Magic High School.

What do you mean, "Let me see your limits!"?

"You just don't push yourself hard enough, you're not ruthless enough..."

These nonsensical words make it seem as if simply putting immense pressure on oneself will unleash power.

Li Ge's comment was, "Don't disturb the other dorm residents' sleep."

The next morning, before dawn, Li Ge heard Valerie knocking on her window and waking her up.

Li Ge: "..."

That brat deserves a beating...

However, seeing how determined she was, Li Ge couldn't help but smile. Could it be that she could really improve her strength by putting pressure on herself?

It's impossible that she's some kind of teenage girl who can't even enter the realm twenty times today, so she has to do a handstand and run three laps around the school, right?

Li Ge was stunned for a moment, but then a smile appeared on her lips.

If he could really become stronger this way, then Li Ge felt he wouldn't care about losing face.

As for her saying she would take them to her home to play, Li Ge took it all as a joke.

After all, Valerie said that there was frequent war in their area, and also all sorts of demons and such.

Unlike Li Ge and the others, Valerie has a large family, including many brothers and sisters.

A large, extended family, unlike Li Ge and the other two, who were all alone.

Of course, Xiaoye is a special case. She didn't even know that those second-generation sisters were created based on her, which is a special case.

Since things have come to this, let's go to sleep.

In the past few days, Li Ge and the others have been working hard to learn new spiritual energy bursts and spiritual pressure.

Meanwhile, Li Ge has been going to the executive department every now and then these past few days to inquire about the vice principal's whereabouts.

The executive department is still very busy, but there has been some new information recently.

"The Church of Order has recently shown us goodwill and disclosed many things to us. These are all good things. I guess the negotiations with the vice principal went smoothly," said the adjutant Juno.

The Cult of Order has made overtures to the school? Well, it seems the vice principal should be back in a few days after things are settled.

Li Ge was facing this matter with a similar mindset.

Even today, he saw that the Church of Order had sent an envoy, and that group of people should be the reformers that Abaddon mentioned, because he actually saw all sorts of strangely dressed, neither male nor female, neither human nor ghost.

This made Li Ge feel that her yellow and purple color scheme, along with the clown mask, didn't look trendy enough.

"Perhaps these reformers from the Order of God want to demonstrate the Order of God's inclusiveness. Look, there's even a demon inside," said one of the senior students from the Executive Department next to Li Ge.

Li Ge looked at it and sure enough, there really was a demon. It looked like a humanoid giant demon, which is rare among elite demons.

Tsk tsk tsk, the followers of the Order God are really diverse, they can believe in Order for all sorts of things, right?

After watching the commotion for a while, Li Ge left without paying much attention. It seemed that the vice principal would be back soon, and he would be able to go home and check on things.

So he stopped being anxious.

For the next three days, Valerie could be seen training relentlessly every day, and two days later, she said in shock.

"I'm at Tier 3! I'm a legendary level person now, Li Ge, say something!" The figure shouted arrogantly at the dormitory entrance.

Li Ge: "..."

Oh no, could she really master it? Could she be some kind of genius in her field, able to rapidly develop her domain within three days?

However, after her initial triumph, on the third day, Valerie became listless and collapsed onto the sofa.

Li Ge asked Xiao Ye, who was tidying up the wardrobe, "What's wrong with her?"

"It's nothing much. She consumed my domain four times in one day, but her own domain hasn't improved at all. She's still questioning her life," Xiaoye said, while she herself seemed to be quite exhausted.

"You're really ruthless," Li Ge exclaimed in amazement.

Fortunately, it was Xiaoye's domain that was delicious. If it were Lige's domain, Valerie would probably be drooling.

However, Xiaoye is a superhuman for being able to release his domain four times a day. Last time, he released his domain six times in a row with a constant supply of spiritual energy, and he felt like his soul was flying in the sky.

Without replenishing his spiritual energy, he felt that using his domain two or three times a day was already his limit. This was without any domain battles or anything like that. If he fought a real domain battle, or clashed with an enemy in his domain, he would be sent to his death after using his domain a second time.

"Um, Li Ge, is it really impossible to expand one's domain without talent?" Valerie suddenly sat up as if she were dying, and said this.

"Um, maybe, probably, possibly, yes..." Li Ge still doesn't understand how the progress of the domain should be reflected.

Although once the initial form of a domain is achieved, its expansion should be a matter of accumulation. As long as it is gradually accumulated and refined, the domain will definitely expand.

However, it is unknown how long it will take to settle; it might take hundreds of years.

Valerie is actually doing relatively well; at least her domain is in its nascent stage. Yilian's domain is stuck at the beginner level, and after trying for a while, she has gradually given up on the domain and started moving towards becoming a Noble Phantasm user.

At dinner tonight, Valerie suddenly slammed her hand on the table and said, "I've decided. Since I don't have any missions right now, I'll go to my house and play for a while."

They all knew they had been given the mission to secretly gather information on the Four Evil Gods, but it was unlikely that they would be given the entire mission, at least they currently had no ability to gather information on the Four Evil Gods.

Therefore, in reality, the school helped gather intelligence, and after receiving the mission, they went to secretly retrieve the Four Evil Gods.

The main reason is that they are one of the few teams capable of operating within a specific area.

It's impossible to have Abaddon go in personally, is it?

Therefore, they are still actually on a mission, receiving a daily wage, but having nothing to do.

The school probably won't give them any more tasks until they find the whereabouts of the next ring.

So they are essentially on paid leave.

Actually, after more than a month of missions, I heard that my classmates have already taken their final exams and are no longer on the leaderboard. Instead, I've gotten used to the mission-oriented life in the execution department.

