The most shameless alchemist in history

183, no eyes.

Du Lei suddenly sneezed out of the blue, which puzzled him. After all, he had grown up in the snow-capped mountains and was used to the harsh winds and snow. Such early spring weather would indeed be quite cold and biting for people from the south, and they would find it unbearable, but he did not feel that way.

Compared to the biting cold wind in the snow-capped mountains, this was nothing. Apart from a serious illness when he was a child, he had never been sick again. Besides, the gentle breeze was warming his face, making him feel quite comfortable. However, Du Lei was not concerned about such trivial matters as sneezing.

He hurried toward the location of Teaching Building No. 4. Winster had warned him before that he should not be late for the first class, or there would be serious consequences. Although he did not know the "Teacher Nono" that Winster mentioned, he did not think that Winster was the kind of person who would exaggerate.

Du Lei sprinted all the way and finally reached the entrance of the No. 4 teaching building before eight o'clock. He then sprinted up the stairs towards the classroom. Just as he reached the corridor on the second floor and was about to go up the corner stairs, he did not notice the figure in front of him.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch! Hey, don't you watch where you're going? You're so reckless, it hurts!" With a "bang," Du Lei bumped into someone walking from the other side. Du Lei, being thick-skinned, was unharmed, but he was backed against the wall and got a bruise.

But the other person plopped down on the ground. After a brief moment of surprise, Du Lei noticed that the other person was a girl who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old. The handouts she had been holding were now scattered on the ground. Du Lei had bumped into her for no reason, and she was very angry. She started yelling at him.

"I'm so sorry, I was in a hurry and didn't notice you, so I bumped into you. Are you alright?" Knowing he was in the wrong, Du Lei stepped forward and reached out to help her up, but she didn't appreciate it and slapped his hand away, so Du Lei had to pull his hand back.

"Do I look alright? Why are you running so fast?" The other person was very angry; she wasn't the kind of person who would let others bully her.

"I was on my way to class, but I was going to be late, so I rushed and I'm really sorry. It's my first time here, and I'm not familiar with the area. I bumped into you by accident, so please forgive me." Du Lei's attitude was still very sincere.

"Is this your first time here? Are you a freshman this year?" the person asked after scrutinizing Du Lei from head to toe.

"Yes, we're on our way to the fourth floor for our magic power class. I heard that the person who teaches us magic power is a very fierce female teacher. She hates it when someone is late, and if someone is late, she will torture them in the most cruel way, just like a witch in a story."

Dure nodded. Although Winster did not give these descriptions directly, from Winster's sympathetic eyes and between his lines, Dure could roughly guess the outline of the female teacher in his mind, which made him shudder.

The girl who was bumped into by Du Lei became quite upset after hearing the word "witch." Her face darkened, and she seemed on the verge of exploding, which puzzled Du Lei, who had no idea what was wrong with her.

"Oh no, I'm out of time. Sorry, I have to go, or I'll be in big trouble. Goodbye!" Du Lei looked at the clock in the hallway. It was already 7:59. There was only one minute left before class. He didn't have time to linger here any longer. He immediately said goodbye to the girl and ran upstairs.

Meanwhile, inside the classroom, Lance was caught in a violent struggle. Dure's delayed appearance, coupled with his absence all night, led Lance to imagine the worst. In Lance's eyes, Dure had definitely been framed; otherwise, why hadn't he shown up for so long?

"No, as Dure's best friend, I can't just sit idly by any longer. What's the point of attending class? I'm going to avenge Dure right now!" Lance made up his mind to skip class. He got up and was about to walk towards the classroom door when someone just walked in from outside.

"This is the Magic Energy Research Class, I've finally made it! Great! The teacher hasn't arrived yet, so I'll sit in Ellens's seat." Dure rushed to the classroom door and scanned his surroundings. There were about twenty students sitting in the classroom.

"Durey, it's you! That's great! You've finally shown up. If you hadn't, I would have gone to avenge you." Lance was overjoyed to see Durey and immediately invited him to sit down next to him. He had always reserved the seat for Durey.

"Thank goodness I wasn't late, I'm exhausted. By the way, what did you say earlier, revenge?" Du Lei breathed a sigh of relief after sitting down next to Lance. The teacher hadn't appeared yet, so he took the opportunity to ask Lance what he had just said.

"Ah, well, it's nothing, I didn't say anything. Anyway, it's good that you're alright. Where did you go last night? Why didn't you come back all night?" Lance quickly waved his hand. He couldn't very well tell Dure that he mistakenly thought something had happened to Dure and was going to avenge him.

He immediately changed the subject, and he was indeed puzzled by Du Lei's absence all night yesterday.

