Feeling the chill emanating from Leo, Yaoyao obediently dared not move, her big eyes Gulu around. While Leo wasn't paying attention, she was searching through Leo's memories of Abigail.
This was the first time he had ever seen Leo so angry, so irrational. Leo almost couldn't help but kill Abigail in front of him.
This is something that has never happened before.
Yaoyao was extremely Abigail about what Abigail had done to Leo!!
After a while, the wizards outside, led by Benji, walked in in unison.
They seemed to have learned from Abigail what kind of being the wizard sitting before them was.
Level Two Body Refinement Wizard, recipient of one First-Class Wizard Medal and two Third-Class Wizard Medal, accompanied by level three creatures as his combat partners. He advanced to level one later than Abigail, and is a wizard who graduated from the Purple Flame Wizard Academy.
In just over two hundred years, he had already become a highly influential Great Wizard!!!
The wizards and Wizard Apprentice who heard this information were nearly breathless. Any single achievement mentioned was invincible in their eyes.
If they could accomplish even one of these tasks, they would have no regrets even if they died immediately. Yet, all these honors fell upon one person.
What a legendary and great person he was!!!
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes today, they probably wouldn't have known if they would ever hear such a legendary story in their lifetime, yet now it was standing right in front of them!
Fighting alongside such a Legendary Wizard, even doing nothing, is an unparalleled honor just to stand by his side.
Burning gazes were fixed on Leo. They were still shaken by Leo's sudden outburst of aura and felt no hatred. Instead, they worshipped him, worshipped him madly, worshipped him to an extreme degree.
Looking at Leo, they saw as if he were an insurmountable mountain, an uncrossable sea—the ultimate goal they had pursued in their entire lives!
Nigel was the most excited among them. He had thought that Leo was just an ordinary First-Level Wizard, and he sent a message to Leo with the attitude of calling for as many reinforcements as possible.
Unexpectedly, it wasn't just an ordinary First-Level Wizard arrived, but a big shot!
He had been introduced to the wizard Leo by his father, Samatchi, several times back then. At that time, Leo was just a Wizard Apprentice, only slightly better than him.
Even in terms of knowledge about Elemental Wizard, they are far inferior to him.
If we're calculating age, it seems I'm actually a bit older than the wizard Leo standing before me...
But they're already Level Two Wizard, while I'm still just a Wizard Apprentice...
If he had known that Wizard Leo was now in this state, how could he have so easily used what might be his only chance to change his fate?
If you were to ask for something else, even more difficult, the wizard Leo could easily accomplish it.
A feeling of overwhelming regret welled up in Nigel's heart, making him incredibly depressed.
It's like he held a gold nugget but only exchanged it for a steamed bun; that's a huge loss in business.
"Greetings, Master Leo."
Three Official Wizard led eleven Wizard Apprentice in bowing to Leo with the utmost respect, abandoning all other identities. The mere fact that he possessed a First-Class Wizard Medal was enough to make them obey Leo without question.
Leo looked at them; their breathing had improved considerably, at least they weren't on the verge of death like before.
The fundamental difference in their life essence created a gap between him and the Wizard Apprentice Wizard Apprentice that Leo could never have imagined, a gap that made them seem like two completely different kinds of beings.
Over the years, he has either been on expeditions or experimenting and learning in the wizard's tower, and the lowest level of life form he has come into contact with is level one.
Having never even met Wizard Apprentice, he had forgotten that Wizard Apprentice were the weakest members of the Wizard System. Even the slightest leak of his current strength could cause them serious injury.
At this moment, Leo also understood why they were all seriously injured when he came in. It was because of the damage caused by his mental perception when he asked Benji to search for Nigel.
They couldn't even withstand his own level two aura, let alone Benji's level three. It was only because Benji didn't kill these Wizard Apprentice outright that he showed mercy.
Leo sighed, realizing that he had unknowingly become a higher being that even lower life forms feared.
" Nigel, tell me what exactly happened?"
Before entering the city lord's mansion, Leo roughly surveyed the situation in Tiyama City. To put it simply, it was not good. The town, which was large enough to accommodate a million people, now had a large number of vacant houses.
The farmland outside the town was overgrown with weeds, clearly having been abandoned for a long time.
More than two hundred years ago, when he and the wizard Gru came here to guard the town, Tiyama City was a bustling town with a population of hundreds of thousands.
Given the living environment of the Wizard World, and the inexhaustible food and resources available to ordinary natives, the population should have exceeded one million by now.
