“Flora! Taking Easley away like that means you finally decided to go against the Tower of Hurricane?”
Flora squinted her eyes and looked at the speaker.
A man and a woman wearing mysterious-looking wizard robes emerged from the thick mist on the endless sea. The middle-aged man was wearing a black, golden-edged robe. He was rushing in the air. Every time he waved his metal stick, his figure would advance hundreds of meters.
While the young woman beside him was covered by water blooms and walking on the water. There seemed to be a long, slim shadow in the water under her bared feet.
The middle-aged man was the one who warned Flora.
“Jellal the Mythril Innovator…” Realizing who had come, Flora no longer used her charming voice and replaced it with a cold, emotionless tone. “What. The child is willing. You want to stop him now?”
With that, Flora glanced at Sabot in defiance. The Mad Bear had been trying to pretend that he did not exist.
The visitors were Jellal, “The Mythril Innovator”, from Tower of Hurricane, and Heroline, “Ocean Moray”, from White Coral Floating Island Academy. They were both formal wizards. Famous ones. Especially Jellal. He majored in alchemy, and earned himself the title of “Mythril Innovator”. That alone showed his great knowledge about the changing properties of metallic elements.
Jellal was not strong, but the title of an alchemist gave himself a great position in the southern wizard world. Even Sunders would not want to make him an enemy without a good reason.
Without a doubt, they came here because of Sabot’s message for help. That was why Flora glanced at Sabot.
Sabot did not really have a choice. The Redbud was forced by Sunders and Flora to look for Barbie’s Restaurant on Devil’s Water, and no one knew whether these two moody wizards would suddenly decide to slaughter every talent on the ship after they found what they wanted. Sabot was from the Floating Mech City, so he was not afraid of the pair himself. However, his mission was to ensure that every talent reached the Fey Continent untouched. So, he sent alert to the three organizations just in case.
Jellal already reached the crowd in a blink of an eye. He first nodded towards Sunders as a greeting and made sure Sunders would not intervene, before turning to Flora.
“Look at Easley’s spirit circulation closely, Flora. He has already learned the Nirvana Hexagram Channeling method of Tower of Hurricane. Are you planning to take him away and steal our secret?”
In the wizarding world, every organization had its own channeling method. Peeking at someone else’s method might result in hostility towards the respective organization. However, this was not always the case. There were good and bad channeling methods. The methods openly distributed by the organizations were usually intended for the public, and such methods were not really efficient.
Besides, most wizards were used to living carefree lives. Giving away their channeling methods occasionally was not something serious. Of course, valuable and rare channeling methods had their own safety measures. Most of such knowledge was only accessible to core members of wizard organizations while under the limit of a lot of restrictions.
This was the reason why rarely any wizard wars were launched around channeling methods.
However, Jellal’s excuse was still enough to discourage Flora.
A green light appeared upon her eyes. Flora scanned Easley to see the inner model constructed by his spiritual power. As Jellal said, it was a hexagram, drawn with both dotted and solid lines.
Flora humphed, “It’s just a petty model, anyone could see how to make one. Big deal.”
With that, Flora returned to Sunders, never to mind Easley again.
Easley was still hesitating. He felt disappointed. Jellal noticed his condition and glared at him, “Get behind, you little disgrace.”
Easley’s face quickly went pale. He gulped and stood backward in fear.
However, no one noticed the small trace of darkness lingering in his eyes, and his tightly-clenched fists hidden under his sleeves.