Two months later.

Early on the weekend morning, in the dormitory bed, Russell in the morning light opened his eyes from meditation and ended his morning devotional.

He gently exhaled a mouthful of foul gas, feeling that the energy in his body was more abundant.

Even though the meditation has ended, the churning life energy still seems to resonate with the entire universe. As his spiritual progress grew, so did his physique.

He took a general look at his physical state, and judged with the strength evaluation method developed by Subway:

"I finally reached the peak of the middle of the first grade, and I have one foot in the late first grade. But the spiritual process seems to have reached a small bottleneck, and without external help to overcome the bottleneck, I am afraid that it will take at least a month before I can be promoted to the late first grade. ”

During this time, Russell attended classes on time every day, in addition to the core psychic class, the important witchcraft principles class, the spiritual practice class, the basic rune class, the basic ritual class, the introduction to the occult class, etc. His knowledge of magic was much richer than when he first entered the school.

However, Russell's investigation into the anomalies of the spirits of the abandoned towers has not progressed. Nocturne didn't come to him either.

Suddenly, Subway's voice came from under the bed:

"Russell, you've actually reached the half-step stage of the peak Great Perfection in the middle of the first year? It's too fast.

"What? How do you know that I was already in late first grade a little over a month ago? Oops, it's so-so, just a little bit to me. ”

After discovering that Russell was ignoring his own show-offs, Subway opened up today's topic as usual:

"Russell Russell, have you heard the recent rumors that the gymnasium equipment room is haunted?

"It is said that in the abandoned equipment warehouse, an extremely violent ghost suddenly appeared! It's 10 times more ferocious than the ghosts in the Necromancy and Life textbooks!

"Aren't you a psychic? How about we go on an adventure in the gymnasium tonight? ”

Russell didn't even raise his head: "That's a lie." ”

"Why?"

"Because I made it up with spiritism."

Subway was obviously taken aback by Russell, and was silent for several seconds before asking:

"Did you control the ghosts and create the paranormal phenomenon in the gymnasium equipment warehouse?"

"Not fully controlled." Russell said, "I used spiritism to give a couple of Chihuahua ghosts the ability to interfere with physical reality, and then let them all do freely." ”

"Chihuahuas? No wonder! I'll just say, where are ordinary ghosts so fierce? Subway complained and asked:

"Why are you doing that?"

"I've been tasked with investigating an anomaly caused by spirits, and I don't want other students to set foot on the scene." Russell replied calmly.

"So you're pretending to be haunted and trying to scare away all the students who are trying to get close to the equipment warehouse?" Subway suddenly realized.

He waved his hand again and again, obviously not optimistic about Russell's plan: "It's useless, it can't scare them away, it will only attract more students with good things to explore." ”

"No, no, no." Russell wagged his fingers:

"The anomaly I'm investigating is from the abandoned tower, not far from the gymnasium.

"After the strange talk appears, there must be a lot of good things for students to go on adventures. They were all drawn to the gymnasium, and no one interfered with my investigation in the tower.

"Even if there is any more strange noise near the tower, an explorer like you will only think that the source of the anomaly is in the equipment warehouse of the gymnasium."

The corners of Subway's mouth twitched, and he slapped his thigh and slurped:

"I didn't expect you to be so fine.

"You're doing it right, too. Many of the younger students lack the means to deal with spirits, so as to prevent students who want to explore from going into danger. ”

Immediately afterwards, Subway complained:

"But, Russell, you're still too conservative and cautious. Most of the students go on expeditions in teams, and there are many second-year elites, so there is no danger. ”

"No, no, no." Russell shook his finger again:

"I prevented other students from setting foot on the scene, not because I was worried that the expedition team was too weak, but because I was worried that the expedition team was too strong, and there were many second-year elites sitting in the town, which scared the ghosts so much that they didn't dare to come out and affect my investigation."

Subway was speechless for a while, feeling that there were too many reversals in the past 1 minute, and he couldn't react a little.

After a while, Subway remembered what he wanted to do with Russell in the first place, and felt a little unwilling not to go to the gymnasium to explore:

"Russell, why don't you go with you tonight on an expedition to the abandoned tower, oh no, investigate. There should be no requirements for the task you accept, so you can't find a helper. ”

Russell suddenly seemed to remember something, and slapped his thigh: "Yes, maybe there will be something to gain from teaming up?" ”

"What's wrong?" Subway asked.

"I'm reminded of previous reports of anomalies, when there is a big anomaly, it's usually when multiple students act together. I've been investigating alone and not in a team. Perhaps because of this, my investigation has never made any progress. ”

Russell immediately turned to look at Subway:

"Okay, let's go to the abandoned tower together tonight."

……

Between the college's primary and higher courtyards, there is a dense forest area.

Today, however, in the heart of this dense forest area, there is a luxurious and spacious three-story villa.

The humans, horses, goblins, phantoms and other extraordinary creatures in the surrounding dense forests all consciously avoided and did not approach the villa. It's as if there are many horrors in it.

For example, a tree pulls its roots out of the soil, becomes a treeman, moves a few dozen meters away from the wooden house, and then re-roots.

Today is a big gathering of the White Wolf Club.

As for the villa that suddenly appeared, it was created by a spell cast by a cadre of the civil engineering department in the White Wolf Club, and it would disappear the next day.

In the villa, there is the sound of carnival from time to time.

Crowds of men and women threw apple pies and cakes in their friends' faces, champagne and coke smelled in the air, food scraps, playing cards and alcohol foam were sprinkled on the floor, and screams of joy could be heard in some rooms.

On the third floor of the villa, a group of students surrounded the young man on the sofa in a starry posture holding the moon.

The young man wears leather shoes, fashionable white clothes, crosses his legs, wears sunglasses, and has a cigarette in his mouth, and looks handsome but with a strong murderous aura, like a gang leader who has come out of a movie.

He is White's elder brother, the boss of the White Wolf Club, one of the few fourth-year powerhouses in the academy, the Arctic Wolf!

"I see, it seems that the new student named Russell may have to add Subway, Black Feather, and Clara, and cause you a lot of trouble. They didn't take our White Wolf Club seriously. ”

The Arctic Wolf spat out a puff of smoke rings, extinguished the cigarette in the ashtray, and looked at the indignant white, tarantula, and emerald cats in front of him.

"Boss, you've just started smoking this cigarette, isn't this a bit of a waste?"

The girl in the back, Osprey, complained, but no one cared about her.

Nanami stood in the corner of the room, looking at Shiro, who was complaining to his brother Arctic Wolf, and was silent.

She knew that in the past two months, although Russell had won the magic duel, there was no need to delete the video.

But he didn't upload the video, let alone accuse her with a video attack.

Of course, what Nanami didn't know was that Russell didn't care about it at all.

Knowing that the boss Arctic Wolf might avenge himself, the Emerald Cat was overjoyed and added:

"Boss, you're so wrong! Russell is so lovely, he simply respects us, and we must repay him wholeheartedly. ”

(End of chapter)