Chapter 265: Dark Demon and Mind Flayer (2 in 1) |
Mind Flayers were greedy and despicable creatures. They would suck all happy memories, and then pour in horrible memories in the form of nightmares, making people desperate and dying in their sleep.
Professor Nini's lesson was to allow students to experience and remember the feelings of confusion and lostness when being attacked by Mind Flayers in advance, so that they would be able to regain their senses as soon as possible when encountering them outside the classes.
Mind Flayers would be defenseless when sucking memory, fragile like paper paste, and could be killed easily.
So no matter how ferocious they looked, as long as one kept their mind steady, there would be no need to be afraid.
But knowing it was one thing, and being able to do it was another.
The vast majority of students were still extremely resistant to this experience.
However, this was a necessary experience before embarking on the dungeon adventure, a very important passing criteria in the Magic Beast Class.
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Professor Nini glanced around the classroom, and finally fixed her gaze on Robert's face, and said happily: "I remember you, Robert Brogheim, you said in the last class that you want to experience it!"
But the simple-minded Nini didn't notice this, she tried her best to say loudly: "Then let's welcome Brogheim to experience it first!"
White prodded Robert's arm and encouraged: "Come on, Robert, it's not that scary."
Robert didn't believe White at all: "This is not what you said last week!"
White smiled shyly: "Really? That might be because I wasn't quite used to it. But with Professor Nini there, there won't be any problems."
Robert: "But this time it's bigger than the last one!"
White: "It's just a little bigger. Besides, being bigger in size doesn't mean that it's stronger."
Robert: "..."
Under the watchful eyes, Robert finally walked to the podium, making a good start in this magic beast class.
Professor Nini actually had a good impression of this boy who knew the origin of "magic beasts".
She grabbed the Mind Flayer's tail, lifted it upside down and swung it. Then she wrapped her other hand around its tail and stroked it from the tail to the tip of its mouth.
The body of the Mind Flayer, which had swelled to an incredible degree, was suddenly squeezed into a slim cylinder shape.
Although it swelled up again soon, its comical appearance had become so deeply ingrained that it was less scary now.
Robert walked up to the Mind Flayer, swallowed, and said loudly, trying to give himself courage, "Let's start!"
Professor Nini shook the Mind Flayer, only grabbing the tip of its tail.
The Mind Flayer suddenly rushed towards Robert, baring teeth and brandishing claws.
Robert stared hard at its eye sockets, his expression suddenly froze, and his body became stiff.
Immediately afterwards, a gray bubble began to emerge from his face. It got bigger and bigger, and Robert's face gradually paled.
All the sudden, Robert let out a loud scream, a trace of red gleam flashing in his eyes, following by a bloody aura leaking out from him.
Then the Mind Flayer's movements suddenly stopped.
Professor Nini looked over with some doubts, raised her hand and scratched her head in confusion.
Robert recovered from the Mind Flayer's attack, and then suddenly threw out a punch!
The Mind Flayer's swollen and enlarged belly instantly arced inward like a balloon, and the memory bubble engulfed by it was pushed out of its mouth and went back into Robert's mind.
Robert regained his senses again, but there were now some unfamiliar memories circulating in his mind. He didn't know what those memories were, so he froze in place.
"Robert Brogheim, it was excellent!" But Professor Nini was already clapping happily.
Some students in the classroom also began to look at him with new eyes.
Robert couldn't really react until he returned to his seat.
He sat on the seat in a daze, until White prodded him with his arm and said with a smile, "That was amazing, Robert."
Robert then recovered his thoughts and replied, "You really think so?"
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No matter what, what Robert did indeed boosted the students' courage a lot. The students at Knight House, in particular, felt that they should not be weaker than Robert, so they all mustered up the courage to walk to the podium.
For a while, the screams of the students and the howls of the Mind Flayer came and went. The occasional sniggering mixed with it also made the atmosphere more lively.
As for people who were not very interested in these, such as Dark Demon, they were quietly doing their own thing on their seats.
In a blink of an eye, the class came to an end.
Professor Nini counted the names on the roll, watching her teaching mission gradually complete, and was very excited.
