Chapter 282: Conclusion 2 (1/2)

At the time that Nicole came looking for him, Clear Water Mirror was in the midst observing the basic training of the new Demon Hunters. Having paid her respects first, she then dove straight into business.

With regards to this genius female disciple of Thousand Snow Flowers, he had always held her in high regard, going so far as to gift her an Epic-grade weapon…An Epic-grade weapon! A normal kingdom would have treated such a weapon as its national treasure and yet here he was just giving it out. In fact, Nicole actually became a target the moment she received this gift. That was due to her lack of actual combat strength in comparison to her weapon. In her hands, the weapon could barely exert 20% of its original power. As long as one avoided the weapon’s edge, it really wasn’t all that hard to snatch it from her.

Thankfully, Nicole wasn’t an ordinary girl at this point. She was the personal disciple of the headmistress of Azure City’s Warrior Academy. Also, could a gift given by the mighty branch leader of Azure City’s Demon Hunter Division ever be an easy target to steal? Unbeknownst to Nicole, Thousand Snow Flowers had quietly slain those who dared to eye her weapon. It was only then that those fools finally calmed down.

Having met him for the first time since he gave her that sword, Nicole immediately asked the question she had regarding the situation of the Demon Hunters. Clear Water Mirror furrowed his brows in thought for a second before finally deciding to bring her to the casefiles room where he handed over a single folder to her.

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Nicole ripped the document from his hands and anxiously tore it open. However, she merely read through half of it before collapsing to the floor…she simply couldn’t bring herself to accept what was written on it.

Seeing her lose her composure like that brought a sigh to Clear Water Mirror’s lips. Nicole’s condition was, in a lot of ways, similar to what he had gone through in the past. Afraid that she might just act rashly, he called for a female Demon Hunter to help her to her feet after which he personally escorted her to Azure City’s Warrior Academy.

At the time of their arrival, Thousand Snow Flowers was in the midst of mulling over a mess her nephew had started by trying to assassinate the Third Prince. In truth, her nephew wasn’t the only troublemaker in Azure City. Ever since Mo Ke sang that song <>, the entire city seemed to have gone crazy. Because Mo Ke’s body was host to Ferti’nier who was a talented Soul Bard, he ended up inheriting her talents as well. The moment he poured his entire heart and soul into singing, a mysterious wave of sound energy washed over the city and resonated with those who had experienced a similar plight as him.

Because the song was about love between childhood friends, anyone in Azure City who had experienced this before was immediately affected by his song.

Those who were already in love fell deeper in love because of that. However, nothing in this world was all roses; everything had a flip side to it. A large number of people ended up risking everything in the pursuit of love. For example, there were those who eloped due to their circumstances and then there were those who resorted to more…extreme measures such as murdering his love rival…

In short, a lot had happened to Azure City in the interim and not every story had a happy ending.

For a mere song to cause such havoc, even Thousand Snow Flowers had no choice but to give the prophecy more credit. She was definitely still skeptical of the whole idea of ‘the Singer can destroy the world’, but gone was the disdain she once held of it.

All in all however, she was still dismissive of the Apocalypse seeing as those of the Divine level weren’t able to enter the Western Human Realms because of the Creator’s rules. Even if all the Devil Kings managed to invade the Western Human Realms, the human race had their own Semi-divine experts as well. Besides, for an incident of this magnitude, the other races, like the Elves or the Beastmen, wouldn’t sit still either. Because of that, she didn’t buy into all that apocalyptic talk; it wasn’t like there was a lack of such doomsayers anyway.

However, even she had to admit the potentially devastating consequences of that Soul Bard. Just based on the fact that a single song was able to affect the entire city, that singer deserved her full attention. Not too long ago, she had made use of her family influence to send that prophecy Clear Water Mirror mentioned to the palace. As for how would that king react, well, that wasn’t something she could affect.

Now however, she had a more pressing, and arguably more annoying, matter to deal with –the assassination attempt by her nephew on the Third Prince. Thankfully, her family’s influence in Tarnia was strong, and the prince himself didn’t actually get injured in the attempt either. Because of that, the entire matter ended with the family pledging to assist the Third Prince in his bid for the throne.

As for why would her nephew even attempt such a foolish thing…it was because the Third Prince’s fiancee was once his childhood friend…

Thanks to this mess, Thousand Snow Flowers ended up having no time to supervise Nicole’s training at all. It was about that time that Nicole told her about wanting to join the Demon Hunters to avenge her little brother.

No matter how much Thousand Snow Flowers tried persuade her, Nicole adamantly insisted on joining the Demon Hunters and leaving the academy. With no way to persuade this disciple of hers, all she could do was ask Clear Water Mirror to look after her.