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

　Then her gaze drifted to Rose's liqueur-filled chocolates.

　7:30 p.m.

　The students from the four houses once again gathered at the top of the Spiral Clock Tower, sitting in their classrooms awaiting Professor Mydia's arrival.

　The love fortune telling during Valentine's Day left a deep impression on the students.

　Today is White Day, and the little mages want to do it again.

　But Professor Mydia, who arrived in a pumpkin carriage, did not do as they had hoped this time.

　She simply selected some love stories related to galaxies, conveying some philosophical insights through these stories, and then...

　I only talked about the Tarot card divination method.

　Tarot cards are a very commonly used divination tool.

　In the streets and alleys, you can often see people holding tarot cards and doing divination.

　Of course, 9.99% of them are scammers.

　The profoundness of Tarot card readings is beyond the imagination of beginners.

　Even Professor Mitia wouldn't dare claim to be an expert in Tarot card divination.

　However, as teaching material, it is easy to arouse students' interest.

　After all, who doesn't enjoy playing cards?

　At least, little Ibu's eyes lit up, and he would occasionally let out a soft cry.

　Dak then knew he should buy it a deck of tarot cards.

　Throughout the entire lesson, Professor Mitis didn't bring up any more topics related to Easter.

　After class, Dak went to ask Professor Mitis, but she just smiled and remained silent, as if to say, "You'll have to figure it out yourself."

　I can't believe it!

　So Dark put the matter out of his mind.

　After all, he wasn't really worried that anything bad might happen during Easter.

　Even if something really happens, it has nothing to do with him.

　The morning of the day after White Youth Day ended.

　Professor Kazel called Dak to his office at the end of the second class.

　After tidying up a bit, he led him to Sylph's office in the classroom.

　Once inside the office, Professor Kazel casually tossed a magic card to Dark Zhang.

　“The door card is ready,” Dark asked casually, picking up the magic card and examining it closely.

　This magic card has a faint golden halo, giving it a familiar feel to gold cards.

　But it is certainly not a gold card.

　Dark was intrigued and asked, "Professor, did you really create a classification system?"

　Professor Cazell said smugly, "White, blue, purple, orange, gold, easy. Try infusing it with magic."

　Dark then infused a wisp of magic into the golden key card.

　But after the magic was injected, a small figure shaped like a key popped out from the card. The figure said in a slightly stiff tone: "Identity verification failed, identity verification failed. Please return this card to Kazel. Please return this card to Kazel."

　Amidst the beeping sound, three black lines slowly appeared on Dark's forehead.

　Professors Cazell and Sylph both burst out laughing.

　To cover up his malicious intent, Professor Kazel quickly said, "It's like this, this Easter Duel Festival, we want to make it bigger."

Chapter 371 Darkdemon's Easter Eggs (4k)

　Although the idea of ​​the "door card" was initially conceived to lure out the "invisible man".

　But neither Professor Cazell nor Professor Sylph actually cared that much about the existence of the "invisible man".

　Especially after the major threat of the vampire Vlad was dealt with, the "invisible man" became even less important.

　After all, similar "spies" are not uncommon at St. Marian Academy.

　As long as they don't cause too much trouble, the professors generally just let it go.

　If all this fuss is just for a few mere "invisible people," it's bound to feel like a huge waste.

　So Professor Kazel and Professor Sylph discussed it and decided to formalize the Easter Duel Festival!

　And it just so happens that there hasn't been a lot of morale-boosting events lately...

　After Professor Sylph and the principal communicated, they both agreed, and the matter was settled.

　Next.

　Posting advertisements, placing ads in newspapers, selling tickets, displaying Easter eggs...

　Everything was conducted in the manner of a formal competition.

　Work.

　In short, we must make the St. Marian Duel Festival a brand!

　If things go well, it might become possible to hold an Easter celebration every year from now on.

　……

　"Wait, is this an Easter egg?"

　Dak keenly grasped the key element and interrupted Professor Cazell's explanation.

　Professor Cazell smiled mysteriously: "Do you know about Easter eggs?"

　Dark: "Of course I know."

　Professor Cazell twirled his wand like a pen and said, "After all, it's the Easter Duel Festival, so we need to make some festive souvenirs, so..."

　Dark quickly interrupted, "No, I mean, have you ever thought about selling Easter eggs?"

　Professor Cazell looked slightly puzzled: "Of course, Easter eggs are for selling. Our college has a lot of expenses, and we always have to find ways to maintain revenue."

　Dak asked curiously, "So how do you sell them?"

　"How else can we sell it?" Professor Kazel spread his hands and said, "160 Holy Coins each, which is equivalent to 10 credits."

　Dark shook his head and said, "Why not sell them for 188? It's only 28 Saint Coins short, and it's a good omen. Besides, if we just sell the Easter eggs as souvenirs, even if 10,000 people buy one each, it'll only be 188 million Saint Coins. How can we make money like that?"

　"How to say?"

　Professor Kazel immediately became interested.

　But Professor Sylph suddenly interrupted

　He said, "The Easter eggs are just souvenirs; the real money comes from the tickets. The average price of tickets across all price ranges is around 1000 Holy Coins. Each branch can provide us with tens of millions of Holy Coins in ticket revenue, which is still a huge amount even after deducting costs and expenses."

