Chapter 2623: Practical Combatant
"A forged identity..."
Xu Yue murmured.
"That's right. Don't tell me you really are an Adjuster?"
The brown-haired Magus spoke with a hint of mockery in his tone.
"Perhaps you want to gain a higher status as a new-generation Magus and avoid certain troubles, but you have no idea what an Adjuster represents."
"Do you know how many Adjusters there are in the Clock Tower now? You just blurted it out. You really don't know your own limits."
The two of them went back and forth, as though they had completely seen through Xu Yue's hand.
It made Xu Yue start considering how badly he ought to beat them.
Being appropriately high-profile could spare him quite a few troubles like this.
There was indeed no need to reveal the Space Crest directly, lest it result in a Sealing Designation. But even without using the Space Crest, dealing with these two second-rate fellows would be effortless.
As for whether the identity of a First Generation Magus would invite fresh scrutiny and trouble—
Hadn't this fellow just said his identity was forged? Since he was not faking being an Adjuster, who could say he was not faking the identity of a First Generation Magus...
The main reason Xu Yue had left the First Generation Magus designation when registering was that he truly had no mage family before, no legends or history whatsoever. Rambling on about several generations would only have aroused suspicion.
Now, it was even better to let them fill in the blanks themselves!
"Since that's the case..."
But just as Xu Yue's magical energy began to surge through his Mage Circuits, the door to their meeting room was suddenly kicked open.
A wine-red-haired girl who looked fifteen or sixteen walked in, her face full of disgust