The most shameless alchemist in history

But just as Lance left, he suddenly saw figures flashing ahead, one of whom looked quite familiar.

"There's an assassin named Lance, be careful!" Dure shouted a warning. In just over ten seconds, he was already struggling to keep up. It was obvious that the other side was well-trained and could not be done by just a few thugs on the street.

"Durey, what did you do to kill him? What are you guys trying to do?" Lance recognized the familiar face ahead as none other than Durey. Seeing Durey being surrounded, he immediately went to his aid, but even with him, the two were still chased and forced to flee in panic.

"What's going on? There's such a commotion here, and we're all shouting so loudly. Why isn't anyone coming over? If this continues, we're both going to be doomed. By the way, Lance, do you know what kind of building this is?" Du Lei rolled on the spot, barely dodging the deadly slash that came his way.

Lance's appearance did not make him feel at ease, because the opponent's strength even surpassed Lance's. Lance tried to fight back, but also suffered from poor coordination. Dure knew very well that if he did nothing, their situation would be even worse.

"This area seems to be the girls' dormitory," Lance thought for a moment, then gave his answer while dodging.

"I know about the girls' dormitory, I have a plan." In the brief moment of catching his breath, Du Lei was stabbed in the arm, and blood flowed freely.

The enemy formed a sword formation and advanced step by step. Without a doubt, if this situation continued for another minute or two, they would be finished.

"Durey, what's your plan?" Lance was confused about what Durey was planning to do.

"There's a pervert! Someone's stealing underwear!" Du Lei shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Ha!" Lance was completely stunned, not knowing what Dure was up to. Not only him, but even the assassin stopped for a moment.

However, this brief stalemate did not last long, because soon a sharp scream pierced the night sky, and from that point on, a chain reaction broke out one after another, with screams and shouts of killing accompanying each other, as if even the air itself was trembling.

"Sisters, grab your weapons and let's go! That underwear thief has appeared! Let's all move out together and not let him get away!"

"We absolutely cannot let him go easily once we catch him. We must castrate him and make him pay with his life along with the four pairs of underwear that were stolen from me last week."

"There are shadowy figures over there. Let's all attack together; they deserve to be killed."

Amidst shouts of killing, a large number of footsteps surged forward. Such commotion, along with the overwhelming killing intent, was enough to send shivers down one's spine. Lance was still dazed and didn't realize what was happening, but the assassins who were slow to react knew that the mission had failed and hurriedly left.

"Dudure, what's going on? Why did they leave? And what's that over there?" Lance was still confused.

"Are they going to stay here and get beaten up instead of leaving? As for the other side, I think you should be prepared." Du Lei covered his still bleeding arm and smiled bitterly. Although the killers who wanted them dead had escaped, another group of even more ferocious guys who wanted them dead had already arrived.

"Does that mean we're safe for now?" Lance naively thought the matter was over and that he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

As for the result...

The streets outside Maple Leaf Academy were quiet after nightfall. After all, it wasn't business time, and all the shops were closed. Only a few houses still had their lights on, and some shops had a clanging sound coming from them—the sound of blacksmiths striking metal.

The only place where you can hear the sound of hammering is a blacksmith's shop.

In fact, at this moment, inside the blacksmith's shop, a dark-skinned, stocky middle-aged man who looked honest and kind was hammering away. Sparks occasionally flew out of the furnace, and the room was very hot.

"Sister Elune is so kind. She knew that Brother Dure was in trouble, so she took the initiative to help him. But can this really solve the problem?" A little girl who looked to be only ten years old was sitting next to the blacksmith, chin in hand and toes swinging as she spoke.

"That can only temporarily suppress the problem, but it can't solve it at all. I could tell from the first moment I saw him that his crystal bottle was problematic, full of cracks. No matter how big his crystal bottle was, it was destined to be a leaky thing."

The blacksmith talked as he hammered away, wiping the sweat from his brow from time to time. He was already drenched in sweat from the heat of the furnace.

