Magic High School.

The development of a domain is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and not everyone's domain is fully developed from the beginning.

For Xiaoye, she felt there was both good news and bad news in her field.

The good news is that her domain seems to be of the attachment type, able to attach to her own shadow and expand infinitely as the shadow expands.

The bad news is that, from this perspective, it seems that she did not truly control the expansion of the domain, but rather came up with a temporary workaround: to make the shadows the carriers of the domain, so that wherever the shadows spread, the environment there would be distorted and covered by her domain.

This situation made Li Ge scratch his head, and no matter how much he was asked, he could only reply, "I don't know."

How wide is the range that Xiaoye's shadow can control?

Li Ge asked this question.

After thinking for a moment, Xiaoye replied, "Under the sun on the plains, my shadow can only stretch for a maximum of twenty meters."

Li Ge: "..."

She's even younger than him...

This won't do; there must be a problem.

"But as long as there's any shadow as a carrier, my shadow can completely transform that shadow into an area under my control, and then extend it to the next shadow in a twenty-meter radius. If it's a scene with tall buildings and shadows everywhere, my limit..." Xiaoye paused for a moment, then estimated her limit.

"It's probably a few kilometers."

Li Ge: "..."

That's all!

Although this range of several kilometers is vague, it is the kind of range that can only be reached when there are shadows everywhere, and the distance between oneself and the shadow is no more than 20 meters, and the shadow of each relay cannot exceed 20 meters.

However, the conditions are not impossible to meet. In most cities, forests, or even mountains, these few kilometers are still easily met.

However, Li Ge still said, "Perhaps your domain is incomplete? I'll ask others about it later. But at least you've taken the first step in developing your domain, so it will probably be much faster later on."

Li Ge explained that he decided to visit Abaddon when he had time, since Abaddon was knowledgeable and should know what was going on, unlike Li Ge who had to guess everything.

However, Li Ge felt that Xiao Ye was now in a situation that the vice principal had mentioned, where the domain could only be attached to himself, and could only expand outward through his own abilities, rather than being in a state of unrestricted expansion centered on himself.

However, this is just one way to expand the field.

After the two left the training ground, they were about to return to their dormitory when they saw Valerie carrying a large bag of snacks and eating non-stop. Her mouth was full of crumbs, but she was still eating voraciously, for some reason.

What's even stranger is that there are already enough trash bags to fill an entire trash can around her, which shows that she has eaten a lot, but her stomach hasn't changed much. It's also possible that the armor is covering her too tightly.

"What's going on with you?" Li Ge asked directly.

"I don't know why, but I'm really hungry today. I can't seem to get full no matter what I eat. I just ate a whole table of food in the cafeteria, but I'm still a little hungry..." Valerie said, taking a big gulp of sweet syrup before continuing to show off the cake in her hand.

She treated these sugar and fat bombs like snacks, eating them one after another. Li Ge looked into the bag and thought, "Goodness, I probably bought about ten pounds of these cakes."

Li Ge also casually took a cake, then saw Xiao Ye, looked at the cake in her hand, and said, "This one is for you."

"Mmm." Xiaoye took the cake, her eyes narrowed like a Shiba Inu's. Li Ge knew that she must be smiling happily behind her mask.

Just as Li Ge was about to take the second cake to try for herself, Valerie suddenly slapped her hand, and then she saw Valerie breathing heavily as if she were guarding her food.

"Tsk, stingy." Li Ge clicked her tongue.

"I'm so stingy with you!"

After some bickering, Li Ge still suggested, "Could it be that you've caught some kind of disease? Like some kind of parasite that keeps sucking your nutrients, which is why you're always so hungry."

“If you can’t speak properly, then don’t speak at all. What kind of parasite can survive inside me? I really need to take a good look. My body is a furnace of psionic reactions!” Valerie said, continuing to gnaw on a large steak.

She wasn't exaggerating. For her, the spiritual energy within her body seemed to be very active. Although the total amount was hard to say, the level of spiritual energy activity was higher. In other words, her natural mana regeneration was faster than others.

Although faster mana regeneration doesn't seem to significantly improve combat power.

Therefore, every single spiritual particle in her body is in an extremely active state. Under such circumstances, what parasite could possibly survive? She can only conclude that this parasite is the real boss.

“But your situation is clearly abnormal, you should make time to go see a doctor,” Li Ge still complained.

What normal person could eat more than their own body weight in one meal, especially all of these energy-bomb-level foods? I even ate at the cafeteria once before. The cafeteria food was like pig swill, but it was absolutely top-notch in terms of nutrition and energy.

"I don't know, but I'll eat for a while first. I feel like I'll be fine once I'm full..." Valerie continued to nibble on the cake. Li Ge even felt that she wasn't chewing at all, just taking a bite and swallowing it directly.

It's like Pigsy eating ginseng fruit.

"You..." Li Ge was speechless.

So, the group went from two to three. Valerie continued eating as she walked, and she even released her pony, which flew behind her while struggling to carry the snack bag in its mouth.

Li Ge also saw the middle-aged woman who had asked for directions earlier, but this time she didn't see Li Ge and seemed a little down.

"Beep, please go to the Execution Department." Suddenly, a message from the Execution Department came through the system on my hand.

Then, Li Ge discovered that Xiao Ye and Valerie had also received similar messages.

"It seems the Execution Department gave us the task," Xiaoye said.

“Yes, let’s go take a look,” Li Ge said, and strode towards the Execution Department.

The Executive Department remains extremely busy, seemingly with endless tasks, countless assignments, and senior members who are always working like dogs.

