"Alright, since even the Holy Light Mage says I'm fine," Yu Ling stood up, brushed off non-existent dust from her clothes, and said in a drawn-out tone, "Then I should go too. Goodbye, dear Teacher Clarence~"
"Wait...wait!" Clarence hurriedly called out to Yu Ling, who was about to turn and leave. He hesitated, unsure if his decision was right. "Roy, if you really have no problems, I'd like to...examine your memories myself."
"Oh?" Yu Ling couldn't help but laugh, her smile as beautiful as melting snow. "After putting on such a farce, you still dare to make such an unreasonable request?"
Mages are physically fragile and easily injured, so apart from mages with detection abilities such as those of the Fate or Holy Light schools, no other school of magic will allow their energy to invade their bodies.
It's even more impossible for them to be magicians of the same element.
Clarence's actions were tantamount to provocation, but Yu Ling actually stopped in her tracks, turned around, and looked him up and down, making him blush.
"As long as you promise me," Clarence gritted his teeth, "I will never refuse any of your requests again."
Huh? What?
The side quest helper has applied to become my underling?
"Alright, let's sign a magic contract and I'll agree." Yu Ling surprisingly agreed, calmly adding, "I hope you won't regret it later."
Clarence looked at Yu Ling's face, his eyes flashing with a complex light: "Okay, I'll sign."
He extended his finger and drew a line on the palm of his left hand. A drop of blood fell onto the magic parchment, and the magic circle he had drawn immediately took shape, making the parchment translucent.
"I, Clarence, hereby enter into the following contract with Roy... If I breach it, I am willing to unconditionally accept any punishment from him..."
As he spoke slowly, the magic contract shone brighter and brighter. Soon, the contract was completed, and Yu Ling felt a corner of her soul being wrapped by a thin magic thread.
This is because his divine soul is so vast that the contract link appears exceptionally small.
Yu Ling thought to himself, but his face remained unchanged. A slight smile even appeared on his lips, his cold persona crumbling into something almost monstrous. He pressed Clarence's hand to his face: "Come on~ Teacher~ I'll be very good."
"You..." Clarence didn't know why he had a bad feeling, and his hand recoiled as if burned, but then firmly pressed against Yu Ling's forehead. "I'm going to begin."
Despite being branded in a sensitive spot, Yu Ling showed no sign of panic. Instead, he was looking forward to seeing the adorable expression on the original owner's old friend's face after witnessing the original owner's ordeal.
Two people, one tall and one short, one mature and one naive, connected their souls (only the soul disguised as the original owner's) through a contract.
Clarence remained in the same position, his eyes tightly closed, the images in his mind playing continuously from the original owner Roy's childhood to the present, in which every move of the original owner was clearly visible.
The more Clarence read, the deeper his brow furrowed. From being crushed by Roy and struggling to survive, to his relentless training and subsequent organization of a resistance force, to finally witnessing Roy's deal with the demon...
The scenes flipped one by one, and when he heard the demon say that Yu Ling only had three days left to live, a deep shock flashed in his eyes.
How...how could this be?
Yu Ling could edit the memories after being possessed. He selectively released the modified memories—trading his soul for new talents, a new appearance, and new life-saving skills, then being knocked unconscious by Ansil, having his dark talents sealed, and being sent to the academy.
Besides the original owner's pitiful, tragic, and hateful life, after his evil soul was devoured by the demon, another soul also escaped this calamity, namely the memories after Yu Ling arrived, which were also cruelly and painfully altered by him.
Especially when he was sealed away, he pretended to feel nothing, but for Clarence's sake, he wailed in pain.
When the old friend who had offered to see her memories trembled as he removed his hand from Yu Ling's forehead, his eyes were already wet with tears, and he could not speak.
"...You, you talk to me every day...not to tease me, but actually because...you don't have much time left to live?"
"Ah...yes~"
When Yu Ling was modifying her memories, she specifically emphasized several times that it wouldn't harm those whose life force was being drained.
"Who would have thought you'd regret it so quickly? But I can't threaten you anymore. After all, I've even sealed my dark talent, and now I'm just a novice ice mage, and a short-lived one at that..."
These words were like stabbing Clarence's young heart in several wounds. After betraying Roy, he schemed against Roy, was wary of Roy, and almost killed Roy because of himself!
Stimulated repeatedly, Clarence's emotional journey was like a rollercoaster, going up and down before plummeting into an abyss. He finally couldn't suppress his heartache for Yu Ling and went forward to hug her frail figure tightly.
Yu Ling leaned silently against Clarence's chest, wrapping her arms around his waist, basking in the life force surging towards her.
It seems playing the victim worked quite well; this old fogey actually threw himself into her arms, letting her leech off his life force.
"Alright, alright, I'm not going to die anytime soon, teacher~ I really, really, really don't have the ability to do anything bad~" Yu Ling gently patted Clarence's back, "Don't abandon me again... okay?"
"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry..."
Clarence just kept apologizing, having lost the ability to organize his thoughts.
He never imagined that he was the culprit who caused Roy's corruption and that one of Roy's souls was eaten by a demon. He would never let this new Roy repeat the same mistake!
The bad news on the main account has turned into good news, and the auxiliary account is also gradually improving its skills after continuously treating the main characters, soon officially becoming a reserve member of the main characters...
After they got to know each other better, Chad would often invite 'Klosen' to join them in their operations to eliminate dark mages, in addition to visiting the shop owner for treatment each time. Although the shop owner was always slacking off, he still made a contribution to the small team.
—He is refreshing the members' sense of belonging to the team.
However, the protagonist's journey is not always smooth sailing. Especially after the new protagonist, Enriz, appears, Chad's halo has gradually faded, and he has become increasingly powerless and prone to making frequent mistakes on his path to fighting against darkness.
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