"Who is this guy? Why is he so annoying? Did nobody teach him manners before?"
"Pfft..."
Yela was looking curiously at the young guy in front, who seed unfazed by Zane's aura, when she heard him question Ron nonchalantly, causing her to giggle uncontrollably.
"You... lowborn... do you want to die?"
This ti, the little patience Zane had was gone as he was incredibly angered and was about to use so spell to show him his worth when suddenly he heard an extrely cold voice right next to his ear.
"Say 'lowborn' one more ti, and I will kill you right now. Do you believe ?"
The cold voice, filled with murderous intent, was loud and clear, piercing directly into his brain, making him montarily stunned.
The dread in the voice was such that if he said that word once more, he would truly die with no bone left.
'F-Fuck... this guy...'
Zane was indeed caught off guard by such a ntal attack, leaving him stunned in place with fear.
But he quickly recovered from his stupor, cursing Ian with extre anger.
However, just when he was ready to shoot this guy with his First-Ring spell in anger, he suddenly felt an extrely obscure yet absolute entity locking onto his figure.
It was as if he was being warned that if he harbored any ill will towards Ian and attacked, he would be no more.
The feeling was instantaneous yet so fleeting that one might wonder if it was even there.
'What? How is this possible?'
But Zane instantly understood what had just happened, causing him to almost yelp out loud from the sheer absurdity.
Since he was soone with a decent status in the Mystic Circle and was used to being exposed to so secrets, contacts, pacts, and such, these weren't new things to him.
And this feeling was none other than establishing a pact with soone.
Heck, it was so similar that Zane instantly got creeped out, instinctively stopping whatever he was about to say to Ian and halting his attack.
"Hey, hey. Now, there is no need to get angry over sothing this small, is there? We are already so late, no need to waste more ti bickering with each other."
Yela, who was at the side imdiately step up, intended to stop Zane in ti as she was sure that with his temper, he would surely attack Ian out of anger this ti.
'This guy really knows how to annoy soone.'
She thought while looking at Ian with her peripheral vision.
But due to her inattention, she failed to notice Zane's sudden gloomy look and Ron's prepared staff, ready for a fight.
Poor girl, she thought she was the one helping Ian in this situation, not knowing that from the beginning, the situation was always under Ian's control instead.
"Damn, your power is really sothing. Even I am a little jealous now."
Although the spectators were unaware of what had just unfolded between Ian and Zane, Ignysyl was properly aware. He had seen the sa with Torren and Varn on the ship before.
"Yeah, it seed to work. Although, I don't know if that entity behind the pact is aware or not."
Ian also nodded slightly with a smile, answering Ignysyl with telepathy.
His little experint with the Sigil of Subjugation Pact was successful. So, of course, he was satisfied.
"Heh, those beings don't care about such things. Don't worry about them."
Ignysyl scoffed as if he knew everything.
"But what are you going to do with him? This guy seems so stupid. Is subduing him even a good choice?"
Ignysyl asked once again while looking at Zane, whose face was black and blue. From the look on his face, he seed extrely shocked, afraid, and a little solemn.
And it was clear that even if Yela wasn't in between, he had no intention of attacking Ian anymore.
"Let him be. Although he seems a little annoying, he looks like soone with status."
Ian looked at Zane with a smile, who finally looked at his figure with extre confusion.
"W-Why... H-How did you...??"
"Okay, as Yela said, let this matter rest. There is really no point in delaying our departure at all. Why don't we each take a step back and stop this pointless quarrel?"
Just when Zane was about to ask sothing, Ian cut him off, appearing as amiable as ever.
He looked as if he wasn't the one who had spoken murderous words just now.
To be honest, to Yela, it looked as fake as it could be. After all, as an apprentice, his behavior was indeed a little out of line.
She just didn't like this guy Zane even more, so she was kind of biased.
So, Yela thought Zane wasn't going to let it go just like that from their re words.
But to her disbelief, Zane seed to really consider Ian's words. Although he appeared conflicted, at last, he spit out a few words.
"Okay, let's just rest it here. I don't want to argue with an apprentice anyway."
He said while trying to be as unconcerned as possible, then looked at Yela.
