Chapter 89: Dark Demon's Masquerade Ball Invitation
Chapter 89: Dark Demon's Masquerade Ball Invitation
Common Room.
Dark Demon put down the newspaper and looked at the information about Scott recorded in his notebook, gaining a preliminary understanding of this second-year senior.
Scott was actually quite famous among the second-years.
Albeit in a negative sense.
It was said that when his family faced misfortune, most of his classmates were actually afraid of upsetting him, so they never mentioned the matter.
In the end, it was still misunderstood.
The classmates were actually quite helpless, but at that time, it was only the second month of school, and their relationships weren't that close, so they just let him be.
In short, everyone has their own way of living.
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On Sunday, Dark Demon fermented all the remaining three white dried fruits and three blue fruits into juice, then mixed and stirred them to create [Energy Potion].
This way, he had 5 [Energy Potion] cards!
Although no more than 3 identical cards could be used in official duels, there was no such restriction outside of competitions.
Dark Demon was already preparing for the masquerade ball.
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Of course, Dark Demon wasn't the only one preparing for the masquerade ball.
Whether it was for credits, the title of grade champion, or to attract the attention of the princesses.
In short, the first-year students were more serious than ever before.
People who never used to go to the library were now frequenting it.
The reading room, which always had empty seats, was now packed.
Whether it was last-minute cramming or turning over a new leaf.
In short, the effect of the masquerade ball seemed to have already emerged.
Students of this age were precisely at a time when they needed encouragement.
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In the first class on Monday, Professor Sarah Silf mentioned the rules of the masquerade ball. The specifics had already been uploaded to the House Cards and could be viewed at any time.
Professor Kazel became increasingly busy creating ghosts, and even Professor Lily Laplace was pulled in to help.
And the first-year students' arithmetic homework naturally fell into Dark Demon's hands.
Although there was still more than a week before Halloween Eve, it felt as if it were tomorrow.
Every day, students talked about Halloween topics, whether it was costumes, ghosts, credits, or princesses, they never tired of it.
And on Wednesday, it's unknown who brought it up first.
The topic of "dance partners" exploded among the first-year students!
A topic originally popular only among senior students.
After three or four days, it finally trickled down to the first-years.
This seemed to be the catalyst for the young magi to awaken their awareness of the opposite sex.
And this point in time, nearly two months after the start of school, was also a time when the young magi had a moderate understanding of each other.
What is meant by "moderate"?
It means a superficial understanding without going too deep.
In the world of men and women, only the first impression is the most beautiful, and a hazy romance is the most yearned for.
Once it goes too deep, it's no longer beautiful.
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In short, inviting someone of the opposite sex to the ball seemed to have become a trend.
And the ways of inviting were also diverse.
Some would ask someone to pass on the message.
Some would hand over a letter like a confession.
Others would meticulously create a ball invitation.
As the most dazzling star among the first-years, Dark Demon received almost all types of invitations.
For example, after the summoning class on Wednesday, someone asked Diana Greatbear to pass on a message. As a result, Dark Demon decisively refused after only a brief mention, without even knowing the person's name.
Diana then gleefully relayed the message back.
And when he went out on Thursday morning, he found letters stuffed into his door crack, a whole three of them!
You know, that was at 6:15 in the morning.
Usually, no one was earlier than him!
Dark Demon didn't ignore those three letters or throw them in the trash can.
While that would be convenient, it would also be disrespectful to others.
He picked up the three letters, opened them in the common room, and then replied to each one.
The letters had names written on them, but no specific room numbers, so he couldn't return them for the time being.
Later, he thought about it and entrusted this task to Diana.
Diana delivered the replies in a jiffy and even hummed a little tune when she returned.
After the second class on Thursday morning.
Dark Demon was called to a corner of the castle again. A girl from an academy he couldn't remember, suppressing her shyness, handed him an exceptionally exquisite handmade invitation.
Helplessly, he had to tell her that he already had a dance partner.
Thus, on Thursday afternoon.
The news that Dark Demon already had a dance partner spread like wildfire throughout the entire first year.
Diana guarded him like a mother hen protecting her chicks. When people mentioned the "dance partner" matter, she couldn't help but hold her head high.
Thus, the news that Dark Demon's dance partner was Diana caught up with the previous news as if it had grown legs.
The invitations after that visibly decreased!
Dark Demon finally found some peace.
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The first-year invitations felt more like formalism to him.
The affection between most people was just hazy.
There were heavy traces of imitation.
Some people even used it for comparison.
Very immature.
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In the blink of an eye, it was the last weekend before Halloween.
This weekend became the last chance for students who hadn't yet bought their ball costumes.
Virt and Robert were busy running around, looking for cheap yet unique outfits.
They seemed to be truly enjoying the fun of Halloween, picking out those monster costumes that had already been forgotten in corners.
And more people, such as Diana and Rose Flotly, were busy making magic spirit cards.
For a while, more and more people were borrowing the laboratories.
It was also at this time that the students suddenly discovered that the material packs provided by Professor Kazel were actually so expensive that the core materials they had prepared themselves were insignificant in comparison.
In short, all sorts of problems emerged one after another, even instances of buying the wrong materials.
Every laboratory was in a state of chaos.
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And on this weekend, Dark Demon was researching revealing potions.
When talking about ghosts, spirits were indispensable.
To identify transparent spirits or other invisible monsters, a revealing potion was needed.
To research this stuff, Dark Demon spent a full 500 credits in research funds, which was extremely incredible in the eyes of the current first-year students.
After all, attending classes normally for four weeks only earned 480 credits.
Dark Demon's final harvest was three bottles of revealing potion.
One bottle was consumed due to failure during the process of making it into a potion card.
The second bottle was luckily successful, and the resulting potion card manifested as an "item card."
But it was no longer a potion, but a [Revealing Powder] card.
The limitation of [Revealing Powder] was that one needed to find the location of the invisible unit first.
But Dark Demon was already quite satisfied.
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On Sunday evening, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, the blond boy sipped his unscented black tea as usual, quietly flipping through a book.
Another invitation to the masquerade ball was delivered to him.
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