“Ding, ding, ding, ding!”
Alena and Lettice worked together to carry the cake out of the kitchen and announced happily.
"Now, before you is this 'Super Delicious, Nutritious, Strength-Boosting Mulberry, Blueberry, Maple Cream Pinwheel Cake You'll Definitely Love!'" This cake was crafted by the future Great Sage of the Magic Sequence, user of countless magical beasts, overlord of the seven seas, inventor of world-renowned alchemical creations, the Triple Great Miss Alena, and her companions.
"It's so long~" Lily exclaimed.
"Tsk." Ye Ling was a little disdainful.
"Welcome the triple-great Miss Alena, and thank you Loran and Letty for your hard work. Let's get started." Bumansha clapped her hands in celebration, and then asked everyone to sit down.
There was a large table in the middle of the activity room, with a three-layered cake placed in the middle of the table. Surrounding it were some other freshly prepared dishes, emitting tempting aroma and heat.
The lights in the room had long been turned off, only the candles were lit on the cake in the middle. Ten girls gathered around a table, their young faces illuminated by the flames of the candles.
"It's been a year in the blink of an eye." Kafla recalled the night she met Roland, her heart filled with emotion. She had changed a lot in the past year.
"It's been a year." Loran Hill nodded, her eyes slowly sweeping over the group of familiar friends, recalling the scene when she entered the school, the night when they got to know each other and played games, as if it was just yesterday.
Campus life always goes by so fast, which makes people feel sad sometimes.
"How is everyone doing in the new semester? Are you having fun?" Bumansha asked softly, looking at everyone in front of the table.
"Happy, I'm very happy right now." Aliena was the first to answer.
"Don't grab it." Ye Ling said.
"It's not bad, it's a pity that I can't play with Sister Luo Lan often."
"As for me, I feel pretty good. Maybe it's because I've been exposed to alchemy and magic since I was a child." said Lettice.
"It's so-so." This is Lily.
"There are a lot of things to learn." Niya nodded. She seemed to have grown a little taller during this period of time.
"It's busy but also fulfilling." Kafla said with a happy smile on her face.
"Not as good as Niya, but I still adapted to it." Weimiya said slowly.
"Then I feel relieved." Bumansha said with relief.
"But Lorraine hasn't answered yet," Aliena said.
"There's no need to worry about Luo Lan at all. Even I have to be taken care of by her sometimes." Bumansha said with a smile covering her mouth.
"No..." Loran denied modestly.
"Yes, Roland is the best." At this time, Keti also raised her hand, which made Ye Ling on the opposite side feel a little sad, because it was obviously me who came here first.
Under the burning candlelight, the activity room on the tower was filled with laughter and joy, and the occasional noise of fighting dissipated in the dark night outside the castle.
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South of the Walled City Academy, in the dense forest and swamp.
It is still an open space in the swamp. The dilapidated wooden house is no longer used, and a black brick and stone church has appeared on the open space. Compared with the Angel Church, which prefers flowers, wings, white, soft corners and other styles, this church extends vertically upward as a whole. The eaves and towers are as sharp as swords pointing to the sky. The decorative patterns on the stone walls also tend to be vines, thorns, twists and black, which makes people feel crazy, confused and stinging.
Others may find it difficult to understand and adapt to what they say, but members of the Black Veil Society appreciate it very much, believing that this is the beauty of "antiquity" and the "Renaissance".
Inside the church, the spot where the statue should have been placed was replaced by a tall throne. This throne was made of solid ebony, with a dark purple cushion on the back and inlaid with golden nails, like stars in the night sky.
It was already dark by then. Braziers were lit on both sides of the throne, illuminating the room. A girl in a black dress sat at the top with her legs crossed, revealing her white calves. She supported her head with her fingers and looked at the reports of the people below. Her long purple hair was passed over her shoulders and draped over her chest. The purple tearstone pendant under her ear reflected the light of the fire.
"Heh, has the leader of 'Shadow Sword' surrendered so quickly?" She said with contempt, playing with the black wooden sculpture in her hand.
"Yes, Master Guide," a black-robed member below replied. Besides Osuna at the head, there were a dozen other black-robed members in the Black Church.
"We've basically taken control of the several large guilds in the academy that have a lot of demonic sequences. The only special case is the True Red Rose, which we haven't had any contact with yet."
Hearing the respectful reports from the members below, Osuna felt a pleasure of holding power, but quickly turned her thoughts to the content of the report just now.
Currently, under the lure of a significant power boost, many students at the academy have been slowly infiltrated and corrupted by her club, especially the Devil Sequence, whose familiarity and connections have made progress quite smoothly. Even if some members of the club sense something is amiss, they will slowly be infected by the power seeds they secretly plant, gradually losing their resistance and becoming one of their own.
Some people realized what they were doing, but after being infected, their consciousness was gradually clouded and they slowly lost the idea of fighting. After all, the improvement in strength was real, so they felt at ease.
However, because Osuna was still unaware of the intelligence from the higher-ups, she temporarily avoided contacting the True Red Rose members, instead spreading the information among the other students. While many were still unaware of the situation, the Demonic Order at the Walled City Academy had already been largely corrupted.
If this peculiar and strange situation had occurred in the past, the school's sages would have already begun investigating. Unfortunately, the sages currently in charge were only Sequence 8 and seemed unaware of anything unusual. Or, even if they had seen it, they would not have been able to sense its strangeness.
Of the Sequence 9s in Emenas, one returned to the Sanctuary, one went to the Endless Sea, one has been sleeping, and one has been locked up in a laboratory for five years without going out. It will probably be the end of the year before the other Sequence 9 sages return. The only Sequence 9s who are still in charge and active are the two witches in the tower.
This vacant time period was so coincidental that Osuna's actions encountered almost no resistance and proceeded smoothly to this point.
"The election for the academy's chief is about to begin. When the Master Guide takes the position, he will surely be able to go one step further and control and redeem the entire academy." The words of one of the men in black robes became increasingly fanatical.
"That's a matter of course." The girl in black dress and purple hair was playing with the wooden carved chess piece in her hand. The style of the chess piece was the one commonly used among nobles in battles, and this one meant the 'Black Queen'.
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