Chapter 65

The robed guys looked around the restaurant and found the little boy who had frozen near the kitchen entrance. They quickly sharpen their gazes on Ludger as they inspect his appearance.

"You are the genius mage boy that they talking about, right?" One of the robed guys asks.

"What do you mean by 'genius mage thing?" Ludger asks with a confused tone.

Ludger never thought because of what he do yesterday, to chase away the rowdy men causing them to look for any information about him to the magic tower. But it also cause the magic tower to heard about Ludger's magic talents.

In fact, the West part of the Draconia Empire information distribution is three times better than the East part of the Draconia Empire and only lose to the Capital City. It was something that only the locals or at least the people who lived for a year in the city in the West part of the Draconia Empire will able to know. That's why Ludger thought it would be similar with the East.

"Don't act dumb, do you think that we won't be able to find out about the truth? They said that you are able to use magic without chanting. Rejoice, Boy! If you really able to do it, we will directly took you as a member of the magic tower." The delicate-looking man proudly said with a smug face.

"I think the person who tell you was lying. How could I, a little boy who never seriously learned magic to be able to do that? I even only have a low amount of magic power." Ludger answers with an innocent face.

Hudson who get back to the Red Dawn because he saw the group of people from magic tower, was surprised by Ludger's skill in lying with a straight face. He ask the boy before about how he do the chantless magic but the boy tells him he was chanting in his mind. So it was half true if he told them he do it with chanting (in his mind).

The young mage from the tower scoff. "What did I say, how could a genius a child work in a dirty place like this as a servant? If he was a talented mage, he need to show the lowly being who is the boss. He even admits that."

"I have also told the leader that we should not believe in that bastard words. They were just lowly beings who does not understand the way to control their magic power. Doing something like this is only a waste of our time to gather magic." The old mage said with disappointment.

The group from the magic tower believe in Ludger's lie and looks down at him. But from the group of mages from the magic tower there is a person who only looks at Ludger silently. She was the only female in that group and she suddenly chant a magic spell.

Ludger notice her casting a magic spell in the restaurant and it was an attack magic with a water attribute. The attack might harm the customers in the restaurant but Ludger's instinct told him to hide the fact about chantless magic in front of them.

"The fire that protects us from the evil, burned everything that want to harm me. Fire Barrier." Ludger chants the spells quickly.

A fire barrier appeared in front of the mage group from the magic tower. It appears a second later after a water spear appears on the female mage's hand. It didn't completely block the water spear but it evaporate three-quarter of it.

Ludger is currently unable to use his full power because he didn't use for chanting his magic spells loudly and feels too embarrassed to do it. Besides, he had checked it before that chant is used to help the user to imagine the image of the magic that they use. And magic will be easier to create when the environment is supporting the magic attribute.

Water attribute magic is easier to use because there are water vapours in the atmosphere. In this world, there is no science so the mage did not do it in a complicated manner like Ludger who applied the science knowledge to his magic. And there is also a difference in their experience when using magic to fight against another mage.

Most people in the restaurant didn't have any time to react as the quarter of the spear still flying in Ludger's direction. But it never touches him because Hudson appears in front of him and defends him from the spell.

"Hey! What are you doing? How could you suddenly attack the boy without any warning? What will you do if you harm the civilians?" Hudson said loudly with an angry tone.

Not only Hudson who are angry at the mage group but almost all of the customers in Red Dawn are angry at them. They come into the restaurant in an arrogant manner, looking down at everyone in this restaurant and suddenly attacking another person and the worse part is because of the direction of the attack. If the magic wasn't stopped by Hudson, it will harm not only Ludger but also Katarina and Caron who standing behind him.

It started with Hudson and the other customers started to scolded them too.

"The guild master is right! What will you do if your attack harm Lady Katarina?" One of the adventurers shout at the mage group.

"What are you going to do if you harm the owner and make her unable to cook?" Another customer angrily yells at the mage group.

"We won't welcome you here if you trying to make trouble in this place. If you are still going to cause trouble, I will call the guard!" Caron steps forward and tells them to leave.

"Little boy, it will be better if you leave this place and follow us to the magic tower. Staying in this kind of place will only waste your talents." The female mage said in a cold tone.

Ludger shook his head as he remembered the similar unreasonable treatment that he experienced as Renneshia before. It makes him feel that he must stay away from them.

"I'm sorry because I am too stupid to decline your offer because I like to work in this place for about two more years like what I have said to the other people that ask me similar questions before." Ludger firmly said with a serious face.

"How dare you say something like that to her! Don't you know who she was?!" The young mage angrily said in a loud voice.

"Stop it, Deroc!" The old mage yells at the young mage who seems to be name Deroc.

"But how dare that stupid child like that decline Lady Keres's offer? He should just nod his head and follow us!" Deroc protested the old mage's words.

"Stop it! The Master will be angry if you keep acting like this." The old mage scolded Deroc.

"I understand, elder Weylin." Deroc meekly said after the old mage, elder Weylin remind him about the master of the magic tower of the Labyrinth City.

"Let's go." Keres said with a cold tone as she leave the Red Dawn Restaurant.

The other mage quickly follow her and leave he restaurant. Some customers sighed as they feel relief when the mage group is leaving the restaurant. Most people in this city fear the mage from the magic tower.

Magic Tower was an organization similar to the Adventurer Guild that only accept the people who were talented with their magic skills, the mage. The organization was created in the Silvanus Magic Kingdom that respects the mage and any other people that lack the talent for magic will become a slave. The mage have the greatest destructive attack as they mostly have more magic power and being fear by the other. This is what Hudson explains to Ludger after the mage group leave. It was something that not written in any books because it was the common sense in this continent.

Ludger didn't think too much about it because Hudson, the people in the merchant and alchemy guild promise him to protect the Red Dawn and the people who work in it. And looking at how the customers started to dissing the mage after they leave, it seems like they didn't like the mage from the magic tower.

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Leaving Red Dawn, the mage rides their carriage and return to the magic tower. As they enter the carriage, Deroc was the first one to open his mouth.

"I can't believe it that we just leave them like that! How dare they to talk like that, especially in front of you, Lady Keres!" Deroc protesting about leaving the people who mocking at them.

"I have told you not to cause any trouble, especially because the adventurer guild master is also there. You didn't know how troublesome if he decided to say that we are violating our treaty in this city." Weylin reminds him with a tired tone.

"Hey, Cassius, what do you think about this matter?" Deroc ask the delicate-looking mage, Cassius about his opinion.

"I only interest with the reason of Lady Keres sudden attack." Cassius said while looking at Keres face who seems to still looking at the direction of Red Dawn.

Derox and Weylin seems to realize what Cassius mean and look at Keres with interest look.

Receiving their intense gaze, Keres open her mouth. "Don't you realize how much talent that little boy has? He was the one who was able to realize that I was chanting an attack magic. And I think you are also able to witness his magic creation speed."

The three mages make a surprise expression as they realize the boy's talents.

Right, for a high-ranked mage like them, they were known for their talents for magic. But even they were more talented than the most, the three of them still losing to Keres's talents for magic. But right now, there is a younger boy who seems to be have more talents than Keres in magic.

"We need to make that boy join us later. Right now, we need to make a report about what we saw to the Master and make a plan to recruit him." Keres said with a cold tone.