"There’s one more thing." Zhuang Xu’s voice came through eerily: "If you attack students casually at the Magic Academy, regardless of your identity, you will incur very severe punishment, eternal punishment. If you insist on doing so, believe me, you’ll be begging me to kill you."
Zhuang Xu’s slightly crimson eyes revealed a hint of a bloodthirsty smile. Yes, although his entire face was hidden under the hood of a black robe and couldn’t be seen clearly, Li Qing indeed sensed that the other party was conveying some emotion.
He very much looked forward to ’bad students’ who violated this rule.
This place was full of strangeness everywhere.
Seeing the fifteen people fall silent, Zhuang Xu said eerily: "If you don’t come out now, you’ll regret it when I catch you later."
Li Qing silently stepped out of the crowd, facing the gaze of a group of students filled with various emotions, he tried to maintain a calm voice.
Zhuang Xu, who had been standing still, finally moved. He walked slowly to Li Qing, only then did Li Qing realize that the other was extremely tall, at least two and a half meters, very thin, but with a large skeleton that gave a strong sense of oppression.
Zhuang Xu showed a look of interest, walking around Li Qing.
"Not bad, not bad, it seems you’ve already awakened your talent."
"Talent?" Li Qing was stunned for a moment, somewhat at a loss.
"Haven’t you been rubbing fireballs for meditation cultivation?"
"...If that’s considered talent, I have nothing to say."
Li Qing felt a bit of a stomachache, although this Gray Magic Academy exuded strangeness everywhere, the painting style felt somewhat skewed.
"So that’s it, this is the talent humans gain when they transition to mages at thirty."
"What is rubbing fireballs, is it the Fireball Technique from the orthodox magic system? Is that also considered talent?" someone scoffed.
"Haha, as a creature like you would have no idea how terrifying the talent would be when a human awakens a magic staff, but it’s just like that. After all, it’s just a human, a mere human..."
"If only I could possess him."
Various murmurings filled with malice continually reached Li Qing’s ears, making his body tense, his heart pounding.
These ’people’ are definitely not human, could there be so many variants on Earth?
Zhuang Xu seemed not to hear, with a strange smile turned to the fifteen people, he raised his hands, revealing a pair of sharp cyan-black hands.
With a light rub of his palms, several things similar to chest badges appeared in his broad palms.
Then he gently shook his hands, these chest badges floated lightly in front of everyone.
"These are your school badges, they are also proof you can enter the Gray Magic Academy, perform the binding, preferably a soul binding."
Zhuang Xu intentionally glanced at Li Qing, continuing: "Hmm... that means just focus your attention on the badge, as long as you can meditate out a beam of light, it’s fine - this is also your first assessment before enrollment."
Seeing others reaching out to take theirs, Li Qing then reached out to take his badge, examining it carefully.
Seeing Li Qing being so cautious, Zhuang Xu chuckled.
Watching everyone activate their badges and bind them, the Spiritual Fluctuations revealed were both weak and strong.
"Everyone, one more thing: follow the badge’s guidance to your respective safe houses. Classes start from midnight tomorrow, don’t be late, otherwise bear the consequences."
Looking at the bronze school badge in his hand, engraved with ’Gray Magic Academy Student ID’ in magic letters, Li Qing lightly focused his mind, not daring to channel too much light in his head.
Earlier, Li Qing caught Zhuang Xu’s words that not much Power is needed to bind the badge.
Staring at the badge, he gently tugged a string from the Light Ball emitting a faint glow in his mind, then saw the hidden Magic Rune on the badge quietly emerge, slightly twisting a few bytes, and the badge disappeared from his hand.
In its place, a complex Talisman appeared on his wrist, resembling a black tattoo, exuding an evil aura to Li Qing.
Simultaneously, his mind was filled with some information - it was the badge’s navigation function.
Gazing directly at it felt like something was enticing him, pushing hard, then there was a bit of pain, always feeling something had penetrated him.
Li Qing withdrew his gaze and lowered his hand.
When he looked up again, Zhuang Xu was already gone, as if his task was just to distribute the badges to individuals, then it was complete.
These three words conveyed terrifying information, meaning that besides the safe house, other areas were dangerous.
Watching the students disperse, heading to their safe houses guided by badges, Li Qing was about to move when a soft, feminine voice suddenly came from beside him.
"Human, what’s your name?"
Li Qing looked back, it was that tentacle monster - Anna, hidden under the hood, staring at him with eyes like blood-red rubies.
Li Qing was silent, or rather he didn’t want to answer Anna’s question. In this magic academy, the only thing he could do was be silent, quietly observing everything until he understood it thoroughly.
Only then would Li Qing have the qualification to do something he wanted to do.
Seeing Li Qing’s silence, Anna’s ruby-like blood-red eyes revealed a faint red glow.
Numerous whispered voices instantly filled Li Qing’s ears, as if countless Evil Ghosts were whispering, tempting him to lose his mind, turning him into a zombie.
In the next moment, Li Qing felt a few faint Magic Rune traces appear on the black robe uniform he was wearing, then saw a faint black Qi emanating from the robe, swirling around him.
He suddenly woke up, those devilish voices quickly faded away until they disappeared.
Anna growled, her voice deep and hoarse, like an Evil Ghost roaring from the Abyss, no longer soft and sweet.
Her voice was ferocious, her eyes bloodthirsty.
Li Qing imperceptibly took half a step back, clenched his fists tightly, pretending to be calm as he bypassed Anna, following the badge’s guidance to his safe house.
Zhuang Xu’s eerie voice suddenly came through: "Don’t ever reveal your true name here, it might lead you and the world behind you into disaster."
Li Qing’s heart trembled, a great fear spread through his chest, but he relied on his good psychological quality to keep his footsteps unceasing and quickly left. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the novel·fiɾe·net
Zhuang Xu had been observing the situation here, such a belated reminder, his intention was self-evident.