Explaining Lazily [C125]

Hearing the middle-aged man's compliment, Shu Himo was shocked, "How can you know that I learned Arcane Magic? I only used it once!"

Clearly uninterested in his question, the middle-aged man yawned, "Someday you will know…"

What kind of answer was that? Even if wanting to scream that, Shu Himo held himself back and changed his question, "Are you the person who stop others from going to the area between the mountain range? I thought you worked for the Academy, we met in the Tower of Knowledge after all…"

Glancing at him again, he lazily answered, "Why would I stay in such boring places?" Pointing toward his left, he continued, "Can't you see that unconscious guy? He is the one that had a lot of time to lose here stopping others…"

Shu Himo hearing him looked where he was pointing and was dumbfounded, why was a poor guy knocked out on the ground? And that poor guy was a Longevity Realm expert!

In disbelief, he turned quickly toward the middle-aged man, "Then what are you doing here?"

Looking toward Shu Himo's eyes he nonchalantly replied, "To see you of course."

"Huh?" Shu Himo was stunned, did he somehow gain a stalker? If it was a cute girl he may accept it... but he had a middle-aged man stalker instead?

Noticing that Shu Himo had the wrong idea, he lazily corrected him, "Don't get weird ideas… I just like to see the improvement of some people…"

"How does that make it any better… please stop joking, what do you want from me?"

Sighing, the middle-aged man lazily threw four things to Shu Himo.

"Eh?!" Shocked, Shu Himo hurriedly caught them and noticed that they were four crystals!

"Thank you? But… why?" Unsure on how to behave in front of what just happened, Shu Himo suddenly heard his explanation, "Use your Arcane Magic against me."

Shu Himo was speechless, the last time he used his Arcane Magic, everything in the area was completely destroyed, wouldn't it be a problem using it at the border of a city?

"Just do it." The middle-aged man appeared slightly annoyed by Shu Himo's hesitation and urged him to begin.

Sighing, Shu Himo raised his hand and pointed it toward the middle-aged man, believing that as he was someone with a cultivation higher than Longevity Realm, there should be a purpose by saying to use Arcane Magic.

Suddenly, in front of his hand, a magic circle began to form.

Initially, only a black outer circle was displayed; yet it slowly charged up with mysterious runes within each possessing various colors: red, blue, yellow, white, and lastly another internal black circle.

Finally, the magic circle reached two meters in diameter and released a deadly feeling everywhere, as if being pure chaos.

All of a sudden, the middle-aged man snapped his fingers.

*Clk!*

The sound propagated everywhere, akin to an explosion.

*Crack*

Abruptly, the magic circle shattered, just a moment before Shu Himo could complete his arcane magic. This shocked him greatly, just by snapping his fingers he could create a force enough to stop the spell?

Looking again toward the middle-aged man, Shu Himo noticed that his lazy expression didn't change at all, "Not bad… that was a marvelous arcane magic considering it was your first one… however, beware at using it in front of people too strong… it may be blocked as you just saw..."

Shu Himo was surprised, was he here to give advice? But why?

Uncaring of his surprise, the middle-aged man gazed at Shu Himo for a moment and then turned to look at his newspaper, and lazily said, "Perhaps you may be the one who will unlock everything… how interesting will it be? Being a spectator to all that…"

Wanting to ask what he meant, Shu Himo suddenly noticed that he vanished in the nothingness, and was stunned, "Did you see him moving?"

Shaking their heads, both Aura Azusa and Phylia were also bewildered, they didn't notice him moving at all! Only after he had already vanished did they notice that he was missing.

Looking toward the four crystals that the middle-aged man gave him a moment before, he noticed that they were reduced in a pile of powder, clearly unusable anymore, 'Quite an expensive lesson… just who is he?'

Sighing, they walked away from the mansion, ignoring the unconscious expert at the side.

They then walked through the gate, going out of the city, walking inside the so-called 'forbidden area'.

After barely five minutes of walking, they already frowned, feeling the air in the area way heavier than normal.

Shu Himo feeling the heavy atmosphere began to have a doubt, 'System, lately the quest difficulty seems bugged… are you sure that this is just an S- difficulty?'

[Most likely.]

'Oi! What do you mean with just most likely, aren't you supposed to be sure about it?'

[The system is fair and just, there is no chance of the system lying to the User.]

'What? That's because by saying most likely it can mean anything!'

Sighing, Shu Himo continued to walk and noticed that the atmosphere felt heavier with every step. While it was not something unbearable, it was ringing many alarm bells for Shu Himo, making him feel uncomfortable.

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An hour later.

The three finally reached the place, finding out that it was actually an enormous tower!

The tower was completely black, appearing with a conic form, narrowing by going higher, until reaching a sharp tip. As if holding the tower, around it many enormous purple cobwebs bound it to the ground.

The atmosphere in the area felt eerie and unpredictable, but knowing that the special item was inside the tower, they mustered courage and entered by the enormous black metal gate.

All of a sudden, in the area resounded the creepy voice of a girl, "Ohh? Guests… hehehe..."