"Did Yaoyao send you?"
Just as Abigail turned to leave, Leo's voice drifted from behind her.
Abigail's body stiffened instantly, his raised foot stopping in mid-air; his reaction clearly indicated that Leo had guessed correctly.
"Alright, you can go now."
No wonder Abigail acted so strangely after the banquet and even came to apologize; it turns out that Yaoyao was behind it all.
Just as they were talking about Yaoyao, Yaoyao appeared on Leo's shoulder, reeking of alcohol, and asked with a grin, "Hiccup, how was it? Abigail Leo by?"
Leo frowned and waved the Godslaying Staff. A stream of water appeared in the air. He reached out and grabbed Yaoyao, throwing her directly into the stream before she could react.
After stirring vigorously, a Yaoyao without the smell of alcohol reappeared on Leo's shoulder.
At this moment, the smile on Yaoyao's face vanished with the flowing water, replaced by an angry glare as she glared at Leo and shouted:
"Like a dog biting Lü Dongbin, not recognizing a kind heart. Do you even know that Abigail's greatest skill is her Altar Summoning Technique? Back when she was an apprentice, she could open the Jeft World. That's incredible knowledge."
"I easily got this knowledge from you, and instead of being grateful, you treat me like this. You heartless, inconsiderate, and destined-to-be-single-for-life guy, I curse you."
"Then who told you that Abigail's Altar Summoning Technique is unique?" Leo ignored Yaoyao's anger and went straight to the point.
"..."
Just as Yao Yao was about to unleash her Yaoyao and continue cursing Leo, she was like a cassette tape, all the words she wanted to say stuck in her throat, and her originally angry eyes immediately turned into surprise.
" Nigel told me."
Yaoyao whispered, realizing that Leo's eyes seemed to see right through him; he couldn't hide anything from Leo.
"So, was Nigel also the one who told you about this plan to have Abigail come to apologize?"
Facing Leo's penetrating gaze, Yaoyao nodded obediently and carefully.
"You're not angry, are you?"
Seeing that Leo was not speaking, Yaoyao asked tentatively in a low voice.
Before the banquet, Nigel approached him and said he had a way to help Leo get revenge and also obtain a huge sum of compensation.
Although Nigel was unaware of the feud between Leo and Abigail, judging from Leo's attitude, he was definitely not going to let Abigail off easily.
Only by benefiting Leo can one possibly achieve their goals.
"How could that be? Although he has his own goals, I'm not the one who suffers the loss. On the contrary, I'm the one who benefits. I have no reason to be angry; I'm happy about it," Leo said with a smile.
By not killing Abigail and gaining valuable knowledge, he seemed to have made a huge profit.
"As long as you're not angry."
"Call Nigel over tomorrow. I think we'll need a lab assistant while we're in Tiyama City, and he'd be perfect for it."
Those who work hard deserve a reward.
" Leo, you're so kind!"
Having understood Yaoyao Leo meant, Yao Yao hugged Leo's ear and rubbed it from side to side, a unique way of being Yaoyao.
Leo knew without asking that Yaoyao, with her personality, must have already assured Nigel that as long as Abigail obediently handed over the knowledge of Altar Summoning Technique, he would guarantee that Leo would help her advance one level.
The next day, having received the news, Nigel waited early in Leo's room, standing guard on either side of Benji. Nigel would occasionally give Benji a smile.
Leo quickly called Nigel into the room and, after examining his knowledge, roughly understood his level.
"It's alright, your basic knowledge is solid, what you lack is your own unique insights. You've been by my side for a while now, how much you learn depends on your ability."
"Thank you, Master Leo. I will definitely work hard."
While Leo was researching thunder magic, he also had Nigel handle some of the knowledge he could grasp.
This was a level one witchcraft he would never see in his entire life, a precious knowledge that he could only afford by spending all his wealth to acquire each spell.
Now, dozens of First-Level Wizard were placed before him, an impact he could not imagine. This was the closest he had ever come to becoming Official Wizard in his generations. Every day, apart from necessary official duties, he spent all his time learning from Leo.
He would remember everything Leo said, and he would even carefully collect a few symbols that Leo casually wrote down, because one of those characters might be the key factor that triggered his promotion.
Leo spent his days studying his witchcraft, occasionally teaching Nigel, while completely ignoring Abigail and the others, letting Leo do as they pleased.
Leo's promise was only to protect Tiyama City. Once people left the city, they would have nothing to do with Leo anymore.
At first, everything seemed normal. It was as if the wizards of the Black Skull Academy had forgotten about Tiyama City, and no one came to check on Tuoluoyin's death there.
