Troy was indeed still the same Troy who valued money above all else.

Luo Wei felt slightly relieved. Thank goodness, she had almost thought he had been possessed like herself.

Now that the crisis was averted, she should return to school. Staying out all night would result in deducted points.

She wondered if the academy allowed day students. Bathing in the dormitory was really inconvenient. She should ask Barton about it someday.

The night was alluring. Luo Wei, accompanied by the silver moon, returned to the Romanesque castle surrounded by roses.

In the magic academy devoid of nighttime entertainment, students generally retired early. Half of the windows in the girls' dormitory building were already dark.

It might also be to save oil, as lamp oil was not cheap at this time.

Luo Wei lifted her long dress and gently stepped on the stone stairs of the spiral staircase to avoid disturbing others.

A few wall lamps were placed on the staircase wall, with dim flames burning quietly.

As she was about to reach the second floor, a long shadow was cast on the stairs.

Luo Wei looked up and encountered Axina at the narrow passage above.

"You didn't leave?" Axina was surprised.

Luo Wei was even more surprised: "Leave? Where to?"

Axina looked down at her, her usually composed and smiling face now looking somewhat harsh: "I saw you go to the stable to get a horse. I thought you were going to run away."

Luo Wei walked up two steps and asked back: "Why would I run away?"

"Then why did you get a horse?" Axina pressed.

Luo Wei chuckled: "The afternoon sun was nice, I just went for a horse ride outside the city. Many people went, why are you singling me out?"

"It's normal for young nobles to go out hunting. They go out all the time."

"So it's not normal that I like to go out for a breather?"

Luo Wei stepped onto the last step, brushing past Axina without yielding.

"Are you called Luo Wei Isis, or some other surname?" Axina called out behind her, her voice carrying a chill.

Luo Wei paused her steps and turned her head: "Where did you hear this surname?"

"So it is you," Axina's gaze was like a cold, venomous snake, "I know your purpose, but you'd better give up on that idea."

Luo Wei: "I don't understand what you're talking about."

"You do understand. Those things no longer belong to you. You'd better not hope to reclaim anything, because your tainted bloodline is not worthy."

The gentle facade faded away, finally revealing the bare bones beneath the beautiful skin. Axina stared at her contemptuously: "You're not even qualified to be my foot-washing maid."

"Hehe, interesting." Luo Wei hooked her lips and said slowly, "I've heard that people tend to emphasize what they lack the most."

"Is that how you are, Axina?"

Axina's expression changed, laughing in extreme anger: "I hope you can keep being so sharp-tongued, don't end up kneeling and begging me later."

She strode past Luo Wei, leaving a final sentence.

"Recognize your place early, leave Siria, don't force me to take action."

Luo Wei maintained her smile: "Then I'll wait and see."

The wall lamps elongated the shadows of the two, and on the empty corridor, the two shadows diverged, growing further apart.

Luo Wei returned to her dormitory, her expression instantly darkening.

She had misunderstood Axina's intentions in targeting her all along.

Axina wasn't trying to expose her; her real purpose was to make her leave the academy, leave Siria.

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What she thought were probes were actually the other's intimidation tactics.

Axina knew something and was wary of her appearance, so she wanted to scare her away or make her give up.

But what exactly was the reason for her to do this?

She could be certain that the original owner didn't know Axina and had no conflict of interest with her. In the original owner's memories of over a decade, she had always stayed in the fishing village, never leaving it.

The original owner's parents died early, and she was adopted by the village chief's family when she was three. As she grew up and her beauty blossomed, the village chief feared he couldn't protect her and didn't even dare to let her meet outsiders.

Under these circumstances, how could she possibly have a conflict with a noble young lady from afar?

Unless Axina had mistaken her for someone else.

"Isis." Luo Wei muttered this surname.

It felt somewhat familiar, where had she heard it before?

After thinking for a long time without remembering, Luo Wei simply blew out the oil lamp, got into bed, and went to sleep!