"How could this be? Is it that serious? Then why don't you help Brother Du Lei take care of us?" the little girl asked the blacksmith earnestly.

“Silly girl, I have no relation to him and we're not even close. Why would I help him? Don't stare at me like that. I haven't finished speaking yet. Even if I wanted to help him, this situation is very rare and serious. I'm not a doctor or an alchemist; I can't solve it.”

While complaining, the blacksmith noticed the dissatisfaction in his beloved daughter's eyes and quickly changed his tune, but the changed tune was not a good answer either.

“You’ve always been bragging about how great you are, so why can’t you do anything now?” The little girl wasn’t buying it.

"Sherry," the blacksmith said with a wry smile, "this trade is like a mountain to climb. I'm a blacksmith. I can forge divine weapons without a second thought, but I can't treat patients either." He shook his head helplessly.

"Even you can't do anything about it?" The little girl knew when her father was joking and when he was serious. What he said now clearly belonged to the latter, which made her feel disappointed.

"Well, there are ways, but not entirely none, at least not here. And what's going on at Maple Leaf Academy?" Just as the blacksmith was about to say something, he suddenly noticed the direction of Maple Leaf Academy and looked out the window.

"What? What happened?" The little girl didn't understand what he was talking about.

"It looks like things will get turbulent at the academy again tonight." The blacksmith shook his head and didn't continue.

There have been more and more things happening lately.

277 The Underwear Thief

The assassins who suddenly appeared disappeared after hearing the shouts. Lance thought they had escaped a desperate situation and finally got through one. He knew very well that if they continued to fight the assassins, he and Dure would definitely suffer a great loss and might even encounter the worst situation.

But what happened next proved that he was still too young. After sending away the assassin, they encountered an even more terrifying enemy, or rather, a much larger group of enemies. Mistaken for underwear thieves, they were surrounded by indignant girls.

There wasn't even time for an explanation before they were subjected to the girls' wrath. If it weren't for the student council members risking their lives to pull them out, they probably would have died there, if not at the hands of the assassins.

"Hey, Du Lei, I never expected you to have such a hobby. It's really surprising." In the student council office, a short male student recognized Du Lei and carefully looked him up and down, marveling at him.

"Hey Flying Fish, stop teasing me. How could I do something like this? Luckily you guys arrived quickly, otherwise Lance and I would have been beaten to death as underwear thieves." Du Lei seemed to have a good relationship with this short guy, and he directly mentioned his name.

"It was terrifying, those women were absolutely terrifying. I didn't do anything, and they just rushed at me like that." On the other side of the office, Lance's face was still deathly pale. He kept repeating the word "terrifying," and there was no doubt that the scene he had just witnessed had greatly shocked him.

"What's wrong with your friend? Why is he like this all the time? Should we call a doctor for him?" Flying Fish was worried when he saw Lance's appearance. After giving Lance a sympathetic look, he turned to ask Dure for his opinion, because Dure knew the most about Lance's situation and had the most say in it.

"Don't worry about him. He's just experienced a major setback in his life. I believe he'll recover soon." Dure could completely understand Lance's feelings. A boy who had never even held a girl's hand was being chased and beaten by hundreds of girls. The trauma was immense.

Just as Du Lei and Fei Yu were talking, someone suddenly burst into the office, which startled them.

"Nono, what brings you here?" Du Lei recognized the person who came and wondered why she was here.

"You're asking me what happened? When did you become an underwear thief?" Nono rushed forward, grabbed Du Lei by the collar, and slammed him against the wall. She looked extremely fierce, and Fei Yu and the others were stunned for a moment.

"No, no, that's not true, Nuonuo, you've misunderstood me, I'm innocent!" Du Lei quickly waved his hands to explain.

"Explain yourself clearly, what exactly happened?" Nono rushed over angrily as soon as she received the news. At first, she was also a little suspicious, but after venting her anger and seeing Du Lei's innocent eyes, she finally calmed down and asked for the details.

"Here's what happened," Du Lei recounted the entire incident to Nono and the others.

