Chapter 266 - Change of Plans (2/2)

”What were you doing, Teacher?” Seeing that her mentor was finished with what he had to do, Erea went ahead and asked him, to which Dane responded, ”The Ninth Prince called me just a while ago. He wants me to accompany him on his journey to a noble family.”

”Oh?” Hearing that the Ninth Prince called her mentor, Erea could not help but become slightly startled. Just as she thought that it would be fine if Dane went ahead and met up with the prince right now, a thought soon surfaced in her mind, reminding her that she did not know the name of the scripture her mentor was about to mention a while ago. Scratching her head for a bit as she pondered on how she would ask her question, she asked Dane around ten seconds later, ”Teacher, if you're planning to leave me here for now, could you at least tell me the name of the scripture you were about to mention?”

���Eh?” The question Erea asked him left Dane off-guard, not expecting his student to be fine with him leaving for the prince over her. With that in mind, he could not help but feel a bit thankful for the Erea as he hastily responded, ”{The Art of Manipulating Magic}. For you, the first two volumes would be more than enough for you to experience great improvements in controlling magic.”

After he was finished saying that, just as he was about to go ahead and teleport to where the Ninth Prince was, he suppressed his urge to teleport before adding, ”If you don't have enough funds to buy the scripture, just tell them that you're buying it under the orders of Educator Dane.”

Whoosh!

Soon after that, Dane went ahead and conjured a dark magic circle that covered his body, disappearing in front of Erea's field of vision not long after. In just an instant, she was left alone in her mentor's room as she committed the name of the scripture Dane told her into memory. Letting out a short sigh, she then made her way back to her room as she muttered, ”Guess I'm back to self-studying for a while.”

…

Whoosh!

After a few minutes have passed, a man in a red robe could be seen appearing tens of meters away from the gates of the Seraph Kingdom's royal palace, startling the guards that were vigilantly guarding the gates. But after noticing that the man went ahead and sat down after that, radiating an intent that he was waiting for a certain person to come out, the guards decided that it was better to not mess with the man, continuing with what they were doing a while ago.

Of course, the man that had just appeared was none other than Dane, utilizing a 4th Circle teleportation spell to make his way towards the palace in less than ten minutes. Remembering what he had done over a week ago as a show of power to his student, he could not help but slightly regret doing it as he muttered, ”I should have saved that usage for occasions like these.”

Creak…

After waiting for a while, the gates of the palace were opened all of a sudden, startling the guards that were on the other side of the gate. Naturally, they were curious as to which person from the palace had opened the gates, eventually revealing a dashing man in his 20s who wore clothes that were more akin to that of a noble.

Realizing who the person that came out of the gates was, the guards respectfully bowed to the person before returning to what they were previously doing. As for the dashing man, he went towards Dane with a grin on his face, eventually telling him, ”Let's go!”

In response, Dane stood up from the ground, wiping off the dust from his robe as he asked the dashing man, ”Has Your Highness obtained permission for this outing?”

”Of course,” the dashing man, who was naturally the Ninth Prince, let out a light chuckle as he responded. He soon radiated the aura of someone at the top of Seraph royalty, allowing Dane to know that the Ninth Prince had truly obtained permission from the king.

As Dane nodded to the Ninth Prince's answer, he then asked him, ”Do you know where the household of the Arcenon family is located, Your Highness? I haven't gone there yet.”

”Good thing you asked,” Vanadir said in response to Dane's question, rummaging through his pockets before unfurling a decently sized map that had the territory of the whole Seraph Kingdom inside it. After looking at it for a while, he then pointed to a certain position of the map as he said, ”Telmerann Province. That's where their main household is located.”

”Do you think you could get there as fast as possible? We might miss her if we're too slow,” he asked not long after, to which Dane looked at the map for a bit before eventually nodding.

Dane then replied, ”I'm not too sure if we could arrive there in less than 10 minutes, but if it's fine for us to arrive in around 30 minutes, then yes, I can do it.”

”Speaking of which, who are you trying to recruit from the Arcenon family, Your Highness?” he could not help but ask not long after. Although the Ninth Prince told him that they were recruiting one person each from the Astelia and Arcenon family, after all this time, he was still left in the dark as to who those people were.

Surprisingly, Vanadir let out a slight grin with a nostalgic hint to it before responding, ”Someone who has ascended to a Rank 1 class at the age of 7, Rank 2 at 11, Rank 3 at 17, and Rank 4 at 23. She's commonly known as the Healing Witch of the West.”

”Her name is Valentia Corinne Arcenon. To everyone, she's a drop-dead gorgeous beauty,” he added, making Dane feel a bit expectant to see her in person. Unfortunately, his imagination was brought to a halt as the Ninth Prince continued to introduce her.

”Sure, she may be incredibly beautiful to others. But to me…”

”She's just my cousin.”

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