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Speak of the devil, and he appears. Just as the little bear found the voodoo doll stuck to his back, footsteps sounded behind him.

She instinctively turned her head in the direction of the sound, only to be met with a face magnified in front of her.

The woman who suddenly filled her entire field of vision had a sickly pale face. Because the distance was so close, Xiao Xiong could even see her pores and feel her cold breath on her neck.

The bear's eyes were replaced by red buttons, and its gaping mouth was sewn shut with thread. A woman with messy black hair hugged the bear's head.

Little Bear: ……

Little Bear: …………！ ！ ！ ！

The poor little bear had never seen anything like this before. She had never experienced such a jump scare in her entire life, and she was immediately terrified and fell flat on her back.

"Waaaaaahhhhhhh—" the little bear screamed in agony.

The moment she screamed, the voodoo doll in her hand turned into a rope with a thud, binding her tightly.

The jealous weirdo chuckled, wiped off her makeup, and smoothed her messy hair to the side so it wouldn't block her left eye.

The Jealous Monster looks no different from an ordinary black-haired woman. Her right eye retains the monster's inhuman features, which is a black button. Her black hair is long and messy, and her complexion is not very healthy. At first glance, she does look a bit like a female ghost.

Her eyes drooped, with heavy dark circles under them, and her lips were very pale.

If you look closely, you can actually see traces of stitches left on its body, indicating that it has not yet fully evolved.

She looked down at the little bear tied to the ground and smiled, "Hello, little sadness."

"Jealous of my sister..." The little bear struggled a couple of times, seemingly unable to break free, and then gave up, her eyes brimming with tears, "Let me go..."

The little bear sniffed twice. It had been so long since they last met, yet she was being treated like this... She looked a little aggrieved.

The Jealous Strange Woman was as cold and eccentric as her appearance. She showed no intention of letting go of the teddy bear: "Sorry, I can't let you ruin my plans."

She looked closely at her younger sister, whom she hadn't seen in a long time, and couldn't help but marvel at how quickly children grow up.

When she left Miracle City, Sad Bear had not yet evolved into a human form, and could not even speak clearly; he was still a little baby who could only cry.

They've grown so big now.

However, even after growing up, my weak nature will not change easily.

The jealous weirdo actually felt that his older brother and siblings were all too timid, especially his older brother, who, despite having such strength, was willing to waste the rest of his life in an ordinary and poor existence.

She didn't believe he was washing his hands of the trade.

After leaving Miracle City, Jealous Man realized how vast the outside world was and how much unimaginable potential was hidden within the magic he had taken for granted.

She was never meant to be a fish fry confined to a corner of the world. When she came to the vast ocean, her deepest yearning for freedom and ambition was greatly aroused.

She was desperately absorbing everything unknown, as if every day were her last.

She learned knowledge that her older brother had never taught her, how she should act as an eccentric, and how she, as the embodiment of jealousy, should provoke the darkness in others' hearts... She was working hard to learn all of this.

She made many friends, and although not all of them were good people, she only got what she needed from them.

The dark magic society needs her help; she needs the dark magic society's forbidden arts. It's all very simple.

So she came to this land of the Strange City to help the Black Magic Society further improve its forbidden arts.

Specifically, this means covering up any possible signs of abnormality until things "over there" are finished.

In her opinion, there weren't many people who could keenly perceive the anomaly.

Her older brother, whose strength is unfathomable, is one of them.

However, the Black Magic Society could not have foreseen that Sugiyama Rika and her group would come to the event for a contestant, since neither of them was on the invitation list.

It's okay, as long as we hold off the older brother, we can also try to hold off those three former magical girls.

As for the rest... to be frank, none of them posed any threat.

In the eyes of the jealous monster, both the three magical girls of this generation and his own younger sister who has made great progress are easy to deal with.

The others? Aren't they all just irrelevant people?

The jealous freak has 100% confidence in his own abilities.

Although her sister's current magical abilities surprised her, it was only to the extent that she was slightly surprised.

The magic power that Little Bear acquired may be truly astounding, allowing her to evolve into this form in one fell swoop, but ultimately, Little Bear's combat-related magic is very limited, and she has little combat experience.

You can easily pass the test.

