe it was too dark in the room, which gave people an illusion.
Chu Shici looked at his movements and felt that he didn’t look like he was lying down on the bed.
Instead, it looks like… it’s crawling into something?
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Ji Huaizhe felt extremely exhausted after making many dolls and performing many summoning rituals today.
For a sorcerer, signing a contract with an evil and powerful spirit is one of the most important event in their life.
In this world, each species and faction has different requirements for adulthood. For some, adulthood is determined by coming of age whereas others are based on strength.
The requirement for a sorcerer to reach adulthood is to master basic witchcraft and be proficient in the use of summoning rituals.
If they cannot do these two things, even if they live to be eighty or ninety years old, they can only be considered an adult, not a full-fledged sorcerer.
Ji Huaizhe was only 23 years old when he traveled through space. He entered the sorcerer academy and became a fully-fledged sorcerer within a few months of studying.
With his extraordinary talent and a pair of eyes that symbolized disaster, everyone in the academy believed that he was the Son of God chosen by the goddess of death, and placed all their hopes on him.
Forced to carry the heavy burden, Ji Huaizhe was very tired.
He tried his best, but except for his eyes, there was nothing about him that was different from ordinary people.
During the day, the teacher called him over and chatted with him for a long time.
She told him not to push himself too hard. Even if the sky collapses, there will still be the teachers from the academy to hold it up. He has just grown up and should relax and enjoy campus life like other little sorcerers.
At the same time, he was repeatedly told to choose his evil spirit servants carefully and to not be impulsive.
The entire academy knows that the Son of God wanted a contracted evil spirit servant.
After he became a fully-fledged sorcerer, every time he went out, the students and teachers passing by would remind him of this.
‘How are the servant summonings going?’
‘Believe this senior, I have experience. I was too impatient at that time and signed a contract with a loser. Now that everyone else had passed the sorcerer exams, I was the only one held back because of my servant.’
‘Servants will live with the sorcerer for the rest of their life. Even after death and going to the underworld, their souls will not be separated. They are together in life and death, their relationship can be said to be even closer than that between husband and wife.’
‘Live a bitter life now so you taste the sugar after. Servants should be powerful and evil, but also loyal. Don’t think that by signing a contract, the evil spirit will not dare to attack the sorcerer. There have been sorcerers who have been deceived by evil spirits and were reduced from masters to servants.’
Ji Huaizhe kept everything they said in his mind.
Before resolving this life-long important event in his life, he cannot sleep well.
One moment he dreamed that he was summoning his spirit servants, and the other moment he dreamed that two little dolls were fighting. Both dolls waved to him, shouting ‘Choose me, choose me!’
Father Vicente is knowledgeable and good at alchemy and has all the skills a priest should have.
Ah Ci, who is suspected of being a canine beastman, knows a low-level version of the summoning ritual and can make cat balls.
The priest is much stronger than Ah Ci’s.
Ji Huaizhe turned over and remembered the scene where the dark coloured doll persuaded him to rest.
Compared to the scheming priest, the canine beastman race with loyalty engraved in their bones seems to be much more suitable to be a servant.
But that doll doesn’t know much, and is nothing but cute.
Throughout the night, Ji Huaizhe was doing multiple-choice questions in his dream.
At around eight o’clock the next morning, he was woken up by a knock on the door. It was his roommate Lilith who told him it was time to get up and go to class.
Ji Huaizhe took out a bottle of refreshing potion from the bedside table and drank it to sober up.
He changed into his sorcerer robe and put on the goat skull mask, walked over and opened the door.
The little red-haired witch held a skull in her arms and raised her head to greet him: “Ji, you look very terrible. You didn’t sleep well last night?”
As she spoke, a little scarecrow poked its head out of her wizard robe and waved to Ji Huaizhe.
Ji Huaizhe looked down at it, their eyes met, and the scarecrow retracted the sorcerer robes in fear.
After looking at the hourglass on the side to make sure there was still time, he turned sideways and motioned for Lilith to come in.
The witch looked around and said, “You want to let me enter your dormitory!? Your suitors will be jealous to death after they find out. Have you read the love letters I gave you? There are still a few today, they are entrusted to me by the juniors to give them to you.”
