That night, Victor sat in a carriage and returned to his mansion in the capital.

The mansion has been rebuilt.

The servants outside bowed in unison when they saw their master arrive and opened the car door for Victor.

After getting off the carriage, Victor put his hands in his pockets, and Kokot floated out of the carriage behind him, carried by a white magic spell.

Even without the soft white clouds beneath her, she was already fast asleep, like a dead pig.

"Yes, thank you for your hard work."

A white cloud drifted down from the sky and circled Kokot several times.

The magic circle in the air glowed faintly. Victor used magic to place Kokot on a cloud, then whispered:

"Take her back to the garden."

Clouds, naturally, dared not disobey Victor's orders. Carrying Cocot, they flew off towards the garden with a whoosh.

In the blink of an eye, they disappeared without a trace.

Viktor looked in the direction where the clouds had disappeared, lost in thought.

This dungeon run was a great success, thanks in no small part to Kokot's help.

As a fifth-tier mage, Kokot's role is even more significant than when he was a fourth-tier mage.

If we were to make a comparison, it would be the system upgrade of "Duplicate".

Although the magic mirror also played a part in making the world more realistic.

However, the Mage Council has not yet been informed that Cocote has become a fifth-order mage.

After all, ever since returning from the Elf Forest, she had been busy with the tasks entrusted to her by Viktor.

As a result, although Kokot became a fifth-tier mage, he has yet to learn any fifth-tier magic.

Victor stared at the dark garden, searching his memory.

In the game, most of the more practical fifth-tier spells can be learned from Endymion's spellbook.

It seems I'll have to go back to Endymion sometime.

Thinking of this, Viktor shook his head.

He turned and entered the mansion; the quiet courtyard even made Viktor's steps lighter.

Upon entering the mansion, I happened to see Liya standing at the gate, as if she had just come downstairs.

She placed her hands on her chest, looked at Victor, and asked a question.

"You're back?"

"Didn't they say the assessment would take a long time?"

Viktor nodded in response.

"Yes, it's not over yet."

The practical assessment for the new students lasted for three days.

For the next three days, the new students will remain in the mirror world.

However, Viktor returned ahead of schedule.

Because he doesn't need to be there all the time watching the newborns.

Other professors and deans would observe students through mirrors within the college.

Even the Empress herself stayed at the academy.

It might be because of Aurelion.

In short, with the Queen at the academy, the safety of the students is naturally not a problem.

Even the safest place cannot compare to the security surrounding members of the royal family.

This is also the longest freshman assessment in the history of the Royal Magic Academy.

Of course, if a new student voluntarily withdraws during the assessment, he/she will be safely released from that bright mirror.

Her gaze kept drifting to the side, and her expression was somewhat stiff, which made her feel a little embarrassed.

After all, ever since she discovered that Viktor had been reading her diary, she really didn't know how to deal with her brother.

However, Viktor seemed completely unconcerned, as if the incident had never happened.

He calmly walked past Lia and headed upstairs.

Lia opened her mouth, as if to say something:

“Gwen, she…”

Are you alright?

But in the end, he was unable to utter a sound.

Her voice was very soft, except for Lia herself.

Viktor didn't even hear the question, which was barely audible.

She sighed, watching Victor walk away, and gently closed her lips.

Viktor gently pushed open the wooden door to the study and began searching for books on the neatly arranged counter.

The battle did not affect this place; each book lay there intact.

Viktor's fingertips lightly brushed along the spine of the book, finally stopping on an old, heavy tome.

Driven by magic, the book floated into Victor's hands.

He turned the pages and began to browse.

This is a myth about gods giving thought to their followers in ancient times.

The ideas bestowed by different gods each have their own characteristics, and the fervent emotions contained within them have gradually evolved into various beliefs over time.

Years later, those with absolute faith were hailed as messengers of God.

They carried on their faith to the very end in an effort to win back the gods.

They firmly believed that only in this way could they demonstrate to the gods that humanity needed them.

After reading it carefully, Victor gently closed the book.

There is more than one kind of believer in the goddess, and of course, there is more than one deity.

Therefore, there are naturally many fanatical believers who worship different gods.

They have essentially distorted the original thoughts of the gods, and have erroneously carried out the original will of the gods based on a single and stubborn interpretation.

However, in this book, their behavior is even overly romanticized.

In the game's setting, the fervent believers who worship different gods share only one common goal: to find the Son of God.

They believed that the Son of God was a human being who was perfectly combined with the Goddess's power, and was the best candidate to recall the Goddess.

In the eyes of devout believers, the Son of God is the purest and most sacred representative of God in the mortal world.

Therefore, it's not hard to understand why that group of fanatical believers targeted Gwen; it wasn't without reason.

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