Clear, hurried footsteps rang out sharply in the empty corridor, prompting many portraits that had been dozing in their frames to look around, wondering who was so inconsiderate as to run through the teaching building during class.
Unfortunately, they saw nothing.
The classroom for Clone Transformation was in West-403 of the teaching building.
When the two invisible young wizards hurried up to the classroom, its door stood half-open. Everything inside seemed unusually quiet, as though no one was there.
Jiang Yu glanced at Zheng Qing. He decisively stepped forward and leaned halfway inside.
Then he froze.
Jiang Yu pushed him several times from behind. Just as she was wondering whether to cast a counter-Petrification Spell on him, a familiar voice came from inside the classroom. It startled her so badly that her magic power surged, almost disrupting the effect of her Invisibility Talisman.
"You two are here? Late, aren't you! Come in... come on in. You're the only two left now."
Someone pulled the classroom door open from inside, revealing the smiling, sallow face and gleaming, slicked-back hair of the dean of Jiu You Academy. With a pipe between his teeth, he swept his gaze over the empty corridor before him. "Take off your Invisibility Talismans. With me here, there shouldn't be any trouble..."
At Old Yao's invitation, the two young wizards entered the classroom in a daze.
Before stepping inside, Zheng Qing deliberately looked up again at the plaque beside the door. There was no mistake: West-403 of the teaching building, exactly the same number listed on his timetable.
The Stick Figure behind the door had long since been buried beneath a thick layer of chalk dust and made not a sound.
Zheng Qing remembered perfectly well that the Clone Transformation instructor was Professor Vincent de Ruyte. He and