"I was in the library all night, so I didn't come back. As expected of Maple Leaf Academy, you can find all kinds of books in the library. There are so many books, it's going to be a huge undertaking for me to read them all." Du Lei yawned, looking a little tired.

However, he was very happy. In the hot spring village, he could spend ten days or half a month reading just a few tattered, yellowed parchment scrolls, let alone the academy's library, which was a huge treasure trove to him.

"Books are boring and tedious, what's so interesting about them? You really can get into reading, Dure. If you ask me, the training ground is the best place. I made a lot of friends there yesterday, I'll introduce you to them another day." Lance wasn't the type to get into books, he was only interested in sports.

"Books are things that carry the legacy of history. They embody the thoughts and efforts of the authors. The experience that predecessors have spent their entire lives summarizing is condensed into a book. Reading a book is like that," Dure shared his reading experience with Lance.

"Stop, stop, Dure, all that stuff gives me a headache." Lance quickly made a pause gesture.

"Okay, then I won't say anything. But it's already 8:02. Why hasn't the teacher shown up yet? Didn't she say she values ​​time the most?" Du Lei looked at the wall clock. Clocks are rare in other places.

However, he often saw this at Maple Leaf Academy, which puzzled him. Teacher Nuonuo didn't seem to be very punctual.

184 Teacher Nuonuo

Dure once suspected that Winster had given him the wrong information. According to Winster, Nono, the teacher who would be teaching them magic, was a very punctual person who would never allow anyone to be late, otherwise the consequences would be dire.

Knowing this, Du Lei rushed over, bumping into someone along the way. He still felt bad about it, because he was in a hurry and hadn't properly apologized to the other person. But now it seems that's not the case.

Three minutes had passed, and Ms. Nono, who should have appeared, still hadn't come to the podium. Instead, a girl carrying a folder of lecture notes slowly walked into the classroom. Du Lei was quite surprised when he saw her, because this girl was the same one he had bumped into in the hallway a few minutes earlier.

"Durex. What's going on with that teacher? Why hasn't she come yet? Could she have overslept?" Lance had been sitting for a while and was a little confused when he saw that there was still no movement. He immediately asked Durex, who was sitting next to him. In his opinion, Durex was an omniscient being who knew everything.

"I don't know either. Maybe something happened that delayed things. Ms. Winster doesn't seem like the type to play pranks. What could this be...? Huh? Is she... in our class? How embarrassing. I never expected to be in the same class as her." Du Lei was somewhat surprised to see the girl walk into the classroom.

"She's quite a cute girl, isn't she? Dure, do you know her?" Lance nudged Dure with his elbow and asked with a smile.

"I wouldn't say we know each other, it was just a little accident. I'm so sorry about what happened earlier, classmate. I apologize again..." Dure was explaining to Lance when he noticed the girl entering the classroom. After glancing at him, she walked straight towards him.

"Your name is... Du Lei, right? Very good, very good." The young lady's face was stern. She looked at the nameplate in front of Du Lei, which had Du Lei's name on it. She memorized Du Lei's name and said "very good" twice in a row. The atmosphere was tense, which made Du Lei tremble with fear.

"What's so great? Oh right, it seems there are no empty seats. Everyone from our class is here. Which class are you in? Did you come to the wrong class?" Lance, listening from the side, was completely confused. He didn't know about the conflict between Dure and the girl in front of him, and simply assumed she was a student who had come to the wrong class.

"Did I go to the wrong place? I didn't go to the wrong place." The young man replied with a sullen face, his smile a typical forced one.

"You didn't go to the wrong place? But there are no empty seats in the classroom. If you didn't go to the wrong place, then someone else must have gone to the wrong place... Hey, Dure, why are you pulling me?" Lance became more and more suspicious. Just as he was about to say something, Dure tugged at him from the side.

“You grumpy old witch… I’ll remember you, Du Lei. Let’s start class. Class, I’m the teacher for the Magic Energy Class. You can call me Teacher Nuonuo. Now, please open your books…” The girl turned and walked to the podium, revealing her identity.

"Huh? She's actually our teacher? No way, she looks about our age. Is she really our teacher? Could there be some mistake? And what about that grumpy old witch? Dure, do you know what she's talking about? Hey, Dure, why do you look so pale?"

Lance was startled by Teacher Nono. In his mind, teachers were all middle-aged people who were proper and conventional. Even if there were one or two young ones, they were few in number. Charlotte was the standard image of a teacher. But the girl in front of him was youthful and cute, more than enough to be the class beauty.

"N-nothing." Du Lei waved his hand. Although he said that, his face was getting worse and worse, and cold sweat was dripping down his forehead. As his first lesson at Maple Leaf Academy, he would probably have to spend it in fear.

