Wizard starting from shoeing donkeys Chapter 1536 - 528: Mutant Spider Swarm (Part 3)

"You... Are you a High Rank Wizard?" Elder Brighton found himself compelled to inquire.

Rein cast a quick look toward the faint silhouette of Nirheim City far off in the distance, ignoring Elder Brighton's query entirely. With a faint smile crossing his lips, he declared, "Ladies and gentlemen, I've got other business to handle, so I'll be on my way."

"Sir, what's your name?" Ayana blurted out without thinking.

"Sister!" Antaruka rushed to hush her right away!

The wizard standing before them possessed tremendous strength; that recent surge of energy had been utterly frightening.

He realized in that instant the stranger had no malicious plans at all. If there had been any, he wouldn't have been the only one doomed—the whole caravan would have seemed like those alien spider lairs to the wizard, ready to be wiped out in a flash.

Before anyone could blink, Rein had vanished right from where he stood.

"My name is Rein!"

Yet, a distant voice lingered softly in the air.

"This..."

The Brightons stood even more stunned by the display; wizards weren't unfamiliar to them, and their own clan even boasted priests on par with such mages. Still, disappearing like mist in the wind? They'd never laid eyes on anything like it.

"A divine miracle..." Elder Brighton whispered under his breath.

"Lord Rein, huh..." Ayana strained to burn that image deep into her memory.

...

Since their spot lay close to the Isodre School Station, Rein employed a touch of 'Shadow Shifting' to reach the outskirts of Nirheim City.

"Hmm, the defenses seem pretty solid."

Rein quickly discerned the massive Witch Array blanketing all of Nirheim City, designed apparently just for spotting intruders.

After a brief pause for thought, Rein flickered again. In a heartbeat, he slipped through like piercing a soap bubble, landing atop a commoner's rooftop.

None of his moves set off warnings in the enormous detection Witch Array, almost as though he'd blended seamlessly instead of breaking in.

Rein took in the urban landscape. Amid the crowded cluster of two- or three-story stone houses with flat roofs, the grand Isodre School Station dominated the heart of the city.

As dusk settled, crowds bustled nearby, though their clothes marked most as wanderers or ethnic groups akin to the Brightons.

"They've seized the heart of an entire city..."

"What a shame, letting the Evil God and hidden cults flourish wildly—it's a waste of that prime spot..."

Rein shook his head, then in the very next second, materialized straight before the Isodre School Station.

"Hmm? Where'd this extra guy pop up from?" A few guards blinked hard and exchanged baffled glances.

"Who... who are you?" One guard ventured carefully.

"Kindly let them know Rein has arrived for a visit," Rein stated with steady calm.

"Please hold on."

Faced with Rein's strangely sudden arrival, the guard showed no slacking and dashed back to a nearby outpost, alerting what looked like the guard captain—a Third Level Wizard Apprentice:

"Sir, there's a visitor here."

The Third Level Wizard Apprentice pored over an old book. At the guard's words, he glanced up indifferently, noted Rein's fresh-faced look, and mused inwardly: "Just another kid hoping to sign up for the school?"

"What's his purpose? You check?" The Third Level Wizard Apprentice inquired with lazy disinterest.

"Um... I spaced on asking. Let me go find out." Dazed by Rein's odd entrance, the guard truly hadn't questioned it.

"Forget it—most of these roaming young apprentices show up begging to join. Inform him the trials are over; try again next year." The Third Level Wizard Apprentice brushed it off with a wave, eyes fixed downward.

"Uh..." The guard sensed something off, yet he'd truly overlooked the details, pausing uncertainly.

"Oh, right—what's his name?" The Third Level Wizard Apprentice tossed out idly, as if it just occurred to him.

"He claims his name is Rein!"

"What! Rein?" The Third Level Wizard Apprentice jerked his head up and stared straight at Rein!

Word had come down recently: spot a Dawn Wizard called Rein and alert the bosses at once. But no one said he'd turn out this youthful!

Right then, though, Rein grew a tad restless and channeled a hint of his spiritual force, proclaiming, "Lord Stuart, Rein has come to visit!"

In that instant, an unseen sonic ripple burst from Rein aimed at the Isodre School Hall. Those final four words boomed ever stronger, crashing like ocean surges, exploding like thunder right at the hall's entrance!

...

Right now, within the Isodre School's meeting chamber.

Deputy Sect Leader Malcolm joined four Peak Crystallization Wizards and Stuart Abel—the Dawn Wizard dubbed 'Shield of Rock'—in heated discussion.

"Sect Leader, are you certain Rein will head straight for the Shirendil Plateau?" Questioned an aged wizard whose hair had turned mostly gray.

"Belief isn't the issue anymore. Solid intel says Rein departed Mingster just half a day back, with his airship veering northwest then—pointing to a direct path toward the Shirendil Plateau and right here at our school," Malcolm clarified.

"This... this kid's boldness is off the charts; barely hitting Dawn Wizard rank and he pulls a stunt like this!" Sighed another old wizard sporting a mustache, shaking his head.

"True enough—the Isodre School has endured on the Shirendil Plateau for almost a millennium; no mere youth can topple it. Bet once he hits the station and spots our huge Defensive Witch Array, he'll bolt in fear."

The elderly wizard toying with a dull yellow orb cracked the joke.

"Hahaha!"

The group burst into booming laughter at the quip.

All at once, a booming roar thundered through the conference hall!

"... Rein has come to visit!"

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