"But I was beaten badly." The new moon is still not convinced.

"But I've investigated, and you started the matter yourself. This can only be regarded as self-inflicted. Hui Yao said coldly.

This friend, you're weird...... Russell thought to himself that he had a good impression of the pale blonde-haired fourth-grader.

Contacting Huiyao's identity, Russell suddenly remembered something and asked politely:

"That's right, Mr. Radiance. You're sure you'll be competing in the upcoming House Star Tournament, are your two teammates decided? I also happen to have the idea of participating, I don't know if it's inconvenient for you. ”

Compared to the Arctic Wolf, Hui Yao is a real fourth-grade powerhouse, and with him, the chances of winning the championship must be much greater!

Duncan, who was still looking lost and sad just now, immediately recovered:

"Like Russell, I also want to participate in the House Star Competition, can you add me to the competition?"

Mr. Chancellor, you also participated as a prize? Russell was slightly surprised.

But Duncan behaved very naturally and without shame, and the expression on his face seemed to say, "Huiyao, you should be sincere in apologizing, and now you can take me to the competition as compensation."

Facing the enthusiastic eyes of the two teenagers and the widening eyes of the cousin beside him, Huiyao shook his head:

"I'm afraid not. Crescent Moon also wants to compete, and I've agreed to take her with me. ”

"And what about a spot left?" Duncan was unwilling to give up that hope.

"Some time ago, before this class of freshmen entered the Higher Academy, I had already found a girl from the Creation and Summoning Department as my teammate." Radiance smiled self-deprecatingly:

"I usually go alone, I don't have any acquaintances in the Higher Academy, and I didn't expect my cousin Xinyue to be promoted to the Higher Academy this year. It just so happened that I had bought transcendent items from that girl before, and I didn't think too much about it, so I simply chose her. ”

"What? Cousin, you've already identified a teammate? Crescent Moon also looked quite surprised, as if she had just learned the news, "Who are you talking about your teammate?" ”

"Spark. The third-year student of the Department of Creation and Summoning is probably the best transcendent craftsman in the Academy of Heights other than Mr. Traveler. Radiance replied.

"Why her?" Crescent Moon's eyes were about to fall out of her eyes, "She's a traitor to the Society of Everything!" ”

Hui Yao frowned, half speechless and half disdainful:

"Does it matter? Why do you always care about these inexplicable party differences? ”

Crescent Moon wanted to refute, but the words were stuck in her mouth and she was speechless.

With Duncan's sigh of loss, Russell said goodbye to Radiance and Radiance, watching Radiance and the gloomy Crescent depart.

"Mr. Headmaster, you also want to participate in the House Star Competition?" Russell confirmed in a puzzled tone.

If Duncan wins the championship at that time, will he entrust himself to do something?

"That's right, I'm a freshman in the Department of Astrology and Numerology. Isn't it normal to want to participate in this kind of contest? Duncan crossed his hands on his hips and then emphasized:

"Don't worry about me cheating, the content of each assessment of this year's competition is in the hands of the teacher in charge, and even I don't know."

But Mr. Principal, do you really have a chance of winning if you compete with other teams? Russell squinted slightly, secretly slandering.

"Russell, you wait, I will also find a suitable fourth grader to take me to the competition!"

With that, Duncan walked back inside and closed the door.

Beside Russell, the phantom of a white-haired girl emerged.

"Mr. Principal, why didn't he just skip to the fourth grade right away, so that he didn't have to find someone else? You can form a team on your own. ”

"If he hadn't been forced by other teachers, he wouldn't have wanted to go to third grade." Russell laughed, then turned around and left Duncan's villa in the evening breeze.

The next task is to investigate the disappearance of the Tablet of Destiny.

……

The next morning.

Russell came to the pretty red house with its chimney, beyond the railing of the beautiful little garden.

From time to time, there are members such as housekeepers, maids, gardeners, cooks, etc., in and out of the villa and garden. They were clearly servants hired by their masters and belonged to the category of entourage.

It is relatively rare to live in a villa like an arctic wolf. Most of the students can already be regarded as the top talents in the supernatural world when they settle in the higher academy, and they will bring their entourage or family members.

Even if they don't have servants or relatives, they may be served by magical creations such as puppets and long-summoning beasts.

