Leylin turned around and saw Kaliweir growling, his hair slightly standing up like a furious lion.
On the other side, Jayden poked a golden barbecued chicken drumstick with his fork, “It belongs to whoever takes it first!”
Not only did the crowd not stop them, but they all appeared to be waiting to see a good show
On this tiresome journey, Kaliweir and Jayden felt that the other party was unpleasant to their eyes, especially when Jayden tried to take in two henchmen.
They had restrained themselves in the earlier conflicts due to fear, as the Magi were around. However, things seemed to be out of control now.
Leylin furrowed his brows.
“It’s you who forced me to do this!” Kaliweir roared, and the muscles in his body tensed. It seemed like he had added a layer of muscle on his body.
As a noble, he had naturally trained with the techniques of a Knight. Also, he seemed to have already ignited his internal life energy, thus becoming a proper Knight.
[A.I Chip! Scan target!]
[Beep! Kaliweir, Strength: 2.5, Agility: 2.7, Vitality: 3.0, Status: Currently using a secret technique]
[Examination of the Secret Technique: After circulating, Strength increases, Agility increases!]
“Today, I will let you know that you must lower your head in obedience before a prideful lion!” Kaliweir shouted, and moved his legs. An afterimage remained, as he dashed towards Jayden.
[Alert! Alert! Radiation detected! Status: Recommend distancing from source!] The A.I Chip’s voice sounded in Leylin’s ears.
“Radiation source? Could it be that a Magus has taken action?
“Haha! I will let you know today, who exactly is the number one amongst the freshmen!” Jayden laughed loudly, and took out a green badge from within his chest pocket.
“Pilis-Duwasha! Creature of the green! Hear my calls of summoning, and come out to the mortal world!” Jayden chanted in a strange voice.
What he used was a very rare language, but surprisingly, Leylin had actually understood every word of it.
With the incantation, a layer of light emerged from the green badge and a few brownish vines appeared from the ground and elongated, like a confused snake that was dancing wildly.
* Chi Chi !!*
The vines danced as they protected Jayden from the front, and as one vine was sent forward, it tripped Kaliweir down to the ground.
The layers of vines continued to coil around him, and Kaliweir was soon wrapped in it completely, with only his face exposed.
“Magic Artifact!” The surrounding acolytes cried in surprise.
“To be able to use a Magic Artifact, one must at least be a Level 1 Acolyte! He……He has already been promoted to a Level 1 Acolyte?”
The crowd clamoured, and they looked at Jayden with gazes of respect. This only caused Kaliweir’s face to redden even further.
“How is this? As long as you swear to obey me, I will release you!” Jayden walked to where Kaliweir was.
“Ne……Never! The pride of Golden Lion Family will never be dishonoured by my hands!” Kaliweir veins popped, as if they were going to bleed anytime.
“If it’s like this, then I have no choice!” Jayden shrugged his shoulders and the vines continued to tighten, and few cracking noises even came from within. It seemed like a few of Kaliweir’s bones had been broken.
The surrounding acolytes could not watch on any longer and were about to persuade Jayden.
Bang !!! The Dirigible swayed, and the light dimmed.
A few of the acolytes fell onto the floor, “What happened? Did we meet with some intense turbulence?” Leylin’s eyes flashed.
“Hu!” “Hu!”
The windows cracked open, and violent gusts of wind came rushing in.
Accompanied by the sound of the wind, there were also countless blue electric currents scattering in all directions.
Looking at these, Leylin pupils shrank to the size of a needle, “Thunderstorm? Where are the Magi on the Dirigible?”
“You insignificant vermins, you actually dare to trespass the domain of the mighty Pendra!!”
A voice reverberated, accompanied by a violent thunderstorm.
WMW Chapter 19 Arriving At The Academy
“It’s a matured Giant Storm Sprite!
“Damnit! How could we meet with these kind of things on this path, didn’t we clear it before?”
“Where are the Magi of the various academies? We need their help!!”
A few flustered voices sounded.
“Let us first activate the large-scale Defense Spell Formation. If not, those acolytes will surely die!”
After some incantations, all the walls on the Dirigible were enveloped by a layer of milky white light. All cracks in the Dirigible flashed with a green light as vines climbed up and firmly blocked any openings.
