Chapter 100: Chapter 81: The Boiling Garrison (2)

Even with her Gem Magic, the most she could do was hold her own against the Mad Drinker for a while. Killing him was absolutely impossible!

And yet, Pei Ze had done it!

’Just how much of his strength is that guy hiding?’

Gu Lin muttered in a low voice.

Suddenly, she remembered something, and her expression changed instantly.

’Oh no, the bet!’

Gu Lin’s face fell completely.

The Mad Drinker was worth a full 1,000 merit points!

With that many merit points, Pei Ze had already secured his victory in the bet.

Even if she dealt with all the heretics in the North District right now, there was no way she could get more merit points than Pei Ze.

The outcome of the bet was no longer in question.

’I still lost...’

Gu Lin gritted her teeth in frustration.

Fan He gave her a strange look. "What’s wrong? You don’t look so good."

"It’s nothing." Gu Lin waved her hand listlessly and asked casually, "What about Pei Ze? Where is he now?"

"He’s with Commander Yan." Fan He’s expression suddenly turned incredibly strange.

Gu Lin noticed and asked, puzzled, "Why? Does Commander Yan need to see Pei Ze about something?"

Fan He coughed and said, "It’s about Huo Nan."

Gu Lin frowned. "Is that guy Huo Nan targeting Pei Ze again? He just won’t give up!"

"...His ghost has probably scattered by now," Fan He said with a peculiar look. "Actually, Pei Ze didn’t just kill a Mad Drinker last night. He killed Huo Nan, too."

"...What?!"

Gu Lin was stunned for several seconds before the meaning of his words sank in, leaving her utterly dumbfounded.

When she came to her senses, she hurriedly asked what had happened.

Fan He had no choice but to recount the full story he had heard.

After listening, Gu Lin’s mouth hung open in a perfect "O," and she couldn’t process it for a long moment.

Huo Nan had colluded with the Mad Drinker, promising to help him escape the North District in exchange for assassinating Pei Ze—only for Pei Ze to turn the tables and kill them both!

’What kind of ridiculous fairytale is this?’

’It’s just too absurd!’

Gu Lin suddenly felt as if she were in a dreamlike daze.

Fan He wasn’t surprised by Gu Lin’s reaction at all; in fact, he could empathize.

When he first heard about it from others, he almost thought there was something wrong with his ears.

"Junior Brother Pei Ze really hides his strength well. It seems I underestimated him before."

Fan He said with a sigh of admiration.

"As expected, anyone Lord Mo Weng takes as a disciple is a genius whose talent far exceeds the ordinary!"

First, there was Yin Xue, who was about to advance to a Wizard with a top-tier Advanced Meditation Technique before even graduating.

Now, there was Pei Ze, a mere Third-level Wizard Apprentice who had killed two powerhouses at the Legendary Knight level.

The students under Mo Weng were each more outstanding than the last.

Gu Lin’s feelings were complicated.

Usually, she was the one who made others feel inadequate. But ever since meeting Pei Ze, she was the one constantly feeling the gap in their abilities.

Now, she was starting to understand how the other Wizard Apprentices must have felt around her.

Seeing Gu Lin’s dejected expression, Fan He immediately guessed what she was thinking.

"Just accept it, Junior Sister Gu Lin. You’re a genius, that’s true, but someone like Junior Brother Pei Ze is a monster who surpasses even geniuses. Comparing yourself to him is just asking for misery. It’s better to just relax."

Gu Lin fell silent, feeling a sense of helplessness.

’How can such a freak of nature exist in this world?’

’Back when Senior Sister Yin Xue was a first-year, even she didn’t have this kind of strength, did she?’

...

Just as Fan He had said, the news of Pei Ze killing two powerhouses at the Legendary Knight level spread through the entire garrison like a hurricane, causing a massive uproar.

It wasn’t just the Wizard Apprentices and Knight Students who had participated in the operation; even the City Guard Army was in an uproar.

The fact that the incident involved the dark conspiracy of a high-ranking Military Governor colluding with a heretic was like a bomb being dropped, setting off a huge storm within the garrison.

Now, walking through the garrison, you could hear people discussing the matter everywhere.

「Command Headquarters, Top-floor Office」

Yan Zhen stood by the window, watching the crowds whispering below with an inscrutable expression.

After a moment, he turned back to face Dai Long on the sofa, his gaze sweeping over the Recording Ring on the coffee table.

"Finished watching?"

Dai Long nodded slightly and remarked with a sigh, "Huo Nan’s defeat was not unjust."

"Who would have thought that a Third-level Wizard Apprentice, promoted less than two months ago, would possess such strength? Huo Nan really messed with the wrong person this time."

Yan Zhen’s gaze was dark as he said, "I told him long ago to stay out of the Wizards’ conflicts. If we get involved with those monsters, we don’t have enough lives to lose."

Dai Long nodded in firm agreement.

Legendary Knights like them might seem high and mighty, powerful and strong, but to a Wizard, they were nothing more than slightly tougher ants.

Forget a full-fledged Wizard—even a Third-level Wizard Apprentice had the power to kill them.

If they were truly caught in a struggle between Wizards, they wouldn’t be able to withstand even the slightest aftershock.

That fool Huo Nan was so duped by the small benefits Pei Yonggao promised that he couldn’t see straight. He didn’t even stop to think: even if he had succeeded in killing Pei Ze, could Pei Yonggao have really protected him?

’How naive!’

Mo Weng was a dignified Tier Five Alchemist. If he truly wanted to deal with a Legendary Knight, forget Pei Yonggao—even the entire Pei Family couldn’t stop him.

’Could the Pei Family really watch over him every second of every day?’

From the moment Huo Nan agreed to Pei Yonggao’s request and made a move against Pei Ze, he was already a dead man.

Dai Long looked out the window and sighed inwardly.

The true masters of this city, and indeed this world, had always been the Wizards, from beginning to end.