Chapter 3845: The Key Guided by the Cat

Although this was not his first time coming to the Academy, when looking at the castle from the direction of the Academy gate, a thought still appeared in the Outlander's mind involuntarily—

"Ms. Feilian, is this the school you built?"

The appearance of that witch, as beautiful as a violet, appeared in his heart. Xia De thought that since the one-month penalty for not being able to use the time key had ended, perhaps next time, he could intentionally look for a key from the mid-Fifth Era to try his luck.

After all, since the Bay of Moon incident last summer when Xia De saw off Ms. Feilian and Fiona who came to Tobesk for travel, he hadn't seen his "teacher" for half a year.

Principal Pigman did not arrange a tour of St. Byrons for the "God-Awakener" because Xia De didn't want to have too much contact with the Academy in his current capacity. So the group first met the elves waiting inside the Academy, and then went to the main hall conference room of the Academy castle to discuss the corresponding plan for the conversion of the Academy's land ownership.

The specific plan had already been handled by the girls under Bella, so apart from signing, Xia De only needed to emphasize that he was not trying to split the Academy's land. Those lands were still part of the Academy, just with the label of "Elf Kingdom Territory" added to the original nature.

Of course, although it sounded simple, this matter also involved many troublesome things, such as entry and exit permissions, sharing and allocation of materials, identity verification for other clan elves entering the Academy, identity recognition for elves outside the Kingdom, etc.

However, these had nothing to do with Xia De. He only came for the conversion of land ownership, and the rest of the problems were left to the Elf Elder Council to solve.

Xia De didn't bring anyone else today. After all, Danister certainly wouldn't let him suffer. And when signing the documents, Xia De was actually on the side of "St. Byrons," but even with the help of the manpower provided by the Academy, just reviewing and signing those documents took him a whole morning.

The ancient documents were sent to Xia De one by one, and he had to check the documents from both the Academy and the Elf Kingdom one by one. But Xia De certainly wouldn't sign his own name, and he couldn't use a code name like "God-Awakener" as his name.

Therefore, he had Galina prepare a personal seal for him in advance, and the pattern of the seal was the "Moon Seal" pattern that the girls were very familiar with.

During lunch that day, Xia De was still discussing the current utilization of the Academy's land with Principal Pigman. Professor Pigman intended for Xia De to purchase some industries in the Academy to deepen the connection between the two sides, such as building an independent alchemy laboratory or a manor for vacation, but Xia De had no indication of this.

Lunch was eaten in the professors' club. After lunch, Xia De handled the finishing touches of the documents and contracts, and then the group began to handle the enrollment-related procedures for the little unicorns.

This was relatively simple, but now the number of unicorns who had mastered human transformation had increased to four. And the new little unicorn was also about the same age as Little Liana, and the tips of her hair were light purple, which was easy to identify.

But in this way, if Xia De wanted to see the "Unicorn Big Sister," he would probably have to wait for a while.

"Wait, when did I want to see the Unicorn Big Sister?"

"She" smiled gently, and Xia De felt that he was being mocked.

Accompanying the little unicorns to go through the enrollment procedures also let the Outlander, who was a correspondence student, know the formal enrollment process.

This was much more troublesome than correspondence enrollment. Even if the little unicorns didn't need the most complex identity background review due to their race, other processes such as identity entry, race and soul wavelength recording, and entrance tests were troublesome enough.

When Xia De participated in the entrance test, the Academy only required him to "write an article of no less than eight hundred words on his thoughts on kindness and evil, order and chaos," while the little unicorns who were formal students also needed to test their cultural level.

The new little unicorns, like Ellie, although they were not proficient in the common language, could write very strangely. And the whole test took an hour, with Principal Pigman personally invigilating.

Xia De did not enter the tiered classroom, but stood at the door with the nervous Emilia, watching the unicorn girls sitting in the first row in the sun, holding fountain pens, dangling their legs, and looking at the test papers. But soon he noticed two cats walking from the corner of the corridor behind him.

Xia De knew that the Academy castle kept a lot of cats to prevent mice. He just didn't expect that the two cats would walk straight toward him, rub against his trouser legs after squinting and raising their heads, and then actually signal him to follow them.

"Hmm?"

"The cats in the Academy are very obedient. Maybe they just like you, so they want to show you their mouse jerky warehouse."

Danister said with a smile:

"Emilia, you and the God-Awakener go and see, I'll wait here. Just don't go too far, the exam will end in forty minutes."

