Great Demon King [45-???]

Chapter 391 - 399

GDK 391 – No turning back

Han Shuo surveyed the no longer young magus in front of him. Crowley was a dark grand magus. An average student in Babylon Academy of Magic and Force might not have any impression of him. However, Han Shuo who once did odd jobs within the necromancy major knew of this person's existence.

At that time, Han Shuo and Jack were always in charge of cleaning the statues along the path first thing in the morning. All the outstanding graduates from past years of the academy each had a statue placed along the path. Crowley was impressively one of the numerous statues which Han Shuo had previously cleaned for a period of time.

The time when Crowley was in the dark major was formerly also the dark major's period of glory. Ever since Crowley became a journeyman mage, four consecutive years of the academy's competition between majors had been swept by the dark major's team that was led by Crowley. After Crowley had graduated from the dark major, he very quickly also became a dark archmage. Crowley really had many major achievements before he traveled around the Profound Continent in the past few years.

Merely, too much time has passed. Due to Crowley's fascination in further advancing, his reputation had slowly waned and was gradually forgotten by the people in Lancelot Empire. It even reached the point where some new teachers and students of the dark major had never heard any information about him.

Han Shuo looked at Crowley who had issued him a challenge, recalling the time when he was an errand slave looking up at Crowley's statue. Han Shuo suddenly had an absurd feeling in his heart. Just a while ago, he had actually become such a person's opponent and was even being challenged by him. Han Shuo could feel a sense of pride rising within himself.

It was precisely because of this that Han Shuo had an extremely splendid smile. However, when Crowley saw Han Shuo's splendid smile, Crowley interpreted it as Han Shuo completely looking down on him. Crowley felt that he was being insulted, holding back the anger in his heart and said, "Count Bryan, what is the meaning of this. Could it be that you feel contempt about my challenge and intend to reject it?"

Smiling as he shook his head, Han Shuo couldn't help but straightened his mind which was imagining wildly. He then sized up Crowley more seriously, hesitating a moment before knitting his brows and said, "You have misunderstood. I was only recalling past events. When I was still an errant servant in the necromancy department, I had previously cleaned your statue. Who would have guessed that today you would issue a challenge to me? Honestly speaking, I feel extremely honored!"

Crowley was astonished and couldn't help but turn his head to look at his old friend in the dark major, Deo, seemingly wanting to seek confirmation from Deo about the matter.

"That's right. A few years ago, as an errand servant, he had previously cleaned the hallway leading to the dark major's building. Ah, when you became a dark grand magus had previously applied with the dean to place your statue there. What is said is correct, he had indeed cleaned your statue before." Deo felt somewhat awkward as he explained but still narrated in full detail to clear Crowley's doubts.

When Crowley heard Deo's explanation and considered that Han Shuo had previously cleaned his statue, he couldn't help but hesitate slightly in his heart and actually didn't really want to challenge Han Shuo anymore. No matter what, Han Shuo had previously shown respect to him. For him to act in this way appeared slightly insincere.

By the side, the dark major's person in charge Deo saw Crowley showing some hesitation, he couldn't help but hastily gave Crowley a meaningful glance before smiling slightly and said to Han Shuo, "Count Bryan, so do you actually plan to accept Crowley's challenge or not?"

"Of course, didn't I just say it a moment ago, I'm extremely honored!" Han Shuo smiled cheerfully as he replied, shooting a glance at Deo. Han Shuo understood what Deo was planning, but he had absolute confidence and wasn't afraid of defeating Crowley here.