Magic High School.

Oh no, I forgot to take a picture, otherwise I could have kept this embarrassing moment in my life!

Li Ge secretly regretted it.

As the exam ended, the other candidates gradually came out and calmed down. They then reviewed some of the strange things that happened during the exam. They also realized that Zero was actually the exam setter, Professor Abaddon.

Perhaps so. That was his own story, and now he's telling it to everyone.

Li Ge remained silent, then let out a long sigh.

The group left the examination hall, and then they saw Daphne, the fairy who looked like a morning glory, again.

However, unlike her previous haughty and aloof demeanor, this time she looked quite resentful, glanced in this direction, and left without saying a word.

"Tsk, we haven't settled the score with her for tricking us yet," Yi Lian said. He remembered that the reason they were separated was because of this person's dirty trick, which caused him and Li Ge to be separated.

"Never mind her, let's go."

Soon after, the system released the scores, and as expected, their scores were all quite high this time.

Li Ge scored 96 points, while Yi Lian, Xiao Ye, and Valerie all scored 95 points. Li Ge's extra point was most likely earned by pretending to be Tang and sneaking into the confessional; otherwise, he should also have scored 95. As for them looking at the other people's scores…

“Hey, Li Ge, this time that Mishair’s score is actually higher than yours,” Valerie suddenly said.

"Huh?" Li Ge looked at it in confusion, then rolled her eyes.

Mishail, 96 points, exactly the same as him, tied for first place. But it's unclear how they were ranked; Mishail is above Li Ge, so Valerie probably only saw the ranking and didn't look at the scores carefully.

“Uh, I think I misread it… Oh, it’s the same as you…” Valerie laughed, then said, “Where’s that fairy? That arrogant one, shouldn’t she have escaped long ago? Why didn’t I see her up ahead?”

Then I turned the page and saw Daphne on the next page, in sixth place with 94 points.

"Tsk, I thought she was so strong, but she only got 94 points. How come our second seat has gotten so weak after just a few days?" she mocked.

After all, she had been mocked by that fairy before, and now that she had the chance, she was determined to mock her back. However, she couldn't see the fairy now.

"Her average score is still second, she's still in second place, but my ranking has actually gone up?" Yi Lian was very happy to see that she had also risen in the overall ranking.

As for Valerie and Sayo, their entrance exam scores were too low, so their rankings on the overall list were not ideal...

"Alright, alright, stop staring at the rankings. Let's have a meal and get some rest. I feel like I'm about to die from exhaustion..." Li Ge complained. Although her spiritual energy had fully recovered after returning to her sixteen-year-old self, the feeling of fatigue was something she couldn't shake off.

"Alright, by the way, what are your plans for this month's holiday?" Yilian asked.

“I think I’ll go back to my hometown,” Valerie spoke first. “By the way, don’t you ever go home?”

“Going home? Forget about it. You have no idea what kind of outrageous environment my hometown is. Seriously, not to mention me, my cousins ​​and the other elemental spirits don’t dare to set foot in the tribe of the mutated spirits.”

Yilian even started complaining about her family of origin...

"I might go back for a quick look, then come right back," Xiaoye said, then gently nudged Lige. "Want to go to Silverwing City together?"

"Huh? Me?" Li Ge pointed to herself and said, "Let's do it later, after the final exams, during the long holiday."

Li Ge was indeed exhausted. He was one of the few who persevered to the end with Yi Lian, but Yi Lian was a numerical monster; the stats of her mutated sprites allowed her to maintain a mental and physical strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, while Li Ge was simply numb.

He had originally planned to go and find Abaddon after learning that Zero was Abaddon, but now it seemed better to give up and rest for a day and go find Abaddon tomorrow.

Perhaps Li Ge understood Abaddon's intention.

Only those who rescued Zero and brought him to the mainland can see Zero's subsequent confession and learn that Zero is actually Abaddon.

Zero's final confession was actually the transmission of another form of domain cultivation method...

Li Ge wasn't sure if he had guessed correctly, but this was actually Abaddon showing others how a domain was cultivated in his own way.

Perhaps, it's also possible that they wanted more people to remember those two names: the hacker Charles, and the old Pope Saint-Halls...

Who knows?

Li Ge thought of a theory: if a person dies, but his name and epic are still passed down to future generations, he is equivalent to being immortal on another level, or even becoming a heroic spirit.

That's possible.

"Hey, Li Ge, hurry up!" Valerie called out from afar.

"Okay, okay, I'm coming!" Li Ge waved and followed her teammates.

Chapter 172 To that brat who has already achieved his dream

The next day, it was holiday time again.

Xiaoye and Valerie have probably gone home. Li Ge is probably thinking about the current state of Silverwing City, and those...

Oh no, I'm surrounded by Japanese girls!

Li Ge covered her forehead, trying to stop herself from thinking about these things.

Actually, if they were to come one by one, Li Ge could handle it with ease, but there's no way he'll get that chance.

Since things have come to this, Li Ge thought to himself, "I should focus on cultivating my cultivation realm first."

Li Ge pondered as he made his way to the mysterious academy.

It's worth mentioning that Li Ge's psionic level has increased again. With the cultivation of psionic enhancement and after this monthly exam, he, who had already entered the second tier before the midterm exam, has now reached the advanced second tier.

It even looks like it's about to advance to the third tier.

Li Ge wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that relying on hard work to cultivate spiritual energy was very slow. On the contrary, going on adventures and participating in real combat would improve his spiritual energy much faster.

