88 Finding Opportunities In Predicaments. (1/2)

This time the middle-aged man did not dare to underestimate these kids. He had already learned from his earlier mistake.

Hence, Blaze did not have the advantage which Raven had in the fight. Fooling him wouldn't be an easy task.

Just like before, they did not need a signal to start the fight as both of them began to chat their respective Spells.

The strengthening Spells were not really necessary, but they were so common among Mages that they did not even count them as real Spells since most of the Mages did not need to chant to cast those Spells.

And for the sake of fairness, the judge again gave the first strike to his opponent, letting Blaze do whatever he wanted.

The spectating people all had their attention on Blaze, expecting an even better performance than Raven from him.

Unlike Raven, who had rushed straight towards her opponent, Blaze instead opted to maintain his distance and steady his stance. Everyone was wondering what he would do next, and his next move shocked the onlookers except for Raven and Ozul.

Small crystals of Ice started to form out of thin air without him even chanting a Spell. To the spectators' surprise, it did not stop until two huge chunks around the size of an elephant were floating in the air!

Though Blaze required all of his focus to keep the Ice steady, the size of this Spell could already be compared to a Magical Spell from a Rank-6 Mage!

And unlike what the onlookers had thought, there was not any action involved in this battle as the middle-aged man's voice rang out in the training ground;

”You passed…”- The judge did not need to trade blows with Blaze to know if he was qualified to be a Gold Rank Mercenary or not.

Seeing the results of the promotion test, the couple of people who had come to spectate left the training ground. They were here just out of curiosity, but they had seen what they could probably never forget.

They hurriedly left the training ground so they could gossip about it with their friends.

Emory also noted everything that Blaze did in the few seconds of their 'fight'. On his left side, Lucy had stars in her eyes as she held her cheeks with her hands.

She looked with hazy eyes as Blaze went towards Ozul, who was sitting on a chair and somehow had a cat on his lap.

”Tsk, that guy did not even exchange any blows with me.”- Blaze said as Raven sneered in response.

Raven's battle seemed desperate, but her specialty lay in dragging the fight and not in finishing it with one attack.

The longer the fight continued, the more advantage she would have due to the dagger's Mana and Stamina steal.

Whereas Blaze would have been exhausted right after the Spell that he had used, which would have been a foolish move in an actual battle. Even now, in a fight between Blaze and Raven, the latter would win 9 out of 10 times.

”Congratulations. Both of you are now Gold Rank Mercenaries!”- Emory congratulated them before they went back to the Guild building.

”So, what is it that you want from us now?”- Blaze asked the question after they were sitting in the office of Emory.

The trio knew that the Mercenary Guild was up to some schemes. However, under the influence of Ozul, Blaze had also started learning to be straight forward.

It made Ozul nod his head in approval since he was going to ask the same question had Blaze not taken the initiative.

'Nice, Saves me the trouble.'- Ozul thought while moving his hands through the silky black hair of Jinx.

Raven kept darting her eyes towards Ozul, imagining herself in place of Jinx, being patted by him as she would scratch him with her paws...

She shook her head to throw these stupid thoughts away.

'I really need to control my thoughts sometimes.'

Back to the Blaze, after he had asked the question, Emory's expression turned solemn before he gestured towards Lucy to leave the room. Lucy complied, albeit reluctantly, and gave a sidelong glance at Blaze before moving out.

”Since your team is now Gold Rank, there is a mission for you guys.”- Emory said with a smirk on his face.

”And what does the Emperor want from us?”- Unlike what he had expected, Ozul spoke instead of Blaze. The question too shocked him out of his wits!

Though Emory was only the Vice Guild Master, he was aware of many details that others were not.

He knew that it was probably Emperor Luthien himself that had ordered this task since it was issued by the Chief Leader of Silver Knights, Sir Rufus.