Monday, June 18th.
Students who had been away from school for more than half a month once again gathered early at Huoyin University.
Today is the day of graduation defense.
As long as they obtain passing grades or above, they can successfully graduate from school and welcome a new life.
In the classroom, some people were chatting and laughing excitedly, and seemed quite confident in their defense; some were holding papers and reading aloud, as if they were not sufficiently prepared.
Among the three people around Valeera, Welch was mainly talking, Naya was adding from the side, and Klein was listening with interest.
The main content of the discussion was naturally the process and progress of their interpretation of the notebook.
In order not to reveal any flaws, Valeela could only show that she was somewhat interested in the content but not interested in the interpretation.
Before the tutors and faculty arrived and the defense officially began, this was the last venue where the students gathered together.
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The day of Huo Yin's university graduation defense is an important opportunity for the "Pain" Witch Abby.
Some time ago, in addition to playing a cat-and-mouse game with Riggins, she also found time to conduct other investigations.
But the progress is impressive.
She secretly checked the fortune teller club's membership information and discovered that the address left by Valeera Kaldwin was a hotel on Daffodil Street in the West End.
She checked and found that the people had moved away long ago.
Therefore, the graduation defense may be the only clue she can trace to Valeela in the short term, well, except for the tuxedo clown.
Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, the "witch" really needs to manage her identity as a student.
Abby took a carriage to Huoyin University in the eastern suburbs, and relied on the witch's invisibility to break in unscrupulously.
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On the day of graduation defense, Azik Eggers, a teacher in the history department of Huoyin University, left earlier than usual.
He bought breakfast nearby, hired a carriage, and headed to Huoyin University on the eastern outskirts of Tingen.
However, he had some bad luck today.
Halfway through the journey, the carriage broke down in the middle of Stephen Street in the East End and was forced to stop.
After a short inspection, the driver found that there was something wrong with the wheel axle, and a small part was loose and missing.
The driver apologized profusely and said that Mr. Azik could call another taxi and he would give up the first half of the fare as compensation.
After Azik asked about the time required for repairs, he gently replied:
"Since it doesn't take long, I'll just wait for you in the car. As long as it doesn't delay my business, it doesn't matter if I wait."
The coachman thanked him profusely, opened the cover under his seat, took out the spare parts, and expedited repairs.
After spending some time, he repaired the wheel axle, which had no serious problems, and set off again.
In the carriage, Azik took out the gold pocket watch from his jacket pocket and glanced at the time.
Fortunately, it's not too late, but he will go from arriving early to arriving on time.
This is not really a problem.
There were no surprises in the second half of the journey. The coachman sent Teacher Azik to the gate of Huoyin University a little earlier than he expected.
After paying the fare without any hesitation, this middle-aged gentleman with a medium build, bronzed skin, eyes full of vicissitudes of life, and a small black mole under his right ear walked into the campus.
However, as he walked, his brows suddenly frowned deeply.
Just now, there was a completely invisible woman walking past him quickly and casually.
Teacher Azik can be sure that she is definitely not a student on campus!
He thought about it for a while and felt that although he was very unsure, for the sake of the safety of the students, he should still take action to stop this woman, no matter what she wanted to do.
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After entering the campus, Abby quickly walked towards the teaching building.
Although she didn't know exactly which classroom the History Department held its graduation defense...but she had plenty of time to look for it.
In any case, each student needs to talk about his topic and answer a few questions in front of the tutor, judges and several faculty members.
Such a process will not take less than ten minutes.
And Abby knew that there were more than twenty students in the history department, and it would take no less than three hours for them all to complete their defense.
Such a long time was enough for her to check the entire teaching building.
In front, a middle-aged man with black hair and brown hair wearing a black formal suit and a top hat walked slowly. He looked like a teacher or associate professor.
Abbys only glanced at him and then looked away, walking quickly past him.
She had no idea that this seemingly ordinary middle-aged man, even in a very bad state, was an extraordinary person far more powerful than her.
She hadn't gone far when her eyes suddenly blurred, as if she had entered a world like an oil painting.
All around her, the colors became extremely rich, and the original shape became a bit vague.
The green trees have become greener, the bright red fruits have become even brighter, and the dark gray stone roads have become connected. Everything is like a canvas with oil paint splashed on it.
And high in the sky where the nascent sun is blocked, there are countless transparent shadows with indescribable shapes, and there are clear brilliance of different colors that contain mysterious knowledge.
On both sides of the dark gray road, pale-skinned palms stretched out to capture.
"The spirit world? No, not the ordinary spirit world!"
Abbys observed the environment, and just when she came to a general judgment, she saw a huge humanoid skeleton suddenly appeared in front of her.
This monster is four meters tall, with dark flames burning in its eye sockets, and its white bones are illusive and hazy.
"Dead spirit!"
Abby's eyes narrowed, and her eyes were stained with a layer of darkness.
Groups of slightly illusory black flames swirled around her, flying out one after another with "swish, swish" and hitting the humanoid skeleton in front of her.
It can be seen that although the humanoid skeleton is resisting her "cursed black flame", it can obviously only delay the dissipation of destruction.
Abby felt relieved and began to think of ways to break this special spiritual world.
However, before she could take any further action, Abbys discovered that the same skeletal monsters appeared one after another around her, one, two, three...the number increased rapidly!
"Demi god!"
Abby panicked.
After arriving in the small city of Tingen, she felt panic for the first time, and it was extremely panic.
She tore off the silver necklace on her graceful and thin neck and threw it to the ground along with the drop-shaped amethyst pendant.
This is her last resort to save her life.
Although she was not sure whether this would have any effect on demigods, it was... better than doing nothing and just standing there waiting to die.
The result was beyond her expectation!
After the amethyst pendant fell to the ground, almost immediately, an obvious crack suddenly appeared in this special spiritual world like an oil painting.
Abbys even vaguely heard it, and the mysterious demigod seemed to make a dull sound.
"Leave the school and don't come back!"
As a low warning sounded, the world of oil painting shattered like a broken mirror.
Abbys didn't dare to disobey the demigod's warning. What's more, she didn't feel at all that the fragmentation of the oil painting world had a lot to do with the amethyst pendant she threw out.
This was clearly the mysterious demigod who had no intention of killing her.
Therefore, as soon as she escaped from the oil painting world, Abby ran towards the road she came from as fast as possible, towards the school gate, even forgetting to become invisible again.
Fortunately, this time was already approaching the start time of the defense, and everyone who was supposed to enter the school had basically arrived, and there was no one else on the road.
Otherwise, Abby's running at such an outrageous speed would definitely cause a small sensation.
After the red-haired woman escaped, Azik coughed again.
"Sure enough, it's still too forced."
He shook his head, stepped forward and picked up the amethyst pendant.
Putting the pendant in front of his eyes and looking at it carefully for a moment, Azik raised his eyebrows in confusion, "It seems to be called...'Winner'?"
The bell suddenly rang, interrupting Azik's thoughts.
He casually put the amethyst pendant into his pocket and quickly walked into the teaching building not far away.
He was very unlucky today. He obviously left early but ended up being late.
