End of the Magic Era Chapter 199 - Low Odds

Chapter 199: Low Odds

Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance

“Hey...” Lys couldn’t help sighing again. Fran clearly didn’t want to let it go. If he couldn’t change his mind, the two would fight sooner or later. Moreover, the fight would most likely happen in the Vaughn “Treasury”, which would implicate Lys as well...

Lys and Fran were old friends. They already knew each other when they were just Great Alchemists, so how could Lys not know of Fran’s temperant? If he was in a good mood, then he would clearly differentiate between gratitude and grudges, while if he was in a bad mood, he would definitely retaliate with interest. That day, rlin had stomped his head into the ground in front of many people. This was incredibly humiliating, and with Fran’s temperant, he would definitely fight rlin to the last breath.

Usually, Lys would try to persuade Lin Yun and have the young Great Mage apologize to Fran, effectively making the problem disappear. This would be the perfect option...

The problem was that Lys didn’t dare to do so...

Lys clearly knew that rlin wasn’t the type of person to lower his head.

He had paid attention to this young Great Mage for a while, and from the guild’s hearing concerning the Hope Potion to this joint exploration, Lys had never seen that person yield. He didn’t even give others the opportunity to yield, crushing them completely and slapping their faces and destroying their reputation, without making a single miscalculation. It was to the point that Lys himself wondered if his next step would be to slap an Archmage...

Moreover, Lin Yun’s importance in the joint exploration was a lot higher than Fran’s. Let alone breaking the arrays, the key was that rlin’s combat power was terrifying. The fight against Fran two days ago clearly showed that point. rlin’s current fighting prowess might be already comparable to Solomon’s.

So comparing all this, it was naturally more worthwhile to make Fran lower his head...

After all, aside from the fact that he was a friend of Fran, this Master Alchemist was serving as a backup in this joint exploration. If rlin t difficulties breaking the arrays, Fran could supplent the effort, that was all.

Unfortunately, Fran never expected that his position in Lys’ eyes had been demoted to being a re reserve unit.

“That Mafa rlin was definitely prompted by his family to humiliate . I must let Teacher Nolan know of the sinister intentions of the rlin Family after going back...”

“Fran... As far as I know, Mafa rlin doesn’t have a close connection with the rlin Family...” Lys couldn’t stand it anymore. The 9th Rank High Mage of the Cloud Tower took his disciple, Leon rlin, to the Gilded Rose, but Sauss, Solomon, Monchi, and Cadgar had personally seen the state of the relationship between Mafa rlin and the rlin Family. It was far from being as harmonious as it might appear to others on the surface.

But Fran wasn’t convinced...

“Lys, you only scratched the surface of their relationship...”

“...” Lys nearly spat blood. ‘He used Mana Shackles on his own relative, who is scratching the surface!?’

Lys felt that he really needed to warn Fran, or else he might soon et his end.

“Fran, listen to . Although you are a 5th Rank High Mage who possesses Ti Hand, your chances of success against Mafa rlin are very low...”

“That’s a joke...” Fran sneered, his laugh filled with contempt and disdain.

In fact, Fran didn’t feel as if he had lost, he only felt that he had been careless...

In that earlier fight, he surely wouldn’t have been defeated if he hadn’t been so reckless in his attempt to make his opponent despair. Because he’d felt that victory was within his hands, he had relaxed. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn’t have been defeated and humiliated.

He only lost because he’d never expected Mafa rlin’s casting speed to be so fast, even faster than the speed granted by Ti Hand!

If it happened at another ti, another location, he definitely wouldn’t be that careless.

He was an esteed 5th Rank High Mage, with his mastery of Ti Hand, how could he lose against a Great Mage? Such a joke...

“You think I’m joking? Mafa rlin’s strength is deep and unasurable. You didn’t co to Thousand Sails City before so you didn’t hear that although Mafa rlin beca a Great Mage just this year, he can only be described as unbeatable. He already defeated two High Mages, and moreover, a 9th Rank High Mage from the Sage Tower called Hoen ca, and Star Sage Jouyi himself concluded that they would both end up dead if they fought each other...”

“Hoen?” Even with Fran’s self-confidence, he couldn’t help frowning when he heard the na.

Hoen’s na was very famous in Okland, as he was one of the 9th Rank High Mages with the greatest chance of advancing to Archmage. He had been fighting in the Pale Plane for the past few years, and only ca back to Noscent two months ago because he was appointed as the Head of the Magic Departnt by Jouyi.

