The next day, the day before the official magic exam, the school gave a day off to students who will take the Magic Academy exam tomorrow, allowing them to rest at home and adjust.
As soon as Ji Taoyao came downstairs for dinner, Mrs. Ji threw an invitation letter expressionlessly in front of her hungry face.
"This is an invitation specially sent by the Duke's Pace family. Sister Pesca will hold a birthday party at the manor on the outskirts of the city this afternoon.
The person who came to deliver the invitation specifically said that the old Duke of their family was very angry when Pesca was injured at our house last time, and he has not recovered during this period.
Their family hopes that you can take this opportunity to come and apologize in person. After all, you are the only son of a duke's family, so you still have to be decent in terms of face.
If you pass this time, then what happened last time will be wiped out.
If you don't go and your attitude is still so arrogant, they will go to the school and file a complaint.
Aren’t you going to be admitted to the Bright Magic School? This school has extremely strict admission requirements and will not accept people with such deficient morals and bad deeds as you.
So, someone gave you a chance, and you happen to have a day off today, so the choice whether to go or not is up to you."
Ji Taoyao looked at the invitation in front of her and lowered her head in embarrassment, looking very embarrassed.
The head of the Ji family frowned: "What's going on with the Duke of Pest's family? He's just a little duke, and he dares to threaten the daughter of our Ji family?"
Mrs. Ji said coolly: "Then I have to ask your precious daughter. Her knight kicked my son so hard that he couldn't get out of bed for half a month, and he is my only son. If it were you, would you let it go?
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The head of the Ji family didn't say anything, as if he wouldn't just let it go.
What else did he want to say, but Ji Taoyao, who had been silent, spoke up: "Father, it's okay, I'll go. It was my knight's fault, so I should apologize. I can't let this matter affect my entrance to the Magic Academy, right?
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The head of the Ji family felt that what Ji Taoyao said made sense. He sighed and kept saying more. He only said that the manor on the outskirts of the city was a long way away and that he would arrange an extra team of knights to escort him to make sure nothing went wrong on the way.
Anyway, it won't affect tomorrow's exam.
Ji Taoyao dressed up, took the apology gift prepared by the butler, and got into the carriage heading to the manor on the outskirts of the city.
Ross escorted him all the way.
When he was driving the carriage in front, he couldn't help but apologize to Ji Taoyao: "I'm sorry, what happened before was my fault. I didn't expect that there would be so much trouble later."
Ji Taoyao sighed: "Hey, don't talk about it. What happened in the past is in the past. You have been punished enough. This time we will go to the door to apologize and the matter will be over. Don't do this again."
Just be impulsive."
"Yeah," Ross nodded seriously: "Next time, I promise to kick him a little softer, and then follow him to a place where no one is around before I start!"
Ji Taoyao: "..." No, is this the point of the matter?!
In the beginning, the journey was uneventful and we did not encounter anything.
After leaving the royal city, the carriage drove forward for more than half an hour. When it entered a forest, the originally sunny weather suddenly became covered with dark clouds, and the strong wind made the forest rustle.
In late summer in the royal city, it is very common for a sudden thunderstorm to occur. After a while, large raindrops fell from the sky, and finally turned into a heavy downpour.
The members of the knight team were all well-trained and wore rainproof cloaks. Ji Taoyao was sitting in the carriage, so she would not get wet.
But the rain got heavier and heavier, so heavy that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes.
The captain of the knight team applied to Ji Taoyao and Lose: "The wind and rain are so strong now that people and horses can't see the road clearly. We still have half an hour to go out of this semi-windy forest. It's possible to continue moving forward."
It’s going to be dangerous, do you want to stop and take a break?”
Ji Taoyao wanted to say yes, just find a place to hide from the rain.
But Ross looked at the heavy rain all over the sky, but slowly shook his head, and said firmly: "No, this rain is very strange. It rains so heavily but there is no thunder. Let's speed up the journey and leave here first before repairing."
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The knight captain felt a little unhappy, feeling that Los was making a fuss out of a molehill, but Ji Taoyao didn't object, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue moving forward.
Just a few steps forward, the ground behind suddenly collapsed and turned into a bottomless pit.
Now everyone was shocked.
Before anyone could react, Lose spun around and got into the carriage, put Ji Taoyao on his shoulders, gathered his magic power, and ran forward with Ji Taoyao on his back.
He only had time to shout to the knights: "Run quickly, run forward, run in a straight line, this place is swallowed up by the black magic circle. You must beat the speed of the magic circle collapse in order to escape!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another collapse followed, and several knights who did not react were swallowed into the bottomless pit.
Lose no longer cared about them. He carried Ji Taoyao and ran forward as fast as he could.
The collapse speed at the back was getting faster and faster, and the knights who ran behind all fell down within a short time.
Ji Taoyao was on his back, looking at the tragic situation behind her, and asked with a trembling voice: "Is...did someone discover my identity as a saint and squat here to arrest me?"