On one side, Sad Bear has been captured by Jealous Strange Man, while on the other side, Sugiyama Rika...

Having learned of the anomaly of the Rainbow Track from the Abyss Gentleman, the three adults, after a brief exchange of glances, realized the seriousness of the situation.

The prankster and the orange juice monster who organized this festival may have been placed under house arrest by the enemy.

He hasn't shown up since the festival started, and his subordinates haven't seen him either, yet the rainbow track is still running normally.

The monster's unique magic disappears after it suffers serious injuries and falls into a deep sleep, so what is certain now is that the prankster monster is still alive.

As for the Orange Juice Monster, judging from the fact that the Ultimate Orange Juice hasn't suddenly gone bad yet, it should still be active.

Chapter 303. The Dark Wizard

For Terasaki Ayasa, finding strange people was much easier than using tracking magic to track ordinary people.

“Everyone’s magic has a unique anti-counterfeiting mark,” said Ayasa Terasaki. “If you analyze the overlapping magic fluctuations of all the magic a person uses, you will find that there must be a segment that completely overlaps. Converting this into a visual image is what is called a ‘magic rune’.”

Abyss Gentleman and Hoshino Yui also knew this, as they had both studied the principles of magic for a period of time, and magic runes were a fairly basic concept in magic theory.

Therefore, Terasaki Ayasa's explanations were basically only for the intuitive magic school, Sugiyama Rika.

Sugiyama Rika raised her hand: "So, Ayasa, you can use tracking magic through magic runes?"

Although she is an intuitive person, Sugiyama Rika's intelligence is not so low as to not understand Terasaki Ayasa's meaning.

She quickly grasped the knowledge Terasaki Ayasa had described and realized that she had probably also conducted in-depth research on tracking magic.

Although Terasaki Ayasa appeared to be a lazy, unambitious office worker when she went to see her, Terasaki Ayasa's time management skills were actually outrageously strong.

Even with a full schedule, Terasaki Ayasa is able to complete one magic research project per week. Occasionally, she will spend more time on more complex projects, but generally it will not exceed two weeks.

This is something that most magic researchers would find incredible.

But Terasaki Ayasa has this ability because she laid a solid foundation during her partnership with Lena, the serpent of wisdom, and now she can handle any task with ease.

The most important thing is her talent.

Terasaki Ayasa, as a magical girl who can be contracted by a gem beast representing wisdom, has no doubt about her talent in magical research.

In fact, if she hadn't been so averse to the limelight, she could have definitely reached the pinnacle of magical research and become a leading figure among magical researchers of this era.

As a child, Aya Terasaki studied magic for two reasons: first, to help Rika Sugiyama, and second, because she felt that magic could greatly improve her life and provide her with convenience.

Now, perhaps influenced by that little snake, or perhaps because the study of magic has become a habit, she still maintains the strong thirst for knowledge she had in her youth, never stopping for a moment.

The improvement of tracking magic was also part of a research project she completed a long time ago.

For humans, each person's magic runes are different. If you want to track a person's movements through their magic runes, you must first collect enough magic fluctuation information, extract the magic runes, and register them.

Magic runes are the "fingerprints" or "DNA" of magic. They are unique to each human, and there are absolutely no two human magic runes that are exactly the same.

It can only be used normally if the magic runes are collected and registered in advance, but this is only Terasaki Ayasa's personal research and cannot be promoted to everyone.

However, the monster's magical markings are a bit more unique than those of humans.

Because monsters don't truly die, and a core attribute is shared by many monsters, the magic runes don't change.

Compared to the numerous humans who register their unique magic patterns, the monsters' magic patterns are inherited, making registration much simpler.

Moreover, information such as the strange person's magical markings can actually be found in the spiritual veins of their birthplace.

Since strange beings are born from spiritual veins, they naturally leave information deep within them. Each attribute corresponds to the location of a strange being; to find the information, one simply needs to extract it from the depths of the spiritual vein.

It couldn't be simpler.

Although the Prankster now resides in Strange City, he was originally a monster from Miracle City, and was also born in Miracle City.

Among the people present was a guy who could freely enter and exit the Miracle City's spiritual veins.

"There's no time to lose," said the Gentleman of the Abyss.

