Chapter 89: Dark Demon’s Masquerade Invitation
Common Room.
Dark put down the newspaper and looked at the notebook, which contained information about Scott. He gained a preliminary understanding of this second-year senior.
Scott was actually quite famous in the second year, albeit in a negative sense.
It was said that when his family encountered misfortune, most classmates were afraid of upsetting him and thus did not mention it at all. However, he was still misunderstood.
The classmates were also rather helpless, but since they had only been in school for two months at that time, their relationships weren’t that close. So, they left him alone.
In short, everyone has their own way of living.
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On Sunday, Dark fermented the remaining three white dry fruits and blue blue fruits into juice, mixed them, and made “Energy Potions.” In this way, he now had five “Energy Potion” cards!
Although in official duel competitions, one cannot use more than three cards of the same type, there was no such restriction outside of these competitions.
Dark was already preparing for the masquerade ball.
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Of course, he wasn’t the only one preparing for the masquerade ball.
Regardless of whether it was for credits, the title of grade champion, or to attract the attention of princesses.
In short, first-year students were never more serious.
Those who used to never go to the library were now running in frequently.
The reading room, which usually had plenty of empty seats, was now packed to the brim.
Whether it was called last-minute cramming or genuine self-improvement, the effect of the masquerade ball seemed to have already taken hold.
This age group of students needed motivation the most.
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On Monday’s first class, Professor Shylph briefly mentioned the rules of the masquerade ball, with the details already uploaded to the selection card, which could be checked at any time.
Professor Kazel became increasingly busy creating ghosts, even pulling Professor Lily to help.
And naturally, the arithmetic homework for the first-year students fell onto Dark’s hands.
Despite there being over a week until Halloween night, it felt like it was tomorrow.
Students talked about Halloween every day, whether it was costumes, ghosts, credits, or princesses, endlessly.
And on Wednesday, for some reason, the topic of “dance partners” erupted among the first-year students!
Originally, this topic was popular only among seniors.
After a few days, it finally spread to the first-year students.
This seemed to become a catalyst for the awakening of heterosexuality among young magi.
And after nearly two months of school, this was also the right time for young magi to have a moderate understanding of each other.
What does “moderate” mean?
It means superficial but not deep.
In the world of boys and girls, only the first impression is the most beautiful, and vague love is the most desirable.
Once it gets too deep, it’s no longer beautiful.
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In short, sending out dance invitations to the opposite sex seemed to have become a trend.
And the ways of inviting were varied.
Some would ask someone else to deliver the message.
Others would hand over a letter as if confessing.
Some would carefully prepare a dance invitation card.
As the brightest star among the first-year students, Dark Demon received almost every type of invitation.
For example, after the summoning spell class on Wednesday, someone asked Diana to pass on a message, but Dark rejected it decisively after hearing just a sentence, even forgetting the person’s name.
Diana happily relayed the rejection back.
And on Thursday morning, upon leaving his room, he found three letters stuffed into the crack of the door!
It was 6:15 AM.
No one was earlier than him!
Dark did not ignore or throw away the three letters.
While convenient, it would be disrespectful to others.
He picked up the three letters, opened them in the common room, and replied to each one.
The letters bore names but lacked specific room numbers, so he temporarily couldn’t return them.
Later, he thought about it and entrusted Diana with the task.
Diana quickly delivered the replies and hummed a tune as she returned.
Thursday afternoon, second class.
Dark was again called to a corner of the castle, where an unnamed female student from an unknown academy reluctantly handed him a meticulously crafted handmade invitation.
Reluctantly, he informed her that he already had a dance partner.
Thus, by Thursday afternoon.
The news that Dark Demon already had a dance partner spread like wildfire throughout the first year.
Diana guarded him like a protective mother hen, raising her head proudly whenever people mentioned “dance partner.”
Consequently, the news that Dark’s dance partner was Diana spread just as quickly.
Afterward, invitations visibly decreased!
Dark finally had some peace.
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The invitations from first-year students felt more formalistic to him.
Most feelings between people were vague and shallow.
There was a strong element of imitation.
Some even used it as a comparison, which was very immature.
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Before the last weekend before Halloween.
This weekend became the final chance for students who hadn’t bought their masquerade costumes yet.
Wit and Robert were bustling around, searching for affordable and unique outfits.
They seemed to truly enjoy the joy of Halloween, picking up monster suits that had been forgotten in corners.
Many others, such as Diana and Rose, were hurriedly crafting mana spirit cards.
Suddenly, more and more students were borrowing the lab.
At this time, students suddenly realized how expensive the material packs provided by Professor Kazel were, making their own core materials seem insignificant.
In short, various problems arose, even leading to buying the wrong materials.
Every laboratory was in chaos.
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During this weekend, Dark was studying the revealing potion.
Since talking about ghosts meant mentioning spirits.
To identify transparent spirits or other invisible monsters, one needed a revealing potion.
To research this, Dark spent 500 credits, which was extremely unbelievable for first-year students at this stage.
After all, attending regular classes for four weeks amounted to only 480 credits.
Dark’s final harvest was three bottles of revealing potion.
One bottle failed during the process of making a mana potion card.
The second bottle fortunately succeeded, producing a mana potion card that displayed in the form of an “item card.”
But it was no longer a potion; instead, it was a “revealing powder” card.
Its limitation was that it required finding the position of the hidden unit.
But Dark was quite satisfied.
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Sunday evening, under the glow of the sunset, the blond boy was sipping unscented black tea as usual, quietly flipping through books.
Another invitation to the masquerade ball arrived at his side.
