862 The Meeting Destined to Happen

Lauren said, somewhat a little silly, “Fernando, you weren’t here, Mr. League…”

Fernando directly ignored him and rushed past Lauren and Douglas like a furious cl.u.s.ter of storms. His red eyes opened big. Obviously, he was outraged.

Douglas slightly frowned but soon unknotted his eyebrows. He watched Fernando rus.h.i.+ng downstairs to the secret chamber.

“Fernando!” Lauren finally realized, and he hurriedly yelled, “Don’t argue with Mr. League!”

Bang!

Fernando slammed the door of the secret chamber shut and kept the conversation within.

“What shall we do? Fernando will p.i.s.s off Mr. League!” Lauren asked Douglas for help. Only Douglas, who carried both good manners and power, could stop this argument right now.

Douglas nodded. “If anything goes wrong, I’ll stop it. But expressing himself is Fernando’s right.”

“But he’s challenging the deputy president!” Lauren could not understand Douglas’ att.i.tude. In Lauren’s eyes, Douglas was very powerful, knowledgeable, and especially talented in mathematics, but Douglas’ way of thinking could be quite strange. Douglas was a big fan of asking why, and some of his opinions were quite hard for him to accept. For example, hierarchy, a system which was respected and followed by all sorcerers, seemed to be quite insignificant to Douglas.

Douglas was just smiling but said nothing. At this time, they heard Fernando’s roaring from the secret chamber. The door wasn’t enough to keep his fury within. And it was louder and louder, which made Lauren start feeling concerned that the walls might collapse at any time.

He listened carefully, trying to figure out what Fernando was saying. At this time, the door of the secret chamber was pushed open fiercely, and League walked out. His face looked rather unhappy as he walked on the stairs.

“I’m the branch president in Paphos County, so I have the right! I don’t need you, old man!” Fernando chased League out and yelled.

League stopped walking and turned around. His voice was as cold as ice as he said, “You’re no more.”

“So what? When I made the decision, I still was!” Fernando looked right into League’s eyes angrily.

“Crazy dog…” League murmured and then kept walking.

Fernando waved his arms and yelled, “You old antique! Even if I’m wrong, this has nothing to do with Douglas! He was only obeying my words! He knew nothing from the headquarters!”

Lauren was shocked as he watched them arguing. Although he knew Fernando’s bad temper, it never occurred to him that Fernando would yell at the deputy president! There were only three deputy presidents in the Union, and even the president had to act quite politely to them!

He was about to stop them, but as they kept arguing, Lauren realized Fernando’s intention. He wasn’t arguing with League for himself, as he had already been mentally prepared for the punishment when he proposed; instead, he was arguing for Douglas, for he did not understand why Douglas should be responsible for this.

At this time, League walked past Douglas. He caught his breath and then said, “Douglas, I forgot to tell you. As a ninth-circle archmage, you’re qualified to attend the core meeting that is to be held five days later. So you won’t be heading for Allyn until next week.”

“Sure,” Douglas said. He did not ask anything else and just nodded politely.

“You old thing! If you have guts, you just kick Douglas out right now! Tons of organizations want to have an archmage!” Fernando wouldn’t stop.

Those legendary sorcerers were busy protecting themselves, so a ninth-circle archmage should be considered as a top force for every organization, except for Cabin of Palmeira, which was a legendary group. So far, the entire Union of Sorcerers only had two ninth circles. One of them was the president, Arnold, and the other was League. The two deputy presidents were only senior-ranks working on hitting the eighth circle.

League snorted, unwilling to argue with Fernando. He hurriedly walked past Lauren and headed for Old Green’s room.

“You old man! You’re still thinking about your power and resources when facing such great danger! I joined the Union because of the concept you promoted—to push aside suspicion and bias and accept all groups and sorcerers! Shame on you! A senior-rank sorcerer can go anywhere!” Fernando roared at League’s back.

Lauren had cold sweat on his back. He wondered if Fernando had ever worried about a possible vengeance on himself in the future if he kept acting like this.

He would pretend that he never heard such words from Fernando!

League paused a bit, and then he accelerated his pace and disappeared around the corner.

“Fernando, how could you talk like that?” Lauren was rather anxious. “He can just give you a seemingly simple but actually dangerous mission!”

“Unless he can kill me with one strike, or I’ll let him know how dangerous a storm can be!” Fernando snorted, “Also, he doesn’t get along that well with the president.”

Lauren was shocked. He didn’t expect that there was a reason behind his friend’s angry roaring. Then was the roaring real? Or he was just pretending?

“No wonder you’re not afraid of Mr. League…” Lauren murmured.