Although Fran was very confident in his strength, he had to admit that when compared to Hoen of the Cloud Tower, he was indeed inferior.

‘Is Mafa rlin really that powerful?’ he wondered.

“Moreover, I heard Solomon say that Star Sage Jouyi cared a lot about Mafa rlin. If you really make a move against him, I’m afraid that the Cloud Tower...”

“Star Sage?” Fran’s heart suddenly tightened. ‘The Star Sage is involved too?’

That was the strongest Archmage of the kingdom, and he could beco a Heaven Mage anyti. If that kind of person was backing rlin, then let alone Fran, even ten of him combined would be screwed.

“Anyway, you think about it carefully. We have been old friends for over a decade, I don’t want you to bring a disaster onto yourself...” After Lys saw Fran’s expression, he understood that his words had finally worked. Thus, he didn’t say anything else about rlin, and instead he just made small talk for a bit before leaving the carriage.

Fran’s expression wasn’t good after Lys left...

‘Could it be that I really don’t have the chance to retaliate?’

Fran closed his eyes as he leaned against the carriage. He kept seeing the sa images over and over again, a foot heavily stomping on him as well as the sniggering of all the leaders of Thousand Sails City. Just thinking about it made Fran feel endless humiliation.

But Lys’ words echoed once again in his mind...

Being able to hold his own against a 9th Rank High mage, as well as being supported by the strongest Archmage of the kingdom.

This was enough to make Fran afraid to act.

It would be fine if it was just rlin that held so power. He could still use the Vaughn Treasury’s arrays as traps and reverse the situation. But after handling the youth, he would have to face the retaliation of the strongest Archmage, Star Sage Jouyi. Fran would never be able to resist.

‘Hold on, Cloud Tower, Star Sage Jouyi...’ Thinking of this, Fran’s eyes brightened. Mafa rlin had the Cloud Tower and Star Sage Jouyi as backers, but that didn’t an that Fran didn’t have backers of his own.

Behind him stood the rcury Tower and his teacher, Nolan.

In terms of strength, the rcury Tower wasn’t that much inferior to the Cloud Tower, and the status of his teacher was not necessarily worse than that the Star Sage...

‘But how could I make Teacher step forth on my behalf...? Teacher isn’t the Star Sage...’

The way the Star Sage handled things never followed any rules or customs. He spent over two decades worth of his ti in order to crack the Fanrusen Formula. Because of the injuries of his disciple, Solomon, he invaded the Black Tower. If it had been another Archmage, would they have done the sa?

At least, he was sure that Nolan wouldn’t...

Being in the rcury Tower for decades, Fran was very clear about his teacher’s temperant. Fran knew that unless there was a very compelling reason, his teacher wouldn’t take the initiative to get him out of a predicant.

‘A reason... I have one!’

Fran quickly fished out a magic letter and a quill from his pocket and started writing a ssage to his teacher in great haste.

In the letter, Fran claid to have obtained so information regarding Vaughn Treasury. All the information clearly indicated that Vaughn Treasury wasn’t an actual treasury, but rather, a laboratory left behind by the Artisan. This laboratory not only held all of Vaughn’s alchemy knowledge, but there were also the True Spirit Magic Tools that Nolan had been eager to get his hands on.

But the exploration of the laboratory was too troubleso, and the alchemy arrays within already far exceeded his abilities. Thus, he was hoping that the rcury Tower would send so support.

Fran knew that his teacher had been looking for these True Spirit Magic Tools for a very long ti but had never found them. As long as he used that reason, even if his teacher didn’t appear personally, he would at least send his senior disciple, Karon.

‘What would a re Mafa rlin be in front of Brother Karon? He is a genuine Archmage, as well as soone Teacher personally nurtured. Even if sothing happens to Mafa rlin and Star Sage Jouyi wants to retaliate, Teacher would definitely react.

‘As for Brother Karon finding out that it wasn’t a laboratory after coming, well, nothing could be done about it, I can only claim that my information was mistaken... At most I’ll be reprimanded, but compared to the humiliation Mafa rlin made

suffer, this isn’t much.’

The hastily written letter was quickly sealed, and after Fran’s incantation, light flashed from the ring on his right hand, making the letter instantly disappear.

This was the rcury Tower’s unique communication thod. Fran’s ring was an Inheritance level Spatial Magic Tool. Although it didn’t really use the Spatial Law, it was still very useful for transmitting ssages.