"……I see."

The senior student bit her lip so hard that it bled.

"I'll do as you say."

This senior student was not the same disciplinary committee member who had criticized Lulu before, but rather an unexpected find during Lulu's revenge against the disciplinary committee member.

In order to get revenge on that senior student who was a disciplinary committee member, Lulu once sold some of that senior student's information to a brothel... It was while she was selling information to the brothel that she accidentally bumped into another senior student working part-time as a bunny girl at the brothel, and she casually recorded it, which came in handy now.

. . . . .

In the common area of ​​the carriage, Connor was still chatting with a few boys, using his smooth talk, honed over the years, to get close to these naive students.

Suddenly, a girl walked over and almost instantly attracted the attention of all the boys.

The girl was very beautiful, with a delicate and charming face and a graceful and alluring figure, but she was dressed in a very innocent style, belonging to the standard pure and seductive style.

Her gentle smile almost made the boys lose their minds, and even Connor couldn't help but stare at her a few more times.

"Could you come and help me with something?"

The girl simply waved to a few boys, and they ran over like dogs seeing a bone, circling around her. After listening to her whisper a few words, they all left the carriage, leaving only the girl and Connor in the public area.

"Are you the fiancé of the eldest daughter of the Melson family?"

After sending all the boys away, the girl sat down opposite Connor with a graceful demeanor, resting her chin on her hands and looking at Connor with curiosity in her beautiful eyes.

"...Yes, but it's obvious that the young lady doesn't like me."

Connor couldn't resist looking at her for a few seconds because of her charm, before deliberately pretending to be very disappointed in order to gain her sympathy.

Whether the girl noticed or not, she was very understanding and chatted with Connor—this was easy for her, after all, she worked part-time at a brothel.

This time, Connor gradually gained attention and was led by the crowd. The girl, who had worked in a brothel, was very experienced and far more so than the average student.

During his casual conversation with the girl, Connor's emotions were stirred, fluctuating between tension and relaxation. Without realizing it, he pressed his hand on the table, leaving a complete palm print.

...It's done!

While the girl was chatting, she kept an eye on Connor's hand movements. When she saw Connor finally leave a palm print on the table, she was overjoyed. She quickly activated her innate magic to completely replicate Connor's palm print and sweat from the table and then imprint it on her clothes.

Snapped!

Before Connor could react, the girl suddenly slapped him, then crossed her arms to protect her body, her eyes instantly turning red.

"?"

Just as a question mark appeared on Connor's forehead, he heard a series of footsteps—the boys who had been sent away by the girls earlier had all returned.

When they returned, they saw this scene—their beloved was being bullied by a stranger.

"What are you doing?"

The boys' eyes instantly turned red. After shouting, they didn't even ask what had happened and started chanting incantations, intending to use magic to beat up Connor.

"You...you shameless hussy, you're framing me!"

Connor finally understood what was going on, but it was too late. His accusations against the girls not only failed to prove his innocence, but also fueled the boys' anger.

"Stop it all!"

Just as a battle was about to break out inside the carriage, Ark suddenly teleported in and suppressed the angry boys with a single glance.

Then, Ark first gave Connor a disappointed look before asking the girl:

"What happened?"

The girl's eyes were still red from crying. She sobbed a few times and loosened her grip on her body slightly, allowing everyone to see the obvious handprints on her clothes.

"I...I just chatted with Mr. Connor for a few minutes here...maybe my tone made him misunderstand, because he suddenly reached out his hand to me...ooh~~"

The girl covered her face and started crying again at the end, which made the boys even angrier, gripping their magic wands tightly.

"..."

Ark paused for a moment before looking at Connor, who looked completely wronged, and sighed.

"Whatever the truth may be, it doesn't matter anymore... Now that this has happened, I hope that Mr. Holm will be more respectful and stay away from my students from now on, is that alright?"

"……I see."

Connor gritted his teeth and had no choice but to agree.

After that, Yak didn't say anything more, but he scolded the boys for being too impulsive, and then left with the girl.

Connor's previous efforts to cultivate goodwill among the students were instantly wiped out.

The news spread quickly, and within minutes, almost all the students knew that Connor had harassed a pretty female classmate that everyone liked.

So the boys who had previously admired Connor now looked at him with a burning desire to punch him. The girls, on the other hand, avoided Connor like the plague, as if a single glance from him would taint them.

