Chapter 276: Emotional
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Hmm? And who might you be?”
Apollo was dressed in loose-fitting sorcerer robes. He donned a tall, pointy hat. There was a faint mist of elental energy covering his face. A red-eyed frog rested on his palm—its lower neck expanded and inflated as it croaked.
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The red-eyed frog was Apollo’s soul partner and shared the sa relationship between Grimm and Myna and Peranos and Garnigel.
For years, his friendly and cool-headed appearance of a Bright Sorcerer had not changed at all.
At this mont, he was leading so common noblen in what seed like an investigation.
Perhaps the sudden appearance of Grimm and Nina York caused quite a commotion in the city. Could it be that Apollo, who was socializing with the noblen ca over out of curiosity?
Grimm could never forget.
In those years, Grimm was still a kid earning his keep doing odd jobs in the viscount’s residence of Bi Seer City. He thought that the Eastern Coral Island was all there was in the whole continent. He was driven to work like a slave by the old butler and had no expectations of his future.
The first ti he t Nina York, she was cowering behind his brother shyly and was a cute girl who wasn’t even brave enough to try the beauty clam.
Three centuries had passed in the blink of an eye.
From the batch of children selected from each corner of the Eastern Coral Island, two had actually beco real sorcerers like Apollo. They could now converse at the sa level as the sorcerer who used to be mysterious and powerful back then.
‘Is this what it feels to be a sorcerer?’ Thinking back about how he had always looked up to the mystical sorcerers during his childhood, he felt a deep emotion.
In the eyes of a commoner, sorcerers were enigmatic, distinguished, and beyond imagination.
But after walking the path himself, Grimm found out that sorcerers were but re human beings, who were incessant in their pursuits for the archaic truths.
That the sorcerers were always mysterious and unattainable in the eyes of normal human beings was because their eyes were covered by a thin veil between truth and illusion.
They could only make out what’s for dinner, who had a better-looking wife, and where to go for better earnings.
Grimm smiled. Compared to Nina, whose eyes were filled with emotions, he was much calr.
Slowly, Grimm took off his Mask of Truth to reveal his true face. He exposed his wise-looking face. It was different compared to the usual cruel face worn by Dark Sorcerers.
Yet, Grimm still greeted the sorcerer in his standard Dark Sorcerer fashion. His long blond-hair was fluttering as he spoke in a hoarse voice and looked Apollo in the eyes,” Master, do you still rember about two centuries ago, you were selecting sorcerer-apprentices at the Eastern Coral Island region at Lilith Sorcerer Academy?”
‘The Eastern Coral Island?’
Apollo looked at Grimm and Nina in astonishnt. He slowly said, “You an...”
Suddenly, Apollo seed to have recalled sothing. “Oh yes! Before and after I went deep underground, I went on a mission to recruit sorcerer-apprentices in the Eastern Coral Island for the academy. My first mission was to select so of the apprentices into the sea ferry led by Dilla, which was later hijacked by Black Isotta Sorcerer Academy. You an to say that you guys were...”
Apollo’s eyes lit up and swept past the Dark Sorcerers Grimm and Nina emotionally, trying to recall back his dust-sealed mories.
Nina’s old sorceress features revealed a nostalgic shy smile as if she were reminiscing the green, innocent past.
On the other hand, Grimm took out a ditation manual, a gift from Apollo in those days.
Grimm said gratefully, “If Master had not given the enlightening quote of “Grant infinite knowledge, and I shall be as a fulcrum, to move the endless world”, then maybe I would not be able to beco a real sorcerer.”
Nina who was standing beside too joined in the conversation. “I would also like to thank Master’s forbearance. My brother and I used a pitiful bribe of a few Magic Stones to get your approval for us to beco sorcerer-apprentices.”
There was brilliance in Nina’s murky two eyes.
“I rember now!”
Apollo exclaid emotionally as Grimm and Nina invited him to sit with them.
At first, Apollo looked at Grimm. “Yes, during those years, a boy nad Grimm asked about the theory of spellcasting. I was pleased that he didn’t ask to teach him spells for the purpose of killing others and gifted him with a ditation manual. You are Grimm?”
Grimm nodded; his long blond hair fluttering in the air and answered happily, “Yes, I am Grimm, the Grimm that you always complinted with ‘very good’!”
Apollo laughed after learning his answer. He turned around to Nina York. “You’ve just said sothing about your brother. You must be Nina York then, the precious daughter of the lord of Bi Seer Castle who couldn’t be anywhere without her brother.”
“Yes, I am Nina York.” Nina’s frail face turned into a smile.
Apollo nodded and smiled. “Hehe, in those situations, bribing was secondary. What was important was that you’ve used your wisdom. This is the most basic foundation for a sorcerer, and what the sorcerer’s academies were looking for in an apprentice. Although the bribe was only a few asly pieces of Magic Stones, you’ve used your wisdom, unlike those fools who only do things by the book.”
