41 An Encounter with Elizabeth

Chapter 41 An Encounter with Elizabeth

Author: M_W Cancer

Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral

Leo left the Job Bulletin Office building after finally getting all his points.

Nothing was of interest to him inside the building aside from the gigantic and long Job Bulletin board.

Naturally, he wouldn't just stay there and waste his entire time staring at all the missions listed on the Job Bulletin board as he could browse in the Book of Missions that the Silver Mage Academy had provided him.

Getting outside, Leo chose a direction and began walking around randomly.

To be honest, he wasn't planning to return yet to the house. His thoughts might suddenly wander around as soon as he sees Cassandra again. Fate knows what would suddenly happen if ever he can't stop his fantasies. He might even turn his fantasies into a reality since he was basically capable of really doing so.

As he was walking, he couldn't help but watch a bunch of students completing their mission around the Silver Mage Academy along the way.

His face shows an entirely different kind of emotion from time to time as he keeps on watching different scenes happening around him.

Generally, the students were frantically running from one place to another, hiding while looking around their surroundings, secretly moving around the dark and many more...

In one case, he saw a group of 1st-year students ganging up on one student who he was sure was completing the same mission as them.

Leo could only shake his head in sympathy as he watched such a scene taking place.

"The competition is actually worse than I had thought."

He initially thought that despite how abundant the number of missions listed in the Book of Missions, hence the competition shouldn't be this intense. But he now realizes how wrong he is.

There were indeed numerous missions listed in the Book of Missions, but there were only a handful of easy missions that the 1st year students were capable of completing or even those higher-year but weak students.

Obviously, the high rewarding missions that the students could accept were already accepted by the other capable ones in the same year, leaving only a handful of easy missions to their weaker counterparts.

If the competition with the students from the same Mage Academy was already this intense, then how much more the competition among the other students of the different Mage Academies throughout the entire Silver Kingdom?

The competition was already this intense despite just being inside the Silver Mage Academy, then how much more those students completing missions outside of their respective Mage Academies.

He could only feel grateful that he had found a loophole and also appreciate Madam Silva for giving him the chance to abuse such a loophole.

He doesn't want to ever see himself battling just for a few tens or hundreds of points. It would be troublesome, which is what he hated the most.

Imagine a student fighting a fellow student just so that they could guard the Library...

Just to trim the grasses around the Silver Mage Academy...

Just to clean the Garden...

Just to check the Silver Mage Academy's warehouse...

and other similar cases...

And at the end of the day, all of those missions would only be rewarding them with tens or hundreds of points.

The points that they had painstakingly earned would most likely only be enough for them to buy one or two items, and it would be in exchange for offending everyone who was completing the same mission with them.

In short, the risk is not worth the reward!

But who cares, right? Since this was basically the only way that the Mage Academies had left for their respective students to become strong. Hence, those students could only follow, whether they like it or not, whether it's worth it or not, and whether they'll offend other people or not.

He also thought that this was just reasonable. With how chaotic was the Celestial World, the weak ones will surely die if they don't adapt to the current situation.

Surely all the Mage Academies throughout the entire Silver Kingdom were only doing this to groom their respective students, and also for their respective students to become strong in a way that they would be able to survive in this cruel world.

All the students' competitions happening throughout the entire Silver Kingdom were simply a means of all the Mage Academies to their respective students in the hope for them to be able to shed from their own cocoons of being weak, and hence finally becoming a beautiful butterfly capable of flying freely through the sky.

Every day, countless of lives from countless races living in the Celestial World are dying in the Battlefield of the War of Races, which is more or less the same as the competition happening every day throughout the entire Silver Kingdom.

To begin with, those people who are dying every day on the battlefield were already strong, yet they still died. How much more were the students who are basically still considered as greenhorns?

The majority of them can't even kill a Magical Beast yet, let alone survive in the Battlefield of the War of Races.

Though the best way to solve the problem of the War of Races was simply just to stop the war, will anyone even do so?

With the chance to rule the entire seemingly endless Celestial World, will a race just stop the war out of empathy, sympathy, and pity for all those dying people and for the peace of this world?

In this new world, the only way to end the war was to simply become strong.

To become the strongest of all the people living on this planet to the point where they can make their own laws, what they say is the rules, and what they don't want will also be followed by everyone.

To become strong was the only solution that the countless different races have come up together to solve their current problem.

In that case, how will they become strong?

How will they prove that they are stronger?

What method would the other races believe that their race was indeed the strongest?

Simple...

War!

Win the War of Races and their race will become the ruler of the entire Celestial World!

Win the War of Races and their race existence will no longer be threatened by other Foreign races!

Win the War of Races and they will be able to create their ideal world!

So, the War of Races would never stop.

Not until someone could claim the throne and become God!

Leo quickly shook his head to stop such thoughts from running any further in his mind. Such a thought wasn't his problem anyway, so why bother? The only matter he should be paying close attention to should be to focus on himself.

"Maybe I should just return home. Watching this student fight is just making me think of some unnecessary stuff." Leo said as he finally decided to turn around and walk towards the exit of Silver Mage Academy.

However, while Leo was walking, a female's voice suddenly sounded behind him, "What could the great protector of Lady Cassandra be doing around in here in such an hour?"

Leo quickly turned his head around to look for the owner of the female voice.

In the next moment, he was taken aback as a beautiful woman with black hair appeared behind him.

It was Elizabeth Snow!

After seeing that it was Elizabeth Snow, Leo didn't bother much and turned his head around indifferently while muttering, "Nothing much. Now, what could the Great and only Heir of the Snow Noble Household be doing around the Silver Mage Academy at this hour, too?"

Leo was curious as to whose voice it was at first, but after finding out that it was only Elizabeth, he instantly lost his interest.

To be honest, the person that he truly doesn't want to associate himself with is Elizabeth Snow.

Although he only met her a few times, he could still feel that despite being so casual, conservative, simple, and nice, something dark was hiding beneath her, ready to devour someone at any moment.

In his opinion, Elizabeth was like a scheming spider, competent in trapping anyone even if she was just standing in front of that person and doing nothing. He would rather prefer Cassandra since despite having such a cold demeanor around her, she was just an innocent woman that he wanted to hug in his embrace and protect for an eternity.

"Just walking around killing my time. What about you?" Elizabeth responded with a pout while at the same time taking a few quick steps to try and walk closer to Leo's side.

"Are you trying to ignore me?" Elizabeth couldn't help asking as she stared at Leo's eyes as if trying to find something.

"Why would I even ignore you?" Leo casually replied as he stared back, but coldness was clear in his eyes.

"I'm not going to be fooled by such a nice girl acting,"

Elizabeth was immediately taken aback by such a cold look from Leo, causing her to take a step back to create some space between the two of them before she defended, "Did I do something to offend you? Is this about what happened in our room before? You were trying to destroy our room's image, and as a chosen representative by the majority of my classmates, I could only helplessly stop you...!" She finished as she soon after showed an apologetic look towards him.

"Have you ever heard about the story of what brought the downfall of the Heart City?" Leo suddenly uttered out of nowhere, which immediately made Elizabeth turn serious.