In Ichrita, the royal capital of September, the temperature has gradually faded from the heat.

The early morning breeze at the Ikrita Academy of Magic was half cool, making Ranchi, who lived on the first floor, yawn.

Today is the first day of school, so I can't stay in bed.

Turning over and getting out of bed, he walked out of the bedroom, with a toothbrush in his mouth, and looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room, only to see a few chirping birds perched on the edge of a small garden-like independent courtyard, which was the balcony of his dormitory.

When Ranch opened the curtains and slowly walked over to the birds, they were still bouncing around, with no intention of flying away.

In this way, Ranch stayed in the courtyard for a while, and there were more and more birds beside him.

They were as close to Ranchi as they were, looking forward to leaning next to them.

"I'm not a druid, why am I so popular with you......"

Lanch brushed his teeth as he muttered to himself.

He'd actually discovered that when he was in a border town, he attracted a lot of cute kittens just by walking, or that the birds on campus had taken him as a friend when he came to Ichrita Academy.

The critters are completely unsuspecting of themselves.

Maybe it's because his emerald green pupils are naturally gentle, or maybe the breath on his body is as freehand as poetry and painting.

He didn't hate the feeling of being surrounded by these little creatures anyway.

After washing, Lan Qi put on the uniform of the Sage Academy, which had been sent by the Student Service Center.

Then he stood in front of the mirror.

The young man's face in the mirror is graceful, the bridge of his nose is straight, the end of his left ear is neatly combed behind his ear, his soft black hair looks calm and bright in the sun, and his slender and light eyebrows contrast sharply with his emerald green eyes, gentle and kind, but also elegant and calm.

The dark blue main coat elegantly draped over his slender body, and the design of the uniform of the Wizard's House resembled the midnight sky, mysterious and deep. The jacket has loose cuffs and gold stitching on the edge of the hem, forming the artistic style of the Hutton Kingdom, which is also an ancient symbol of Southern Continent writing.

The collar of the shirt inside the jacket is folded into a retro white collar, and in the center of the collar is a small gold badge engraved with the crest of the Academy of Icerita and the protective spell of the Sage Academy, which shimmers in the sunlight like a bright star.

Beneath the shirt was a pair of dark pants and a pair of boots, which were polished and shimmered with black sheen.

Ranch stamped his feet, steady and comfortable, perfectly suited to the needs of an adventurer.

"Perfect, go."

Ranch's legendary life kicks off today!

……

Academy of Ichrita, the main building of the Academy of Sages.

Compared to the other classical buildings in the college, the building is quite new and distinctive, with a roof composed of a series of folded light-sensing magic devices, which bring in different natural light while blocking out the low-angle sunlight.

This year, there are more than 100 qualified students in the Sage Academy, who are randomly divided into three classes.

Elective courses do not have a fixed classroom, but need to go to the corresponding building according to the course schedule, and sometimes you may have to go to the multi-purpose teaching room or laboratory of another department.

However, compulsory courses are required for all students regardless of how they choose courses, and students in a class will be concentrated in a fixed classroom during the time of compulsory courses.

The first-year freshmen of the Sage Academy have few opportunities to challenge the real world in the first semester, so the basic compulsory courses will be relatively full.

For example, today, there are four compulsory courses: "Introduction to Magic Control", "Practical Techniques of Spell Casting", "Principles of Spell Casting without Chanting", and "Magic Detection and Shielding".

"Sassy class."

Lanch quickly found the classroom following the map on campus.

When he looked into the classroom, there were already a number of students inside.

He was supposed to arrive early, but it took him a few minutes longer than expected to feed his animal friends on the balcony.

The lecture hall with wooden floors is very large, and each student has a free and stretching space and desk area.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows on the side is a green lawn, through which sunlight shines through, making the classroom appear bright and welcoming, and the lighting is a combination of natural and artificial light, which can be adjusted as needed.

When the students in the classroom saw Lan Qi step in, they all showed expressions of "discovering rare people".

The black-haired and green-eyed noble son is the first "dark judge" in their Sage Academy's entrance exam this year, that's right.

This is the title given to Lanchi by some students in the academy, and it belongs to a new category among the professions of the law department of the Sage Academy.

Although Lanch was quite famous for his performance in the second round of exams, no one knew about his actual combat ability.

The widely circulated rumor is - "This guy was surprisingly lucky, and in the third round, he met the examiner with congenital cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so he passed it easily."

So many students are actually a little envious, jealous, hateful, and suspicious of Lanchi.

"Huh."

As soon as he walked into the classroom, Lan Qi looked at everyone's scattered seats, and soon noticed that there was an outlier in the back row-

Mademoiselle Duchess Huberian.

That was the good teammate he met in the third round of actual combat assessment [Infinite Phantom Canyon].

She seems to have taken the initiative to find a place at the back.

But more than that, there was no one sitting in the entire circle near her, as if they were deliberately avoiding her.

In this way, there was always a feeling that Huberian was isolated.

Ranch didn't think it was good.

So he walked down the stairs to the back of the classroom, until he came to the row where Huberian was, and sat down near her.

"Good morning, Hubertarian."

Lanch smiled and greeted her.

"Hmm."

Huberian glanced at him in some surprise, then turned away from him.

Her tangled eyes obviously didn't mean to snub Lan Qi, but just kept a little distance from him for Lan Qi's good.

Seeing this, Ranch didn't make much of a small talk with Huberian.

It was the same for him to sit and listen to the lectures, and he only knew Huberian.

So he opened the "Hutton Kingdom Bar Exam - Real Case Collection" in his hand and began to study it carefully.