"Let's get this straight, I'll also help you with some trouble in your hometown. I've noticed that each of our hometowns has its own problems. I don't know if this is a common phenomenon, but let's go and take a look first. What's the situation in your hometown?" Yi Lian asked casually.

“Sigh, my hometown actually has too many problems, I don’t even know where to begin.” Valerie sighed as she said this.

“My hometown is on a continent with many human kingdoms. The place where my family lives is called the Duchy of Stroud, next to which is the warlike Delos Empire, where wars frequently break out…”

Valerie then gave a brief explanation of her hometown.

Their duchy is surrounded by a powerful empire, and war breaks out there almost every now and then. The empire is always the aggressor, while the duchy is always on the defensive. Although, judging from the map, the duchy has been able to block the empire's attacks almost every time.

But for some reason, the empire just wouldn't let go of them, waging war year after year, and many people in the duchy began to consider surrendering to the empire.

And then there are the demons.

However, according to Valerie, the demons are a special race that uses dark power. Most of them are just "humans" with abnormal characteristics. In fact, they should be the same species as humans in origin. However, after the demons used dark power too much, it caused various mutations. After a long time, they eventually formed the demons we know today.

The demons are allies of the empire.

"So that's how it is now, war every year, people die every year, the Empire suffers even greater losses, but they seem not to care, sending lives to the battlefield like wild dogs..." Valerie sighed.

She actually felt that maybe once she became powerful, she could bring her brothers and sisters to the school. They could fight all they wanted in that godforsaken place, since she wasn't interested in going to destroy an empire after she became powerful.

Although she was a citizen of the principality, from the principality's perspective, she was protecting her homeland.

However, the Imperials also had something to say: they wanted to unify the continent, unify productivity and measurement, so that they could unite their forces into one.

Valerie once hated the Empire, after all, it was the Empire that attacked them year after year, and they were at war every year.

But after experiencing the end of the Han Dynasty, she could roughly understand why the imperial people were so obsessed with unifying the continent, and she also understood why the imperial people would not give up the duchy, no matter how tough the duchy was, they were determined to conquer it.

Because the people of the duchy, to put it nicely, are all conservatives; to put it bluntly, they are short-sighted and lack ambition. The duchy's royal family only thinks about protecting their own little territory and has no intention of unifying the continent.

With a broader perspective, she should support the Empire from the standpoint of unification, but from the perspective of being a citizen of the Duchy, she should assist the Duchy in defeating the Empire. Valerie watched the annual war between the Duchy and the Empire and felt like she was caught in a dilemma.

So in the end, that's how she felt...

Go ahead and stir things up. Let them stir things up until one side can't hold on any longer and the other side starts to perish. Then I'll take my family and run away.

After Valerie started talking about her hometown, the others all shrugged.

"Isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to get involved in this local conflict?" Yilian asked.

"Actually, there's nothing good or bad about it. As long as you don't go too far, like massacring entire cities or wiping out entire populations, schools rarely get involved in wars to unify the world. They usually only get involved in things that go too far," Xiaoye added. She had read a lot of history books on this topic, although she had only read them as stories before.

"Speaking of which, do the Imperials massacre entire cities and exterminate entire clans?" Li Ge asked casually.

Valerie thought for a moment, then said awkwardly, "I've heard that the Empire is very strict, with harsh policies everywhere and cruel law enforcement, but I've never heard of massacring entire cities and exterminating entire clans. At most, I've heard of them slaughtering militias from small countries..."

Valerie scratched her head, as if even though she was from an enemy duchy, she had never heard of any clear record of the empire massacring entire cities and exterminating entire clans. There were some rumors, but they had no factual basis, and she didn't take them too seriously.

"Then it's just a normal regime. In fact, it's quite impressive that it could achieve this much in your medieval era," Li Ge casually remarked.

"No, don't act like you're some kind of high-class, advanced civilization, you jerk!" Valerie retorted immediately.

However, at this moment, Xiaoye and Yilian fell silent.

Because they all guessed that Li Ge might be a person from the Han Dynasty, and perhaps for the people of that Han Empire... such a mentality does exist...

It's even possible that Li Ge is the most educated among their group.

After all, Xiaoye had never been to school and grew up in Silverwing City with Lysa. Even after growing up, she was engaged in murder and organ harvesting. Yilian's own village, a mutated elf village, was more like a tribe. Compared to the Han people, their civilization was practically primitive.

According to Valerie, their world was similar to the Middle Ages, with swords and magic, horseback riding and slashing, making them somewhat stronger than them, but still far inferior to Li Ge.

Oh no, it seems that Li Ge really is the most educated person!

Otherwise, back in Ji Han, Li Ge could have perfectly disguised himself as a young master from a noble family, while the others could only disguise themselves as wandering knights.

"Alright then." Li Ge stopped provoking the girl.

Next, they discussed the itinerary. Valerie planned to go home first and then let the others go for a visit once everything was ready.

Since it wasn't a formal visit, just a trip, Yilian reminded her not to squander her family's savings too much and to keep things simple and rural.

The Valerie family is a family of paladins, which is quite a noble family.

That's pretty much how things were settled.

The following morning, Valerie rushed home, her face pale and flustered, to prepare.

Li Ge and his group spent another day of training. The school was so quiet. There was still no news from the Execution Department about the Four Evil Gods, which made them feel a little lost.

"Do you think it's possible that the Executive Department searched for a long time but couldn't find any information about the evil god, and we just happened to be traveling to Valerie's house and bumped into him?" Yi Lian suggested.

“How could that be?” Li Ge immediately shook her head.

Li Ge thought the empire was not a big problem, but according to Valerie, the demon race was a big problem.

But who knows, it might just be a simple horse riding and hack-and-slash game?