"Oh, it's an honor to meet you, Mage Kel'Thuzad..." Khadgar said somewhat cautiously.
But there was no sense of honor whatsoever in his tone.
Kel'Thuzad paid no attention to his flowery words:
"You have two minutes. I expect you to put on your robes and pick up your weapons!" he said coldly.
With that, he turned and left.
"Karin, what do you think would happen if we didn't do as he said?" Khadgar winked at Karin and asked in a low voice.
"I don't know... but you can try. I bet you'd have a miserable time!"
"Fair point!" Khadgar nodded and swiftly took a violet robe out of his luggage, a diamond-shaped emblem inscribed on its chest.
Karin also changed into his mage's robe and picked up his staff.
Kel'Thuzad reappeared, but Karin was surprised to discover that his robe was actually dark blue!
Khadgar voiced Karin's question first. "Mage Kel'Thuzad, you've already reached the sixth ring?"
Kel'Thuzad gave Khadgar a cold look and nodded. "I reached the sixth ring five years ago, and I can break through to the seventh ring whenever I wish! I'm simply not satisfied with myself yet, so I'm unwilling to leave Master Antonidas's tutelage!"
Even Khadgar was startled at that.
Judging by the personality Kel'Thuzad had displayed, he certainly wasn't boasting or showing off... what he said had to be true.
But his youthful face looked twenty-something at most.
"How old are you...?" Khadgar asked timidly.
Asking a man his age wasn't a particularly offensive question! So although Kel'Thuzad looked displeased, he still answered, "I turned twenty-four three months ago!"
A twenty-four-year-old seventh-ring mage!
"Wow!" Khadgar immediately exclaimed.
Karin, meanwhile, didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Was everyone in this castle a monster except me?
But that made sense! One was the future