A Sorcerer's Journey Chapter 77

Translator: John Cui  Editor: H2dH2mr

Glenn, Chris, Robin lied prostrate two kilometers off the tungsten ore range. Along with them was Lafite. With her body half knelt, She turned one of her eyes to Eagle Eye and looked across to Robinson, who had approached the site alone for a quick spy.

In terms of sorcery, Glenn’s team was only secondary to the squad teams sent to the resource points before them, and they still had no idea whether this tungsten ore range had been taken by students from the 19th and whether there would be an ambush. Thus, they had asked Robinson, who excelled in skills of spying, hiding and escaping, to sneak a quick look.

Moments later, Lafite became relieved, the leaves to have produced around her to serve as camouflage gone, the bow laid aside. "The site is all fine. It seems to have been taken by our squad team."

On seeing this, Glenn and the others rose up and Robin said delightedly: "Brilliant, we’ve finally got some good teammate, and the mission will become a lot easier."

The squad team, jointly composed of students from the Ivory Castle, the Hourglass, and the Black Isotta, would surely be an elite team.

Glenn’s group proceeded with a slow march to the site with Robinson as the guide. Soon a mine pit several meters deep came in view. It was a place where ravines and gullies criss-cross. At the bottom of the pit stood two teams of students around ten in number from different schools.

One team looked unfamiliar to Glenn’s team yet the sight of the other team’s head made Lafite grimace.

It was Ardas, the Brightness Sword, ranked as the 5th in the top ten students in the Black Isotta.

Lafite made a step forward, and shouted to them: "We are from the Black Isotta. We don’t have any badges." Her half face was a beauty and the other was withered. As she said that, her tone attracted much attention and nearly none of them showed any manner of disrespect.

"Hmm, if you had any, you would all be dead for sure." A student in a cloak stood out. He then continued.

"I’m Yates from the Ivory Castle. This is Ardas, from the Black Isotta. I’ve heard some of the names you mentioned. But how do you identify yourself since we haven’t met before. So just stay out of this pit until you have a way to prove your ID."

Lafite’s face fell yet she and the others had gotten nothing to talk back.

At the time, beneath Ardas’ well-aligned brows, his eyes were startled. Afterwards, he held out his hand, a gold bracelet around his wrist as well as several rings embedded in it shone.

The ornaments seemed to be some fancy magical tools, containing some in-containable magical waves.

"No need to be outside now. I know this mask guy." Ardas said lightly. "The Ashen Mask Glenn whose name is on the hunted list. Interesting..."

Lafite turned to look at Glenn and Glenn, having stayed close behind Lafite, even didn’t look up and was focusing on the twigs in his hand, showing no intention to be engaged in a conversation.

Glenn would be immersed in doing his own stuff and when Lafite was around, he would always keep a low profile. The group members all knew this. It seemed his interest in some research never ended.

Maybe Glenn’s spirit was what was circulated in the sorcerer community — How hard you try decided your achievement. This little saying was well-said, yet seldom could

students really practice it. And this proverb showed the mentality of how the predecessors (the future self) regarded the successors (the past self) — with sarcasm and sighs.

Lafite started leading the team down the slope towards the bottom. They were stunned by a sudden appearance of a shrieking mouse. Seconds later, they realized that it was a safeguard.

Bang!

Glenn’s group thumped their bags on the ground. Then Lafite walked to Yates and Ardas, and said lightly: "I’m Lafite from the Black Isotta. It’s my hope we work together to laying these interdiction we brought asap."

"Interdiction?" Yates shifted his gaze to the bags. He then smiled. "Good...Since you have the interdiction, you’ll be given some say in matters concerning this resource point."

Ardas, however, was studying this mysterious, taciturn Glenn, eyes squinting. He was lost why someone like Glenn would willing to be a footman to Lafite.

"To be on the hunted list, he must be as good as to be a threat to the heads of the top four leagues in the Black Isotta. He could stand out from his fellows and there were legends about him that..."

Ardas’ eyes went more serious, thoughtful.

