“Bang!”

With a loud bang, Haven slammed the large and heavy sword in his hand on the table. Then, under the stiff gazes of the four brothers in the dormitory, Linley, Yale, George, and Renault, he sat down next to Linley without any courtesy and picked up a glass of fruit wine and drank it all.

When he came to his senses, Linley couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

He wanted to say something, but after seeing the sword, he was suddenly struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

The three brothers next to them looked at each other.

Yale frowned and looked at the sword for a while. Suddenly, his pupils shrank and he exclaimed, "Slaughter by sword?!"

“That’s right.” Haven put down his wine glass and glanced at Linley. “I’m going to take back my sword ‘Slaughter’, but this heavy sword is too bulky and doesn’t suit my temperament. You should take it back and give it to Hogg or Wharton in the future.”

“…”

Linley came back to his senses. As he stroked the sword with his hand, he couldn’t help asking, “Uncle, why did you come back?”

Hai Wen glanced at him and said, "Didn't I tell you to ask for it? The people in the Lucas family are easy to talk to. I just asked him to take out the sword, and he obediently took it out and gave it back to me."

"……Yeah?"

Linley, Yale and the other three looked at each other, with suspicion evident in their eyes.

At this moment, outside the private room of the hotel, a middle-aged man affiliated with the Dawson Chamber of Commerce knocked on the door politely, then hurried to Yale's side and whispered a few words in his ear.

After listening to this, Yale couldn't help swallowing and looked at Haven with a strange look.

After a moment’s hesitation, he waved his hand to let the middle-aged man leave. Then, facing the gazes of Linley, Haven, and the others, he said hesitantly, “Well, I just received news that an unknown Saint Domain expert sneaked into the Royal City and ran to the Lucas family’s mansion to extort a treasure…”

"……blackmail?!"

Haiwen suddenly raised his voice and said with an unhappy look on his face: "What do you mean by blackmail?!"

"I clearly gave them a ninth-level fire magic crystal core. In terms of value alone, it is much higher than the auction price of the sword 'Slaughter', right?"

...So it's really you?!

Linley looked at Haven with a wry smile on his face.

The other three stood up suddenly and looked at Haven in shock.

"Saint... Saint realm expert, Haven, have you stepped into the Saint realm?!"

"How is this possible?!"

"You are only fifteen years old this year, right?"

"Maybe the information is wrong, for example, you used the seventh-level wind magic 'Flying Spell', but they mistook you for a Saint Domain expert..."

Although a fifteen-year-old seventh-level magician is still shocking enough, it is nothing compared to a fifteen-year-old Sanctuary powerhouse.

Facing the unbelievable Yale trio, Haven had no intention of explaining. He just sneered and said, "Okay, okay, it seems that a level nine magic crystal core is not enough. How about giving me a forbidden magic?"

Linley was startled when he heard this, and quickly stood up and held down Haiwen, then frantically winked at his three good brothers.

Unfortunately, at this moment, the three Yale people were already immersed in the shocking news that Haven had been promoted to the Holy Realm, and were completely unaware of Linley’s gaze.

After a long time, the three Yale people finally reluctantly accepted this astonishing fact.

They sat in their seats, looking at Haven with shock, excitement, or melancholy.

"A fifteen-year-old Sanctuary magician..."

Yale couldn't help but exclaimed: "Haven, are you really a human?"

They had thought that Linley’s progress in five years to become a seventh-level magician was abnormal enough, but they had not expected that Haven was even more abnormal. He had disappeared for five years, and upon his return he had directly become a Sanctuary Magician.

Isn't this kind of talent a bit too exaggerated?

After completely digesting the news, Yale frowned and whispered, "Haven, this matter has now been taken over by the Holy See of Light. They have sent a number of Saint Domain experts to the East City District of the Royal City to investigate this unknown Saint Domain expert."

"Our Dawson Chamber of Commerce has also received a notice from the Holy See of Light, asking us to cooperate with their investigation."

At this point, Yale quickly said: "Of course, I will definitely not betray you. I just want to know your attitude. After all, you have become a Saint Domain magician. To be honest, there is no need to hide your head and show your tail."

"It's just a Lucas family. As long as you reveal your identity, what can they do even if they really rob you?"

Hai Wen naturally understood this truth. If it weren't for Zuo Yu's request, he actually planned to reveal his identity and trade with the Lucas family.

But now...

Hai Wen glanced at Lin Lei and sighed, “I plan to officially graduate as a Sanctuary Magician during the year-end test, so before the year-end test begins, please help me keep the news secret.”

"oh?"

Renault's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly: "What a good idea!"

"Disappearing for five years and then suddenly becoming a sensation, this is the kind of story I love the most!"

Yale also breathed a sigh of relief: "So that's how it is, I understand!"

…

…

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another month and a half has passed.

Behind the Ernst School of Magic, the continuous heavy snow had covered the entire mountain with a layer of silver.

In front of the silver-white woods, there is an open space with a radius of ten meters. In the center of the open space stands a three or four meter long boulder. Next to it stands a black-haired boy holding a carving knife. At this moment, he is covered in snow, with his eyes closed and silent.

