This wizard only wishes to be a teacher
Chapter 142 - 123 Dissection; Treatment.

Chapter 142: Chapter 123 Dissection; Treatment.

Lucien silently watched the Snake Mother disappear again while his fingers rhythmically tapped the desktop lightly.

"Such knowledge constrained by contracts is troublesome..." Lucien muttered to himself, then followed the same path he used to enter and slowly walked out of the underground library.

During his departure, Lucien silently took out the segment of the "doll" arm once again, and carefully perceived the environment around his body, especially the movements from within the Dream Layer.

Lucien’s pace was not fast, and he was quietly waiting for Adeline.

However, before he walked out of the library’s underground passage, he did not perceive any stirrings from the Dream Layer. It was only when Lucien walked out of the secret passage and returned to the interior of the library that he released his spiritual power and felt a faint presence that seemed to have followed him, setting its sight on the arm in his hand.

"It seems they refrained from following me into the underground library due to the headmaster’s arrangement, right?" Lucien concluded in his mind. He did not utter a word, simply noting this piece of information.

"Yet they dare to let their nightmare creature continue to tail me within the academy, truly thinking they have me in their grasp?" Lucien scoffed in his mind, but his footsteps quickened slightly.

As he approached a window plastered over on the outside, he saw a girl in a dress holding a maimed doll. She was looking up at him with her big watery eyes.

Through the window as a medium, Lucien could even sense the helplessness in the little girl’s heart and an emerging sense of "guilt" inside him, followed by an impulse to return the arm segment to the girl before him.

Fortunately, Lucien’s spiritual power quickly suppressed the confusing effects of the proto-witchcraft, and when he looked at the window again, the apparition inside had vanished.

In Lucien’s perception, the figure within the Dream Layer had also gradually moved away as if its exploration for the day had concluded.

"You will pay for your arrogance today." Lucien lowered his head slightly, then swiftly left the library.

After returning to his residence, the first thing Lucien did was remodel his laboratory.

Of course, calling it a remodel might be a bit of an exaggeration. It mainly involved adding a few wizard formations specifically designed to isolate or suppress Spiritual Bodies, on top of the defense-oriented wizard formations already in place in his residence.

After all, Lucien had no wish for his every action in the laboratory to be spied upon and coveted, even if Adeline couldn’t make sense of his actions. Nobody would tolerate a little mouse peeking around their room every day.

Especially since he had certain "dishonorable intentions" toward her and perhaps even Wizard Loren behind her.

"This should suffice." Lucien looked at the newly placed wizard formation, where some areas of the Magic Element Harmonizer were still not fully dry, having a semi-fluid texture.

However, Lucien took a sea-blue transparent crystal ball from the Space Ring, positioned it at the core area of the wizard formation, and then fully activated the formation he had learned from the underground library.

Humm—When the wizard formation activated, Lucien only felt a gentle force quietly passing by his side. After a slight initial discomfort, Lucien quickly adjusted.

"A light oppressive sensation, as if the air has become slightly more viscous..." Lucien compared the environmental changes inside the barrier while manipulating his spiritual power to see the barrier’s impact on the Dream Layer.

Soon, Lucien found that inside the barrier, the Dream Layer had become entirely sluggish. If the real world feeling under the barrier was like air becoming slightly viscous, then the Dream Layer under the influence of the barrier had become incredibly "compact."

It was as if it had transformed from a liquid to a compacted brick, making it difficult for creatures lurking in the Dream Layer to move freely within.

"Now, I can proceed with my research." Lucien nodded in satisfaction and then took the limb segment from his Space Ring to begin the simplest observation and analysis using his current knowledge of spiritology and transformation lore.

Soon, Lucien detected a subtle witchcraft aura on the surface of the severed limb, as if a special wizard formation flowed within the limb, corresponding to a certain remote location.

"Just as I thought." Lucien’s heart stirred, and he took out a scalpel, carefully cutting open the coarse cloth on the surface of the doll’s severed limb.

"Hmm?" When Lucien began attempting to cut, he felt significant resistance on the scalpel.

The coarse cloth, which appeared weak and already showed a noticeable gap with some unraveled threads, now displayed an unreasonable toughness under the scalpel.

At that moment, Lucien could feel resistance emanating from the limb segment, akin to a defensive witchcraft spell but much weaker.

If Lucien wished, he could crush this resistance with his spiritual power, but that might result in the complete destruction of the special doll limb segment.