Chapter 246 - Master Hoffman (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Of course, if the bigger ant was willing to be nice to him, he might not reject it.

Yeah, just like what Sa.r.s.en did.

After all, he was one of the only two Archmages in this trial. After he clinched the champions.h.i.+p and set up his new guild, he would need some manpower. Since his mentor would be busy with work in the Supreme Council, he needed to depend on what he had.

An obedient Archmage would be of great help to him.

After acknowledging him slightly, Gryffindor had been waiting for Lin Li to suck up to him. Then, he would just casually act humbly and friendly to him, allowing Lin Li to be less awkward and at the same time maintain his own status. Yeah, just like how he treated Sa.r.s.en. Gryffindor believed that he did not need to wait long for Lin Li to do it.

Since he was much more powerful than the other mages partic.i.p.ating in the trial, it was common sense for them to suck up to him in order to be treated less harshly later.

Furthermore, the finals allowed accidents. If he were to inflict too harsh a blow, it would be a pity to die due to that.

In the end…

Gryffindor waited for quite a while, only to realize the fella named Felic had no intentions of getting close to himself. He continued to talk to Sa.r.s.en about meaningless things such as the weather and about life.

Gryffindor frowned, and got unhappy.

He could not understand why meaningless things could be more important as compared to being friends with himself. It concerned life and death. If Gryffindor were to hate on Lin Li, he could just exert more force in the finals and a corpse would be sent back to Jarrosus.

Having had the t.i.tle as the magic genius of Felan, Gryffindor had forever been the center of attention anywhere he went. Unlike the usual, it was the first time he was treated like air today. After feeling surprised, an unexplainable rage rose from his heart. How could the country b.u.mpkin from Jarrosus treat him as though he was invisible?

Gryffindor was fuming. If Sa.r.s.en was not there, he would turn and leave on Felic. What was so great about a country b.u.mpkin having the abilities of an Archmage?? How could Felic belittle him? Yet, after looking at Sa.r.s.en beside him, he swallowed his anger.

Since the country mage had no background, if he were to kill Felic in the finals, no one would step in. On the contrary, he had to ensure he would not put Sa.r.s.en in a hard position. As his mentor was the President of the Nightfall City Guild of Magic, he would need a lot of his help after he set up the new guild in Breezy Plains.

Gryffindor tried his best to suppress his rage as two men conversed.

“Oh, yes. Mage Felic, I heard Mr. Macklin said you left the guild for quite some time?” Ever since he saw how respectful the two pharmacists were to Lin Li, Sa.r.s.en knew clearly that this young mage from Jarrosus was not someone he should trifle with.

Furthermore, as Sa.r.s.en was not very close to Lin Li—like Mason and Orrin—he needed to watch his language and speak to him courteously. Gryffindor could not help but be infuriated when he saw how Sa.r.s.en treated Lin Li.

“I had no choice, either. My dear mentor felt that I’m too weak and needed more practice. The old man instructed me to go places as part of training…” Lin Li grumbled. He was half-lying.

“Hehe, Mr. Macklin is like that. He is known to be strict toward his students…” Sa.r.s.en comforted Lin Li, a.s.suming that the “mentor” Lin Li mentioned was Macklin. In reality, Macklin was the only mentor that would treat his students so harshly. Sa.r.s.en did not expect the real “mentor” Lin Li was referring to was one that had even higher expectations compared to Macklin…

“Erm, actually…” Lin Li paused. Since Sa.r.s.en a.s.sumed that mentor was Macklin, Lin Li was not that foolish to correct him. He took the chance to weave some more complaints about Macklin, framing the poor innocent old man.

Sa.r.s.en seemed to be engrossed in the conversation, and had no intention to leave.

Gryffindor, on the other hand, was already very impatient. If he could, he really wanted to leave them. He could not suppress his disdain when he saw that country b.u.mpkin. Gryffindor felt that Sa.r.s.en must have lost his mind to treat that mage from Jarrosus with extreme kindness.

Did he think all Archmages were invincible? Was he hoping that the b.u.mpkin would be less harsh on him during the finals?

What a joke…

So what if he was an Archmage? He was just a more skillful one among his age group. Compared to the other mages in the whole of Felan Kingdom, he was a n.o.body. He had neither social status nor background. Apart from that trial and becoming the student of Macklin by luck, what other abilities did he have?