The Wizard of Light and Darkness?

Chapter 77 The Wizard of Light and Darkness?

The Chiwu mineral vein resource point is located two kilometers away.

Green, Joklis, Yorkriana, and Robin crouched low to hide themselves, while Raffi knelt on the ground, one eye transforming into an eagle's gaze as he looked towards the distant Binghamson who had gone to investigate.

Even though Green and his group were second only to the elite vanguard, they weren't sure if the Crimson Crow mine had been occupied by the wizard apprentices of District 19. It would be foolish to be ambushed, so they sent Binghamson, whose stealth, reconnaissance, and escape abilities were the best, to scout ahead first.

A moment later, Raffi, whose single eye had transformed into an eagle's gaze, breathed a sigh of relief and calmly said, "The target is fine; it seems to have been captured by our vanguard." With that, the countless camouflage branches that had sprouted from his body retracted, and he put his bow and arrows away again.

Green and his group stood up. Robin exclaimed with delight, "Great! We've finally been assigned some decent teammates at our resource point. That makes things much easier." (Before Green's team came the elite wizard apprentices from the three academies: Ivory Castle, Hourglass of Time, and Black Tower Vanguard.)

As Green and his group of five slowly moved forward, led by Binghamson, a mine pit appeared before them, a vast expanse of wasteland, crisscrossed with ravines, and hundreds of meters deep. Standing atop the mine pit were more than ten wizarding apprentices from two different academies.

One group of wizard apprentices looked completely unfamiliar to Green and his companions; they had never seen them before. The leader of the other group of seven made Raffi and the others' pupils shrink.

Aldas, the Sword of Light, ranked fifth among the top ten wizarding apprentices of Blacksota!

Raffi stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "We are from the Blacksorta Wizarding Academy. None of us have any badges." At this moment, half of Raffi's face was withered, so what was presented to everyone was a grotesque image of half a beauty and half a dried corpse. His words were quite eye-catching, and the two groups above did not dare to underestimate him.

"Hmph! If you had badges on you, you'd be corpses by now." A man shrouded in a robe stepped forward, his tone sinister and venomous.

The man continued, "I am Yatz from the Ivory Castle Wizarding Academy, and this is Aldas from Blacksotta. Although we haven't met before, we've both heard of each other. Can any of you prove you're from Blacksotta? Hmph, if you can't, then stay outside until someone can confirm your identities before coming in."

Raffi and the others' expressions immediately darkened, but they couldn't really refute what the other party said.

Just then, Aldas's sharp eyes beneath his golden eyebrows seemed to have noticed something. After a moment of surprise, he slowly extended a hand. On his wrist, a golden ring and several rings of different colors shone brightly, seemingly all of them high-level magical artifacts, and the magical fluctuations within them could not be concealed.

"No need. I know this guy with the white mask," Aldas said calmly. "The Pale Mask on the kill list, Grin? Interesting..."

Raffi and the others glanced at Green, but Green simply followed behind Raffi without even raising his head, intently staring at the two broken branches in his hands, showing no intention of speaking.

Bingham and the others knew about Green's independent and low-key demeanor; when Green was with Raffi, he habitually kept a low profile.

It's unclear what knowledge Green was studying along the way, but he never seemed to have a moment of free time.

presumably……

This is a saying often uttered by wizards: you have to pay the price for every achievement. Although many understand this principle, few can put it into practice. This is why later generations look back on their predecessors with a gaze full of mockery and sighs.

As Raffi led the five men across the slope, a groundhog suddenly poked its head out and squeaked. The group was startled for a moment, but then they realized that this was probably a simple warning measure.

Bang!

The six people placed their heavy bundles on the ground. Raffi breathed a slight sigh of relief and then walked towards Yatz and Aldas, saying calmly, "I am Raffi from the Blacksorta Bloodsail Alliance. Our team brought this batch of restricted materials. We hope your people can cooperate and complete the setup quickly."

"Oh? Prohibited materials!"

Yatz glanced at the restricted materials in the bundles with some surprise, then chuckled in a low voice, "Heh heh, not bad... Alright, considering the contribution of these restricted materials, you will also have the right to participate in the opinion vote at this resource point in the future."

On the other side, Aldas looked at the "mysterious and low-key" Green and narrowed his eyes. He was surprised to see that Green was following closely behind Raffi and acting as if Raffi was the master.

The wizard apprentices who make it onto the kill list are at least those whom the leaders of the four top organizations in Blacksota consider a threat. This Green was able to stand out from the newcomers of this world, and even some of the previous rumors...

Thus, Aldas's gaze toward Raffi became serious.

This woman, capable of subduing such a powerful "subordinate," is not to be underestimated; she certainly cannot be treated like an ordinary wizard apprentice. (Wizard apprentices still possess a certain degree of human aesthetic sense, and Aldas believes that Green would never be attracted to such an "ugly" female wizard apprentice as Raffi.)

Thinking of this, Aldas smiled, his face, which resembled Green's long, blond hair, and said, "No problem, our people will do their best to cooperate with you."