Russell looked at the villa that belonged to the clown, his thoughts fluctuated, and one thought after another came to his mind.

According to Duncan's divination results, the missing thing in the safe is now likely to be in the villa of the fourth-grade clown!

From Russell's point of view, the Joker was really lacking in motivation to steal the results of the Stellar Spell Research Society.

Judging from the attitudes of the five members of the Research Society towards the Arctic Wolves, even if the Joker is really interested in their unreliable research topics on the power of faith and divinity, as long as he speaks, the members of the Research Society will definitely lend him the Tablet of Destiny.

There's no need to risk stealing from the Arctic Wolf Villa.

"The results provided by the divination are likely to be one-sided or misleading, perhaps the Joker was not the real thief who stole the Tablet of Fate, but that he or his mansion had some connection to the theft?

"It's better not to inform the people of Duncan's divination results to the Stars Spell Research Society, and wait until I investigate first, and then go to them after I have a certain stage of results.

"Otherwise, I really can't explain Duncan's strength."

Russell suddenly had a certain idea, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, took a photo of the clown's villa, and then opened the pen fairy APP and posted a question on it:

"Is the stolen tablet of fate in this villa?"

After waiting for a while, the magic device mobile phone combined with the replies of many pen fairies and gave an accurate answer:

"I don't know. I can't see anything clearly. ”

Russell, who did not have much hope for this result, was not surprised at all.

Even if his pen immortal divination method is strengthened by the mobile phone magic weapon, it is not as good as Heimdall in the astrological and numerology system, but it has an advantage in some specific issues. Heimdall couldn't tell the whereabouts of the stolen items, and he was unlikely to have any information.

Russell walked openly to the main entrance of the garden and greeted the servant at the door:

"I'm a freshman at the College this year, Russell from the Department of Necromancy and Life. I'd like to visit Lord the Clown and discuss an important occult subject with him. ”

The servant at the door bowed down and greeted Russell, who was far stronger than them, and his language was very respectful, but it still revealed a bit of coldness:

"I'm sorry, Lord Russell. Mr. Clown is conducting important research. He told us not to let anyone in these days! ”

"Well, I'll come back later when I have time." Russell did not reveal the slightest loss, waved goodbye to the servant at the door, turned and disappeared at the end of the marble road in the lodging area.

A majestic, magnetic voice echoed in Russell's mind:

"Boy, this clown may indeed have a problem. It's just that I'm doing important work these days, and I can't be disturbed.

"Near the Joker's mansion, my spiritual instinct belonging to the legendary demon tells me that there is something special about this mansion, but I can't tell what it is.

"The Joker probably has a huge secret, and it's not just a fourth-grader."

Seeing that the Demon King, who was usually silent for most of the time, spoke, Russell also frowned slightly, realizing that the situation was likely to be more complicated than he imagined.

When it comes to the acuity of extrasensory perception, Wang Xiaoming, who once had fifth-grade strength and was a demon, was many times stronger than Russell!

"I'll try it first, and use my supernatural abilities to investigate this clown's villa. If you find any clues, report them to Duncan, Mr. Headmaster, or someone from the Spell Research Society. ”

Russell made up his mind, and raised his right hand slightly, the palm of his hand emitting a faint blue light, and held it against the ghost of an Archaeopteryx in the air.

Under Russell's control, the ghost of Archaeopteryx flew to the Joker's villa.

The crimson sunset disappeared under the flat marble floor of the High Court, and the brilliant sunset gradually dissipated.

Throughout the day, Russell drove the ghosts and searched the entire villa up and down.

The servants in the mansion are basically transcendents with first-year strength or even non-current strength, and even if they have the ability to see psychics, they can't see the ghosts of ancient creatures, let alone the extraordinary ability to detect the means of detection, and they have never discovered the existence of Russell's ghosts.

There are no anomalies in the living room, bathroom, kitchen, etc., and there is no trace of the Fate Slab.

What's even more bizarre is that Russell never found any trace of the clown in the villa.

It was as if the fourth-year powerhouse was not in the mansion at all.

"Where the hell is the Joker? According to the servant, he should still be doing some key research in the house, right? ”

After searching again and again, as the sun set, Russell finally discovered a strange place.

Inside the bedroom wardrobe, there is a one-meter-high secret door!

