The second and fourth envoy glanced at each other and then looked at Cilera weirdly. They were only interested in him because they felt that he has great potential and not because he was someone special or anything. However, Cilera seemed to not understand this.
After feeling shocked, Max quickly regained his composure and shook his head “I thank esteemed envoys for your kind invitations. However I’ve already decided which academy I’ll join.”
“So which academy do you want to join?” The first and fourth envoy asked simultaneously.
Max glanced towards the envoy of Cloud academy and said “I’ll join the Cloud Academy.”
The fourth envoy seemed surprised for a second before nodding without saying anything. She smiled at the Second envoy “Congratulations second envoy for getting such a talented disciple in your academy.” The second envoy nodded and looked at Max. She was also surprised that Max didn’t give in to such juicy temptation and decided to join the Cloud academy.
Cilera, on the other hand, had her anger flared up. She felt that her face was brutally slapped by him even after she offered to give him such valuable treasures. She laughed coldly “Haha, Good! Good! It’s good that you already know which academy you want to join. However, shouldn’t you have told us this earlier? Did you purposely waited to make fun of us? What a wicked boy. I should discipline you or you’ll cause more trouble to whichever academy you join with this wicked personality of yours.”
Saying this, she raised her hand and slapped toward him. A giant hand of mana appeared above the arena and sought to strike him.
“You dare?” A thunderous voice sounded. It was the second envoy. She shouted and a sword materialised that cut the hand in pieces before it could attack Max.
“Adrienne! What do you think you are doing, stopping me from disciplining a rogue disciple?” Cilera shouted, her eyes turning frighteningly cold.
Adrienne, the envoy from the Cloud academy, looked at her coldly and said “He has become a disciple of my Cloud Academy the moment he expressed his will to join. If there is a need to discipline a disciple of our Cloud academy, I’ll do it myself however, If anyone tries to harm him in my presence, I’ll dice them into pieces.” Speaking the last sentence, she released a frighteningly murderous aura that encompassed a good half of the Colosseum.
The people in the affected region of her aura felt chills running down their spines, it didn’t matter if they were novice mages or three star mages. Many who were weaker than three-star mages were having difficulties in breathing due to pressure.
“Ugh!” Cilera unconsciously took a step back. She knew that she wasn’t a match for Adrienne and that’s why she wouldn’t cross her bottom line even when making sarcastic remarks.
“Second envoy please retract your aura. You are hurting many people in vain.” The fourth envoy’s calm voice sounded.
Swish!
Adrienne retracted her aura right after. Many people sighed in relief and took deep breaths. However they didn’t dare to stay close to the envoys’ sitting area and backed away, afraid of becoming victim between the clash of giants.
Although the envoys’ were only three-star mages, they weren’t something a normal three-star mage could hope to compare and it was clear when Second envoy released her aura.
Although the three-star mages present in audience weren’t suppressed to the point they couldn’t even breathe, they still felt that they will die in a few moves if they dared to fight the envoys’.
However what they didn’t know was that only someone strong like the second envoy could suppress them to such extent. Even the first envoy wasn’t strong enough to do so.
Regardless, the respect and fear they had for the academies only increased after this.
Cilera glared at her murderously but didn’t dare to fight. She clenched her fists as a dangerous glint flashed across her eyes. She then calm down and said “If that’s the case, I won’t say anything.”
After that she pointed at Dalton, Flavia and a few others and said “You guys are also invited to join the royal academy as inner disciples.”
Dalton felt like he was on cloud nine after hearing this. Although he was fairly confident of his strength, he wasn’t completely sure if he could join the royal academy as an inner disciple.
He knew what caused the first envoy to directly recruit him as an inner disciple. He looked at Max and thought ‘You have unknowingly helped me. When I kill you, I’ll try to give you a little less painful death, haha.’
He quickly bowed toward the first envoy “Respected envoy, this disciple very much want to join. Thank you.”
