Chapter 13
After the stone door closed, the practice room became a soundproof space, and Greem wouldn’t have to worry that someone might spy upon what he was doing from the outside.
Greem took two steps forward, positioning himself right in the center of a strange looking spell formation that was about 2 meters in diameter. He couldn’t recognize a single spell drawn on it. Clearly, they were far beyond the knowledge of any Beginner Apprentice Adept.
But today he had no time or energy to bother with all these minor details. He turned around and stood with his back straight, quietly recalling the entire casting process of the Fire Arrow spell. After he was certain of the casting process, he started speaking in a solemn voice, “Chip. Pay close attention to the entire process. Correct me immediately if you think I am making the slightest mistake!”
*Beep* “New task established, commencing real-time monitoring…”
As a blue light began blinking in Greem’s eyes, a digitized scene was projected onto his retinas.
The digitized practice room looked exactly like the practice room, but countless tiny dots of blue nodes had appeared on Greem’s retinas, slicing up the entire room into countless tiny regions. Also, the body movements Greem required to perform were divided into countless still virtual images, each staged in such a way as to indicate an order he must follow. Which was exactly what he needed to do: follow the movements of these virtual images.
Finally, Greem, who had been standing still, looking blankly off into space, began to practice.
He started to recite the magic words, and, at the same time, making drawing movements in front of his chest at an incredibly fast speed, These movements made him look weird, but at the same time, seemed to possess a certain flowing grace. As Greem progressed through the spell, his body started to blink red as a huge amount of Fire Elementium was summoned by his spell, slowly compressing and forming into the shape of an arrow in between his moving hands.
The second sentence, which was said in a tone that sounded much colder than the first, was not spoken to Greem.
Only now had Greem noticed that this ‘neighbour’ of his, who was slim and neither tall nor short, was dragging an adult man with her right hand. It was Anm, the administrator of the Magic Spell Practice Room.
Red-dressed Mary waved her little hand, and Anm was easily thrown over ten meters. He hit the ground with a ‘thud’, and started groaning, unable to stand back up.
Greem felt his expression change.
Although Anm was not considering a chunky man, his body weight was at least that of the average adult man. However, this Mary had just thrown him a fairly long distance with a single bare hand, and she had done it without even trying that hard. Inferring from what he had seen in front of him, Greem guessed that she had, at least, 10 Strength.
Judging from the swiftness of her movements, her Agility was not low either. Together with her frightening Vampire ability of regeneration, perhaps even the three strongest Apprentice Adepts wouldn’t be able to gain an advantage over her in a fight.
Hadn’t she been taken away by the master of the tower? How was she here, safe and sound? She…
“Follow me!”
While Greem was still pondering all of this in his mind, Mary stretched out her fair, silky smooth, right hand and grabbed his collar. Then she turned around and strode away, her hand on his neck. Greem did his best to try and avoid her hand, but he was unable to do so.
Although he was only 15 years old, he was actually a little bit taller than Mary. In order to avoid being dragged on the floor, he was forced to stagger along behind her, having no idea what was going on.
……
In the Public cafeteria.
It was dinner time, so most of the Apprentice Adepts were gathered in the cafeteria, sitting in small groups, having their meals, and talking to each other.
From the places they sat and the way that they each talked, it was enough to determine the strength of these small groups and the position of each Apprentice Adept in the group.
After all, those who were lone wolves, like Greem, were actually quite few in number. Most of the Apprentice Adepts preferred to group up and form small gangs, allowing them to work together and fight off those who approached with bad intentions.
But, right when the atmosphere of the place was warming up, a sudden loud noise was heard, as the freshly repaired wooden door was smashed open by someone.
Every single Apprentice Adept stared blankly at two people who had come in, one after the other, their widely opened eyes were filled with looks of disbelief.
Mary?!
Although most of the people here had never seen how Mary looked after her ‘mutation’, through their own channels, they all knew what had happened that day. Thus, in their mind, even if Mary didn’t get sliced by master Adept for his research, she would have been locked up on one the upper floors of this Tower, forced to live life as a captive forever. In stark contrast to everyone’s expectations, she actually shown up in this place, as bold as brass!
Ellen, who sat right in the center of the cafeteria, immediately felt his expression turn sober as his eyes were filled with fright.
He had personally witnessed how brutal and frightening Mary was. Even though she had been restored to her harmless look, the horrifying memory left in his mind could never be erased.
Mary stormed in like a whirlwind, soon coming to stand right in the center of the cafeteria with her arms crossed. She coldly glanced around the room, slowly circling it, before her vision finally stopped on Ellen, the newly appointed Apprentice Leader.
“I, Mary, am back again!”