The Purple Witch leaped down from the branch and stood before Locke. "You have more top-tier papers than I do. You said I was good, but not good enough. Since you've published more papers than I have, I can't argue with that. But you've offended me."
The Purple Witch's violet hair blazed like fire. Bella Witch narrowed her eyes at Locke. "Make an enemy of me, and you'll suffer."
"No one has ever become my enemy and walked away unscathed."
"I suggest you think carefully."
Purple flames burst from her right hand. A violet bracelet magic device appeared around her wrist, gleaming within the fire.
Her fingers slid across it and her palm twisted. The Purple Witch looked down at the device and smiled with confidence.
"Someone once challenged me just as you have. He lost his teaching position."
"I'll give you a chance to reconsider. Take back what you said, and I'll pretend I never heard it."
Locke smiled.
"You're welcome to try, right here inside Despair Valley Laboratory."
The Purple Witch narrowed her eyes. "Interesting."
"It seems you really have underestimated me."
At the same time, Wizard Kent and Wizard Patrick Keaton jumped down from the trees.
Wizard Kent stepped forward, his pupils contracting sharply. With every step he took, the earth seemed to tremble.
Magic Pressure of twenty-eight thousand erupted from him, as though a tyrannosaur had appeared. Kent was known as the Tyrannosaur Wizard, and his temper was every bit as savage as an ancient tyrannosaur's.
That was how he had earned the name.
According to the information Locke had found, numerous Wizard Apprentices in Kent's research group had been driven to despair. Some had even resorted to extreme behavior. Subjected for years to the Tyrannosaur Wizard's verbal abuse and threats of expulsion while working with