Recap
The vice principal is dead.
Chu Shici was still wondering who the vice-principal was when Ji Huaizhe stood up suddenly and ran out without even taking the goat skull mask on the table.
Passing through the crowded corridor, Chu Shici stood on Zhe-ge’s shoulders and saw the teachers carrying a body out of a dormitory.
The corpse looked familiar. It was Ji Huaizhe’s mentor, the old witch who was listed as the main suspect by Chu Shici.
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The corpse of the old witch was so miserable that only half of her head and not much flesh was left on her body.
Her eyes were wide open; she was probably conscious the entire time she was bitten and eaten.
There were people all around her corpse. The teacher put the old witch’s body on the ground, and the apprentices all came over in a clamor.
Seeing the miserable condition of the old witch, most of them were extremely excited. Only a few people were sobbing softly and feeling uneasy about the death of the vice-principal.
Ji Huaizhe is one of them.
His body trembled subconsciously for a moment, his eyes turned red, and tears began to accumulate in his eyes.
There were too many people around. Chu Shici saw Zhe-ge gritting his teeth and trying not to cry in public.
After a long time, he walked up to a teacher and asked her what had happened in a low voice.
The teacher looked at the corpse and then at Ji Huaizhe, with a complicated expression.
“This morning, a teacher went to the vice-principal’s dormitory to find her, wanting to discuss the matter with her about the shadow. As soon as she entered the door, she found her corpse. A teacher who is good at this field compared the teeth marks on the body with the ones left by the shadow last night. The teeth marks are consistent.”
Ji Huaizhe’s face looked ugly, “The shadow is not dead?”
“It seems not. It is more powerful than we thought. There may be more than one shadow. Perhaps after we killed it, its companions came to take revenge.”
“Wait, you said the body was found in her dormitory?”
The teacher nodded.
Ji Huaizhe took a deep breath, holding back his tears. His voice could not help but tremble at this moment.
“She invited me to stay in her dormitory last night, I stayed in the guest room next to her. But I didn’t hear any fighting from the beginning to the end.”
The teacher looked surprised and turned around to talk to his colleagues in a low voice.
He deliberately distanced himself and lowered his voice so that Chu Shici couldn’t hear what they were saying.
He didn’t know if it was his misperception, but he always felt that even though the expressions of several teachers looked grave, there seemed to be a faint smile in their eyes.
Ji Huaizhe waited for a long time, but no one gave him a clear explanation.
The teacher knew that Ji Huaizhe had a good relationship with the old witch. After their discussion, he comforted him with a few words and then went to organize the student body with the other teachers.
No one collected the old witch’s body, and no one told Ji Huaizhe how to handle this matter.
The sorcerer in charge of meals walked out from the crowd.
After seeking out several teachers, he reached out to the old witch’s body. His actions reminded Ji Huaizhe of what had happened the day before; where he had taken the body away to cook it for tomorrow’s meal.
Ji Huaizhe was like a beast that was instantly angered, his scarlet eyes bursting with flames.
He stood in front of the body, protecting her behind him tightly and not letting anyone get close.
The chef couldn’t stand his ground against him nor beat him up, and the teachers didn’t care. In the end, the body was left there.
The onlookers who were previously attracted by the crowd of teachers dispersed gradually.
Ji Huaizhe was left alone, kneeling beside the corpse. He buried his head in the broken body, his shoulders shaking uncontrollably.
Chu Shici jumped onto the back of his hand and looked up.
Zhe-ge pursed his lips tightly, his expression was calm, as if nothing had happened, but tears left his cheeks wet.
He said nothing else in particular and made no sound when he cried. He just held the body in his arms and kept muttering hoarsely, “Teacher.”
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The death of the old witch was quickly forgotten by everyone.
The teachers gathered the students, asked them to stand in the middle, and explained to them the recent situation of the academy.
“In less than a day, an apprentice and a teacher in our school were attacked. The vice-principal is the most powerful sorcerer in our school, and yet even she cannot protect herself, which shows that the enemy we are facing this time is very difficult to deal with.
We will definitely do our best to protect everyone and find and capture the murderer. We will avenge the vice principal and the dead apprentice.”
In addition to reminding the apprentices to pay attention to safety and avoid going out at night, the teachers also made an announcement.
This morning, the principal sent a message through the teleportation array inside the academy, saying that he had contacted a necromancer and other believers of the goddess of death in another continent.
Now all of them are rushing to the Holy Continent.
While speaking, the teachers all looked at Ji Huaizhe, who was protecting the old witch’s body.
“The Son of God, who was favored by the Goddess of Death, has now become a qualified adult sorcerer, and has also signed a contract with his own evil spirit servant. It’s time for us to declare war on the royal family of the Saint-Cherry Continent and get revenge for our companions who died in the witch hunt.”
After the teachers finished speaking, they began to wait for the Son of God to express his position.
