I'm really a necromancer

Chapter 247 The missing Petain!
Outside the secret world, the open space in front of the academy tower.

There are still about a thousand apprentices on the ground who have passed the real-time scoreboard of the secret world and the phantom of the secret world in the sky, paying attention to the dynamics of this apprenticeship examination.

Among them, there are many apprentices who have never left the same place since the start of this apprenticeship examination. They have stayed here, sitting cross-legged on the ground, meditating and watching the battle.

Compared with mortals, wizard apprentices are much more energetic. Now that the apprenticeship exam has only begun for one day, the apprentices who are watching the battle have not shown any signs of fatigue even if they have been watching the battle without sleep for a whole day.

Some shrewd apprentices even took this opportunity to set up stalls in the open space in front of the college tower and start a business.

High in the sky, the fifth-level mentor "Messenger" Rudolf, with a wrinkled face, gray beard and hair, looking like a cold and stern old wizard, frowned at this moment.

He subconsciously sent a message secretly to Audlina, who was also in the air not far away:

"Adelina, what are the movements of the fifth-class apprentices outside the hospital who are hostile to the Wizarding Academy?"

After hearing Rudolph's question, Audlina, who looked like a middle-aged woman, looked at the crystal ball in her hand and replied calmly:
"It's still the same as before, always standing still, nothing unusual."

"By the way, this is the fifth time you have asked me in the past hour. I have told you before that I will notify you immediately if there is any change in those guys."

In response to Adelina's reminder, Rudolf did not show any signs of strangeness, nor did he accept the conversation. Instead, he looked solemnly and said:
"There seems to be nothing unusual happening in the secret world, but for some reason, I always have an ominous premonition lingering in my heart..."

Due to the active intervention of the sealed objects that were about to escape in the secret world, shadows of the dead disguised as dead apprentices were continuously released to the outside world.

In addition, the power level of the sealed object itself is far higher than that of the fifth-level wizard apprentice, the highest level in the academy, and the seal warning measures have lost their effect for unknown reasons.

The fifth-level teachers from the outside world have never noticed the changes in the secret world, and the truth that the sealed object in the depths of the secret world is about to completely destroy the seal and escape.

Before Adelina could respond to Rudolph's concerns, Rudolph suddenly took out a glowing crystal ball from his arms.

The moment he saw the crystal ball, Rudolph's eyes lit up:
"Huh? Is it Simon's news?"

After saying that, Rudolph extended his mental power and connected with the crystal ball in his hand that emitted sky blue light.

After a while, Rudolf regained his energy, looked a little relaxed, and secretly said to Audlina:

"Simon just informed me that he has finished his retreat, and his strength has improved greatly in the previous retreat. He will arrive here soon!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of high-speed moving sound in the distant sky.

The sound came from far away, and within ten seconds, a dark figure appeared in the sky thousands of meters away.

"Huh? He's here?"

Seeing that dark familiar figure, the eyes of the two fifth-level instructors Rudolph and Audlina lit up.

Another ten seconds passed, and the pitch-black figure crossed a distance of several thousand meters at a terrifying speed of hundreds of meters per second.

Accompanied by a sudden strong wind, under the admiring gazes of the apprentices in the open space at the bottom of the tower, Simon's figure, dressed in black attire, wearing a golden monocle, and carrying a huge coffin, appeared. Rudolph and Adelina were not far away in the sky.

"Simon, you came just in time. Next we..."

As if he knew what Rudolph hadn’t said yet, a glimmer of light flashed in Simon’s monocle. He raised his hand to stop Rudolph from continuing to speak, and said bluntly through sound transmission:
"We'll talk about this later. I just left the retreat, and the information I have learned so far is a bit behind the times. What are the current trends in the secret world and the group of fifth-class apprentices from the hostile academy outside the academy?"

Seeing Simon's inquiry, Rudolph and Audlina looked at each other and secretly sent a message to Simon:

"We just checked and everything is normal. The group of fifth-level apprentices from the hostile academy outside the hospital are currently standing still. There is no suspicious behavior."