Seeing this, Connor had no choice but to completely abandon his plan to befriend the students and returned to his room to stay quietly without coming out again.

. . . . .

"Well done, Lulu."

Emerald, who had been secretly observing everything, didn't hold back in praising her sister, making the little pink-haired girl extremely happy.

After confirming that Connor had calmed down for the time being, Emerald also relaxed and began to enjoy the journey with a leisurely attitude, continuing to feed Julia and Lulu while admiring the snow-covered landscape outside the car window.

"……what?"

Suddenly, a dark shadow rapidly approaching from a distance caught Emerald's attention.

She glanced at it more carefully, and a slight smile appeared on her lips:

"A school of snow rays? I guess I've run into them after all..."

Snow rays are a relatively common type of monster in the snowy plains of the northern region. They look like rays and can fly at high speeds in air temperatures below -15 degrees Celsius, hence their name. They live in groups.

Most of the monsters living in the northern snowfields are those who fled here after their own habitats were occupied by humans, such as the dragon race.

Many of these monsters have a deep-seated fear of humans ingrained in their memories. They will avoid even the most terrifying two-legged creatures from afar, let alone approach a creation of two-legged creatures like the Magic Train.

However, snow rays are an exception. They are not very intelligent and only follow their instincts. They are often attracted by the aura of human magic. Encountering groups of snow rays on the snowfield is very common. The teachers and students of Lohid Magic Academy will definitely be able to handle it easily and there is no need to worry.

The main reason Amelie smiles when she sees a group of snow rays is that snow rays are a high-end ingredient with delicious meat. However, they can only be caught in the snowy plains of the North, which makes snow ray dishes not only expensive but also hard to find within the Federation.

At least in a small city like Locke, most of the time you can't buy it even if you have money. Every time Amelie wants to eat snow ray meat, she has to ask someone to deliver it to her. She hasn't had fresh snow ray meat in a long time.

Fortunately, there was also a woman named Rei on the train who claimed to be skilled at making Imperial-style cuisine, so we could look forward to it.

The group of snow rays that Amelie could spot with the naked eye without even noticing were naturally also spotted by the teachers and students of the Lohid Magic Academy, who indeed had a plan in place.

A few minutes later, the snow rays swarmed in, approached the magic train, and rushed towards the front of the train.

Snow rays are a type of monster that rarely eats meat; they prefer to devour magical energy, and the rune path ahead of the magic train is their true target.

However, the Rune Path must not be fed to the snow rays. It is the guarantee that the magic train can run at high speed and stably. If it is destroyed, it will not necessarily cause the train to overturn and kill people, but a big jolt will inevitably make the people in the train feel uneasy.

Soon, four teachers led 15 students to the top of the train. Under the teachers' guidance, the students cast spells in unison, their movements were synchronized and their incantations were fluent, and the spellcasting went very smoothly.

【Polarization Technique #22】

At the end of the incantation, the teachers and students recited the name of the magic together.

The eyes of most living beings do not actually see the object itself, but rather the light reflected from the object's surface. This fact was also discovered by magicians long ago.

Among the ancient magic of the elves is a spell called "Polarization," which can change the position of one's own light source, making oneself appear displaced to the enemy and causing attacks to miss.

After years of improvements, the human mages of Lohid now use the [Polarization Spell #22] not only to deceive the eyes, but also to deceive the sense of magic using the same principle.

Under the effect of [Polarization Spell #22], the snow rays immediately changed their target, taking a vacant lot next to the train as the location of the rune path and swarming towards it.

Meanwhile, another group of teachers and students from the Lohid Magic Academy were already prepared by the car window and launched another spell together.

【Wind Prison Technique】 is the very move that Viliana used to instantly defeat Yulia.

The Wind Prison spell, cast in concert by multiple people, created a huge whirlwind that trapped dozens of snow rays inside, rendering their struggles futile.

The remaining stingrays then realized they were under attack and let out shrieks, trying to charge the magic train.

But this was like throwing an egg against a rock. Not to mention the train's own defensive rune set, the third wave of teachers and students' coordinated spellcasting of the [Fire Arrow Rain] caused the snow ray swarm to leave behind a large number of corpses.

In the end, even the Snow Ray, with its extremely low IQ, finally realized that the Magic Train was a behemoth that couldn't be messed with, and had no choice but to abandon its captured companions and retreat.

