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Let’s rewind time by a few minutes.

At the entrance of Catheyah Auditorium…

Wendy stood at the door and pushed her glasses. “Are you sure that’s alright, President Diana? Isn’t your mission just to bring Lilith over?”

“Haha, what can go wrong? It’s just a joke, I think Lilith probably isn’t a petty person. She’ll forgive me.”

“Really? I think Vice President Lilith is a very prideful person. If you succeed in scheming against her, especially with such a dirty trick, I’m afraid she won’t forgive you so easily.”

Diana grabbed Wendy’s abundant chest with both hands and smirked, “Oh well, by then I’ll just let Lilith fondle with these to her heart’s content. She’ll definitely forgive me.”

Wendy remained expressionless, neither resisting nor showing anger. She just looked at Diana silently, allowing Diana to do whatever her naughty hands wanted to on her chest like an emotionless doll.

Diana’s interest waned and she quickly got her hands off. “It’s okay. Part of my task is to demoralize her anyway, I’m just seizing the opportunity to do that while I’m at it.”

“It certainly looks more like you’re seizing the opportunity to have fun instead.”

“It’s all the same.” Diana made a gesture in front of her chest and said, “I think she’s about to catch up to me. I have to run now. You must remember to tell Lilith those two things I told you about just now without leaving a word out!”

Without waiting for a response from Wendy, she had bolted away.

Wendy watched Diana until her figure disappeared from her sight. With a sigh, she took out a peculiar-looking simple coin and gently tossed it. The coin made a beautiful arc in the air before falling right back on the tip of her finger.

It didn’t lay flat on the head nor the tail side. Instead, it stood right on her fingertip.

The coin trembled slightly, as though it was affected by some unknown force.

Wendy looked at the trembling coin that remained standing on finger with a frown. In the end, it couldn’t stand that unknown force and shattered.

She put away the remains of the coins quietly, then lifted her head up again and looked at the direction where Diana had left. There was finally a ripple in her calm pupils. “Just a joke? I hope you don’t go overboard, President Diana,” she murmured under her breath.

Meanwhile, Diana embarked on her intense yet slightly exhilarating journey of escaping.

She picked various roads and trails as her escape route, but never ventured deep into the mountains and the ancient forests. Not only that, she also didn’t completely conceal her aura and purposely left behind some clues.

She would occasionally stop and look back, as though she was looking forward to Lilith catching up to her.

“Strange, why isn’t Lilith here yet?”

Diana was extremely puzzled. As a demon beast or monster in disguise, Lilith’s best strength would be her physical body. Hence, she should have the most advantage when it comes to moving on land.

Why hasn’t she shown up yet after so long?

“Did she give up? Or did she lose sight of me? I’d be disappointed if that’s the case, Lilith.”

Diana who stopped and was about to look back suddenly felt something was off.

The color of the sky… has changed? Sunset? No, it’s still morning.

Diana looked up, trying to make sense of what was going on.

As soon as she lifted her head, she was nearly scared out of her wits.

A great magic had been activated in the distance and the entire sky was rendered crimson.

The destructive aura radiating from it made Diana’s hair stand up on its end.

That magic spell will definitely kill its target if it doesn’t miss!

That was what Diana’s instinct told her.

Calm down! Calm down! The target probably isn’t me. I didn’t offend any saint-level powerful figure. Besides, this is the academy. No one ever dares to act recklessly here. This must be a drill! It must be!

Diana comforted herself and calmed down a little.

However, her pupils instantly shrunk at the very next moment. She was shaken to her core. A familiar figure floated in the center of the great magic.

Lilith! It turned out to be Lilith! And Lilith was staring in this direction. No, more like she was staring at Diana who had just teased her.

Diana paled with fright and burst into tears. Did she have to do that? It was just a joke! Did she have to punish her with a saint-level magic?

A cruel smile crept across Lilith’s face when she realized that Diana had finally discovered her.

She moved her lips slightly, as she slowly mouthed some words to Diana.

“Good luck to you too, President Diana~ Don’t die…”
“……”

Is this what they meant by… the evils we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear?

Diana clenched her teeth. Her figure swayed slightly and she gradually began to fade away.

“No matter how awesome your magic is, as long as it can’t hit…”

However, color instantly drained from Diana’s face when she discovered that she couldn’t stop herself from being locked onto by the magic.

“Impossible! I should be able to escape, unless a saint-level expert forcibly locked onto me with their domain! Although this is a saint-level magic, Lilith isn’t a saint-level expert, right?”

A huge red lotus slowly bloomed in the crimson sky. Countless fine threads hung from the red lotus like endlessly growing roots that were slowly extending toward Diana.

With that huge size of the red lotus, although slow, it took only the space of a few breaths for those fine threads to almost reach Diana.

There also seemed to be some invisible force restraining President Diana and preventing her from resisting.

“You’ve got to be kidding me…”

President Diana felt true despair for the very first time in her life.

“I was wrong, I was wrong! I’ll never tease you again!”

She apologized while crying.

It was too bad Lilith couldn’t hear it. Even if she could, it wouldn’t change a thing.

A spell couldn’t be controlled after it was released. This was the disadvantage of using scrolls.

The red silk thread was now only a few meters away from Diana, who was in total despair.

It was at this moment, an old voice traveled into her ears, like an oasis in the desert.

“I asked you to bring her to me, not this.”

A thin arm appeared from behind Diana. A fist was flung at the sky, accompanied by a low but powerful growl that resounded across the heaven.

“Scatter!”

Like clouds being blown away in a strong wind, the huge red lotus was forcibly scattered by the old fist.

Lilith froze in place, at a loss of what to do next.

Diana wailed and turned around to hug the old figure behind her.

“Master, you’re here! Did you know that I was almost killed by your mission?”