Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Joel used the tiny, frame-like cart to take Rose to find the body.

Soon after, nine more corpses appeared behind Joel's car.

Of these nine corpses, seven died directly or indirectly from the ingestion of enhancement drugs.

The remaining two bodies were found to have died from hypothermia due to inadequate insulation and drying during the rainy season.

One of them died from a cold because there was no medicine available.

He looked with satisfaction at the pile of carts, clapped his hands, and gave Rosell a thumbs-up:

"Awesome, bro, you really nailed it!"

He then patted Rose on the back, and Rose, using his superior rationality and physical abilities, pretended to stumble from the pat:

"I can rest more this month. Come find me again next time something like this happens!"

Rose smiled and said:

"I'll definitely do it next time."

Joel then roughly calculated the difference between the two tracks:

"I can give you 540 for these nine corpses."

He then counted out 540 marks and handed them to Rose. After Rose accepted them, he got into his car and left.

Rose put the money in her pocket.

This can only be described as a great harvest.

Including the previous 280 marks, this time he earned a total of 820 marks.

With this money, Rose was confident that she could learn all the magic that Kenneth had written down in his notebook.

Including that insanely difficult [Cyclic Fireball].

At that time, he will combine defense, ranged attacks, melee combat, burst damage, and reconnaissance capabilities, greatly improving his survivability.

Not only that, just now, Rose's faith has reached 41.

I was just kicked out of the "materialist" state, and my sanity value has dropped to a negative number again.

Then I increased my faith by two points.

Rose found that his threshold seemed to have increased significantly.

If this had happened before, this horrifying, perverse, cult-like scene would probably have knocked Rose's sanity off by 10 points.

However, sanity has only dropped to -2.

This seems to be because he has a relatively high level of religious belief.

A strong sense of self-control and self-awareness, which comes with a high level of faith, can greatly stabilize one's mental state.

It is foreseeable that as his faith grows stronger, his rationality will become more and more stable.

Even if it's only 0, it's hard to get it to a negative number.

That's not all; more importantly, Rose's stats have changed.

Name: Rose

Age: Six years old

Occupation: Dim Light-level Ancient Dragon Follower

Strength: 12 (Increase by 5 points)

Agility: 12 (increases by 5 points)

Focus: 48 (Total cap increased by 27 points)

Rationality: 0

Faith: 40 (+1, Ancient Dragon Cultists who haven't achieved the Shining attribute can't use 41, can only use 40, and can't be improved through meditation) (Increases by 2 points)

Traits:

[Fanatical Materialist] (Golden Trait):

1. Fanaticism: Your sanity cannot be increased; you can only increase your faith.

2. Materialism: By consuming Focus Points, you can temporarily convert all Faith Points into Reason.

3. Frenzied Rationality: When rationality drops below 0, it will be forcibly locked to 0, and negative rationality will be converted into positive faith points.

The Path of a Gu Long Follower:

[The Shining Ancient Dragon Follower]:

Promotion requirements:

1. Faith 40 (Completed)

2. Find your own path as a follower of the ancient dragons (incomplete)

【？？？】：Not unlocked. Please achieve 【Shining Ancient Dragon Follower】 first.

prayer:

[Vitality Flow], [Lightning Gun], [Lightning Strike], [Electric Shock], [Ancient Dragon Meditation]

His current faith standard has met the criteria for "Shining Ancient Dragon Follower," and theoretically, his faith level should be 41.

However, it can only exert an equivalent of 40 points of faith.

The panel says he hasn't met all the conditions for [Shining Ancient Dragon Faith] and his faith is locked.

However, the promotion requirements for [Shining Ancient Dragon Follower] are quite strange; they are:

"Find your own path as a follower of the ancient dragons"

This really baffled Rose.

What does it mean that the faith we teach requires us to first find our own faith?

God's.

Rose plans to think about the promotion in the next couple of days and figure out what's going on.

However, although his faith is blocked and can only exert an equivalent of 40 points of faith, the correction of all his prayers is also only 40 points, so the impact is not significant.

Moreover, if he activates the [Materialism] state, his 41 faith will be transformed into 41 rationality without any hindrance.

The panel changes to:

Rationality: 41

Faith: 0

This way.

There will be no loss, therefore, rationally speaking, Rose is now a second-circle mage.

Another point is that he is currently unable to enhance his faith through meditation.

This means that if he doesn't get promoted and doesn't have any special methods, he'll be stuck at a certain level.

Although he only increased his faith by 1 point through meditation.

Rose suddenly thought of Tiana and Hans, wondering how they were doing now.

Tiana seemed a little unwell that day; I wonder if she's feeling better now.

Without them, Rose might have already turned into hero fragments or ashes and returned to nature.

With that in mind, he went to the store and spent 20 marks to buy some meat that was easy to preserve.

He thought of Tiana's lively appearance and bright, sparkling eyes.

He then spent another 10 marks to buy a small bag of candy.

He then prepared to go find Tiana.

He soon arrived at the archway, where he could faintly hear Hans's trembling, weary voice.

"Tiana...you must hold on..."

Rose frowned slightly and quickly walked to the entrance of the bridge arch.

He first saw Hans, who was exhausted and had bloodshot eyes.

Then I saw Tiana lying on the cardboard, covered with a tattered blanket, with a damp towel on her forehead.

Hans sensed someone enter, abruptly looked up, and stared intently at Rose.

His eyes were filled with vigilance, weariness, struggle, and...despair.

He recognized the newcomer as Rose, and the wariness in his eyes lessened somewhat. He bit his lip and said fiercely:

What are you doing here?

Rose held up the canned goods and candy in her hands and said:

"I recently made some money and bought some gifts to come and see you all."

I figured Tiana was growing a lot, so I bought some meat and candy on the way.

After hearing Rose's words, the wariness and ferocity in Hans's bloodshot eyes completely vanished.

All that remained was exhaustion and an inescapable despair.

Rose slowly approached, his gaze falling on Tiana lying on the cardboard.

Her eyes were tightly closed, her eyelashes trembled uneasily, her breathing was rapid and shallow, and her chest rose and fell.

His face was burning red, and his lips were so dry and cracked that a layer of white skin had peeled off.

Rose turned her gaze to Hans and asked:

"What's wrong with Tiana?"

Hans grabbed his messy hair and said:

Do you remember when we met a week ago this morning?

Rose nodded, at which point Tiana began to feel unwell.

Hans continued in his hoarse voice:

"After that day, Tiana's condition became increasingly strange."

My energy is getting worse every day; I suspect it's because of the recent drastic weather changes.

The sudden change in temperature made her catch a cold, and I said I would take her to the hospital to see a doctor, but she absolutely refused to go.

And so it dragged on until four days ago.

It was raining that morning, and she couldn't get up from the cardboard box; she had developed a high fever.