In this demon classroom, which had become like a slaughterhouse feast, time seemed stretched out, every second extraordinarily long and painful.
The candlelight on the wall lamps flickered faintly, brightening and dimming as if counting down to the end of the exam, with death drawing ever closer.
Hughberlian, seated in the back row, gave up thinking.
She had absolutely no idea what Lanchi was trying to do.
But her previous experiences working with him told her that it was fine if she temporarily failed to keep up with his thoughts. At least she was still normal.
All she had to do was keep an eye on Lanchi.
Her duty was more like that of a nanny responsible for cleaning up after him.
Thus, under Hughberlian's discreet observation, Lanchi stopped reporting students for the time being and lowered his head to write something on the Parchment Exam Paper.
As if he were waiting for a certain moment.
Until several dozen seconds had passed.
Lanchi put down the pen in his hand and naturally folded his arms, leaning back against the chair.
Once again, he transformed into Invigilator Number Three.
Before long, Lanchi found a student who had already cheated and immediately raised his hand to report him.
Hughberlian silently lowered her head beside him.
Although she did not understand what Lanchi was waiting for, she had a premonition that something abnormal was about to happen.
This time, the Dragon Demon was still closer to the reported student.
He began striding over to cruelly and joyfully execute the cheating student.
Lanchi leisurely watched the situation as a whole, but his gaze never once left the two Demon Examiners.
Now.
There would be a relatively brief interval—
The Dragon Demon was following his heart, focused on enjoying the thrill of slaughter and paying no attention to any examinee, while the Owl Demon's limited single field of vision would also fall into a blind spot.
This was the longest blind spot in both examiners' vision that Lanchi could create deliberately.
It would be just enough.
He silently counted the seconds. At the same time, a Magic Card appeared in the palm of the hand hidden beneath his folded arms.
As if he had finally confirmed that the moment had arrived, Lanchi immediately used the Basic Etiquette in his hand, selecting a demon examinee diagonally ahead of him and making him kneel toward Lanchi!
"Thud!"
The demon examinee's body twisted against his will, and he made a kneeling motion toward Lanchi.
Lanchi raised his hand again and shouted, "Teacher, he turned around to copy the answers!"
The Owl Demon, who was patrolling the room, and the Dragon Demon, who was savoring the afterglow of his slaughter, both noticed the demon examinee who had suddenly turned around and knelt on his chair to look behind him.
This unlucky demon examinee, whose neck was covered in green scales, stared blankly through tear-filled eyes. His lips trembled for a long while, but he could not say a word.
He had no idea how he had suddenly turned around to look behind him as if possessed, only to be reported immediately afterward.
Yet with such a huge movement, there was no room for excuses.
Thus.
As the demon student's mentality collapsed, both examiners hurried toward him!
Unlike every previous occasion.
Before this, only one of the Dragon Demon and Owl Demon had acted each time.
They seemed to follow a certain rule, simply determining who could reach the cheating student first, while the other continued patrolling.
But this time.
As if by coincidence.
They both felt that they themselves could reach the cheating student first and execute him.
Thus, the Owl Demon and Dragon Demon both acted ahead of the other.
"..."
Lanchi lowered his head in the back row, lightly tapping his elbow with his index finger.
He continued calculating in his mind.
So far, everything was exactly as he had calculated.
He had long since recorded the two examiners' patterns of movement according to the time and calculated the movement speeds of both demons.
It was therefore easy to deduce a certain point in time—
If he reported a student in a fixed position at one of those moments, then even if both examiners set out simultaneously, they would arrive beside the reported student at the same time!
Given the two examiners' undisguised bloodlust, neither of them would easily give up this opportunity.
Now, Lanchi had successfully created this situation.
By the aisle two rows diagonally ahead of Lanchi's seat.
Just as the Dragon Demon was about to raise his hand and execute the cheating student, the Owl Demon grabbed him by the wrist.
"I was first."
"Don't be so greedy."
"Let go."
"You're the one who should take your hand back."
The Owl Demon's words were cold, as if he had already accumulated quite a grudge against the Dragon Demon.
The two high-ranking demons' desire to kill heated up along with their anger, visibly shifting gradually toward one another.
"..."
Although Hughberlian did not turn her head to watch what was happening two rows to the front right, her heart was already pounding wildly!
She seemed to understand a little what Lanchi was trying to do.
She could only feel that Lanchi was insane!
But Hughberlian was not sure whether, even if Lanchi summoned his trump card, Poet of Great Love, at this moment, it could completely ignite the anger within the two Demon Examiners and drive them utterly mad.
No matter how strong the bloodlust of two high-ranking demons was, they ultimately retained their rationality and had never acted recklessly, obeying the exam-room rules for invigilating.
However.
Hughberlian seemed to sense Lanchi chuckling softly.
No demon in the examination room noticed that an almost imperceptible little bug on the ground was stealthily climbing up the Dragon Demon's suit along his toes.
Long Live Friendship Bug Category: Summoning Card Quality: Blue Precious Attribute: Link/Psychokinesis Tier: 1 Effect: It can learn to hear the target's voice, then speak according to the summoner's thoughts. Note: You can't speak, so I'll speak for you.
This was one of the few finished cards Lanchi had created besides Basic Etiquette and Friendly Exchange.
The two Demon Examiners were still threatening each other, their eyes cold and the examination room filled with tense oppression.
Just as the atmosphere was about to reach freezing point.
"You half-beat stupid bird deserve to eat ※ and rot! If you don't ※※ get lost right now, I'll tear the feathers off your head and stuff them into your ※※, just like that ※※ sect of your family—you're only fit to pick up and eat ※※'s ※!"
The Dragon Demon's voice suddenly came from his body, directed at the Owl Demon.
"Roar...!"
The Dragon Demon had just wanted to say something. He opened his lips, but a burst of intense pain in his throat left him able to produce only a hoarse roar.
He had no idea where the voice had come from. He only felt the Owl Demon's grip on his wrist growing stronger and stronger!
And the Dragon Demon's astonished expression, his eyes wide open, looked to the Owl Demon exactly like an extremely brazen glare of provocation.
Long Live Friendship Bug was a Magic Card Lanchi had created for use in conjunction with Friendly Exchange.
In direct combat, apart from buzzing and acting as a heckler to mess with an opponent's mentality, this bug had little practical value.
A small-area spell could easily kill it instantly.
During the previous third-round Entrance Examination, when he had faced a single examiner, Lanchi had cautiously brought a full set of the most efficient Error Correction Spell Cards for building rage, specializing solely in the ability to duel mages.
But this time, after entering the true Shadow World, he would face all kinds of complicated situations. Thus, he had brought along all several of the Blue Precious Tier 1 cards from "Lanchi's Finest."
"When conflicts arise between colleagues, one shouldn't simply endure in silence. Only by venting the resentment in their hearts can they find an opportunity for reconciliation."
Lanchi leisurely propped his chin up in the back row, watching the Dragon Demon and Owl Demon, who were already on the verge of fighting, and offered his assessment.
He knew that now it was time for the two of them to speak from the heart.
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