Chapter 116: Curiosity Satisfied

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Chapter 116: Curiosity Satisfied"B-Bill! Hey, are you there? Open up, quickly! I have news about the Arcana Primis Cup!!" a brown-haired young man exclaimed as he repeatedly banged on his friend’s dormitory room door. But it wasn’t until five minutes later that the short, bald Bill finally opened his door, rubbing his eyes with an infuriated expression. "Harvey! Can you keep it down?! Let people sleep, you f*cker!" "F*ck your sleep, bro! This is more important!" Harvey shot back. "It’s about who advanced to the top thirty-two!" Hearing his friend’s words, the bald three-star student’s expression eased up. While the bastard was probably exaggerating again, Bill was still somewhat interested in who the thirty-two strongest of their generation were. "So, aside from the expected ones advancing, who performed above expectations?" the bald youngster asked. "Well... those expected to perform did perform, and nothing too out of the ordinary happened, except for one person. You wouldn’t believe he was a seeded participant, ranked 64th!" Harvey said mysteriously, earning an impatient knock on the back of the head from his recently woken friend. "Just say who it is, damn it!" Bill snapped. It truly wasn’t wise to joke around with someone who had just returned from the dream world. "Aihhh... why are you so violent, you bald shorty?! It’s Hal Fennec, the one-star wastrel!" the brown-haired young man groaned, rubbing the back of his head. Bill froze at his friend’s words. Did he hear correctly? Hal Fennec, the one-star clown-box student?! Sure, he defeated Agon Burner in a wizardry duel, but Agon was a mere three-star like him, and was now ranked pretty low among them at that. It was an impressive feat for a one-star student to beat a three-star, but it shouldn’t have been enough to pass the Arcana Primis Cup preliminaries, much less secure a spot in the main tournament. "W-What?! How the hell did he manage to get a seeded spot?!" Bill burst out in disbelief. "Hmph! I told you I had spicy news! I don’t know the answer to your question, though..." It wasn’t just these two talking about Hal and his feats. It was quite late at night, yet the entire academy was alive and buzzing. Liora’s unexpected monstrosity in combat was also mentioned in most conversations. Meanwhile, the hottest topic of discussion was headed to a buffet restaurant with an overly excited red-haired midget beside him. Ennya had unhesitatingly invited Hal to dinner after the tournament to catch up on what had happened in each other’s lives over the past few months. The first thing she asked was where he had been for the past four months, since according to the deputy headmaster, he had disappeared during that time. "Ahh, I helped Liora. We had a deal, after all, so I couldn’t go back on my word. We went to harvest a natural light rune in a runeforest," Hal explained, without going into too much detail. Fortunately for him, Ennya wasn’t too bright. She didn’t even know what a runeforest was, much less how dangerous the one he entered had been. She simply nodded, with a hint of displeasure at the mention of Liora’s name, and spared Hal from a long and detailed explanation. "So, care to explain to me how your power works now? Or do you still not trust me?" Ennya suddenly asked as she walked slightly ahead, hiding her emotions. Still, Hal could sense she was sulking and a bit hurt. He had indeed been avoiding explaining his power to her. However, it wasn’t because he didn’t trust the midget, but because the information was hard to believe and was his deepest secret, one he didn’t dare share in public. ’Now seems like a good time to explain it, though...’ Hal mused, glancing around. There were a lot of people around, but Gaora City’s streets were extremely wide. He could always whisper it to her... In the end, Hal decided to delay it. "Wait a bit. I’ll explain it later in the restaurant. Other people might hear..." Luckily, Ennya accepted his excuse one last time and switched to a casual topic. But not before the midget made him swear on his mother’s name to tell her the truth once they got to the buffet restaurant, ensuring he couldn’t make another excuse. The two arrived a few minutes later. Hal decided to pay a bit extra for a private room, which finally made Ennya realize how important this secret was to him. She couldn’t help but swallow nervously as they sat in the private room, staring at each other, the plates of assorted, savory meat and vegetables assaulting their olfactory senses. "Can you see this?" Hal suddenly asked, pointing at the empty air. Ennya furrowed her brows. "Are you messing with me, Hal? There’s nothing there!" the midget snapped. She had been waiting for Hal to explain everything to her, yet he kept delaying and delaying, and now he was messing with her? Ennya was starting to feel genuinely frustrated and hurt. Why couldn’t she at least be trusted with one secret from someone she had known her entire life? "Hmm, I expected as much..." He didn’t dare use the system much in front of Liora, but since she hadn’t reacted the few times he did, Hal more or less knew that the system was visible only to him. He just wanted to confirm it today. "Well..." Hal stood up and sat in the chair beside Ennya, explaining to her everything he knew about the Joker System: How he grew stronger with each Chaos Point he earned, how he used them to draw spell cards, how those spell cards cost about ninety percent less to cast than regular spells, and how he cast them using mere hand gestures. This also clarified why he didn’t use weapon-type artifacts. It was rather unfortunate that the food they took slowly went cold without being touched, but it was well worth it to Ennya, as Hal’s secrets made her gasp in utter disbelief and wonder. That so-called system of his was just as much of a cheat as her Ifrit’s Core, no?! Sёarch* The ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Chapter 116: Curiosity Satisfied

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