"Only one person left!" She looked up at the blond boy at the back of the classroom.
She was always grateful for the help the teenager gave her during her first class last week. "Dark Demon!"
"Mhm?" Dark looked up, noticing that there were no more students on the podium.
"Is it my turn now?" He put down his pen and stood up.
In fact, he was still a little curious about the abilities of this Mind Flayer.
Although it was recorded in the book that what the Mind Flayer absorbed was only memory, but memory itself could be said to be a stimulus for emotions. People could feel joy, anger, sadness and happiness from memory, and emotions would change due to memory.
In the development of the [deadly sin] series of magic cards, emotions, memory, etc. were all important elements.
Only by mastering the relevant knowledge as much as possible, could he accumulate and break through the bottleneck and develop his own crafting magic circle.
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Half a minute later, Dark stepped onto the podium.
The poor Mind Flayer was held by Professor Nini by the tail and floated around like a balloon.
Despite its terrifying appearance, it became a bit funny after seeing it struggling like this for a long time.
Seeing another human child approaching, the Mind Flayer's tiny brain immediately drove it to pounce forward tirelessly.
"If I were still on Earth, my legs would've probably given out by now." Dark blinked, unexpectedly realizing that he wasn't scared the slightest.
The Mind Flayer's face quickly enlarged in his eyes, but when it was about to reached him, it suddenly stopped.
Professor Nini grabbed its tail tightly, like grabbing a dog leash, so that it couldn't touch Dark no matter how hard it struggled.
At close quarters, wisps of black smoke flowed from the three holes on the face of the the Mind Flayer, emitting a faint putrid smell.
Dark's face was calm, and he stood with his hands clasped behind his back: "Come, suck me!"
The Mind Flayer suddenly opened its mouth and inhaled, the black holes on its face spun inward, and the suction suddenly increased rapidly!
Dark squinted his eyes a little, and felt his bangs being sucked up.
But other than that, there was nothing.
"Huh? I thought my memory would be sucked out." He opened his eyes in confusion and raised his head, looking at the Mind Flayer directly in its eyes.
"C'mon, do your thing."
"I'm doing it!"
"Why don't I feel anything?"
"I'm really doing it!"
The Mind Flayer felt humiliated.
It sucked desperately and sucked as hard as it could until it became a ball.
Then its suction power reached the limit!
In the angry growls of the Mind Flayer, a little transparent tentacle finally floated out of Dark's head.
The reason why it was so difficult was none other than his mental strength being strengthened after practicing [spiritual concentration art].
Skills such as the Mind Flayers' Mind Flaying were related to the strength of mental strength.
The stronger the opponent's mental strength, the harder it was to absorb.
In any case, after unremitting efforts, the Mind Flayer finally succeeded!
It looked at tiny tentacle coming out from Dark's face, tears welling up in its eyes!
But with just one lick, the Mind Flayer's body froze instantly, and then its bulging body suddenly convulsed violently.
Its tiny brain simply couldn't understand what was going on, and its body's internal system was completely disrupted at this extreme short time.
Its face turned facing upwards, and a large number of threads-like tentacles surged out from its eye sockets and mouth, spreading upwards.
It was as if something was pushing it from inside its body, making the surface of its body uneven.
"What happened?"
"What's going on?"
"Is it going to explode again?"
The Mind Flayer's abnormality alerted the students and caused a commotion in the classroom.
The people sitting in the front row even hurriedly picked up books or the like to cover their faces, as if this was the only way to block the wind of the explosion.
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The Mind Flayer's howl was full of misery and helplessness.
Professor Nini lifted it up to examine it with a puzzled look, then stretched out her fingers and flicked its belly twice.
But of course she couldn't figure out what was going on.
Dark looked at the changes of the Mind Flayer in surprise, and couldn't understand what happened for a while.
But as the Mind Flayer's body inflated like a balloon, everyone knew what its final fate would be.
It was going to explode again!
Professor Nini panicked. She hurriedly grabbed the Mind Flayer and ran out of the classroom.
It was fortunate that the last explosion only caused a gust of wind, but this time it looked even more strange.
