Two Second-Ring Wizards from the Black Wizard Alliance appeared atop the ruins of Verdantia University. One had just come from the Pale Pilgrimage, while the other was the Second-Ring Wizard Locke and Hassan had encountered before in the Southeastern Corner Region.
Back then, during the battle above Lilith's Cottage, that Second-Ring Wizard had threatened the local White Wizard Association coalition with Great Magic.
Locke still remembered the scene from that time. The sky had been split in two, one side black and the other white.
As a wizard who had just become a Formal Wizard, Locke immediately felt as fragile as a baby, as though he had returned to the days when he had been weak.
At this moment, Locke immediately recognized that the Second-Ring Wizard who had appeared beside him was the very Second-Ring Black Wizard he had once looked up at from Lilith's Cottage.
Locke looked at the Black Wizard and saw that he had snow-white hair. Beneath his Black Wizard robe, his face no longer possessed the overwhelming power of a god.
There were wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his gaze was filled with caution, scrutiny, and assessment.
The other party was nervous.
He seemed to be observing Locke and trying to understand the current situation.
This Second-Ring Black Wizard's Magic Pressure was approximately fifteen thousand, and this was his true body. However, the aura drifting from his soul allowed Locke to estimate that he was around a thousand years old.
In other words, this Black Wizard had already reached the limit of his lifespan. He was probably using some methods to barely extend it.
*"That means he probably came to the Southeastern Corner Region just to retire. He never expected that, while staying there, he would encounter a mission sent by the headquarters