Go back? There's no going back.

Pushing open the bedroom door and walking straight to a corner of the room, the empress of the empire stared at the crystal in front of her in a trance.

This is a crystal used to test the purity of the user's magic power in real time.

On the scale above, the numbers from 0 to 6 are clearly distinguished.

And in the scale range from 5 to 6, there are many scratches.

5.99,

5.97,

5.94,

5.89...

It was not a meaningless mess of traces, but a trace that started from the number 6 at the top and slid downward in an orderly manner.

The end of the latest scratch falls exactly on the scale line of the number 5.73.

It looked like the scratches were deeper and more forceful than the previous ones.

Klenna vaguely remembered that this scratch was left by herself two months ago.

Since then, she never approached it again... no, she never even looked at the crystal again.

"..."

After a moment's silence, as if she had made some kind of decision, the Queen of the Empire took a deep breath, slowly raised her hand and reached out to the crystal.

The fiery red magic power gathered in her palm, and she injected it into the test crystal bit by bit.

In an instant, the injected magic power settled to the bottom layer of the transparent crystal. The interior of the entire crystal suddenly rippled and a buzzing sound was heard.

Then, just like climbing a ladder to heaven, the ray of magic power that had just been sent into the crystal by the Queen of the Empire instantly soared from the bottom to the sky. In the blink of an eye, it crossed five sections, breaking through from scale 0 to scale 5.

After rising all the way to 5.5, the rise in the scale slowed down significantly.

Finally, the red magic power in Krenna's eyes froze on the number 5.64 on the scale.

Not surprisingly, this time the test results hit a new low, which was worse than all the previous scratches on the crystal.

But, watching this scene quietly, this time Krenna's thoughts and reactions... became completely different from the past.

The face of a certain little kid suddenly appeared in her mind. After experiencing disappointment and torture again and again over the years, it was the first time that she felt so calm when seeing the same result.

"Then...just try harder?"

Pursing her lips, the Queen of the Empire turned her head to look at the clear sky outside the window and murmured.

***

after a while.

The main entrance of the “Charge Forward” training camp.

"Sir, we are here. The fare is 5 silver coins."

As the coachman in front lifted the door curtain, Su Wei, who was originally sleepy and leaning in the carriage with his head nodding, also woke up a little.

"Thank you."

Su Wei nodded, took out some change from his pocket and handed it to the other party while getting off the car.

The midday sun shone warmly on Su Wei's face.

Su Wei had a fruitful meeting with the current queen today.

Although he was not particularly sure, but according to his estimation, as long as he completely absorbed the medicinal power of the sweet drink he drank today, then... the third level would be just around the corner.

Even if it's almost there, it won't be too much.

But despite this, Su Wei now still has no plans to go to the training ground.

I don’t know if it’s because I stayed up all night until now, or because I drank so many sweet drinks, but Su Wei is now very sleepy and just wants to go back to the dormitory and have a good sleep.

Rather, when he was sitting in the car earlier, his eyelids were already blatantly fighting each other.

A few minutes later.

Su Wei, who yawned countless times along the way and even walked unsteadily, returned to his dormitory.

He reached into his pocket and fumbled for a moment, then took out his hunter ID card and swiped it on the doorplate. With a crisp ring, Su Wei pushed the door open and walked in.

"……I'm back."

After entering the room, Su Wei closed the door and went straight into the bedroom.

After pushing open the wardrobe on the wall, opening the safe at the back, and confirming that the space hut and the fox fairy in the hut were still in their original places, Su Wei resisted the urge to sleep and waited until the safe was ventilated for a few minutes before closing the cabinet again and moving the wardrobe back to the front of the safe.

Although Su Wei was not sure whether breathing was necessary for the Fox Fairy now, it was better to take a breath than not.

After doing all this, he let out a long sigh of relief and turned his head to look at the bed beside him.

next second.

Using up the last bit of his strength, Su Wei leaped forward and fell directly onto the bed that had been made by the maid last night.

"...Oh yeah, the protective shield..."

Su Wei turned over and lay on the bed, and was about to fall asleep on the spot, but he opened his eyes again.

——No matter where you are, you must cover your body with magic armor when resting and do not neglect your personal safety.

Su Wei thought of the detailed instructions highlighted in red on the notebook given by the princess, and he was lost in thought.

The next second, a thin layer of transparent armor made of magic power quickly emerged on the surface of his skin.

Generally speaking, all practitioners' magic armor can be roughly divided into two types.

One type is armor that not only provides protection but can also significantly enhance the practitioner's physical fitness.

The other type is a pure protective armor without any amplification.

Now, Su Wei is operating the second one.

The two types of armor have different uses.

