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"Toby… Toby will absolutely fulfill Master Wade's orders!"
"Right, the meeting point stays the same—here in the dorm. Whether I'm looking for you or you're looking for me, we'll meet here... That's all for now."
House-elves appearing in the dormitory was perfectly normal.
Besides, everyone in the dorm was an insider, so setting the meeting point there wouldn't easily draw attention.
After sending Toby off, Wade headed to the library. Once he finished his homework, he spent the rest of the time reading through the books he had exchanged from the system, all the way until the library closed for the night.
With his head full of potion formulas and spells, Wade returned to the dormitory, washed up, and went straight to bed.
Tonight, he had something else to do.
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In the dream world.
"Senior? Are you there?" Wade called out softly in the white and misty dream realm.
"I'm here..."
Wade turned around and saw his senior, her whole body still cloaked in dark smoke, standing behind him.
"Your progress in ancient magic doesn't seem to be going anywhere?" she asked, studying him.
"Uh... I've been busy lately with the student society stuff, haven't had time to go to the Forbidden Forest..." Wade replied, feeling a little embarrassed.
Lately, he truly had been preoccupied with the affairs of the student society and hadn't gone searching for ancient magic hotspots.
As for the detention in the Forbidden Forest, that technically hadn't ended either.
But each time, Wade would just collect a few of the forest's "local specialties" and leave. After all, he wasn't the only one serving detention.
And the search for ancient magic hotspots was something only he could do alone.
"Powerful strength is the root of everything. You mustn't slack off," the senior warned Wade.
"Mm… got it."
"Alright, then. Speak—what did you come to me for? If you're here for another simulated battle, we can start right now."
"No… it's not that. I have something else I need your help with…"
"I want your help changing someone's mindset," Wade said with a smile.
Storming the Malfoy estate wasn't really an option, but having his senior invade someone's dream—that might still be feasible.
Then, Wade gave her a brief explanation of the situation.
"I can help you with this, but... only halfway," the senior said.
"Hmm? What do you mean by halfway?" Wade asked curiously.
"I know your Nightmare Magic still doesn't have a very wide range of influence... so, I can help by sending your consciousness into their dreams. As for the rest, that's up to you. Only by handling it yourself can you truly refine your Nightmare Magic."
Wade understood that the senior was trying to push him to practice his Nightmare Magic, so he didn't object.
However... the Malfoy couple's belief in pure-blood supremacy was deeply rooted. With Wade's current level of Nightmare Magic, he couldn't forcibly alter their thinking. He would have to resort to some special tricks...
"Are you ready?" the senior asked.
"Wait a second..." Wade glanced at her appearance, and in the next moment, dark mist—identical to the senior's signature aura—started billowing from his own body...
By deliberately mimicking her ominous appearance in the dream realm, others wouldn't be able to make out his face.
"Why are you copying me?" the senior asked with a frown.
"Mm... it's to hide my identity. But more importantly, this look is terrifying!" Wade said with a smile, shrouded in dark mist.
"So... you're saying I look terrifying?" the senior's voice was completely flat.
But Wade was startled, and the dark mist around him gave a visible shudder.
He had almost forgotten—the senior was a woman, and what he had just said definitely came off as rather rude.
"I… I didn't mean it like that, I was just—"
"Let's go!"
Whoosh!
Before Wade could finish his sentence, he felt his consciousness being thrown into what felt like a spinning washing machine, tumbling wildly without end…
He didn't know how long it lasted, but when he came to, he found himself floating above an opulent estate.
Urgh!
Wade bent forward, wanting to vomit, but as a disembodied consciousness, nothing came out.
The senior had taken him to many places before, but none of those transfers had ever made him feel this sick.
Clearly, this was payback for calling her "scary"…
…Heh. Women…
"It seems like you're thinking something you shouldn't be," the senior said sharply.
"Ahem, I was just thinking about how to use Nightmare Magic to change the Malfoys' worldview..." Wade replied with a perfectly serious expression.
"Really?" The senior gave him a suspicious look. "Alright, they're asleep. Go now... enter their dream."
Wade once again felt the world spinning wildly!
By the time he regained his senses, he found himself in another place shrouded in thick white mist.
In the center of the mist stood a middle-aged couple, glancing around warily...
Wade had to admit, his senior's Nightmare Magic was truly impressive—she had forcibly linked the dreams of two people!
Without wasting time, Wade maintained his ominous, dark-mist-covered appearance and slowly emerged from the fog...
He had to admit, even if it would displease his senior, this form really was intimidating.
The elder Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy were so startled at the sight of this eerie figure that they nearly fainted on the spot.
"Wh–who are you?! Where is this place?!"
Wade didn't answer their question. Instead, he used a disguised, hoarse voice to ask, "Do you know about the S.M.A.S.H club?"
Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy exchanged glances, then nodded simultaneously.
To appear in such a strange place without their wands, they didn't dare to act tough…
Wade continued, "Then you must also know the founder of that mutual aid Society... Wade Reynolds?"
"Yes... we know," the Malfoys answered honestly. The situation was far too eerie for anything else.
"Good... I've heard that you intend to do something to him?" Wade asked.
"H–how do you know that? What's your relationship with him?" Mr. Malfoy asked in a trembling voice.
At this moment, he had a pretty good guess as to why they'd suddenly appeared in such a strange place.
This definitely had something to do with Wade Reynolds!
"Ke ke ke~" Wade let out a bone-chilling laugh, making the Malfoy couple shudder uncontrollably.
"I've come here only to tell you, even though Wade left… he is still a child of our bloodline. How dare you lay a hand on him?"
"W-we..."
Wade snapped his fingers lightly.
Instantly, the Malfoy couple fell into an endless nightmare.
It wasn't until a full three minutes later that they finally awoke from it.
"Ah! No! Don't come any closer!" Old Malfoy cried like a child as he woke up.
Mrs. Malfoy, meanwhile, was so terrified that she forgot how to cry. It took her quite a while to recover, and when she did, she clung to her husband and sobbed uncontrollably.
The dream just now had been far too horrifying.
In the nightmare created by Wade, they had been made to experience the terror without suffering any damage to their souls—this was the effect of nightmare magic.
Otherwise, the Malfoy couple might have been scared into madness already…
Now, the Malfoys, still weeping, looked at the darkly billowing figure in front of them with utter fear in their eyes.
That kind of dream… was like hell itself!
They never wanted to go through something like that again!
Wade raised his hand gently, and a ticking alarm clock appeared in his palm.
"In the next three minutes, I want to hear you swear an Unbreakable Vow to each other… You will swear to abandon the idea of pure-blood supremacy, and like your son, support the Society created by the Reynolds family's young master and its leader, Wade Reynolds… Countdown begins."
Ding!
As the hands on the clock started ticking, the Malfoy couple burst into tears again out of sheer terror.
"Crying? Ku ku ku~ Crying still counts toward the time…"
"We swear! We swear!"
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