"This apprenticeship exam is also proceeding in an orderly manner, and there are no accidents in the secret world. The current warning measures left by the seal of the 'Egg of the Evil God' have not revealed any abnormalities. There should be no problems with the seal."

After hearing the replies from Rudolph and Audlina, Simon did not reveal this, but fell into deep thought.

Under the surprised eyes of the two, Simon secretly said:

"No, there are still 3000 apprentices currently in the secret world?"

"When I finished my retreat and rushed to the academy tower, I took a glance at the scene in the academy... Audlina, how many apprentices are there currently in the academy?"

Hearing Simon's somewhat strange question, Rudolph frowned, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart, as if there was some key information that he had ignored.

"Simon, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with the college?"

Audlina, who had her eyes closed tightly on the other side, opened her eyes at the same time and replied to Simon:
"The current number of apprentices in the college is about 500. Apart from some of the apprentices who died in the secret world, plus the apprentices who are still alive in the secret world, the overall number is about 500. Compared with the previous apprenticeship exams , this amount is quite reasonable.”

However, after Simon heard Adelina's answer, his brows furrowed, as if he noticed something unusual.

"Simon, is there anything wrong with this amount?"

Seeing Audrina's confused face, Simon said gloomily:
"Yes, that's right. This number is so normal. It's so normal that it seems like someone is deliberately controlling it. If I hadn't glanced at the academy from a high place just now, I would most likely not have noticed anything unusual now!"

"This……"

"abnormal?"

After hearing Simon's words, Rudolph and Audrina looked at each other in surprise.

Without waiting for the two to ask, Simon said bluntly:
"I just passed through most of the academy, but except for the thousands of past apprentices in the open space in front of the tower where we are currently, in other corners of the academy, in my perception, there are no more than a thousand apprentices at most!"

"The number of apprentices counted by the wizard array in the academy is derived from the number of apprentice badges within the wizard array. Audlina, are you sure that the number of apprentices in the academy is consistent with the number of apprentice badges detected?"

After hearing Simon's answer, Rudolph and Audlina's expressions changed greatly.

The difference between 500 people and 2000 people is a full 500 people. This is not a small number!

The two of them saw with their own eyes that apprentices were constantly coming out of the secret world in front of them, and the number of them was 500, which was 1000 times the actual number of [-].

If only 1000 people actually walked out, where did the other 500 people go?How could it disappear out of thin air?
The only way to avoid detection is to leave the academy with an apprentice badge.

But the current situation is that Audlina was able to locate [-] apprentice badges in the academy through the academy wizard array.

But through the perception of the fifth-level wizard apprentices, Simon could only detect two thousand apprentices in the academy.

This means that unless all of the fifteen hundred apprentices leave the academy's wizard array without wearing apprentice badges.

But how could such a number of apprentices leave the academy at the same time without wearing apprentice badges?

And if you don't carry a badge, even an apprentice of the Nine-ring White Tower will be blocked or even attacked by the wizard array at the boundary of the academy's wizard array. Once you leave, it will be difficult to enter the academy normally!Father, like son.

After Simon's reminder, Rudolph and Audlina quickly realized the problem, and spoke one after another through the public channel constructed by the three of them using sound transmission technology:

"There is a problem with the number of apprentices in the academy!"

"The whereabouts of the missing apprentices must be found out immediately! Audlina, quickly pass the authority of the academy's witch formation and sense the location of the badges of the missing apprentices!"

Knowing that the situation was urgent, Audlina immediately used her authority to search for the tokens of those apprentices who had left the secret world but were still in the academy's wizarding array.

After a while, Audlina's eyes froze.

After reacting and seeing the expectant looks of Simon and Rudolf, Audrina said with a slightly hoarse voice:

"According to the positioning of the academy's wizard array, all those apprentices are in their own residences..."

After hearing Adelina's reply, Simon and Rudolph's eyes flashed.

Rudolf, the "messenger" with a cold face and gray beard, was the first to speak:

"Let me confirm first."

After that, a homing pigeon with pure white feathers appeared out of thin air and appeared in Rudolph's hand.

