Stia is not one to give up easily.
She knew that some things had to be fought for by any means necessary to belong to her.
Born into a baronial family, she had witnessed too much wealth and luxury. Growing up under the influence of her parents' decadent aristocratic culture, she did nothing but try her best to climb up to higher levels of power and wealth to satisfy her vanity.
Stia always felt inferior.
She craved the vanity of flattery, the respect and attention of others, and the pride and satisfaction of being the protagonist in the banquets she attended frequently, rather than being a dispensable supporting character in every event.
During this time, she finally discovered an opportunity.
Reilo, the Eye of the Sun!
A student from a humble background was given a title by the academy, which gave him the potential to change his destiny.
After countless internal struggles, Stia finally made her own decision.
She wanted to marry this commoner in order to gain unparalleled glory in the future!
She knew this was a golden opportunity, and decided to seize it to change her destiny.
However, at Bai Xing's birthday party, that bitch Megana, despite being the daughter of Earl, shamelessly seduced Reilo. Everyone knows that there is a huge gap between their social statuses, and it is impossible for them to be together. This shameless woman made her lose a precious opportunity!
After the banquet, Stia grew angrier the more she thought about it.
"We can't give up like this!"
Gazing at Reilo's departing figure, Stia glared fiercely at the receding Megana. After feigning a friendly farewell to Bai Xing, she actually chased after Reilo in the direction he had gone.
It was already late at night when Reilo walked towards Gubo's Whitey.
Bai Xing's house is located in the academy's intermediate accommodation area, which is for students and some junior instructors. There are very few outsiders, and the academy's guardian owl's base is not far away, so there are no major security issues.
"Um?"
Noticing the person following him, Reilo became alert and wary.
"Who!"
The <1024 Nights> Guardian Shield suddenly enveloped Reilo.
He turned around abruptly and saw the girl Stia from the banquet staring at him in horror, clearly frightened by him. Reilo frowned.
"It's you?"
Reilo looked at the other person with a puzzled expression.
"I, I, I..."
"Careful!"
Suddenly realizing something, Reilo shouted, but Stia hadn't yet recovered from Reilo's alert shout. In that moment of shock, a dark arrow pierced her body from the shadows.
puff!
Blood splattered everywhere.
After piercing through Stia, the dark arrow landed on the <1024 Nights> Guardian Shield Reilo 1024. The shield, which exuded an indestructible will, showed signs of melting.
"Such strong defense!"
A surprised voice came from the darkness.
At the same time, Stia's horrified expression froze on her face, and then with a "thud," she collapsed to the ground, blood spreading from her chest, her pupils gradually losing focus, and she died a humble death.
"Even the academy's intermediate accommodations aren't safe anymore?"
After a brief moment of bitterness, a fierce look appeared on Reilo's face.
A figure flew out of the darkness, muttering to himself, "After 10 seconds of recovery, there's about 30 seconds of hiding time. That should be enough."
The hourglass in my hand exploded with a "bang".
"A magical artifact!"
Upon seeing this, Reilo recognized the inherent properties of the hourglass.
Just as this man was about to unleash a more powerful technique, he saw a black sphere the size of a pigeon's egg suddenly appear in the hand of Reilo opposite him, which he crushed with a "pop".
"Ah!!!"
A sharp, mournful cry of the soul suddenly locked onto the Black Shadow, causing his body to stiffen involuntarily.
This is the Howling Banshee Sphere that Reilo crafted in the Forge High Tower using the Wrath Bead of the Wrath Bead, possessing the ability to mimic the Howling Banshee's soul-piercing screams.
Several seconds later.
The figure finally broke free from this eerie attack that forcibly locked onto the soul, and when it looked again, the target had already run thirty or forty meters away.
"Murder! A New Zealand scholar has committed murder!"
Reilo ran and shouted.
Unfortunately, this is on the edge of the accommodation area, and most of the people here are just ordinary students. Otherwise, if it were in the high-end accommodation area, I don't know how many instructors would be here.
"Hateful!"
With an angry curse, the man floated and flew at low altitude, chasing after Reilo.
"Struggling will only make your death more miserable. I will take your life on behalf of the White Prince. Die!"
However, this "bar" has not been finished yet!
Just as Reilo entered the range of his academic trajectory, another psychic ball of Wrath Bead suddenly appeared in his hand, and amidst that eerie soul shriek, he was once again rendered paralyzed.
Then, under his furious gaze, the slippery creature escaped again.
" White Prince Xilan has hired someone to commit murder!"
"Hateful!!"
The figure was practically furious.
According to his calculations, the first option was naturally to take advantage of the target's unpreparedness, launch a surprise attack, kill the target, and then leave silently.
The second plan involves eliminating the target head-on within 10 seconds, then using 30 seconds to hide in a pre-arranged location and escape from the Grand Natural Sciences Academy using special means.
As for the third option, he hadn't even considered it.
Is it really possible that it takes more than 10 seconds for a dignified Profound Meaning Scholar to kill a beginner student with a level 0 Energy Magnetic Field?
But he didn't expect that Reilo had Wrath Bead in his hand.
Even Profound Meaning Scholar are not immune to the eerie nature of the Howling Banshee's shrill screams that directly lock onto the soul.
Two escapes and two pursuits, more than 10 seconds have passed.
