Pairs of eyes turned toward them, all filled with searching intent.
Some were curious about the two themselves, while others were curious about what they had experienced afterward. Everyone could guess that these two figures, who had appeared last, were the apprentices who had stood out from that string of inexplicable trials. Their gazes held a desire to see what was special about them, and to discern what changes the final unknown stage of those trials might have brought to the two wizard apprentices.
Unfortunately, they did not know that, in theory, Ruger and this female apprentice were also eliminated candidates. They had simply been eliminated later than the others—the very last batch to be eliminated.
Amid rumbling sounds, an abnormally tall and fat wizard radiating powerful Mental Power fluctuations slowly entered through the open stone doors, step by step making his way before the crowd.
At one end of the spacious stone chamber lay a heap of haphazardly piled rubble.
The tall, fat figure strode onto it, even flattening those irregular stones beneath his feet. Clearly, his weight was far more extraordinary than it appeared.
Everyone's attention was finally drawn away from the inexplicable figures and sounds, captured instead by this wizard lord who was both tall and broad.
Ruger blinked involuntarily as he looked at the colossal figure.
For a wizard to maintain such an unusual physique, there had to be a deeper reason behind it.
It stirred the urge to investigate in many apprentices.
Ruger was naturally among them.
The wizard lord, round as a ball of flesh, slowly came to a halt and lifted his eyes to sweep over the wizard apprentices in the stone chamber.
Ruger's expression straightened, and he bowed alongside the others toward the flesh-egg-like figure.
"One hundred and seventy-three..."
The crowd had