If they should have known from the start that the apprentice necromancer is just within Magus Academia, they should have saved a lot of time and energy.

But considering that only the Mu Clan knows about this matter, they cannot say entirely that their trip back to the Kingdom of Long is wasted.

If they didn't personally go here and uncover the deepest secret of the Mu Clan for their own, then there is no doubt that they won't know anything about the whereabouts of the apprentice necromancer even if they were to stay within Magus Academia for another ten years straight.

"So what would be our next plan??"

Chan Gu asked after their shock subsided.

"What else??? Of course, we will go back to Magus Academia and start our search there!"

Long Yue said as if it is the most normal thing to do.

"Long Yue, that is a given. Do you even call that a plan?? What I mean is how can we find the apprentice necromancer among the student populace???"

Chan Gu tried to clarify his question to make himself clear, especially to Long Yue.

"Well, that is to say, that the apprentice necromancer is still studying at Magus Academia. But considering that the news that we got is almost 2 decades late, we cannot deny the possibility that the apprentice necromancer is no longer staying at Magus Academia."

This time, it was Fan Lei who expressed his idea. Just like what he had said, there is no guarantee that the apprentice necromancer is still staying at the Magus Academia up until now.

Considering that it was already 18 years ago, a lot of things could have happened during that span of time.

But just like Fan Lei, Mu Lingxi had already thought about this possibility before. That is why she had already come up with a countermeasure for it.

"Regardless if he was still there or not, it will remain a fact that he used to be at Magus Academia. That is a good starting point already. Well, at least, we can try looking for the student records."

"Brilliant! Why I haven't thought about it before??? HAHA! Of course, Magus Academia must have records of its students. We can start from there!!!"

Long Yue shouted in delight. It was only after hearing the idea from Mu Lingxi did he thought about the feasibility of this plan.

"Su Yan's plan is indeed the best shot that we have so far. But the only problem is, it is a daunting task. Just think about the countless warlocks and sorceresses that had been at Magus Academia for the past 18 years. How are we going to seed out the apprentice necromancer among them."

It is not that Yun Xue was purposely going against Mu Lingxi's idea, but what he said has a point. When this issue was brought to light, the group had reached an impa.s.se again.

Little did they know that Mu Lingxi still has another trump card on her end. If they were talking to someone else, they might really be stump by that situation.

But considering that the daughter of the very person who is related to the apprentice necromancer itself is within the group, they still have another lifeline.

"Well, we can start looking for the sorceress named, Yu Yan."

"Yu Yan??? Is that the name of the girl who supposed to be the apprentice necromancer's bride???"

Since Long Fuzi already told them the background story as to why the apprentice necromancer had come to the Kingdom of Long before, they already have quite an idea about it.

Base on what Long Fuzi had told them before, the apprentice necromancer had come wreaking havoc in the Kingdom of Long after pursuing his runaway bride.

So it was indeed a good plan for them to go looking for that sorceress named, Yu Yan, and start from there.

"Yes, it was her. Since she used to know the apprentice necromancer, then we can definitely find something related to the apprentice necromancer once we tried looking for her information."

"Great! Now, we really have a good start. By the way, how did you know her name??? It was not even recorded on the books at the book depository."

As someone who personally looked for the information about the appearance of the apprentice necromancer who appeared in their kingdom, Long Fuzi make it sure that he had read all the books recording the details in that incident that happened 18 years ago.

In fact, he deliberately tried looking for the names of the parties involved. But there is no single book that mentioned the names of anyone related to it.

If not for personally asking his father about it, he won't even know that it was actually related to the Mu clan.

Of course, no one will know about this information. But Mu Lingxi certainly does. After all, it was her mother's name.

Although Mu Ruochen purposely hides the truth about her parents, the 'previous' Mu Lingxi was still told about the names of her parents.

Her mother's name is Yu Yan. A beautiful name that suits her perfectly. Since that name was derived from a phrase that describes women who have beautiful smiles.

While her father's name is Jianjun, Mu Jianjun. His grandfather, Mu Ruochen, named his son like that because he wanted his son to be the strongest general who would build and lead the strongest army that will protect their country.

"The Clan Head told him about it himself. I heard it."

"You heard it??? Does it mean you are also there when Su Yan acquires this information???"

Yun Xue asked in confusion when he heard Long Yue's interjection.

Su Yan had asked them the last day to stay out of it since he has a plan. He told them that he was planning to do it by himself.

The other party even make it sound like he was about to use some kind of secret that he can't afford to be made known by any of them.

That is why he had asked for their trust and told them beforehand that he cannot allow any of them to learn of his plan.

As such, they left Su Yan to do it his way without asking for further details.

So how did Long Yue knew about it before them???

How did Long Yue got involved suddenly???

"Su Yan?! Did you purposely left us behind and only asked for Long Yue's help????!"

Yun Xue directed a sharp gaze towards Su Yan.

Is he discriminating among his friends??

Is this favoritism?!!!

Does it mean they are not worthy of his trust??? But Long Yue is???

"No! It is not like that, I just happen to be there..."

Long Yue said to soothe the situation.

He did not expect it to escalate like that. All he wanted to do is cover up for his friend.

When he heard his brother asking Su Yan (Mu Lingxi) about how did she know the name of the girl that is related to apprentice necromancer, he interjected right away.

He did that because he wanted to do cover up with Mu Lingxi. After all, he knows why the other party is familiar to that name.

It is all because it was her mother's name!

But of course, Mu Lingxi can not tell the group about that. So he wanted to help his friend and purposely told them that he personally heard the Clan Head mentioning it.

He did not think that Yun Xue will focus on an entirely different thing. He even sound agitated when he heard that he was there with Su Yan at that time.

Is that even important???

Of course, Mu Lingxi knew that Long Yue did that to cover up for her. To be honest she was relieved.

This means that she won't have to worry that Long Yue will expose her disguise for the meantime. He was even helping her out to covering up her disguise.

That is a huge relief itself, considering that she already has a lot of things in mind. At least she can take Long Yue out of those concerns for now.

"Long Yue followed me last night to make sure that I was safe. That is why he was there and overheard my conversation with the Clan Head.

Mu Lingxi rides along to Long Yue's lie to wrapped things up.

"Ohh I see... So that is why. If I only knew that it is okay to tag along, I should have followed you as well to give my support."

Chan Gu commented when he heard the confirmation coming from the two. They thought that Su Yan prefers working alone that night so they tried their best to reign over their curiosity and left him to fend it for himself.

If they only knew that they can also tag along, they would have done the same.

'It was actually a good thing that all of you were obedient and decided against following me last night. Unlike this busy-body, Long Yue.

Or else, my disguised would have been exposed to all of you already.'

Mu Lingxi silently thought to herself.

Little did she know that someone from the group was taking this unexpected 'Su Yan and Long Yue' tandem into a whole new level.

For Yun Xue, it was a huge blow to his pride.

'It should have been me, not Long Yue!'