Eddard looked at Vernon sharply and stood there silently. Vernon was quite confused by Eddard's actions. Why was he staring so intently? Was there a problem with his loyalty? But Vernon was quite sure that Dwarves were a hard-headed race, so once they followed others, then it was very difficult to make them betray.Dwarves are a race very similar to Humans but have a short body and strong muscles. Dwarves often work as blacksmiths or bootleggers like Eddard, a God-level blacksmith. Dwarves have a stubborn and rude nature. They do not have a good nature like the nobles and often do things messily. Therefore, the Dwarf blacksmith's place is much messier than the Human blacksmith's.Eddard, staring intently at Vernon, immediately dropped the hammer in his hand to the ground and began to cry; even Vernon could see some liquid that began to appear from his nose. Suddenly, Eddard immediately jumped up, hugged Vernon's legs, and shouted excessively, "My lord, I, Eddard, have

Vernon currently opened his eyes slowly. After opening his eyes, Vernon saw that his hand's upper-level mana crystal was currently empty. Vernon sighed and felt that the mana crystal was no longer suitable for his Senior-level Witch Cultivation.Vernon saw Theon, Elvin, and Dagon, who were still asleep. He immediately stood up from his bed and left the room to train. Vernon did not try to wake up Theon and the others. Vernon was walking towards the Academy library again to learn more magic, especially Senior-level magic, that Vernon had not learned before.It had been a month since the battle against the Undead with Leon. After the incident, Vernon returned to the Magic Academy; after all, a year from the destruction of the shield was still a long time, and Vernon did not need to panic now; after all, Vernon's strength now was not weak at all, more precisely the strength of Vernon's followers.Vernon and Aiden had already decided and frightened Leon by trying to

Vernon was currently walking towards the library, but Vernon suddenly stopped and immediately said in surprise, "Bad! I forgot to take the Garrick Artifact that he told me about earlier. I need to head to the Academy gate right away!"After that, Vernon changed direction and did not go to the library but headed towards the Academy gate. Although Garrick said that he had stored the Artifact on the ground at the Academy gate if by chance someone found the Artifact and took it, then Vernon would suffer a great loss; after all, the Artifact given by Garrick must be very good, especially during the previous battle Vernon did not see Garrick using his strongest Artifact at all.The strongest Artifact possessed by Garrick was his weapon, a sword. Still, when fighting Ayla and Marina earlier, the sword Garrick used was not an Artifact at all, so Vernon thought it was likely that the Artifact Garrick kept was the sword.Vernon walked quickly towards the Academy gate. Wit

Vernon and the others started walking towards the hot air balloon, which soon flew into the sky and rushed towards the Dwarf Kingdom. According to Mr Fernandes, it took five days on the hot air balloon before reaching the Dwarf Kingdom. While in the hot air balloon, Vernon continued to train because there was nothing else to do. Vernon also occasionally saw Elvin, who was busy practising slashing his sword in this hot air balloon. Seeing Elvin practising slashing his sword, Vernon was quite worried. Vernon was worried that Elvin would slash and hit the machine in this hot air balloon. Although Vernon was the Senior Wizard, if the blimp crashed, Vernon would have had enough trouble returning to the Academy, and it would be impossible to help Theon and the others because they couldn't fly; if Vernon took them, Vernon would fall too. Vernon didn't see Mr Fernandes, Mr Gray and Ms Mirajane while in the hot air balloon, but Vernon didn't care. Maybe they were too busy training after all S

After noon, they decided to find a place to have lunch; they were already quite hungry. This time, they looked for a shop that looked quite luxurious, unlike in the Academy, where they only ate by finding monsters and cooking them; in the Dwarf Kingdom, this luxurious eating place only needed to pay using coins instead of mana crystals, so they didn't lack coins at all.Although Theon and the others did not come from noble families after they became Witches, many good people, nobles or other rich people gave them coins to make friends with Witches; after all, some low-level nobles and rich merchants did not have magic crystals at all so for them there was no loss in using some coins to make friends with Witches.They immediately came to the restaurant. By this time, there were already many people at the restaurant. These people were wearing clothes that looked very luxurious. Some other people wore Witches' robes, and some Elves wore modest clothes; after all, the Elve