The stars shine in the velvety night sky, and the evening breeze is a song that adds a touch of coolness to the sweltering summer day.

Wearing the evening breeze, Subway asked the old man next to him:

"Old man, old man, you are now a second-year student in the Department of Astrology and Numerology. Congratulations! Did you apply in advance to absorb the scroll of knowledge before the start of school? ”

This kind of application is very common, and most of the students who are eligible to enter the second year are considered the elites of the transcendent world, and prefer to master the extraordinary abilities of the second year during the holidays, rather than waiting for the official start of the school year.

"Yes." The old man on the back of the ghost replied.

The night breeze blew the old man's hood and the silver-white hair under the hood

"It seems that you are also an elite in the early second year." Subway gave a thumbs up, "Can you tell me what you're capable of?" ”

The old man nodded and introduced:

"The core course of the first-year professional course in the Department of Astrology and Numerology is 'Prediction', which includes a variety of simple but inaccurate witchcraft prediction methods, such as various divination methods, such as statistics.

"We can also turn on our vision, see spirits, and choose to learn several detection and detection spells according to our interests."

The old man paused, and continued:

"The core course of the second year is called 'astrology', or 'astrology' or 'astrology'.

This core course allows us to understand the mechanism of constellations, analyze the stars, predict the future, gain insight into the present, and look back at the past. In addition, the relevant knowledge also involves several spells related to the stars, which can be used to attack, defend and affect fate, making up for the shortcomings of first-year students in the same major who are not good at fighting. ”

"Isn't astrology a type of prediction?" Russell questioned.

"Prediction in the first year is actually basic prediction, and the knowledge and extraordinary abilities involved in the astrology are only at a very shallow level and have little practical value." The old man spoke slowly, but in a very organized manner.

Subway was stunned for a moment, but he was quite interested:

"Can you show us your astrological abilities?"

He hadn't seen the second-year students of the Department of Astrology and Numerology show their abilities.

"No problem." The old man looked at Russell, who was not smiling, "What zodiac sign are you?" ”

"Uh, it seems to be an Aquarius."

The old man looked at Subway again: "What about you?" What zodiac sign are you from? ”

Subway was stunned: "Virgo." ”

Yes? Is this astrology, which understands the workings of constellations?

"Hey, Russell, Subway. Where are you going? ”

Before the old man could make an analysis based on the constellations of the two, they heard a crisp female voice next to them at the same time.

It's Clara!

Clara followed them briskly with her little short tentacles, very reluctantly.

"We're going to the library to see a big secret. If you want, you can come along. Subway stopped the ghost mount and smiled in response to his old friend.

"Okay, can I go and have a look too?" Clara listened to Subway's words, half shy and half excited.

"If you're coming, I'll get one more ghost mount." Russell raised his hand, thinking about what kind of creature the tentacle monster should ride.

The four of them marched together towards the southwest of the academy.

Soon after, they saw the night in the distance.

The library of the elementary school, which is in the shape of stacked books and is obviously more beautiful after reconstruction, has appeared in their sight!

……

In front of the library of the junior high school, there are 6 new guests.

The boss of the White Wolf Club, Arctic Wolf, brought his younger brother Shira, three officials of the White Wolf Club, and Nanami, a civil engineering girl who is familiar with the structure of the library, to this place.

It's close to midnight, the library is theoretically closed, it's empty, and the students have left.

But after the Arctic Wolf and the other 6 people came, the wooden puppet as the librarian didn't dare to stop them, and directly let them in.

Sending 6 people into the library, the wooden puppet blows the evening breeze and looks at the night sky where the stars shine in the east.

……

East of the Library, southeast of the Academy, in the night sky with the evening breeze roaring.

"Assembled!"

Eleven transcendents representing the school floated in the air, their robes swaying in the evening breeze.

Their leader was Professor Opal, a fourth-year strongman, who was still wearing a leather jacket that looked like casual wear, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were a little more solemn than before.

The others were both men and women, including six third-grade teachers and four students who had rushed to support from the Higher Education Institute – they also had third-grade strength.

If it were in the era of cold weapons, a combination of strong men of this level would be able to capture a small and medium-sized country by force. Not to mention infiltrating with trickery and spooky spells.

"The goal of our operation this time is to go to the dense forest area southeast of the primary courtyard and rescue Lady Black Amber according to the detection results of the astrological observatory!

"We may be at war with the cultists, so please be prepared!"

The transcendents nodded slightly, and at the same time sped towards the southeast.

The 11 people are like 11 meteors flying backwards, highlighting one trailing path after another in the night sky.

……

Looking at the night sky in the east of the academy, one after another the trailing light path left by the transcendents of the academy when they fly, and watching the meteors disappear into the endless night outside the academy,

In the middle of the courtyard, in the quiet woods, a voice said:

"The school really sent someone to the dense forest in the southeast to rescue Black Amber."

For the elementary school, which is on vacation and a large number of students and teachers are not there, now is the weakest time!

"There's nothing more to stop us." The next voice was Martha's shrill chuckle.

"Let's get moving, tonight!"

The vast majority of the information revealed to Russell in the Book of Shadows is true in order to gain Russell's trust. But the timing of the final action turned out to be fake.

The Chaos Red Order Leader and the 3 Red-robed Demon Priests will enter the library tonight, not 20 days later, to break the Demon King's seal!

This is a plan that Nocturne and her mother have discussed.

From beginning to end, the Demon Cultists could not trust Russell 100% when he had just joined the Order, so he deliberately revealed a wrong time to act at the end.

If Russell really had a problem and actively or passively exposed the news to the school, it would be an excellent smokescreen to mislead the school.

And if Russell really didn't have any problems, and wanted to become a demon cultist from the bottom of his heart, then this move was not a deception - Nocturne could have made an excuse to say that after seeing a large number of school transcendents leaving, he temporarily changed the time of the operation and changed it to tonight, and there was no time to notify Russell.

A possible small risk is that if Russell really has a problem, and the school originally did not take precautions against the seal in the underground area of the library, if the school knows through Russell that the cultists' target is the library, there is a certain probability that they will immediately increase their precautions, set traps, and wait for the demon cultists to attack.

However, Martha and Nocturne believe that now that the school has learned that the Demon King is sealed under the library, they must have known that the Demon Cultists were targeting the library on the night when countless demons poured into the library. It is likely that the school authorities have already prepared for the traps in the library.

In this case, the original risk can be ignored, on the contrary, by revealing a wrong time to act, and attracting some of the combat power through Professor Black Amber, the school will let down its guard against the library tonight.

On top of that, Nocturne deliberately revealed a possibility in the Book of Shadows - the academy maintained the seal of the Demon King by regularly sacrificing students.

Even if Russell had the slightest possibility of leaking secrets to the school at the beginning, after learning about the darkness behind the academy, he might have betrayed the hypocritical academy and truly thrown himself into the Red Order of Chaos.

Either way, the benefits of this strategy outweigh the risks!

Martha and the three red-robed demon priests approached the direction of the library with unimaginable speed.

They "jumped and teleported" from shadow to shadow, and after several successive teleportations, they came to the forest on the outskirts of the library.

(End of chapter)