The Villainous Young Master Just Wants to Live a Laid-Back Life

Chapter 13: Dark Demon Steps on the Turning Point

Friday's schedule was very light, with only a Duel class in the morning.

From noon onwards, the passage to Traveler's Street would open, remaining so until midnight on Sunday evening when it would close again.

During this time, every student in the academy could freely enter and exit Traveler's Street.

It wasn't just the newly permitted freshmen; the upperclassmen, who had been cooped up in the castle for a whole week, also swarmed out.

Although Saint Marian provided all daily necessities for free, everything else had to be purchased in Traveler's Street.

Students could freely use their House points for consumption.

Whether it was bizarre candies and toys, beautiful clothes and jewelry, or even cute dolls, they could all be found there.

Of course, the most abundant items were various potions and other materials needed to make magic cards.

Academy professors would assign upperclassmen homework that would take a week or even a month to complete.

The materials needed for those assignments had to be purchased from the Traveler's Shops in Traveler's Street.

In addition, some students would also make their own potions, props, and semi-finished magic cards to sell at stalls in Traveler's Street.

Upperclassmen who were allowed to enter the dungeon could even hunt magical beasts, obtain materials, and sell them to merchants in Traveler's Street.

Merchants would also pay with House points.

In Traveler's Street, one House point was actually worth 16 Saint Coins, and this exchange rate would adjust with market fluctuations.

The freshmen, in their first month of enrollment, were unaware that they could earn virtual tokens worth a full 160 Saint Coins just by attentively listening in each class!

Based on twelve classes a week, this was a standard monthly income of 7680 Saint Coins!

And today, Traveler's Street would deliver a heavy blow to some students who didn't pay attention in class!

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"Dark, are you going together?"

"No, I have things to do today."

"Then Roro and I will go first! I heard there's a quirky candy store in Traveler's Street, I've wanted to check it out for ages!"

Diana, hooking her arm around Rose's, rushed out like a whirlwind.

Dark shook his head. He had a very specific purpose today.

Before heading to Traveler's Street, he took out a notebook from his bag and carefully reviewed the various items he had transcribed inside.

[Vampire Fang: A vampire's fang. Piercing a blood vessel with it can bring tranquility, with the side effect of ecstasy after blood is drawn.]

[Hat of Humility: A Demon World nobleman's top hat. Anyone, no matter how crude, will become humble and polite upon wearing it, but will become furious upon taking it off!]

[Tears of the Ocean: Mermaid tears. Potions brewed from them have a slimming effect, but in reality, they achieve this by inducing anorexia.]

[Margaret's Red Dancing Shoes: The dancing shoes of the mysterious witch Margaret. Once worn, one can dance the most perfect dance in the world, at the cost of never being able to take them off.]

[Queen Caterina's Poison Apple: Apples planted by Queen Caterina in the royal palace's back garden. They can absorb desires of jealousy, transforming them into a deadly poison that plunges people into eternal sleep. Only a kiss filled with love can awaken them.]

[Grandet's Gold Coin: Gold coins inheriting Grandet's will. Those who possess them will become extremely stingy and greedy, viewing money as life and wives and daughters as dirt.]

[Voodoo Doll: A curse doll made from intense jealousy as its source. Sticking needles into the doll will cause excruciating pain.]

[Urn of Abstinence: Absorbs desires, putting people into a state of no sorrow and no joy. The side effect is losing even the desire to think.]

[Ring of the Starry Sky: The ring of the Starry Sky Great Magician. It can glimpse a corner of the universe's starry sky, making one feel their own insignificance, and may even cause one to collapse from fear.]

[Nightmare Worm: Can burrow into dreams and extract human desires, at the cost of having a hole drilled into one's brain.]

[Magic Brain Dropper: Extracts a small amount of brain matter, including emotions, desires, knowledge, etc. Commonly used in the production of advanced magic cards. Overly frequent use can cause indirect amnesia.]

[Holy Cross: Can purify the soul, making the wearer's thoughts pure. The side effect is brain erosion.]

[Requiem Bell: Ringing the bell calms people, making them unmoved even by death.]

[Moon God Incense: Lighting an incense stick in the study can purify the mind, dispel distractions, and improve reading efficiency.]

[Wrath of God: A magic wand from the old era. It can turn anger into flames of magic power. As long as anger persists, the magic flames will not extinguish!]

...

An entire notebook was filled with records of relevant items Dark had transcribed from various books over the past month.

These items might be magic tools left over from the previous era, or they might have already been refined into magic tool cards.

But regardless of which, they all had more than necessary effects in resisting the Seven Deadly Sins.

However, as the saying goes, to gain something, you must give something in return. Many items had unavoidable side effects, and the price to pay was also very heavy.

Currently, items with no apparent side effects were very few.

Among these, the ones Dark wanted most, with acceptable side effects, and considered most likely to be obtained from Traveler's Street, were the [Magic Brain Dropper] as an alchemical tool and the top luxury item [Moon God Incense].

Although Dark thought [Moon God Incense] might more easily lead the mind to an endless thirst for knowledge – which was obviously very dangerous, and still needed to be tested.

So, his purpose in going to Traveler's Street today was the [Magic Brain Dropper]!

As an alchemical tool for extracting substances from the brain, the [Magic Brain Dropper] was suitable for the precise production of high-level magic cards.

Dark had consulted many books and even inquired with Professor Kazel, a professor of Magic Studies, and was very certain that it should be able to effectively extract emotions and desires, provided that extremely high skill was required and it was not used frequently.

If he really couldn't buy it from Traveler's Street, he would have to find a way to get this item from Professor Kazel's lab.

Although it couldn't be used frequently, if he could exercise restraint, it should be usable for emergencies.

The immediate problem was to extract some of the [Pride] sin.

...

Only after the freshmen lingering at the castle gate finally disappeared did Dark begin to walk, gracefully and with decorum, towards the castle gate.

—Noble education, engraved in his bones, allowed him to remain elegant even in the face of inner anxiety.

The passage to Traveler's Street was located in the Lakeside Pavilion outside the castle.

Crossing the long, garden-style bridge, he arrived at the beautiful Lakeside Pavilion.

Dark habitually surveyed the environment.

This reasonably spacious Lakeside Pavilion, apart from a circle of seats around the edge of the pavilion, also had a total of eight sets of stone tables and chairs.

Engraved on the stone pillar directly opposite was a line of text: "If we strive to seek, there will always be room for improvement, waiting for us somewhere."

Dark blinked, watching someone sit on a stone stool, then twist their buttocks, and suddenly disappear.

There were also people who twisted for a long time, remaining exactly where they were!

"It seems the entrance to the passage is shifting. Eight stone tables, eight stone stools per table, only by choosing the correct eight stools can one enter Traveler's Street."

He glanced at Robert and Vitte, their faces flushed and necks thick, and then sat down on a stone stool at another stone table that no one had sat at before.

He was very patient, waiting until everyone at the other tables had failed before slightly twisting his buttocks and disappearing from the spot.

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