The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　As the credits for the points ranking were calculated, the credit ranking changed dramatically in an instant.

　Gina Grant jumped to the top of the overall rankings.

　There is only one below him, namely Pandora Drogon.

　The boss-level treasure chest monster she defeated in the last minute brought her a large amount of credits.

　However, Gina Grant had a significant lead beforehand and was not overtaken in one fell swoop like the others.

　This year's Platinum Star has finally been awarded to the Fool's House.

　But it is well-deserved.

　Dak smiled slightly and switched the ranking to the grade ranking.

　I watched it all in one go, from sixth grade to first grade.

　The sixth grader is naturally Gina Grant.

　Fifth grade, but not Winnie the Pooh.

　Fourth grade is also a relatively unfamiliar term.

　Third grade... Surprisingly, it was Emma Metis.

　This shouldn't be surprising; in the original game, she should have been far ahead.

　But her current grades and level are certainly no worse than in the original work; it's just that the overall level of the third grade has improved, which has put enormous pressure on her.

　The "Golden Orange Star" for the second year belongs to Aurora Montilfali this time.

　However, the "Crimson Star" of the first year is not Ellie Demon.

　Although Ellie scored a lot of points in the escape room challenge, her overall score wasn't high, and her total points were low after the final tally.

　The credits she received weren't enough to propel her to the top of her class.

　This is somewhat regrettable.

　But this also means that she still has a lot of room for growth.

　Dark expressed his expectations for her future performance. "Alright, time to go to the banquet hall."

　Dark put away the "Sorting Card" and also collected the "Candy Merchant's" equipment.

　"Hey, I knew it was you."

　His third-grade classmates around him started shouting, but their voices were quickly drowned out by the shouts of the second-grade students.

　Surrounded by his second and third-grade classmates, Dak arrived at the very edge of the castle. After glancing at the height below, he had no choice but to leap into the air.

　Immediately afterwards, he was enveloped by a gust of air and plummeted downwards.

　"Wow!"

　Following him, one student after another opened their arms, jumped into the air, and fell like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

　In the past, this scene would have terrified the professors. Even today, a professor is keeping a close eye on the area, fearing that the "updraft" might suddenly fail or that a student might "jump off course." In short, the students thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

　They will probably never forget the joy of freefalling from the sky.

　Following them, Dark's magical elves leaped down one by one, reaching the lower levels of the castle in one go. The masquerade ball had come to a successful end. But the Halloween Eve activities were far from over.

　Next, the students will attend a real ball in the banquet hall. In that banquet hall, all sorts of glowing ghosts and jack-o'-lanterns with burning candles float in the air, illuminating the hall.

　The walls and ceiling were covered with decorations reminiscent of a vampire castle. Even the tablecloths on the four long tables had been replaced with a nighttime pattern adorned with stars.

　A wide variety of Halloween-themed foods are available.

　Everywhere you look, you can see pumpkin porridge, pumpkin cake, pumpkin pie, pumpkin sago pudding, pumpkin honey... all made using pumpkins of various sizes as containers.

　In short, it includes everything you can think of, and also things you can't think of.

　But this year's Halloween dance seemed a bit strange; the students suddenly seemed to have lost interest in the food and dancing.

　They gathered in groups, discussing the unfinished topics from the masquerade ball.

　Upon closer listening, all he could hear was a series of secret rooms. At first, Dak was quite curious.

　Upon hearing this, he immediately fled back to his seat.

　He felt that the night was still very long, and that this final dance was far from over.

　As the professors arrived one after another, the banquet hall finally quieted down.

　Principal Arte took to the stage and began announcing this year's Halloween Stars, presenting trophies to each winner.

　Finally, amidst unprecedentedly enthusiastic applause, the final revelry of the masquerade ball was officially declared to have begun!

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Chapter 1372 Darkdemon, Warrior of Love (5k)

　The most talked-about students at this year's masquerade ball, besides Gina Grant who won the "Platinum Star," was Aurora Montilfali, who has been ranked first in her grade for two consecutive years.

　As the students watched Aurora walk onto the stage to receive the "Golden Orange Star" trophy, they all had a vague feeling that if Dark Dimon weren't there, she would likely become the academy's new leader in the future.

　But unfortunately not if.

　After Principal Arte's award ceremony concluded, the banquet hall entered its final celebratory phase.

　The students either ate and drank to their hearts' content or took their dance partners to the stage to present the final ceremony of this masquerade ball.

　While Dark was still thinking, Diana and Rose pulled him onto the stage. The magical elves, who had been waiting for their turn, also rushed to his side, crowding around them as they climbed onto the stage, swaying their bodies joyfully.

　The song ends.

　Before Dark could catch his breath, he suddenly felt a pain in his hand and was pulled out of the crowd, pressed against the white "Demon King".

　He realized what was happening in that instant, and quickly used the "Netherworld God Technique" to clear his mind of distractions. After recovering, he continued dancing.

　The black "Demon King" and the white "Demon King" danced freely on the stage.

　Doron, who plays the "hero," and Pistan, who plays the "two-headed ogre (one head only)," also swayed their bodies to the rhythm on stage.

