“Clang! Clang!”
Both sides’ curved daggers kept meeting each other. In addition, Marvin kept using every kind of skill to try to pry the daggers out of the mirror image’s hands. But every time, the mirror image would slyly dodge!
This was completely due to suppression.
An on top of that was the ancient dragon’s tenth of battle consciousness. Even if it was far from equal to Marvin’s, because both sides were limited to a lower level body, the former was still dominating!
‘Too depressing!’
Marvin rolled, increasing the distance between both of them.
He understood mirror image 2 a bit after the previous exchanges.
That guy was a bit troublesome.
The main reason was the red copper dragon’s battle consciousness, or else, even with the attribute suppression, Marvin had all kinds of methods to exterminate it.
In the game, when players went through tempering in the mirror world, it was purely magic intelligence. At most it would be a high level magic intelligence. When did this ancient dragon personally control it?
That completely shameless piece of leather!
Marvin was originally ready to reach master level dagger mastery in one breath in the mirror world.
His original plan was even to pass three levels!
But it seemed like it wouldn’t work now.
His strongest skill was originally set aside for mirror image 3, but he probably had to use it now.
Or he would be unable to defeat mirror image 2.
After using this skill, the red copper dragon would definitely notice it. Thus, mirror image 3 would also possess Marvin’s skill…
Then he would be unable to do anything about it.
It was bringing his own destruction.
“Two floors, just two floors. In the end there are still some variables.”
Marvin wasn’t one to hesitate, and he immediately made a decision.
Mirror image 2 on the other side didn’t want to let him off, and overbearingly rushed over.
Marvin took a deep breath, having already used a lot of stamina. He undoubtedly was the one that lost the exchanges.
’Let’s do it!
…
The curved dagger in Marvin’s hand suddenly revolved in a circle. This small pattern didn’t attract mirror image 2’s attention. A ruthless slash made its way to Marvin.
[Shadow Step]!
Using the move, Marvin forcefully moved half his body to the right!
Mirror image 2 sneered, suddenly coming close!
It was the same [Shadow Step]!
With two people having the same shadow step skill, the first one to use it would definitely land in big trouble!
“Indeed, he’s still a young guy. What a pity.”
The red copper dragon outside the mirror world talked to himself. “Seems like it’s finished. It’s close to bedtime.”
After mirror image 2 used shadow step, its dagger nearly pierced the back of Marvin’s head!
Even if the red copper dragon was kindhearted and would normally not injure a living being, the inside of the mirror world was an exception!
Only in the border between life and death could one truly understand the real meaning of fighting skills.
Thus, the challenger had high chances of dying.
Each person who entered knew this part.
Marvin naturally also knew. He dared to enter, dared to challenge. It proved that he was completely certain.
After all, this wasn’t the game; it was reality!
Death, was really death, there was no cure for it!
In an instant, his foot touched the ground. His ankle almost turned 90 degrees!
All the power focused on his right leg and burst out once again!
He copied shadow step!
In an instant, both sides’ positions were changed, and Mavin ended up behind mirror 2.
Cutthroat!
Target eliminated!
“Bang! Bang!”
Mirror image 2 also turned into quicksand and splattered on the ground!
The red copper dragon outside the mirror world shivered!
“How could that be? This wasn’t a skill?”
“Wow, shadow step, this ingenious step, this guy can actually use it with both feet?”
“Highly interesting indeed! Hehe, I must add this feature to mirror image 3. I’d like to see how many cards you hold!?”
But surprisingly at this time, Marvin suddenly said from inside the mirror world, “Respected Red Copper Dragon, I choose to end my challenge.”
“It was very hard for me to reach the second floor, this victory was a fluke.”
“And I also think I might have wounded myself.”
He pointed to his right foot.
Indeed, continuous use of shadow step followed by the imitated shadow step in 24 hours brought great pressure to Marvin’s leg.
His ankle ached.
This was the problem of his low constitution. He relied on his strong willpower to use his strength. It also was a huge burden on himself!
…
The red copper dragon on the mountainous area seemed somewhat spirited.
“You’re really clever. I like clever people.”
“Not continuing the challenge is a very sensible thing because you would surely die in the third floor.”
His mood wasn’t bad and he unexpectedly used a Treat Illness on Marvin.
Dragon spells were different from common spells. They formed a system that didn’t use the universe magic pool to cast spells. Thus, after the universe magic pool’s collapse, dragons weren’t really affected.
Treat Illness had a really strong effect. Marvin felt that more than half of his stamina recovered. The right leg sprain also seemed good, very good.
“Thank you,” Marvin genuinely said.
There are very few legends that are this approachable.
The red copper dragon professor was a very rare one.
In the game, players had always loved this kindhearted red copper dragon.
