Violet

"Violet, the most gifted wizard of this generation in the Silver Tower!"

The giant spider Abochild followed the silver threads in the air to Dago's side and offered an explanation.

The spider watched the approaching figure with him, then turned toward Dago and spoke in a low, raspy, yet piercing voice tinged with amusement. "In all my long years serving the Thorn Ring, Violet still ranks among the finest talents I have seen. He has held first place for far too long. Once, he shone just as brilliantly as you do today."

"Boy, it seems he has accepted your challenge. This is what you wanted, so brace yourself. Violet is nothing like the others who live on the Sky Floating Island."

Dago listened to Abochild without much change in his expression. His gaze stayed on the descending figure until the man finally came to a stop before him—a very thin young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

He wore only a simple grass-green robe. His hands hung naturally at his sides, all ten fingers bare of magical rings. His looks were unremarkable, and his pale blue-green eyes were like a pair of lapis lazuli stones set into his face.

He looked like an ordinary scholar, with no particularly powerful fluctuations of mental power emanating from him. Yet his arrival immediately stirred every wizard watching.

"Violet! Violet actually came out of seclusion?!"

"I never imagined Dago had challenged him too!"

"Even Bernal lost to Violet more than once back then. How many years ago was that? How powerful must Violet be now?"

Dago caught the buzzing conversations around him and picked up quite a bit of useful information!

Once this scholar named Violet appeared before him, the gazes that had been pinned to Dago shifted one after another to that thin figure.

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