“Hu hu…… “Leylin’s face turned red as he panted heavily.
When the Giant Storm Sprite spoke earlier, the acolytes had all felt an ice-cold force pressing down on them.
Immense, boundless, and raw malice!!! Leylin found it difficult to breathe.
Fortunately, after the Defense Spell Formation was activated, Leylin felt much better as the pressure lifted.
Otherwise, most of the acolytes in the hall might just die from suffocation moments later.
“Human beings, you must pay the price for your folly!” the Giant Storm Sprite howled.
As the sound waves travelled through the Defense Spell Formation, the milky white light vibrated.
“Mighty being of nature! Please appease your fury! We have a letter here!” A familiar voice rang beside Leylin’s ears, it was the Dirigible captain.
“This is the letter of agreement that we had with His Majesty, the Storm King Sprite, which grants us passage through this area!” Kirkwul said with a voice full of confidence.
“Letter of agreement?” The Giant Storm Sprite’s voice contained suspicion, which he followed up with a furious roar, “Pendra is free! The agreement does not bind me to it!!”
“Keep roaring! Rage on! Damikan Buthra!” With the incantation spoken, the thunderstorm outside became ten times more violent than before.
“Damn!!! It is actually a wanderer, I have hit the jackpot!!!” Kirkwul’s voice sounded once again, but it did not carry the usual confidence and was infused with exasperation instead.
“Everyone attack together!!!”
* Rumble!!! *
Many bright coloured lights flashed continuously outside the window, clashing with the lightning.
The Dirigible gradually started to sway.
Leylin’s face turned slightly pale. He could only pray for the Magi to use their might and chase that darn Giant Storm Sprite away, otherwise he would not even be able to escape since he was stuck high up in the sky.
“Bang!!!”
There was another rumble, and the Dirigible recovered its stability.
“Has it left?”
“It is only a Giant Storm Sprite that has just matured, it is only comparable to half of an elemental Magus at most. There are nine of us here, so it running away is natural!
The voices of the Magi discussions sounded from outside. It obviously did not take a lot of effort for them, which eased the minds of the acolytes.
As expected, when the acolytes heard those words, they all shouted and cheered loudly.
“Woo! To our great Magi!”
“Damn it! I thought I would fall and be smashed into minced meat!”
“Haha! Look at that coward; he actually peed in his pants!” The acolytes all mocked an unlucky acolyte, and vented the fear that they had held in their hearts.
Leylin’s eyes scanned the surroundings.
When the Giant Storm Sprite spoke earlier, Jayden had already released the vines binding Kaliweir, and right now it seemed like Kaliweir had escaped. However, although Jayden’s face was rather pale, he stood his ground and maintained the pose of a victor.
“The A.I Chip d
id not detect that Jayden was carrying a Magic Artifact earlier. It seems like it was only acquired recently, and the only means of that is through Dorotte!!!”
“It seems like after obtaining the Magic Artifact, Jayden has been leading Kaliweir into picking a fight with him impatiently. If not for this incident, it is very likely that he would have succeeded!” Leylin thought to himself.
Because of the interruption from the Giant Storm Sprite, the fight between Jayden and Kaliweir remained unsettled as it drew its curtains.
From then on, Kaliweir tried his best to avoid appearing in the same place as Jayden. It seemed like he was afraid of his opponent’s Magic Artifact.
This fight had greatly influenced Leylin’s thoughts.
“Kaliweir has already ignited his internal life energy, and got through the bottleneck and became a full fledged Knight. However, in front of an acolyte with a Magic Artifact, he is still as weak as a lamb! It seems like the strength of Magi greatly surpass that of Knights!
“Originally, I thought I must ignite my internal life energy. But after this, if I haven’t ignited it before reaching the school, then I’ll give up on it! I definitely have to pour all my attention and energy into my studies to become a Magus!” Leylin made up his mind.
The time slowly passed, and the Dirigible finally reached another continent.
In addition to the incident with the Giant Storm Sprite, the Dirigible had several encounters with other flying creatures. This led Leylin to realise that not only was the Death Seas difficult to navigate through, it was the same in the skies.
Fortunately, Kirkwul’s letter of agreement was still rather effective in front of the various large creatures and no conflicts were started.