Meanwhile, on the back mountain of Maple Leaf Academy, someone was strolling leisurely forward. It was a man, about 1.8 meters tall, with a slender build. He was wearing a red bodysuit, and although he was male, he had a somewhat alluring air about him.

"Halt! This is a restricted area of ​​the academy. No entry is permitted. Who are you?" Just as the man was about to continue forward, several students in academy uniforms suddenly appeared nearby. They were patrolling the area and had come after hearing about suspicious activity.

"Is it closed to traffic? That's a real shame. I really wanted to go in and have a look around. Can't you make an exception?" The other person seemed a little disappointed.

"This forbidden area is not a tourist attraction; you can't just walk in whenever you want. Leave immediately!" The tall male student in charge issued the order to leave.

"Why are you so nervous? I didn't even want to watch anymore, but your reaction... I'm getting more and more curious." The man licked his lips, his whole demeanor gloomy, his voice sarcastic and unpredictable.

“Didn’t you understand when I told you to leave? You’re acting suspiciously and you’ve set your sights on the forbidden area… You must have something on your mind. I think you’d better not leave and come with us…” The leading student observed carefully and found that the other person didn’t seem like a lost person.

The other party was clearly aiming for the forbidden area. After his reprimands failed, he decided to take the suspicious person in for questioning.

"Watch out!" Before the student in the lead could finish speaking, his companion sensed something was wrong and immediately warned him.

"Too slow, too slow! You're all moving too slowly! You won't let me in, so I'll have to go see for myself." The man's eyes sharpened, and he flicked his wrist, revealing a playing card between his fingers. He then swung the card around and swept it across the room.

The students around them were no ordinary people. Sensing the approaching danger, they all prepared to fight back, but the man's figure only flashed in front of them before disappearing. Of course, he didn't really disappear; he simply appeared in their blind spot, behind them.

He still held a deck of paper playing cards in his hand, cards that even an ordinary child could easily tear in half. But now, there was blood on the edges of the cards, and several students from the academy he had left behind fell to the ground one after another, their blood splattering everywhere.

"What exactly is hidden here... and what is this so-called great moment... it's really intriguing." After saying something strange, the man put away the playing cards and entered the sealed-off back mountain of the academy.

Just after his figure disappeared, the student who was leading the group of students who had fallen to the ground struggled to his feet from the pool of blood. He took out a small piece of crystal from his pocket, about the size of a fingernail, raised it high, and crushed it.

After doing this, he collapsed with a thud and never got up again.

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185 will give you extra lessons.

Before this class, Du Lei had high expectations for his first lesson at Maple Leaf Academy. He had made life plans early on while he was still in Hot Spring Village, and magical energy training at Maple Leaf Academy was an important part of that.

In fact, after leaving the hot spring village, he did follow this path, but there were many twists and turns along the way. Compared to the energetic first class he had imagined, he had just endured a torturous lesson. It wasn't that he didn't want to attend class properly.

But he always felt that Nono, the magic power teacher, was staring at him with a sinister gaze, making him feel like he was being pricked by needles. He didn't know if it was just his imagination, but Nono seemed to be targeting him with almost every word she said, repeatedly calling out, "Du Lei, please answer this question."

Even Lance was puzzled as to why Teacher Nono was taking such "care" of Dure. The short two-hour lesson felt longer to Dure than three days and three nights he spent squatting in the snow for hunting. He only breathed a sigh of relief when the bell rang.

"Durey, what's wrong with you? You've been acting strange ever since I saw you this morning. Your face is as white as a sheet. Are you sick?" Lance was packing up to leave the classroom when he noticed Durey's unusual behavior and asked him again with concern.

"No, it's okay, let's go quickly, I still have to go to the library." Du Lei waved his hand to indicate that he was fine. Pushing Lance, he just wanted to leave this suffocating place as soon as possible. The other students left the classroom in twos and threes, and he and Lance followed behind the crowd, intending to sneak out.

"Du Lei, wait a minute." Just as Du Lei was about to leave the classroom, someone called out to him from behind. The voice was melodious and pleasant, clearly belonging to a lively and lovely girl. If you were approached by such a voice on the street, it would definitely be a very happy thing.

However, for Du Lei at this moment, his heart skipped a beat, his body stiffened abruptly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Durey, what's wrong? Teacher Nono is calling you. Hey, Durey?" Lance was really puzzled by Durey's reaction. He patted Durey on the shoulder to remind him, assuming he hadn't heard him.

"It's okay, let's go!" Du Lei made a quick decision, choosing to ignore Teacher Nuonuo and rushing forward, trying to get away with it.

