Chapter 525 - Time to Do Something Big (1/2)
Chapter 525: Time to Do Something Big
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Grinth Magic Academy
Whoosh. With a soft sound, an arrow emitting fiery red light suddenly flew from afar and crashed against the dagger.
Almost at the same time, a creamy white shield of sacred power appeared on Eliard.
Clang. The dagger was hit by the arrow and flew backwards. The blade cut across the sacred light, creating a flash like fireworks. Then the sacred shield flashed a few times and disappeared.
Eliard was terrified. The dagger’s blade was so sharp. If not for the shield, he would have been dead even if the dagger was forced to the side.
But who had saved him?
Eliard looked to the distance and saw three people appear. He knew one of them—Skinorse. The other two was a female priest and an archer. They must have been the people who’d saved him.
During this distraction, Magician Amir acted again. His wand twitched, and the dagger on the ground lit up again. The next moment, the dagger jumped like lightning, stabbing toward Eliard again.
Shocked, he reacted immediately.
Someone was faster than him. The archer had pulled his bow back already. With a soft sound, a beam of fiery light shot over. Poof. It buried into Amir’s head.
Amir flew back. Green mist floated out of his body when he was in the air.
“Hey, Eliard, what are you waiting for? Come here!” Skinorse waved at him.
“Ah, okay.” Eliard had just escaped from death. With no time to feel the fear, he activated Cat’s Agility and bounded towards Skinorse.
Halfway there, voices sounded behind him.
“He’s there, Magician Eliard from Ferde. He killed the dean!”
“Catch the murderer!”
He even heard some Magician’s Apprentices run out from the garden villa, yelling, “He killed Amir! He’s the killer!”
Everything shocked Eliard even more. It felt like he was stuck in a pit of vipers. He could no longer tell who was innocent and who was a viper.
Ethereals are so scary! He sped up and ran to Skinorse.
Skinorse immediately pulled out some metal clumps the size of one’s fist from somewhere. Throwing it at the pursuing soldiers, he yelled, “Turn around; don’t look!”
Eliard immediately turned back. Then he heard some empty bangs. They sounded like toilet seats being opened. And then he felt heat on his back while the entire square turned really, really bright. It felt like a sun had dropped down behind him.
After that, Eliard heard pained cries.
“Ah, my eyes, my eyes!”
“I can’t see anything, ah!”
“Despicable!”
Skinorse grabbed Eliard. “It’s a bit troublesome. Let’s go.”
Eliard didn’t have a better plan. He could only follow Skinorse and run out of the academy. At the wall, the people leapt up. Eliard had Cat’s Agility activated and also jumped up.
There was a small alley behind the wall, filled with cottony white fog. Skinorse and the others jumped down without hesitation. Eliard hesitated a bit, but Skinorse tugged his shirt. He lost balance and fell into the white fog too.
Once inside, Eliard realized that the fog was strange. It was like cotton, but there was a hole that could only fit one person. Eliard discovered a Magician there. He led the way while saying, “Hurry, walk faster. This spell can only last three minutes. Hurry!”
Soon, Eliard found even more interesting points to this spell. The fog almost completely blocked the outside world. Not even a sound could be heard, let alone power auras. They were just inside fog, but it felt like they were isolated from the world.
He followed behind the archer and walked down the tunnel in the fog. After who knew how long, he found that he was in a room. After that, he seemed to enter a cellar.
Boom. There was the sound of a wooden lid closing. The white fog disappeared, and Eliard found himself in an underground tunnel.
“This is the escape tunnel of the Gale Mercenary Group in Full Moon City. We’re borrowing it,” Skinorse explained.
Eliard felt speechless. So this wasn’t theirs?