The atmosphere was extremely tense. Yates gripped his magic staff so tightly that his knuckles were protruding.
"Who are you?"
The pale-faced Wizard Dira turned his head and looked at Grimm with his only eye that was not covered by the black eyepatch. After checking again and again, he could not remember any Dark Sorcerer with a similar appearance or aura.
"Caw! How dare you ask who my young master is? My young master is the famous dean of the Black Isotta Academy, Peranos … "
Grimm flicked Myna, signaling it to shut up.
When Dira heard that Grimm was a Dark Sorcerer from the Black Isotta Academy, the malice on his pale face became even more obvious.
Hundreds of years ago, when he was escorting apprentices in the Jewel Sea, it was this Dark Sorcerer who hijacked the ship he was tasked to protect.
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort, Dira raised his palm. "Whoosh!" A ball of grey flames started to burn, and a wave of heat from the soul spread out.
Under the Mask of Truth, Grimm's dual-colored eyes focused on this ball of grey flames.
Although they were both using the Flames of the Dead Spirit, Wizard Dira's law of prying was completely different from Third Ghostpepper's. Third Ghostpepper's law of the Flames of the Dead Spirit was more flexible, while Dira's law of the Flames of the Dead Spirit was more focused on attacking the soul.
"Are you Grimm?"
Suddenly, Yates' giant bird approached Grimm and asked with suppressed excitement. He even temporarily ignored the Level-2 Sorcerer who hijacked the mission in front of him.
During the Regional Academy War, Grimm used the identity of the Ashen Mask from the Black Isotta Academy's "Hunting List" to work with Yates from the Ivory Castle Sorcerer Academy for many years. At that time, Yates was already one of the top ten experts in the Ivory Castle.
After that, during the Holy Tower Qualification Battle.
Yates unexpectedly fought against the Sun's Child, Mina. Due to Yates' underestimation of Mina, the arrogant Mina quickly took revenge and suppressed him.
However, Sam, Kyrie, Bionna, Roga, and Nina York's team, who had a grudge against Mina, launched a revenge attack on Mina, temporarily helping Yates out of trouble.
Seeing that the Sun's Child was on the verge of collapse, the numerous Sorcerer-Apprentices lurking in the surroundings were about to rush forward to snatch the points. At the crucial moment, Mina's sister, Milly, appeared.
The Ice Phoenix displayed its might, and numerous frightened 12th District Sorcerer-Apprentices fled in all directions. Ice Age Mili, the legendary level Sorcerer-Apprentice's elegant demeanor was completely displayed.
It was also at this time that Hill Woods, the 15th District Sorcerer-Apprentice who had crossed over from another region, appeared.
This apprentice from the 15th, who excelled in sound wave sorcery, had dominated the 15th for decades. No one could defeat him and he was known as the Bell Master. Once the Holy Tower Tryouts began, he crossed over to the 14th and swept away all the other apprentices there.
After feeling that the 14th and 15th District Sorcerer-Apprentices were all afraid of him, Hill Woods, who had accumulated a large number of points in a short time, once again crossed over to the 12th District.
In this way, Ice Age Mili, who represented the 12th District's legendary level Sorcerer-Apprentice, and this tyrannical Sorcerer-Apprentice from the 15th, launched a fierce peak battle.
Seeing that there was no way to deal with this 15th District Sorcerer-Apprentice, Mili finally displayed her special skill, Ice Age Seal, and sealed Hill Woods in one fell swoop.
This terrifyingly powerful Sorcerer-Apprentice who crossed over from another region was defeated. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the matter was over.
Coincidentally, as fate arranged, Grimm, who had finished developing the final stage of the Explosive Flame in the earth bud, broke out of the ice and accidentally destroyed the Ice Age Seal, releasing Hill Woods, allowing this terrifying Sorcerer-Apprentice to once again appear in the world.
Lamenting, resentful, and hostile, the people of the 12th looked at Grimm, this seemingly unnecessary "ignorant" existence.
He didn't explain too much.
With the assistance of the Gadfly in the Mixed Poison Refinement Body cells, the double effect of the internal and external cultivation of the cells, Grimm's Divine Great Dissimilation Technique, Grimm's Three Esoteric Great Sorcery, and the initial application of the Destructive Force, Explosive Flame, and the Stigmata Friendship Key of the Black Iso Tower Stigmata Sorcerer.
After a fierce battle, Grimm defeated Hill Woods and became a Nightmare Sorcerer-Apprentice above the legendary level.
A nightmare in the Holy Tower Tryouts had begun!
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth.
With Claytia's help, Grimm swept away all the Sorcerer-Apprentices who could pose a threat to him in obtaining the fragment of the world-core one by one. Even when he reached the Holy Tower Tryouts, there was no longer any so-called opponent. He was left alone to fight three foreign world level one creatures.
And this Yates, who was resentful at Grimm for causing trouble and being unnecessary, released the terrifying Hill Woods.
Later, when Grimm suppressed Hill Woods in the fierce battle, he couldn't believe it, was dumbstruck, and was full of shock.
