Chapter 480: Anomaly in the Academy
After a weekend’s buffer, the chaos sparked by the “Divine Being Incident” gradually calmed down, and life at the academy returned to its normal, studious routine.
Yuliya originally planned to go out with Danny for two weeks, but thanks to this whole fiasco, they wrapped it up a week early.
Similarly, Euphilia’s retreat also came to an unexpected end.
Okor finally got to stop covering classes. Oh, the joy when he saw Euphilia walk out of the research room unscathed!
Teaching was pure torture!
He was only half-prepared in that field; it felt like trying to teach with a bucket half-full of water—head first!
The classroom lectures were bearable, though. Following Euphilia’s lesson plan, which hailed from “Magic Theory for Three-Year-Olds,” seemed manageable enough.
But don’t even get him started on the hands-on practical classes. Those were the stuff of nightmares!
In desperation, Okor had to resort to calling in the Martial Arts Academy instructor for backup, basically turning it into gym class instead.
Now that Euphilia was back in action, her classes were still bursting at the seams with students.
Besides teaching her own two classes a week, Euphilia often got invited by other instructors to drop some knowledge bombs on their research topics.
And the phrase they most loved to hear was: “I think your XX is not XX enough.”
This meant that the magnificent Professor Euphilia had new ideas brewing!
On the flip side, Yuliya’s life was way more colorful.
Eat class-eat class-eat class…
Okay, okay, and a boatload of club activities too.
Though Wales had already announced in the Saint Felis Daily that Riya had joined the “Secret Book Club,” nobody bothered her from other clubs.
But other clubs had things to say about that!
“They don’t want to join? Fine! We’re not forcing them! We just want to have a little peek, have a bit of fun.”
This was purely about friendship among classmates; club status didn’t matter. It just happened that they played at different club venues.
If something sounded interesting, Yuliya was interested too.
It’s not that she disliked activities; she just felt lazy to organize them herself. If everything was prepared for her to enjoy, she was more than happy to go along.
Initially, these clubs saw her more as a favor return, occasionally calling her over out of gratitude for her previous help.
But wow, when she showed up, they were blown away!
Yuliya took a look around and shook her head, “This is kinda interesting but not enough. I think it could use some tweaking.”
And then she’d lend her genius touch.
Like changing “Wings of the Tempest” to “Wings of Steel,” “Thunder Crash” to “Heaven-Shaking Thunder,” and “Flame Armguards” to “Inferno Armor.”
Boom! This stuff was way cooler than what they had before, wasn’t it?
The heads of various clubs gaped, then suddenly smacked their foreheads.
No wonder that rascal Wales made such a public announcement—he wanted to keep this treasure all to himself!
And before they knew it, they all started pulling shenanigans, leading Yuliya, who was ostensibly just a member of the Secret Book Club, to be the first invited for all the new activities in every major club.
Sometimes she even found out about things before the club president did!
Oh, and there was the club everyone loved to hate—the Feihua News Agency. Guess what? She secretly joined that too and climbed the ranks to become a hidden Number Two.
Whether in public or behind the scenes, “Lady Riya” had her name ringing across almost every club.
In response, the celebrated five-star critic, president of the Feihua News Agency, declared:
What is a genius? Someone like Lady Riya is the true genius! With just a flick of a finger, she makes countless others bow down in awe.
But sadly, this review never got sent out.
Because…
Editor-in-Chief: Rejected!
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One day, a teacher from the Magic Academy approached Euphilia.
Euphilia recognized her—Beilin—she knew her, but not too well.
“Headmistress, there’s something I’d like to ask your opinion on and seek your help with.”
“Go ahead.”
Euphilia gestured for her to elaborate, ready to respond after she finished.
“I’m in charge of the entire great barrier protecting Saint Felis Academy.”
Beilin pointed upwards.
Euphilia pondered for a moment and nodded, “I remember.”
That was indeed a thing, but since the barrier had been functioning smoothly all along, everyone had simply gotten used to it, and recent tranquility made it easy to overlook.
“The barrier has been functioning normally, maintaining order within the academy. But lately, it seems there’s a problem.”
“What type of problem?”
“The barrier frequently triggers alarms, but when we check, there’s nothing there.”
“Isn’t that normal? When the alarm goes off, the culprit probably just skedaddles.”
Beilin nodded in agreement, “True, but it’s happening way too often. It goes off a few times every day, takes breaks, and it’s been going on like this for nearly a month now.”
Euphilia furrowed her brow.
A month—it had only been a month since she arrived here.
So, ever since she showed up, this had been happening.
“Has this happened before?”
“No, it’s normal for a new semester to have frequent alarms, many new students unfamiliar with the rules trigger them occasionally, but this long of a duration has never happened before.”
Now that was peculiar.
Thinking about this headache-inducing scenario made Euphilia’s head throb.
“Has this been reported to Mitina?”
“You mean the Headmistress? Yes, she did mention it. She sent me to find you, saying you might have a solution.”
Euphilia fell silent.
That lady shoved the job onto me again!
“Why doesn’t she handle it herself?”
“Uh…” Beilin hesitated, “Maybe… the Headmistress is a bit busy?”
Busy? If her schedule counts as ‘busy,’ you should see mine!
But after some thought, Euphilia decided to take it on, wanting to give Mitina a bit of face in front of others.
“What do you need me to do?”
Beilin looked at her with immense gratitude: “I need the Headmistress to confirm whether the barrier has a problem or if someone is indeed causing trouble.”
“I’ve checked the barrier several times and haven’t found any issues. As for someone messing around, I’ve had the Security Team stake it out a few times, but no luck. The Security Team needs time to respond.”
“And some members mentioned you were seen near the site and pointed them in the right direction.”
Euphilia recalled an instance when she went to pick up Little Li, and sure enough, she had run into the Security Team.
Turns out they were already handling this mess back then, and there still wasn’t a resolution.
Thinking deeply, she rested her chin on her hand and said, “Hand over what you’ve gathered along with the barrier’s details, let me have a look.”
From her perspective, the chance of the barrier malfunctioning seemed slim; chances were, someone was up to no good.
(Today’s writing was a total block…)
