Full-Time Magister: One System, One Forbidden Spell, the Strongest Divine Gift

Chapter 5: Annihilating the Enemy with a Flick of the Finger, Covering the Sky with One Hand!
Time flows quietly like a stream, and in the blink of an eye, the day of the annual assessment is just around the corner.

The entire Class 8 was enveloped in a tense yet enthusiastic atmosphere. Every student was putting in their best effort to practice controlling the stars, eager to show their skills in the upcoming assessment.

In the classroom, Chen Yuan sat by the window, his fingertips casually dancing with the gathered light elements.

Casting magic was second nature to him, and manipulating star trails with a thought was a piece of cake. Sunlight streamed through the glass, casting dappled shadows on his handsome profile, making him appear even more composed.

"Bro, tomorrow's the annual performance review, aren't you nervous?"

A crisp sound suddenly broke the silence, and a girl with a high ponytail swept towards him like a gust of wind.

She wore a simple white shirt, the hem of which swayed gently with her jumping movements, subtly outlining her slender waistline.

A red ribbon tied her long, black hair into a lively ponytail, the ends swaying merrily with her movements. The athletic shorts she wore accentuated her long, straight legs, which shimmered like pearls in the sunlight.

Chen Yuan looked up and saw his younger sister, Zhou Min, tilting her head to look at him, her almond-shaped eyes filled with a sly smile.

She deliberately tiptoed and twirled, causing the loose collar of her shirt to slip slightly, revealing her delicate collarbone.

"Nervous?" Chen Yuan chuckled and ruffled her hair. "But what about you? How's Xingzi handling things?"

“I can now cast spells completely,” she said, her voice brimming with undisguised joy, yet she pursed her lips to feign composure. “I should be able to get a good score in the annual assessment.”

With sufficient motivation, Zhou Min's progress became visible to the naked eye. Although he was far inferior to Chen Yuan, he could still be considered a genius in a small place like Bocheng.

"Not bad." Chen Yuan glanced at the time. "It's time to go back. Get some rest when you get back. Don't worry about your grades. Even if the sky falls, I'll be there for you."

He affectionately patted Zhou Min's head.

"Ok!"

The setting sun cast a warm orange glow on the cobblestone streets of the old town. Chen Yuan and Zhou Min walked side by side on their way home, their shadows stretched long and thin. Zhou Min was enthusiastically demonstrating her magic practice for the day, her ponytail bouncing with each light step.

However, as he turned the familiar street corner, Chen Yuan stopped in his tracks.

Seeing Chen Yuan standing motionless, Zhou Min also turned around and looked in the same direction with a puzzled expression in her almond-shaped eyes: "Brother, what's wrong?"

Chen Yuan's pupils contracted slightly, his gaze passing over the worker's shoulder and fixed on a shadowy corner deep in the alley, where the twilight light was strangely distorted, as if an invisible mist was writhing.

“In the city,” he said in a low voice, each word seemingly squeezed out between his teeth, “something dirty got in.”

Zhou Min's breath caught in her throat.

She was all too familiar with this term; it was a code word she and her brother had devised. "Dirty thing" specifically referred to demons that shouldn't be in human settlements.

Zhou Min unconsciously gripped Chen Yuan's sleeve, her knuckles turning slightly white: "What should we do? Should we notify the city's demon-hunting team?" Her voice was extremely low, but it couldn't hide the anxiety within.

She never imagined that there were demons in the city.

Chen Yuan shook his head slightly, his gaze fixed on the distorted shadow at the end of the alley: "No need to alert them." He raised his hand and patted Zhou Min's shoulder. "You go back and protect Grandma and Auntie. I'll go check it out."

As dusk deepened, a barely perceptible golden glint appeared deep within Chen Yuan's pupils.

As his cultivation level improved, he was able to mobilize the surrounding free-floating light elements as "eyes." At this moment, in his field of vision, the scene in an abandoned alley suddenly became clear: a creature that was entirely black, neither human nor ghost, was dwelling in the shadows.

"Well, I see."

Zhou Min nodded emphatically, her ponytail tracing a clean arc in the twilight. She gave Chen Yuan a deep look, "Brother, be careful too." With that, she turned and strode away quickly, her back view crisp and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

Such a scene is not unfamiliar to them.

Every few days, Chen Yuan would take Zhou Min to the outskirts of the city for training. Whether it was the giant-eyed ape rat or the one-eyed demon wolf, the monsters that were terrifying and ferocious in the eyes of those students were already commonplace "sparring partners" for the siblings.

As soon as Zhou Min's figure disappeared around the street corner, Chen Yuan quietly vanished into the twilight. He lightly raised his fingertips, and several strands of golden light gathered in front of him like fireflies, outlining a faint trail in the dim alley.

The abandoned old building resembles a lurking beast in the night, its mottled exterior walls covered with withered vines.

Chen Yuan stepped over the broken bricks and stones, carefully avoiding any debris that might make a sound with each step.

Light elements swirled around him, clearly reflecting the scene within a radius of tens of meters in his mind. At the west window on the third floor, a distorted black shadow was slowly writhing.

"As expected, it's here." Chen Yuan's eyes turned slightly cold, and star trails quietly gathered in his palm.

A night breeze carrying the smell of decay swept by, ruffling the stray hairs on his forehead, but it couldn't dispel the faint, fishy stench in the air. Inside this abandoned building, which should have been deserted, a sticky, chilling writhing sound now echoed.

With a demonic monkey face and a deformed body, its entire body was so black it looked like it was wearing some kind of tight-fitting leather coat. It was extremely ugly. If nothing unexpected happened, this thing was the Black Beast Demon.

Moreover, this beast had already killed many people, and with the help of the shared light element eyes, he discovered the wreckage scattered everywhere.

No wonder people keep disappearing in the old town every now and then; the problem lies here.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Yuan walked up the stairs along the shadows and soon arrived at the third floor, where the black beast demon was less than twenty meters away from him.

However, Chen Yuan didn't solve the problem immediately. Instead, he used the faint light elements to begin his search, hoping to find a big fish in the building and, if he was lucky, catch someone in black.
Several million will be in hand in no time.

In less than a minute, the light elements had permeated every corner of the abandoned building like flowing water.

In Chen Yuan's perception, the three-dimensional structure of the entire building clearly emerged, and the positions of the five gray-clad figures were precisely marked, with two huddled in the shadows behind the load-bearing columns.

One was hanging upside down from the second-floor beam, while the other two were disguised as tattered burlap sacks piled up in the corner.

"Tsk," Chen Yuan sneered.

These guys are indeed hiding in tricky places. If an ordinary mage were to rashly break in, he probably wouldn't even know how he died.

It's just a pity they ran into me today.

Chen Yuan slightly spread his five fingers, and five orbs of light, each the size of a ping-pong ball, quietly appeared in his palm.

These seemingly gentle orbs of light had a liquid-like golden glow flowing across their surfaces, yet their interiors contained a terrifying amount of compressed energy. The power of each orb was enough to blast a servant-level demon to pieces.

"Since you like playing hide-and-seek," Chen Yuan's eyes blazed with golden light, and five orbs of light shot out simultaneously, "then never come out."

(End of this chapter)