Daytime.

Richard returned to the Whitestone Tower Academy, walking side by side with Gro on the college's bluestone paths.

Looking around, Richard's eyes flashed, and he noticed something change.

I saw that the facades of some nearby buildings had been painted, some defects on the stone road had been repaired, and the trees beside the road had been carefully trimmed into a uniform shape......

Although everything is not completely new, it is also a great change, which makes him can't help but think of the appearance of some schools on the modern earth to welcome the inspection of leaders.

This...... What's going on?

Richard asked Gro about this doubt, Gro's eyes widened, and he said with a look of surprise: "Your Excellency Richard, you don't know what's going on?"

Richard shrugged his shoulders and said calmly, "I really don't know." If you know, you can talk to me. "Because recently, he is almost not in the academy, and he really doesn't know about some news that has long been popularized.

"Oh well. "It's all because of the East Coast Joint Exchange." ”

"East Coast Joint Exchange?"

"Yes. Gro nodded, explaining.

After some explanation, Richard finally understood why.

On the East Coast, there are more than a dozen powerful wizarding organizations, which can be regarded as the top powers.

There is fierce competition between these dozen wizarding organizations, and they don't want to swallow up the rest of the wizarding organizations and unify the entire East Coast. However, this kind of thinking can only be thought about, because none of the wizarding organizations that have survived to the present day are easy to bully.

There may be a difference between the strength and weakness of more than a dozen wizarding organizations, but there is no crushing strength gap. As a result, more than a dozen wizarding organizations could not help anyone. Usually there are small actions in the secret are constant, but on the surface, there is a tacit understanding of peaceful coexistence and maintaining a friendly face with each other. The East Coast Joint Exchange Conference is a product of this situation.

Every year, more than a dozen wizarding organizations will select students of all levels in their own organization to go to a wizarding organization to live together for a period of time. On the surface, it is communication and learning, but in fact, it is to show strength and show muscles.

If an organization has failed to achieve good results in exchange meetings for many years and sent extremely poor students, then it can almost be concluded that it is going downhill. Secretly, the rest of the organization will attack it even more ruthlessly, and continue to fall into the ground.

And if an organization has excellent grades year after year and sends out extremely strong students, then it can be sure that it is going strong. Secretly, when the rest of the wizarding organizations start, they will inevitably be cautious to prevent being bitten back.

Therefore, more than a dozen wizarding organizations attach more importance to this so-called "East Coast Joint Exchange Conference", and they will devote a lot of energy to participate in each time.

This year, it was the turn of the White Rock Tower, and the students of the remaining dozen or so wizarding organizations on the East Coast would arrive together for some time to come.

To this end, the White Rock Tower began to repair and beautify the White Stone Tower Academy while maintaining its usual various affairs. I don't want to be despised by the rest of the wizarding organizations because of the dilapidation of some corners, so I have the current situation.

After listening to Gro's explanation, Richard nodded, and he understood. After I understood, I didn't pay much attention to it.

In Richard's view, the so-called "East Coast Joint Exchange" had almost nothing to do with him. As an auditor, and the most inconspicuous kind, it is impossible for him to be selected by the White Rock Tower to participate in the exchange meeting, and he does not want to participate at all, at most he appreciates it as a bystander.

After all, not to participate in the tedious and meaningless college life was predetermined by the principle of "O'Connell's razor".

With this in mind, Richard and Groh arrived in front of the library in the academy - this was the purpose of Richard's return to the academy:

Although the numbered connection between the books of the Black Spirit Empire has been figured out, more books of the Black Spirit Empire must be found in order to unlock the secrets of the White Stone Tower and the Black Spirit King.

It was in this library that the first Black Spirit Empire book had been discovered, and this time Richard was ready to try his luck again.

Richard walked towards the library and saw two acquaintances walking out, two of them, the extremely wealthy princess Ruth, and Bucky, one of Ruth's fiancés.

Ruth took Bucky's arm and walked briskly. Bucky was stiff and smiling with a tormented look on his face.