So the little elf with pointed ears happily pulled Xia De's sleeve and followed the cats away. Other classrooms in this building were still in class. When Emilia and Xia De chased the cats together, they only felt that the current situation met all her expectations for Academy life—

No need to attend class, walking with the person she likes, and going on an adventure.

It's a pity that this adventure ended in the small garden downstairs. The cats didn't want Xia De to visit the "warehouse"; they just wanted Xia De to save a kitten stuck deep in the stone crevices of the old castle wall.

It looked like the kitten was the child of the two big cats, probably stuck because of being naughty. However, it didn't look scared at all, but stared wide-eyed at the outside.

So Xia De melted the wall into mud bit by bit, and then dug the dirty kitten out of the mud crevice. When the cat was taken by Emilia to the pond on the side to be washed clean and dried, it was still meowing aggrievedly, and the sound was even sharper than when Little Mia was acting like a spoiled child.

"Sure enough, cats don't like taking baths."

Xia De watched Emilia wash the cat with a smile, and then prepared to restore the wall. It was just that he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something in the crevice that stuck the cat, so he dug in the mud with his hand again, and soon took out an old wooden key from it.

"Time Key?"

The key that appeared unexpectedly in the Academy castle might be predicting something, but the trip to Mount Karas was imminent, and Xia De didn't want to get involved in other storms and delay the appointment with Danister, so this key would probably have to be used later.

"How does the Academy control the number of cats living here? The students of the Academy must be very willing to feed these cats. If there is no management, it won't take many years for wild cats to flood here."

After seeing off the three cats, Xia De asked Emilia on the way back. He originally thought it would be a physical castration method, but the Outlander didn't realize that this was a magic academy.

"Magic potion. Configuring that kind of magic potion is content that second-year students come into contact with."

Magic potion is indeed much simpler than surgery, and Emilia also told Xia De that most of the cats living in the Academy have "Cat-Li" bloodlines, which makes them smarter and also greatly weakens their reproductive ability.

"However, even with Cat-Li bloodlines, the cats in the Academy are not as smart as your Little Mia. After all, the cats in the Academy can't accompany Ellie to complete the snow mountain adventure."

"Little Mia is indeed smart... That cat actually belongs to Ms. Gao De."

The entrance test for the four little unicorns ended soon. In fact, no matter how they did, they would definitely be admitted, so Xia De didn't worry about the result.

Afterward, he and Emilia accompanied the unicorn girls and the professors to continue the enrollment process. However, under the arrangement of Principal Professor Pigman, although the group walked around the school, they didn't meet any students.

And after the enrollment process ended, the last thing was to distribute books and school supplies to the unicorn girls, and arrange their accommodation.

Dormitories didn't need to be arranged specially. Unicorns have special habitats in the Academy. Even the girls who can transform into humans prefer to live with their ethnic groups rather than live in human houses.

Therefore, they only needed to get their textbooks, school uniforms, badges, and other supplies to be considered formal students of St. Byrons Comprehensive Academy.

When Ellie and the others were queuing up to collect books, Xia De asked Danister curiously:

"I said Ellie's tuition fee in advance, I'll be responsible for it. How should the tuition fees for Little Liana and the others be calculated?"

Xia De still remembered that when he enrolled, because he had no money, Dr. Schneider specially extracted a sum of pounds from the group's funds to help him pay it temporarily.

"Little Liana and the others are Academy unicorns. They are part of the Academy themselves, so enrollment doesn't require tuition fees, and the Academy even has to issue them extra living expenses and pocket money."

Xia De asked again:

"How much living expenses and pocket money does the Academy issue them? I don't know how much money Ellie needs for her daily use in the Academy, so I can just use it as a reference."

The price level in the St. Byrons Academy city is about the same as in Tobesk, but because sorcerers also need to buy expensive books, casting supplies, and special materials, the spending is not small.

Danister then told Xia De a number, and Xia De prepared to give her pocket money according to 1.5 times this number. However, this money didn't need to be taken out by Xia De. His accumulated income in the Academy's fixed assets had always been on the Academy's account, so it was still the Academy issuing money to Ellie.

And because Ellie joined the Academy's unicorn group, her residence and daily life expenses were naturally the responsibility of the Academy. And Ellie's personal hobbies, besides apples, were nothing, so this money was definitely enough.

PS: This chapter's picture "Cat in the Wall". ===== CHAPTER 3846 =====