Chapter 603: Chapter 18: Conclusion (Part 2)
Angel captured the presidents of two Vein Councils in one go.
Yes, two. His forces had absolute advantage in the New Vein Council, capturing it was inevitable. As for the Old Vein Council, coercive measures were taken, using threats and inducements.
This shocked the entire school.
From a certain perspective, it could even be understood that Angel deceived everyone, reaching out and picking the biggest two fruits in front of everyone.
A year ago, when Angel enrolled, he was already renowned. But at that time, to most people, Angel was just a distant genius. A legend, but irrelevant to them.
Now, Angel stood before everyone. Whether you acknowledge it or not, his existence cannot be ignored.
"No one knows how long the New Vein Council can exist. After all, what if the Magic Council returns tomorrow? Would the New Vein Council still be needed then? They have always recognized only the Old Vein Council. The New Vein Council was just created by the Teaching Affairs Bureau for special needs. Crucially, I don’t want to give Alvis any chance to rise again. Controlling the Old Vein Council is essential. Next, I must plant people who truly support me within the Old Vein Council and ultimately complete a practical merger. All of this must be done before the Magic Council returns."
"What about the promises you made to them? I mean, what about the promises you gave to those who supported you?" the demon said. "Their support for you has a purpose. And the purpose isn’t just the subsidies from the New Vein Council. When you chose to agree to Alvis’s suggestion, accepting the merger, I even thought you feared fulfilling those conditions. But now it seems that’s not the case."
Angel paused a moment, then answered softly, "Yes, fulfilling them is not easy. The key issue is that there are too many contents. To gather enough powerful forces, enough manpower, I had to make those promises. Especially at the beginning stage. I’ve been pondering how to solve this. Then I thought of a way."
"You thought of a way?"
"Yes, I thought of a way. The method is quite simple, I can choose a midpoint. A position between fulfilling them and not fulfilling them."
The demon hesitantly asked, "To be honest... I don’t understand, could you make it clearer? What does it mean to be in a position between fulfilling them and not fulfilling them?"
After thinking for a while, Angel replied, "For example... I let them fulfill the promises I made to them themselves."
"Hmm... I still don’t understand."
"For instance, Daniel, I promised him the popularization of laws. I can let him do it himself, it’s not difficult, I only need to authorize it. As to whether it’s done well or not, since he’s the one doing it, even if he fails, he can only blame himself. Honestly, I don’t know if Daniel can succeed. But if it’s the Melody Magic Association, they want to suppress the two midnight singing clubs... No problem, I give them the authority, they do it themselves. As long as they have absolute power, I believe they can completely achieve it. Especially after following me through this battle. Therefore, I must conduct a new division of the power structure of the Vein Council..."
"But in that case, your power will be weakened."
"Yes, the power of the entire Vein Council will be expanded. We should say, expanded significantly. In fact, the academy grants a lot of power to the Vein Council, it’s just that the previous Vein Council didn’t have the capability to use it. And I’m confident that after the restructuring, this part of the power can be fully activated. Of course, the most important thing is that I want to extricate myself. I just want to make money, I’m not really prepared to invest in ’the great cause of maintaining campus order’."
After thinking for a while, the demon could only respond, "If that’s the case, then I fully agree."
On the fourth day of integrating the two Vein Councils, after two days of preparation, Angel led a large group forward to tackle the real tough nut—the dormitories. Only by controlling the dormitories can he truly control the Magic Academy. Because that’s a private area. If you don’t uncover what’s hidden behind the private area, you’ll never know.
Of course, the methods were also very forceful.
Angel ordered a thorough search of the dormitories, digging three feet down, confiscating all hidden experimental materials. Leading the charge was the Battle Mage Team.
This should be considered the "darkest" period in the history of the Magic Academy.
Members of the Vein Council organized to break into the dormitory area, using force to conduct inspections, clashing with ordinary students who were unprepared and disorganized, and then "suppressing" them.
To achieve perfect suppression, Angel even distributed various weapons to the members. From magic wands to shields, and even various magic tools, everything was available. In a way, he was arming his supporters with the mindset of arming an army.
What happens when a group of civilians encounters a regular army?
The gap is probably much larger than most people imagine. And that’s what the situation was like at the time.
Luo Ge Xian Ni has a history of tens of thousands of years. In these tens of thousands of years, it has also experienced many wars. But since the end of the Third Epoch, humans lost the support of Heaven and Hell, there have been few wars. Apart from some small-scale conflicts with humans.
In fact, this is a place where no war has occurred for ten thousand years, and magic is no longer researched with war adaptation as the main direction. As for the magic apprentices in the Magic Academy... except for the Battle Mage Team, the rest are extremely unskilled in combat.
Or rather, they don’t possess combat power matching their magic power level.
