Chapter 248: Odd about him.
Lamrt clenched his hands with so much strength that a trail of blood left his fist.
Although everyone else who had seen Ozul for the first ti was only curious and probing him to the best of their abilities, Lamrt was only raging inside.
He was a fairly smart man and could easily connect the dots with Luthien leaving yesterday and in front of him, the man who was supposed to be missing two arms had his left arm without a scratch!
‘That idiot! After all his reassurance that the hand was in safe hands, this brat just goes and fetches his arm back like it was nothing!’ Lamrt cursed Luthien in his heart.
Although he considered Luthien as also soone with high enough ambitions and smart thinking, they now had lost another one of those ‘devil’s limbs’ which made him feel like his heart was bleeding.
‘Urgh! Everything was going as planned, and now everything is ssed because he couldn’t even take care of an arm!’ Lamrt blad Luthien, unaware of the fact that the latter had already died a grueso death.
The Church of Light’s alliance with the Silverbird Kingdom was unlike that of the other organizations. Luthien was good with words, and he had sohow made Lamrt actually have a good impression of him.
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Lamrt who would only look for bad in people saw Luthien as a valuable tool and the latter was fully aware of it. However, Luthien also saw Lamrt as an important ans to complete his plans.
In short, both were just trying to use each other.
After Luthien had learned these limbs’ true value, he had started forcing Lamrt to hand over the arm that he had sent him. Even when Lamrt refused flat out, Luthien still did not break their alliance because he found it a huge loss to lose an ally just as or even more shrewd than him.
Although he hadn’t been able to get the arm back from Lamrt, Luthien still managed to convince him that the Silverbird Kingdom would be getting half the profits the Church made of the Healing liquid.
Enough talking about that, Lamrt at the mont couldn’t help but ground his teeth while glaring towards Ozul sitting far away from him. In his mind, he continued to curse Luthien nonstop.
Just at that mont, as if sensing his gaze, Ozul turned his head in his direction and made eye contact.
The mont their eyes t caused chills to run down Lamrt’s spine.
From that single mont of eye contact, Lamrt could tell that unlike he thought, he was far from being a match to this devil, ‘H-he is strong!’
Only then did he rember that this kid in front of him had obtained another one of his limbs back, ‘Did he get stronger because of that?!’
A slight fear rose from his heart as he thought about how this ‘kid’ would try to seek revenge and look for the arm that was with the Church now.
Lamrt hatefully gnashed his teeth but still evaded Ozul’s eyes. After a while, his furious expressions morphed into a contemptuous smile as he muttered, “No matter what, he would never be able to get that arm back.”
Even when he felt that Ozul had sohow gotten beyond his league, Lamrt didn’t worry that he would be able to snatch the arm because of her presence.
‘Anyway, who is that old man... he gives a strange feeling,’ Lamrt squinted his eyes at the old man who looked just like an average old man who didn’t even have enough money to buy proper clothes.
. . .
At this ti, Raven, Blaze, Irvin, and even Haley were surrounding Ozul’s seat. All of them looked at his left arm which looked more than human now.
None of them said out aloud anything since they were out here in public.
Ozul looked at Raven’s staggering appearance and said, “Go and fix yourself.”
Then he turned to Blaze. “Rest. Recover your Mana, you are up against that man over there?” he asked while pointing at Mikol standing near Lamrt’s seat.
Blaze nodded his head and before he could confidently assure Ozul that he would secure the victory, he heard the latter say,
“You would most probably lose. Don’t let your guard down.”
Blaze couldn’t even refute the words because it was Ozul who said it. Nonetheless, he was more than determined to prove him wrong.
On his side, Haley brought him sowhere so he would recover quickly. He only had two hours after all.
anwhile, Ozul continued to stare at Mikol for a few monts, making the latter uncomfortable under his scrutinizing gaze.
‘He is unusually strong for a middle stage Rank-8...’ Ozul thought inside his mind as he probed Mikol.
Even without his improved abilities, he could have easily noticed the odd air surrounding Mikol. Even with Blaze’s abnormal talent, this Mikol seed to match the raw Mana both of them had, and Ozul found it strange.
‘Hm. I will just watch the match then. I can test my limits later,’ he decided to wait till the end of the tournant since it concerned Blaze.
When all the other Rank-9 Mages probed him except for Alver, Ozul also gave all of them a brief look. His eyes paused at Lamrt for a couple of seconds and felt those raging emotions inside him.
‘Just you wait... you will be the next,’ he thought inside his head before sweeping his gaze towards the woman with an icy cold look.
She was the sect leader of the Nine Petals Sect and still held the grudge that he had taken her best disciples in her sect’s entire history.
Ozul’s gaze didn’t linger on her for another mont. He didn’t look at Alver who was actually staring at him with such an intense gaze that he had a hard ti ignoring it now.
Just then, Ozul rembered sothing and turned his face to his right.
There he saw the old man standing on one foot and scratching his leg with the other one. He was still barefoot, but when he focused on his feet, they didn’t have a single speck of dirt.
Taking a mont to arrange his words, Ozul spoke, “You said you wanted to find those candidates here in the Neutral City? What are you doing here then?”
“Hoho~? Are you that ashad that such an uncultured old man like is standing beside you?” Old Gu answered with one of his hands scratching his back like he was a monkey.
Ozul could at least tell that this old man was deliberately doing that to test his patience.
“You can stay with all day, I wouldn’t care as long as you keep your mouth shut. I am just reminding you to hurry up your task. You still have to give an explanation,” he answered without a change in his expressions.
“Haha! Young man, you sure are impatient. Alright, I can at least tell you that it will take around five years before things start,” Old Gu revealed how much ti he would actually take to tell him his identity.
“What are you doing here then? Don’t you have work to do?” Ozul asked this question after carefully thinking about it for a while.
He wanted to probe if this old man was acting independently or doing things on others’ orders. Though he leaned towards the forr possibility, and it might not help him in any way. He thought that it wouldn’t hurt to try it anyway.
“I have as much ti as I want, young man,” Old Gu also answered in a way that didn’t reveal anything.
“But I am here because now I don’t need to find all the candidates again. A couple of them are already here, haha! I am lucky!” Old Gu laughed in delight, attracting quite a few eyes because of his loud voice.
“Who is this old man?”
“He is just an ordinary man, I can’t feel any Mana from him.”
“But he was also flying with the leader of the Three-Eyed Strangers earlier!”
“If I can’t sense his Mana... does that an he is actually stronger than ?!”
...
Even the high ranking officials from the other factions started muttering while so even blatantly pointed their fingers at him.
“Hehe... It seems I attracted quite a lot of attention, huh? Alright, as an apology, I will give you a piece of advice. Start training those two under you with all they have got, things might get difficult later on~” Old Gu apologized, but Ozul felt that he would have given him this ‘advice’ even if he hadn’t done anything.
“Can you at least tell if... you have anything common with ?” Ozul asked even though he wasn’t able to word it correctly.
“Haha? What? Do you think I am your grandfather, young man? Hoho~? If you crave grandparents’ love so much, I might actually just adopt you. However, I am very strict, I tell ya!” Old Gu continued to tease Ozul who by now was glaring at him with cold eyes.
“Ooh. Don’t get so serious young man. I thought you finally had learned to appreciate the humor. Geez, the young generation so cold these days,” Old Gu hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head in a disappointed manner.
By now, Ozul had realized that he wouldn’t get any answers from this old man no matter how much he tried to probe.
Not willing to put up with the old man’s nonsense any longer, Ozul shifted his focus to Irvin who looked dumbfoundedly at the old man’s interaction with his young master.
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