Cut the Grass and Uproot the Roots

The attacker was a Advanced Apprentice at the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower.

With the strength of Advanced Apprentice, he dared to travel such a long distance, following Saine all the way here.

I don't know whether to call him bold or arrogant.

Saine always has a backup plan in mind when he does anything.

This is probably a habit he developed at the Black Wizard Academy.

If you've played all your cards and have no strength left, you might actually fall into someone's trap.

Therefore, in the previous battle in the basin, Saine consistently demonstrated his magical abilities, as well as his equipment such as the Earth Elemental Shield Ring and the Invisibility Cloak.

Saine did not use the Sun's Eye Mask.

Rather than earning more points, Saine wanted to have some trump cards and safeguards for himself.

Countless brilliant minds have fallen because of trivial matters, and Saine does not want to be one of them.

The slight scratch on his right arm from the dark Elemental Arrow didn't cause a significant change in Saine's expression.

However, what made him frown next was that the simple alchemy table he had taken out had been completely destroyed in the apprentice's sneak attack.

After drinking a Recovery Potion, Saine arrived at the large tree where the Advanced Apprentice was hiding.

The thick tree trunk, which required several people to encircle, had by now been riddled with bullets.

Also riddled with bullets were the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower apprentices, their flesh mangled beyond recognition.

A Dark Black Ragged Soft Armor caught Saine's eye. →

Through the subtle elemental emanations and the magical patterns engraved on the soft armor, Saine knew that the Advanced Apprentice was able to follow him here silently not only because of the special magic he possessed, but also because of this soft armor.

"We could try combining it with Invisibility Cloak to create a new type of stealth item."

"I wonder if we can discover any secrets from this shattered soft armor. We'll have to wait until the Regional Academy War is over before we can study it properly," Saine muttered to himself as he put away the tattered soft armor.

Besides the tattered soft armor, Saine also found a broken mirror among the fragments of the Advanced Apprentice's body.

This mirror is also a type of Space Equipment, but unfortunately it is damaged.

Once any Space Equipment is damaged, the items stored inside will be instantly torn to pieces by Space Power.

With a soft sigh, he put away the shattered Space Mirror, thinking it was better than nothing.

Although it was impossible to obtain the personal collection of this Advanced Apprentice of the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower, this...

A decent mirror, even if it were melted down into basic materials, would still be a small sum of money, so Saine didn't waste it.

After dealing with the apprentice who had attacked him, Saine glanced around and then headed towards a small ravine to the south.

The golden light on its body was still conspicuous, but for the time being, no other apprentices of the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower should be approaching.

Saine must get rid of this pesky golden light as soon as possible.

If that doesn't work, Saine will have no choice but to return to the Azure Source Holy Tower area. →

Another alchemy table was taken out of the Space Bracelet by Saine. As a qualified alchemist and the one who inherited Moxidu's legacy, Saine had more than one alchemy table and related alchemy equipment.

In fact, due to his research on the Sun's Eye Magic over the past few years, in addition to the six commonly used alchemy tables, Saine also has several spare alchemy tables.

Saine didn't bring all of these alchemy tables with him, but he still has at least three different models for his own use.

With the Azure Source Holy Tower Badge on his chest placed on the mechanical arm at the center of the alchemy table, Saine, holding a screwdriver and tweezers, began the process of disassembling the Holy Tower Badge.

Having already dismantled several Holy Tower Badge, Saine was extremely familiar with this process.

As Saine skillfully disassembled the Holy Tower Badge into smaller components, he was unaware that outside the Holy Tower, several great beings were exchanging bewildered glances because of his actions.

"I wonder if it's possible to directly modify the points data through badges, but that would be considered serious cheating." In front of the alchemy table, Saine shook his head and muttered to himself.

Time spent fully immersed in alchemy always flies by.

Even Saine, during his Alchemy Experiment, could not perceive the passage of time.

He enjoyed Alchemy Experiment and magical research.

If, in his youth, he studied with all his might at the Black Wizard Academy in City of Mozhsuobula, it was for survival.

So now, Saine's persistent research and learning stem from his interests and pursuits.

If Saine were just someone who was content with the status quo, he wouldn't have come to the Azure Source Holy Tower Academy.

Being a noble heir directly in Grant Territory would be enough for him to enjoy wealth and luxury for decades to come, indulging in the most extravagant lifestyles.

Saine rarely gets distracted during Alchemy Experiment, but during the latter part of working on the Azure Source Holy Tower Badge, Saine suddenly remembered a small incident from his time at the Black Wizard Academy.

That happened when Saine was nine years old.

One of the apprentices who arrived at the Black Wizard Academy at the same time as Saine was bullied for a long time by several Black Wizard Apprentice who had been there before him.

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At that time, the apprentice was only at the beginner level, but those apprentices who bullied him were already at the junior apprentice level.

Such bullying incidents are all too common in the Black Wizard Academy. Not every newcomer to the academy can find a powerful patron like Saine.

Of course, back then, Lina couldn't be considered a top performer. Saine vaguely remembered the scene when he first went to Lina's dormitory and was ordered to do a lot of things by Lina in a cold tone.

But doing things always ends up like that Entry-Level Apprentice who was humiliated, or even abused, by other lower-level apprentices.

Saine had heard more than once that the Entry-Level Apprentice had said in public that he would make those who bullied him pay in the future.

However, the lower-level apprentices just laughed it off, and the other Black Wizard Apprentice in the academy didn't take it seriously either.

Because the Entry-Level Apprentice at that time had very poor aptitude, while some of the lower-level apprentices had already reached the Intermediate Apprentice.

In the Black Wizard Academy, it is obviously foolish to make arrogant remarks and provoke stronger apprentices without sufficient strength. In the end, that Entry-Level Apprentice became a laughing stock.

Until... that Entry-Level Apprentice voluntarily accepted the human modification experiment of the Formal Magician Ke Suo Long and became a monster.

Master Ke Suo Long once said at the end of the experiment that it would not live more than three days.

So on the very next day, it found the apprentices who had bullied it and tore them to pieces.

The reason this incident came to mind was probably because Saine had just killed a number of Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower apprentices.

Saine maintained the principle of cutting off all traces of his enemies, which he had developed at the Black Wizard Academy.

He could have spared the lives of those Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower apprentices who had already lost the ability to resist, but he didn't like leaving himself any hidden dangers or lurking enemies.

To retain compassion and kindness when you are enemies on the battlefield is simply playing with your life.

Based on the information he had gathered about the Casualties of previous students before participating in the Regional Holy Tower Academy War, Saine knew that this kind of Academy War was no child's play or child's game.

This is a real war where people will die, just like the border wars that occur year after year in secular human kingdoms.

Has anyone ever seen a truly excellent Knight show mercy to enemy soldiers on the battlefield?

Earl Grant wanted to take both Saine and Solon to the battlefield with this intention in mind, just to train them.

What Earl Grant didn't know was that Saine had already understood and recognized this much earlier.