Several terms on the task list stood out conspicuously.
The Slug Morgan Laboratory and Monteria Laboratory were similar: both were advanced laboratories funded by First University and headed by senior professors, with research involving fringe and forbidden magic. The Totem and Field Theory Laboratory, on the other hand, was more like the Two-Dimensional Evolution Laboratory led by Su Shijun, its research touching upon the most cutting-edge magical theories in the modern world.
These laboratories were First University's most important assets besides its students, and they were under exceptionally tight protection. Not only did researchers entering and leaving the laboratories undergo layer upon layer of screening, but the school's Guardian Array also kept round-the-clock watch over every abnormal magical fluctuation around them.
It was no exaggeration to say that even an ant crawling near these laboratories would be marked by the Guardian Formation with detailed information—its sex, age, whether its antennae were broken, where it had come from, where it was going, and so on.
As for the other terms on the list—Rat Immortal went without saying. A wizard who had ascended to legend after reaching the pinnacle of sublimation, the Rat People he created had drawn much attention from the Under the Moon Council. Count Dret, meanwhile, was a famous occult scholar who had risen to prominence in the sixteenth century, and the Corpse-Eating Cult Ritual had unsettling ties to beings from the depths of the Starry Sky.
With a single glance, the black cat confirmed that aside from the task of collecting "Shuangyang Water," which it might possibly be able to complete, it had no leads whatsoever on the other tasks and absolutely no way of getting started.
"All of these?"
The black cat's abrupt question was sharp, its tone full of incredulous shock, as though it were looking