In the end, to dodge Index's relentless pestering, Fang Li once again fled his own room and started wandering the streets.
"That gluttonous nun..."
As he walked, Fang Li rubbed the bite marks on his arm and grumbled to himself.
"If I hadn't spared those pretty white teeth of yours, I wouldn't have bothered canceling my Prana defense."
If Index's teeth had really collapsed, that gluttonous nun would have definitely gone on a rampage. Without a good set of teeth, she would be forced to eat nothing but liquid food for the rest of her life.
That kind of blow would drive this gluttonous young girl into despair.
"This habit of biting people whenever she gets angry... I'm going to have to find a way to cure it."
Just as Fang Li was thinking that---
Dong Dong…
Suddenly, his heart thumped violently, like a ferocious beast breaking free from its chains.
"Ugh!"
Fang Li instantly clutched his chest and groaned. In that instant, his entire body was thrown into turmoil. More accurately, the power within him went completely out of control.
Buzz!
Like boiling water or magma about to erupt, the terrifying power that had always slumbered within him suddenly went into chaos.
"Arcueid's... power...?"
Yes, it was the power of the True Ancestor Princess.
It was a power that reached the Second Rank and was capable of destroying an entire continent if fully unleashed. Now, it was surging restlessly inside Fang Li's body.
"Why?"
Fang Li's expression grew grim.
It wasn't because he was panicked by the sudden development; rather, it was because the rampaging power within him was affecting his body, draining the color from his face until it turned abnormally pale.
Had a powerful Ability User or professional Magician been nearby, they certainly would have noticed.
At that moment, an extremely subtle yet terrifyingly oppressive power began to emanate from Fang Li. Without hesitating for a moment, Fang Li pulled out a precious jewel.
Buzz!
A wave of invisible power rippled outward and formed a barrier.
The anomalies in the air were suppressed and pushed away.
Although his identity could no longer be completely hidden, Fang Li had no intention of revealing that the power raging inside him belonged to the True Ancestor, and not just any True Ancestor, but a member of the Royal Family.
Only after finishing this did Fang Li take a deep breath.
Zheng!
Like sparks scattering, fragments of starlight whirled around his body.
Nearby pedestrians may have cast odd looks in his direction.
Fortunately, this was Academy City, where espers were part of everyday life. Even if someone found themselves surrounded by star-like fragments of light in the middle of the street, people would merely glance curiously rather than cause a commotion.
Fang Li guided his Prana through his body.
It flowed smoothly like water and seemed to have a calming effect, allowing the True Ancestor's power inside him to gradually settle.
Only then did Fang Li open his eyes.
"What in the world is going on? Why had Arcueid's power reacted so suddenly? Is something attracting it?"
Fang Li had a strong sense that he understood instinctively.
Shortly afterward, he swept his gaze around and finally fixed his eyes on one particular spot.
Feeling the surge of power within him, he took a step forward and began walking in that direction.
…
Before him stood a strangely shaped building.
The building complex could indeed be called a skyscraper.
It had twelve full floors arranged into four separate towers, each tower occupying one side of a crossroads. Together, the towers surrounded the intersection like the Chinese character "田."
Skybridges connected the buildings and spanned the main road like elevated walkways. Above the buildings, signboards bearing the words "Misawa Cram School, Academy City Branch" could be seen.
"Misawa Cram School, huh?"
Fang Li arrived at the location and gazed up at the buildings before him. Students in uniforms passed in and out between the towers one by one.
As its name suggested, this was indeed a school called "Misawa Cram School."
Actually, it was more accurate to call it a supplementary lessons institute than a school.
Fang Li had heard of Misawa Cram School before, but not from the original storyline.
It was a nationwide prep school chain. It was well-known outside of Academy City and had even established branches inside it.
As a cram school, its purpose was to provide extra lessons to help students who had failed their university entrance exams or who wanted to spend an extra year getting into better universities. The school even offered crash courses right before exams.
So, even during summer vacation, students hoping to raise their grades were constantly coming and going.
This wasn't strange at all.
However, as the leader of Scorpius, Fang Li had once heard a rumor from his subordinates.
The Misawa Cram School branch in Academy City had once been suspected of stealing classified documents related to the city's unique esper development curriculum. To Academy City's upper management, the school looked suspiciously like spies for a massive corporation.
However, because the Misawa Cram School was essentially blind to esper development, its leaders ended up oddly "inspired," reinterpreting Academy City's esper curriculum as miracles.
In other words, this branch gradually took on a religious aspect, becoming a science-religion sect.
Amidst these circumstances, the Misawa Cram School's Academy City branch even rejected orders from its headquarters, spiraling into its own form of chaos.
These were secrets unknown to the ordinary students.
And now, Fang Li had come to such a place.
Because,
"The source that triggered Arcueid's power… seems to have suddenly vanished around here."
The moment Fang Li drew close to the school, the True Ancestor's power within him abruptly settled down. It seemed that the source that had roused that power was inside Misawa Cram School.
"In other words, was it cut off by the school?" Fang Li muttered to himself.
A pair of ice-blue Mystic Eyes suddenly flared to life in his eyes.
Biri…
Along with the sensation of an electric jolt, the four towers shifted entirely under his gaze.
They became covered with countless crack-like Death Lines.
Among those Death Lines, however, there were also unnatural, flowing Death Lines intertwined.
With Fang Li's current level of perception, he could immediately interpret this phenomenon.
"Covered by magic's power?"
The moment these words left Fang Li's lips, a voice reached his ears.
"As expected of the man who's been giving the Magic side such headaches, you found the source right away, huh?"
With those words, a tall priest appeared before Fang Li.
(End of chapter.)
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