Meanwhile, on the back mountain of the academy, several figures arrived at a small hill after a series of flashes. From this vantage point, they could overlook most of the academy's interior and see that a dozen or so flames suddenly appeared and moved rapidly within the previously peaceful academy.

This is someone chasing after someone with torches, and the number of torches increasing.

"Damn it, we were about to take that guy down, but he pulled this stunt at the crucial moment." Among the group of people dressed in black bodysuits and with masks covering their faces, the leader was a slender man. He turned to look at the academy, recalling the scene just now.

He was especially furious when he recalled the scene of that guy yelling and shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Boss, what do we do now?" a burly man asked cautiously. Although he was significantly larger, he was the type of person who always took the lead in the team, while the core of the team was always held by those with brains and strength.

"What else can we do? We're an organization with a 100% success rate in assassinations. Since we've taken the money, we have to do the job. If we fail here, what will happen to our reputation? Besides, besides taking money to solve problems, we have another reason why we absolutely have to eliminate them."

"What reason?" The big man didn't quite understand the leader's words.

"They're lingerie thieves! How dare they steal the intimate clothing of innocent girls! Such a crime is unforgivable! They must be torn to pieces!" the leader shouted furiously, particularly enraged by this.

The "Underwear Thief" gang of assassins looked at each other, momentarily at a loss for words.

In the student council office at Maple Leaf Academy, Du Lei finally explained the situation to Nono and the others.

"You mean someone infiltrated Maple Leaf Academy to kill you?" Nono looked at Du Lei with suspicion.

"That's pretty much it. So I shouted that just to protect myself. You know it's near the girls' dormitory. If I shouted something like 'murder!' or 'there's an assassin,' they wouldn't pay any attention. But if I shouted 'underwear thief,' they would react a lot, and that's how we were saved," Du Lei explained in detail.

"So that's how it is. It's great that you didn't fall into becoming an underwear thief." Nono finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ha, so that's what you're worried about? Shouldn't you be concerned about whether I'm hurt or something?" Du Lei was taken aback. Nono's perspective on the issue was truly unique.

"You're perfectly fine, aren't you? You don't have a broken leg or missing an arm, and you speak clearly and logically, which means your mind is fine. Why would I care about you?" Nuonuo said in a matter-of-fact manner.

“What you’ve said makes a lot of sense,” Du Lei said, lost in thought.

“However, the fact that assassins have infiltrated the academy is a serious lapse on our part. We have already mobilized manpower to search for them, and we believe we will have results soon. In just one month, all sorts of things have happened one after another, and…” Flying Fish frowned.

He connected the dots of recent events, which gave him a bad feeling.

"And what?" Du Lei asked casually.

"And why do I seem to see you everywhere? Are you a jinx? Wherever bad luck happens, you're there too," Flying Fish said irritably.

The Most Shameless Alchemist in History (Main Text)

278. Poor memory.

Although Flying Fish patted his chest and guaranteed that anyone who dared to cause trouble at Maple Leaf Academy would not escape his grasp, a whole night passed and there was still no result. In fact, this was something Du Lei had expected, because there had been far too many things happening at Maple Leaf Academy recently.

The fire that occurred more than half a month ago still hasn't been fully investigated, and the academy is keeping quiet about it. It's clear that in the face of such a terrible situation, the fact that Du Lei was almost killed has been temporarily put aside, and the academy is only focusing its efforts on investigating it.

As for Du Lei himself, besides being more careful and vigilant about this matter, his most urgent task now is to prepare for the level assessment the next day, which is crucial to whether he can stay at Maple Leaf Academy and cannot be taken lightly.

Given his previous serious truancy, even though every second counts for Du Lei, he must stay obediently in the classroom. Otherwise, not only will he not get another chance for a grade assessment, but if he continues to skip classes, he will be completely deprived of this opportunity as well.

Nono had solemnly declared this point. Although she wanted to give Du Lei a two-day break so he could think of a way to pass the level assessment, Charlotte was very vigilant about it and came to the classroom to check on him many times, just to make sure that Du Lei was actually in class.

