Chapter 224 - Intricacies of the War (2/2)
”Yeah.” Dane nodded in response. ”I'll contact you when something important comes up.”
”Gotcha,” Cerius replied to Dane's words before saying, ”I'll be leaving first then.”
Whoosh!
Snapping his fingers, Cerius disappeared in front of Dane's vision in an instant, leaving Dane alone in his student's room. After taking a good look at the surroundings of the room, noticing the great number of small burn marks on one wall in the room, Dane let out a chuckle as he said, ”It's time to check up on my student.”
Snap!
And just like that, with a snap of his fingers, Dane disappeared from Erea's room in an instant, just like how Cerius left the room. A few seconds later, he appeared in what seemed to be an extremely familiar room to him.
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Whoosh!
Appearing in the center of a room extremely familiar room to him, Dane went ahead and lightly stretched his body, before going ahead and sitting down on a nearby chair. He then took a look around the room, eventually finding a young woman in a gray robe sitting on a chair far from where he was. Noticing how she was looking at him intently, Dane thought about something for a bit before changing his expression to that of slight anger.
”You've brought quite the dilemma, Erea,” Dane said to the young woman, who was none other than Erea. He then added, ”Fortunately, I was walking through the area at the time, allowing you to teleport to this room before you were hit by that official's attack.”
”I apologize for giving you inconvenience, Teacher,” Erea said after standing up and deeply bowing in front of Dane.
”Inconvenience?” Dane scoffed at Erea's words before saying, ”You've definitely given me an inconvenience, alright.”
After saying those words, he then went ahead and stood up from his seat, his aura gradually intensifying with every step he took to get closer to Erea, who was still bowing in front of Dane. At this moment, Erea truly felt that she had inconvenienced her mentor. But just as she thought that she would feel the wrath of her mentor, what she felt instead was her mentor's warm touch on her head, instantly making her confused as she looked up to look at her mentor, who had a light smile on his face.
”You should have told me that you were breaking through to the next rank!” Dane said in a slightly playful tone. ”The aura you radiated was equivalent to a Rank 4 class holder's aura, but you're just Rank 3! Didn't the thought of asking your master to mask your aura while ascending cross your mind?”
”I…uh…” Erea had no words to say, not expecting the drastic change in emotion from her mentor. Noticing that Erea was still feeling apologetic, Dane let out a light sigh before saying, ”Stand up. You didn't really do anything wrong. Veriano harbored malicious intentions towards you. To be honest, I should be the one apologizing.”
”Eh?” Erea listened to her mentor's commands, standing up straight as she tilted her head in slight confusion, wondering why he should be the one to apologize. ”It was my fault for inconveniencing Teacher. I could've handled it myself…”
”Although you say you could handle it yourself, remember that you're now part of the Ninth Prince's team,” Dane said in response to Erea's words before adding, ”If the Ninth Prince doesn't take care of his team members before the war for the throne, then would he be a great prince?”
”Uh…” Erea did not know what to say in response to Dane's question, to which Dane let out a light chuckle before saying, ”As I've said, it's not your fault. The situation this time is actually more complicated than you think.”
”Anyways, you've broken through to a Rank 3 class, right?” He soon changed the topic of conversation to that of Erea's advancement, to which Erea nodded before replying, ”Yes, Teacher. I've obtained the class of Dual Cortex Mage.”
”Dual Cortex Mage, huh.” Dane grinned in response to Erea's words before telling her, ”That's quite a rare class. No wonder why you exuded a Rank 4 aura while you were advancing.”
”Go ahead and wear your black robe,” Dane said not long after. ”Even though Veriano did some sc.u.mmy stuff after officiating your advancement, it's still recorded by the tower that you've advanced to a Rank 3 mage class. Show everyone that you're now a Rank 3 mage.”
”Er…but there's no uh…” Although Erea was quite eager to change into her newly obtained black robe, there was no place for her to change her clothes in privacy. Fortunately, Dane noticed this dilemma and snapped his fingers, conjuring a dark wall between the two of them as he said, ”Alright, go ahead and change. If you want, I could close my eyes as well and turn around.”
”No need for that, Teacher.” Surprisingly, Erea responded to Dane's words not long after, saying, ”I'm already done changing.”
”You sure?” Dane asked Erea to make sure, to which Erea responded with affirmation, prompting Dane to remove the dark wall separating the two of them, allowing Dane to get a better view of Erea's new robe. Unsurprisingly, it suited her very well, with the seams of the robe being done with gold thread, giving Erea a slightly noble air.
”How does it feel wearing the new robe?” Dane asked Erea with a smile on his face, to which Erea said, ”I feel…more important.”
”Good to know,” Dane said before adding, ”You'll feel more important once you reach Rank 4 and become an official of the tower.”
After that, Dane pondered over something for a bit before looking at Erea once more. He then called for her attention.
”Erea?”
”Yes?” Erea responded to her mentor's words.
”Do you want to go and meet up with the Ninth Prince? If you don't want to, that's also fine since you have to consolidate your power,” Dane asked her this question, to which he added a statement that it would be fine if she declined.
Surprisingly, Erea acceded to her mentor's request, lightly smiling as she giggled, saying, ”To be honest, I would like to meet up with the Ninth Prince.”
”I have a lot of questions to ask him though.”
”Would that be fine?”