Chapter 16: The Destined Arch-Villain

After consulting Su Na, the advisor ultimately arranged for a double-occupancy room. Levi, acting as a guardian, could stay with her but was barred from entering the academy’s core campus.

Su Na was quite satisfied with this and didn’t propose any other requirements.

Seeing their discussion concluded, the advisor wisely took his leave, allowing the Knight Commander, who had been lingering nearby, to step forward and join the conversation: “Miss, where should the luggage My Lady prepared for you be placed?”

As he spoke, he pointed to the several freight carriages parked outside. Su Na irritably grabbed a handful of fur from the puppy’s head: “You lot can arrange it as you see fit.”

She was inherently a person who feared trouble, preferring to travel light. However, when it came to her mother, a child’s wishes didn’t matter much. In the end, she had been stuffed with an absurd amount of luggage.

If this hadn’t been the Royal Magic Academy—a campus so absurdly large it was no smaller than a city, with spacious dormitories—she would have had to move out and buy a house off-campus.

Fortunately, there were plenty of hands. Under Levi’s direction, the knights busied themselves organizing the luggage for a while, and, after Su Na offered her thanks, they began their journey back.

Levi quickly settled into her role as a personal maid, organizing the categorized trunks within the walk-in closet Su Na had partitioned off from her bedroom.

Su Na set Dahuang on the floor so it could stake out its new territory, then leaned over to Levi to take a rough look.

Hmm… dresses, all sorts of dresses in tender, youthful colors… There were shoes, hats, gloves, and cloaks, but none occupied nearly as much space as the four or five large wooden chests filled with dresses.

Aside from these, there was a large chest packed to the brim with small wooden boxes, each containing exquisite, matching jewelry sets. There were more varieties than she had encountered in both of her lifetimes combined.

There was even an entire chest of gold coins. The shimmering golden luster nearly blinded Su Na, giving her the first taste in her life of what it meant for “maternal love to be like a mountain”…

“Miss, you must keep these three chests personally…”

Levi pointed to the chest filled with gold coins and two other slightly smaller silver chests that hadn’t been opened yet.

Curious, Su Na flipped open the lid of one of the silver chests. Instantly, she was enveloped in a brilliant, multi-colored glow. The dense magical elements in the air were so thick they formed faint, swirling vortexes.

It took a while for her eyes to adjust and clearly see the contents: neatly stacked magical stones of every color. The surfaces of the crystalline stones flickered with strands of magical light, causing Su Na to involuntarily take a deep breath.

A single magical stone was worth a hundred gold coins outside, and she had two entire chests of them! Forget living for another ten years; with this standard of living, she would be absolutely loaded even if she only lived for two.

No wonder Charlie, despite being scammed by her so harshly, still had the gall to cling to her like a leech. Who wouldn’t want to stick close to such a rich “loli”? A casual loosening of her purse strings would keep an average family fed for ages. Thinking about it, even being scolded by her probably felt like a reward.

After roughly settling in, Su Na dragged Levi out to stroll through the campus and familiarize themselves with the new environment.

During her initial glance earlier, Su Na had thought the academy was quite large, but being in the middle of it, she felt that if someone didn’t tell her this was a school, she would have never doubted them if they claimed it was a major city.

It was truly massive. The wide, paved main roads could accommodate several carriages traveling side-by-side; magical streetlamps stood every dozen meters; the streets were lined with shops of all functions; vendors hawked their wares on the auxiliary roads; and the air was filled with the appetizing aromas of various foods.

If it weren’t for the fact that the crowds were wearing the academy’s exclusive uniforms—even the vendors—and the streets were impeccably clean and bright, devoid of the faint, unpleasant odors she had encountered in ordinary city streets outside, she would have had the distinct impression of having returned to a modern fourth-tier city.

Su Na watched a wooden transport vehicle glide past, hovering some ten centimeters off the ground, and remarked in a low voice:

“So, magic isn’t incapable of serving people… it’s just that it doesn’t serve the masses.”

The gap between the city and the world outside looked even more exaggerated than the difference between a first-tier metropolis and a village in her previous life. Hmm… perhaps that logic didn’t hold here; only those with money, power, and strength were considered “people” in their eyes.

The more she explored, the less confident she felt.

In truth, prior to this, based on the primitive external environment she had witnessed, she hadn’t held the world’s unique systems in high regard—it was merely a backward world with a wider variety of races.