The Dean Has Arrived

Edric College, Dean's Office.

"My lord, do you need me?"

Franken walked into the room and asked Xi Wei who was sitting on the armchair with his chin propped on his hands.

"You are not an outsider, so I'll just say it straight..." Xi Wei sighed, and said solemnly: "Based on our current understanding of the human soul, it is almost impossible to treat Claude's ghost disease." possible."

The skeleton mage stood there for a while, and then asked in his trademark unemotional tone: "However, since you will come to me, there must be more than this bad news, right?"

"Roughly the same……"

Xi Wei smiled wryly.

Last night, the academy system was updated again... Although the basic settings have not changed except for the addition of a v2. task chain.

Main Quest: Mystery of the World i-Soul Territory

Task content: Please choose one of the following two options to explore the mystery of the soul realm.

1 Soul War: If you choose this option, you will get eighty-eight 'horcruxes', each of which will resonate with the soul of a qualified person and display incredible abilities. Horcruxes will record the state and parameters of the user's soul, and according to the law of causality, when two soul tool holders fight, one of them will die. The loser's soul data will be fed back to the Master Tower of the head of the first school district by the soul tool. When all the eighty-eight qualified soul possessors have had death records and feedback, the task is completed. At that time, you will get the 'key' to open the soul boundary.

2 Soul Sacrifice: If you choose this option, you must kill 99,999 people within three days and pile their corpses together. At that time. You can directly learn lv5 soul science.

Task requirements: Please select the corresponding option within 00:10, 24 seconds, otherwise the task will be regarded as a failure.

Remarks: 1 Soul equipment is the manifestation of miracles. Most of the soul tools can make an ordinary person have the strength of a high-level magician. Soul implements have no effect on you or those you designate. When the task is completed, you can choose to cancel the soul equipment and make it disappear from the world. Soul equipment cannot be copied. 2 There is no limit to the method of death for a sacrifice, but you must do it yourself.

To be honest, Xi Wei didn't want to choose any of them.

The former is like deliberately messing up the whole world. It can allow ordinary people to obtain props equivalent to the combat power of an army. No matter which force is in the eastern plains, they will covet it...

The latter is simpler and more direct, want to learn soul science? Okay. Let's kill tens of thousands of people for tuition fees first.

And this time, although it was marked as the main task, not only did it have failure conditions, but the punishment after failure was not announced... Although I was used to being cheated by the system before, but for some reason, this time Xi Wei always had a system that was not a joke . Instead, he released this task very seriously. If the task fails, he will feel like he will miss the future.

This feeling is very mysterious and difficult to explain in words. It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for him to make a decision.

In fact, when this mission came up, it had a time limit of eighteen hours. But even though Xi Wei had been thinking hard for so long, he still couldn't make a decision.

"Now, I have two methods, both of which have a certain chance of saving Cloud." He looked at Franken without blinking: "But both methods have side effects... The first one. It is possible It will cause the situation in the Eastern Plains to settle down into chaos again, and the completion time is uncertain; the second one needs to slaughter 100,000 innocent people to complete, but it can be completed once the number is enough... If you must choose between the two Given the choice between the two. Which would you choose?"

"If it were me, I would definitely choose the second one." Franken said without hesitation: "I am already an undead creature. I have a natural hatred for the living. But, Mr. Dean, you are still a human being. For you, my choice is not necessarily the right one."

He twisted the screw on his temple, and said in a slightly admonishing tone: "Please don't cause endless regret in the future because of the momentary evasion of the dilemma."

"...As expected of Franken."

Xi Wei sighed for a long time, and finally he could only say with a bitter face, "Sorry."

"It's okay, it's my servant's responsibility to dispel the fog in front of you." Franken nodded, his voice seemed to soften a bit.

Because he can't make a choice, he leaves it to others to choose. This attitude is indeed proof of his avoidance of choice.

For Xi Wei, this was even more difficult than facing a hundred adult dragons.

"Without this level of awareness, one cannot touch the mysteries of the soul... Is this what the system wants to tell me?"

Muttering this in his heart, for some reason, Xi Wei suddenly remembered the cold and painful expression when Fate first came to Edric when he talked about his becoming a ghost species.

Just as human cloning was a taboo on Earth before, the search for souls may also be a taboo in this world. Therefore, even in the age of mythology where the magic civilization was extremely developed, there was no real soul science.

So, why did the system let him attack the taboo?

A question from a long time ago came to Xi Wei's mind again - why did the academy system appear on him? What's the purpose? What does this have to do with his establishment of the world's number one academy?

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The long-lost tingling pain emerged from the back of his hand with tattoos, and rushed straight to his forehead at a speed of 120 yards, causing cold sweat to break out of the unsuspecting him.

"Although I have already said it, I still want to say sorry to you again."

Xi Wei took a deep breath and said to Franken again: "I may make a decision that is not good news for you."

"If that's your will." Franken made a mage salute to Xi Wei: "I will watch carefully from the sidelines until Claude...my son leaves this world or is reborn. "

Xi Wei stood up, turned around, and looked at half of the college and the infinitely wide azure sky beyond the college from the floor-to-ceiling windows.

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"Since that's the case... then let me also be the man behind the scenes who stirred up the whole situation."