Chapter 19: The Old Mage’s Revenge

“Anyway, this broken thing is just no good!” Old Xie immediately argued unreasonably: “Otherwise, why would I fall down?”

“Damn, in my life I have always been the one being unreasonable to others. I didn’t expect to meet a guy today who dares to be even more unreasonable with me!” The Old Mage was so angry that smoke was practically coming out of his seven orifices. He said in a rage, “You don’t understand, right? Then let me demonstrate it to you?” As he spoke, he directly waved his hand and threw out a Lightning bolt, smashing it hard towards Old Xie’s head.

Of course, Old Xie was not that easy to deal with. Although he couldn’t dodge the speed of the Lightning, the problem was that he had many years of combat experience and had long cultivated a nearly perverted combat intuition. As soon as the Old Mage raised his hand, Old Xie sensed the crisis coming and dodged his position early. So, although the Lightning sent by the Old Mage created a pit more than a foot deep in the stone ground, it didn’t hurt a single hair on Old Xie.

Of course, the Old Mage naturally wouldn’t let it go at that. Seeing that Old Xie dodged his sure-hit strike, he was a bit surprised in his heart, and immediately a desire to win arose. He didn’t change to other Spells; he just struck with one Lightning bolt after another. He forced Old Xie to scurry around in this huge supply warehouse like a cat being chased by a dog. Although he dodged all the Lightning, his appearance was really too miserable, like a monkey with its tail on fire.

After striking for a while, the Old Mage saw Old Xie’s miserable state and his anger dissipated. Then he suddenly remembered something, immediately stopped the attack, turned his face to look at the hole, and then, a gratified smile couldn’t help but appear on his face.

“Not bad, not bad. Such attack power is almost comparable to the high-level warriors of Level 5 or Level 6. For your age of thirteen or fourteen, such a result can be called a miracle!” the Old Mage said with a nod and a smile. At this time, he was completely immersed in a huge sense of accomplishment. With such a genius disciple, who would be dissatisfied?

Regarding the Old Mage’s mood, Old Xie, as someone who had been through it, could naturally understand, so he didn’t care about his own miserable appearance. Instead, he said with slight dissatisfaction: “Powerful is powerful, but the consumption is a bit high. Just these few strikes almost drained my Magic Power! This is completely different from the situation written in your book?”

Actually, Old Xie was hiding something here. Although these few punches did consume a lot of mana, for him, it wasn’t very severe. Because what he cultivated was actually his own Xuan Yin Magic Power. After thirteen years of hard cultivation, he had already cultivated his mana to a relatively profound level, almost comparable to the Magic Power of a Level 4 or Level 5 Mage.

Of course, if calculated according to the normal situation here, the Magic Power at his age should barely count as a Level 1 Mage. So Old Xie only told the Old Mage that he was a Level 1 Mage. And the Magic Power of a Level 1 Mage indeed couldn’t withstand the consumption of these few punches. This was indeed very different from the situation described in the book. That book said that this method of storing Qi wouldn’t consume too much Magic Power. Even a Level 1 Mage could use it continuously a dozen times.

Regarding Old Xie’s doubt, the Old Mage despised him quite a bit. He rolled his eyes at Old Xie and said: “Are you the same as a normal person? You have to know, power doesn’t appear out of thin air. The greater the energy you gather, the more Magic Power you pay. So, the consumption of this Magic Power is actually determined by your power. The people mentioned in the book I gave you are ordinary people. How much strength can their punch have? Naturally, the Magic Power consumed is less. But you, kid, are simply a pervert. One punch of yours is worth ten punches of others. How could it not consume a lot?”

Old Xie understood as soon as he heard it. So there was also the saying of energy conservation in this Otherworld? Just then, Old Xie suddenly discovered that the Old Mage actually carried a faint Killing Intent on his body, as if he had just killed someone. So he couldn’t help but ask strangely: “Did you kill someone just now?”

“Huh?” the Old Mage immediately asked curiously: “You can tell?”

“Mm!” Old Xie didn’t want to reveal too many secrets, so he said vaguely: “I can sense that there seems to be Killing Intent on you.”

“Haha, not bad, not bad. I didn’t expect your senses to be so sharp too.” The Old Mage then said with a smile: “That’s right, I just had a meeting and dealt with some trash by the way!”

