Victor quietly visited the tallest tower in the academy in the night.

The door is half open, and the owner is ready to wait.

The lich hesitated outside the door for a short moment and stepped into the dark room.

Along the ancient wooden steps, there were torches lit by magic flames, and the spiral stairs circled up to the top of the tower.

"Since your ultimate goal is to enter the Magic Association, why do you have to go against the odds and choose to become a guardian of the academy?" The great magician Pelo turned his back to the stairs and was concentrating on a world map hanging on the wall, which were closely marked with the strongholds of the Magic Association in various countries.

[I don't quite understand what you mean.]

"Haha, there are only two of us here, so the tongue stick will be spared." As if he knew Victor was writing, Pelo turned around, and his wise eyes flashed with a shiny light: "You can speak without a tongue. This is the most basic special ability of the undead."

The silence did not last long, and Victor's hoarse voice echoed in the air.

"When did you know?" At this point, the lich was not sure how much Pero knew. It needed to decide whether to launch an attack based on the information that the other party had.

As the dean of Jing Yao, he is known as the five strongest mages in the middle-level world, and he has no chance of winning. Prayer can work every time, especially when facing a great magician who knows its background.

"It's not very early." Pelo's eyes were like an ancient well, unable to see the fluctuations under the water: "It was just a doubt that I was sure of the day you came back from the lower world."

The day when I returned to Jingyao from Bere?

Victor recalled carefully and did not find where he exposed his flaws. Except for Kelin and Mendel, he tried his best to keep a distance from ordinary people to prevent the cold air from being sensed.

"I have lived longer than ordinary people with magic. In the past two hundred years, I have seen more than one necromancer." Pelo explained slowly: "Although you do not have the stench of an ordinary undead corpse, nor the fearful aura of an undead wizard. But you have overlooked a very important thing. Whether it is a magician or a pure melee profession, it is still easy for a strong man who has obtained a high level in these fields to sense the breathing and heartbeat near you. You stand in front of me, although the death energy is very cleverly concealed and looks like an ordinary evil mage, your body cannot deceive me. The heart in your chest does not be beating regularly, and the air does not represent the flow caused by your breathing.

Besides, where is the lower world? Demons, undead and all the dark tribe's nests, the air there is full of poison and death. A breath will infect the lungs. Only dead people can come back alive. You, you are already a necromancer before entering Jingyao. Oh~ Don't move! My mage tower itself is a huge magic circle. Any intruder who moves up step by step along those steps will be trapped in the spells activated. If you still want to keep your complete skin, answer my question obediently, otherwise I will send you, who is only left with bones, to Grand Duke Taran."

Peilu shouted with a serious expression: "What is your real purpose in entering Jingyao?!"

"Affect Mendel's instructions and invade the Magic Association." Wood's illegitimate son's background is no longer a secret between the nobles and the Jing Yao's senior management. Victor took the trick and simply told Fernandez to let him enter Jing Yao's goal.

"It's not that simple, right? What is the ultimate goal of your father letting you get into the Magic Society?"

"Assist Lucien." As soon as Victor said this, several wrinkles appeared in the middle of Pelo's eyebrows.

He is not a fool, so he certainly understands the meaning of the word "assistance".

This is not very good... The purpose of Grand Duke Taran is actually Notting's huge territory. Once the throne is fought for from the underground to the table, Jing Yao, as the headquarters of the Magic Association, will inevitably be implicated.

Pelo did not doubt Victor was lying, but was worried that he did not act as he did as he showed. The undead had no interest in power and money, and he must have pursued something else.

"Mendel wants me to help Lucien fight for Notting's throne as the elder of the Magic Society. The reason why I followed Mendel's request to enter Jingyao was only interested in the collection of the large library here." Seeing that the fact that he was a dead soul was exposed, Victor simply pushed everything to the ambitious Grand Duke Taran. Pelo's identity was transcendent, and even if he bombarded Jingyao, Fernandez could not do anything to him. It would be better to admit that it was ordered by his father. Doing so could at least minimize the threat and danger in Pelo's eyes.

"If you can't tolerate a necromancer in the academy, please arrange a reason to kick me out. Although Afaret has relatively few books, my identity may be more suitable for it."

"Are you threatening me?" Pelo was a little unhappy. Although he was one of the five highest-ranking masters in his association, he was still quite hesitant to kick out Grand Duke Taran's illegitimate son from Jing Yao.