While you're waiting for classes to begin, it's really nice to have this morning book with you.

……

To this day, the boring compulsory course ended the first three sessions unsurprisingly.

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

The sky had turned orange-red, and the sun was about to begin to set in the near future, and the shadows of the trees outside the classroom window cast long shadows on the grass, and the wind rustled the leaves.

Hubertarian was still sitting in the back row, and Ranch was still sitting next to her.

However, the state of the two is completely different from that of the morning.

These courses are very easy to learn, and can even be said to be easy to learn.

And Ranch.

He was now asleep on the table.

It was as if the first three classes had put too much load on him, and waiting for the half hour before the start of the last class was a rare time for him to relieve.

This classroom is housed in the historic renovated building of the Sage's Academy, and the preserved wooden frames of the classroom doors and windows contrast with the red brick walls outside.

The space features a high ceiling, made of fine plaster, with details retained in the classical style of the Hutton Kingdom, and several self-regulating magic lamps in the dome that give a soft glow that makes the students in the classroom feel very comfortable.

Although the classrooms are vacant when there are no classes, they are much more active than in the morning.

In addition to the students who were waiting for the start of the next class in the classroom early in the morning and sat in their seats and looked at the textbook alone, from time to time, senior students or students from other houses would come to the corridor and classroom of the Sage Academy, chatting with their new acquaintances today.

In contrast, the back row of the classroom appears to be extraordinarily empty, as if there is a barrier insulating the two spaces.

Hugh Bailey, with her amber eyes, sat quietly, her cold gaze looking through the window into the distant sky, her face expressionless, but there was a lot of thought in her eyes.

Some of the senior students who come to "visit the door" are friends or acquaintances of the freshmen in the class before admission, and there are also "star freshmen" who will be booked by the team even if they are not enrolled in the other classes.

However, none of this excitement has anything to do with Huberian.

Even if she is the second place in this year's Sage Academy, there will be no team to recruit her.

In the past, she had a father, and no one dared to bully her because she had demon blood, and she seemed to be surrounded by good people, but now that she is weak, she finally feels how hostile and suspicious the demon clan will be in this country.

It's been a lucky thing to be able to get through the afternoon today.

Unlike most people, she didn't want anyone to find her.

Because if other senior students take the initiative to find her, it will inevitably be those troublesome characters in the royal capital, and it will only be a curse rather than a blessing.

The other, perhaps a fortunate thing, is that there is a gentle man by his side, who does not dislike himself as a scourge, and has never harbored a trace of malice since the beginning of their acquaintance.

Huberian couldn't help but look at this talented, and a little sleepy teenager who couldn't think about it.

Originally, there were already a few students from other classes in the classroom who were visiting Lan Qi, but when she saw Lan Qi sitting next to her, her expression changed and she made an excuse to leave.

And, Hubertarian finally discovered something.

Ranch, who seems to be very smart, is actually a spell fool.

In addition to using magic cards, he has never learned how to use spells at all, and he is not at all like a normal legal combat professional.

But he is very upright, obviously tortured, and he is not willing to skip class or study seriously.

Huberian sighed helplessly, not expecting that this seemingly all-powerful Lanchi also had something that he was not good at.

Although there are students chatting in the classroom, there is also a noise outside the hallway.

Huberian still quietly flipped through the book, turning the pages lightly, as little as possible to wake up Lanch next to her.

A point of kindness and a point of retribution, she has always held grudges, but she will also remember the good of others.

What's more, for some reason, Lanchi's existence seems to be accompanied by a talent that will make the surrounding creatures unconsciously become calm, even if he just lies there and falls asleep.

Before she knew it, her mind was also immersed in the book.

……

The sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows quietly changed as the minutes passed, as if heavy clouds drifted by, briefly obscuring the brilliant afternoon sun, and the natural light in the classroom dimmed from time to time, and the light and shadow on the ground seemed to be covered by a light veil.

However, this did not affect Huberian's reading, because she only felt an inexplicable sense of relief, which she hadn't experienced for a long time.

"Hubertian, I didn't expect you to be able to successfully enter the school."

With a soft and abrupt voice, a chill surged down Huberian's spine, and she quickly turned her head sideways.

I saw that in the aisle next to her seat, there was a young man with a fair face and hands behind his back, his expression was calm, and he looked calm and unruly.

“……”

Even though Huberian's expression hadn't changed, her aura had become quite bad,

"Motan...... What is the matter with you coming to me? ”

Obviously, this is someone she is very reluctant to meet.

Modan Garsigues, the second son of the Marquis Garsigues, is also a powerful and talented third-year student of the Sage Academy as a challenger in the film world.

Compared to the nobles of the rival faction of Duke Aransal, Huberian's father, the Marquis Garsigues family, who had been friends with Duke Aransar, was even more hated by her.

Since the disappearance of the Duke of Aransar, the Marquis of Garsigues not only did not mean to help her, but instead eyed her, trying to force her to marry into the marquis's family in order to control her.

"Huberian, if you want to challenge the Shadow World in your first year, you might want to consider joining my team. Or maybe you can only join my team, because only I will be willing to take you through the world of cinema. ”

Motan's words sounded polite, like a brother speaking to his sister, but his eyes did not hide his naked desire for domination and plunder.

"No, I don't."

Hubertarian just replied coldly.

She knew that even she, like Lanchi, had been exempted from the entrance exam to become an iron-level adventurer.

However, due to the rule that first-year freshmen cannot challenge alone, she is destined to waste many opportunities to become stronger in first-year.

Because.

As Motan said.

There won't be any team or members in this school who are willing to accept a demon like her.