Chapter 118: A frog in a well! (1/2)

With several magician families and the members of the academy standing across the barrier, the tension in the air, to say the least, was too great, enough for many to stand on guard as a fight could break out at any moment.

”Younger brother, do you dare to make a bet?” said the young lord of the Regis Family, Richard Regis, the only son of the sixty-year-old head of the Regis Family and the one most likely to become the next family head.

Although he knew that Richard was talking to him, instructor Leonardo acted as if all he heard was the barking of a dog and brushed it off by looking at the lady of the Charlotte Family.

”You!” Ignored completely by a person who he considered below him, Richard Regis felt rage rising to his chest.

Without sparing as much as a single glance his way, instructor Leonardo looked at Lady Charlotte with an impassive gaze, acting as if he is not at all enamored by her beauty, as he said, ”Lady, let's make a bet. If the student I recommend can salvage better things from this settlement than the one you recommend, then you must compensate him with ten artifacts. If he fails to do so, I will give you ten of my artifacts, including my Aerial Black Castle!”

”What do you say?” A sharp glint twinkled in his eyes as he looked at the mistress of the second strongest magician family.

Lady Charlotte's lips and eyes thinned into a smile, and she said, ”Why wouldn't I dare. Words are meaningless, though. Let's sign a magic contract if you have any, first.”

”I proposed the bet because I've come prepared!” Instructor Leonardo said as he pulled out a magic contract and a pen with a unique ink containing oath binding power from his spatial device.

Richard Regis bit his lips in anger, anger that aroused because instructor Leonardo, as well as Lady Charlotte, ignored him.

By using that mystical pen, the instructor wrote several sentences on the magic contract. Then, he cut the skin on his thumb before pressing it at the end of the paper, mashing his blood on the whiteness, turning it red.

”Here, you go.” Instructor Leonardo said as he passed the contract to Lady Charlotte.

She grabbed and opened the scroll-like magic contract, reading the clauses in a couple of seconds.

”Pretty simple, indeed.”

The contract stated that each of the losing parties must compensate the winning parties with ten artifacts. That means if there are two losing parties, then the winning parties will get twenty artifacts!

Furthermore, any family can recommend a person or bet on the person recommended by another family. Each family can only bet on one person, though.

”Oliver Charlotte, come forward!” Lady Charlotte said in a commanding voice. A boy with golden eyes and hair of the same color stepped out of the people behind her and walked up to her side.

He dropped to one knee and said, ”Yes, Your Highness?”

The boy's feature outshined the beauty of the towering green mountain. With eyes and hair as bright as the sun itself, he attracted the lusty eyes of the females and the envious gaze of the men.

”You'll represent the entire Charlotte Family in this bet. Is that alright with you?”

”I will do my best to live up to the expectations of Your Highness.”

”You may stand.”

After she said those words, the golden-haired boy stood back to his feet and looked towards the members of the academy.

Elliot looked at both of them with his godly right eye and found out about their strength, weakness, and many other information.

”Oh, she's Lisa's mother, and the golden-haired boy is her cousin. Doesn't that make us relatives? Should I start calling her my mother-in-law? That might get me in trouble, so I better keep quiet.”