Chapter 43: Attack then, brave warrior! (1/2)

Chapter 43: Attack then, brave warrior!

“Three arcane gates? Teacher Huston, the Ferguillo from Iron Forest Academy you’re talking about, he’s already a high-level arcane master with three open arcane gates?” Ayrin said once again. “Then isn’t he just like you, teacher Huston?”

“I just knew you wouldn’t miss an opportunity to hit my face!”

Huston madly shouted these words in his mind, resisting the urge to spit out blood. “The reason the Hegemonical Cup of Starry Skies Academy Braves is popular throughout the entire kingdom and makes countless people crazy is precisely that this tournament can be seen as duels between the future elite arcane masters of the entire kingdom! There some figures who’ve already opened their third arcane gate in this tournament, and even, inside teams that can fight their way to the end, there might be existences with four open arcane gates, whose strength won’t be any lesser than elite arcane masters.

Or I could say that some geniuses inside a few teams will immediately become members of elite arcane teams as soon as they leave school, become characters whose mere mention will strike fear into people!”

“That powerful?”

Ayrin sucked in a mouthful of cold air. Then he immediately asked excitedly, “Teacher Huston, how do these people train then, how do they progress so fast?”

“How am I supposed to know the way they train.” Huston said with a black face, “Almost every one of these guys is a strange person with unusual bloodlines. Some of these guys might have Awakened at ten years old already. They spent five or six years condensing arcane particles by the time they reach your age. Some people were born with terrifying spiritual power, and as soon as they open an arcane gate they open two of them straight away.”

“Teacher, what I said is all true!” Moss again shouted really loud at this moment. “That Stingham from Golden Lion Academy is very possibly one of these weird guys you talked about, teacher. His physical strength and arcane power are both just so much higher than usual, it’s even possible he has very high-level dragon bloodline!”

“Dragon bloodline? Do you know how many arcane masters on the whole Doraster continent have dragon bloodlines? Even people with a few percent of dragon blood already have hackles-raising talent. here aren’t many existences with dragon bloodlines even adding all the celebrities in previous years together. If he truly had dragon blood, would he go to a second-rate academy like Golden Lion?”

“It’s becoming more and more absurd, I don’t feel like talking to you anymore.”

Huston humphed after saying a couple sentences, then turned his head and walked away.

“Teacher Huston, listen to me!”

Moss stood foolishly where he was, shouting as if his life depended on it. But Huston was like a gust of wind, he simply ran as fast as he could. In a blink, even his shadow couldn’t be seen anymore.

“I…”

Moss almost passed out.

“Let’s go!” The other freshmen also felt Moss was truly a little insane, plus they were afraid to be together with Moss and Ayrin, for fear Huston would come to believe they were a band. In an instant, only the two of Ayrin and Moss were left in this clearing inside the Thinker’s Stone Forest.

Probably because it suddenly felt a little lonely, Ayrin couldn’t resist telling Moss, “Belo isn’t here either…”

“What does it have to do with me if that glass guy is here or not! It’s not like I’m friend with you guys!” Moss blew off his top all of a sudden. “Also, you. Just now you kept interrupting me while I was talking, if you have questions can’t you ask them some other time. It made Huston not believe a word of what I said!”

“Weren’t you just trying to warn Chris about Ferguillo’s and Stingham’s moves and tactics, so she can be on her guards and train for them?” Ayrin didn’t understand. He scratched his head and said, “Why do you absolutely have to make teacher Huston believe you? As long as what you said is the truth, I can also take you to see Chris.”

“What, you can see Chris?” Moss calmed down at once.

“Yeah, I saw her twice. She’s even the one who taught me the way I’m training now,” Ayrin said, as if it were entirely normal.

“What you’re saying is true?” Moss became excited all of a sudden. He pulled Ayrin’s arm. “Hurry up, take me to her.”

“Why are you so anxious?” Ayrin looked at Moss as if he were looking at a moron. “Chris is still healing from her wounds, she hasn’t resumed her training yet. Plus, I remember hearing teacher Huston say just earlier that our Holy Dawn Academy’s team has to beat Divine Shield Academy first before we can meet Iron Forest Academy or Golden Lion Academy. If you want to scout, you should scout Divine Shield Academy first.”

“Divine Shield Academy… Clan Lannister…”

Moss stared blankly. He always thought that this Ayrin guy who came from Cororin was both dumb and foolish, but Ayrin’s words made him feel that he himself seemed to be a moron right now.

Indeed, he didn’t seem his usual self after seeing Stingham and Ferguillo’s display in Iron Forest Academy. He couldn’t even manage calm rational thinking.

Was it because of his fear of monsters like Stingham and Ferguillo?

Or was it because he was unwilling to believe it was impossible for him to match up to them in the future, that he could only stand below them?

“Moss, what you said is true? Those Ferguillo and Stingham are really so strong? Can we go to other schools and watch their matches or training?” Moss stood dumbly in place, but Ayrin didn’t stop firing off his questions his way. “Is there someone as powerful as Stingham and Ferguillo in Divine Shield Academy? How about we first go to Divine Shield Academy and have a look at the guys in their team?”

Looking at Ayrin’s excited and earnest expression, hearing his continuous questions, Moss thoroughly recovered his calm.

“Ah, you.” He looked at Ayrin. “I heard someone else say that the reason you keep shouting about condensing arcane particles these days is that you want to join the academy’s team and participate in the tournament. Don’t you feel afraid at all when you hear how powerful Stingham and Ferguillo are?”

“Not afraid, there’s nothing to be afraid of.” Ayrin had a thoughtless look. “If all the opponents were weaker than you, then this tournament wouldn’t be interesting.”

“You’re quite right. If they were all worse than me, if I were only beating on people weaker than me to begin with, then what’s the point of this competition? If we just go on defeating weaker opponent along the way, then how could becoming a famous arcane master still be called a dream, what would be the meaning of it?” Moss’ eyes were thoroughly different now when looking at Ayrin. “Ayrin, I seem to remember, you were the one with the best results out of all of us in the test last time, correct?”