She didn't want to be fired for a teaching accident. It was a hard-earned opportunity for her to be able to teach those children!
So Professor Nini quickly stormed past the podium and squeezed through the front door of the classroom.
The curious students stood up subconsciously.
But not long after, there was a loud bang outside the classroom.
"Books!" A huge explosion echoed in the empty corridor.
Dark, who was worried that something would happen to Professor Nini, rushed out, but her huge body not far away stood firmly.
After she turned around, Dark noticed that except for the hair around her face that was a little messy, she was completely fine.
As expected of a mixed-blood Behemoth!
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"It seems like it was the same as the last week, the Mind Flayer couldn't bear the pressure and exploded!" Professor Nini, who returned to the classroom, touched her head and tried to pretend that the accident didn't exist.
"Professor, please take more safety measures next time." Emma in the front row was worried.
"Haha." Professor Nini's eyes moved around erratically, and she quickly changed the subject, "Anyway, the class is about to end. Today's homework is to choose a kind of monster that is more common in dungeons to analyze. You will need to turn it in before noon next Wednesday. I will choose one of the monsters to teach next week. So it's best to write about a monster you like. Mhm, but please keep in mind that it must be common! And it shouldn't be too strong!"
The students looked at each other and immediately realized that this was an opportunity.
The common monsters in the dungeon were not all ferocious and terrifying like the Mind Flayer.
Although few, there were indeed some cute, pretty and harmless ones!
Like...
"Mushroom Bear!" Dianna exclaimed loudly.
Rose quickly pulled her to sit down.
Dark sat in the back and couldn't help chuckling.
The Mushroom Bear was a monster that looked like a bear cub with mushrooms on its head. On the surface, it was as cute as a bear doll.
But in fact, the Mushroom Bear could release very troublesome mushroom spores, which made it a very dangerous monster in the dungeon.
But young boys and girls in this age group would not look at things beneath the surfaces.
Girls like cute monsters, and boys may prefer awesome monsters.
Like Doron who kept shouting something about dragons, Wyvern, or whatnot...
If Professor Nini heard what Doron said, she would probably cry.
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The bell for the end of the class rang in time.
Dark put the books away and got out of the classroom with Dianna and Rose.
Friday afternoon was when Traveller Street was open, but they needed to go to the dueling club today to apply for the Rookie League tomorrow morning.
This wasn't that important to Dark, after all he still had a lot of credits.
But for the other six, it was a good opportunity to earn credits.
If a student attended classes, they would normally be guaranteed to earn 10 credits per class. There were 14 classes per week this semester, which meant that they would be able to get 140 credits per week.
But if they participated in the Rookie League, the registration fee would only be 50 credits after the 50% discount, and a win would earn them 150 credits, which was equivalent to attending all the classes for a week!
The only problem was that it was slightly difficult to win.
After all, most of the participants in the Rookie League were second year students. So they had to act according to their abilities.
After dinner, the three followed the map on the sorting card and found the dueling club's office on the upper floor of the castle.
The office of the dueling club had five counters, corresponding to the second year to the sixth year.
The first year students were naturally included in the second year.
Basically, if a student wanted to participate in the duel competition, they needed to apply here.
But sometimes, the dueling club would take the initiative to send invitations to students, usually with additional rewards.
The staff member working at the window of counter 1 this afternoon was a young girl. Clearly, she was a student as well.
Dark waited in line for about ten minutes, and then got his turn.
He mentioned his name, filled out a simple form, paid 50 credits, and then received a player card.
Only those with a player card could enter the internal facilities of the dueling hall.
The short-haired young girl handed Dark the player card and said softly: "The competition time for the Rookie League is from 8:00 in the morning to 12:00 noon on Saturday. Before 12:00 tonight, the club will send a duel notification through the sorting card, and you will be able to see your duel times and duel opponents."
Dark asked in confusion: "Does it always take that long?"
The young girl nodded and said, "The club will only arrange the schedule according to the situation of all the contestants after the registration is over, so the time is relatively late."
Dark took the player card and looked at it, accepting this explanation.