Hode Kingdom, an unnamed barren mountain range.
Oliver stood beneath the mountain peak, calmly gazing into the distance as though admiring the scenery.
After a moment, he spoke.
"Are you two going to keep hiding after following me for so long?"
As soon as his words fell, two figures appeared behind him. They were Flame Extinguisher Borcan of the Tower of Scorched Embers and Mist Chanter Murphy of the Cocoon of Lies.
"What an honor, to have the leaders of two Top Schools come looking for me alone!"
Oliver looked at Borcan and Murphy before him and smiled.
"Looking at you now, it seems what Li Si said was true."
Borcan studied Oliver for a moment, then shook his head.
"You've already become a Legendary Mage, yet you still believed the nonsense of those Abyssal evil gods. How laughable."
Murphy, standing beside Borcan, said nothing, but his gaze remained fixed firmly on Oliver.
As one of the deputy leaders of the Myriad Forms Secret Society, Wild Sage Oliver naturally held an extraordinary position within the Association.
Yet he had never expected this man to cooperate with those evil gods and secretly plot against the Association's Legendary Councilors.
Apparently, their primary target had been Li Si.
At the same time, Chanter of Woe Brun had also fallen into their clutches. After Li Si rescued him, he was still recovering from his injuries in secret.
To be honest, when Murphy first received that news, he had found it hard to believe.
But Lord Talindra, the Third Speaker, had personally stepped in, leaving him no choice but to accept that it had happened.
Thinking back to when Oliver had represented the Myriad Forms Secret Society in negotiations with the Cocoon of Lies, seeking to join forces to suppress Li Si and the Source