Like ordinary mage duels, wearing robes, wielding magic wands, and chanting spells?
No, this is not what Angel wants.
Although Luo Ge Xian Ni does not popularize human-like knight armor and it cannot be bought at all, there are many leather armors, cheap, and very easy to buy.
Angel used the funds of the Vein Council itself, plus the money handed over by material vendors, to equip each member of the New Vein Council with leather armor, equipped with thick wooden shields. These seemingly simple weapons ensured they could resist magic attacks at the level of ordinary students. Meanwhile, a Spell Casting Team composed of those with stronger magic was selected for long-range suppression.
When this "army" appeared in the dormitory area, everyone was stunned.
Even before they appeared in the dormitory area, there were already many rumors about Angel circulating. Many people said he was a sinister dictator preparing to deprive all magic apprentices of their freedom.
Hmm... Of course, it might not be a rumor, it could be true.
In any case, many people claim that if Angel dares to interfere with the dormitory area, they will "fight to the death" with Angel.
However, when this group appeared in the dormitory area, and those claiming they’d "fight to the death" with Angel found out Angel was prepared to "fight to the death" with them, they chickened out...
At first, there were still some small-scale conflicts, but very quickly, the vast majority of students chose to surrender, allowing Angel to smoothly take control of the dormitory area, and enforce a thorough search, achieving what the Old Vascular Council had long wanted to do but never truly accomplished.
A large pile of confiscated magic materials was stacked on the open ground outside the dormitory area, forming a small mountain.
Angel approached from afar, meticulously inspecting those contraband items under the guard of his subordinates.
"How should we handle this?" Daniel asked him.
Angel replied softly, "I remember the school never specified how confiscated contraband should be dealt with."
"Indeed, there’s no rule at all." Daniel thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps... we should destroy these items."
Angel shook his head, "No, don’t destroy them. Sell them all, exchange them for silver coins and distribute to those who participated in the action."
Immediately, everyone was in an uproar.
The magic apprentices stood on the dormitory buildings watching from afar, grinding their teeth in hatred, yet they were helpless. Among them were Qili and Gegil.
Has this happened before?
Of course, it has, but generally, the quantity wouldn’t be large, and it was handled privately. There was never mention of "selling," let alone so blatantly.
But Angel was always this blatant and still is.
Looking up, Angel glanced at those magic apprentices who were the former owners of the contraband, and loudly proclaimed, "Those who contribute to the school’s order should be rewarded."
After speaking, he turned to Daniel and said, "Later I’ll have someone come to inventory and appraise the price."
"Alright." Daniel nodded.
All around, members of the New Vascular Council who "charged into battle" during this action cheered.
"The entire school’s students... except for those following you, all hate you utterly. Hahahaha." The devil teased, "I guarantee, if you were the protagonist of a novel, this novel could only be sold to demons."
Angel responded nonchalantly, "I’ve never sought to be liked, I just aim to achieve my goals. There are many things I want to do, but I don’t want to be bound by meaningless matters."
"I agree. You’ve stabilized the situation and gained income. Next, your achievements in magic are sure to soar. The future is bright."
Angel’s lips curled up slightly in a smile, but he said nothing.
The Vein Council’s control over the dormitory area marked the sudden rise of Angel and the complete end of the short-term chaos at the Magic Academy. However, whether it brought any other issues besides ending the chaos... that’s unknown.
At least the Teaching Affairs Bureau is very satisfied with his performance.
"Although we don’t fully agree with his methods, he achieved the results we wanted. You have to admit, given the current situation, his methods are effective." An employee of the Teaching Affairs Bureau spoke eloquently in front of Barnes, "This is a special time, naturally requiring special methods. Looking from another angle, we all agreed with what Alvis did before; he didn’t overstep any bounds, but didn’t he lose control of the academy’s order? A reasonable process paired with a bad result versus an unreasonable process paired with a satisfying result. In this scenario, what should we choose? I would choose the latter. After all, choosing the latter, at least we don’t face a mess and endless trivial matters."
"Yes, I feel the same way. Although I don’t like his methods either, at least now we’re not constantly stressed out, aren’t we?"
"Leave him be. At least all his actions still comply with our guidelines, with only some moral flaws. You have to admit, now that the basic order issue is resolved, we actually have time to consider moral issues. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have time to think about it."
"Think of our state a few days ago, and now. Yes, that’s it."
Other employees agreed unanimously. Only Barnes said nothing.
She lowered her head and gently opened the file on her hand.
On both sides of the file were Angel and Andrew. Under their parents’ section, the same names were filled in - Kou Li and Debi.
"What is it? Studying so intently, hiding something from us?" One colleague asked softly.
"Nothing." Barnes gently closed the file and smiled faintly, "Just a student’s file."