It was a pity that after the professor and the nearby ancient red dragon broke out in an intense conflict, both sides suffered and were then attacked by the sneak attack of a god. It was indeed that shadow prince. This guy roamed around and very often came out during the era of turmoil. He was at least among the top three most shameless gods. He frequently used his godly identity to mount a sneak attack on a legend, killing them or inflicting heavy losses. The amount of legends he attacked could be counted on two hands, including East coast’s legend wizard, Anthony, three ring towers’ legend wizard, Hathaway, and others. After that, the red copper dragons disappeared from people’s sight.
Up till Marvin transmigrated, he never heard news of the Professor. Maybe it really died from the shadow prince’s sneak attack.
…
After defeating mirror image 2, Marvin successfully leveled up his dagger mastery to [Expert].
Even if it wasn’t the [Master] level he wanted, Marvin was still satisfied with this outcome.
In addition, the red copper dragon’s reward was very good.
It was a pair of curved daggers.
Marvin just happened to be short a pair of curved daggers.
These curved daggers were named [Fang]
[Fang]
Quality: Uncommon.
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Chapter 66: Slander
Chapter 66: Slander
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[Fang]
Quality: Uncommon
Attack: 7 – 13
Effect: Armor Break +4
…
This was a pair of decent curved daggers.
At least the stats were pretty good. As an uncommon item, it should be considered middle-grade. The armor break attribute was very useful after all.
The other hidden attributes would have to wait. It took a high appraisal level to see through them. But based on Marvin’s experienc
e and after a short examination, the initial estimation was that the material used for these daggers was pretty good, they were durable and the edge was pretty sharp.
The only shortcoming was that they hadn’t been used in a long time; they weren’t even oiled.
This was the consequence of a lack of maintenance. After receiving the daggers, Marvin first started doing some simple maintenance, making them even sharper.
The friendly red copper dragon gave Marvin a pair of scabbards. The scabbards were made from some unknown leather. They felt very soft and were very suitable to sheathe the sharp curved daggers.
Marvin rested for a bit in the Professor’s territory before bidding farewell to this kindhearted red copper dragon and continuing his journey north.
It only took a bit over half a day after leaving the mountainous area before he arrived at the Moonlight Forest.
…
The Moonlight Forest was part of the Wood Elves’ Kingdom. It seemed to have been an agreement between the original Elven Kingdom and the Three Ring Towers’ wizards to have this place as a frontier.
This was equivalent to a wood elven outpost in the south, also acting as a buffer zone between the elves and the humans.
There were some half-elven villages scattered there. In fact, half-elves were very unwelcome. Elves definitely rejected them and humans looked at them differently. Thus, adult half-elves usually had their own villages.
The elves in Moonlight Forest were mainly merchants in charge of dealing with the surrounding human forces, and considered talking as reasonable.
They were different from some conservative elves living deep in the elven kingdom. They still hadn’t forgotten the glory of the High Elven 2nd Era Rule. They had always considered mankind as the lowest kind of lifeform, comparable to gnolls and kobolds.
The Moonlight Forest had close ties with the Three Ring Towers in the north, with two hot air balloons flying every week in direction of the Three Ring Towers.
Hot air balloons were dwarven technology but were reproduced by the Three Ring Towers’ wizard craftsmen. They were used daily in the Three Ring Towers and the surroundings. You could always see hot air balloon caravan in the sky.
This was considered a unique East Coast scenery.
Marvin was a bit unlucky when he arrived; the relay station’s hot air balloon had just flown away.
He could only endure and wait for the next one.
Marvin managed to buy a ticket very easily after showing his baron emblem issued by the South Wizard Alliance. Nothing happened while waiting.
Three days later, Marvin was sitting in a hot air balloon, on his way to the Three Ring Towers.
A day and a half later, Marvin successfully arrived in the Three Ring Towers region.
A sharp tower was getting increasingly closer. Under the control of a somewhat low level wizard, the hot air balloon slowly landed onto a vast open space.
Finally arrived at the Ashes Tower of the Three Ring Towers!
…
Ashes Tower was huge, and Magore Academy was but a small part of it.
After Marvin got down from the hot air balloon, he followed the signs toward Magore Academy.
He soon arrived in front of the Academy, but he still needed to line up to enter the Academy.
There was a checkpoint in front to verify each visitor’s status.
‘What day is it? So many people are visiting Magore Academy?’
Marvin was stunned by the number of visitors.
A lot of those people seemed wealthy. They should be nobles from the nearby East Coast.
They were followed by their whole family. A family with more than ten people definitely had a young child.
‘Turns out it’s almost time for the apprentice recruitment.’
Marvin suddenly realized. No wonder there were so many people today. He had no other choice but to endure and wait.
…
Magore Academy was Ashes Tower’s apprentice wizard nurturing ground.
Like the other Academies, it was in charge of receiving apprentices with magical talents from the South Wizard Alliance and training them to be qualified wizards.