Apollo paused for a mont before continuing, “Right, and then there’s Wade, who also tried to bribe with so Magic Stones. There’s also another little guy called Robinson. I couldn’t imagine during those days that there were two sorcerer-apprentices who had ntal strength points over ten in the Eastern Coral Island.”
Apollo looked back at Grimm slowly. “I could sense an instinctive friendly energy in your primary soul, but also a terrifying presence that would make others shiver in fear.”
Grimm smiled and gave no answer.
The friendliness probably ca from the protection offered by the Principal Will of the world as well as his Rank 3 Honor Badge. The terrifying presence was probably due to the killings after the violent slaughter in the demon-hunting expedition.
Nina then slowly recollected the past.
“Wade? I rember he was killed when the sea monster attacked the ferry. Robinson, Lefay, and my brother, Chris York, the five of us were in Black Isotta Sorcerer Academy...”
One’s a Bright Sorcerer while the other two were Dark Sorcerers.
The three sorcerers had crossed the lines between the Bright and Dark Sorcerers. They were conversing together on the dining chairs of the normal human world without holding back.
Ti flew without them realizing. Five hourglasses had passed.
Five hourglasses ant ten hours. For the sorcerers, it was but a mont. But for the average human nobles, it was a long ti. So of them started to snore in exhaustion.
Apollo let out a sigh. “I wouldn’t have guessed. Lefay, the little girl who was really reluctant to head into the Sorcerer Continent but was pushed to do so by her father, had beco this way...”
After stopping for a mont, Apollo continued,” If her father knew that it would co to this, maybe he will not be so insistent. Sigh...”
At the sa ti, Grimm suddenly trembled. He cried out, “Lefay... has she gone back to Bi Seer Castle? Yes, yes! She must’ve gone back to Bi Seer Castle, she must’ve!”
Grimm’s voice was filled with joy. At the sa ti, he hated himself for not realizing sooner. His mind was fixed at the twelve districts governed by the six great sorcerers academies. He completely forgot about the place where Lefay and he ca from.
Co to think about it, Lefay must’ve had a great deal of emotions attached to that place.
After all, Bi Seer Castle was not only Lefay’s ho, it was the place where she had fond mories of living with Grimm since they were little.
Nina too was startled. Her two murky eyes lit up brilliantly and she exclaid with joy as well. “Yes, I was wondering why there wasn’t any news of Lefay. I see, so she has left the twelve districts.”
The more Grimm and Nina thought about it, the higher their hopes were. They couldn’t help but smile.
Grim especially wished that he could fly over to Bi Seer Castle of the Eastern Coral Island to be by Lefay’s side at this very mont. Then, he would pull her over to Old Ham’s grave and make up for all his regrets. He wants to hold a grand wedding in the most romantic way possible and live with Lefay by the ocean until the very last monts of her apprentice’s life without any further remorse. He would protect her and do his very best to remove the Black Sorcerer’s...
Grimm beca more emotional the more he thought about it. He even felt a tinge in his lip from his beautiful past.
It was his first kiss with Lefay. The crescent moon was hanging by the sky and the air was filled with the sweet fragrance of orchids. The quiet river bay was flowing in a nice hum. At the deck of the dance floor before the new recruit’s test, passion was running high. Their hearts raced as they lost control in the mont without a care.
At this mont, as he reminisces his sweet old past, Grim suddenly felt that his life had been so bland after he had beco a real sorcerer.
This...
Was it what the fatty and Sorceress Elaine ant by saying “sweet mories of the past” after selling out the Love Vials?
The wheel of ti in its every cycle buried the innocent, naive, intense, and fiery mories into the gentlest corner of the heart, turning them into its most prized treasures.
But as the wheel of ti turned increasingly, the sorcerers slowly lost touch of the beautiful innocence and naivete of the past. They soon beca cold, factual incidents of the past.
Such was the growth of a sorcerer. That was the price to pay in their search for the truth and power.
Grimm suddenly stood up. He clutched his chest tightly, as though he was about to press his heart that had stopped beating for over two centuries but was beating crazily right now.
“Co, let’s go to the Eastern Coral Island, Lefay must be there!” Grimm fervently said to Nina.
On the other hand, Myna took out its prized energy crystal and was reluctant to part ways. “Good brother, as expected of a great being of ancient tis, you really understand ! Here, don’t be shy, this is my prized possession. Oh right, my na is Mavrica Nevichy, see you next ti.”
“Croak! Croak! Croak!”
The red-eyed frog curled the energy crystal into its tongue and croaked.
“Oh right! You might not be aware of one thing. Lefay’s ancestor must be a Level 2 or Level 3 sorcerer. His father used to pay a bribe of...”
After parting ways with Apollo, Grimm and Nina went toward the Eastern Coral Island from their mories and flew there excitedly.
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