But as time went by, in less than six months, Leo noticed a change.
When he first arrived, the population of Tiyama City was no more than 200,000; now it has exceeded 300,000.
The population increased by 100,000 without anyone noticing.
This certainly wasn't natural reproduction; no one could reproduce 100,000 people in six months, unless they were rabbits.
Therefore, these people all migrated from other towns.
" Leo, those wizards from the Purple Flame Academy are so wicked! They actually used the teleportation array to secretly teleport residents from other towns to Tiyama City! If I hadn't discovered it... well, we would have been tricked by them."
At the same time Leo discovered the problem, Yaoyao also noticed it and immediately ran back to tell Leo.
However, Leo's focus was not on the issue of population growth, but rather on what Yaoyao Yao was hiding from him.
"What is that?"
What have you been doing these past few days?
Leo, who had been immersed in witchcraft modifications, suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Yaoyao in a long time. If Yaoyao hadn't suddenly appeared today, Leo would have forgotten about her.
Faced with Leo's sharp questioning, Yaoyao's big eyes flickered a few times, and then he disappeared instantly. This time, he was not caught by Leo.
Do you know what Yaoyao Heavenly Capital?
Leo glanced at Nigel, who looked embarrassed beside him.
"Master Leo, this... this... Lady Yaoyao probably saw that those Wizard Apprentice were too weak, so she wanted to find a way to help them improve their strength. She's been giving those Wizard Apprentice targeted training Heavenly Capital at the training ground in the west of the city."
Nigel tried to use euphemisms to describe what Yaoyao had been doing these past few days. While looking at the expressionless Leo, he secretly prayed that it had nothing to do with him, that he hadn't leaked the secret, and that Master Leo had forced him to say it.
After hearing Nigel's words, Leo realized that Yaoyao was just a bully using his power to intimidate the Wizard Apprentice.
All that training was just a cover for Yaoyao.
"Oh well, whatever, let him be."
For a moment, Leo wanted to grab Yaoyao back, but then he thought that with Yaoyao around, her active nature would gather a lot of information, saving him a lot of trouble.
Furthermore, these Purple Flame Academy wizards actually exploited their own weaknesses, letting Yaoyao bully them, which can be considered a lesson for them.
Yaoyao must have discovered the increase in Wizard Apprentice to uncover their underhanded dealings.
In Leo's perception, not only had the number of civilians increased by 100,000, but there had also been two more First-Level Wizard hiding around Abigail, trying to use Abigail's aura to conceal their whereabouts.
"Go tell them that it doesn't matter how many civilians they want to relocate, just don't do it so secretly. They're all hundreds of years old, why bother?"
Leo initially pretended not to see it, after all, he still had some friendship with the Purple Flame Wizard Academy, and he would help if he could.
But then I thought, if all the people from the surrounding towns were moved here, it would inevitably attract the wizards from the Black Skull Academy.
Once these wizards are dealt with, I will have fulfilled my promise and can leave!
Waiting in vain would never be as quick as getting him to take the initiative and solve the problem. Once he let go of this thought, a smile, which had been absent from Leo's expressionless face for a long time, appeared.
On the very day Leo gave the order, three teleportation arrays within Tiyama City were activated, their powerful spatial force perceptible even to wizards hundreds of kilometers away.
As a large influx of people poured in, the once desolate and dilapidated Tiyama City quickly became filled with noise. Nigel's busy official duties prevented him from coming to study with Leo for half a month.
Furthermore, a large number of wizarding auras appeared, and after a brief encounter, they headed towards Leo's direction.
"I don't want to see them, stop them."
Leo immediately gave the instructions to Benji.
"Yes, Lord Leo."
Soon, the wizards stopped in their tracks. Benji stood in front of them, and after saying that Leo was busy with experiments and didn't want to see them, all the wizards returned to their other places dejectedly.
Not being able to meet the Legendary Wizard immediately was a huge loss for them.
Of course, they also knew that the meeting was yet to come, and once the Black Skull Wizard discovered that everyone had gathered in Tiyama City, they would definitely follow the scent and come over.
As they expected, when the population of Tiyama City surpassed two million, wizards from the Black Skull Wizard Academy appeared!
More than twenty wizards stood in the sky above Tiyama City, unleashing their own auras of power without restraint; three were at level two and seventeen at level one.
It turns out that it wasn't just the wizards of the Purple Flame Academy who wanted to relocate all the population here for centralized management; the wizards of the Black Skull Academy were also waiting for this day.