By the time I left the Stone Spire, the entire Bromin Academy had become a mess, first with Zeni's unexplained absence from the Principles of Magic class, a mass disturbance among the freshmen, and then a mysterious disappearance of him, who had dug three feet into the ground and no one to be found, and then the apprentice Fresson had disappeared...... Kozmo was one head and two big, busy fighting fires everywhere.

Mentors and apprentices were mobilized to search the world for Zeny and Fresen, and I hid in the cellar to study the books of the Dark Arts.

Spellbooks are all written in the ancient Phryn language.

Everyone thought I was a layman who didn't know anything about Guflin, and that was only half right. Although I had been trained as a knight for a long time and had never been exposed to magic, I was no stranger to the Guverin language. As early as when Anthony Hopkins revealed to me that he was going to Bromin, I set out to make the necessary preparations. No one can master magic in a short period of time, but it is possible to spend some effort learning a language and rote memorization.

The limbs are well-developed, and the mind is not necessarily stupid. So, to others, I was so frustrated by the defeat of the eldest prince Le Mont that I was lying in bed all day sleeping, when in fact I was reciting those damn Guverin words and grammar.

It has always been my code of conduct to plan and then act, and not to fight unprepared battles.

The first article of the black magic book is "Red Pupil Technique", red pupils are the foundation, the most important, and they occupy one-fifth of the space. The first half of the book focuses on the origin of the "Red Pupil Technique", which is generally derived from the pagan Redeai people and compiled and recorded by the high priest of Gufryn as an important branch of spiritual magic, as Priscilla says in her Memoirs. The second half records the cultivation of the "Red Pupil Technique", step by step, primary chaos, intermediate control, advanced manipulation, the process of cultivation is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, it will inevitably be intruded by hallucinations, and even lead to mental breakdown.

Guflin's language is obscure, and the "Red Pupil Technique" is particularly difficult, and it is impossible for me to learn it with all my life's energy, but now there is a perfect opportunity for me to ask Dean Kozmo for advice in the name of learning Eagle Eye. He is an expert in the study of ancient Flynn magic, and both Eagle Eye and Red Pupil belong to the category of ancient magic, and they have a lot in common, and he will not be suspicious.

The next day, the Academy had confirmed the disappearance of Zeny and Fresen, and a semi-public investigation was in full swing. Two groups of men were the first to intervene, one led by Doi Facuno, and the other was Priscilla Cachele and her assistant Dino Lombart, who were not willing to stay out of the way.

Doe only cares about Fresen Bukalem, he and Fresen are both from Aiudin, and I suspect that Dean Stone is likely to leave his son in his care, and now that the guardian is missing, the guardian must be more anxious than anyone else.

The gray cloth robe in Fresen's closet was a clue I had deliberately left behind, and Doe found out, but he didn't insist on it. This proves that he is only a magician and does not have the qualities and abilities of a detective.

As for Dooy's right-hand men, Alfred and Casper, they don't even pay attention to the missing person, the former focusing on the secret room of the parchment library, and the latter obsessing Priscilla with the delusion of composing a beautiful love song.

From the very beginning, the investigation team was destined to play a supporting role.

Before the arrival of Duke Isaac, Priscilla was no more clever than Doy. She ran around the academy like a headless fly, asking about the past of Zeny and Fresen, which seemed to me pointless.

After reading her memoirs, I realized that she had a whimsical suspicion that I was a spy planted by King Siman at Bromin's Academy, trying to sabotage the fragile alliance between Aiuddin and Bromin.

But she couldn't find any evidence.

Neither Doy nor Priscilla had overlooked a crucial detail, and late the night before their disappearance, Zeni and Fressen had been seen entering the library one after the other.

I was confronted with a group of unprofessional actors who didn't bother to track down the rumors and figure out who the person was witnessing!

It wasn't until the end of the holiday that Duke Isaac and his guards arrived at Bromin's Academy, and the situation changed radically.

Barth, the captain of the guard, interrogates the mentors and apprentices one by one, and finds April, who is spreading rumors. Aprill is a highly trained professional spy, and he does the job I gave him well.

After this, Priscilla impressed me, and when she returned to Bromin College from Port Kethira, she suddenly had a down-to-earth consciousness. The woman found all the parchments that Zeni had read, and looked through them day and night, line by line, word by word. At the time, I was a little worried that if Zeny had found the Chamber of Secrets in this way, then Priscilla would be repeating his efforts, and with her ingenuity, the secret might not have been kept for long.

As it turned out, my fears weren't unfounded, and Priscilla did—and of course, Caspar's finally falling under her pomegranate skirt and confiding in key intel was also a big factor.

At the same time, Duke Isaac discovered Fresson's tireless research into the history of the Keith dynasty in search of the legendary artifact, the Bloodthirsty Bow.

All the clues point to the same suspect, that is, the missing Fresen Bukalem, Priscilla is young after all, but the scheming Duke Isaac must have seen this.

When they open the chamber and find the bodies of Zeny and Elvis, it is natural to assume that the murderer is Fresen Bukalem, who, while searching for the Bloodthirsty Bow, discovers the Book of Dark Magic, becomes greedy, kills two of his companions, and escapes from Bromin's Academy.

The world is so big, it's easy to hide someone, even if he's a rare tall man.

My plan is on track, and there are two fatal flaws that need to be filled.

One flaw was Fresen's corpse. Fortunately, the arrival of Duke Isaac and his guards created an opportunity to destroy the corpses, and in order to entertain guests from afar, the kitchen boiled chowder soup for several days on end, using a lot of minced meat and bones - who cares about the ingredients of the soup, after all, you can't tell the difference between a human and a pig or a sheep with your tongue.

I didn't drink the chowder soup for those days, not a single drop.

Another flaw is April, who knows too much. I decided to make him the first test subject of the dark arts, and whether he succeeded or not, he had to keep his mouth shut forever.