"Hey, did you hear? There's a new course at the academy!"
"What course?"
"Supposedly counseling inmates at a prison who had been insomniac for over ten days."
"What's that got to do with us?"
"All departments can sign up to go on the sidelines, mop up, and add credits..."
"Dig in, go sign up!"
...
The next morning, listening to the discussion between the two students around him, Eleazar was thoughtful.
"Insomnia... More than ten days?"
"Sounds like a dark creature to me..."
"Dream eater, or nightmare?"
He held his chin in thought, "Going to check it out?"
If there were other targets, it would be fine to let the resentful spirit in the dormitory go, the witch had been taking magic potions for the past few days and hadn't had time to come over and stimulate it, and the hatching speed had slowed down.
At that moment, Fina comes over with a cage.
"Watch it for me."
"What is it?"
"Hamster, schoolmarm asked me to take care of it, but I'm going out for the day, so look after it for me."
Eleazar looked at the fancy mouse running around the cage and subconsciously asked, "Where to?"
Fina glanced at him, "Prison."
"Is it that new course?"
"Well, I don't have enough credits and I might have to repeat the class if I don't make up some."
Ah this...
How come the high school bully pulls his crotch so much in college, is astronomy really that hard?
Eleazar scratches his head, "Why don't I come with you?"
"Keep an eye on Sister's pet for me, I'll be blamed if anything goes wrong."
"Well ..."
With the Witch gone, and without that radar, he didn't really want to probe the mists with his face.
Now he himself was no longer the bitter Witcher who used to struggle and needed to go searching for prey alone to consume magic potions.
And the dark creatures that had been raging for more than ten days might have been discovered by the church a long time ago, and to keep leaving them unattended like this was like seducing something to come over.
"Trolling me?"
Suddenly realizing this, Eleazar instantly wanted to go even less.
"That's too big a stroke!"
"Damn it, the church has changed too!"
Took the pet cage back to the dormitory and put it away, listened to two classes, and at noon, bumped into the Witch, who was hurrying back.
"Have you finished taking your magic potion?"
"Yeah!"
Evelea pulled him along and headed for the bus parked out front.
"Mr. Prince, come on, let's go to jail~"
Eleazar was instantly surprised, "You're taking that course too?"
"Yeah, I'm a little short on credits too or I'm going to have to repeat the class."
These people, is it that hard to study?
Eleazar shrugged, "I was going to, but I can't go now."
"Also, did you even inquire about what's going on over there?"
"Huh?"
Evelea blushed in surprise and quickly asked, "Do you know something?"
"A bunch of inmates who have been losing sleep for over ten days, what do you think caused that?"
"Do you suspect a dark creature?"
She half-heartedly took out a coin and flipped it.
"It's fine ah, there's no crisis warning."
"Whatever, I can't go anyway, I have to pet sit for someone else."
"Eh-!"
"Don't scream, go by yourself, and by the way, wait for me first."
Eleazar goes back to his quarters and quickly dilutes a bottle of alchemical potion.
"Just in case, it's better to give you a bottle of White Seagull, in case you're suddenly censored by the Church."
Then, in the midst of the witch's antics, she pushed her onto the bus and watched the caravan leave the school gates.
The campus was suddenly empty after many of the students who had gone to earn credits had left.
Snowflakes fall silently as Eleazar walks down the road with his chin in his hand.
"What's the best thing to do?"
...
Keren Prison, a four-sided building surrounded by barbed wire and a few kilometers of barrenness with no cover.
Over ten kilometers away on a large hill, a pair of green eyes looked down faintly at the school bus driving by below.
In the pitch-black cloak, a slender palm slowly lifted up, and one soul fragment after another surfaced in it.
In that instant, I don't know how many Transcendents jerked their heads up.
In the school bus, Evelea's mouth dropped open in disbelief.
"That warlock is crazy!?"
Outside the car window, the dim sky suddenly brightened abruptly for a moment, but in the blink of an eye it was back to darkness.
Immediately afterward, a heavenly explosion vibrated in people's ears.
"Rumble---"
A recklessly twisting bolt of lightning connects the earth to the sky.
Thunder that shatters the darkness!
"Crack ~ Boom!" Without waiting for the people who were shaken out of their minds by the thunder to come back to their senses, a shocking wave of air rushed in, all the big trees on the roadside were crushed by the airflow, and the bus, like hitting a wall, lurched heavily and its windows burst out.
Evelea covered her ears and cowered in her seat, surrounded by shrieks and screams as those playing in the aisles all fell into a heap, their heads bleeding.
...
Soon after, two teams of acolytes in tattered clothing reported to the bishop at the Starwind City branch church.
"Someone has unleashed an over-the-horizon lightning spell strike, the power of which is forbidden spell level, and it has directly knocked down our holy light barrier!"
The bishop nodded slightly, "The tribunal is already discussing this."
"The nightmare was vaporized directly by the thunder, do we proceed to drop a second decoy?"
"Spare the poor prisoners, it does seem that we are not fit for such an event, and wait in peace for the subsequent orders of the Archbishop."
When his subordinates had all left, the bishop fell into deep thought.
"That Witcher, has he already completed the dragon language ceremony?"
"This sequence is still the same as before, ah, in order to hunt and kill magic creatures by any means, never care about the death of other innocent people, in the first place, the church is holding what the original intention to create this kind of monsters that can only kill out ...?"
[Evening news report: Starbreeze City-Keren Prison suffered a lightning strike and fire, the accident caused two hundred inmates to die, thousands were injured, school buses carrying hundreds of students and teachers were involved in a rear-end collision, and the Ministry of Transportation warmly reminds people to fasten their seat belts when traveling by means of transportation.]
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Just after nightfall, Eleazar, who was meditating, suddenly opened his eyes.
"Back so soon?"
Evelea closed the door with an obscure look on her face.
"Don't mention it, a wasted trip!"
"No wonder the result of divination was that nothing happened, so it turns out that we won't be able to reach our destination at all."
Eleazar stroked her puffy head, "What's wrong?"
Evelea held her tongue for a moment and said sullenly, "The prison was struck by lightning and the course was forced to be suspended."
"Well, from the sound of it, you guys seem to have had a pretty twisted trip."
"Wooooooooooo, my credits!"
"Hey, you're not going to repeat a grade, are you?"
Eleazar looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"Ooooohhhh..."
Eleazar just had to rub her head in reassurance, "Have a good attendance and don't drop any more points or you'll be calling me senior next year."
"Hmm? Seems pretty good!"
The witch suddenly looked up, "So what should you call me?"
Eleazar mused and bent his head, "Your Highness ..."