"Bai Zhi, do you have anything to explain?"
Leng Qing, Deputy Chief Judge of the Lingyin Judgment Council.
The Judgment Council is a direct institution under the Magic Association, representing the will of the Magic Association. It possesses the strongest combat power and secretly handles various difficult problems. Especially when it comes to dark forces, it holds unquestionable supreme adjudication authority.
Every member within it is an elite in the field of Magic, not to mention a Deputy Chief Judge.
The Lingyin Judgment Council is one of the largest Judgment Councils in China, responsible for cities such as Bo City across the regions of Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces.
"Deputy Chief Judge, please clarify," Bai Zhi lowered her head and spoke in fear.
Bai Zhi, a Judge.
The Lingyin Judgment Council had detected abnormalities in Bo City, suspecting dark forces lying in ambush. Therefore, Leng Qing appointed Bai Zhi as the person in charge, bringing several Judges who disguised their identities to infiltrate Bo City for investigation.
However…
Yesterday, when Leng Qing arrived in Bo City to inquire about the progress during this period, her whereabouts were leaked. While she was in secluded cultivation, she was ambushed.
As the person in charge of Bo City, how could Bai Zhi not be terrified?
Leng Qing stared at Bai Zhi expressionlessly, saying nothing.
Aside from the sound of the wind, only Bai Zhi's unsteady breathing could be heard. After some time, Leng Qing slowly withdrew her gaze.
She had come to Bo City to understand the search progress.
Yet sensing something within, she entered seclusion to break through her cultivation. Everything should have proceeded smoothly, but at the crucial moment she was attacked.
It was not dark forces, but internal personnel of the Judgment Council. Their methods were despicable beyond measure.
Especially the woman who ambushed her, she had hidden toxins within her body. Upon being killed, the poison would invade everything nearby, impossible to guard against.
After the toxin invaded her, she went beneath the nearest residence in Bo City, which led to what happened last night.
It was a method she could not defend against.
"Have there been any unusual movements in Bo City recently?" Leng Qing's elegance carried authority.
"No." Bai Zhi quickly shook her head and continued, "We have not discovered any members of dark forces for the time being."
"Is that so?" Leng Qing smiled meaningfully.
Seeing Bai Zhi too afraid to speak, she continued, "Keep my emergence from seclusion confidential for now. Continue investigating in Bo City."
"Then screen the personnel of the Bo City Judgment Council and see if there is anything suspicious."
"Yes." Bai Zhi immediately accepted the order, not daring to ask more.
Another stretch of silence passed when Leng Qing suddenly asked, "Bai Zhi, you are not a spy sent by dark forces, are you?"
Bai Zhi was extremely frightened. "How could I dare? How could I possibly be?"
Leng Qing lowered her gaze and watched Bai Zhi for a long time before nodding and softly saying, "You may leave."
Bai Zhi trembled as she raised her head. Just as she turned, she heard Leng Qing's voice again.
"By the way, organize the Bo City records and mark the arrangements of the past year. I want to see what you have done this year."
"Return to the Lingyin Judgment Council in half a year. Others will take over here."
"Yes." Bai Zhi withdrew from the flower pavilion.
After Bai Zhi left, Leng Qing fell into contemplation.
She trusted Bai Zhi, and she trusted the oath sworn before the Oath Tree of the Judgment Council, that was a powerful spiritual method.
However, only Bai Zhi knew of the location where she had gone into seclusion. After being ambushed, her first thought had been that she had been betrayed by Bai Zhi.
Yet up to now, judging by her own perception, she still believed Bai Zhi to be innocent.
Afterward, Leng Qing slowly closed her eyes, and the surroundings became silent.
"It's very different compared to what I remember."
After leaving, Fang Yu walked along the streets of Bo City, once again sighing at the changes here. What best reflected these changes, aside from the tall buildings, were the pedestrians along the road.
He saw an uncle riding a four-wheeled cart, with a tethered husky-like Tundra Hound in front pulling him along.
Well then truly green travel, natural and pollution-free, just a bit taxing on the dog.
