Starting with summoning the succubus

As for the members of the Dawn Third Hospital, they were all present.

Chapter 52 The Three Major Academies Gather!

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The café wasn't playing music, but the pleasant sound of a piano filled the air.

Qi Lin, pulling his suitcase, walked ahead of Louisa and Irene. After pushing open the door of the café, he was immediately drawn to the figure sitting at the piano.

She was a girl with long black hair that reached her waist, wearing a white dress.

From Qi Lin's position, he couldn't see her face, only her pair of fair and skillful hands. Her ten slender, delicate fingers danced like elves on the black and white piano keys, playing beautiful music that was enough to make one fall into its spell.

"..."

Elena's eyes were glazed over.

"Yes, this sounds so good..."

Louisa looked completely captivated.

"Snapped!"

Qi Lin's expression turned serious. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers crisply near their ears.

"Huh?!"

Irene and Louisa both regained consciousness, their expressions changing drastically.

They then realized that the dozen or so young men and women in the coffee shop were all staring at them as if watching a spectacle.

"..."

At that moment, the music stopped abruptly.

The girl in the white dress sitting at the piano slowly turned her head and looked at Qi Lin with great interest.

Qi Lin met his gaze calmly.

Whenever people hear beautiful music, they always imagine that the person playing the music must be as beautiful as the music itself.

And the truth is often just that.

The girl in the white dress was very beautiful, and her princess-cut hairstyle further accentuated her elegant and charming temperament.

"Good willpower."

The girl in the white dress said with a smile.

"You played the piano beautifully."

Qi Lin also replied.

The girl in the white dress smiled, nodded slightly, and then faced the piano again to continue playing.

"Boss, you've really lived up to expectations!"

At this moment, Song Junda walked over from the side and stood next to Qi Lin, lowering his voice to say, "So far, including you, only two people who have come into the coffee shop haven't fallen for her tricks..."

"Let's sit down and talk."

Qi Lin pulled his suitcase and sat down next to Lu Tingxue, Chen Zhao, and the others.

From then on, all the staff of Shuguang Third Hospital were present.

Qi Lin, along with Irene, Lu Tingxue, Louisa, Song Junda, Chen Zhao, and Jeffrey, sat around a table, making them the first school to have all its members present.

"Who is that woman?"

Qi Lin glanced at the girl playing the piano not far away.

"Jiang Ruobai, the student leader of Shuguang Second Academy."

Song Junda gripped his glass of lemonade tightly in his right hand, his face clearly not looking too good. "Chen Zhao and I were the first to arrive, but as soon as we came in, we were stunned by that woman for more than ten seconds. In the end, she had to come up to us and wake us up."

"..."

Qi Lin's eyes darkened.

Should I walk up to him and wake him up?

What if they don't scream, but instead silently deliver a stab?

That was quite a show of force!

"Musician Rank?"

Qi Lin asked.

“Yes.” Song Junda nodded. “She is a peak first-level musician, and is most skilled at using the sound of the xiao (vertical flute) to release hypnotic illusions and invisible mental attacks. Her favorite instrument is the xiao, but she hates it when people make lewd jokes while playing the xiao in front of her.”

The last person to do that was the second-highest scorer in the entire Dawn Second Affiliated Hospital. Then, during the final exams, Jiang Ruobai shattered both his hands, and he still hasn't fully recovered, forcing him to miss this winter camp… Tsk, what a heartless woman.”

"interesting."

Qi Lin leaned back on the sofa and began to think about strategies for dealing with the enemy.

The title of the musician sequence was originally "music master".

However, because the most famous and powerful music master, who was also the founder of Tianyi Academy, one of the four great academies, loved using the guqin, this sequence was renamed in the 8th year of the Extraordinary Era, and officially renamed "Music Master".

In reality, most musicians don't use qin (a seven-stringed zither), but instead choose more portable instruments like xiao (a vertical bamboo flute) or dizi (a transverse bamboo flute). In addition, many use guitars or wireless microphones.