It turned out that the Old Mage had just finished the matter of the Magic Array today and was looking for Old Xie when he suddenly received a magic letter. It was the result of an investigation he had ordered. It turned out that since the accident with Little Stephen, the Old Mage had devoted himself to saving him and had no time to investigate the process of the event. Until Little Stephen died and he had to let Old Xie replace him, he finally freed his hands to launch a full-scale investigation by his subordinates. Now there was a result. The entire process of the event was clearly recorded above, as well as the masterminds behind it and the specific implementers.

In general, there were three waves of people responsible for this matter. The biggest responsibility naturally lay with that Princess and her allies, but their power was too great, and the Old Mage couldn’t rashly cause trouble for them for the time being. The second wave was the specific implementers, that group of Noble descendants, but they had almost all died at the hands of the Berserk Little Stephen. If he wanted revenge, he couldn’t find anyone. As for the last wave, it was the Teachers who were instructed in advance. They were present at the scene but deliberately did not stop Little Stephen’s Berserk state, which eventually led to Little Stephen exhausting his life and dying.

When the Old Mage saw this, anger rushed to the top of his head. He thought to himself, he finally found someone to vent his anger on. Immediately, he went out and urgently convened a meeting of all the Teachers. He called all the dozen or so responsible Teachers to his front. The Old Mage didn’t speak, just glared at them with awe-inspiring Killing Intent all over his body.

Facing the anger of the head of the Kingdom’s Five Magic Saints, the powerful Lightning Magic Saint Stephen, those dozen or so Teachers with guilty consciences were all trembling with fear, sweating cold sweat all over. And the other Teachers, including a few Magic Saints, also sensibly shut their mouths. They knew this was the Old Mage settling scores later, so no one dared to speak for them at this time, lest they anger this old fellow whose prestige, strength, and status were all extremely lofty.

But under the Old Mage’s Killing Intent pressure, they soon couldn’t hold on and cast pleading glances towards a high-level school official. That was the Dean of the Etiquette Academy, a Royal appointed Duke, Roclay.

Roclay was also from a Great Noble Family. His grandmother was also a Royal Family Princess, so his status was lofty, but his eyesight was not good. The matter of dealing with Little Stephen this time was secretly instructed by him to these Teachers. Otherwise, even if these Teachers were beaten to death, they wouldn’t dare to offend the Old Mage. Originally, he wanted to hide himself and not confront the Old Mage head-on, but now these people were looking at him, the meaning being, if you don’t save us, we will have to expose you to save ourselves.

Under this silent threat, Roclay could only brace himself to persuade the Old Mage: “Lord Principal, although these few have some responsibility in dealing with Little Stephen at that time, after all, they did their best. Moreover, they are all Teachers of the school and have titles, counting as Nobles. According to reason, even if they are to be punished, it should be reported to His Majesty!” Obviously, he wanted to use His Majesty to pressure the Old Mage.

Originally, the Old Mage didn’t know this guy was involved in the trickery, but unexpectedly, he jumped out himself now, and even dared to use the Emperor to pressure him. The anger in the Old Mage’s heart! His eyes immediately turned red, and he directly cursed: “Reason? Damn your ‘Mara’ reason!” As he spoke, he raised his hand and sent a Lightning bolt over.

This time, the Old Mage struck with anger. And Roclay, such a waste who only knew Royal etiquette, naturally couldn’t block it. A loud “boom” was heard, and the pitiful Roclay was electrocuted into charcoal on the spot.

Then, the Old Mage didn’t stop his hand. He waved his arm fiercely a few more times. Immediately, powerful Lightning bolts shot out of thin air like dancing silver snakes, smashing hard on those dozen or so Teachers.

Worthy of being a Magic Saint with Lightning talent, the Level 5 Spell Chain Lightning was not only instant cast, but he also cast several at once, almost forming a power grid. Among the dozen or so Teachers, the weakest were Level 3 or Level 4 Warriors or Mages, and the strong one was even a Level 5 Mage. Not a single one was left out; all were instantly killed on the spot. In just the blink of an eye, there was a floor of Charred corpses on the ground.

“I am just not a reasonable person!” The Old Mage threw down this sentence, then left arrogantly.