Mm, aside from those who used beast-taming to walk their dogs.
There were others as well.
A demonic wind swept over, messing up Fang Yu's hair, his clothes fluttering noisily.
"Wind Track · Swift!"
The middle-aged man suddenly chanted, and his ill-fitting clothes began to billow as if filled with a gale. His tie fluttered, his pant legs flapped.
"Whoosh~"
A streak of cyan light flashed past. Fang Yu faintly saw a magnificent star track appear around person, a brilliant constellation trajectory that vanished in an instant.
In this world, Magic reigns supreme!
Who does not wish to command blazing flames filled with destructive force?
Who does not wish to control frost and freeze all evil?
Who does not wish to ride the atmosphere and gallop across heaven and earth?
Who does not wish to wield rock and soil to resist invasion?
Countless people yearn to become such Mages. Today was the first step of his journey as a Mage.
He too would surely become a towering and revered Mage!
At this moment, while sensing the current atmosphere of Bo City, Fang Yu let his thoughts wander toward the future.
Half an hour later.
Tianlan Magic High School.
After graduating from middle school with excellent grades, one could enter high school. At the opening ceremony, Magic Awakening would be arranged, offering the hope of blooming with extraordinary power.
That was precisely his situation.
Only after Awakening could one secure their identity as a high school student. If unable to Awaken, it would be best to seek another path.
A short while later, he stood before the bulletin board and saw his name.
Fang Yu: First Year, Class Eight.
After some time, Fang Yu walked along the path of the grand Magic training field toward his class's gathering area. At that moment, voices drifted over…
"Brother Mo Fan came really early!"
At the sound of the familiar name, he subconsciously turned his head and saw a young man.
He had short black hair and carried a roguish air. Beside him followed a slightly dark-skinned, skinny boy.
The two were chatting. The roguish youth did not respond much, merely nodding occasionally.
"Mo Fan!"
Fang Yu looked at the roguish young man and immediately thought of the protagonist of the Versatile Mage world, the guardian of the Sacred Totem Azure Dragon.
In the future, he would become humanity's strongest Forbidden Curse Mage and a full-element Magic God.
As for the skinny boy who looked like a dried monkey, he was most likely Zhang Xiaohou, who would later achieve great success as well.
Fang Yu felt deeply moved. Who would have thought that two ordinary students could achieve such greatness?
Unexpectedly, his gaze was sharply noticed by Mo Fan, who immediately wondered which troublemaker was plotting against him again.
Mo Fan clearly remembered the childish incident of getting close to the Mu Clan's princess Mu Ningxue when they were young. It had aroused public outrage. Among the powerful families of Bo City, there was not a single heir who did not dislike him. Over time, it gave him a bit of a persecution complex. He was not some handsome idol, who would stare at him for no reason?
Turning his head, what met his eyes was Fang Yu's handsome appearance.
As everyone knows, if you are ugly, you do not qualify to transmigrate, nor to be transmigrated into. It has already become an unwritten rule.
The two locked eyes intensely, yet exchanged no words.
After a moment, Mo Fan shifted his gaze away with a complicated expression, inwardly cursing his bad luck. So handsome, definitely not a good person at first glance.
At that moment, Mo Fan could only subconsciously imagine Awakening a dazzlingly impressive Magic later to relieve this pressure.
In a certain sense, Mo Fan's imagination was not wrong.
Despite his roguish demeanor, Mo Fan possessed the talent of "Innate Dual Elements." Once revealed, it would indeed bring him limitless glory.
Seeing the bitterness on Mo Fan's face, Fang Yu felt a different emotion. It seemed that in the first round of confrontation between transmigrators, he had gained the upper hand.
As for the next round, the Magic Awakening he would likely lose.
After all, Mo Fan possessed the "Innate Dual Elements" talent.
As for whether he himself might fortunately Awaken with Innate Dual Elements, Fang Yu held no expectations. Unlike Mo Fan, who had transmigrated from a neighboring technological plane with two souls in one body, he had descended from another spacetime, become a fetus, and grown peacefully in this Magic world.