The people on the magic train were actually fully capable of wiping out the entire swarm of snow rays, but they didn't, because doing so would be like draining the pond to catch all the fish... They had to release a few each time they hunted the snow rays so that humans could always have delicious snow ray meat to eat.

After the snow rays retreated, the snow rays captured by the [Wind Prison] spell soon lost their strength in the struggle and were magically pulled into the carriage.

"Oh my gosh... so many stingrays, fresh stingrays!"

Lian, a beautiful woman in a cheongsam with black hair and black eyes, was quite excited at this moment. She held a spatula in one hand and a wok in the other, banging them around like she was hitting a gong, and said excitedly:

"Leave the snow rays to me now, and I promise I'll cook everyone a delicious meal!"

Besides being an invited guest, Lian was also the chef for this hunting trip. Entrusting the fresh, high-quality ingredients to her was of no interest to the others.

"Can I watch from the side?"

Amelie also joined in:

"I've always loved Imperial cuisine and I have some cooking experience, so maybe I can be of help."

"Great! If you can help, Emerald, that would be a huge help!"

Lian, however, was not polite at all. Ignoring the strange looks from the other guests, she pulled Miss Melson into the kitchen of the dining car.

The temperature inside the magic train is definitely much warmer than on the snowfield. Once the snow ray is in an environment where the temperature exceeds -15 degrees Celsius, it will lose its ability to fly and become much weaker, making it easy for even a strong ordinary person to subdue it.

At this moment, Lian first picked out 20 snow rays and then used magic to freeze them in mid-air.

Then Lian smiled and turned to ask Amelie:

Do you know what the most annoying thing is when eating fish?

"Of course, it's because I ate a fish bone."

Amelie answered without hesitation.

"Completely correct!"

Lian smiled and nodded, while reaching into the hem of her cheongsam to take out a simple and elegant jade ruyi.

"Therefore, when a good chef is preparing fish, the first step is always to remove all the fish bones, so that the guests can never eat them!"

After saying this, Lian took a deep breath, raised the jade ruyi, and gently blew on it towards the 20 snow rays:

"May all my wishes come true, may you quickly grant my request and free my family from separation!"

huh~~

A strange gust of wind blew by, accompanied by a very strange magical fluctuation that Amelie perceived, and the bones of the snow rays flew out of their bodies on their own, without piercing their flesh.

"Oh huh?"

Emery raised an eyebrow:

"Is this the magic weapon of your Tianyun Empire? It's amazing!"

"Where, where..."

Lian spoke modestly, but her eyes were full of smug smiles, clearly showing off her secret weapon in front of Miss Emery, the young lady of Melson.

"Your Federation's magical artifacts are actually quite good. At least each of the Empire's magical artifacts requires more than a month of careful crafting, unlike your magical artifacts which can be made in a day."

Clearly, Lian, like most cultivators in the Tianyun Empire, looked down on the cheap mass-production technology of magical artifacts, and they still pursued perfection in every magical treasure.

Amelie wasn't annoyed; she just smiled.

Magical artifacts and magical treasures have different purposes. Magical treasures are meant to make already powerful cultivators even stronger, while magical artifacts are meant to allow ordinary people to use power just like cultivators.

Cheap, mass-produced mid-to-low-end magical artifacts certainly can't compare to magic weapons, but there's no doubt that industrialized production can absolutely crush handmade manufacturing... If war breaks out someday, the corrupt empire will inevitably realize its mistakes.

Emery thought of this and looked Lian up and down again... If the Federation and the Empire really went to war, then people like Lian, who were in the Federation and belonged to the Empire, would definitely be the first to suffer, right? Such a beautiful Lian would most likely be ruined, so why don't I strike first?

Brush brush!

While Emery was still lost in thought, Rei made another move.

This time, Lian pulled out two kitchen knives from under her cheongsam at the same time. Then, with flashes of light, her slender figure danced in the middle of the kitchen, leaving afterimages as she rapidly cut the fish at a speed of over a hundred cuts per second.

In just over 20 seconds, all the stingrays were sliced ​​into thin fillets, and their internal organs were removed, leaving only the freshest and most delicious fish meat.

A look of surprise flashed in Amelie's eyes again... This chef in the cheongsam is incredibly strong. In addition to being able to use magic to control magical artifacts, her martial arts skills are also terrifyingly exquisite.

At least Amelie believes that in close combat with similar attributes, she would never be a match for Rei, and very few in the Federation could be either; even Yulia loses more often than she wins.

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