"Just inform when it is ti to leave. I don't want to stay here anymore."
After saying that, he grabbed his staff, turned around, and walked away just as he had appeared, with no intention of shouting or taking action.
It was just so abrupt and weird that the crowd around, who were ready to see so action, were just as confused as Yela.
"Oh... O-Okay..."
Yela didn't know what to say as Zane was just out of his usual character. So, she just nodded chanically when Zane had already disappeared from her view.
"Woah... What happened?"
"Why is there no fight? At least throw so spell."
"Man, I was waiting to see how a Wizard from Calvora fights. What a bumr."
And the crowd of apprentices around was directly disappointed at such a lackluster ending.
They were expecting much more drama, just like when Ian fought with Borris, but what they got in return was an inexplicable truce.
"Hey, Henry, did you know that they wouldn't fight all along?"
And the earlier youth who had talked to Henry asked curiously, as Henry was the one who had supported Ian strongly before.
"How would I know they wouldn't fight? Are you stupid?"
Hearing the youngster's voice, Henry rolled his eyes.
How the heck would he know that that guy Zane would just leave after all the ramblings?
For all he cared, he was most probably the one who was really looking forward to Ian's fight with an official Wizard.
"But still, you must have so conjecture, right?"
The youngster didn't care about his curse and asked again, garnering attention from around, yet again lifting Henry's mood easily.
"Cough... I don't know why they didn't fight, but if I had to guess..."
Seeing that the crowd was paying attention to him, Henry coughed a little, created suspense, and then spilled what he truly thought.
"...that guy must have a similar ability as . He must have realized Ian is dangerous, so he backed out at the last mont."
Henry whispered as if spilling so secret, with a wink.
"Tch... here we go again. This guy only knows how to spout bullshit all day long. A Wizard ran away from an apprentice sohow because he felt the danger?"
"Haha... be careful what you say. If that guy hears you spouting nonsense here, he might just burn you alive."
And the mont Henry spouted his conjecture, he got a nice eye roll from Prince Ray, followed by a volley of sarcasm.
The crowd around also laughed a little, as what Henry said was really funny.
How could a Wizard run away from an apprentice just because he felt he was dangerous? This guy was really spouting bullshit, just as Ray said.
"You... you fucker seem to really know your way with words. Why don't you guess then? Besides being butthurt at everything, you don't seem to know anything. Mister Second Guy, or should I say Third Guy?"
Ray was really getting on his tail for nothing. So, Henry finally snapped, cursing him a little.
Moreover, by saying "Second Guy," he was really rubbing salt on his wound from when he was surpassed by Carl in the qualification test.
However, still, while countering the argunt, he didn't forget to look around for the figure of Zane.
After all, if that guy heard him just like Prince Ray said, that would be a disaster he couldn't run away from, even with his foresight ability.
'Fortunately, that guy seems to have really disappeared.'
Henry breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Prince Ray scoffing in a cold voice.
"I don't care what happened between them. Unlike you, I have other things to do. Oh, and even if I am behind them in qualifications, I am still way above you all."
Prince Ray replied in a cold voice and left the crowd, heading towards the tent pointed out by a few knights left behind to guide them.
"Tch... who are you lying to? Aren't we all the sa now? What other things do you have to do?"
Henry was really fed up with Ray's proud deanor. He couldn't understand why he was so high-sounding when both of them were princes of an empire from that barren place.
'So people are just weird, I guess.'
Henry shook his head while inadvertently looking in Ian's direction.
...
"So? Should we leave imdiately or stay for a bit? Forgive for my ignorance, but this is my first ti on the Calvora Continent. I'm kind of a newbie, you know."
Once Zane's figure disappeared, Yela was still brooding over his unusual behavior when she heard Ian's soft voice right behind her, causing her to quickly turn around.
"Eh... oh, we will leave after so ti. Why don't you stay inside the temporary tent for a while? I will call everyone after so ti."
Yela hurriedly replied while adjusting her glasses, putting aside her random thoughts for now.
Now that she looked at Ian up close, he was indeed a handso youth with his own charm.
'Unfortunately, he is already taken, and by two of them at that.'
Yela thought, looking at Lyra and Aurora, who were looking at her a little defensively.
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