　Dark glanced at her and shook his head again: "Making money from tickets and making money from lotteries are not mutually exclusive. We just need to put a few limited-edition prizes in the Easter eggs we sell to the public, and it will be easy to double the sales. Of course, those prizes need to be attractive enough."

　"Or, we could create a series. We could make models of popular magical spirits and put them in Easter eggs. The more popular the magical spirit, the fewer there would be, artificially creating rarity... If you want to get the model you want, you would have to buy far more Easter eggs than necessary."

　"In short, there are many similar methods, and even... sigh!"

　At this point, Dak suddenly stopped.

　He suddenly realized that the method of making money he had mentioned might not be very useful to the academy.

　After all, the academy is not short of money...

　But just now inserted

　Professor Sylph, who had been talking, now showed great interest: "Don't stop, keep going."

　Dark smiled, poured himself a cup of black tea, and continued, "We can add some movable models similar to the Magic Chess pieces to the models. Of course, these models should be fewer and rarer. Most importantly, we need to promote them and let consumers know what can be found in the Easter eggs. After this Easter, we can move beyond the Easter theme and sell Easter eggs year-round. Believe me, the business opportunity here is huge."

　"Is it exploiting consumers' gambling mentality?" Professor Sylph pondered.

　Professor Cazell also stated, "We artificially create rarity to give rare models extra value. At that point, even people who don't like the models will buy Easter eggs just to get a high-value model..."

　Professor Sylph suddenly blurted out, "This is much more reliable than spinach."

　Dark: "??"

　"Ahem," Professor Sylph quickly said, "Your method is indeed very feasible. But to be sure, we need to verify it with facts. This Easter Duel Festival can serve as a testing ground."

　Dark asked in surprise, "That's it?"

　Professor Sylph said casually, "People's desire to buy Easter eggs is evident every year at Easter. It's just that no one thought of such a detail until you made your specific proposal. I think it's feasible. What about you, Cazell?"

　Professor Cazell nodded vigorously: "Very feasible!"

　"That's good," Professor Sylph said. "I think..."

　The full text is available for free online. Artemis will approve your proposal. If your proposal truly generates revenue for the academy, the academy will give you the rewards you deserve.

　……

　Seeing that the two professors were about to start chatting about the "Easter egg," Dark quickly said, "By the way, professors, why did you call me here? You didn't just want me to come here and stare at this key card with envy, did you?"

　Professor Cazell said, "Of course not. Now that the competition is becoming more formal, it's not appropriate to just include access cards as prizes. Also, grouping students into grades one through three and grades four through six isn't very suitable. We wanted to ask for your opinion."

　"Not suitable? I think it's quite suitable." Dark smiled, his eyes narrowed.

　There's still a chance to compete against third graders.

　If someone were to compete against a fourth-grader, wouldn't that be asking for trouble?

　We're still just a newbie in first grade, and we need a newbie protection period!

　Professor Cazell chuckled, "You might have misunderstood me. I meant to divide it into three groups: grades one and two, grades three and four, and grades five and six. That would create three levels: lower, middle, and upper. This way, it would also be better for you..."

　“I don’t think that will work,” Dark said. “Easter is only one day, which is already a tight schedule. If the groups are too small, the whole schedule will become too congested.”

　Professor Cazell nodded. "Indeed."

　Dark said, "We'll set some more restrictions and reduce the number of participants. If only the top four get rewards, there probably won't be many contestants. After all, it's Easter, and the Duel Festival is just one part of it; we can't put the cart before the horse."

　“That’s what we were thinking,” Professor Sylph said. “But what if the students are just looking for fun and want to participate?”

　This is actually what's troubling them.

　The students' enthusiasm is unstoppable.

　As professors, they couldn't easily impose restrictions.

　Dark thought for a moment and said, "Then let's build them a platform to perform."

　Professor Sylph asked, "How so?"

　Dark said, "Let's add a preliminary round, open to everyone. Each magical spirit killed earns one point, and the first thirty-two players to reach ten points within half an hour advance to the main tournament, and so on..."

　Professor Sylph's expression shifted: "That's a good idea. Indeed, you have a broader perspective."

　No, it's your thinking that's too narrow.

　Dark rolled his eyes discreetly. Actually, he could think of many other methods, but this one was relatively simple and easy to implement.

　Moreover, the college is not lacking in activities of this type.

　Halloween activities are a good example.

　However, it seems that the activity was established a long time ago and has little to do with the current generation of professors.

　To put it bluntly, this generation of professors lacks experience in initiating activities.

　St. Marian Academy's school activities have remained unchanged for decades. If it weren't for the "Menka" incident that sparked the idea for the Easter Duel Festival, nothing would have changed.

　However, Professor Sylph's ability to correctly recognize her shortcomings and to call for help when she couldn't solve the problem, rather than sticking to her own opinions, is already quite admirable.

　With this experience, they may be able to organize more and more interesting on-campus activities in the future.

　For example, an indispensable part of school life – the sports meet!

　……

　After helping the two professors answer more questions about the Easter Duel Festival, Darke finally left the office before the afternoon's History of Magic class.

　"Hey--"