Although the first type of armor has a huge increase in power, it also consumes a lot of energy during maintenance and is only suitable for use in medium and short-term combat.

The second one is more suitable for daily use.

Although maintaining the armor will continue to consume the magic power in the body, the consumption rate is significantly lower than the first method.

Unless consumed by external attacks, the armor in this state can last for several hours.

It is very suitable for practitioners to use during their rest time.

Just like Su Wei now.

In addition to the armor, Su Wei also gathered all the free magic power around the dormitory to himself and combined it into a transparent cover.

As a pseudo-body with affinity for all spirits, it is a very simple matter to control the free magical elements in the air and form a shield in front of oneself.

According to the current magic concentration around the dormitory, the effect of this protective shield will be better than the magic armor on Su Wei, and it can easily resist several attacks above level three.

The only thing that Su Wei feels regretful about now is probably the free magic power, which cannot form armor on his body like his own magic power.

After all, although he was friendly with free elements, those elements were not Su Wei's own.

The magic armor is formed by the magic circuits in the body, and the inside and outside are separated and difficult to coordinate with each other.

Therefore, Su Wei had to settle for the second best and set up two layers of defense.

After confirming that there were no omissions in the two layers of protection, Su Wei let out a long breath and slowly closed his eyes.

"Good night, Makabaka."

Leaving behind these words, he buried his face in the quilt.

……

...

At the same time, in the training camp, in the instructor’s office building, on the second floor.

"..."

"Ms. Eve, I miss you so much. I want to see you."

"My sister and I have already arrived at the imperial capital. Where are you? Is it convenient for you to come out and meet me?"

"Miss Eve—"

In the spacious office, the communicator placed on the desk continued to buzz.

Above it, new messages are constantly being transmitted.

However, as the person being contacted, Eve, who was sitting behind the desk, simply ignored it.

At this moment, she was looking at the documents in front of her with a cold expression.

Now, she is in the recovery period and needs to minimize the possibility of her identity being exposed.

Therefore, regarding her current new job...she still planned to gain some basic understanding.

Although Eve really wanted to let the undead under her command handle these trivial matters, unfortunately, at this time, the undead could not provide any help except waiting by the side to serve tea and water.

After all, their sanity vanished the moment they were enslaved.

Although they can be resurrected infinitely by consuming their own magic power and mental energy, in the final analysis, the so-called undead... are just a group of puppets with some remaining instincts.

Unless Eve completely takes over control of the undead, processing documents would be too difficult for this group of undead.

Therefore, the witch who brought disaster to the country had to do it herself.

Now, Eve is staring at a document in her hand.

That is the list of all those who have passed the preliminary assessment in this training camp and will go to the first venue in the royal city tomorrow to receive protection and start the first round of auditions.

Although it is called a list, there are actually not many people on the list, only a few.

Although this result is already quite good for a training camp that is not even an academy.

But at this moment, Eve was not concerned about this.

In her eyes, at the top of the list, the name with the highest comprehensive score in the school, the two words "Su Wei" were particularly eye-catching.

At the same time, this name is the only student on the list that she, as the "mentor", is responsible for, but she has not been able to contact him or inform him that the assessment time has been moved forward to tomorrow.

"..."

Eve stared at the list silently without saying a word.

At this moment, her mind once again recalled the scene in which a little kid bowed his head to thank her under the instigation of a woman.

In my heart, the nameless anger that had just been suppressed rose up again.

Not long ago, through the connection of the Pluto's Mark, she noticed that a kid who had been out for a long time and could not be contacted by magic devices had returned to his dormitory.

Thinking of this, Eve took a deep breath and slowly stood up.

However, on the way, the corner of her eye suddenly swept across a rune stone on the table.

It was the Thousand-Faced Rune Stone that she had used in the past and had been repaired by some undead who had stayed up late at night not long ago.

"..."

After staring at the rune stone for a while, Eve reached out and picked it up, then walked straight out of the office building.

***

In a trance, Su Wei had a rather strange dream.

In the dream, he, who was originally lying on the bed in the dormitory, suddenly appeared in a dilapidated open-air hall.

At the same time, after coming here, his mind was somehow very clear, and he was even very clear that he was dreaming.

Of course, if that were all, it wouldn't be enough to make him feel weird.

What really shocked him was that he saw a woman in this dilapidated hall.

Under the dim night sky, she sat quietly beside a broken eaves.

The veil on her body and her long black hair fell together, her slender white legs swayed, and she hummed a light and ethereal song. Just one glance at the outstanding face of a woman is enough to make people unforgettable forever.

The female singing voice was very peaceful, but for some reason, just listening to it made one feel an indescribable sense of loneliness.

His whole body stiffened slightly, and Su Wei looked at the woman in a trance.