"Then, Gray Raven-sama, you must be sure to conceal your strength well." The gaunt old man took a deep breath, his expression turning serious as he offered Richard a well-meaning reminder. "
"The Pombo Family is, after all, a wizard family with a legacy spanning several centuries. Its foundations are quite formidable. Though they are recruiting temporarily, none of the necessary screening methods will be lacking, to prevent wizards from hostile forces from infiltrating them—there have been precedents for this sort of thing. It is not that I doubt your strength, sir. I simply hope you will be careful and not let some minor detail throw the plan off course."
"Thank you for the reminder." Richard smiled. "As for concealing my strength, I really am not worried about that—especially when it comes to hiding my strength by posing as a Wizard Apprentice."
The gaunt old man looked up at Richard, his eyes filled with confusion.
Richard said slowly, "The reason is simple. Fundamentally speaking, I am a Wizard Apprentice."
He was not wrong. He followed the path of an Apocalypse Wizard, and his inner mana source contained only a small amount of stable mana, barely enough for a Wizard Apprentice. The rest consisted of active Wandering Energy Elements.
Thus, under most conventional methods of detection, he was a Wizard Apprentice—albeit one who could easily grievously wound or kill Level 3 Wizards and Longevity Singular Species. That was also why he had been almost completely unaffected when facing attacks from the Truth Society's and Supreme Order Divine Assembly's Magic Breaking Balls.
"Huh?" The wizened old man had not known about this. He could not help freezing as he looked Richard up and down, finding it hard to believe.
Gray Raven-sama was only a Wizard Apprentice? A Wizard Apprentice who possessed the