These two helped him delay the Star Mage when he previously planned to tamper with the rules of the Spirit Vein.

They were friends who had genuinely helped each other, and the Abyss Gentleman had no intention of standing idly by when the other person encountered trouble.

With the aid of tracking magic, the location of the two missing strange men could be found quickly. Sugiyama Rika was also quick; ten minutes was enough for her to make a round trip and copy back the magic rune information that Terasaki Ayasa needed.

Terasaki Ayasa pressed her palm against Sugiyama Rika's palm, then raised them up, and light purple magical light points containing information flickered in her hands.

Extract the necessary information, and then cast the spell.

The complex magic circle stretched and deformed in her hands, eventually turning into a simple arrow pointing in a direction behind her.

Everyone only needs to infuse a little magic into their eyes to see a band of light made of magic extending towards the target.

The overlapping of the light bands from the two strange figures indicates that they are together.

From this perspective, neither the Prankster nor the Orange Juice Monster should have left Strange City yet.

The Gentleman of the Abyss finally breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "I'll be right there..."

Before she could finish speaking, Terasaki Ayasa interrupted her: "That's not right."

As the Abyss Gentleman was stunned, he saw the two bands of light from the tracking magic suddenly begin to flicker.

In the blink of an eye, the direction of the light band changed completely, turning to the opposite direction.

This time, the target location of the light beam was very close.

Right outside the door of this lounge.

“It seems we’ve been discovered,” Sugiyama Rika said without much nervousness, but she straightened up and increased her vigilance while channeling her magic. “They seem to have ill intentions.”

Hoshino Yui's wariness was written all over her face; she was even more cautious than Sugiyama Rika.

Just as the Gentleman of the Abyss was about to say something, he saw the door being pushed open silently.

The newcomer was completely wrapped in a long, black robe, which at first glance looked a bit like a shroud. He wore a huge pointed wizard's hat, so his face was completely hidden.

But what's even more striking is that his hands, which are as withered as a dried corpse, are covered with various gemstone ornaments.

All ten fingers were covered with rings, and the bracelets were layered on top of each other. All the jewelry was set with a shining gemstone... No, wait.

That's not a gemstone.

The emoticons on Abyss Gentleman's face had completely disappeared; the surging anger within him was so intense that he temporarily abandoned any attempt to control his expression.

That's not a gemstone.

The various colored lights surging with magical power, the faint sound of weeping, and the familiar or unfamiliar faces writhing on the surface...

...These are the core elements of the eccentric.

The black wizard before me was covered in the cores of his brethren.

Main text: 304. The Tooling of Eccentrics

The dark wizard before them was using the monster's most important and vulnerable core as a consumable.

It's unclear what kind of magic was used to restrict it, but the monster's core was extracted separately to suppress the formation of its physical body. Each core was used as a living spellcasting tool, hanging on its body with a clattering sound.

You don't even need to generate your own magic power; you can simply use the magic power that comes with the monster's core.

The magic used in this way would naturally be the same... He used the strange man as a tool to store magic!

Because such magic is so easy to obtain, there are no restrictions when casting it, and some cores have even overdrawn too much magic power and dimmed.

This means that the strange person has entered a deep sleep where their magic power is exhausted, which is equivalent to a long period of coma for them.

Even the strange person who awakens may not be the same entity anymore.

The monsters need magic to maintain their vital signs, so the weaker ones have to be careful with their magic usage. But the black wizard in front of them clearly had no such concerns, using all his cores as consumables.

The Abyss Gentleman's expression vanished completely, and he remained silent.

He saw the core of the Prankster glowing, hanging on the Dark Wizard like a tool, which was perhaps why the rainbow track was still functioning.

"Oh?" The dark wizard showed no sign of nervousness upon seeing the room full of people. "Just a bunch of young people..."

His voice sounded like a toad stuck in his throat, indescribably disgusting.

Facing the former magical girl, whose strength was not to be underestimated and who was not on the same level as ordinary magicians, as well as the Abyss Gentleman, who was the best among the freaks, the black wizard did not feel any threat and was still laughing and talking.

Especially after seeing the Abyss Gentleman, his eyes lit up: "Ah... what excellent material."