Fernando paused a bit and said, “This has nothing to do with fear. If it had been the president standing in front of me, I’d have done the same!”

Alright, he was still that Fernando Lauren knew. Lauren felt a bit relaxed, but also a bit sad.

Fernando took a deep breath and combed his hair with his hand. “In such an era, we might die anytime because of the black-clawed dogs or clerics. So we mustn’t be afraid of death, as death is our destiny and doomed ending. And if we are not afraid of death, why should we be afraid of a president or deputy president?”

Douglas had been listening to their conversation quietly. At this time, he smiled and said, “Thanks.”

“I just don’t like how they treat people unfairly!” Fernando looked up at the mottled ceiling.

……

In the next three days, while Lauren was busy with the tasks allocated to him as a liaison, Douglas and Fernando stayed idle.

Douglas and Fernando, however, didn’t mind it. They even enjoyed themselves in the three days that they kept talking and exchanging ideas. And they both agreed that the current magic system did have its fatal problems, which were impossible to be fixed.

Although Fernando spent most of the time listening to and learning from Douglas, his talent in mathematics and magic made his comments rather inspiring to Douglas. Therefore, Douglas was not only teaching Fernando. Together, they had a pretty good time.

Even though it was almost evening, they were still working on a math problem. It was already very dim in the hotel lobby. However, both of them had cast a spell on their eyes so that they could see through complete darkness. They had a honey roasted fish beside them, but the fish was not their focus at all.

A middle-rank sorcerer stayed beside them to listen to their conversation out of curiosity, but the sorcerer soon walked away, feeling rather dizzy.

At this time, the half-closed gate of the hotel was pushed open, and the cool evening breeze had instantly driven away the humid and warm air in the lobby.

“Green, two roasted fis.h.!.+” The hoa.r.s.e and deep voice came in first before the person showed himself.

Coming back after finis.h.i.+ng his mission, Lauren just sat down. He believed that Fernando now finally had a compet.i.tor in terms of roaring.

Douglas and Fernando looked up at the same time because they had sensed that the man was a knight. Was he Green’s friend?

Because of Green, many knights liked coming here, which made the sorcerers here feel quite insecure, but this had also effectively helped them hide from the Church’s search. Also, Green would pick his guests. If a knight was rather hostile to sorcerers or sensitive to topics related to magic, he would find an excuse to get angry and kick the knight out of the hotel forever. If there was a knight in the hotel, Old Green would put a secret sign outside of the hotel so that the sorcerers coming in could be prepared. When Fernando and Douglas arrived, there was no knight in the hotel.

No one would ever expect that a gathering place for knights was in fact a secret liaison station for sorcerers!

Bang!

Hearing the voice, the wood mug that Green was wiping fell from his hands onto the counter.

He stared at the entrance, and his dead green eye released circles of waves that could affect the physical surroundings!

“What brings you here?” asked Old Green.

Meanwhile, he took a warning glance at Douglas and Fernando. They understood immediately and hid their draft paper sheets.

“You want neither t.i.tle nor treasure. All you want is such a hotel selling honey-roasted fish? Are you going to give up your t.i.tle as a knight, Fatal Left Eye?” A tall and strong man, who was wearing a tight gray knight suit, walked in. His eyebrows were thick, and his nose was rather high. He looked quite young, but if one took a closer look, the fine wrinkles would be spotted. Only his blue eyes were full of energy, like a teenage boy’s cheerful eyes.

Following him was a young girl, about eleven or twelve years old. She had a pretty face but pretended to be rather serious.

She had a tidy fringe of hair on her forehead, which made her look like a delicate doll. The heavy sword she was carrying was even taller than herself. Right now, she was struggling with dragging the sword with her.

Her eyes were also very impressive. She had silver-gray eyes, and they were cold and sharp.

“So, she is?” asked Old Green confusedly.

The man whose blue eyes looked rather young smiled. “I’m her teacher now, training her to be a knight.”

The little girl squared her shoulder a bit. But her right foot tripped over her left foot, and she then had a bad fall.

“Haha, she can’t even walk. How can she be a squire?” Fernando grinned and commented.

The girl was still dragging the heavy sword. On the ground, she looked up, and her nice-looking eyebrows furrowed angrily. “No one knows how to walk before they learn it!”

Umm? Fernando didn’t get it immediately.

“So she is the descendant of …” The look on Old Green’s face had become quite strange. It looked both serious and funny.

The man with beautiful eyes smiled. “Yes, I didn’t expect this at all.”

He then turned and said to the young girl, “Alright, slowly get up, Hathaway. You’ll become strong one day.”