Chapter 108: Sealing Art
"What a delicious gift~"
Another big smiling face doodle appeared. While obtaining the source energy fragment, the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's magic power was also gradually recovering.
"Perform your sealing ability on me."
"Yes, Master."
Buzz—Another brilliant white light flashed, and the mirror surface of the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon began to ripple like water.
"Do I need to go in actively?"
"Yes, Master."
Upon receiving the affirmative reply, Jia Na didn't hesitate. She bent down and passed through the oval mirror surface, which was only half her height.
"This is—Mirror Layer Domain?"
It was still an endless gray-white sky and an boundless land like mercury. Seeing the familiar scene before her, Jia Na's expression froze for a moment.
"Rather than calling it a Sealing Art, it's more like a—? Door—leading to the Mirror Layer Domain."
However, what surprised Jia Na was that she had entered here not in a spiritual state. Logically, given how petty the 【Mirror Law】 was, it would never let her, an "intruder," off.
"What's going on?"
"Because you signed a Contract with me, you are a guest recognized by the Law."
So that's how it is...
"What about others?"
"They are enemies and will be purged by the Law."
Buzz—As Jia Na passed back through the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon to the Main Material World, her gaze towards her third Contract Summon could not help but become increasingly satisfied.
"If abilities like Illusion, Short-Range Teleportation, and Sealing are used well, they are undoubtedly a powerful weapon for tricking people."
She silently pondered various feasible plans in her mind, but the outcome of each plan was a life-and-death situation. Therefore, there was no need to display the Sealing ability during regular apprentice combat classes, but it could be kept as a trump card.
"Hundred-Eye—Hundred-Eye—how many eyes do you have now?"
"None at all (sad)."
From the other party's name, Jia Na could easily infer that as the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's strength increased, it would inevitably evolve to infinitely align with its Contract True Name.
"Are there any Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demons in the Mirror Layer Domain that have cultivated to a hundred eyes?"
"Master, in my world, everyone is unique, just like me (smile)."
Unique?
Does that mean every Mirror creature is actually different?
"But they are not as powerful as me~"
Hearing the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's words, Jia Na also nodded in agreement.
After all, as a small Plane among billions, even the power of Law couldn't do anything to Jia Na and her companions. The creatures of this Plane, at best, wouldn't be much stronger.
"Why did you sign a Contract with me? Is it because of the source energy fragment?"
"No (smile)."
"Actually, even without that thing, I would have signed a Contract with you~"
"To have you all to myself, I even specially created an illusionary barrier that no one can find~"
"I can feel it, Master, you will make me very, very strong~"
"Stronger than them all (determined)!"
Looking at the text that was quickly jumping across the mirror like subtitles, the more Jia Na looked, the more she felt that the one being played was probably herself....
"You are quite smart."
She praised him sincerely. Seeing that it was getting late and having initially completed the familiarization test with the summoned creature, Jia Na dispelled the power of the Contract and sent the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon back into the Mirror Layer Domain.
"Thump thump thump—"
Just as Jia Na was about to get up and go to the washroom, a rapid knocking sound suddenly came from outside the dormitory window. "Is it a Raven? Could there be a new letter?"
Seeing the Raven's urgent appearance, Jia Na quickly walked to the windowsill and pushed open the dormitory window.
"Caw—Apprentice, this is your schedule. Remember to keep it safe!"
"Thank you, Lord Raven."
Having completed its task, the Raven, still carrying a dark brown satchel, flapped its wings and flew towards the next dormitory window.
"This week's course schedule was already distributed on Sunday. Has there been a temporary adjustment to the courses?"
Every weekend, the Ravens would distribute the next week's course schedule to each apprentice in advance. This also included delivering letters, sending packages, assigning tasks, and handling task Delegation. These tasks were all concurrently performed by the Faculty's Ravens, and it was not easy.
"Official notification for the start of the 【Primary Medical】 course—"
Looking at the content on the first line of the schedule, Jia Na's eyelids couldn't help but twitch.
"I didn't expect the course to start right after I exchanged for it—I'm really lucky."
Recalling her character panel's not-so-low "Luck" value, Jia Na's already good mood couldn't help but improve a little more.
"Since 【Primary Medical】 has started, then 【Contract Studies】 won't be far off either—"
The first 【Primary Medical】 course was scheduled for 8 PM tomorrow night. Jia Na was not surprised by this time arrangement. After all, it was quite in line with Jia Na's stereotype of the Principal, a Necromancer who is more energetic the darker it is, to arrange work hours at night.
"Tick-tock—tick-tock—"
After sticking the latest schedule on the door and seeing the clock already pointing to 7:30, Jia Na quickly washed up, put on her wizard robe, grabbed her Ancient Magic History textbook, and hurried out of the dormitory.
"Jia Na—"
Just as she walked into the public classroom on the fifth floor of the Magic Tower, a high-pitched, excited voice came directly from the front row of the classroom.
"Vivian? Didn't you say you wouldn't be back until tomorrow?"
Seeing Vivian's energetic and happy look, Jia Na, who sat down next to Vivian, also couldn't help but smile.
"Plans changed, my task finished early, so I came back a day early—But never mind that, quickly look and see if there's anything different about me?"
Seeing Vivian's expectant look, Jia Na only used her mental power slightly to sense and knew what the "surprise" the other party had sent a message to the Door Spirit about was.
"Congratulations! Your Wizard level reached the threshold for breakthrough so quickly. It seems it won't be long now. Once your mental power breaks through twenty points, you'll officially advance to a Second-level Wizard Apprentice."
"How is it? Isn't it fast! Let me tell you, I put in a lot of effort on this task to max out my apprentice level! Isn't it a big surprise~"
Seeing Vivian's smug look asking for praise, Jia Na naturally wouldn't be a killjoy. Following her words, she sincerely praised her.
"Haha, you finally are willing to praise me. Let me see what level you are at now—"
A silver-white mental power light quickly flashed in Vivian's eyes. As the two looked at each other, the smile that had been on Vivian's face stopped abruptly.
"You—broke through!?"