This secret door is inflicted with an anomalous meme that is instinctively ignored, causing those who see it to be blind, even if the vision is transmitted through ghosts. If it weren't for Russell's mental resistance approaching the fifth-grade level, it would probably have been ignored directly!

"Something really isn't right with the Joker's villa!"

Russell hurriedly exorcised the ghost and went around the back of the closet, but it was only a wall.

Russell, who was already quite knowledgeable about the occult, immediately guessed:

"It's a door to another dimension!

"Behind that secret door is another space, not behind the closet, and the clown may be behind the door!"

Russell drove the ghost of Archaeopteryx, using the ghost's ability to pass through the secret door, but only into the wall behind the closet.

"No, I think I still have to open the door to enter another space."

Russell drove the ghost again and tried to push the secret door open, but the secret door did not move, as if it had been welded to death.

At this time, a line of dark red words appeared on the secret door:

"Only a transcendent giant whose spiritual realm is comparable to that of a fourth-year student can open this door."

The dark red words were almost fleeting, but Russell was keenly captured.

Is this some kind of rule, or order? Only a fourth-year transcendent can push open this door? Russell immediately came to a conclusion.

Being able to easily block a third-year powerhouse is definitely an extremely high-level extraordinary ability.

But as far as Russell knows, the transformation and transformation system where the clown is located should not have similar abilities!

Where can I find a strong fourth-grade player to help me open the door? Do you want to trouble Duncan? Russell thought for a moment and immediately had an idea.

"Mr. Demon King Xiaoming, I may want to ask you for a favor later." On the street where the sunset had already dissipated, Russell stroked his left chest with his hand, "I'm going to blend into the clown's villa later, and I may have to borrow your strength to push that door open." ”

The Demon King hesitated for a moment and agreed:

"Yes, boy. Although it makes me feel weird to be a thief like this. ”

……

At 7 p.m., a maid dressed in a pleated skirt and black and white maid outfit stepped out of the garden of the clown's villa, as if for a walk, along the marble path to the end of the accommodation area.

After turning a corner, the maid, who was only at the beginning of the first year of spirituality, suddenly stopped, her eyes hollow.

The hypnotized maid fell down at once, and was held up from behind by Russell.

The magic of the Sandman is still quite useful...... Russell sighed inwardly and drove the ghost to open the maid's eyes.

The half-asleep maid's eyes were stretched open, and in the hazy sleep, her eyes reflected the handsome young man, and the emerald green flames that flickered in the eyes of the young man 1.

The next moment, the maid's mind froze, and her body turned into a gray-white cold stone statue.

After putting the petrified maid sculpture into the dimensional waist bag, Russell, who had already remembered the appearance of the maid, wiped his right hand on his face and cast the disguise illusion of wind chimes.

The black-haired and black-eyed young man was gone, and the maid in a black and white pleated skirt dress reappeared.

Russell, who used illusion to disguise himself as a maid, swaggered towards the Joker's mansion.

He had investigated when he had driven the ghosts before, and there were no supernatural objects in the garden or house that were aimed at illusion, or supernatural enchantments of similar function.

Without much effort, after naturally waving to the butler and gardener, Russell entered the Joker's villa.

Russell walked around the villa a few times, went straight to the second floor, entered the clown's bedroom, opened the closet, and saw the one-meter-high secret door.

"Please, Mr. Demon King." Russell said softly.

Suddenly, Russell's left chest glowed with blood-red light, and the light turned into a crimson vortex.

A swarthy but toned right hand, painted with arcane patterns, stretched out from Russell's left chest in a crimson swirl and pressed against the secret door.

After a period of adaptation, the awakened Demon King was able to temporarily protrude part of his limbs from Russell's body.

Of course, it will take a long time to completely leave Russell's heart and return to the strength of the fifth grade of that year.

With a tooth-aching crunch, the secret door was pushed open.

Behind the door is a silvery and rippling light curtain, which is a portal to another dimension, revealing a dreamlike feeling.

The Demon King's right hand also retracted into the crimson vortex, retracting Russell's heart.

"There's a space door here!" Russell muttered to himself silently.

Now both the High Court and the Junior Academy are on alert, not only are both courts shrouded in protective shields, but the internal space is also under strict prohibition, and foreign intruders cannot create dimensional doors to enter the Academy.