Having broken free from the shrieking soul sphere of the Wrath Bead, he caught up with Reilo again. Without uttering a word, the fine sand floating in his hourglass silently dissipated.
The next moment.
As Reilo struggled, a sand hand over five meters long gripped the <1024 Nights> Guardian Shield tightly.
The protective shield was gripped by a giant sand hand, as if it were squeezing an egg, making a "crunching" sound, and more and more cracks appeared.
"You'll be buried with me!"
Reilo roared hoarsely, like a beast in despair.
"Snort!"
The figure let out a cold snort.
With a loud "bang!"
As the <1024 Nights> Guardian Shield shattered, the cadets inside, like all the enemies he had crushed, had their internal organs spill out from the gaps in the Sand Hands like sausage paste.
Red, white, and yellow.
No matter what a person was like in life, they are all the same in death.
Without any hesitation.
The giant sand hand disintegrated out of thin air, turning into specks of sand that merged back into the hourglass. The hourglass then reflected in his black pupils, and he fled into the distance without looking back.
He could faintly hear the cooing of flocks of owls in the distance; those were the guardian owls of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, the pets of Pioneer Antonio, the maintainers of order at the Grand Natural Sciences Academy!
The figure vanished into the darkness in the blink of an eye, leaving no trace.
at the same time.
As Reilo, who had already turned into a pulp, shimmered slightly with the light of the Moon Mark, the pulp twisted and disappeared, grafting the reality of Reilo's tragic death onto the absurd and distorted illusion of the Moon Crystal Stone.
A blurry dream, like an absurd dream under the moonlight.
Reilo appeared unharmed, still in the awkward position of being crushed to death by the Sand Hand.
Huff, huff, huff.
With heavy breathing, like a drowning person climbing ashore, Reilo, covered in sweat, maintained his last struggle, his eyes filled with the joy of being resurrected.
" The Dream Moon Technique! I'm still alive!"
He glanced down at his right arm; only one Moon's Mark remained.
The crystal stones that Prince Chen had just given him for Moon Crystal Stone were used up just like that.
cluck cluck cluck...
A dozen or so owls flew over. After getting a basic understanding of the situation, some of them escorted Reilo away, while others summoned more owls and began a large-scale search of the academy.
the next day.
"The New Zealand scholar who attempted to assassinate you yesterday has been caught."
Gubo said, "Come with me to identify him. He seems to be a renowned scholar from the Xilan Duchy, known as the Death Sandglass. Since we're currently at war between the two countries, this Xilan People broke into the Gran Academy and committed violence, having been caught red-handed by the academy, will be secretly disposed of as a war spy."
"Good."
Although he escaped death, he wasted a Moon's Mark, so Reilo was in a very bad mood.
Not long after.
Reilo followed Gubo to the inner courtyard of the Grand Academy of Sciences. This was Reilo's first time entering the Grand Royal Science Institute, the inner courtyard High Tower of the academy.
In the dark, lowly prison, the Death Sandglass, Sezern, is bound by magic-suppressing shackles.
Silence was his only option.
It's all because the White Prince was in such a hurry that he had no choice but to take the risk and personally kill the target inside the Grand Natural Sciences Academy.
A sigh.
"Your Highness, I have repaid your kindness. I hope you will keep your promise and treat my family well after you inherit the throne."
Sizeren muttered to himself in a low voice.
Suddenly, everything became clear.
The prison cell door slowly opened.
Accustomed to the darkness, his pupils were suddenly overwhelmed by the brightness and Saizen could not adjust. He could only close his eyes and await his death sentence.
Is it him?
Several figures entered the cell; besides two guards, there were two strangers.
"Yes, it's him."
A familiar voice?
After Sizeren's pupils adjusted to the light again, he stared at the figure and was immediately filled with unbelievable horror, his body trembling involuntarily.
"Impossible, impossible, impossible!!!"
Sizeren screamed, as if he had seen a ghost, screaming like a madman.
"You're dead! I killed you with my own hands! You couldn't possibly still be alive!!!"
His voice sounded somewhat deranged and fearful.
Reilo responded with a cold smile.
To Sizeren, it seemed like a devilish, mocking smile.
At that moment, he felt fear, facing an unknown creature that overturned his academic understanding, a fear akin to facing a demon inhabiting the human world.
"You're not human!"
"He's a devil!"
"We must report this to the Church; he's a devil!"
Sizeren screamed hysterically at the people around Reilo, but no one paid attention to his words, taking it as his last madness before death. Gubo led Reilo out of the dimly lit cell.
"The college expresses its deepest remorse and condolences for the death of your female companion."
Gubo comforted Reilo, assuming that Stia was Reilo's companion.
But that's normal. In the middle of the night, a male and a female classmate walking together in the academy—what else could they be but a couple?
"Well."
Reilo, of course, wouldn't say anything about the death of a completely unrelated girl; he simply responded with a low groan and remained silent.
But seeing this scene, Gubo couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
Even though he was heartbroken by his female companion's death, he outwardly maintained the calm and rational demeanor expected of a scholar.
He truly deserves to be my disciple!
Even I myself probably couldn't remain so calm.
Why...
But the more this happened, the more guilty Gubo felt deep down. This disciple seemed to be gradually changing into the ideal scholar he envisioned.