Faced with the Blood Clan's strong pressure, the Demon Realm Inspectorate's attitude was to strictly follow the rules.
They had escorted the Blood Clan emissary across the extreme cold of the northern territory into the demon realm, and would accompany the emissary to investigate the academy.
This Blood Clan emissary possessed a unique blood ability that could identify humans disguised as demons.
If the Blood Clan emissary were to actually find humans in the academy, the leaders of this Inferno Corridor Academy would bear enormous responsibility!
To appease the Blood Clan's anger, the Demon Clan might even directly offer them as sacrifices.
Moreover, to prevent the principal from interfering, the Education Department had preemptively reassigned him, ostensibly for important agenda items, but in reality to temporarily strip him of power.
"According to estimates, the Blood Clan emissary will arrive at the school in a few hours," the Vice Principal's voice was full of fatigue.
Now, the only turning point for the academy was the Demon King's covert assistance.
Although on the surface, the Demon King's attitude was ambiguous.
After all, from the Demon King's standpoint, he absolutely could not openly help the school deceive the Blood Clan.
That would anger the Blood Clan and violate the treaty.
But before the principal was reassigned, the Demon King had secretly sent word that if the Blood Clan really sent an emissary, he would also send a resourceful confidant to assist the school.
And if there really were infiltrating humans in the academy that the Blood Clan was looking for, this special envoy from the Demon King's Castle would be the academy's last lifeline!
But until now, with the Blood Clan emissary due to arrive in just a few hours, there was still no sign of the special envoy!
"Lord Special Envoy, where are you..."
The Vice Principal placed both hands on the table, his brows furrowed tightly, his expression troubled. His eyes looked lost, as if searching for a way out in the darkness.
Now, all he could hope for was that the special envoy with the Demon King's black jade token would appear quickly to help them deal with the Blood Clan emissary.
...
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Under the starry sky of the glass corridor bridge, Lanqi lowered his head to look at the credential in his hand, his fingers lightly brushing over the words on its surface.
His gaze moved back and forth between the Demon King's Castle residence permit and the black seal, his eyes full of confusion and thoughts.
"Could this guy not be a student?"
"It feels like he might be someone with connections."
Lanqi muttered to himself.
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It felt like he had inexplicably defeated a hidden monster.
Dropping some items of unclear significance.
"..."
Huberrian didn't know how to comment.
Originally, according to the Shadow World's mechanics, this silver-haired demon should not have been killed in the safest functional area, the Demon Lord's Royal Restaurant. Unfortunately, he encountered Lanqi, this troublemaker.
So having some strange items on him wasn't surprising.
"Anyway, we have a total of five class periods. For the next third period, we need to try finding a difficulty level 3 classroom," Lanqi said, standing up.
Only in a difficulty level 3 classroom would they possibly encounter demon professors of senior rank.
And only from such demons could they probe for information related to the "high-level meeting" the school had recently held.
Lanqi looked at the mission objectives.
The current academy exploration rate had reached 18%.
Earlier, during the second period, they had enjoyed a wonderful dinner for over an hour.
Entering the restaurant didn't increase the exploration rate.
This indicated that functional areas wouldn't contribute to its growth.
The other two teams might have each provided 4%, meaning they had each entered and cleared a difficulty level 2 classroom.
"Looks like we're falling a bit behind in progress. We'll have to work hard from now on!" Lanqi encouraged himself and Huberrian with a sense of responsibility.
After all, if they couldn't successfully clear the Shadow World, it would trigger natural disasters in the real world!
"Alright."
Looking at Lanqi's natural smile, Huberrian only suspected that he was full and eager to continue playing in the amusement park.
She sighed and followed the energetic Lanqi.
How could the Shadow World challenge be like this? It was completely different from what she had imagined before.
It felt like accompanying Lanqi on a joyride through a demon-themed amusement park.
Under the starlight, Lanqi and Huberrian worked together to move the silver-haired demon's corpse to the window.
With a joint effort, they tossed the body. Like an arrow leaving its string, the silver-haired demon's corpse slowly fell through the transparent glass corridor's window into the endless inferno below.
As his figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, only the empty glass corridor and the silent night sky remained.
Huberrian breathed a sigh of relief.
Lanqi had thoughtfully lent a hand earlier, not leaving all the heavy work to her alone. Now the deduction of virtue points would be split between them, rather than all falling on her.
The two leaned against the wall, chatting idly to pass the time.
Until the ancient and melodious bell sounds once again filled the entire school, breaking the silence here.
The connection point of the corridor, as if suddenly possessing life, began to slowly rotate.
The rolling and colliding of stone blocks sounded like a pendulum striking iron, creating a torrent of thunderous noise.
Soon, the corridor of the functional area reconnected with that of the teaching area.
During this process, those winding black stone steps extended downward in a spiral, without any support, as if suspended in mid-air.
And around the staircase, there was only endless darkness, leaving one without any sense of direction.
About ten minutes later, they saw Bachel hurriedly running up the stairs.
His pace seemed somewhat rushed, carefully avoiding the gaps on the steps as he ran.
"My apologies for being late," Bachel said respectfully, bowing his head to Lanqi and Huberrian without daring to show any negligence.
"It's alright, Bachel. Please lead us to a difficulty level 3 classroom, preferably an arts-related one," Lanqi said with a smile, patting his shoulder casually.
"Difficulty level 3..."
Bachel's face immediately showed a hint of surprise, followed by a look of shock.
They were suddenly increasing the intensity, challenging the highest difficulty classroom for each department in the academy.
"You can just wait in the hallway if you want. I'll give you three credit coins as payment directly," Lanqi said, spreading his hands. He could see Bachel's fear.
"!"
Bachel was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously in gratitude.
For some reason, he felt that after Lanqi and Huberrian came from the Demon Lord's Royal Restaurant, not only had their credit coins not decreased, but they seemed to have struck it rich like nouveau riche?
But in such a strictly policed functional area, how could there be a possibility of reversing the meter...
"Lead the way," Lanqi said with a grin.
Now that he was so rich he couldn't count his credit coins, there was no need to drag Bachel along to clear the map. Giving him a few at his own expense was no problem.
He just needed to stay with Huberrian, whose strength had been boosted to the fourth level by the limited-time meal, as a bodyguard for protection.
Lanqi felt that after clearing another difficulty level 3 classroom,
The crisis hidden in this academy should become clear!