The sky gradually darkened.
A figure in a blue wizard's robe was moving swiftly through the forest.
He looked at the Trial Voucher in his hand. A white dot on it had not moved for a long time.
A smile appeared at the corner of the apprentice's mouth. "Heh, probably another apprentice who's been badly wounded!"
"You're mine! Your voucher will be mine, and I'll turn it into a Mind-Focusing Potion!"
The apprentice raced forward, his destination clear: the place where Charles was.
The bright dot with three circles on the Trial Voucher, and another dot marked with a potion bottle, were not his targets.
"All I need is ten vouchers to exchange for a Mind-Focusing Potion. There's absolutely no need to fight any especially powerful apprentices!"
"Ha ha ha! I'm just too smart!"
Before long, the dot representing this apprentice had overlapped with another apprentice's dot on his Trial Voucher.
Even then, the apprentice proceeded cautiously.
When the dots overlapped, it meant the distance between them was less than a kilometer.
He carefully searched through the forest, looking for places where someone might be hiding.
At last, he spotted his target!
A gray-robed wizard apprentice sat beneath a tree with his eyes closed. His wand was planted beside him.
"Good, good!"
"Such nerve! How dare he go without keeping watch in the Trial Plane!"
Delighted, the blue-robed apprentice raised his wand, preparing to cast a spell at the gray-robed apprentice.
But the next moment, a shadow flashed swiftly behind him.
A Quasit leaped down from a tree. Its sharp claws shattered the shield around the apprentice in a single blow.
Its claws then tore the apprentice's heart right out of his chest.
"No!"
"Ugh..."
The blue-robed wizard apprentice stared in disbelief at his chest, where his heart was still