For example, he clearly felt the key moments of his spiritual power improvement: first, when he saved Xiaoye; second, after he assisted Abaddon in dealing with the World Consciousness; and third, yesterday.

He slept soundly last night, but his experience bar increased significantly.

This only shows that improving psionic power is not just about slow grinding; there are many other methods, such as the one summarized by Li Ge... adventure!

Perhaps in the future, we can test this out to see if participating in more adventures will indeed increase psionic power faster.

It's important to know that the graduation requirement for magic high schools is to become a legendary-level magician, while the additional graduation requirement for the Noble Phantasm Department is to evolve one's Noble Phantasm into a genuine Noble Phantasm.

Now, Li Ge's Lion's Eye, due to the fusion of domains, has broken free from the clown mask and become an independent Noble Phantasm, thus fulfilling this requirement. Furthermore, with the current increase in his spiritual energy, he is about to become a third-tier, or what others call legendary.

It's almost legendary in less than half a year...

Even Li Ge herself felt it was unreal.

If you meet the graduation requirements ahead of schedule, you can continue to study at the school, graduate early, or even take on assignments from the executive department while studying at the school, so that you can do both without any problems.

Oh, and you can also take the "Civilization Investigator Certificate" exam, which is jokingly called the "Savior Certificate" on the forums. Only with this certificate can you freely travel to other worlds without being arrested by the Enforcement Department. Without the certificate, you need the Enforcement Department's approval to travel.

Becoming a civilization investigator is a common career path for many students graduating from magic high schools. Of course, many others return to their hometowns after graduation, and some even open schools there to share their knowledge with the people of their hometowns.

The school encourages these aspects.

In this respect, the school is very free. Li Ge even felt that it was a bit too free. As long as you don't do anything horrific or immoral after graduation, the school won't care.

Of course, many people also stayed at school.

For example, the senior students who went on missions in the Execution Department, the Medical Department, and even the dwarf wizard Aiger were all Li Ge's senior students.

Perhaps I wasn't wrong. Why do schools go to such lengths to put students through completely different adventures every time, even when there are simpler methods for taking exams? Perhaps it is precisely these kinds of adventures that are the fastest way to improve one's spiritual abilities.

“Let’s go ask Abaddon later and see if my guess is correct,” Li Ge said.

Then, he soon spotted Abaddon at the entrance of the Mystic Academy.

He was wearing the mental hospital gown. Only now did Li Ge realize that this mental hospital gown was different from the one he wore in the medical department's mental hospital. Perhaps it had been modified by Abaddon himself. This gown was actually more like the "holy robes" of those pure children.

However, this holy garment was meant for children, and now, on Abaddon, it looked inexplicably comical and ridiculous, much like a mental hospital uniform.

He laughed, went mad, and while dancing, he covered his monocle and shouted, "The truth of the world, I have revealed it! Hahaha!"

The other students studying mysticism around him scattered as if they'd seen flies. Even in the mystical academy, it seemed few people liked him or respected him; they all treated him like a lunatic.

Li Ge knew that Abaddon himself didn't teach classes; he almost never taught. He used to have some classes, but he canceled them because the number of students was too small and the results were unsatisfactory.

Not many people are willing to take his courses, and his teaching method is simple and crude, directly throwing people into the field.

Gradually, no one chose his classes anymore.

So to this day, he is the kind of professor who rarely teaches classes. Perhaps he will be in charge of some open courses or large lectures, or occasionally, children who want to learn a particular area will be temporarily placed under his care.

Then comes the development of the field, from beginner to expert, and from confident to giving up...

Therefore, Abbott was more like a purely academic professor. The university allowed him to research whatever he wanted, letting him tinker with his own things.

Occasionally, when it's time for him to use the domain, he'll drop what he's doing and go help out by opening a domain.

This was his life, the life of a professor who probably had no students before he arrived.

But Abaddon didn't care.

He seemed to quite enjoy the feeling of being the only one sober while everyone else was drunk, standing alone on a cloud.

Just like him now, he doesn't care about other people's opinions at all. He doesn't know what he has researched, and he is so unrestrained, like the Emperor of Burial, that he is immersed in his art and research, oblivious to the world.

Looking at Abaddon like this, Li Ge recalled Zero.

"I want to escape from here, I want to become the wisest of the wise, the greatest wise man!" the little boy said.

Li Ge didn't know how Zero escaped in real history.

He evaded the nuns' pursuit and the helicopter's strafing all by himself, and silently sailed away on that yacht towards the unknown distance...

Perhaps that's why he was able to master the field and become the person he dreamed of when he was young.

Zero's dream has been realized, hasn't it?

Perhaps now, Abaddon's status is even higher than that of the Great Sage in his original world?

“Teacher,” Li Ge said.

While everyone else was avoiding him like the plague, Li Ge slowly walked towards Abaddon and patted him on the shoulder.

"Huh?" Abaddon, dressed in a mental hospital gown, paused for a moment, seemingly only then noticing that Li Ge was actually right behind him.

"Let's go back to the lab. We should write down any inspirations or breakthroughs we come up with."

"Makes sense!"

Abaddon and Li Ge walked towards the laboratory, slowly entering the almost deserted corner of the lab amidst the barely concealed expressions of their fellow occult students.

Upon arriving here, Li Ge asked, "What have you figured out this time?"

He was very curious. Abaddon's research was all in the field. Had he made another breakthrough in his field? Or had he come up with some new ideas for the field?

"Hehehe, I should thank you for this! Do you know what the biggest problem in the field is?" Abaddon chuckled, his oversized mental hospital gown and the monocle he never took off, even when sleeping, made him look like a fool.