As she spoke, she took out the letters. Ji Huaizhe threw the letters into the fireplace without even looking at it.
The little witch couldn’t stand his cold and heartless character, so she whispered behind his back: “Dumb*.”
*(Here, she says 哑巴 which is mute, but can also mean dumb. I think she’s saying that because he doesn’t talk much.)
The person walking in front didn’t respond, as if he didn’t hear.
Ji Huaizhe picked up the doll tied to the candlestick and took out the necklace containing the priest. He put the two evil spirits on the table and motioned to the little witch to help him choose one.
Chu Shici had just finished sleeping, his brain had not yet sobered, and he looked confused.
The priest floated beside and showed a gentle and kind smile to Lilith.
After listening to the basic information provided by Ji Huaizhe about the two evil spirits, Lilith frowned and said, “There is such a big gap in strength, why do you still have any hesitation?”
“The dark coloured one is a canine beastman. They are very loyal.”
Ji Huaizhe dug out a box of the best and most expensive cookies and placed it on the desk near Lilith to entertain the guests.
Lilith was studying the two evil spirits and didn’t notice his movements.
“My friend, loyalty cannot feed a starving man. Moreover, canine beastman are well known for being trash. They are even stupider than the pigs.”
Ji Huaizhe’s face darkened and he moved the cookie aside.
Lilith didn’t see his expression through the skull mask.
“They will pounce on whoever they see, no matter if it’s a trap or not. They are beastmen, but they are no different from ordinary dogs. Ji, you can go to the slave market and have a look. The most common ones there are the canine beastmen.”
“In terms of strength, they are not as strong as werewolves, and in terms of brains, they are not as good as foxes. They are too easily charmed given a little bit of sweetness and will work hard for humans no matter how they are treated. If the Son of God chosen by the beast god did not happen to be one from the canine tribe, the beastmen would have eliminated them long ago.”
Lilith tried to flick the doll off with her fingers, but before her fingertips even touched it, Ji Huaizhe put the doll away.
She shrugged: “Since you haven’t decided yet, I suggest you sign both. Sign a master-servant contract with Father Vicente and let him be your evil spirit servant. Sign a master-slave contract with this puppy and let him be your pet.”
Ji Huaizhe fell into deep thought.
On one hand, the more Chu Shici listened, the more he felt that something was wrong.
Damn it, who are you scolding a dog?
Chu Shici raised his hand: “Miss, please speak politely.”
Lilith leaned over and said, “Are you not a canine? Then what are you?”
Chu Shici had already made up a bluff last night, but he didn’t plan to tell this stranger.
He waved to Zhe-ge and gestured to him a sign for a private discussion.
Ji Huaizhe didn’t receive it. He just felt that asking Lilith for help was a mistake.
There was a spell class this morning, and before long, the two sorcerer apprentices left for class together.
Chu Shici wanted to go with Zhe-ge, but Ji Huaizhe didn’t take him.
The wooden door closed again, and Chu Shici climbed onto the cookie box, wanting to grab a piece for breakfast. After punching it in his face twice, he realized that voodoo dolls have no mouth.
Everything went wrong after he woke up early in the morning, Chu Shici leaned against the cookie box and sulked. Although he knew that the witch’s word “dog” did not have any derogatory meaning, he still felt uncomfortable.
Chu Shici folded his arms and said aloud, “This master-slave contract sounds lower than a master-slave contract.”
The system chuckled strangely: [Don’t you think it’s fresh? A master who is cold on the outside but hot on the inside gong x fierce awake and fierce on bed loyal dog slave. A collar and a dog’s tail will be excellent toys.]
‘No, no, no, I don’t think master slave play would stand with me at all, and this kind of script is too difficult for Zhe-ge.’
[That’s true…he blushes with a simple kiss.]
‘But of course, I won’t say no to tails and ears, but it has to be the kind that can move! Hehe!’
[Hehe!]
After playing around with the system for a while, Chu Shici felt much more comfortable.
But Vicente wasn’t feeling well.
The sorcerer responded to the voodoo doll’s request last night and left the questioning until the next morning. Yet, he didn’t mention it again this morning, as if he had forgotten about it.
Although the sorcerer seems to be undecided about which doll to choose, he can see who he prefers in his heart through his attitude towards the two evil spirits.
