Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Where are your parents?

"He's dead."

Joel fell silent, no longer speaking, and bent down to examine the body.

"Hmm, the time of death wasn't very long, and the body is in excellent condition. It wasn't due to organ failure from using enhancement drugs..."

"It's still quite valuable for research."

Joel roughly assessed the value of the Roosevelt circuit:

"I can give you 60 marks."

He then took out 60 marks from his pocket and handed them to Rose.

With Rose's help, he placed the homeless man's body on the cart.

He looked at the Luo Sai track:

"Kid, you can go to the welfare center..."

But then he seemed to remember something, frowned, and sighed:

"Oh well, you're fine the way you are now."

He pointed to the dead homeless man's tent and said:

"We only care about the body; we have no say in his estate. And I doubt anyone would defend the estate of a homeless man."

He walked up to the cart, placed his hand on the handle, and looked at the corpse on the cart, saying:

"Kid, I hope the next time I see you, it won't be here."

Rose responded:

"Thank you for your kind words."

After saying that, Joel pushed the cart away.

As Joel walked away, Rose's gaze fell on the tent on the ground.

As Joel said, once a homeless man dies, his property becomes ownerless.

Rose opened the tent and rummaged around inside for a while, finally finding only a few tattered pieces of clothing that were actually useful.

That's true. Drug addicts like this spend all their money on boosters.

Rose threw out the useless trash, packed up the tent, wrapped the clothes inside in the tent, and dragged the tent towards home.

Before long, Rose returned to his own tent.

He threw the tent he was holding aside and crawled into his own tent.

He opened a can of food, ate it with the rest of the bread, and then fell asleep.

...

The next day, as soon as the golden vertical pupils opened, they returned to their blue color.

Focus +2, Strength +1

My focus has reached 19 PM.

Rose sat up, stretched, and felt great.

He could tell from the sparse sounds outside the tent that the rain hadn't stopped.

Rose put on her raincoat and stepped out of the tent. The rain was much lighter than last night, just a light drizzle.

He walked down the street; the weather was too gloomy to judge the time.

However, based on his intuitive judgment through [Gu Long Meditation], he probably slept for about 7 hours.

It's around 7 or 8 in the morning now.

Rose put on her raincoat and headed to the soup kitchen. Although she didn't know if the soup kitchen would be open on a rainy day, she still wanted to go and check.

This is where Rose can access vegetables and meat at low cost.

Based on current experience, we only know that the more food you eat, the stronger the effect of the "Ancient Dragon Meditation".

However, the effects of nutritional structure and components on the effects of [Gu Long Meditation] are unknown.

However, according to common sense, it is natural that the richer the nutritional structure and the higher the nutritional value, the better it is for the body.

Even a rich nutritional profile doesn't significantly enhance [Ancient Dragon Meditation].

It also helps with his physical development during his childhood.

Soon, Rose arrived at the soup kitchen. Fortunately, the soup kitchen was still open even on a rainy day.

And there weren't many people queuing; there were almost no people queuing, just a few people sitting on the roadside eating bread.

Rose ate two meals; the porridge was still an unidentified vegetable hodgepodge with very little minced meat.

He thanked the staff at the soup kitchen and then left.

Now that I'm full, it's like I've got a free chance to regain my focus.

He planned to use [Wind Network Perception] to find the deceased homeless man.

It's raining now, so few people come looking for the body.

Secondly, most homeless people are now huddled in tents, and not everyone has a raincoat.

Most importantly, the rainy season is the peak period for the deaths of homeless people.

Many homeless people who die in tents are only discovered when their bodies have already begun to decompose.

Using the [Wind Network Perception], he can determine whether a homeless person is alive or dead without opening the tent.

Rose found a place where tents were clustered together, hid in an alley, and began to sing.

"Wind! Spread outwards, with me as the center!"

"Weave a network, attach to ordinary objects, sense vibrations, establish resonance, and converge upon me!"

"Filter, translate!"

"[Wind Network Sensing]!"

Centered on Rose, a wind network, imperceptible to most, began to be laid out silently.

Rose quickly realized that four of the homeless people in the tents had already lost their lives.

A dozen or so lives are slipping away; if this rain continues for another two days, these people will probably die too.

The tent closest to Rose was strange; besides the corpse, there was a living creature inside.

Based on common sense, it was probably a dog, but the dog's behavior was strange.

This left Rose somewhat uncertain.

Rose thought about it and decided to go and take a look.

He quickly arrived at the tent, which had obvious scratches from the inside out.

Rose peered through the scratches and could vaguely see a somewhat mangled corpse lying in the tent.

And crawling on that corpse,

Rose could vaguely hear intermittent, disjointed sounds, occasionally mixed with hissing sounds of gasping for air, like the gurgling of acid reflux.

The sound gave people a feeling of illness or discomfort.

At that moment, the creature paused, as if noticing something, and immediately turned its head to look at Rose.

Its eyes were somewhat dull and cloudy, yet they revealed an unimaginable excitement.

Due to excessive excitement, the conjunctiva becomes congested, and the eyeballs are covered with blood vessels, presenting a "red eye" state.

Its mouth was covered with thick foam mixed with blood, and it wore a collar around its neck.

Rose recognized it as a dog, and the collar around its neck meant it was most likely not a stray.

The moment it saw Rose, it immediately launched a zero-frame attack, instantly switching to a battle stance.

"Woof! Woof!"

It lunged toward Rose along the crack, but fortunately the crack was too small and it couldn't pounce out for a moment.

"Woof! Woof! Woof!"

It frantically tore and clawed at the tent.

In just a few seconds, it emerged from the tent, baring its fangs as it lunged at Rose.

Sigh, now guess what a mage with a sanity of 38 points who has encountered a wild beast and hasn't said a word for a long time is doing?

"Air compression!"

The dog had barely opened its mouth when Rose shoved an air compression attack with a sanity modifier of about 28 into it.

"boom!"

The dog's body flew backward and slammed hard against the wall behind the tent.

The powerful force caused the dog to embed itself slightly into the wall.

Normally, a living being suffering such a severe injury should wail and convulse.

But the dog seemed to have gone mad and completely lost its sense of pain.

"Woof! Woof! Woof!"

Even though it was embedded in the wall, it still barked wildly and struggled to get out of the wall.

Finally, it struggled out of the wall, and before its body fell, Rose's second [Air Compression] was already beside it.

Unlike the previous one, where Rose was concerned about damaging the corpses inside the tent and affecting the price, this time Rose was worried about.

This attack was hit by Rosena's sanity bonus of 38.

"boom!"

Spiderweb-like cracks spread across the entire wall, and the invisible, extremely compressed air was released in an instant, generating a powerful impact.

The dog's body had nowhere to move; it was pressed hard against the wall.

"Click, click"

The bones were crushed, and the entire dog was smeared evenly on the wall.

The fur, internal organs, shattered bones, and muscles have all lost their original shapes, blending together to form a bizarre oil painting.

After a while, the dog painted on the wall began to show spiderweb-like cracks and made a hissing sound.

That's caused by air being compressed into the wall and then escaping through the gaps in the wall due to pressure.