The first ga of Magus Ga was finally over, following that, the podiums quickly returned to the way they originally were. The podium where Group 7 was also descended to the ground, joining the other top 10 acolytes of the remaining ten groups and the six thousand others, who were eliminated first.
"Ery!!"
Ery turned his head when he heard his na called. There, he saw his four friends rushing in his direction. Excitent and joy was apparent on their faces, as they approached and showered him with nurous congratulations.
Ery shook his head while smiling. "No, no... if it wasn't because of you all, I would definitely not have been able to make it. It was a team effort."
The gladiator champion was the first to grab him on the shoulder before proceeding to rock him back and forth as he said, "Hahahaha, who are you trying to kid? You are the real champ!!" Thrax was seen laughing heartily, as he continued to make Ery's eyes shake.
Chumo, on the other hand, only stood there without saying a word, while staring at his face. However, Ery could see that there were slight waters in the latter's eyes, as if he was trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to burst out.
anwhile, Julian appeared to be a little bit quieter than usual. Noticing this, Klea quickly grabbed his arm and basically dragged him to the others. The group then huddled together shoulder to shoulder.
"You guys are the best!! This is amazing!!"
With the 25.000 team bonus, everyone received roughly 100.000 contribution points, while Chumo, who essentially reached as far as Ery did, received around 250.000.
So, they could roughly guess how much contribution points Ery had, who was basically the champion of this first ga received. Even so, none of them wished to know exactly how much he got, as they didn't want their heart to be attacked for no reason.
"If you are showing off, then you better buy each of us a high tier artifact with it!" Klea jokingly said, when he saw Ery was about to say his number.
"Guys, we should celebrate!!" The Thracian cut into the conversation passionately and Klea quickly said."Tonight! At my place! Just like last year I will prepare everything!"
"Shouldn't we celebrate at Terra Palace instead?" comnted Ery.
He certainly thought about inviting everyone who had helped them trendously for this Magus Ga to the celebratory party. Nas began to appear on his mind, such as Magus Xion, Magus Silica and so on.
Unfortunately, Klea quickly disagreed with the idea. She also had Grand Magus Ororo to thank for, but for this mont, she insisted that they had to celebrate this monuntal event between themselves.
She even glared at Ery as she said, "Rember, just us. None of your new privileged friends are invited!"
The group quickly agreed on how and where they should celebrate. Not long after, people started to co in their direction. All of them naturally ca over to congratulate them, especially Ery, who shone the brightest in the ga.
There were actually hundreds of people that approached Ery, people that he didn't know. They all ca and tried to have a conversation with him, acting as if he was the most delicious cuisine in the world. At this mont, Ery felt a little taste of being popular and couldn't help but be overwheld by it.
On the other side of the spectrum, he also noticed many eyes that contained other feelings were keeping their attention on him, trying to hide various negative and nefarious intentions.
Later on, even so of the magus instructors ca and delivered their congratulations. Ery's attention was caught by one particular magus, Magus Urix. This particular magus was being overly friendly, saying that from now on Ery would be his lucky charm. Which honestly scared him.
Ery only received the enthusiastic magus's words with a smile.
Things turned even crazier by the second with more people scrambling over to their location, that Ery and his friends knew they had to get out of this place. The group quickened their pace, as they made their way out of the Grand Assembly Hall.
Ery's eyes still road around, as the group escaped from the group of people chasing after them. There was actually one person he really wanted to see, but couldn't find. Left with no choice, he turned to his friends.
"Have any of you seen my master?"
The others who heard his question stopped for a mont, as their head looked around. "Hmmm, yeah, that's weird. Where is he?"
The group continued on their way through the crowd of people that packed the portal, trying to head to the elite 7 island, where their personal residences were at.
However, right after they entered and stepped out of the portal, three n were seen approaching in their direction. From the faint pressure the group could feel from them, all three were definitely magus-level figures.
"Ery Ambrose?" Asked one of them with a firm tone. "You are coming with us."
This quickly alard the group, especially Klea, who imdiately stepped in front of Ery and opened her mouth.
"If I may ask, esteed magus, what is this about?"
The man who spoke earlier briefly glanced at Klea and spoke, "Give way, acolyte. Don't you ddle in official business."
Thrax seed to want to confront the three magus, but was quickly restrained by Julian. The latter looked at Klea, his gaze asking who these three people were, as she seed to know their identity.
Klea then quickly whispered to the group that three magus in front of them, who were wearing unique and distinct black uniforms, were the known enforcer of the human alliance.
This made the other three worried about Ery. They wondered what kind of business these enforcers had with him. They looked around and tried to search for help, only to find none of the academy knights in the area dared to bother the three. Apparently, they did have authority here.
Understanding the situation, Ery quickly stepped past Klea and said, "I understand, I will co with you, Please lead the way."
Klea still had a concerned look on her face, but she knew there was nothing she could do. Still, it didn't stop her from saying a few things.
"You better return him!!" She shouted, "Preferably before dinner!!"
She and the others watched worriedly, as Ery went with the three magus, walking away from them.
Ery was quickly led and taken through several portals, surprisingly, toward another part of the academy that he had never seen before. It was a building located at the back of the academy palace. It was certainly much quieter compared to other places of the academy.
He looked around and noticed there weren't any knights standing on the long hallways and the gardens, which was odd considering the academy was protected by those people.
Things gradually beca more and more strange, especially when he was led down to a basent area by the three magus, heading into a place that looked a little like a dungeon. This certainly made the already worried Ery beco even more anxious. In fact, he was ready to cast his [Blink] spell to escape at any mont if he had to.
The four of them arrived before a large closed door. The magus who did all the talking earlier told him to enter. Even though Ery was still anxious, he resolved his determination and pushed the door open.
It was a dark room without any window in sight. There were only a few dimly lit candles placed around the room and a single chair oddly placed in the center of the room.
With his spirit reading, Ery sensed there were six figures inside the room. From their auras, he knew that all of them were at least magus level, with one aura being stronger than the other - definitely a grand magus.
Unfortunately, Ery couldn't recognize any of them.
The situation was apparently much more severe than he had thought.
"Ery Ambrose? Sit down."
Ery walked towards the chair hesitatingly, but in the end, he sat down as requested. As soon as he sat down, he only realized that a spell formation was drawn on the ground around the chair. He couldn't see it before, because the visibility in this room was very poor.
Before he could contemplate what this formation was for, it suddenly glowing and a notification appeared in his mind, answering it.
[Restriction spell has been placed]
Ery could suddenly feel his spirit force was restrained, just like when he returned to Earth but multiple tis stronger. It's most likely he won't be able to cast any spell in such a condition.
His eyes focus on one figure that walked out of the shadow and said.
"Are you scared…? Well you should!"
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