The Wizard World (Part 1) Completed

Chapter 65: The Journey (2)

Angele turned his head around and peeked through the gaps in the trees. Two men wearing brown leather armor were grilling meat around the campfire. They also had a pot of white soup sitting by the side. Angele could smell the fragrance of the mushrooms from hundred meters away. As the two men heard the noises produced by the horses, they looked over to check.

‘They’re also leaving the school,’ Angele assumed. He had met many wizard apprentices like then along the way, but he never greeted anyone of them. All of them had different destinations and they didn’t know each other. Trusting others was a pointless task to them.

Angele didn’t stop as he continued to advance through the path slowly. He wanted to let the horses rest a bit. After a while, he increased the speed of the horses but suddenly heard someone coming toward him.

Angele lowered his body on the back of his horse and looked at the road in front of him. A young man wearing a white leather armor mounted on a brown horse appeared. After seeing Angele, he became surprised but tried to hide his surprised by changing his expression before slowing down. Angele slowed down as well.

“Could you tell me how far the Nick Dock is from here?” the man asked.

“With your speed, you’ll arrive in 5 or 6 days,” Angele answered as he smiled. The man likewise smiled and nodded. Both of them started urging their horses to speed up again.

Suddenly, Angele drew his sword. The sound of the sword being unsheathed scared the horses. Angele didn’t hesitate to slash his sword toward the man, which caused the latter to fall to the ground and die in a second. Angele had cut his stomach open, dyeing the mud on the ground with blood.

Angele looked at the body for a while and scrounged through it. He then turned back and left the places as fast as possible. He disappeared in the rain quickly.

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With a pale face, Angele put his crossguard sword back into the sheath and reached toward his back with his hand. He could feel the bleeding hole there. Angele took out a Hemostasis Potion and removed the wooden plug off the tube. He poured some onto his palm and applied it on the wound.

Green steam rose out of it as the wound absorbed the fluid.

“That guy was a rank 3 wizard apprentice. If I didn’t hear him chanting, I’d be dead already,” Angele murmured. He still felt shocked as he tried recalling the appearance of the wizard apprentice he just killed. The wizard apprentice was wearing a white leather armor suit that had an insignia of a silver ring.

‘It was a wizard apprentice of the Northland Alliance. I didn’t know they were so close. It’s likely that they are trying to surround the college. I need to leave,’ Angele thought. He bit his lips and shook the reins.

“Giddy up!” Angele yelled. The horse neighed and began galloping faster.

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The corpse of the man in a white armor suit was split in half and was lying on the muddy ground. The brown horse circled the corpse for a while before it left the place, heading to a certain location. The rain was becoming heavier. Around 20 minutes later, a man in a white robe appeared from the forest.

The man seemed old and had no expression on his face. He walked toward the body and squatted by its side. He dipped his finger into the blood and put it on his tongue. He turned and stared at the route that led to the Ramsoda Empire.

The man looked slightly disappointed, but he didn’t speak, only standing up and wiping his hands.

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