One day later.
Milton, the Spirit-Infused [Heavy Armor Warrior], followed the ocean map drawn by Chaos City's [Desert Crocodile] team to the border between the former Shak Kingdom and the Secluded Forest.
He collected the "1,000 mid-grade magic stones" and "spell analyses from Tier One through the [Body Tempering] realm" sent by Teacher A Ken.
Then, very considerately, Milton slapped the Fifth-Tier Mage to death.
When he returned to An Kai and reported back, he casually mentioned what he had done.
Teacher A Ken caught his breath and took several hard looks at Milton, committing that ant's figure to memory!
He silently swore that when the time came, he would slap Milton to death too.
An Kai accepted the items from Milton, his eyes narrowing with a smile.
He patted Teacher A Ken's projected figure through the air, looking every bit the kindly elder brother as he praised him:
"From the first moment I saw you, I knew fate had brought us together!"
Teacher A Ken remained silent, thinking that An Kai did not even know what he looked like, so how could fate have brought them together?
"May I treat my disciple now?"
"Of course!"
An Kai waved generously, simultaneously enveloping A Ken and Teacher A Ken in his [Freezing Spell] domain.
Teacher A Ken froze. With the dense mana elements surrounding them, healing A Ken and letting him escape using the "teleportation scroll" inside his body no longer seemed feasible.
A "teleportation scroll" required an environment with calm mana elements to activate.
It seemed he would have to instruct A Ken to look for an opportunity later...
As Teacher A Ken pondered this, he drove his projected figure to expend its remaining energy healing the gravely wounded A Ken...
About half an hour later.
As his figure was