Next to the boy, a black mouse stood in the snow, looking around vigilantly, obviously guarding the boy.

Not far away, Yale, George, and Renault looked at Linley’s back with complicated expressions.

Suddenly, a figure fell from the sky and landed silently in front of the three people.

"What's going on?"

Haiwen asked softly while looking at Linley’s back.

Renault shook his head and said in a somewhat worried tone, “I don’t feel very good. Lin Lei has been standing there for three hours. He hasn’t moved a step or said a word since then…”

Yale’s eyes turned cold, and he said in a cold voice: “It’s all because of that bitch. If Lin Lei hadn’t been unwilling, I would have caught her and made amends to her long ago!”

"Hmph, it's fine this way now. After the year-end test, I want to see if her new lover dares to marry her..."

The conversation between the two made the shadow mouse Beibei, who was guarding Linley, discover Haven’s arrival.

It immediately leaped up, turned into a residual shadow, and rushed into Haiwen's arms. Then it raised its head and looked at Haiwen's face with its slightly watery black eyes, and kept making a squeaking sound from its mouth, sounding a little aggrieved.

Haiwen rubbed its head as if to comfort it, and then sent a voice message to the bracelet in a bad mood: "Zuo Yu, what on earth did you do?"

“To be honest, I didn’t do anything. I just led Lin Lei and Alice to the Church of Light when they were dating, and then things naturally developed into what they are now…”

"……ha?"

Haiwen raised his eyebrows, his face full of distrust.

"Don't believe it?" Zuo Yu pouted and said, "If you don't believe it, just ask yourself later!"

Hai Wen glanced at Linley’s back and shook his head, “How can I even ask that…”

Zuo Yu smiled and said, "Then let me tell you. Alice's family, including her, are all devout believers of the Church of Light. In the eyes of Alice and her family, everything in the world is a gift and grace from the Lord."

“But Linley firmly believes that personal struggle and destiny are in one’s own hands.”

"The two of them have completely different outlooks on life, values, and the world. It's just that they are together temporarily under the influence of hormones because they are just beginning to fall in love."

"Now that I have uncovered the truth for them, breaking up has become an inevitable result."

But even Zuo Yu didn't expect that even though he induced Lin Lei and Alice to break up a year in advance, he still couldn't prevent Alice from making a seamless transition.

No, it should be said that the boy named Kalan had been eyeing Alice for a long time. No matter when Lin Lei broke up with her, he would take advantage of the opportunity and occupy Alice's empty heart.

Hearing Zuo Yu's calm words, Hai Wen couldn't help but frown.

At this moment, Lin Lei, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly moved. The flat knife in his hand danced out afterimages, constantly falling on the huge rock in front of him, shaving off countless waste stone chips that were either thick or thin.

Here it comes!

Zuo Yu poked his spiritual consciousness out of the bracelet and looked at the famous scene of the birth of the stone sculpture "Awakening from a Dream" with great interest.

Haiwen held Shadow Rat Beibei in his arms and looked thoughtfully at Linley, who was dancing his carving knife into a shadow.

He could feel that as the carving knife was swung, the surrounding earth and wind elements were dancing around Lin Lei, and Lin Lei’s spirit was constantly integrating into the stone carving during the carving, and at the same time growing rapidly in this state of spiritual harmony.

“…Is this the Flat Blade School?”

"Well, it's quite useful below the sanctuary."

In this way, three days and three nights passed quickly.

In the original work, Lin Lei was only a sixth-level magician at that time, so he spent ten days and ten nights carving this work.

But now, Linley was already an eighth-level magician, and his mental strength was dozens of times stronger than in the original book. As a result, it only took him three days and three nights to complete this masterpiece that would go down in history!

"For half a year, everything seemed like a dream, and now, the dream has finally ended. Let's call this work 'Awakening from a Dream'!"

Linley looked at the stone sculpture in front of him with emotion, and felt his heart relax as never before, as if all his past feelings had been placed in this stone sculpture, with nothing left.

Behind him, Haven looked at the finished stone sculpture in front of him with great interest.

Yale, Renault and George standing next to them stared blankly at the stone sculpture.

The entire stone sculpture is composed of five stone sculptures of women. Each woman's face is based on Alice's template, while other movements, postures and expressions are different.

But without exception, every part of the stone carving seems to have a soul.

When others see this, they will naturally feel an emotional resonance in their hearts.

Haven discovered that this was the effect of Lin Lei’s mental power remaining on the stone sculpture. This mental power was not simply attached to the stone sculpture, but was mixed with the creator’s strong emotions and attached to every scratch on the stone sculpture.

“What an amazing piece of work!”

Haiwen chuckled and praised, then walked over to Linley with Beibei in his arms.

Bei Bei cheered and happily jumped into Lin Lei’s arms.

Linley rubbed its head apologetically, then looked up at Haiwen and said firmly, “Uncle.”

"Um?"

"I've decided. I'll graduate with you during the end-of-year test!"