Chapter 466 - Direct Invitation
When they entered the Budding Quarter, Nausica slowly turned around to look at the familiar figure.
“Who’s that, Nausica? Why’s he in here?” The little girl—Shan—who was trying to treat the wounded big guy looked at the stranger with obvious hostility.
“Calm down now,” Nausica said. She soothed the girl and looked at Angor again. She was still a little uncertain about what she saw, and so, she asked, “You’re… Angor, right?”
Angor had gained an obvious boost to body height. Back in Brute Cavern, Nausica had to lower her head to look at Angor properly. Now she almost had to look up a little.
Angor removed his hood and revealed his handsome face that was well on its way toward maturity.
“The one and only.”
“It’s really you!” Nausica’s eyes brightened up. “Everyone’s been talking about you these days. I thought I have to find you in the garden.”
Shan laughed out loud. “What, Baron Milk? Bah-hahaha! Nice, I love milk too! I’ll find my teacher and ask for an invitation so that I can change my title into ‘Baroness Milk’ instead.”
Compared to her joke, Angor was more interested in the other thing mentioned by Shan.
“You can change your title? What invitation?”
“Wait, you didn’t know? Did you like, just reached level 15 or something? Mister Sunders has not given you an invitation card?” Shan was surprised yet again.
“You mean your professor can give you an invitation and you don’t need to fight in the tower?”
“Now that I think about it, you and Nausica are the only tower challengers among us. It’s such a pain! I and Shiliew can enter the garden because we got invitation cards from our teachers. Well, Shiliew did fight in the tower, but she stayed at level 3. She always fell asleep during her matches.”
As if to prove Shan’s words, Shiliew collapsed on her bed again.
“See that?” Shan shrugged.
Shiliew possessed a powerful talent at the cost of a great side effect. Her talent proved to be a useful tool in her current state, but it probably wouldn’t keep helping her when she started to encounter mightier people.
Angor didn’t know what to say. Sunders could always get him inside the garden freely, but that man still asked him to take on those challenges in which he almost lost his life… while he was in the dark about the easier approach!
Angor sighed in distress. He made up his mind to talk with Sunders later. At the very least, he would like a new “invitation card”.
…
After some insignificant chatting, Angor looked at Nausica again. He didn’t come here just to talk about the old days.
First, he had to tell Nausica about the shady business in the garden. And secondly, he still remembered his promise to craft a new arm for her.
He explained what he learned about the purification garden in detail, especially about the blood sacrifice that was common knowledge among elite apprentices by now. Other ordinary apprentices, however, didn’t have resources to learn as much. They were “expendables” after all.
Naturally, both Nausica and Shan were shocked at the news.
“Are you serious?” Shan panicked a little. She forgot to tease Angor this time.
“I am.”
“Are you here to stop me?” Nausica quickly got over her emotions. “Please don’t. I know what I’m going after.”
“I’ll not stop you. I’m just reminding you, that nine out of ten participants are going to die in there. I hope you can make your choices carefully.”
Nausica nodded. “I will.”