"go with!"

As Rudolf thought, the homing pigeon disappeared in an instant, and it was unknown where it went.

Half a minute later, the homing pigeon with pure white feathers flashed and appeared on Rudolph's shoulder.

The difference from before leaving is that now there are more than a dozen gray stone and hematite badges representing first and second class apprentices hanging from the ankles of this white homing pigeon.

At this moment, Rudolph's face was particularly gloomy:

"Sure enough, the worst happened - those apprentices disappeared, and only the apprentice badges scattered on the ground were left in their residences!"

Audlina on the other side was not idle either. She frowned when she heard Rudolph's investigation results, and then said:
"I just retrieved the records of entry and exit from the academy. Since there is no badge to locate, the information provided is not detailed enough."

"But from the fact that not a large number of lives have come into contact with the boundaries of the Academy Wizarding Array recently, we can know that those missing apprentices have not left the range of the Academy Wizarding Array!"

This means that after those missing apprentices left the secret world and returned to their residences, they disappeared into the academy out of thin air in some way that was completely unknown to them!

Before that, Rudolph and Audlina didn't even notice the slightest abnormality in the apprentices who mysteriously disappeared from the academy.

Simon, who knew that there was something very wrong with the apprentices who left the secret world and disappeared in the academy, raised his head.

With the keen intuition of a fifth-level wizard apprentice, Simon quickly identified the root cause of all the abnormalities today.

He immediately asked Rudolph and Audlina, who were responsible for monitoring the secret world and the academy's witch formation:
"Where is that guy Pétain now?"

I heard that after Simon noticed the problem, he immediately asked about Petain's movements.

Rudolph and Audlina did not dare to delay, and immediately told Simon the information they had learned.

"That guy from Petain entered the academy tower after the apprenticeship examination started and all the apprentices entered the secret world. We haven't seen him leave yet."

"Perhaps he should be on his own floor like Selena, Ganon and others?"

The gold badges worn by the seven fifth-level instructors in the academy have higher authority, so they cannot be located directly through the badges like other apprentices.

Therefore, Rodolfo and Audlina, who witnessed Pétain entering the college tower, could not provide more accurate information.

"Simon, is the disappearance of these apprentices related to the traitor Petain?"

Simon, who learned Petain's location, did not answer the two's doubts, but looked up at the college tower in front of him.

"I'll go find him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Simon's dark figure flashed and disappeared without a trace.

As Rudolph and Audlina waited uneasily, time passed by minute by second.

After a while, Simon's somewhat cold voice sounded from the channel constructed by the three people through sound transmission:

"That guy Petain has disappeared. The only thing left on his floor is a message claiming that he has temporarily left the college."

"Not only that, I also searched other floors of the college tower and asked Selina and Canon. Neither of them had seen Pétain!"

After hearing Simon's reply, Audlina decisively passed the authority of the academy's wizard array and looked through the records of people who left the academy.

Although the college wizard array cannot directly locate the position of the fifth-level instructor holding the gold badge in the wizard array.

But it is able to detect the entry and exit records of all apprentices wearing the nine-ring White Tower wizard badge in the academy wizard array.

If Petain leaves the academy, there will definitely be a record of his departure in the academy wizard array.

With the power of Petain's fifth-level wizard apprentice level, even if he is not wearing a wizard badge, once he leaves the academy and contacts the nodes at the boundary of the wizard array, a clear contact record will be left in the wizard array.

However, after a while, Audlina, who was about to look through thousands of personnel entry and exit records in recent days through the fifth-class apprentice's transcendent memory, her face gradually darkened.

"What's wrong, is there a problem?"

Rudolf, who was on the side, saw that Adelina's expression was wrong and realized the truth.

Sure enough, the next moment, Audlina directly spoke to Simon and Rudolf on the audio channel:

"Recently, there is no record of that guy Petain entering or exiting the academy wizard array at all!"

Rudolf and Audlina, as fifth-level wizard apprentices, were not stupid people. They immediately understood that Pétain had not left the academy at all in recent days.

(End of this chapter)