"Du Lei, the teacher is calling you. How can you pretend you didn't hear me? Even if you manage to escape from the classroom, the teacher can still catch you at the dormitory entrance." Behind Du Lei, Nono, the magic energy instructor, said with a forced smile.

"Huh? Um... Teacher, are you calling me? I'm sorry, I didn't hear you just now. Is there anything you need me to do?" Du Lei realized that Nuonuo was deliberately trying to pick a fight with him. She might actually do something like waiting for someone in the boys' dormitory.

Rather than being stared at and laughed at in front of everyone, now that all the other students in the classroom had left, leaving only him, Lance, and Nono, he could only awkwardly turn his head away, trying to fool them by pretending he hadn't heard anything.

"I wouldn't dare to order you around, I just want to give you a little 'tutoring'." Nono deliberately emphasized the word "tutoring," and if you looked closely, you could tell that she was practically spitting it out through gritted teeth. However, her cute appearance was enough to cover up a lot of things, such as her murderous aura.

"Oh, extra lessons? Is this the legendary special treatment for top students? No wonder it's Dure, getting the teacher's favor in just the first lesson, that's pretty good, hehe." Lance nudged Dure with his elbow, looking pleased for him.

"Um... I seem to have something to do and don't have much time, so Teacher Nono..." Du Lei made an excuse to slip away. He wasn't as clueless as Lance; he knew that Nono looking for him was definitely not for anything good, and he felt quite guilty.

"Dure, what else could you possibly want? This kind of treatment is something many people would envy." Lance thought Dure was simply wasting his talents and seriously criticized him.

“That’s right, so Dure, you’d better come with the teacher. Lance, you can go back now. This is a secret tutoring session, no one else needs to be there.” Nono came over with a smile, grabbed Dure’s collar, and was about to drag him away, while gesturing for Lance to leave.

"I understand, I understand, hahaha, Du Lei, I'm off to the training ground now. You go and get some extra lessons with Teacher Nuonuo. Goodbye." Lance waved and walked out of the classroom. For him, the training ground was indeed the most interesting place.

"This is such a terrible teammate! Do you know I'm going to die a horrible death?" Du Lei lamented. He had been desperately trying to signal Lance, but the latter not only ignored him but also pushed him toward Nono.

"Finally, we've gotten rid of that pesky guy. So, Du Lei... let's go to the office for a proper 'catch-up lesson'." Nono, with a forced smile, dragged Du Lei towards the office. Du Lei could completely foresee the miserable fate that awaited him.

Meanwhile, on the back mountain of Maple Leaf Academy, students dressed in white with gold trim hurried over. They were very fast, leaping and bounding among the trees. In a flash, a white shadow appeared, and the distance of several dozen meters was instantly closed. The first to land was a male student who was less than 1.6 meters tall.

"Flying Fish, how's the situation? These people..." A tall woman who had caught up from behind asked her companion in front.

She looked around and saw a mess on the ground, with seven or eight students in the same uniforms lying on the ground, covered in blood.

“They’re all dead. Except for Hubble, they were all killed instantly.” The short boy, known as Flying Fish, examined the wounds of the fallen men and gave his assessment.

"What about Hubble? He's the one who crushed the communication crystal and that's how we got here. He should be..." The woman still held onto a sliver of hope.

“Hubble is dead too.” Flying Fish shook his head, giving a negative answer.

"How could this be? He was still communicating with us. Why couldn't he have waited a little longer?" The woman looked bewildered, somewhat unable to believe it.

"The other party deliberately avoided fatal wounds... To be precise, he left a continuously tearing gash during the attack, allowing Hubble to live a little longer. Once Hubble crushed the communication crystal, the wound tore to its limit, and Hubble died as well," Fei Liu explained solemnly.

"But why would he do that? Isn't he deliberately waiting for Hubble to notify us?" A companion behind Flying Fish asked in confusion. He was a boy with blond hair and a baby face.

"This is what you call provocation, damn it! How dare they kill someone so brazenly in our Maple Leaf Academy! They have no respect for us at all! He must be inside, let's chase him!" Fei Yu clenched his fist, slammed it heavily on the ground, and then stared angrily at the dense forest ahead.

"That's forbidden area ahead. We can't go in without permission. Hey, Flying Fish, at least wait a bit," Babyface reminded his companion, but the latter ignored him and dashed in.

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186 Please continue.

Recalling what he had said that morning, Du Lei wanted to slap himself twice. Why did he have to say the word "witch"? Now that he had provoked Teacher Nuonuo, not only would he not have a good time in the future, but he probably wouldn't even be able to get through this current ordeal.