Tired from the day, she fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow, her sleep quality surprisingly good.

A dreamless night.

The bell rang, and the girls' dormitory quickly became lively.

Knocking sounds, footsteps, various collision sounds, kept ringing non-stop early in the morning.

When Luo Wei was awakened by the noise, she still had a sense of absurdity, not knowing what day it was.

It took her a while to remember that today was her seventh day of school, and she had a swordsmanship class in the morning.

This was the downside of Siria Magic Academy. Although having classes for half a day and being free for the other half was relaxing, they had one class every day all year round, not giving even one lazy morning. Heaven knows how difficult it was for her to get up every day.

Because she got up late, Luo Wei didn't even have time to brush her teeth. She just washed her face and ran to the square—the location for the swordsmanship class was the academy square.

For the first swordsmanship class, the school issued wooden swords. Even if hit, it would only hurt for a while and wouldn't injure anyone.

The swordsmanship teacher was Coach Campbell. As for his first name, he didn't introduce it himself, and the students didn't dare to ask.

After teaching some basic sword techniques, he let everyone practice in pairs.

Luo Wei was paired with a round-faced young girl named Amy, who came from a farmer's family, considered relatively wealthy among commoners.

However, there were too many nobles in the class, and Amy, like other commoners, was discriminated against.

"Miss Luo Wei, you're really a good person."

After practicing for a while, Amy gave Luo Wei a "good person card".

"Thank you for your compliment." Luo Wei accepted her praise.

She had heard such words so often lately that she didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"Amy, you need to raise your sword-holding hand a bit higher, that's the standard position."

Luo Wei patiently corrected Amy's posture. She intended to befriend the commoners in the class, and her efforts over the past week had shown significant results.

The commoners in the class were still afraid of the nobles, but they had started to greet her actively when they saw her.

At noon, Luo Wei didn't go to the cafeteria for lunch. The square was close to the school gate, so she planned to eat outside.

Troy was waiting outside the school and walked over when he saw her come out.

"How are they doing?"

"I checked on them this morning. The two knights have already woken up."

Luo Wei nodded: "That's good. As long as they can wake up, half their lives are saved."

Come to think of it, people in this era were really unfortunate. When they got sick or injured, they didn't dare to find a doctor and had to rely on themselves to get through it.

But if it were her, she probably wouldn't want to find one either.

The medical methods of this period were downright diabolical. The outcome of falling ill was only one: death.

If you found a doctor, you would die even faster.

Medical science in medieval Europe was very backward. Due to their excessive belief in religion, they believed that sick people were either possessed or inherently sinful, and shouldn't seek treatment but should confess to God instead.

Even if they did treat, the process was extremely painful. They would either bleed you to death, make you vomit to death, or if not, give you an enema to death or poison you to death.

The most cruel method was the amputation method. They would cut off wherever it hurt: cut off the hand if it hurt, cut off the foot if it hurt, drive iron nails into the brain if the head hurt, whip pregnant women if they had difficult labor, increasing the mortality rate from 10% to 100%.

If you were cured, you had to thank God for His forgiveness. If not cured, it meant you were so evil that you deserved to die early. It was utterly dark.

When they were looking for a place to recuperate yesterday, Luo Wei had guessed her concerns.

If she had brought the two severely injured knights to the academy, the academy would definitely have actively sought doctors to treat them. Not only would they be treated to death, but the two loyal knights would also bear the sin of "divine punishment", probably unable to rest in peace even after death.

Although this world didn't have God or Christ, the medical methods were no different from medieval Europe.

If Luo Wei could be heartless enough, she could even pretend to be a doctor to cheat—no, to make money in the future.

After all, she had studied astrology, and in this era, doctors who could choose different parts of the body for bloodletting based on the stars were highly sought after and respected professionals.

Thinking of those wronged souls who died from excessive bloodletting, Luo Wei shuddered.

No, no, she couldn't even think about such things. It would be too harmful to her karma!

TBC