Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 73 A Moment of Killing Intent

Link is not a petty person.

He didn't really care about ordinary conflicts, such as when five guys tried to bully him at school.

Link just beat them up, taught them a lesson, and vented his anger.

Like Mina Haveczek, who cleared herself of some of the suspicions and promised not to cause any more trouble, she received Link's promise of reconciliation.

Link simply had Jasmine block the other person.

For example, Sophie Lucia...

Well, this was out of necessity due to the other party's background.

In short, Link is broad-minded and doesn't easily hold grudges.

The only person Link truly hated was Harold Andrews.

The kind of resentment that is extremely, extremely, extremely intense.

In Link's mind, there are two particularly cruel ways to eliminate a person.

One is physical extermination, depriving someone of life and reducing their bones to ashes.

Some perpetrators even inflict painful torture on their victims before carrying out the killing.

Another form of elimination is social annihilation, which makes the victim despised by everyone, regarded as excrement, and avoided like the plague.

The common methods to eliminate someone from the social sphere are to smear, defame, slander, and incite public opinion violence.

Harold Andrews launched three waves of such public attacks against Link.

The first wave of public criticism exploited the incident of the five men defecting to the authorities.

They attempted to portray Link as an ambitious man, thereby incurring the hostility of people like the president of the "New Blood Mutual Aid Association" and causing fear and isolation of Link among the first-year students.

The second and longest-lasting third waves of public opinion attacks both started with Jasmine.

They secretly took some blurry photos from a distance, fabricated some conversations, and concocted some short stories to portray Link as an "arrogant megalomaniac," a "PUA master," and a "pornography addict."

This greatly affected Link's reputation and image.

If Link hadn't consistently ignored the public attacks and remained indifferent throughout;

If someone else, unfamiliar with the violence of public opinion based on rumors and slander, were to become the target of such attacks,

Harold Andrews had already achieved his goal.

Even if things go wrong and the target of the public opinion attack is not completely wiped out on the social level, at least the target's mentality can be broken.

When a person's mentality collapses, they may do anything foolish.

Autism is considered mild, and self-harm is not the most serious form of autism.

Many victims of online bullying feel that the world is bleak and life is hopeless, and choose to end their own lives or escape from the world.

The power of media violence is truly immense!

The damage was so deep!

The consequences were so terrible!

Therefore, the feud between Link and Harold Andrews is not a trivial matter, but a life-or-death enmity!

This is an irreconcilable feud. As long as Harold Andrews lives, Link will never be satisfied.

Retaliation is inevitable.

Link attempted to find a good opportunity to retaliate by tracking the cloak, but the intelligent law enforcement puppet saw through the cloak's optical cloaking, forcing him to abandon the plan.

This is why he abandoned his cloak when he decided to enter the city of Rivosos.

The cloak's optical invisibility function is only effective against wizard apprentices who lack countermeasures.

Against intelligent law enforcement puppets, or against someone like Link himself, who has a pair of Level 1 wizarding glasses on his nose that can detect disguises and see through invisibility, even the rich and powerful are completely useless.

Later, Link was so engrossed in studying, researching, experimenting, and self-studying pharmacology that he was too busy to seek revenge.

Who would have thought that what you've been searching for would come to you so easily?

On the first day of his holiday, Link unexpectedly bumped into Harold Andrews in the black market.

This is truly a godsend!

Isn't it normal for one or two people to die in the West District?

If you don't take what Heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences.

If you don't do certain things, you'll always feel uneasy!

Link's mind raced, and a murderous intent arose within him.

The "Brain Occlusion Technique" was immediately activated at full power to conceal the murderous intent.

His gaze also promptly left Harold Andrews's back and naturally swept over his surroundings.

Link himself is very perceptive, so why would he knowingly commit a wrong and alert Harold Andrews?

He didn't even glance at the other person out of the corner of his eye.

As planned, Link continued browsing the black market.

The Wizarding Artifacts Zone opened Link's eyes to a whole new world.

Only unexpected, not impossible.

The various and bizarre magical artifacts presented to Link created a tremendous impact.

Any technological marvel that Link had seen or heard about in his previous life can be found here in a fantastical version of the Wizarding World.

There are also many more magical artifacts with even more incredible effects, such as the level 2 magical artifact, the Dissolving Gun, which was impossible to achieve with the technology of the previous life.

Even a formal wizard, once his defenses are breached, will have all his flesh and blood instantly turned to ash by the rays fired from the Dissolving Gun.

It's that terrifying!

Link was very tempted, but unfortunately he was short of money. The magic stones he carried couldn't even buy a level 1 wizarding artifact.

Compared to the price of witchcraft items in the college's living service building, the price of witchcraft items on the black market starts at twice as high.

The wide variety of products, powerful effects, and privacy without leaving records are the reasons for the soaring prices on the black market.

In the city of Rivosos, apart from the North District, no other place can surpass the black market in these three aspects.

After browsing the artifact section, Link went back to browse the rune item section.

The rune items here are also abundant and diverse.

In just a short while, Link had found all the runic items on his body.

The price is really not attractive; it's much more expensive than the college's student life service building.

However, the rune items that cannot be sold in the academy's life service building are genuinely tempting.

Link was getting restless as he wandered around, showing a tendency to empty his pockets of magic stones.

Suddenly, Harold Andrews walked over to Link's stall.

Link remained completely calm and composed.

Hairstyle, makeup, and a change in clothing – these three moves combined, along with a transformation in temperament based on "brain enclosed space" and the mental palace,

Even someone as familiar as Molly Kidman had to repeatedly check before she dared to confirm Link's identity.

How could Harold Andrews recognize Link?

As Link had predicted, Harold Andrews wasn't after him.

Link tactfully walked away.

When the black market stalls are not doing business, feel free to look around and pick and choose.

However, when other customers arrive, you should be sensible and not stay in one place to listen to their conversations.

This is a major taboo.

"Boss, do you still have those mini concealed recorders you mentioned last time? I'd like to buy a set."

Harold Andrews was clearly not a first-timer at this stall. As soon as he arrived, he didn't bother to look around and went straight to asking the stall owner questions.

Link had sharp ears, and even after turning around and taking a few steps, he still heard Harold's words.

Miniature concealed recording device?

Isn't this just a bugging device?

That bastard has malicious intentions; is he planning to start a spying operation?

Link's killing intent surged even more intensely.

(End of this chapter)