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Chapter 27 Fake death plan (2)
update icon Updated at 2025/4/6 13:10:13

The entrance to the underground labyrinth is underneath the oldest building in the college, but generally, the entrance door looks like a warehouse door.

It is a worn wooden door which looks like it might fall down at any time because the nails are extremely corroded on the wooden door.

But in fact, that thing just looks like that, because on the door there is a special magic that could help it keep its original appearance.

And it seems that the magic I know now can’t cause any damage to it at all.

But its defense is not invincible, after all, in the last accident, one of the entrances at the other end of the academy was exposed because of taking too much attack.

"This is the entrance? It doesn't look like something amazing."

Yuin looked at the gate, then knocked on it.

Then took out something like a magnifying glass and stuck it on the gate, then pressed the button on the glass.

A circle of blue light slowly spread out from the magnifying glass-like instrument, it looks like a scanner, and finally, a circle of green lines from around the gate reverted back to the magnifying glass, and then many flashing magic lines appeared.

"What is this? Something like a parsing magic machine?"

"This world is different from ours, the machines in this world are run by magic, that is to say, those messy circuit boards in our original world and programs does not exist in this world at all. Instead, there are various magical patterns and circuits, which are controlled through a core. How to say, it is something like a cpu."

"...... It does sound like that, so, the door is encrypted by magic?"

"Just like those doors that appear or open when you knock with a magic wand in a novel or movie, if you think that can also be considered as some kind of encryption."

"Which means this thing can help break the magic on this door?"

"Not exactly."

Yuin took out a book and open it while looking at the symbols that appeared above that magnifying glass.

"This is actually just a machine that analyzes magic patterns and circuits, and then finds the corresponding decryption magic."

"Are you telling me that to unlock this door, you actually need to mix some magic together and then eliminating those encrypted magic?"

"That's it."

It looked like Yuin got what she wanted, the one that looked like a magnifying glass ended up flashing for a moment, and then a row of magic patterns floated and projected on the wall.

"With this, this and this ...... god, even this, well, there is no problem in this way."

Putting the book in her hand on the ground, she took out another thing then pressed it in the order of the patterns on it.

The door flashed once, then slowly and silently opened.

"How much do these two things cost? Where can I buy them?"

"...... I guess you haven't had a good look around this world since you came here, have you?"

"You're right, but what does it matter?"

"Because if you leave your academy and take a good trip to the black markets, then you'll find that these things are actually pretty cheap and common."

"Okay ......"

After putting the items away, Yuin pulled the door open and walked inside.

"Well, I'll see you later."

Then, she disappeared behind the door.

After a while, the door slowly closed, and then, the door flickered and the grimace of magic reappeared on it.

They are all really convenient things, it looks like I'll have to install one for my door in the future.

Looking at the time, it is 9:00 p.m., and several mages are removing the ice crystals on the square Apparently, they didn't know that my 'corpse' below has begun to crystalize itself, and when the ice was removed, they would find that there was no corpse beneath that they wanted.

And now there is no one can recognize me except Aliyah.

By the time they finished removing the ice crystals, it shall be 12:00 p.m. At that time it won’t matter if I am dead or alive.

I think it's the best option to go back to the bookstore at this time to wait until 12:00.

......

But seeing so many people all gathered there, I did feel a little bad about wasting a lot of manpower and material resources after all.

But as I think that someone is willing to hunt me with 1,000,000 coins, this feeling is a lot lighter, after all, someone have spent a lot of money to let me die.

But to avoid unnecessary problems, I informed Yaling in advance, and then asked her to take Princess Michelle back to the apartment to rest and add the soundproof magic to my apartment.

Although the presence of people who knew me and showed their sadness would be more indicative of my death, but compare to explain the reason of why I am still alive to her, I think this is better.

It is the best way I could think of.

Of course, I don’t even need to explain to Fran, seeing their appearance as if they were watching the show, I knew that they are sure that I am not dead.

After thinking for a long time, the only conclusion I could come to is that Fran could also use the 'Heart of Red Leaf' ability to sense that I was nearby.

But I believe she doesn't have something like a mini map, so she just can't know my exact location.

......

"What? Fir is dead?"

Suddenly, a terrible roar brought me back to my senses, and it was then that I realized that the time had actually unknowingly reached 12 o'clock while I was reading the book.

I have to say, this bookstore is really good, surely, I can see a lot of good stuff after spending a lot of money.

And it was obvious Princess Michelle's voice, it seems that they have returned here and found me arriving here on time. And, I believe she also got the news of what was happening outside.

"Why didn't you all tell me about it before!"

"Because I'm not dead, so why would I tell you."

I walked out from inside the bathroom while still holding the book I was reading earlier.

"......"

Everyone froze, including the emperor who had just walked through the door.

"Well, surprising, just now I was wondering how my daughter would be angry, but now I'm more interested in knowing how you were killed in front of so many people and then now appear here alive."

"Secret, if I tell you, next time I might actually die. Now that ice out there should be shoveled out by now, right? So, what's down there?"

"Some crystal powder, but I don't know what its composition."

"That's right."

I paused for a moment, then continued.

"Let's discuss the condition you mentioned before, or what do you plan to do next to keep me safe?"