Vicente has noticed that the sorcerer’s eyes are different from ordinary people. He is probably the Son of God chosen by the goddess of death.
Becoming a servant of the Son of God will bring countless benefits in the future, and Vicente cannot give up.
His cold gaze swept across the voodoo doll beside him.
When the witch proposed signing them both just now, the sorcerer was very hesitant and would likely not agree.
He must find a way to kill his rival before the sorcerer makes his decision.
Vicente’s gaze was so subtle that Chu Shici didn’t notice it as he was busy staring at the cabinet in the corner of the dormitory.
What did Zhe-ge eat last night?
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Ji Huaizhe has already mastered all the things taught in spell class. Even if he is learning spells not in the curriculum in class, the teacher will not care about him.
Lilith gave him a sandwich and said it was given by a little sorcerer.
Ji Huaizhe pushed it back and said, “I’m not hungry.”
Lilith curled her lips: “You are so tall, why is your appetite smaller than mine?”
Ji Huaizhe didn’t answer.
The two went to the canteen together at noon. Lilith ordered mushroom finger soup and fried eyeballs. While eating, she lamented how rich the food was this time.
Usually they can’t eat such rich food, they can only eat mediocre roast chicken, grilled fish and salad.
Followers of the Goddess of Death gain strength from pain and despair, and they like everything related to death. There are too many species in this world, and almost everything can be considered food in their eyes.
Lilith casually popped a fried eyeball into her mouth and chewed it.
Ji Huaizhe turned his head away silently.
As a time traveler, he often seems out of place because he is too normal.
After a day of classes, Ji Huaizhe returned to his dormitory.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw a little doll jumping up and down on the table and waving to him. As soon as he got close, he pounced on him, looking very sticky.
Ji Huaizhe played with the dark coloured doll for a while and suddenly remembered that he still had another evil spirit.
He wanted to make a new body for Vicente, but the dark coloured doll kept pestering him and refused to let him work.
Ji Huaizhe said in a cold tone, “There’s no point in trying to please me. I’m not going to sign two evil spirits at the same time.”
Chu Shici glared at Vicente, who was about to make a move, and told him to get away. Then he turned around and hugged Zhe-ge’s fingers, “I’m not a canine beastman. Believe me, I’m better than him.”
Ji Huaizhe hummed in reply.
“Actually, I’m a shapeshifter. I can imitate anyone. Just put a skill in front of me and I can imitate it too.”
Ji Huaizhe had never heard of the shapeshifters, so he thought they were some small race with a sparse population.
He snapped his fingers casually, and a wisp of fire burst out from his fingertips. After the demonstration, he looked down at the black doll to indicate that it was his turn.
Chu Shici silently raised his knitted hands.
“But I can’t snap my fingers. I have no fingers.”
Ji Huaizhe changed to a basic water manipulation technique, which can be performed by just chanting.
A water sphere the size of a basketball appeared out of thin air, fell to the ground and turned into a puddle of water.
The little doll imitated his example and performed the same chants.
Ji Huaizhe looked around and said, “Where is it?”
Chu Shici pointed to the palm of his hand.
Ji Huaizhe squinted his eyes and looked closer. There is an extra drop of water on his palm, which is smaller than a teardrop.
Ji Huaizhe: ……
Chu Shici struggled to defend himself: “Actually, I’m very good at fighting, but my body is too small now…I, I can’t do anything else for the time being.”
Growing up, Chu Shici had never competed with anyone for favor. He is not as strong as the priest, and time was tight, so he had no chance to prove his worth.
Looking at the small droplet of water, he felt very uneasy.
Chu Shici was silent for a long time, then pulled Ji Huaizhe’s sleeve, “I know I look useless now, but can you just trust me once. If you choose me, you will never regret it.”
The man didn’t answer him, and the room fell into deathly silence.
The priest watched the whole process, and he felt that he was sure to win.
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Update: Tomorrow~
- After becoming enemies with the lord god
- Blog
- Completed
- Don't talk to me!
- Dropped
- Ghost Marriage
- Hunger Academy
- I opened a safe house in the Infinite Stream
- Notices
- Ongoing
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- What can I do, I'm not human.
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