Marvin’s younger brother Wayne had to leave White River Valley to study in Magore Academy because of his outstanding wizard aptitudes.
When Wayne took a trip home after their father’s death, six month ago, the Marvin from back then had yet to notice anything strange.
That 9 years old younger brother had already displayed intelligence and a way of thinking that didn’t match his age.
He never complained to Marvin. Actually, Marvin had guessed that Wayne must have been the target of bullying in Magore Academy.
White River Valley was quite small, and they could barely afford Wayne’s tuition. And wizard was a really expensive class.
‘Such a stubborn kid.’
Remembering that Wayne was so young, yet so strong-willed, Marvin couldn’t help but shake his head.
He hadn’t expected this kind of thing.
Did those wizards think that since his grandfather, White River Valley had completely declined?
Regardless who acted, Marvin would make them regret!
Killing intent flashed in his eyes and his hands couldn’t help but press on the curved daggers on his belt.
At that time, a “Next” could be heard from the checkpoint in front.
My turn?
Marvin squinted and quickly walked forward.
…
There weren’t many people responsible for checking the visitors, only one apprentice wizard and two fighters.
These fighters didn’t have a high rank. They were only of the first level and seemed to be followers of that apprentice wizard.
This apprentice wore the symbol of Magore Academy but the two followers didn’t.
He was only in charge of the most simple identity inspection. He would let people pass as long as they proved their identity.
This was Magore Academy’s self-confidence. In their territory, no one would dare to look for trouble.
“Baron Marvin from White River Valley?”
The apprentice wizard sneered from the corner of his mouth.
“That’s right.” Marvin seemed very calm.
The apprentice wizard was holding onto Marvin’s Baron emblem which was also a proof of identity as it had come from the South Wizard Alliance.
“I never heard of that place,” the apprentice wizard said.
“There are a lot of places you haven’t heard of.” Marvin frowned. “Denyo, Sovaa, have you heard of them?”
The two places Marvin introduced were some very dangerous regions of a lower plane, so an apprentice wizard would obviously not understand.
What made him quite unhappy was this apprentice’s attitude.
‘This guy… Looks like he knows me…”
Marvin looked at that apprentice and felt that something was wrong.
It was safe to say that this apprentice’s identity was the same as a receptionist, and that there was no need to argue with him this much.
His eyes twitched with a bad feeling.
…
That apprentice holding onto Marvin’s emblem was already sneering inwardly.
Indeed, Boss White’s information was very accurate. That bastard older brother heard of his illness and definitely hurried here.
But Boss White had said that it was more than a week’s travel from White River Valley to the Three Ring Towers. He didn’t think it would be that fast.
‘Anyway, since Boss White ordered so, I must deal with it appropriately.’
‘That White River Valley had already declined. This Marvin is also a waste that couldn’t become a wizard, nothing more. Once his brother dies, he will lose all hope to rise up.’
‘There is no one behind them, I can act without any risk. And I can also please the Unicorn clan’s heir. There is no need to hesitate.’
This kind of thought flashed in his heart.
He
suddenly yelled in a loud voice, “There is something wrong with your proof of identity! It’s clearly a counterfeit!”
“You actually dare to impersonate a noble!?”
“You two, arrest him!”
The other people were startled.
Impersonating a noble? Wasn’t this a capital offense? Is there really someone that would do this?
But not waiting for their reaction, the two fighters immediately rushed from the left and right.
…
“Hmm? Is there really something wrong? You actually dared to slander me.”
Marvin’s heart was on fire. “Since when am I easy to bully?”
He didn’t say anything else and unsheathed his daggers!
Nicely waiting to be captured had never been in Marvin’s vocabulary! Only two 1st rank fighters, it wasn’t a big deal for Marvin!
Chapter 67: Killing
Chapter 67: Killing
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The apprentice wizard didn’t move; it seemed like he trusted his subordinates!
Marvin was expressionless, but in his eyes, those two fighters were already dead.
To Marvin, killing was this simple.
These two fighters clearly couldn’t progress further due to their mediocre talent, so they chose to become a wizard’s followers. This was the nice way of putting it. In fact, they sold their own lives and those of their families to this apprentice wizard. They had to do everything he wanted so that they would be protected by the apprentice’s powerful strength.
They had no other choice. At least this was a common practice in a lot of places. Wizards had such high status after all, even if it was only an apprentice.
These two fighters had excellent equipment; this was the benefit of clinging to someone influential. But Marvin didn’t care about those.
A fang in his hand suddenly rotated. He took a step forward and threw himself in the embrace of one of the fighters!
This movement looked like a fighter’s Charge.
But a fighter’s Charge could make the enemy [Dizzy] on impact, or even [Stunned]. Marvin’s copied move clearly couldn’t. His copy was also not good enough, to get an offer to buy the skill for experience in the battle log and turn it into his own skill.
It was fine this way. Marvin rushing right toward them startled that fighter.
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