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  Around the memorial square, students who had just left turned back at the sudden change, looking towards the outdoor giant screen.

  Their puzzled expressions quickly turned serious.

  The entire square instantly became filled with murmurs and commotion, while only the images on the screen continued to change.

  No one expected such a major twist in the final stages of this Shadow World!

  Although Huberrian had temporarily hidden herself.

  The students watching were now terrified by the bloody scene that suddenly appeared in the botanical garden.

  Those who attack other challengers in the Shadow World are invariably deranged red-named criminals.

  These lawless individuals, who disregard the potential disasters of failing in the Shadow World, often sneak into lower-ranked Shadow Worlds through temporary void gates that appear in the wilderness to carry out their cruel acts.

  They excel at disguising their identities, manipulating others, and engaging in death battles with challengers. Due to their long-term hunting and plundering activities, both their abilities and Magic Cards are formidable!

  Usually, encountering such red-named criminals is a rare occurrence - simply extremely bad luck.

  But the one Huberrian encountered was likely here with purpose—

  Someone was probably watching the duke's daughter from the shadows, ready to notify assassins, even those in foreign countries, to start matching Shadow Worlds once they discovered Huberrian entering the building with sealed void gates. With enough participants, there would be a high probability of encountering Huberrian!

  "Wait, this nauseating mercury..."

  A senior student from the Alchemy Intelligence Department at the outdoor screen frowned while observing the mercury mass controlled by the woman.

  Soon, new information from the Southern Continent Shadow World Management Association appeared on the screen—

  [Information match successful, summon identified as Immortal Mercury, wielded by S-class wanted criminal Lilette, follower of the Resurrection Church's Decay Bishop.]

  [Immortal Mercury]

  [Category: Summon Card]

  [Grade: Pink Sacred]

  [Rank: 5]

  [Effect: Immune to 50% physical damage, causes absorption effect on contact attacks and when contacted, increasing own attributes and size, lasting 10 minutes.]

  [Note: Become one with me, and your body shall never decay.]

  "Those Resurrection Church bastards?"

  Many senior students immediately shouted in anger and shock.

  "Resurrection Church?"

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  Some freshmen in the square seemed confused by this term.

  Those who hadn't yet received their registered challenger licenses hadn't truly encountered the real Shadow World and its darkest aspects.

  "They're a cult organization hiding across both Southern and Northern continents, like indestructible vermin, with activity records from before written history."

  "Even if the world were to perish and history were to break, they would not be extinct!"

  "Their shadows can be found in Shadow Worlds throughout different eras..."

  Speaking of the Resurrection Church, many senior students gritted their teeth, their trembling voices mixing hatred with fear.

  A large portion of current death rates in Shadow Worlds is related to Resurrection Church cultists.

  Some extremely twisted cultists enjoy making exhausted challengers die in despair through various forms of torture, willingly displaying it all for the world to see.

  Even Icerite Academy senior students who hadn't personally encountered Resurrection cultists had heard of, or knew someone who had been harmed by them, losing young lives to these cultists.

  "The harm these cultists cause isn't limited to the Shadow World; the Resurrection Church's influence is even greater in the real world."

  Although senior students were reluctant to admit their fear of these cultists, they couldn't mislead the freshmen about the dangers of the Resurrection Church.

  Besides these inhuman Resurrection Church cultists.

  What truly terrifies even the current world's power holders are the ten Cardinal Bishops of the Resurrection Church, who are like walking disasters with the power to destroy nations.

  They seem to embody the ultimate evil of humanity.

  Even the Hutton Kingdom would absolutely not want to provoke any Resurrection Church bishop to visit their territory.

  "Why would Duke Huberrian get involved with these cultists..."

  For many freshmen, this was their first time witnessing Resurrection cultists.

  Even through the magical screen, they could tangibly feel the murderous intent drawing closer.

  "The disappearance of Duke Alansar must be inevitably connected to the Resurrection Church."

  Many senior students familiar with royal capital noble circle gossip finally understood something - those former Alansar faction nobles weren't unwilling to investigate the Duke's whereabouts, they were afraid to!

  Duke Huberrian must have learned something she shouldn't have, so they wanted to silence her.

  For a moment, the entire Gera Memorial Square fell unusually silent.

  Students held their breath while watching Huberrian's situation.

  Even though many students felt aversion towards Huberrian as a half-demon.

  None of the watching students were evil enough to hope for Huberrian to die horribly at the hands of such cultists!

  ...

  Several minutes passed.

  In the Demon Realm Botanical Experimental Garden.

  Huberrian, forced out of invisibility, coughed blood in mid-air, struggling to control her body to regain balance before barely landing on the ground.

  The figure fighting Huberrian grinned viciously and pursued her again.

  Huberrian's eyelids drooped, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

  Her body swayed severely, clearly reaching its physical limit.

  Even though she could see the enemy's movements, she lacked the strength to dodge, only barely blocking with her dagger.

  She was kicked hard again.

  Rolling several times on the grass before stopping.

  "Huff... huff..."

  Huberrian lay on the grass, struggling to prop herself up, feeling her head extremely heavy from injuries and poison mist.

  Even with the temporary enhancement from the Demon King's Restaurant's food, she could barely fight against the fifth-rank cultist Lilette.

  If the opponent hadn't wanted to prevent her from escaping the classroom while invisible, she would have already called over that terrifying silver entity blocking the door to devour her.

  And behind this fifth-rank cultist was a second-rank curse caster continuously attempting to apply control and debuff spells.

  This botanical garden had become like a prison with no escape.

  Huberrian knew if she was forced to use her last life-saving card, death wouldn't be far away.

  It must be because she had done too many bad things with Lanqi, losing too much karma, that she encountered such a disaster.

  However now, there was only one thing she could do.

  Huberrian took a deep breath.

  "Lanqi, save me!"

  Huberrian finally cried out helplessly.

  If he didn't hurry over, she really couldn't hold on much longer.

  "Your companion?"

  Cultist Lilette sneered, finding Huberrian's cry for help as ridiculous as a baby's panicked wailing.

  A second-rank Icerite Academy freshman coming would only mean accompanying this duke's daughter to the underworld.

  However.

  Two seconds later.

  With a huge boom, the botanical garden's door that had been blocked by the silver shapeshifter suddenly shattered.

  "!"

  Cultist Lilette frowned, alertly turning towards the direction of the falling classroom wall.

  Then, her cold pupils suddenly contracted.

  Because she saw—

  A demon who should not, and had no reason to appear here.

  The Principal of Inferno Corridor Academy!

  (Chapter End)