Chapter 215: An Assembly of Powerful Spectators (And the Symptoms of Face Blindness) (1/2)
Chapter 215: An Assembly of Powerful Spectators (And the Symptoms of Face Blindness)
“So many people! There are even more people here today than during yesterday’s match between Abel and Winterfall Academy.”
“At this rate, we might not be able to get any of the closer seats!”
At the crack of dawn, Wilde and the rest arrived at the plaza outside of the Arena of Fire and Blood. Looks of astonishment filled their faces.
There was still quite a while before the start of the match between Holy Dawn Academy and Golden Stag Academy, yet the entire plaza was already teeming with people. Each and every entrance into the arena was congested with people.
“Let’s go.”
But just as Ferguillo calmly spoke and motioned for the rest to prepare to enter, he suddenly turned his head.
Charlotte, Wilde, and the others subconsciously followed his action. They watched as a large group of girls from Agate Lake Academy approached.
“Sophia! You have recovered from your injuries?”
Charlotte immediately cried out in surprise the moment she saw the face of one of the taller girls.
“I haven’t completely recovered, but for a fight like this, we have to at least send people out to show our support and cheer for Ayrin and his team, right?” Sophia said with a smile. She had slimmed considerably, but she still seemed to be in high spirits as she walked to the front of her group.
Ivan nodded his head at Sophia. Just as he was about to ask about how Nikita and the rest were recovering, he had a premonition and raised his head and looked forward.
Not far away, a handsome young man with a cynical expression on his face and wearing a crumpled, moon white arcane master robe tried to inconspicuously move forward through the crowd.
“It’s Maurice!” Ivan said in astonishment.
“Maurice?” Charlotte was slow on the uptake as she subconsciously repeated the name. The next moment, she had a sudden realization as she said, “The old captain of the River Bend Academy’s championship winning team! The strongest wanderer, Maurice?!”
“It is him.” Ferguillo’s voice was a bit more respectful as he said, “An existence on the same level as Liszt. He is a solitary wandering arcane master who refuses to let anything chain him down, and even refused the Office of Special Affair’s invitation to join. He spends his days traversing across the entire Doraster Continent.”
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At the same time, Joyce, the captain of Sea God Academy’s team, had just taken a seat atop the stands within the arena when his entire body suddenly froze.
“Captain, what’s wrong?” Several nearby teammates asked upon noticing his abnormal condition.
“Jean Camus! Even he has come,” Joyce said in a trembling voice as he stared at a reserved looking boy with long and jumbled hair in the stands.
“What! You mean that fellow called the number one genius of the Kingdom of Doa who has never lost a fight and uses extremely strange and terrifying arcane skills? Is it really that Jean Camus?
The present members of Sea God Academy all sucked in a breath of cold air.
Outside of his long, out of control hair, Jean Camus had no other special characteristics. But as they began observing him closely, they suddenly felt as if the entire stands had been seemingly frozen by his invisible reserved aura. It was as if he could attack any person in this part of the stands at any time. There was even a feeling that the audience members around him were being manipulated by him.
The most frightening and chilling thing was that none of the audience members around him seemed to sense any abnormalities or his strength.
“Caesar has also come.”
At this time, Morgan, Audrey, and the rest of their teammates had just walked into the arena. As their gazes swept across the stands, Morgan quietly whispered to his teammates.
“Then those around him should be the other members of the Death God team, the team considered the strongest academy team in all of the Kingdom of Doa?”
Following Morgan’s gaze, Audrey immediately saw five young people wearing various styles of worn-out looking armours. The five of them all seemed extremely rugged, as if they were primitive hunters of the wilderness.
“These fellows are all killing machines…” Morgan began quietly speaking, then suddenly stopped as a group of arcane masters consisting of three boys and a girl all wearing dark green camouflage robes suddenly appeared in his line of sight. Morgan suddenly felt his nose assaulted by the faint scent of blood.
“Members of House Eclipsed Moon?”
Traces of shock flashed through Audrey’s eyes as she saw the group of four, “Members of the Headhunter Houses who begin learning to kill the moment they learn how to walk… Mortal enemies of Megan’s House Roland. How come they are appearing so openly?”
“This should be a demonstration towards Megan.” Morgan quietly exhaled, “Appearing so publicly like this expresses that they aren’t afraid of death and shows their resolve to fight to the death against their mortal enemies.”
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“That’s Rowan, the captain of the number one arcane team of the Southern Devil Corps!
“It’s House Lannister’s Lord Martin!”
“That’s Commander Morton of the Northern Holy Land’s Snow Wolf Corps!”
At the same time on the other side of the arena, the stands suddenly erupted in chaos.
Three legendary figures whose names were only ever heard in the news had suddenly made their appearance in the stands.
“Rowan and Morton are both responsible for selecting arcane masters for their respective corps. For them to both appear here, could they already have their eyes on someone?”
As people speculated, Rowan, who was wearing ordinary blue coloured clothes, had already greeted Morton, who was wearing furry leather clothing, with a smile and a wave, “Morton, I didn’t expect to see you here as well.”