During this period, the Dirigible alighted several times and sent several Professors and acolytes off. The Dirigible slowly became more vacant.
Another dozen days passed unknowingly.
* Bang!! * The Dirigible landed and the whole interior shuddered.
“We have arrived at the Abyssal Bone Moor! Attention to all acolytes of the Abyssal Bone Forest Academy! Please bring your belongings and leave the Dirigible in an orderly fashion!” A voice rang through the cabins.
“We’ve finally arrived?” Leylin packed his belongings and quickly left the tiny space he had been holed up in during the past month.
“Jayden, Kaliweir, please take attendance!” Dorotte held a black staff, with a large green jewel embedded in its tip.
“Alright!” Jayden and Kaliweir nodded their heads and started accounting for the attendance.
Leylin glanced at Kaliweir. Ever since the incident in the dining hall, this youth had turned much quieter and often holed himself in his own room. Looking at his face now, he seemed be gloomier than before.
On the contrary, Jayden was extremely lively, and according to some rumours, he had already been accepted by Dorotte as an apprentice.
Apprentices were different from other acolytes as their status were higher, and they could even freely obtain a lot of advanced knowledge from their professor.
A dozen or so people walked out of the Dirigible.
“So this is our academy? It seems to be a little desolate!”
Leylin looked at the surroundings, and it seemed rather desolate. There were a few small trails with obvious traces of others using it before.
There was a wooden sign in the middle of a crossroad, riddled with several holes.
There were directions written in black, showing the various locations.
“The land of shadows and death – Bone Abyssal Moor!” The words twisted, and Leylin felt his scalp gone numb.
“Hehe…… Follow me!” Dorotte stretched his body leisurely, and his white bones creaked and crunched, as if they were going to fall apart at any moment.
“Pay heed! Although our academy’s acolytes do a scheduled cleansing, there are still some living creatures, and polluted and evil beings roaming in this area. So if you were to stray off, I think we would be able to pay respects to your deceased body soon afterwards!”
Dorotte snickered, and the acolytes’ faces all changed. They followed behind Dorotte closely, for fear of losing him.
The group gradually traversed across the Abyssal Bone Moor.
“What is that?” Leylin walked in the middle of the group, and suddenly something black flashed in front of him. It seemed to be a blue creature with a horn.
“A.I Chip! Begin scan!”
“Task initialising, Begin Scan!” The A.I Chip chip’s robotic voice sounded.
[An unknown creature of high energy! Estimated Strength: 3-4, Agility: 4-5, Vitality: About 5, Assessment: Extremely dangerous!]
“Ss! Whatever it is, it’s much stronger than the direwolves and may have some strange tricks up its sleeves. A Knight would only die if they encounter one!”
Leylin hurriedly squeezed forward. In this land where danger lurked, it seemed like the black robed skeleton, Professor Dorotte, was his only insurance.
“It seems like our little acolytes have finally understood the dangers!”
The green flames in Dorotte’s sockets flickered as he said indifferently.
The group proceeded forward, and very soon the barren earth lessened and more forestry could be seen around them.
Very soon, Leylin entered a black coloured forest.
He did not know if it was an illusion, but Leylin felt as if the sun in the sky had dimmed after entering the forest, and there was a layer of white mist in the surroundings giving off a chilly feeling.
[Warning! Warning! A high energy being is approaching! Position: In the air!] The A.I Chip’s warning sounded.
Leylin hurriedly looked down and crouched.
“Kak!” A piercing sound rang.
A black raven with red eyes swooped down and passed by Leylin’s position, its sharp claws headed towards the face of a female acolyte.
Boom!!!
A ball of greenish liquid struck at the raven directly, and the raven cawed as it fell onto the floor. A white smoke arose, giving off a corroding effect.
The female acolyte remained rooted to the ground and suddenly cried loudly.
Only seconds later, the raven on the floor disappeared without a corpse and there was only a huge impression left in the corroded earth.
“It seems like these Red-Eyed Ravens increased in numbers yet again. I think I will need to distribute more missions after we return, and let the acolytes cleanse this area!”
“What are you all looking at? Let’s go!”
Dorotte’s voice sounded at the front and the crying female acolyte rubbed her eyes and gritted her teeth as she walked forward.
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