As a result, the current Tiyama City is less than 200,000, let alone over a million, which is less than the population of two hundred years ago.
A decline in population might happen in other worlds, but Leo had never heard of such a thing in the Wizard World. Such an outcome was either due to severe natural disasters or the incompetence and tyranny of the rulers.
Natural disasters are a given. Apart from wizards, there are no natural disasters in the wizarding Wizard World. The Wizard World has long been transformed by wizards into the best place to live, a place where the weather is favorable and the harvest is plentiful.
As for the ruler's failure, Nigel doesn't seem like a ruler who couldn't govern a town.
"Master, the incident began three years ago when the wizards of the Black Skull Academy suddenly invaded Tiyama City again, plundering the residents in the most violent way."
" Tiyama City had a population of 1.5 million three years ago, but now it has less than 200,000."
In the end, tears welled up in the eyes of this Wizard Apprentice who was over two hundred years old. The painstaking efforts of his father and son over three hundred years had made Tiyama City incredibly prosperous, no less so than those towns with a thousand-year history.
As a result, the wizards of the Black Skull Academy transformed the once prosperous town into a place where everyone lived in fear, on the verge of becoming a desolate wasteland in just three years.
Seeing Nigel's agitated and sorrowful state, Leo offered no words of comfort, only saying, "Now that I'm here, I certainly won't let Black Skull Wizard Academy harm you."
Leo turned to look at Abigail. His gaze was cold, but no longer showed any murderous intent. Now was not the time to kill, and besides, he hadn't figured out how to handle the situation.
He asked, "Is it time to reduce the number of apprentices again?"
Leo remembered that the same thing happened more than two hundred years ago. When the Black Skull Wizard invaded the five academies, in order to avoid the war from escalating, the apprentices would compete to determine the winner, and whichever academy won would have the right to speak.
In the tournament he participated in, he detonated a nuclear bomb, which directly caused numerous casualties among students from six academies.
This directly led to the Purple Flame Academy winning first place.
While the six academies may appear to be holding a tournament to resolve their conflicts, the core purpose is actually to select suitable Wizard Apprentice.
Only those apprentices who survive the brutal elimination process have the opportunity to be promoted to the next level.
Now that the situation is similar, Leo can't help but think that this is just an excuse the six academies are using to select qualified apprentices.
Abigail shook her head, "... Master Leo held the apprentice-level championship thirty years ago; it's not time for the next one yet."
Tell me all your intelligence.
Seeing Abigail's hesitant and stammering manner, Leo knew that this girl was definitely hiding something.
His face darkened instantly, like a sudden storm on the sea, and a low pressure enveloped all the wizards and Wizard Apprentice in the hall, making them tremble.
"Master Leo, Black Skull Academy has been plundering people from surrounding academies ever since we were apprentices. At first, they were just ordinary residents. You know the gap between us and them, so the academy's initial expulsions were merely symbolic."
"But they became increasingly brazen, even targeting Wizard Apprentice. According to my information, they abducted over a thousand apprentices in a span of 100 years, and there were even several instances of them kidnapping Official Wizard."
"I heard that the dean negotiated with them, but I don't know the result."
Abigail gave Leo a meaningful look. The so-called "not knowing the outcome" meant there was no outcome. Even the dean's intervention did not change the result; otherwise, they wouldn't be in this predicament now.
"Especially this time, Black Skull Academy mobilized all its wizards, sparing no effort to seize people. Even though our five wizarding academies tried their best to stop them, they suffered considerable losses and showed no signs of stopping."
At this point, the two First-Level Wizard next to him also joined in the grievance session; they had never seen such crazy behavior before.
Originally, although Black Skull Academy had the upper hand between the two academies, every time Purple Flame Academy put up a slight resistance, the wizards of the Black Skull Academy would tacitly retreat.
They've experienced this more than a dozen times. The last time there were casualties was two hundred years ago, when the wizard Nox tried to kill Leo casually.
The peaceful life in the Wizard World had made them forget the cruelty of war. They assumed this mission would be the same; they thought that as long as they showed up and said a few harsh words, the wizards from the Black Skull Academy would leave.
But when the wizards of the Black Skull Academy stopped fulfilling their tacit agreement, casualties occurred.
The incident began with the deaths of two Official Wizard from the Purple Flame Academy and the abduction of eight apprentices. Over a million residents were then teleported to the territory of the Black Skull Academy, instantly awakening the wizards of the Purple Flame Academy and making them realize that this time the situation was different.