252 Appearance of the...? (1/2)

While Old Gu called for these unknown four people, Alver, followed by Lammert and Elsug slowly gathered around the representative of the Mercenary Guild.

Alver was the first to talk, ”Winston, spill it whatever you know about this guy.”

Behind him, Lammert and Elsug didn't say anything but their stern gaze asked the representative of the Mercenary Guild the same question.

Alver was also worried like other leaders, but he was also curious about how this old man was related to his nephew as they had arrived here together. And looking in Ozul's direction, he noticed that he was perfectly calm and collected as if whatever was happening had nothing to do with him.

However, even in this situation, he couldn't just go and ask Ozul in front of everyone. So instead he asked this man named Winston. Although they were all Rank-9 Mages, Winston, as the representative of the organization that had access to all the continent, usually knew more than others.

However, Winston could only shake his head in dismay. Whatever was happening was out of his mind and reasoning.

He had never heard about this old man who could so casually overpower the entire Neutral Lands with his aura alone!

One thing that everyone agreed on was that this old man was not something they could handle and only other Rank-10 Mages could contain him.

Just as all of them had sighed in relief because the old man had retracted his aura, a fiery aura enveloped the whole area again. Though it wasn't as bad as the old man's, this aura was enough to start suffocating everyone again.

And if it wasn't enough, three more auras appeared right after another!

When all of the four auras collided, everyone felt their internal organs being squeezed as if a mountain was put on them!

Electric sparks, fiery embers, and light particles would occasionally be seen with the entire ground shaking as if there was an earthquake.

Looking at this phenomenon occurring over such a large area, Alver, Lammert, Winston, and Elsug suddenly had an inkling of what might be happening.

However, before they could finish their thoughts,

”Hoho~ You brats have certainly grown. But all of you really have grown the balls to be so bold now, eh?”

. . .

They heard Old Gu say it casually to the empty air, but the result was before everyone. The four auras suddenly disappeared as if they were never really there in the first place!

”H-haha... they are someone else—” Winston, the Mercenary Guild representative muttered, and Lammert, along with Alver and Elsug, nodded in agreement.

The people they had in mind would never listen to anyone who talked to them in that tone.

”Grandmother Ciro...”

”Ancestor Darcia...”

”Ancestor Gladis...”

”Grandfather Kure...”

Emperor Elsug, Archbishop Lammert, Winston, and Alver respectively muttered in shock as they noticed their ancestors!

Their astonishment was to such an extreme degree that they even forgot to pay their respects by instantly bowing their heads.

They were the first and only ones to recognize the four old figures that appeared in the sky surrounding the old man whose smiling face was by now getting on everyone's nerves.

Ozul also wondered about the identities of the two old women and two old men in the air. All four of them had a mysterious air around them and their faces showed no emotions.

Even with such a distance between them, he noticed how all four of them had glanced at the ground once before returning their gaze back to Old Gu. When he followed the direction they had looked in, he was surprised to see Alver, Lammert, Elsug, and that representative of the Mercenary Guild dropped on one knee, showing respect to the four figures in the air!

A few others who also noticed the four of them were surprised, but the rest of the Rank-9 Mages realized what might be happening. If these four leaders of the most prominent factions of the entire continent of Egon were paying their respects all together, then the identities of the four people in the air weren't hard to guess.

While everyone was either shocked or passed out because of the earlier pressure, Ozul had a slightly different question,

'... Old Gu called these four as brats?'