I Refused To Be Reincarnated-Chapter 674: The Apprentice with Archmage Control

But before going down, curiosity made his lips move before his thoughts. "May I know where you come from and what rank you’ve reached?"

Adam smirked. "Believe it or not, I’m just an apprentice."

"Apprentice?!" Noah’s lips pursed in suspicion. Since when could apprentices overwhelm arcanists in a matter of seconds? "There is no need for lies if you don’t want to tell me."

He grabbed a torch and prepared to lead the way down. But Adam’s words sent his mind reeling.

"I never lie. I’m really just an apprentice..." He smirked. "With archmage mana control, that is. Anyway, I’ve satiated your curiosity enough. Lead the way."

Noah trembled as he stepped forward. Archmage mana control at such a low level?! Was it even possible?

As doubts devoured him, Misha snickered. "You should have slapped him a few times to teach him manners. No, I’ll do it." She stepped toward Noah, her eyes narrowed. "Hey, jerk!"

Adam grabbed her shoulder and laughed. "It’s alright. I doubt he’ll do it again."

"Still... I don’t like..."

He cut her off by raising her chin with his finger and smiling warmly. "I know. That’s why I stopped him before he could actually do something."

"Wait... So, I’m the consequences he couldn’t bear?" She exploded into laughter. "I guess it’s true."

He scratched his head. Well, he didn’t want to learn what she could do if she lashed out. After eight years in the isolated blessed land, he knew she had become even more sensible to matters related to him. ’I’m the same. I’ll kill anyone trying to oppress her.’

He glanced at his interface. ’And very few can stop me now.’

Name: Adam

Race: Celestial Human

Affinity: Mana (Perfect), Heaven (Perfect)

Talent: EX Grade: I know you can be the best, EX Grade: Ultimate vessel

Job: Tier seven alchemist, Tier seven enchanter, Tier seven formation master

Tier: Apprentice

Realm: Soul transformation

LVL: 1

Exp: 0/20

HP: 27.000/27.000

Vitality: 1.276->2.700

Strength: 1.276->2.700

Agility: 1.276->2.700

Intelligence: 864->1.300

Qi: 1.000->5.600

Items: The Verdant Tome of Gaia, Chronoscar, Luminous Wildblade, Blade of Adaptation, Adam’s Macuahuitl.

Passive: Mana Control T7, Qi control T7, Enhanced Intuition T7, Weapon mastery T7, Nova’s lucky blessing T4, Golden body lvl Max, Poison immunity lvl Max, Void Vortex Body lvl Max.

Note: Your relationship is so cute. When do you go to second base, though?

’...’ He rolled his eyes. ’Don’t tell me you’re going to watch? Get lost, Luna!’

With a grumble, he followed Noah, eager to forget the note by discovering more about the archipelago.

He descended the stairs, a soft breeze ruffling his sky blue hair. Scents of dried parchments, thick and old, filled his nose, raising his expectation for the six-thousand-year-old knowledge.

Before him, the flickering torch cast a long shadow on Noah’s face as he felt the silence press on him. He had to lighten the mood, to make Adam an ally, or at least grateful for his hospitality. Perhaps culture and history would interest him?

"This tunnel was the first the order excavated." He ran his fingers across the smooth wall, feeling the engraved grooves. "Our first leader, Pablo, enchanted it with defensive mechanisms and built the temple to protect the knowledge he had stacked inside. Isn’t it strange?"

He rolled his sleeve, revealing the coiling snake tattooed on his arm. "He valued it so much that the deadliest venom will flood everything if the tattoo bearer doesn’t lead the way."

Adam tucked his fingers around his chin, then nodded. "Whether he was a sensible man or didn’t want to see his knowledge stolen, I agree with his methods." His voice grew darker as he remembered Baldur’s collection of curses. "Some spells are better left unused."

"Pablo’s especially can’t fall in the wrong hands." Noah sighed. "You’re already this strong, but I must warn you. Poison isn’t an element we can play around with. A single miscalculation is all it takes to contaminate water sources and turn fertile lands into dead zones for decades, centuries, or more. Do not underestimate it. Unlike fire, there is no way to put it out without the correct antidote."

A somber frown creased his brows as he saw Adam shrug. Was he too young to understand how dangerous it could be or arrogant enough to believe he wouldn’t mess up?

Unsure, he halted before a circular door. Two snakes coiling around a staff hissed at them, stone fangs out in a clear warning: do not approach.

He hesitated for a second. Should he warn Adam more? Stake it all by refusing to open it? Somehow, he believed it wouldn’t stop him. That youth felt too powerful, too mysterious.

A steely glint flashed in his eyes. He was not Pablo. His only responsibility was to protect the town’s inhabitants—the rest didn’t matter. At worst, cultivators or mages from the archipelago would move to stop Adam’s misdeeds.

His tattoo brightened in dark greens and purples. The snakes reacted, rising dust from the ancient mechanism. With a tremor, they retreated to allow the door to slide to the side, revealing the unlit lab he was familiar with.

Bookshelves lined the walls, spell grimoires he had studied years ago, pulsing with mana.

Preserved cauldrons from an era long gone, stirring spoons sparkling a soft silver, and other alchemical tools such as mills still wafting a residual scent of poisonous plants filled the place. But his eyes locked on the thick marble desk by the wall, specifically on the chain strapping the most important book to it: the first leader’s mana gathering technique.

Adam stretched his palm behind him with a smirk. Bright particles condensed into Lulu, who glanced around for a second before she nodded.

Without wasting a second, her fairy wings carried her around the shelves as she recorded every book’s content with a touch.

Eyes wide, Noah watched her wink at him, then disappear into Adam’s palm a minute later. What had happened? frёewebηovel.cѳm

Meanwhile, the mana gathering technique flowed into Adam’s head. ’Legendary? Worse than Kwame’s but not bad as a reference.’ He nodded, focusing on the archipelago.

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