magic high school

Chapter 61: Academy City Area

"The portal is ready. We have retrieved the coordinates of Li Ge's hometown," someone said.

"The portal is about to open."

"I'll go in first," said a senior with dark circles under his eyes, and immediately stepped into the portal.

However, the next moment, he walked straight through the portal, as if passing through a virtual image.

He seemed to defy fate and stepped in again, but still couldn't get in.

Subsequently, not only him, but many others tried to travel to Li Ge's world through the portal, but were unable to do so.

Even the vice principal was forcibly ejected a few seconds after entering the portal.

At that moment, Li Ge immediately sensed something was amiss.

None of the vice-principal and the rest of the group could travel to their own Holy Empire...

Why?

Li Ge suddenly had countless guesses. He could travel between the two worlds smoothly, so why couldn't others?

With a hand on Li Ge's shoulder, the vice principal looked at him and said reassuringly, "Don't worry, it has nothing to do with you. The main thing is that there is a very strange black wall in your world. The administrator inside is doing everything he can to prevent others from entering, and at the same time, to prevent anything from leaking out."

The vice principal's seemingly comforting words only made Li Ge more confused.

what about me?

Why is Li Ge able to come and go normally?

After a long while, while the testing was still ongoing at the scene, Li Ge said, "Could you let me go in one more time?"

The vice principal pondered for a long time, seemingly considering something, but finally said, "Take the one-time teleportation card and give it a try."

Without hesitation, Li Ge stepped in. However, at this moment, he did not return to the Holy Empire. Instead, he felt as if he had been bounced away by something.

In that instant, Li Ge thought of the god of that world that her aunt had mentioned...

God willing!

"We may have discovered a problem. Li Ge, the intelligence you brought back may be true. The other side is similar to a world consciousness, occupying a local advantage. You can think of it as some kind of omniscient and omnipotent god within its own planet."

Li Ge: "..."

No, there really is a God of Destiny?

Li Ge didn't know, but at this moment, he only felt that he was too weak and powerless.

After all, he had only been a junior mage for a little over a month.

"Don't be discouraged, study hard. The academy will try to find a way to break through this black wall." The vice principal comforted him. "But even if it's the world consciousness, we have ways to find loopholes. Don't worry, the school will not give up on any child, not even those naughty kids in the red dormitory."

The principal tried to comfort Li Ge, but it didn't seem to have much effect.

"Okay!" Li Ge replied.

Did the God of Heaven find the bug in himself as a time traveler and then fix it?

He's like someone who wanted to go home, but was kicked out the door by fate, who pointed at him and shouted, "You're not allowed to attend the Eagle Party!"

Li Ge didn't know if this analogy was right or wrong; it was also possible that fate had simply expelled him from the world.

As for the academy, it might become very wary once it comes into contact with that so-called world consciousness. If it really is something like destiny, the academy might have to assess the level of danger.

Thinking of this, Li Ge looked at Lola beside him.

"Don't worry, wherever your uncle is, that's your home." Li Ge smiled and instinctively reached out to pat her head, but the next moment, his hand passed right through her spirit body.

……

The following day, Li Ge had already rented a room in a city called "Academy City" outside the campus.

This is an ordinary city built around a magic high school, but the city's management is also handled by the academy's higher-ups. The academy city area is extremely large; Li Ge glanced at it and estimated it to be about the size of several Vionas.

Even in my previous life, it would have been a city of the Tokyo metropolitan area level.

From this perspective, there are quite a few ordinary people in this world, and perhaps their ancestors were once graduates of magic high schools.

It's also possible that this is the most common recruitment channel for magic high schools?

He only managed to rent a decent-sized house here after asking around through Yilian. The rent was 3 points a month, and he also got a body for Lola to use.

The academy's artificial prosthetic body technology allows them to create bodies that are exactly the same as real people. This is also the most common method for creating physical bodies for spiritual beings. This top-of-the-line prosthetic body, completely customized to fit Lola, is theoretically no different from her own body. In fact, after the soul is adapted, it can even grow and develop normally.

It cost Li Ge over a hundred points. This morning, in the medical school's fitting room, Lola lay down in a body that looked exactly like her original self. The moment the cyborg opened its eyes, she was first bewildered, and then cautiously clenched her fist.

At that moment, the little girl's eyes seemed to redden, and she said something like, "Uncle can pat my head again."

After that, Li Ge set up a card to regularly transfer points to Xiao Lola and arranged for her to attend a very famous elementary school in the Academy City area.

Because the minimum enrollment age for magic high schools is 16, the school's intention is that young children should not be exposed to such dangerous things, and should at least come after they are more mature.

That's how little Lola was settled.

However, when Li Ge realized what was happening, he was even stunned for a moment.

Because that's how I was when I was a child, living alone in an apartment in a wealthy neighborhood, attending the best schools, and always having more money than I could ever spend in my account...

Aside from not having parents, I was basically a spoiled rich kid who did whatever I wanted back then.

However, looking at the arrangements he has made for Little Lola, Li Ge even hallucinated his past self.

"Don't worry, Uncle, I will study hard and get into the same school as you when I grow up!" Little Lola didn't seem too sad about having to live alone in the future. Instead, she said innocently and even imagined her future.

Li Ge smiled and said, "Don't worry, Uncle will come to see you when he's resting. He might even bring some of his friends. Just be nice to him then, don't call me 'Auntie,' call me 'Brother' or 'Sister'..."

"OK!"

"If you get bullied at school, tell me, and I promise to stand up for you."

"good……"

"Tell me if you need money."

"Okay, okay, Uncle, you're nagging like a mother!"

Thus, little Lola was finally settled in the city outside of school, perhaps just as Mayor Roland had settled Li Ge when he was a child.

……

Three days later, in the dormitory, Yi Lian looked at Li Ge, who was still engrossed in his books, with great boredom.

Li Ge entered three keywords into the search terminal: meme contamination, world barrier, and traversal...

"So you only went home for one day, and then you've been spending all your time in the library. What happened?" Yi Lian was very puzzled. Why did that chuunibyou Li Ge suddenly become like a traditional monk after going home, spending all his time engrossed in books? "And it seems you even brought back a daughter?"

"Stop messing around, I'm studying," Li Ge immediately retorted. "Besides, she's at most a niece!"

During this period, he devoted himself almost entirely to his studies.

At the same time, he indeed discovered a lot of knowledge that he did not know before.

For example, something called "world consciousness," a strange life form born from the collective consciousness of the world, or the collective consciousness of a planet.

For life on a single planet, world consciousness is the easiest object to be worshipped as a "god".

This may also be because things worshipped by local civilizations, such as lightning, hurricanes, earth, and sea, are generally considered to be part of the world, thus giving rise to a unified consciousness.

Based on the information provided by the vice principal and her aunt, and combined with the information she had recently gathered, Li Ge was able to roughly figure out the current situation of her family.

The "god" that my aunt and the others were talking about was most likely their own world consciousness, which is to say, the will of heaven!