Chapter 71 - Danger In Capital City
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Red City, one month after Grey left for the Lunar Academy.
Martha looked at his room with a sad face, she was about to leave this place and head over to meet her husband, Lucas.
She reminisced about all the times they spent here and couldn't help but sigh in frustration.
"If that moron hadn't gone when they called him, I wouldn't need to leave my little boy behind"
Although she said this, she knew Lucas had to go since it was an important matter.
"I thought we would be able to leave everything behind and just live a peaceful life, seems like fate has something else planned for us. Hopefully Grey will be okay"The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.
After saying this, Martha crushed a small red glowing bead that suddenly appeared out of nowhere in her hand.
Two minutes later, a figure appeared from the void without making any sound. It was like he had always been there.
Plop!
"Milady, do you have any orders for me?"
Martha looked at the man before her before asking
"I forgot to ask you when you first arrived, how are things over there with that bastard?"
The figure almost choked when he heard Martha calling Lucas a bastard, this was not the first time he had heard Martha calling her husband a bastard, but it had been long since he heard it. He could only smile wryly before replying.
"The bas..."
He froze subconsciously before saying
"Lord's appearance has acted as a deterrent, but we don't know how long this would last. Before I left last month, I heard they're already tired of waiting and are planning a full-on assault on our territory"
Martha snorted coldly before saying angrily
"Hmph, those lowlifes want to benefit from what they didn't work. That secret realm opened in our territory, and we also cleared it. Do they know how many of our people died during the process?"
The figure smiled wryly, he was very familiar with Martha's temper. Although she was a Water Elementalist, her temper was the polar opposite of her element.
"There has been increased contact between them and Yulan Region, there is a high chance they are planning to join hands on the assault"
Martha's anger increased on hearing this and the poor house suffered from it. Most of the furniture in the house started freezing rapidly. But she quickly calmed herself before she completely froze the entire house.
"I'll be going over, it seems like they have forgotten about the last time"
"You will stay here and protect Grey, don't interfere with his daily life only if his life is in danger, should you intervene, but try to do it secretly"
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Later that night in the Starlight Academy residence.
"We need to think of a plan, the number of Dual Elementalists present in their ranks is terrifying. If they are all allowed to grow, it will spell catastrophe for us"
"I also heard of a summoner appearing in their ranks also. You should all be clear about their strengths"
The upper echelon of the Starlight Academy was currently holding a meeting. The appearance of so many Dual Elementalists in the Lunar Academy was a threat to them. Added with the fact that a summoner was also among the students. If they had no qualms with the Lunar Academy, they wouldn't be worried, but they had always been at loggerheads with them.
"Enough!"
A deep voice said.
"You all know how we usually solve our problems"
The speaker spoke in a cold voice while looking at the people present in the room. A glint flashed past his eyes before saying.
"By making them disappear"
The others all nodded in compliance when they heard this.
"I've already sent someone to investigate the backgrounds of all the Dual Elementalists present at the competition and also the summoner"
"For now, our main target is a student called Grey. He's a Dual Elementalists who is at the Seventh stage of the Arcane Plane and I regard him as our greatest threat"
When the others all heard of Grey's cultivation stage, they were puzzled why their leader placed a student at the Seventh stage as the main target.
"I understand you're all puzzled by my decision, but after Clayton explains, you'll all understand"
A man stepped forward after the leader finished speaking.
"Grey is born in a little city called Red City, the mayor there is just at the Second stage of the Arcane Plane. When he turned twelve, he took the test but failed to awaken his element. He took the test again when he was already sixteen, that was when he was able to awaken his element, he was surprisingly a Dual Elementalist with the Lightning element as his base element"
"Grey is currently seventeen years old, and he has already advanced to the Seventh stage of the Arcane Plane. You should all remember that he only awakened his elements by the age of sixteen, this means he went from a normal person with no cultivation, to someone who is already stronger than his mayor within just over a year and six months"
"This is the fastest speed I have ever seen and even the fastest speed recorded in the history of the continent"
When the others all heard the explanation, they couldn't help but suck in a cold breath. Given the current speed Grey was advancing, it would take at most three to five years for him to catch up, added to the fact that he would go into the trial grounds, it might even be shorter as long as he didn't die in there.
Grey was like a ticking time bomb for them, from his performance at the competition, they could all see he was already a full part of the Lunar Academy, hence the grudge with them was also part of him.
A cold glint all passed through their eyes,
"We must get rid of him"
"And we will, the second reason I placed him first in the list is the fact that among all the Dual Elementalists, he is the only one who doesn't have a strong background, which means, he wouldn't have anyone protecting him as the others do"
They all approved of their leader's plan, this was not the first time they had done something like this in the Capital City. As long as they could corner Grey in a hidden place, it would be over. Of course, they wouldn't be going alone, they had people just for jobs like this.
"Inform the Black Hand, they will know what to do"