In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

Red magic power?!

Lu Mingfei looked at the cards in his hand in surprise. The six modified soldiers relied on some kind of anti-gravity device to fly, but the wings on their backpacks were still vibrating, as if that was the power source for their "flight".

This is the first card in his hand that requires the use of 'color spell power'.

Even though he had used various biased materials before, the Dragon Slime he finally created was just a spirit card summoned using ordinary spell power.

And now, the cards he chose to forge from materials close to machinery and the military can actually become cards that use red magic power?

Red magical power... Lu Mingfei pondered for a moment, recalling its definition.

Red is the color of danger, representing leaping flames, rolling lava, or a highly destructive storm. No other color surpasses it in destructive power and damage.

And metal... molten metal is naturally red, which is not surprising.

"But the problem now is... I can't summon it anymore, at least not until I can get some red mana..." Lu Mingfei rubbed his fingers and couldn't help but sigh.

Last weekend, he focused on the two green-oriented elf cards he already had, neglecting cards or materials with other spell power—

Well, even if he notices, there's nothing he can do. After all, the total number of credits is limited, so he can't just shop to his heart's content in Traveler's Street...

So after much thought, Lu Mingfei realized that the greatest use of the four-star Red Elf Legion card in his hand might just be—to flaunt it in front of others and enjoy their surprised and envious glances…

"That seems pretty boring too." Lu Mingfei curled his lip slightly and put it out of his mind.

……

The next day was Monday of the fifth week.

After a completely relaxing weekend, all the students were drowsy in class, even Lais, who was usually a good student. Lu Mingfei looked around and found that only he and one other student from the Noble Academy were still awake.

So Lu Mingfei naturally turned his gaze to her.

She was quite petite, with slender shoulders and a round face, and red circles around her eyes as if she had been crying badly. Noticing Lu Mingfei's gaze, she glared at him fiercely, her face filled with anger…

Wait, anger?

Lu Mingfei frowned.

Who is she? Why is she angry with me? I don't think I've offended any students from the academy recently—

No, it seems we have indeed offended Asmodeus, who is suspected to be a time traveler, and he belongs to the House of Nobles.

Lu Mingfei sized up the student for a moment, then made a judgment:

"It seems Asmodeus does indeed have a following in the Academy of Nobles... just like I do in the Academy of Knights?"

Although he didn't interact with the students of the Knights Academy for long periods of time, and the few he did interact with were mostly female students, and even though they were all actually from the Rong En family, this did not prevent him from being very popular in the Knights Academy.

At least all the students would greet him when they saw him.

By analogy with the House of Nobles, is Asmodeus perhaps the same? So, to him, this girl is the same as Ron is to me?

Having made this guess, Lu Mingfei stopped caring about her gaze.

Put yourself in her shoes. If Asmon were to expel him from school and send him back to a home that might not even exist to reflect on his actions, then no matter what reasons Asmon came up with, whether they were reasonable or not, Ron would probably be just as resentful as she was.

Lu Mingfei relaxed and sat down in the chair, waiting for Professor Lintel to come up and give his lecture.

"It seems you all had a good weekend—so I'm sure you all did a great job with your homework." Ms. Lintel spread her butterfly-like wings and flew in from outside the door. "Then, the students in the last row, please collect the homework for me."

"If you don't finish your assignments, I will deduct credits from your grades as punishment."

A commotion broke out below the podium as students, awakened, frantically rummaged through their bags. Stacks of assignments were collected smoothly on the Knights' side, but a disturbance erupted on the Nobles' side.

"Why aren't you doing your homework?! Didn't we agree on this...?"

"I'm sorry, Miss Bell." A boy shrugged helplessly, flipping open his notebook and handing it over. "If it's just a protest, we're happy to help... but the homework still needs to be done. Credits are very important at this time."

"Anna," a girl whispered, as if trying to quiet her down, "I'm so sorry about Asmon... but he's already left the school. Since we're still here, we're students, and we should definitely focus on our studies."

"Don't forget, it was Asmon who taught you numbers! And now that he's been expelled from school, how can you be so ungrateful?!"

Lu Mingfei turned his head and saw that the disturbance was caused by the girl from the noble academy he had been looking at earlier. While 12-point perception wasn't exactly extraordinary, since they were in the same space, he could still hear the gist of it if he listened carefully—

"So, there's a girl named Annabelle who wants to start some kind of 'no homework' protest in the academy to get Asmodeus back." Lu Mingfei gave a brief explanation to the people who had missed the climax, and then turned his gaze to Professor Lintel to see how he would handle the matter.

During a casual conversation with Lu Mingfei over the weekend, Lintel had mentioned the handling of Asmon. Although he had sentenced him to "one month," it was impossible to actually let Asmon stay at home for a whole month.

This period of time is enough for the school's curriculum to move forward significantly.

Although arithmetic class is very easy, in fact, "arithmetic" should be considered an extracurricular class at St. Marian—just like astronomy.

The next course will be taught by all the fairy professors in the school. Whichever professor wants to teach the course will send a notice to the students.

If students are genuinely interested in astronomy, they will often choose a professor to study under in depth.

Therefore, the pace of this course cannot be compared with that of other courses.

"But speaking of which, in the four basic courses mentioned earlier, students of the same level don't actually show much difference..." Lu Mingfei rubbed his chin, starting to think about other things.

"For example, the same transmutation circle, whether drawn by me or by Lacey, will have virtually no difference after completion—that's why the school library includes the 'Universal Magical Spirit Formula Reference,' because if you actually draw and create according to the book, the final product will really be very similar."

"But if that's the case, where does the difference in 'mind' manifest itself?"