In the end, when the giant bird from the Black Iso Tower's secret realm crushed Hill Woods with one claw, Yates was only left with wholehearted admiration. He only felt that he had witnessed the true pinnacle of the Sorcerer-Apprentices' showdown and was already satisfied. He automatically handed over his points to Grimm and left the secret realm.
"Black Iso Tower Grimm, go and represent our 12th district to fight for the highest honor in the Holy Tower Tryouts! My points … are given to you! Kekekeke! "
Yates' words seemed to represent the opening of Grimm's Sorcerer-Apprentice phase to the peak of glory.
This was the story of an ordinary genius who had no talent, no heaven-defying opportunities, no family legend or history, no life or death enemies, and nothing out of the ordinary. Relying on his own wisdom and hard work, under the cold and cruel Dark Sorcerers' rules, he gradually grew to become the protagonist of a generation of Sorcerer-Apprentices in the 12th district's six great Sorcerers Academies for a hundred years.
The so-called protagonist was not shaped by the story, but by the protagonist's continuous struggle, unceasingly growing to become the center of a wider area, for a longer period of time, unceasingly pushing the changing fate to become history.
Grimm stood on the black Flying Carpet and nodded calmly at Yates beside him.
Yates's murky eyes suddenly shrank when he received an affirmative answer. He actually couldn't say anything else, only the sound of slightly hurried breathing could be heard.
The Sorcerer-Apprentices on the giant bird behind Yates all shivered.
To these children, the pressure of a Level-2 Sorcerer was like the first time Grimm saw the Fake Faceless Sorcerer on the cruise ship. That kind of fear and uneasiness was unforgettable to this day.
A few of the children looked at Yates, not understanding what was happening here. They simply couldn't control their own fate.
They didn't understand that today's kidnapping of this Level-2 Sorcerer, the two choices of success or failure, would change their entire lives.
He let Little Eight control the Flying Carpet to slowly land with the children, while he himself stayed in mid-air and looked at Dira.
Grimm said in a low voice, "Sorcerer Dira, perhaps you don't remember, but more than six hundred years ago, there was an ordinary child named Grimm on the ship that was hijacked by the Black Isotta Academy in the Jewel Sea."
Dira, whose hand was burning with the gray Inextinguishable Flame and whose face was filled with ruthlessness, suddenly froze.
Dira looked at Grimm, a gray-white mask covering his face, a body covered in yellow sand, and a Sabbatic Goat Staff in his hand. No matter what, he would never have thought that Helen from hundreds of years ago …
As for all his memories of that ship …
Dira would never forget the fear and anger that came from the bottom of his heart when he saw the flock of crows chasing after him relentlessly!
"So … you were one of the people on that ship?"
Wizard Dira asked slowly. There was a tinge of pain and blame in his voice.
That time, not only did he lose his mission, but he also lost his dignity in Lilith's Sorcerer Academy, and the fate of a Bright Sorcerer with a ship full of children.
As expected!
But today, hundreds of years later, there was already a Sorcerer who belonged to Lilith's Cabin, and an Arcane Sorcerer of Lilith's Cabin, facing off against him in the sky.
This was a huge tragedy!
And all this was because of his own negligence.
Closing his pale eyes, Dira took a deep breath of the slightly sour air. He looked at the Rank 1 Sorcerer in front of him and said painfully, "You're Grimm, right? Leave these children behind and go. As a Rank 1 Sorcerer, you should know how strong a Rank 2 Sorcerer is. "
"I can't leave these children behind."
Grimm said calmly and solemnly.
"Hmph! Maybe you're strong and confident, but wasn't I once an outstanding Rank 1 Sorcerer? I was hailed as a genius, but so what? Didn't I still have no way to resist Nilmar? "
As he spoke, Dira gradually abandoned the pain in his memory, and his voice became firm and rational.
"You should know the cruelty of Dark Sorcerers. Don't tell me you want them to be like you? In Lilith's Cabin, they will grow better. This is not only making up for the mission I lost, but also a better choice for their fate! "
Dira said righteously, as if it was a matter of course.
Grimm lowered his head and looked at the fourteen sorcerer-apprentices who were standing on the ground and looking up at the sky.
Would one of them be like him from back then?
Grimm didn't know.
What Grimm knew was that he couldn't back down today. This wasn't because of the mission, nor was it because of Norris's trust. It was because Grimm didn't want another one of these fourteen to have a tragic fate like his.
Raising his head, Grimm looked straight at Dira, his eyes also full of determination.
"Their fates are now in the hands of the two of us. There's never been a better fate, only hatred for not being able to control it! Now, their fate is to become Dark Magi, and I will be their guide. I will not let them see their friends die in the regional academy war one day, and they will hate themselves for not being the Dark Magi they were originally … "
At the end of his speech, the tip of Grimm's Sabbatic Goat Staff slowly lit up with a fireball, the scorching heat spreading in all directions.
"Just like before, Magus Dira. You chose to take the initiative to attack Magus Nilmar, so that in the future, I won't have any reason to blame you for not protecting my fate. Now, this is also the reason I'm giving these children! "
With that, the fireball at the tip of Grimm's Sabbatic Goat Staff shot out.
* Boom! *
Flames filled the sky and exploded. Its power was inconceivably strong compared to the low-ranked spells of a rank 1 Magus.
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