That day, Nyx cast a spell in the academy's square, turning a small wizard who was performing into a pigeon covered in sequins.
The magician who was turned into a pigeon let out a shrill chirp on the spot and fluttered haphazardly in the air, while the trainees on the sidelines were terrified and excited, Nyx stood in the center of the crowd with a smug look on his face, "Let's just say that isn't it more of a performance this way?"
Ellis stood right behind the trainees, looking at him with a cold expression.
Then, he stepped in on the spot, picked Nix up whole and dragged him back to the mentor lounge.
Nyx was still smiling at first, "Ehhh, don't be so serious, it's not just changing into a pigeon, later I'll-"
"Nyx."Ellis' tone sank, directly interrupting him, "Shut up."
Nyx was stunned.He looked up and saw Ellis staring at him expressionlessly, his golden eyes cold as ice.
Nyx still wanted to argue, but in the next second, Ellis set up a binding spell directly in the lounge, forcibly sealing his magic, and in the process, pressed him into the chair, "Don't even think about getting out of this chair until you realize what you've done is wrong."
Nyx: "?"
He froze for a few seconds before reacting to the fact that Ellis was for real and immediately started struggling, "Hey!Ellis, you're going too far, aren't you?Just this little thing-"
Ellis blandly said, "You can try when you can break free."
Nyx gritted his teeth and used all his strength to try to break free of the magic, but found that he was surprisingly unable to really resist.Ellis's magical talent was extremely high, and even in the face of demons, his binding spell was still flawless.
After struggling for a while, Nyx gradually calmed down and narrowed her eyes at him, "You're so tough this time?It's not really angry, is it?"
Ellis looked as usual, "What do you think?"
Nyx was silent for a while, finally drooping his shoulders and putting on an aggrieved look, "Okay, I'm wrong, isn't it okay?"
Ellis' tone was cold, "What were you wrong about?"
Nyx tried to be vague, "Uh ... I shouldn't just cast spells?"
Ellis stared at him, "And?"
Nyx blinked, finally realizing that this time Ellis really wasn't going to let him off easy.He sighed, put away his perfunctory attitude and said seriously, "... I shouldn't be casting spells on people in public, especially in a human academy.Your concern isn't whether or not I can change him back, but that doing so will bring unnecessary panic to the magicians, right?"
Ellis looked at him for a moment before finally removing the binding spell."Now that you know that, don't do anything like that again."
Nyx moved his wrists and glanced at him, "So ... the punishment is lifted?"
Ellis trailed off, "The punishment isn't lifted, it's just changed."
Nyx: "?"
Then he realized - Ellis made him write a review in his mentor's office, ten whole pages.
Nix directly held his head and screamed, "Ellis, you devil!"
After that, the pranks about Nix in the academy plummeted a lot.
The mentees lamented, "Looks like Mentor Ellis has finally found a way to deal with the devil."
The other tutors chortled, "This shows that he has also finally recognized the reality - dealing with a bear child, it's useless to just reason, you still need to have a deterrent."
Nix's pranks have indeed decreased, but it doesn't mean he's really "changed".
He just learned to sell his misery in time and knew how to restrain himself.After all, he realized that Ellis actually had little resistance to his "miserable self".