Chapter 114

"Looks like we've been spotted."

Lin Cheng glanced at the group in the distance, who had instantly become alert and were already in attack stances, and a smile spread across his face. "What a dangerous mission. And it's my very first one, too."

"Let's wrap this up quick."

"I never expected Fiore Kingdom's elite mage squad, the Bai Hu, to be here."

Jellal, wearing an Akatsuki-style uniform trench coat, glanced at the gloomy sky and the goose-feather snow drifting down, and said flatly, "I don't want to linger too long in this harsh environment."

As his words fell, a golden glow materialized over Jellal's body.

His body shot straight up into the air, transforming into a streak of light that streaked toward the Bai Hu squad in the distance at tremendous speed.

"Celestial Magic: Seven-Star Sword."

Looking at the Bai Hu squad members staring back at him in horror, Jellal's expression remained impassive.

The sky, which had been dim but still had some brightness, plunged straight into total darkness, and within that darkness, seven glowing magic circles, forming the Big Dipper, flickered unmistakably........

"You're Councilman Jellal?!"

"Why…"

Looking at Jellal, whose hood had been blown back by the cold wind, the Bai Hu captain's already horrified gaze grew even more stunned.

The Bai Hu captain knew Jellal's appearance well enough — after all, Jellal's previous thought projection, Jellal, had been far too famous. Not only was he one of the Ten Wizard Saints, he was also the youngest member of the Magic Council.

"Bastard!"

"All personnel, listen to my command! Share your magic power with me!"

The Bai Hu captain quickly came back to his senses, and the spear in his hand began to shimmer with a pale cyan glow.

Although he was deeply shocked as to why Jellal — one of the Ten Wizard Saints and a member of the Magic Council — would appear before him, and moreover, dressed in strange clothing and about to attack his group.

But the Bai Hu captain was absolutely not the sort of man to sit and wait for death.

He drove the spear, still shimmering with pale cyan light, straight into the ground beneath his feet, and at once a massive pale cyan magic circle materialized beneath the Bai Hu captain's feet.

As the pale cyan magic circle appeared, the magic power within the six squad members beside the Bai Hu captain all surged into the Bai Hu captain's body, causing his magic power to skyrocket exponentially.

"Magic sharing, is it?"

"One S-rank and six A-ranks — barely enough, I suppose."

Watching the Bai Hu captain's reaction, Jellal's expression didn't change at all.

Everyone knew the Magic Council's Magician's Spritron.

But what the Magic Council truly used to govern the continent was not the Magician's Spritron.

Over the past century, the Magic Council had developed various ancient-era ruins and mastered the secret techniques of each ancient era; among them, the magic-sharing spell was the Magic Council's most successful and most mature magic.

The magic sharing used by Fiore Kingdom's Bai Hu squad was a castrated version passed down by the Magic Council, with a fifty-percent loss in shared magic power.

The version the Magic Council itself used, on the other hand, had zero loss.

【PS: One more chapter — should be done around two o'clock.】