……

Setting up a large-scale restriction is a troublesome task, but fortunately there are more than twenty wizard apprentices here, and none of the troublemakers, so the progress is still quite fast. At this rate, it should be completed within three days without any problems.

Grimm, who was setting up the enchantment, had just finished installing the Philosopher's Stone when he glanced at it and suddenly froze.

In a crater-filled depression within the mine's trenches, the corpses of over twenty wizard apprentices lay scattered haphazardly. Startled, a formula for calculating repulsive and attractive forces flashed through Green's mind, and he swiftly flew over, landing amidst the pile of corpses.

"The badge has been taken away," Green thought to himself, taking it all in stride.

Since they knew the information about the badges, there was no reason why Aitz and Aldas wouldn't know it. And as news of these experts collecting the badges spread, other wizarding apprentices would inevitably guess some of it as well…

"Heh heh, looks like you know about the badges too. But... Aldas and I have already taken those guys' badges." Yaz, who was also setting up the barrier, saw Green and mocked him in a hoarse voice.

Green didn't care, because because of the pale mask, the other person couldn't see any change in Green's expression, only a pair of indifferent eyes.

"How are the combat capabilities of these wizard apprentices from District 19?" A calm voice came from beneath Green's pale mask.

A sneer.

Yatz said slowly, "Pathetic."

Green was taken aback. Since these twenty-odd wizard apprentices were the first vanguard, they must be among the elite wizard apprentices on the other side. Yet, in Aats's words, they were utterly vulnerable? Could it really be as Senior Sister Youquan said, that the wizard apprentices of District 19 were nothing but low-IQ idiots?

boom!

Suddenly, a surge of lightning energy emanated from the distant sky above the Crimson Crow Mine. Green and Yatz, who had been chatting idly, were startled; this magical energy fluctuation was no weakling! Thinking this, the two abandoned their half-finished enchantment and quickly flew towards the direction of the lightning energy fluctuation.

Thirty meters above the ground, a wizard apprentice wearing a pointed hat flew through the air, streaks of lightning crackling around his body. He held a magic staff resembling an old tree branch, its tip adorned with a pale blue gem constantly crackling with electricity. Judging from the surging magical energy, Green estimated that this person's strength was at least at the level of one of the top ten masters!

More importantly, the badge on the other person's chest!

Green was slightly taken aback when he saw the other person's attire. The tall hat and the style of the wizard Arowaws from Bisel City were the standard attire for him, which was very different from the wide robes and hoodies worn in District 12.

"Hmph! So you're the so-called dark wizards of District Twelve, aren't you? Just as the mentor said, you're filled with the dark and evil aura of black wizards." The wizard apprentice, whose body was constantly crackling with lightning, mocked the crowd.

Yaz retorted sarcastically, "What light wizards, dark wizards, black wizards? All I know about the wizarding world is that it's divided into witch hunter wizards and arcane wizards."

As he said this, Yatz's eyes kept scanning behind the powerful wizard apprentice from District 19, but he didn't find anything else.

With a wild laugh, the wizard apprentice from District 19 waved his magic wand, and a purple bolt of lightning seemed to come alive, swirling around his body like a living lightning serpent.

This astonishing control...

"Haha, the mentor always says that the wizard apprentices of the nine academies in District 19 should learn some things from the dark wizards of District 12, yet he makes us participate in this boring game of the tower master. Don't worry, I'm not one of those fools you killed before, a fool who only knows how to follow the path left by the wizards of the past! Come on, let me see the strongest power in District 19, who dares to come out and challenge me?" A confident and arrogant look appeared on the face of this District 19 wizard apprentice, and a hint of madness and ferocity was deep in his pupils.

The twenty-odd wizard apprentices in the twelfth district of the Chiwu Mine were stunned for a moment. They looked at each other and could see the shock in each other's eyes, as if they had seen the most incredible thing in the world.

How did this guy manage to cultivate to this level? There's no one this "foolish" left among the wizard apprentices in District Twelve...

Almost as if by telepathy, everyone made their move at the same time.

Green casts a fire bat spell, Raffi draws a full bow and fires an arrow of life, Robin fires a simple water arrow, and Az...

Under the influence of more than twenty spells of varying strength, and amidst the astonished, surprised, and incomprehensible gaze of the lightning-filled wizard apprentice in the sky, the raging elemental power seemed to instantly devour and engulf him.

"You are despicable..."

The voice was low, hurried, and weak. A faint, almost invisible bolt of lightning fled into the distance at full speed. Aats, Aldas, and Rafi ignored it all and also transformed into three streaks of light to chase after it.

A few moments later, the three flew back, and Aldas threw the body into the mass grave that Green had just discovered with a cold laugh.

Green was still reeling from the shock: "This... this is what Senior Sister meant by stupidity? It really is unbelievably stupid! At least during the novice trials, Green didn't engage in this kind of 'suicidal' behavior, even though he was relatively strong back then."

(End of this chapter)