But this ban is mainly external. If someone inside the academy makes a spatial door, leading to the outside world or a certain half-dimensional space, it won't be too hindered!

This is clearly set up by the clown in the academy, not by an alien intruder!

"I wonder if this spatial door leads to somewhere outside the academy, or some fully enclosed half-dimensional space?" Russell muttered to himself.

The former is an absolutely and absolutely serious violation of the school rules, which means that any intruder may enter the academy through the outside world by relying on the spatial gate, which will make the normal vigilance of the academy unsafe.

And the latter is at most a villa that renovates the academy privately.

After realizing that his extrasensory perception did not have any warning of danger, Russell stepped out of his right leg and tried to step into the silvery curtain of light.

However, Russell seemed to be blocked by the hard wall, and could not enter the light curtain, only setting off a few ripples of light on the mercury light curtain.

"Strange? You can't just walk in. ”

As soon as this thought appeared in Russell's mind, he saw a line of dark red words suddenly flash on the mercury light curtain.

"Humans can't enter this door of space."

There is also a second rule ban!

Russell became more and more curious about the secrets hidden in the Joker's mansion.

Suddenly, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Russell's mouth, and he said words of relief in a tone without ups and downs:

"It turns out that I am really human.

"I thought I was some kind of monster made out of wind chimes and other dead flesh and blood."

The boy's heart suddenly tightened, and the demon king in his heart wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

Russell's mobile phone in his right pocket also trembled, and the wind chimes in his phone also stopped talking.

Ignoring the flutter of his phone and heart, Russell quickly analyzed the spatial light curtain in front of him.

It is obvious that the space behind this secret door is a major secret held by the clown, which is not only very secretive, but also protected by multiple "rules" to prevent outsiders from entering.

In order to enter it, you must have fourth-year strength, and you must not be human. And the clown himself must be able to come and go freely.

These two rules should be tailor-made for clowns.

Russell immediately recalled another detail.

When he interrogated the blonde hunter before, he knew about the Joker's specialty - the Transfiguration and Transformation Department.

In other words, every time the clown enters the space behind the secret door, he should have turned himself into another creature.

Even the Joker can bring others into the space behind the door if he wants to, as long as he pushes open the secret door in his fourth-year personality and transforms himself into other non-human creatures along with the visitors.

Russell's phone flew out of his pocket on its own, and a pale and hazy shadow of the Sleeping Demon appeared on the screen:

"Wind Chimes and I shouldn't be humans, but demons and undead, why don't you let us go in and try?"

"It's still too dangerous for just the two of you to enter. As a student of the High Academy, the clown shouldn't hurt me casually, but if it's a demon and an undead who inexplicably broke into his secret room, it's hard to say. Russell shook his head, and immediately had two ideas in his mind to meet the rules and enter the door of space-

The first is to let the head sculptor petrify himself, let the three contract spirits drag himself into the stone statue into the door of space, and then let the head sculptor release the petrification.

The second is to use the transformation charm that he obtained from the school when he dealt with the Chaos Red Order last year.

"In a petrified state, I would lose consciousness, and if there was a danger when I first entered the door of space, I couldn't cope with it at all......"

After a quick thought, Russell chose the second option, pulling out the Transfiguration Charm from his dimensional pocket.

Because of the long storage time, the power of this spell has been lost a lot, and it is unlikely to take effect on third-grade enemies in battle, and it is impossible to turn oneself into a powerful transcendent creature, so it is better to use it for oneself now.

Before officially stepping into the mercury light curtain and entering the unknown space, Russell picked up his phone, edited the information, and sent Duncan all the anomalies he found in the Clown's villa and the things the Demon King felt wrong, and then injected spiritual energy into the transformation charm.

Feeling the magic to reshape his body, Russell did not evoke the aura and spiritual resistance of the third-year powerhouse, and naturally accepted the change.

Russell's dressing maid emitted a faint white light, and her figure shrunk smaller and smaller.

When the white light faded away, there was only one small black milk cat left in the closet, similar to Professor Black Amber but even younger.

The black little milk cat looked indifferent, stepped out of the cat's paw, and walked into the mercury light curtain, setting off a large ripple wave.

(End of chapter)