"It's not a threat, it's just a statement of facts."

After a moment of silence, Pelo turned the topic to the topic that should have been discussed tonight.

"Do you know what a guard is?"

"Each academy has its own guardian, and it is related to the teaching tutor. On the surface, it seems to be just an ordinary guard, but in fact these unknown guards have extremely strong abilities, which can not only maintain the internal order of the academy, but also resist foreign invaders." This is what Victor learned from Ke Lin. According to the original plan, it initiated a duel invitation to Amiye, and then passed the review of the Elders Group to obtain the promotion of the Great Mage level. It won't take long to enter the association naturally under the arrangement of Mendel.

Klein's appearance changed the Lich's decision.

Both the appearance of the dark elf and its demonic identity are also eye-catching. In addition, he learned some internal changes of the Notting Empire from Mendel and calculated that Alberrecht intends to personally participate in the war ten years later, he immediately dispelled the original plan of infiltrating the association.

As a member of the fast-moving association, there is no reason not to be noticed by all countries. Alberrecht...he didn't want to meet him so early, and he didn't want to arouse the vigilance of the Holy See.

The devil should do the things that attract the attention of the world. Anyway, he has the appearance of a dark elf and is so deeply involved in the Civil War. No matter from any aspect, he can become his own shield. It only needs to hide in an unnoticed corner to collect intelligence, and wait patiently for ten years. It can not only complete the secret infiltration mission, but also take enough time to achieve its goals.

"Yes, the guardian has a special identity, and there are many people like you in the history of the academy. So in order to prevent the balance of rights from tilting, it was stipulated that the guardians cannot join the Magic Association for a long time. You have to think it through." When it comes to this, Pero basically acquiesced to the identity of Victor's undead.

"If I don't want to know, I won't come to see you." Hearing Pelo's hint, Victor's joy of success was transformed into a lot of "people like you" mentioned by the great mage. Could it be that Jing Yao also had the existence of a necromancer before, why did Ke Lin say that he was the first one?

"Paglott has been transformed into a human being lurking in Jingyao several times. This is a secret that only previous presidents and senior executives of the association know. If it weren't for the last meeting, I would almost think you were the Lich King's drag." It was not that Pelo had doubted it, but Victor's performance made it difficult for him to believe that the lurking and experienced Paglott would make such a mistake.

I see……

Vikto somewhat understood why the Lich King chose himself as the new spy he sent to the middle-level world. He wanted to find a newcomer who was inexperienced and didn't look like him at all... Well... so, wouldn't the Lich King himself sneak in himself?

Thinking of this possibility, it couldn't help but feel a little shaken.

[Even if it is just a chess piece, I have to move according to my own wishes.]

Recalling what Klein said, Victor suppressed his rising anger.

Yes, it is a pawn, and it has already known its future identity from the moment it becomes the dead. Even God can be betrayed, and nothing it must obey and believe in. It and Paglot are just mutual use. The ultimate goal is to pursue the meaning of the chants of the Tao and its own existence, and everything else... is not important.

Just as Victor was distracted, Pelo slammed his high-fives, and a huge three-dimensional image of the college immediately appeared between him and Victor. Four teaching areas, including the large library, alchemy room, mage tower and cemetery. Each area was shining with different colors, such as the necropolis was black, the library was silver-white, and the alchemy room was green.

"The library currently has two guards, you are the third one. The hand is stretched out."

Permissively spreading his palms, Victor watched Pelo put a helmet carved into a wolf-headed one into his hand. The part of his face was metal, and the back of his head was soft leather. When he was worn on his head, not only his face, but also his hair was covered.

"This is a symbol of being a guardian, with recognition spells attached to it, allowing you to freely enter and exit all areas and part of the forbidden area of ​​the academy. After putting on it, you will be the guardian of Jingyao's , and say goodbye to Victor Wood's identity."

"Then my qualifications as an auditor..." It entered Jingyao as an auditor of the Alchemy Academy. Since he was promoted to the guard of the academy, his knowledge of magic can be drawn from the large library. It seems that there is no need for ordinary mages to continue their studies. I don't know how the academy will deal with the annoying auditor's identity.

The sudden smile of Pelo gave the Lich a bad premonition.

"The Guardian is neither a tutor nor a student. The degree will naturally be cancelled, which means... you have been removed from the list, Mr. Wood."
Chapter completed!