　The stage for a masquerade ball isn't that elegant, and you don't need to have pairs of dance partners. You can dance to your heart's content even if you're alone.

　That being said, not everyone can let go of that.

　There are always quite a few students who have ideas in mind, but due to various concerns, they can only watch from the audience.

　Even with the addition of that group of students, the number of people in the banquet hall whose attention was drawn to the stage was still nearly half that of previous years.

　And what is the other half doing?

　Locked room, locked room, locked room! Nothing but locked rooms!

　The other half of the students drew various escape rooms they had experienced but had not yet solved, amidst their discussions.

　It must be said that the little magicians' artwork is outstanding; they have basically presented the escape room scenes perfectly.

　However, some escape rooms are difficult to solve because of certain extremely tricky mechanisms that are not recognized even when seen.

　Now that there are only paintings and no physical objects, it is even more difficult to decipher them.

　However, there are countless other difficult-to-solve settings in those escape room levels, even though they are different in type.

　This single secret room alone is enough to make anyone rack their brains. Not to mention the countless secret rooms and puzzles throughout the entire castle.

　It's simply unbelievable that hundreds and thousands of escape room puzzles were designed by just one person!

　Moreover, it was completed in just a few days. When some students calmed down and thought about it carefully, they couldn't help but discover this terrifying fact.

　In everyone's mind, someone who can do this kind of thing is no longer considered human.

　Thus, regardless of their magical abilities, those people developed a sense of awe towards Dark Demon on other levels.

　They certainly couldn't have imagined it.

　Those escape room puzzles actually have real-life counterparts.

　Although Dark made some innovations based on those prototypes, the core essence of the escape room puzzles remained unchanged, and it did not require much design cost.

　In order to save time, some of the escape room levels are basically replicated exactly.

　This has led to the creation of some frustrating bugs.

　Among them, there are even secret rooms that are impossible to pass through!

　However, because there were so many secret rooms, even Dark himself did not know which ones he could not pass.

　Those students who unfortunately encountered those escape rooms either simply assumed they hadn't been able to solve them. Then they treated them as extremely difficult escape rooms and warned others to avoid them in their communication.

　Or perhaps they relentlessly pursued their plans, only to eventually despair. Even after the costume party was over, they were still arguing furiously with their classmates.

　Of these two options, the latter is actually a minority within a minority.

　Students who encounter an escape room they cannot solve often immediately think...

　It's your own problem.

　The students who discovered the problem wasn't with themselves, but with the students in the locked room... well, not at all!

　In short, whether it's good fortune or misfortune.

　If someone were certain that the problem lay with the person in the locked room, and not with themselves, they would have made a scene long ago.

　Furthermore, Darker deliberately left some blanks in the rule description.

　Some seemingly impossible escape rooms might become passable if you use rare "item cards" that aren't mentioned in the rulebook.

　—That's the kind of thinking he wanted to cultivate.

　In short, all possible bugs are attributed to non-existent rare "item cards".

　This is Dac's emergency strategy.

　Fortunately, such strategies were never used.

　Now, after the masquerade ball, some students have redrawn the escape rooms they couldn't clear in their memories. During their discussion, they discovered that those rooms were indeed impossible to clear.

　That was after the masquerade ball had ended.

　Those secret rooms did not have much of a negative impact on the students during the masquerade ball.

　Therefore, you could say they were very lucky. As for now, after the masquerade ball, "something must have gone wrong somewhere."

　There's no need for emergency strategies; students will figure it out themselves. After all, those "impossible escape rooms" are quite obviously impossible to complete.

　They wouldn't even bother to question the designers about the reconstruction diagrams of those escape rooms.

　In short, when Dak was dancing and partying on stage, he was already being watched by that group of students.

　When he finally managed to escape the stage, he was immediately surrounded and grabbed by the group of students and "escorted" to the very center of the crowd.

　Dak had a premonition of this.

　Therefore, they were not too surprised when they were surrounded.

　When he was "escorted" to the middle of the crowd, he only smiled helplessly. He immediately sat down and patiently answered the students' questions, which were like trying to pass through a difficult escape room.

　But as he answered the questions, he suddenly noticed several familiar faces in the crowd.

　Wait, you want dancing too, you want questions too, you mean you want it all, right?

　Unable to complain, Dak had no choice but to "teach without discrimination" and work overtime. But this overtime lasted until dawn.

　Fortunately, we don't have to work on Halloween.

　Even if we continue working overtime until dark, it's perfectly fine. But the students are still lovely after all.

　When they suddenly realized that the sky outside the window had become bright, they all felt very embarrassed and "released" Dak out.

　Dac showed great leniency in this regard.

　Even after being "released," he said he would compile some of the solutions to the secret rooms into a book in the following days and sell it in the form of a magazine in the All-People Duel Club and the Magic Duel Club.

　It will also come with a "Halloween bonus".

　This immediately drew praise from the students. Under their adoring gazes, as if they were sending a god, Dak left the banquet hall.

　For a time, he even felt that he could replace Professor Cazell's lofty position in the students' hearts.

　This caused his arrogance to rise even higher.