862 The Meeting Destined to Happen (1/2)

Lauren said, somewhat a little silly, ”Fernando, you weren't here, Mr. League…”

Fernando directly ignored him and rushed past Lauren and Douglas like a furious cluster of storms. His red eyes opened big. Obviously, he was outraged.

Douglas slightly frowned but soon unknotted his eyebrows. He watched Fernando rushing downstairs to the secret chamber.

”Fernando!” Lauren finally realized, and he hurriedly yelled, ”Don't argue with Mr. League!”

Bang!

Fernando slammed the door of the secret chamber shut and kept the conversation within.

”What shall we do? Fernando will piss off Mr. League!” Lauren asked Douglas for help. Only Douglas, who carried both good manners and power, could stop this argument right now.

Douglas nodded. ”If anything goes wrong, I'll stop it. But expressing himself is Fernando's right.”

”But he's challenging the deputy president!” Lauren could not understand Douglas' attitude. In Lauren's eyes, Douglas was very powerful, knowledgeable, and especially talented in mathematics, but Douglas' way of thinking could be quite strange. Douglas was a big fan of asking why, and some of his opinions were quite hard for him to accept. For example, hierarchy, a system which was respected and followed by all sorcerers, seemed to be quite insignificant to Douglas.

Douglas was just smiling but said nothing. At this time, they heard Fernando's roaring from the secret chamber. The door wasn't enough to keep his fury within. And it was louder and louder, which made Lauren start feeling concerned that the walls might collapse at any time.

He listened carefully, trying to figure out what Fernando was saying. At this time, the door of the secret chamber was pushed open fiercely, and League walked out. His face looked rather unhappy as he walked on the stairs.

”I'm the branch president in Paphos County, so I have the right! I don't need you, old man!” Fernando chased League out and yelled.

League stopped walking and turned around. His voice was as cold as ice as he said, ”You're no more.”

”So what? When I made the decision, I still was!” Fernando looked right into League's eyes angrily.

”Crazy dog…” League murmured and then kept walking.

Fernando waved his arms and yelled, ”You old antique! Even if I'm wrong, this has nothing to do with Douglas! He was only obeying my words! He knew nothing from the headquarters!”

Lauren was shocked as he watched them arguing. Although he knew Fernando's bad temper, it never occurred to him that Fernando would yell at the deputy president! There were only three deputy presidents in the Union, and even the president had to act quite politely to them!

He was about to stop them, but as they kept arguing, Lauren realized Fernando's intention. He wasn't arguing with League for himself, as he had already been mentally prepared for the punishment when he proposed; instead, he was arguing for Douglas, for he did not understand why Douglas should be responsible for this.

At this time, League walked past Douglas. He caught his breath and then said, ”Douglas, I forgot to tell you. As a ninth-circle archmage, you're qualified to attend the core meeting that is to be held five days later. So you won't be heading for Allyn until next week.”

”Sure,” Douglas said. He did not ask anything else and just nodded politely.

”You old thing! If you have guts, you just kick Douglas out right now! Tons of organizations want to have an archmage!” Fernando wouldn't stop.

Those legendary sorcerers were busy protecting themselves, so a ninth-circle archmage should be considered as a top force for every organization, except for Cabin of Palmeira, which was a legendary group. So far, the entire Union of Sorcerers only had two ninth circles. One of them was the president, Arnold, and the other was League. The two deputy presidents were only senior-ranks working on hitting the eighth circle.

League snorted, unwilling to argue with Fernando. He hurriedly walked past Lauren and headed for Old Green's room.

”You old man! You're still thinking about your power and resources when facing such great danger! I joined the Union because of the concept you promoted—to push aside suspicion and bias and accept all groups and sorcerers! Shame on you! A senior-rank sorcerer can go anywhere!” Fernando roared at League's back.

Lauren had cold sweat on his back. He wondered if Fernando had ever worried about a possible vengeance on himself in the future if he kept acting like this.

He would pretend that he never heard such words from Fernando!

League paused a bit, and then he accelerated his pace and disappeared around the corner.

”Fernando, how could you talk like that?” Lauren was rather anxious. ”He can just give you a seemingly simple but actually dangerous mission!”

”Unless he can kill me with one strike, or I'll let him know how dangerous a storm can be!” Fernando snorted, ”Also, he doesn't get along that well with the president.”

Lauren was shocked. He didn't expect that there was a reason behind his friend's angry roaring. Then was the roaring real? Or he was just pretending?

”No wonder you're not afraid of Mr. League…” Lauren murmured.

Fernando paused a bit and said, ”This has nothing to do with fear. If it had been the president standing in front of me, I'd have done the same!”

Alright, he was still that Fernando Lauren knew. Lauren felt a bit relaxed, but also a bit sad.