Chapter 151: A dream, or reality? (2/2)
An eerie smile flashed across Oeness’ face.
He suddenly opened his mouth. A black beam of light shot out of his mouth, immediately striking Zieg’s face.
A bloody red sprayed behind Zieg’s back. Zieg shouted in pain, falling backward all of a sudden.
“That’s Black Firetongue! It’s a secret skill from Golden Stag Academy, a shadow master’s assassination skill!”
“It’s the end. He already struck through Zieg’s body in one hit, there’s no way he can keep fighting.”
“I know this arcane skill already, but what about these strange black bats… What arcane skill was that?”
In the chaos of voices, Charlotte’s hands were sweating.
The members of team Golden Stag taking to the field were actually each stranger than the last. On top of that, they were merely substitutes in Golden Stag Academy.
“Golden Stag Academy’s really too strong!”
“There’s no way to fight against them.”
“These substitute fighters have skills so strange already, I don’t understand them at all.”
“Even a stronger team would probably not be a match for these substitutes. Plus, who knows if these substitutes gave their all. None of them were wounded…”
“Even if they made a team with only substitutes, they’d probably still reach the last eight.”
“Let’s go!” Ayrin’s voice rose against her ears, mingling with these other voices.
Charlotte turned around. She saw Ayrin squeeze his way out of the crowd as fast as he could, his head down.
“If I recall correctly, there’s an ‘Insight Training Chamber’ just in front of us.”
After exiting the arena, Ayrin walked in fast strides toward the northwest corner of the arena.
When arcane masters are learning arcane skills, they’d sometimes come to a sudden understanding, or perhaps a sudden great insight. They’d want to practice, but almost every arcane master didn’t want to leak their own secrets when training. That was the reason why there were “Insight Training Chambers” in every city in Eiche, open to the public free of charge.
After a few minutes, Ayrin and Charlotte were standing in one of the stone rooms in the “Insight Training Chamber” at the northwest corner of the arena.
“I’m starting!” Ayrin told Charlotte in all seriousness, looking as though he was seriously trying to remember.
“What!”
“You…?!”
Charlotte nodded. She knew it was best for now not to say anything superfluous. But as soon as Ayrin started to move, she let out an incredulous exclamation.
Because Ayrin didn’t employ the same posture Gezny previously had when launching his skill. Instead, he put both his hands on his chest, as though he were holding an invisible ball!
He was instead adopting Oeness’ skill-launching posture!
Arcane particles flowed out of Ayrin’s fingers and sprinkled away, becoming black flames, but then immediately scattered in the air.
“Failure!” Ayrin immediately told the indescribably shocked Charlotte.
There was no dismay whatsoever on his face, however. Instead, it was filled with excitement.
“Just now, that Oeness continuously launched this skill many times. I also got a great feel for it, like I can learn it.
“It’s just that he used it for a short time, so my impression isn’t as deep as with Gezny. So I’m giving this arcane skill a spin first.
“I failed, but I think I’m starting to get the hang of it,” Ayrin told Charlotte again.
“Don’t tell me, even this skill… This is clearly a skill that’s entirely different from Gezny’s skill!” Charlotte started trembling slightly. She forced herself not to say anything else, or else it might disturb Ayrin.
“Failed again!”
“But it seems a bit better!”
“It should be like this!”
“I think I succeeded!”
“Success!”
After trying for a mere five or six times in succession, what made Charlotte suddenly stop breathing was, with a cheer from Ayrin, she saw black bats rushing out in front of him!
A bizarre dark arcane energy was undulating and gathering, converging inside this stone room!
“It’s really possible?”
“He actually only saw someone launch the skill a few times… He just saw with his own eyes someone demonstrate and use the skill a few times in succession, and now he directly learned it?”
Even though she was seeing it with her own eyes, a numb Charlotte still felt as though she couldn’t trust her own eyes at all.
“Let me first try Gezny’s skill now!”
Ayrin himself was excited enough that his voice sounded a little different.
“I think I can do it too!”
“It should be like this!”
“…”
Perhaps, as Ayrin said, he had a deeper impression of Gezny’s skill, so Charlotte saw Ayrin’s entire body turn bright red after merely four tries, then start transforming into a puddle of blood!
“Success!”
“I get it now!”
The red light vanished. Ayrin once again stood in front of Charlotte. He started shouting, as if he’d thoroughly understood something.
“I don’t get it!” Charlotte couldn’t help but shout.
“Ah!”
Ayrin exhaled in pain, desperately tossing his hand. He looked at Charlotte: “Charlotte, why did you bite me?”
“I wanted to check if this was real or if this was a dream,” Charlotte shouted.
“Ah?” Ayrin was struck a little dumb. “Shouldn’t you bite your own hand then?”
“I don’t care!” Charlotte couldn’t stop herself from grabbing Ayrin’s hand once again and giving it a bite. “You’ really going to make me crazy.”