The 31st Piece Turns The Tables (PART 1)

Chapter 158

Chapter 158

Seol, though shocked, calmly sent Frannan a glance.

'...Why me?'

Although Frannan had granted Seol the prestigious position of an Aspect Magician's disciple, Seol still didn't understand his reasoning at all.

Seol also recognized the reality of the situation and knew that Frannan wasn't trying to become Seol's magic teacher.

But then why... Why did Frannan make himself the master of a transferee?

'Is he just trying to make me go with him no matter what?'

It was true that if Seol and the leader of the Steel Lion Mercenaries fought, Seol would be in more trouble than the latter.

The mercenary group's leader had a faction behind him, and Seol was alone.

It was also possible that the leader was exploiting this obvious fact to bully Seol out of the meeting.

After all, if the two conflicted, it would naturally become harder for Seol to join the search party.

Seol understood that the majority of the people in this room implicitly understood these facts.

Even so, even the most obvious plans could fail if one fails to account for their surroundings.

Cartesin, one of Libra's Aspect Magicians, spoke up.

"A-Are you... finally accepting a disciple?"

Another Aspect Magician, Ridwen, was also surprised. However, his reaction was slightly different from Cartesin's.

"But... a transferee? Why did it have to be a transferee?"

"Th-That's right. Is there a reason you chose a transferee as your disciple? If it's alright with you, there are also excellent students at Libra that..."

Frannan quickly cut off Cartesin.

"Enough. Let me do as I please. I care not if my disciple is a transferee of a child of Libra."

Cartesin quickly nodded and changed their attitude.

"That's fair as well. Who cares if they're a transferee when you, of all people, changed your mind? After all, Frannan, the most dangerous thing for the Libra Tower is if all of your individual accomplishments were to disappear with you."

"Hahaha! To think the day would come when Frannan would come to pass on his teachings, what could be better than this?"

"Precisely. I thought because of the incident with Yurin..."

As Cartesin began to reference Yurin, Frannan immediately cut them off.

"Enough. There's no need to mention her at a time like this."

"Ah, you are right..."

The meeting paused for a moment as the Aspect Magicians spoke to one another, providing an opening for one of the mercenary leaders to change the topic.

"More importantly, how will we be going to Alcatron? I understand that we'd be crossing the border once, but..."

"Mhm," answered Yofimba. "First, I'm sure all of you are already aware, but this is an extremely dangerous and time-sensitive matter. Unless everyone resolves themselves, we won't be able to reach Alcatron."

"What? Is it really that dangerous? Why? I thought the Artifact Association had already secured a path? Can't we just use that again to go to Alcatron?"

Yofimba scratched his neck nervously, clearly troubled by that question.

"Well... we sent some of our elite members earlier to confirm the trail, but... the roads we had used were destroyed by a landslide. Because of that, we need to start restoring that path from scratch."