The first envoy nodded. She then looked toward Flavia awaiting her answer.
Dalton noticed this and hurriedly said to Flavia, making his voice as gentle as he could “Miss Flavia, the royal academy is the best choice if you want to become powerful. You should be honoured to be recruited in there.” By saying this he wanted to both convince Flavia so she would join with him while simultaneously gaining the favor of the envoy.
However he didn’t expect Flavia to give him a cold look. She bowed slightly towards the first envoy and said “Thank you for your generous invitation, however I won’t be joining the royal academy.”
She didn’t wait for her to react and bowed towards the second envoy “Esteemed envoy I would like to join the Cloud Academy.”
The second envoy looked at her for a moment and nodded. Then the rest who performed also joined the academy they wanted. However, most of them still chose to join the royal academy. It made Cilera feel better.
After the more talented ones decided which academy they wanted to join, all the envoys looked toward Neer who was still in his seat.
Although not many were optimistic about him joining their academy because they had seen that Neer was with Max so he most likely would choose to join the Cloud Academy, still they entertained the hope.
The fifth envoy said “Kid if you join our White sea academy, you’ll become one of our core disciple and as I said before, you’ll become adept at using Water element there. Note that with your talent, you don’t need to be under anyone and if anyone forces you, I’ll take care of it.” The fifth envoy said the last sentence while glancing at Max.
Max understood what he meant and couldn’t help but smile wryly in his heart. When did he forced Neer? Neer was the one who was adamant to follow him.
Second and fourth envoy didn’t say anything as they were 90 percent sure that Neer will follow Max to the Cloud Academy.
However, Cilera didn’t believe that a commoner like him wouldn’t abandon Max when he was offered to join the first ranked academy as a core disciple with other benefits.
Therefore she said “Candidate Neer, Although you aren’t strong enough or skilled enough to be recruited yet, your grade seven affinity and Dual elements are enough for the Royal academy to recruit you as a core disciple with special importance. Moreover I’ll you give the same what I offered that guy. Think carefully before deciding.”
The eighth envoy also wanted to try her luck and said “If you join our Adhara academy. You will be given top guidance as you train your shadow element that not even Core disciples get. Of course, you’ll be a core disciple as well.”
“…”
Neer listened to them as he wasn’t like Vincent who could interrupt an envoy. After everyone stopped speaking, he stood up from his seat and bowed deeply towards the envoys “I thank envoys for inviting me, however I’ve decided to join the Cloud academy. I hope you won’t take it as an offense.”
He was sweating as he said this due to how anxious he was feeling now. However, he also felt proud of himself for awakening two elements or there won’t be a day where he could reject invitations from the high and mighty academies.
The fifth envoy, eighth envoy and other glared at Max however there wasn’t much malice in their gazes. However, first envoy’s eyes were spitting out fire. From her expression it was clear that She can’t wait to kill him.
The second envoy nodded and said “You guys can go to the recruiter and receive your badges.”
Max, Flavia and Neer went to collect their badges. Max and Flavia were given inner disciple’s badges while Neer got a Core disciple’s badge.
However, the recruiter gave a condition to Neer while handing him over the badge “You’ll be given 6 months to train as a core disciple. If you can’t break through to the Two-star realm and be able to at least defeat someone as strong as you, your core disciple status will be reduced to an outer sector disciple. Understood?”
Max was surprised hearing this. However, it was to be expected. No matter how talented you are, in the end, only the strength matters.
“Understood sir.” Neer nodded stiffly. Max patted his shoulder “It’s fine, with your talent you can easily do this. He then glanced at Flavia who was with them and smiled “Miss beautiful, let’s go and wait until this recruitment comes to an end.”
Flavia looked at his smile and for some reason also found herself smiling in response. She quickly realised this and stopped herself. “Okay. However, sir don’t need to call me that. If you want, you can call me Flavia.”
“Okay I’ll do just that then. You can call me Max.” Max extended his hand towards her introducing himself.
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