Li Ge thought, should we establish a mechanism similar to auxiliary police? We can't expect the executive department to be involved in every trivial matter, can we?

He now felt that the executive department's functions were redundant, covering multiple dimensions of responsibilities from Li Ge's previous life, such as police affairs, fire protection, and the military. Naturally, they were very busy. Li Ge thought that perhaps the responsibilities of police affairs and fire protection should be separated, or contract workers similar to auxiliary police officers should be hired, and those trivial matters should be handed over to contract workers.

Wait a minute, it seems we're just contract workers! Oh no, are we interns just doing the duties of auxiliary police officers?

"The Innocent Squad, right? Although one of your team members has taken leave to go home, this mission is still within Academy City. There are just a few cases of missing ordinary people. Investigate them briefly, and it would be best if you could find the bodies." The senior student at the front desk said, and then handed the mission to them.

Li Ge and the others looked at the mission; it was roughly about the disappearance of several young, pretty, ordinary girls, and the time of their disappearances was basically all around…

A dinner party for some rich young men?

Li Ge tilted her head. Are there any rich young men here?

……

“Rich young masters? There are plenty here. If you throw a brick down, you might hit some prince or princess from some back alley, or even the son of some nouveau riche.” Lysa said this in Little Lola’s room.

"Don't you realize it yet? Here, it's like princesses are everywhere and princes are as common as dogs. Think about those classmates you don't really care about, aren't they all a bunch of rich kids?" Lysa continued, then took a big bite of Valerie's cake.

Li Ge thought about it and agreed. Xiao Ye was half a descendant of a princess, Valerie was said to be the daughter of a hereditary holy knight family, Mishael was the holy son of the Church of Order, and that annoying fairy Daphne was also said to be a princess of the fairy race.

Even he and Little Lola are descendants of the Brave Squad.

Wow, it seems like titles like "prince" and "princess" are really commonplace here, and nobles are like stray dogs on the street. So, those so-called gatherings of rich young men...

“Hey, you actually guessed it. They’re just a bunch of guys who either lost in political struggles back home, or they’re a group of proxies, or they failed to get into magic high schools but still ended up stuck here looking disheveled.” Lysa shrugged and said, “That’s all there is to it.”

Li Ge nodded, understanding what kind of people they were.

"So today's task is probably much simpler than we imagined. It's just a banquet made up of a bunch of low-class nobles and maybe some ordinary girls who have been fooled by them," Li Ge concluded.

……

Meanwhile, in Yilian's hometown.

The old prophet slowly led Yilian to a cave and said, "I once studied the origins of the mutant elves. This is the result of my research at that time. Take a look."

"According to my research, elemental spirits are not capable of reproduction."

Yi Lian: "?"

If they don't have the ability to reproduce, then where did the various elemental spirit races come from? They couldn't all have been born naturally, could they?

Yi Lian thought to himself, he knew that elemental spirits could be born naturally, and that this was the most original way for elemental spirits to be born.

"So how did our ancestors do it?" Yilian asked the most crucial question.

"So, our ancestors chose to make a pact with an evil god who controls reproduction..." At that moment, a twisted smile appeared on the old prophet's aged face.

Yi Lian paused for a moment, then asked, "So, what is the price?"

"everything!"

Chapter 210 The Goddess of Love and Beauty Who Presides Over Procreation

Yi Lian: "..."

Oh no, did I hear something I shouldn't have heard? Should I run away right now?

At that moment, Yilian felt that this old prophet, whose wrinkles were creased together, was not a good person either.

But now, he still wanted to clarify, asking, "What do you mean by 'everything'?"

"Heh..." The old prophet chuckled, then slowly removed his left hand, revealing a ring that had developed a patina. "Everything since you completed the duel ritual!"

"Your dreams, your future, your goals, your hobbies, your talents... everything you have will be lost. You will only retain one intense emotion..." he began slowly.

"like……"

"You will love your destined other half forever, for all eternity, never to be separated, forever in love, forever in harmony, forever with the same affection as when you first met, procreation, until death do you part..."

"This is love, and this is also the most vicious curse in the world, my junior." The old prophet laughed, but at that moment, Yi Lian felt her pupils shrink.

"Wait, you..." He opened his mouth, thinking of a possibility.

"Just as you guessed, I am a student at a magic high school. Similarly, I wasn't originally a shapeshifter, but rather..."

"Humans!"

He stretched out his aged hand, and the ring on his hand seemed to respond to his call.

"A human who has lived for over seven hundred years!"

In that instant, the old prophet's words were deafening, and Yi Lian was completely stunned. He stared intently at the old man, as if all his strength had been drained away.

A human who has lived for seven hundred years... But isn't the lifespan of humans capped?

Furthermore, he was actually his senior from hundreds of years ago, but he had never left this land again, as if he were cursed, forever stuck here, never able to leave, never able to return to his school, or even his true hometown.

In that instant, Yi Lian felt the water all over his body turn icy cold, and he seemed to truly understand why people were told not to dabble in forbidden knowledge.

But he couldn't help but ask again, "Then what evil god did our ancestors sign a pact with?"

He couldn't understand why all the other elemental spirits had found their own paths and were able to stably produce offspring, while only he and his group of mutated spirits had to make this choice.

Earth element, fire element, sea element—these elemental spirits that Yi Lian is familiar with definitely don't have such a twisted way of reproduction. Instead, they seem to have found another way to inherit, reproduce, and develop civilization.

The old prophet paused for a moment, then smiled with relief and said, "His name is the God of Love and Beauty!"

"My time is running out. After that, I will hand it over to you. Do you want to become the next prophet? Yilian, you can stay here with your lover and have a lifespan like the morph elves."