This infuriated Nono, but she was helpless against Charlotte's actions. The day's classes passed in this way, and it wasn't until the end of get out of class that Dure hurriedly rushed out of the classroom. Although Elune had helped him solve one problem, he still had another problem to solve.

Just as he left the teaching building and was in the alley around the corner, someone blocked his way. There were seven or eight people blocking his way, all two or three years older than Du Lei and tall. When Du Lei saw them blocking the alley entrance, he knew they were up to no good and instinctively turned around and left.

"Hey, buddy, what's up? Trying to leave? You didn't even say hello to your senior, just turned around and walked away. That's really rude." As Du Lei turned to leave, the entrance to the alley he came from was blocked by someone he didn't recognize, leaving him completely bewildered.

But among the three or four people blocking his retreat behind him, the leader looked somewhat familiar to him; he had clearly seen him before.

"Are you... Senior Sido?" Dure recognized the guy with the missing front tooth as Sido, the senior student he had a minor altercation with in the cafeteria more than half a month ago. At that time, Sido was blackmailing Lillian, and Dure, having met Lillian once before, helped her out of the predicament.

However, the consequence of his rescue was that he became the target of Sido's blackmail. He thought a conflict was inevitable, but then the kind and gentle senior Ruth appeared and forced Sido and his gang to retreat. Dure thought that this matter had come to an end.

But to his surprise, almost a month has passed, and Sido has brought people to block him again, which is giving him quite a headache.

"Looks like your memory isn't too bad. You still remember me, Boss Simon? That's him, the one who ruined our plans before." Sido revealed his signature missing front tooth, his eyes sinister. A moment later, he shouted loudly at the leader of the group blocking Dure's path.

"Simon... is that the name of the leader of that delinquent gang that extorts students from the upperclassmen?" Dure frowned. He had heard Lance talk about some things within the academy before. Although Maple Leaf Academy was a legitimate magic energy research academy with a high reputation in the Snow Country.

However, every place has its strong and weak, and the direct consequence of this is bullying. Maple Leaf Academy is no exception. Simon is the type who acts recklessly because he has some ability. To be fair, Du Lei doesn't want to provoke him at all.

"Your name is Dure, right?" Compared to Sido's short, fat, and sleazy appearance with missing front teeth, Simon was undoubtedly much taller. He was at least 1.85 meters tall, strong, and as burly as a bear. Just standing there, he exuded a sense of muscular pressure.

“Yes, senior Simon, my name is Dure.” Dure knew that the visitors were up to no good. This alley was very secluded, and he had taken this shortcut to save time, but he did not expect to be blocked by Simon and his gang. Obviously, they had been watching him from the beginning.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have appeared in the alley so quickly and blocked his way; the timing was too perfect.

"I've heard some things about you. You had a red magic energy reaction aptitude in the freshman test and were one of the five most promising people... Kid, you've got potential." Simon revealed his white teeth, and compared to the comical sight of Sido's missing front teeth, his smile was even more sinister.

"Du Lei, why did you run so fast after class? You disappeared in a flash. I know you were in a hurry, but... hey? Who are you people?" Just as Du Lei was trying to figure out how to answer Simon's question, someone ran over from the entrance of the alley.

Sido and the others who were blocking the entrance made way, letting that guy break through. Lance was undoubtedly the one who cared so much about Dure's matter.

"Lance? What brings you here?" Dure was taken aback. The situation was already precarious, and he had to be extremely careful. But now, this reckless guy, Lance, had barged in, adding many unpredictable twists and turns to the situation.

"Of course I came here because I was worried about you, to discuss things with you. Even if I can't come up with any ideas, I can at least help you. What's going on here? These people... why do they seem a bit unfriendly?" Lance didn't have Durei's insight, and he looked around in confusion.

He was already quite tall, nearly 1.8 meters, and at his age, reaching 1.85 meters wouldn't be difficult. However, his physique was still far inferior to Simon's. Simon focused his attention on the intruder, his eyes filled with provocation.