Even more extreme are those who sing solely using their voices.

The sonic attacks released by the musician are all accompanied by mental energy. In other words, unless you can block mental energy, wearing earplugs or something similar is meaningless.

Qi Lin was not affected by Jiang Ruobai just now entirely because of his first-level 9-star mental strength.

"Oh, right."

Qi Lin looked at Song Junda beside him again, "You just said that, so far, among the people who have come into the coffee shop, including me, only two people haven't fallen for Jiang Ruobai's tricks. So who's the other one?

"Look, that one."

Song Junda looked towards another corner of the coffee shop.

Qi Lin followed and looked in that direction.

There were eight people sitting at the table, four men and four women, playing cards to pass the time.

One of the tall boys wearing a light green coat immediately caught Qi Lin's eye.

Because that guy looks about 70% like Lu Tingxue.

"..."

Seemingly noticing Qi Lin's gaze, the man looked up and met Qi Lin's eyes for a moment before looking away and continuing to play cards with his companions.

"Lu Chengfeng, the leader of Shuguang First Hospital."

Song Junda glanced cautiously at Lu Tingxue beside him before whispering to Qi Lin, "He's a True Qi Warrior, at the peak of the first tier, but he has already defeated a second-tier superhuman in a head-on battle. The geniuses on TV who can fight beyond their level are referring to this kind of person. Apart from you, boss, he's the only one who wasn't affected by Jiang Ruobai's zither music when he came in."

"Alright, at least I, as the 'leader' of the Third Academy, didn't lose face in this aspect."

Qi Lin said with a smile.

But Song Junda and the others couldn't laugh—because they had all lost face.

"It's alright, this is nothing, there will be plenty of opportunities to get back at them."

Qi Lin patted Song Junda on the shoulder and gently encouraged everyone.

……

……

Time passed, little by little.

In the end, a total of ten students from Shuguang First Hospital came.

Eight students from Dawn Second Academy arrived... along with a wolf and an eagle. The Second Academy has a [Beast Tamer] sequence.

Strictly speaking, the contracted demon Elena from Dawn Third Hospital shouldn't be included, since she and Qi Lin are counted together, so there are only six people in total, the fewest number.

At 7:30, a man's voice came over the café's loudspeaker:

"All trainees, assemble at the entrance of the dormitory area!"

The people inside the building immediately got up and went there.

As for where the dormitory area is?

This is not a problem.

Because the dormitory area is right opposite the prison gate, every student who isn't blind can see it when they come in.

As for why it's called a "district" instead of a "building"?

Because this dormitory area consists entirely of individual small houses, without forming floors, and these houses are clearly divided into three grades from left to right.

Tier 1: A beautifully decorated villa with white exterior walls covered in vines and greenery.

Second tier: Red brick houses, not particularly beautiful, but passable.

Tier 3: Thatched cabins, extremely simple houses, with thatched roofs that look like they're about to be blown off by the cold wind, making one worry that they might collapse after the snow accumulates.

Ten houses of each grade were built.

At this moment, a row of eight figures dressed in black stood at the entrance of the dormitory area, including both men and women, all with their backs ramrod straight.

The leader was a two-meter-tall, red-haired burly man whose size, comparable to a double-door refrigerator, was extremely imposing.

All of these people were wearing long, pure black coats, the hems of which fluttered in the cold wind and snow, while the "陆"-shaped brooches on their chests faintly emitted a blue light in the snow and mist.

"..."

People from Shuguang Hospital No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 gradually came to them.

If formations can represent discipline, then Shuguang First Hospital is undoubtedly the most disciplined team.

Led by Lu Chengfeng, they formed a line of ten, their formation and steps perfectly synchronized.

Jiang Ruobai's second hospital and Qi Lin's third hospital were simply standing in their own groups.

"I admire well-organized formations."