The sudden conflict had barely begun before it was completely extinguished.
Although quite a few people had been seriously injured in the close-quarters fighting and were helped away to seek treatment from priests and doctors, defeating the guards had greatly boosted the apprentices' morale, and their cheers shook the sky.
Normally, most guards were only low-level martial professionals, and some newcomers might not even be Classed individuals. But these people, who had always had a poor reputation for bullying the decent and had now willingly become the council's lapdogs in an attempt to suppress them by force, had been successfully beaten down. Was that not a great achievement in itself?
"We're only eight li away from the council!" Tyrannosaurus and the gnomes beside him shouted excitedly. This fresh experience, unlike anything they had ever known, had the little fellows so thrilled they were practically losing their minds.
With their chaotic nature, gnomes were born lovers of freedom and believed in filling their long lives with all sorts of novel pursuits.
What they had done today had even made this powerful Mage Country tremble. The noble Archmages did not even dare show themselves directly. Once word got back to their homeland, those country bumpkins would surely die of envy.
"Haha, those underground cousins brag all day about outwitting drow elves, but in the end they got beaten so badly they did not even dare leave their homes. How could they compare to us?"
Meanwhile, the human apprentices drank the light beer delivered by the girls. The refreshing, icy liquid made many of them burp contentedly, and with their excitement still unspent, they pointed at the scene from earlier and talked animatedly.
A female apprentice named Lylier voiced her displeasure as well. "Heh, these guards think they deserve to maintain public order?