Ji Huaizhe ignored them. He picked up the old witch’s body and walked into the woods alone.
The sorcerers just didn’t have a heart, but they did have a brain, so they didn’t stop him.
Ji Huaizhe found a beautiful place in the woods and buried the old witch’s body.
Before burying the body, he tried to summon the spirit of the deceased using the body as a medium.
But the results showed that not only the old witch’s body had been chewed, but her soul had also been devoured.
Ji Huaizhe was shaking with anger.
Chu Shici didn’t have any major emotional fluctuations as he wasn’t familiar with her.
Being mindful of Zhe-ge’s feelings, he pretended to be sad for a moment, then frowned and fell into deep thought.
Last night, the shadow was wiped out by those wizards in one move. It would take at least half an hour to eat one person. And the shadow only knows how to eat, it doesn’t seem to be capable of deep thoughts.
It obviously looked like a noob, how could it knock down the king in one fell swoop?
Chu Shici didn’t believe it, he felt there must be something fishy about this entire situation.
However, there is some benefit to the death of the old witch. The Sorcerer Academy was already very dangerous, and now Zhe-ge has nothing to worry about and can just run away.
Chu Shici wanted to wait for Zhe-ge to calm down before telling him to elope with him.
But the plan could not keep up with the change, and a teacher found Ji Huaizhe that afternoon.
The teacher seemed to have a good relationship with the old witch, and the two often had meals together.
She took Ji Huaizhe’s hand and expressed her pain and sadness after the old witch died, and told him how much the old witch had valued him during her lifetime.
The more Chu Shici listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
This is because he is afraid that after the old witch dies, Ji Huaizhe will give up and start playing the emotional card with him.
After the teacher left, several people visited him, and they all talked about the old witch’s kindness to him.
Chu Shici knew he couldn’t let it go anymore.
After everyone left, he turned to look at Ji Huaizhe.
“Ge, the situation is not right, let’s run away together.”
Ji Huaizhe shook his head, the anger on his face not dissipating yet.
“I want to stay here to kill the shadow and avenge my teacher.”
Chu Shici had guessed that this would be the case.
“Zhe-ge, don’t you think things are a little strange? The sorcerers regard you as the Son of the Goddess of death, but they have never taught you any forbidden skills or particularly advanced sorcery.
Those things you have learned, other sorcerers know them as well. To put it bluntly, if there is a war, how can you, the Son of God, stand out from an ordinary sorcerer?
Also, since you are the Son of God, the hope of all sorcerers. Why would they allow the other apprentices to harass you? Are they are not afraid that you will leave the school in anger, or commit suicide because you cannot bear the humiliation?”
Ji Huaizhe tapped his fingers on the table. He had considered these questions that the little doll asked, but he had never found the answers.
Chu Shici continued: “The most important thing is that your mentor died under strange circumstances. I don’t know much about the strength of sorcerers, but she looks so powerful. If she really fights, there will definitely be chaos. How could she die quietly like this?”
Listening to his words, Ji Huaizhe gradually calmed down.
He was silent for a while and then said coldly: “There is someone behind the scenes who is planning all of this.”
Chu Shici immediately raised his hand: “And it’s targeting you. There is a shadow in your body that likes to eat people. There is a teleportation array in the cabinet in the dormitory, leading to a door carved full of heads. The teleportation array behind the door is connected to a small village where many people went missing.
This means that before we noticed it, there was a shadow in your body. After you fall asleep, the shadow would reach into the black hole in the cabinet every night and take out his dinner through the teleportation array.
It is impossible for the shadow, which has a normal human size, to kill a living person through a small hole. So, there must be someone on the other end of the teleportation array killing villagers every night to bring food to the shadow.”
Although Chu Shici still didn’t know who was behind the scenes, he knew that the shadow must have been deliberately raised by someone.
As survivors of a century-old witch hunt, those teachers are not simple people. The academy’s defenses are far stronger than it seems.
If outsiders were to have sneaked into the academy and created a teleportation array in a student’s dormitory, and then stuffed a shadow into a student’s body, it’s impossible for the teachers not to have noticed such a big movement.
Combined with the various abnormal behaviors he observed, Chu Shici can determine that there was a 99% chance that the dark shadow was a monster created by the academy itself.
Its master should be a certain teacher in the college.
“The dark shadow was attached to you before. It was not killed by the teacher last night. I suspect that it may be back in your body now.”
“Zhe-ge, think about it. The enemy who killed your teacher is on you. An enemy more dangerous than the shadow is lurking in the darkness of the academy. We should leave this dangerous place first and find a way to kill the shadow outside. You can get your revenge after we kill it.”
Chu Shici proposed a good idea, but Ji Huaizhe’s temper was more stubborn than he expected.
He insisted on bringing out the mastermind behind the scenes and refused to listen no matter what. Chu Shici was so angry that he stomped his feet.