This woman was incredible to be able to harness such a powerful "footman". Besides, sorcerer students still had some taste in partners, and Lafite was too ugly to be liked by him. She then must be treated with some respect.

Thinking about this, Ardas’ smiled, his long golden hair whipped. "No problem. We’ll try and be cooperative."

Laying the interjection in a wide scope was troublesome. The strong points were the help offered by 12 other students and no enemies were in sight. Thus, the building should be completed in three days.

As Glenn was busy with installing the magical stones, he caught a glimpse of something. It was a dreadful scene. In a cavity lied a network of over 20 strewn student bodies.

After having measured a calculation formula of the repulsive and attractive forces, Glenn took off and flew to the bodies.

"The badges have been taken." Glenn murmured, thinking the committer doing this was reasonable. "Since I knew about the badges, there is no reason why Yates and Ardas don’t know them. And since these top students are collecting them, the other ordinary students are guessing the usefulness of them..."

"It appeared you had some knowledge about the badges. But these guys’ badges had been taken by Ardas and me." Yates said to Glenn in a husky voice.

Glenn didn’t show much care. And Yates could not catch any change in Glenn’s expressions beneath his Ashen Mask, except for his composed eyes.

"Are these students in the 19th well-versed in battles?" Glenn asked calmly.

Yates made a sound of Te Hee, and then said slowly. "Clumsy."

Glenn was struck dumb. "These over 20 dead bodies were the squad team sent from the opponent schools. Then they must be among the best. And yet they were just "clumsy" in Yates’ words, were they? Were they really as debilitated as Quite Spring suggested?"

Suddenly, a strong thunder wave broke from the sky above this tungsten ore range. Glenn and Yates, who were in a casual chat, quit their work with the interjection, and took wings into the sky where the wave lied.

In the sky about 30 meters above the ground, a student wearing a pointed hat showed himself. Several thunder snakes moved about around his body. In his hand was a magical stick made of some old tree branch, and on the top end of the stick was a sapphire. The thunder waves were turbulent, and Glenn estimated that this guy was at least at the same level with the top ten students in the Black Isotta.

And Glenn noticed the badge on his chest.

This student’s attire, his BBCAP in particular, was reminiscent of how Apollo in the Bi Seer city was dressed, which was very different from the cloaks in the 12th section.

"You’re the Black Sorcerers from the 12th section, are you? You’re filled with evil auras just as my tutor said." The thunder snake student sneered at the crowd of students.

"What Bright Sorcerer, Dark Sorcerer? There is only Evil-Hunting Sorcerers and Ougi Sorcerers." Yates jeered back, and his eyes were scanning around the student.

A proud and loud laugh followed. Afterwards, this 19th student whisked the stick in his hand and a purple electronic light moved as if it had been animated as a snake.

"Such a topnotch control..."

"Haha, my tutor said we had something to learn from you students from the 19th and asked us to be in such a boring tower master game. But rest assured, I’m not the fools you’ve destroyed. Come on, let me see the power of the 19th, who is gonna rise to my challenge?" The 19th student’s face were haughty, crazy and ferocious.

All of the students on the ore bottom got stunned and exchanged scared looks with each other as if they had seen the most unbelievable thing in the world.

However, the next second, the students from Glenn’s side all made a move on the guy in the sky at the same time as if it had been planned.

Glenn produced the fire bat sorcery, Lafite the life arrow, Robin the ice arrow and Yates...

Over 20 sorceries that carried a different level of strength were fired to the guy and the element forces soon engulfed the surprised student from the 19th.

"You despicable guys..." His voice had become weak and mumbled. Then an enfeebled thunder force scuttled.

Yates, Ardas and Lafite turned themselves into three lights and followed.

Moments later, the three guys had come back, Ardas sneered and dropped a body into the dead body cavity.

"Is this the stupidity Quite Spring referred to? He is just so rash and brainless. Back in the Sorcery Test for the First-Years, I would not do such death courting thing even when I was still stronger than you." Glenn thought.

Chapter end