Chapter 577 - All in a Rush for Time (2/2)

He didn’t speak. It wasn’t his turn to speak with the Great Elder here.

Great Elder Alfred stood up as he feigned a smile at the other man and invited him to sit down. “Morton, what wind blew you over here.”

Morton sat down. He crossed his legs, shaking them gently as he said casually, “I’ve come over this time to talk about a cooperation with the Red Magic Tower.” “There’s no problem with cooperation, we’re allies!” said Alfred in a kind tone, but then his tone suddenly changed and became somewhat aggressive. “But before that, please explain properly why you have been inhumanely suppressing and harming our student, Roland!”

Morton gave a puzzled look. “Suppressing and harming Roland, what?”

Looking at his puzzled expression that was even a hint aggrieved, Roland was extremely impressed. This person’s skill in pretending to be stupid and cute had reached the peak of perfection.

Alfred gave Morton a deadly stare. “You are, after all, the Great Elder of the Spatial Magic Tower, you should a.s.sume responsibility. Is it interesting to act like a punk after doing something and pretend that nothing happened?”

Morton’s expression became even more aggrieved. “But we really don’t know what’s going on.”

The Great Elder sneered.

Roland applauded softly from the sidelines. Even after being treated with such contempt by the two, Morton’s expression still didn’t change much.

The Great Elder sneered for a moment and said, “Morton, we straightforward men don’t resort to insinuations. How do you want to compensate Roland?”

“As I said, I don’t even know what happened, so how do you expect me to pay for it.”

Morton threw up his hands with an innocent look on his face.

Alfred finally ran out of patience with this, and he slammed his hands on the table and scolded, “Morton, what exactly do you mean, thinking that all of us at the Red Magic Tower are fools? I’m telling you, if you don’t give an explanation and compensation, don’t blame us at the Red Magic Tower for being unkind to you.”

Originally, Alfred, seeing as the two Magic Towers used to have a good relations.h.i.+p, would have convinced Roland not to make a big deal out of it as long as Morton gave in, apologized, and provided Roland some compensation.

However, what Morton did was simply treat the Red Magic Tower like fools.

Even the most sensible person would be infuriated when they encountered such a situation.

Hearing Alfred’s threat, Morton smiled lightly. “I wandered around the Red Magic Tower on my way here, and I thought some of the places looked rather nice, so I sat there for a while, at the library, at the materials store, and such.” Alfred’s expression immediately became more furious.

He vaguely understood the other man’s meaning.

Because the Spatial Magic Tower had a unique skill: they knew the delay magic array.

…Make something like a magic bomb and then delay it for a certain amount of time, days, or even months before unleas.h.i.+ng it.

The power of it was unbelievable and impossible to guard against.

This kind of magic bomb was extremely well-concealed. it would be difficult to eliminate it under normal circ.u.mstances.

“Morton, with your actions, you have destroyed all tacit understanding between the Magic Towers.” The Great Elder had calmed down completely, but there were times when complete calmness represented extreme anger. “From this day forward, the Red Magic Tower will have no further involvement with the Monochrome Magic Tower.”

Looking into Alfred’s slightly red eyes, Morton sighed.

The two of them had known each other for sixty to seventy years. Their relations.h.i.+p was usually pretty good, but when it came to this kind of battle of ideas or magic paths, their friends.h.i.+p wasn’t worth much.

Morton was silent for a moment before he said, “Give me ten days. During those ten days, I will stay at the Red Magic Tower, and after ten days I will give you an answer, good or bad.”

With that said, Morton smiled softly at Roland and turned to leave.

When Morton left, the Great Elder flipped the table furiously.

Legendary Mages were also quite strong.

The thick wooden table crashed into the wall in pieces, shards of wood bouncing around the room.

Both of them had Magic s.h.i.+eld activated, and many pieces of wood hit them and bounced away.

The room crackled and rattled.

Then there was a heavy gasp from Alfred. Roland sat quietly. He saw Alfred’s dilemma and anger.

After a long moment, Alfred said, “Roland, I’m sorry that Morton is threatening me with the safety of the entire Red Magic Tower. He would even put his own life on the line rather than let me help you get justice.”

Alfred’s expression was one of shame.

It was a dereliction of duty on the part of the entire Magic Tower that the student had been wronged, but there was no way for Alfred or the Magic Tower to help him avenge his grievances.

Roland shook his head as he smiled slightly. “Great Elder, you’ve done me a great favor by standing behind me so he can’t just come and s.n.a.t.c.h me away. I know what he’s up to, but in ten days, he’ll be one who’s crying!”

The Great Elder’s eyes lit up in thought.

“How much time do you need? I’ll get it for you.”