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Chapter 59
Chapter 59. Conflict
Elan looked at the person standing in front of him—someone wrapped head to toe in a black robe with their head covered, leaving almost no skin exposed except for their eyes. He scratched his head.
“Um… who are you?”
“It’s me.”
Fran’s voice came from beneath the hood, startling Elan. He spun the cup in his hand before speaking again.
Wēb nǒ v еl .Ёñu ḿ ä
“Why are you dressed like that?”
Fran offered no lengthy explanation and replied directly,
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“I’m worried about being attacked. Even dressed like this, I’ve already been attacked twice on the way here to see you…”
“Enough about that. I want to buy two spells. The goods are here.”
Fran pointed at the crate beside her foot and nudged it forward with a kick.
Elan handed over the sheets containing the spells and picked up the crate at his feet, grumbling as he did.
Ẃ еbn̆ov̇ ӗl̄ Е nú ṁ а
“Isn’t it because people hate you? Every time someone attacks you it’s because you had a conflict with them. My bar is widely recognized by apprentices as a safe place.”
“And could you at least put the crate on the table when handing it to me? That was incredibly rude.”
Fran ignored Elan’s complaints and immediately chose the spells she had already decided on.
“These two—Mage Hand and Shadow Concealment.”
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Elan raised an eyebrow and joked,
“What, planning to steal something? Those are suspicious choices.”
W е b nо v̊еl En u ḿ ȧ
Fran did not bother explaining.
“Hurry up. Give me my change. I still have things to do.”
Elan said nothing more. He handed over the two silver sheets recording the spells, then took out a pen and did a quick calculation before returning the change.
“Honestly… she comes here to buy something, and I end up paying her.”
Fran had no mood to chat.
She knew her situation was dangerous. At any moment the Alteration School might catch up to her. She had to remain cautious and avoid going out unless absolutely necessary.
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Just as she stepped outside the entrance of the Emerald Heart Bar, a voice rang out across the entire tavern.
“Stop right there.”
Fran turned her head slightly and saw two people standing behind her.
She cursed inwardly. Every time she came to this bar, something seemed to happen.
She carefully examined their clothing. When her gaze fell on the badge pinned to their chests, her heart sank.
Both of them wore gray robes bearing the emblem of the Alteration School. One of them was also holding a transparent container. Inside it, a small insect was crawling around.
Wе b̃nŏv̈е̃ l Еǹu m̀a
The insect seemed almost mad.
It repeatedly hurled itself toward her direction, only to bounce off the container each time.
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What was going on now? Had the Alteration School discovered that I killed someone?
Fran remained calm. Her face was concealed anyway, so no one could read her expression.
At that moment, one of the apprentices spoke with a sinister expression.
“You were seen meeting Richter before his death. You are suspected of murdering an apprentice of the Alteration School. Come with us.”
Е̊ n ümа.ǐ d
Fran did not move.
Instead, she felt slightly relieved.
As long as they had not already confirmed she was the killer.
But there was no way she could go with them.
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Whether she was the murderer or not, she knew the truth perfectly well.
“Hm?”
Ё n̈ ũ mӑ .і_d
Xiyns’s sinister expression tightened.
He had not expected someone to remain unmoved even after hearing the name of the Alteration School.
The frustration he had been suppressing surged up again, turning into anger.
He had originally taken this mission because he coveted its reward. He had even spent two gold coins to secure the task of investigating the area around Richter’s residence.
In the end, however, it was an apprentice assigned to a hopeless “needle-in-a-haystack” task who discovered the corpse.
Afterward, Xiyns had quickly bribed a teacher from the Necromancy School and then paid another sum to Mentor Losqi to obtain the assignment of investigating the Alchemists’ Association, which he believed would definitely yield results.
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But the conclusion turned out to be utterly absurd.
Not only did he fail to earn the reward of surgical instruction, but if it were not for the amount of money he had already paid, Losqi might have torn him apart on the spot.
He had spent the most money and gained absolutely nothing.
The worst part was whichever lunatic had arranged the team assignments.
Xiyns had been placed in the same group as Tane—the apprentice who had stumbled upon the corpse by sheer luck. Their task was to find people who had come into contact with Richter.
That was one of the functions of the tracking insects.
Ên̂ū ṁ а́. і̊ d̀
After consuming a portion of the corpse’s flesh, they would pursue the people or locations the deceased had interacted with during life.
Of course, because Richter’s body had been mixed with soil for an unknown length of time, the insects would also react to anyone who had passed near the burial site or carried objects associated with the earth element.
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That morning alone they had already dragged three completely unrelated people away for questioning.
They had found nothing.
“We are from the Alteration School.”
Xiyns emphasized the words. He struggled to suppress his anger. After all, this was the Apprentice Market, and the Alteration School still had to show some respect to the administrators here. They could not start conflicts casually.
Èǹům̌ ă . і̄ d̊
“Does the Alteration School have law enforcement authority now? Can you simply grab anyone on the street and take them away?”
Fran lowered her voice and chuckled softly.
Her words immediately triggered an uproar among the apprentices inside the tavern.
These two apprentices had already detained several people there today. Although those individuals had “voluntarily” gone with them out of fear of the Alteration School’s reputation, the apprentices in the tavern still disliked seeing them behave so arrogantly.
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Now that someone had finally challenged them, the crowd eagerly voiced their support for Fran.
“Well said! The Alteration School should get lost!”
Ěnú m̈а̃
“What kind of trash school is that? Just an offshoot of the Necromancy School barking here!”
“Fight! Fight!”
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Tane sensed the situation turning dangerous.
He stepped closer to Xiyns, placed a hand on his shoulder, and said quietly,
“Maybe we should forget it. The person we are looking for probably is not here anyway.”
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Sending apprentices out with tracking insects to find the murderer was practically an impossible task.
As far as Tane knew, Richter disappeared only after returning from the assessment.
That meant every apprentice who had participated in that assessment might theoretically become a target for the tracking insects.
Which was why the apprentices had been assigned to search other schools’ territories and various public areas.
Tane could already imagine them provoking public outrage in those places and being instantly killed by several spells from some hotheaded apprentice.
Fortunately, this time the task location had not been assigned randomly.
Еnǔ m а
Mentor Losqi had suddenly decided to let him choose the location first.
And following his principle of avoiding trouble whenever possible, Tane had chosen the Apprentice Market—a place where it was extremely unlikely they would actually find the murderer.
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He had already earned merit, and Beloli had promised him surgical instruction.
Under such circumstances, no one wanted the murderer to be found less than he did.
Finding the killer might not bring him much additional reward.
But if the killer became enraged and discovered that he had been the one who found the corpse and exposed the crime, what if the murderer decided to kill him in retaliation?
E n̊ um а . і d̈
Tane firmly believed that avoiding trouble was the best policy.
If he had been alone, he would have allowed the tracking insects to smash themselves to death against the container rather than arrest a single person.
Right now the two of them were the center of hostility in the tavern.
He was genuinely afraid that if a conflict broke out, someone might accidentally kill him.
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And then all his dreams of becoming a formal mage would vanish like dust.
But Xiyns ignored him.
Еn̂ů m̂ а . і̆ d
He brushed away Tane’s hand and raised the short wand at his waist with his left hand.
“Magic Missile.”
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