He picked up the ball of yarn on the table and threw it at Ji Huaizhe’s head, trying to knock him awake.
Finally, Chu Shici came up with a way and changed his persuasive approach.
“Zhe-ge, I understand what you are feeling right now, but have you ever thought about it this way? With your current strength, even if you find the mastermind, can you beat him?”
Ji Huaizhe said nothing.
Chu Shici raised his head with a serious expression on his face, trying hard to make his intention of persuading him to leave this place seem less obvious.
“You can’t learn more profound sorcery in this academy, and you can’t improve your strength by staying here. Even if you stay here for a lifetime, you won’t be a match for that person.”
He raised his little arm and tapped the pale fingertips in front of him.
“There are still almost three months before the witch hunters enter the Erya Mountains. There is a big world outside, and more powerful and profound magic. Let’s go out and study for three months.
Revenge can’t be rushed, Zhe-ge. When we return from our studies, we will fight to the death with the mastermind behind the scenes!”
After Chu Shici finished speaking, the dormitory became quiet again.
After a while, he heard Ji Huaizhe snort coldly.
At the same time, a message prompt pops up in the background of the system.
[Add 2 points to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 18/100.]
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Chu Shici was feeling happy after finally persuading Zhe-ge to leave this dangerous place, but was stunned when he saw the vitality value increasing.
He suddenly realized something was wrong.
After the old witch died, Zhe-ge was very sad. He cried for a long time, but his vitality did not drop.
This is unreasonable.
Chu Shici looked at Ji Huaizhe, who was still thinking.
As if aware of his gaze, Ji Huaizhe lowered his eyes and looked at him indifferently.
Their eyes met.
It was obviously a familiar face and person, but Chu Shici subconsciously avoided looking at him.
The system that had been watching was confused, so he stuck his head out and asked: [Weren’t you guys fine just now? When did the cold war start?]
Chu Shici could feel that Ji Huaizhe had been staring at him.
He pretended not to notice anything and got into Zhe-ge’s hands as usual.
‘There’s something wrong with Zhe-ge, he is faking his sadness.’
Zhe-ge pretending to cry made Chu Shici feel uncomfortable.
In the previous worlds, Zhe-ge has more or less shown his acting talent.
For example, in order to gather information, he pretends to be a gentle, kind and warm man, using his beauty to coax little girls and guys into dancing around him.
In order to let Chu Shici coax him, he deliberately shed crocodile tears to win his wife’s love.
Zhe-ge looks honest, but he can also play tricks. Chu Shici knows this very well.
What really made him uncomfortable was Zhe-ge’s attitude.
When the old witch was alive, Zhe-ge protected her in every possible way. Yet, after her death, he was not sad at all.
Chu Shici was not afraid of Ji Huaizhe like this. He was just worried that Zhe-ge would have psychological problems after hanging out with the sorcerers for a long time.
He hopes that Zhe-ge can recover after switching to a new environment.
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Making up his mind to change his strategy, Ji Huaizhe packed his luggage that night, took his precious doll with him, and sneaked out of the academy.
The Sorcerer Academy is particularly quiet at night, looking both eerie and strange.
Ji Huaizhe wore a pure black sorcerer’s robe, blending into the night.
Standing at the entrance of the forest, he took one last deep look at the Sorcerer Academy and turned away without hesitation.
It would take an ordinary person at least a year to hike out of the Erya Mountains.
Ji Huaizhe is going to the nearby beastman tribe to take a ride on the giant beastman airship.
Chu Shici sat on his shoulder, looking at the academy behind him.
There are still many secrets hidden there, and many questions which have not yet been answered, but the first step is to get ahead.
Doubts flashed through Chu Shici’s mind one after another. While he was thinking, Ji Huaizhe’s footsteps suddenly stopped.
Chu Shici turned around in confusion, “What’s wrong?”
Ji Huaizhe said nothing and raised his hand to point further up the path ahead.
Chu Shici looked towards the direction he was pointing in and saw faint firelight swaying in the dense forest in the distance.
A row of simple tents were arranged randomly, and a group of dilapidated wooden houses loomed in the darkness.
Chu Shici’s eyes widened in surprise.
He was very familiar with this shabby architectural style. Isn’t this the Sorcerer Academy?!
He thought he had encountered a ghost and looked behind him.
Through the dense forest, they could see a sorcerer academy in the direction they came from.
Chu Shici looked at Zhe-ge, and Ji Huaizhe glanced at him out of the corner of his eye. Both of them were confused.
Ji Huaizhe stood sideways, while Chu Shici looked left and right.
There were sorcerer academies in both directions, and the more he looked at them, the more confused he became.
After a stalemate for more than a minute, Ji Huaizhe decided to continue walking along the original route.
He wanted to see what was going on with the pile of buildings in front of him that looked exactly like the Sorcerer Academy they had just come from.
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T/N: what is going on?
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