“Surrender, Malakor!” Nobleman Aidan shouted.The short man with hair full of gray raised his sword from a safe distance while his subordinates advanced.Realizing that he had been completely surrounded and not a single ally remained on his side, Malakor’s body trembled violently.The god of death seemed to be drawing closer to him. However, the suffocating fear turned into madness. He burst into loud laughter as his family members and guards were subdued.“Lord Malakor has gone mad,” the students watching the scene in astonishment whispered.Malakor did not hear the accusation. Tears seeped from the corners of his eyes as he continued laughing.“Nobleman Aidan, do you think you can let the Stones Family perish alone?!”“Bind him now! Silence him!” Aidan ordered in panic.“If I must fall into hell today, I will make sure to drag all of you down with me!”Malakor roughly tore off his robe, revealing a glowing red rune drawn on his chest.The flag in Master Elena’s hand nearly fell when

Lucan looked up when he heard the commotion above the Forest of Death. He looked at Malakor, who was writhing in pain. “What a pity I can’t deliver the money to hell.”After finishing speaking, his figure immediately disappeared from the spot. Meanwhile, Malakor gaped wide as he endured the pain throughout his body, but no sound came out of his mouth.Not long afterward, the sound of heavy Griffin wings flapping shattered the silence in the Forest of Death.“Light all the lanterns! Search the entire area now!” the tracking commander shouted at the members of White Dove Academy’s elite team who had just landed on the ground, which reeked of rotting moss and carcasses.The members ran in all directions, following the commander’s orders. Even so, they still moved in pairs to avoid the lurking dangers.The sound of their footsteps echoed loudly through the silent forest. Then, someone shouted from behind the bushes. “Reporting, Sir! There are signs of a battle to the north!”Hearing this,

His eyes were almost closed when he heard the sound of an object rolling across the floor. He opened his eyes again with a feeling of annoyance."Hey, be a little more careful. You just kicked an artifact worth thousands of gold coins," Lucan scolded irritably.Fry raised his head stubbornly. "It was the one that fell to the floor when I tried to hold it."Hearing that, Lucan could only roll his eyes. Fry had been flapping his tiny wings wildly for a while now. The little phoenix, who had been forced to restrain himself while outside the room, was now moving back and forth.As if he had found a new toy, he hopped over here and then flew over there. Occasionally, he perched among the piles of gold coins, and sometimes he kicked the expensive artifacts left behind by the Stones Family that Lucan had not yet put into his storage ring.He treated all those items as piles of useless old junk."This potion smells disgusting," Fry chattered in disappointment, kicking a crystal bottle until i

"Are the crystal stones on the western side aligned, Master Cassius?""They are, Vice Headmaster. I've also ensured that the Mana flow is stable. We can open it now," replied Master Cassius, who was standing on the left side of the cliff. His hand patted an ancient stone arch covered in moss, causing the Rune engravings to begin fading.One hour after the briefing on the field, the expedition group stood in front of a gigantic rocky cliff behind the academy's mountain. Several senior Masters inserted ten enormous pure Mana crystals into the slots surrounding the stone arch."Good. Prepare to stabilize the vortex!" Vivian ordered. She pressed both palms against the main stone. "Open!"In an instant, the stone arch trembled violently, causing numerous pebbles to fall. An explosion of bluish-white light emerged from the center of the arch, then formed a gigantic portal.Extremely powerful energy surged out of the portal, forcing the rows of students at the front to retreat while holding

After leaving the poisonous swamp behind, mini Lucan entered an area filled with rocks. All around him, obsidian stone pillars lay scattered. The ruins were covered in red thorny vines that emitted a glow of wild Mana.Academy students sent to this place had to be extremely careful. Usually, they formed a temporary defensive formation while others inspected the surrounding area to ensure that no ancient traps were still active. This cautious approach caused them to spend hours advancing only one kilometer.But not Lucan.The young man walked without paying attention to his surroundings. Occasionally, he would leap over small cracks or slash through vines blocking his path.His movements appeared random, yet he managed to avoid dozens of threads that triggered soul-burning Mana traps scattered throughout the ruins.'Master, you just stepped over a fourth-level Soul-Burning Trap,' Fry said admiringly from inside his fire cocoon in the spatial room. 'If your right foot had landed even sl