After the two walked over, Bucky glanced at Gro and Richard, his expression was a little embarrassed, but Ruth tilted his head, glanced at Richard very angrily, let out an unexplained cold snort in his mouth, and pulled Bucky away.

Well?

Richard turned his head and watched the two walk away, his eyes flashed, and it took him half a sound to realize the meaning of Ruth's action.

It all started a long time ago.

At the beginning of the school year, Ruth returned to the academy and couldn't find anyone to clean it, so she asked him to clean it, promising to tempt him with a high price. However, he ignored it, forcing Ruth to clean up by herself, making it miserable. Since then, there has been a contradiction.

Some time after the start of the school year, Bucky returned to the academy, and Ruth immediately asked Bucky to trouble him in his sword class, but without success.

After that, in order to complete the task assigned by Ruth, Bucky confessed some things to him, which was very pitiful. He did a personal favor along the way, and Kwon succeeded in finding trouble for Bucky.

After that, he didn't see Ruth again, but if he didn't guess wrong, Bucky reported to Ruth that he had taught him a hard lesson and showed enough strength to make him understand that Ruth was not easy to mess with.

That's why Ruth was so energetic just now.

Thinking about this, Richard couldn't help but shake his head. Seriously, he really doesn't like this kind of thing at all, after all, it is meaningless and will not bring any help to his research and goals.

With this in mind, Richard walked into the library with Gro, and began to flip through and inspect the books in the library, hoping to find something he liked.

"Boom la la ......"

......

In the blink of an eye, in the evening, Richard left the White Rock Tower Academy and returned to the laboratory. And the results of the inspection of the library during the day are neither good nor bad:

First of all, two more books were found in the Black Spirit Empire, but both of them were already in possession. One is the most common "My Autobiography - Moratos", number 36, and the other is "Towards Nobility", number 8.

Since then, the number of books "My Autobiography - Moratos" and "Towards Nobility" has reached 6 and 5 respectively.

......

Late at night.

Laboratory, main laboratory.

Sitting at the experimental table, studying the magic pattern for most of the day, Richard stood up, exhaled, rubbed his eyebrows, and tried to relieve the fatigue of his brain.

Glancing at the intricate lines and dense text on the papyrus scrolls on the table, Richard's eyes flashed, knowing that this was the result of hours of work that night.

Because there is no breakthrough progress, the results are not big, but only some improvements have been made on the previous basis.

There is no way to do this, after all, research does not always lead to breakthroughs. In addition to breakthroughs, there is more of a boring long-term study. Only by continuous accumulation can there be a breakthrough - there is no hurry.

"Take your time. Richard muttered to himself, and began to clean up the things on the lab table. When you're done tidying up, walk to the side of the petri dish cupboard.

The cultivation of the secretory cells of the "blood of the gods" in the cupboard is also a matter of urgency. Richard had been cultivating for quite some time and was ready to continue to grow until the cells were ready.

Reaching out, Richard took out the petri dish in the cupboard and placed it under a microscope to look at. Record while observing and then destroy the cells in some contaminated, non-conforming dishes. For the cells in a normal petri dish, nutrients are added and the culture continues.

Richard observed one by one, and soon observed the last few petri dishes, and suddenly saw something different from the eyepiece lens of the microscope.

"Is this ......" Richard squinted at the eyepiece lenses and muttered to himself, "Is this a new trait that has been mutated, and it is a trait that meets the requirements?......!" Although it is still impossible to secrete the 'blood of the gods', it is very likely that it will continue to proceed, and this will ......."

Richard looked up and carefully manipulated the peculiar mutation, dividing the cells into several different dishes, adding enough nutrients, labeling them, and placing them at the top of the cupboard.

"Well, I hope to wait a while, it will bring surprises......"

Richard spoke, and then quickly observed and disposed of the last few remaining petri dishes, closed the cupboard, and walked back to the lab table.

Sitting down at the lab table, Richard took out all the books of the Black Spirit Empire that he had obtained so far, a total of fourteen.

Looking at the fourteen books on the table, Richard's eyes flickered, and he shook his head and muttered: "Too little, still too little, we have to find a way to get more books." So how do you do that?"

"Hmm......"

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