Now Emery understood why Atlas was ranked 99th, a rank far lower than his and Annara’s.
According to the half-blood girl, Atlas spent the last 4 months being repaired back home and had just recently returned after receiving a new upgrade. Consequently, just like Emery and Annara, the half-machine missed the mid-test briefing.
”This will be fun, don’t you think?” Annara asked Emery with both happiness and amusement. Thinking of the future possibilities, the girl could not contain her enthusiasm and smiled even deeper.
Upon hearing the red-haired girl’s thoughts, Emery also thought about it for a moment, before nodding in agreement.
”Emery, now that all the members of your group are here, we should meet to discuss our strategy. The Harlight and Kaleos have set up a meeting, you three should join us as well,” Julian interjected and suggested from the side.
In response, Emery turned to look at the girl and then at Atlas.
Annara immediately understood his worry.
”You have the highest rank among us, so you decide,” she said, before staring at Atlas.”Don’t you agree?”
Altas nodded and said without any expression, “The strongest leads.”
The half-machine’s recognition was indeed genuine. After all, he had witnessed Emery defeat all six privileged acolytes without much effort just now. If that was not enough to earn his recognition, there’s no saying what would.
After getting the two’s affirmation, Emery decided for the group, “All right, we will come to the meeting.”
A few moments later, Yinxiao finally finished completely healing Fei Ling. When the female acolyte saw this, she only stood up and snorted before quickly leaving the place without a word.
”I’m sorry for the trouble. She’s not a bad person, she just needs better friends,” Yinxiao explained.
Apart from Fei Ling, Yunxiao also gave a little treatment to Abrafo and found that his wounds were a lot more serious. After treating the earth acolyte, Yunxiao decided to take the man to the privileged center to get treated.
Thus, Yunxiao quickly left with the dark-skinned man on his back.
”Such a kind man, isn’t he?” Julian casually asked Annara in a surprised tone.
”Yep. That’s why he’s my good partner,” Annara responded with a wicked smile.
Emery, on the other hand, could only hope that nothing serious happened to the guy. As for his [Spirit Devour], he really needed to ask someone about it. He knew the skill belonged to the darkness element, so he decided to make time to find Master Xion and ask about it. Moreover, he had not seen his master for a while, so he decided to drop by as soon as he could.
Finally, it was time to take care of the three Nephilims.
”What are you planning to do with them?” Julian followed Emery’s gaze at the three Nephilims and asked.
The answer was easy for him. Emery calmly controlled the plant to put the three Nephilims down and with a little bit of [Nature’s Blessing] cast on them, all three Nephilims simultaneously awakened.
Armand was quickly shocked when he opened his eyes and found that the tables had turned, with Emery’s party consisting of four and theirs consisting of only three.
Rage and embarrassment from what just happened quickly flashed on his face.
”We… we will report this to the academy, you will be in trouble for hurting us!”
Emery was shocked. This man really could not be any more shameless!
At the same time, Armand seemed to be very confident in his words. Even though they were the ones in the wrong and started the whole thing, would Emery really get into trouble because of it? Did the Nephilims really have such influence?
Emery silently thought about the possibility.
However, Atlas, who had been quiet for a while now, interrupted their conversation.
”I have everything recorded in my left eye, from beginning to end. The entire fight, and even your plan to break into the spirit cave by bringing Abruvi is all here.”
Armand’s eyes widened in shock.
”Huh!? Atlas, you really dare!? Are you betraying the family?!” the Nephilim asked, his anger clearly apparent on his face.
Hearing this, Atlas showed a rare smile he had never seen and turned to Emery, “This record will be enough to put them on trial. According to my calculations, they have a 72% chance of expulsion from the academy and a 21% chance of receiving severe punishment. Will you report on them?”
”Urgggh! Atlas, you bastard!”
To the two’s surprise, Emery stepped forward and looked at the Nephilim with a calm gaze.
”Armand, I will not report this. Just don’t make any more trouble.”
Hearing this, the expression on Armand’s face turned from anger to surprise. He looked into Emery’s eyes to see if this was real. Upon seeing Emery’s serious expression, his surprise turned to disgust.
”Huh! Feeling heroic, are you now? Your type is what I hate the most!”
He then turned to his two mates and told them to go, before leading them to leave using their orbiters.
After watching the three Nephilims leave, Annara looked back towards Emery.
”By the way,” the girl said while walking closer. “How’s your mid-test preparation going?”
Emery looked at the red-haired girl with confusion.
”What do you mean? What preparation?”
”Huh!? Even a champion needs equipment for a 10-day mission, not to mention that you only recently reached rank 9! You really should learn some tier 5 spells!” Annara then paused. “Speaking of, I know a good place to buy rare spells!”
Emery’s interest was quickly piqued by the girl’s words. However, he quickly stopped himself from immediately responding and thought about the wooden creature attached to his arm as well as the one still missing.
Noticing his silence, the red-haired girl’s enthusiasm turned to curiosity.
”What is it?”
Reluctantly, Emery told them about the missing little creatures, causing her to burst out laughing.
Atlas put both of his hands on the ground and used some kind of seismic sensor to feel the slightest tremors, the half-machine quickly found the missing chubby creature on the other side of the island.
Emery was impressed by how dependable this guy actually was.
Finally, for Twik, who was still attached to his arm, Emery used [Nature’s Blessing] on it and found faint energy. He was relieved, of course, but he could only hope the little guy was recovering. He also hoped to find some help for the little guy or at least some information about it.
”All right, where are we going?” Emery asked.
In turn, Annara looked at Emery with a smile.
”Where else? Golden City!”