Chapter 344: Chapter 18: Teammates

The sound of the wooden chair scraping against the floor startled Lynch, who was flipping through the manual. When he looked up, he met a pair of amber eyes.

A boy appeared before him, about the same age as his current appearance, with curly brown hair, wearing light leather armor, and carrying a two-handed broadsword on his back. A typical swordsman outfit.

The boy leaned on the table with one hand, sunlight danced over the sword sheath he carried through the cross window, and after observing Lynch for a moment, he suddenly reached out and poked the badge on his chest: “B-level? Can a place like El Town produce a B-level?”

Just as Lynch was about to speak, the boy had already seated himself opposite. He casually unhooked the Cross Sword from his back and placed it on the table, creating a crisp sound as the metal collided with the tabletop — marked with the flame insignia of the Feiyan City Weapons Workshop.

“I’m Sirius Olay, this year’s rookie adventurer dark horse in the making, future Platinum-level adventurer.” The boy raised his chin, revealing a slender scar on his neck: “Heard you chose the Resentment Forest? The ghouls there love guys like you with soft skin.”

Before Lynch could respond, a sound of footsteps came from the hallway. A moment later, a girl was seen walking towards them.

She was about the same age as them, with sandy-blonde hair, wearing a flat white priest hat, a moon-white priest robe hanging to her ankles, with gold-thread embroidered crescent wrapped in thorns, and holding a long golden tin rod.

The girl in the white robe looked somewhat dazed, stumbling as she ran over, accidentally bumping into a warrior who had just exited.

“Sorry… sorry…”

The warrior was about to lose his temper, but upon turning to see that it was a Church Priest, he swallowed his words, waved generously as if nothing happened, then walked out without looking back.

“Hilia, over here!” The boy in front of Lynch stood up to signal at the girl.

The girl finally walked over.

Sirius continued introducing to Lynch: “This is Hilia, a specialized teammate of the Sirius Adventure Group, how about that? Impressive, huh? My adventure group even has a genuine Transcendent, a Church Priest.”

The girl shyly tugged at Sirius’s clothes, interrupting his fervor: “Uh… Sirius, I’m only here because of the priest examination, so I can’t adventure with you long-term.”

“Ahem!”

Sirius looked a bit awkward: “Alright! Alright!”

But after a pause, he immediately became enthusiastic, full of confidence: “Anyway, I’m really great, joining my adventure group is definitely not a loss; on the contrary, in the future you’ll feel how fortunate you are! Trust me!”

Sirius’s words sounded arrogant, but he indeed had the arrogance to back it.

Because his identity was quite extraordinary!

On the surface, he seemed only like an ordinary rookie adventurer, but actually, he’s a noble, and not just any noble, but the young master of Senlang Castle, an Earl level territory north of Feiyan City.

The series of events Greywell has orchestrated in Feiyan City over the years has already spread throughout the Jade Land, local nobles are said to be gnashing their teeth at what he’s done, only hesitating to act due to the mysterious forces rumored to back him.

Despite this, some necessary investigations still had to be conducted.

And Earl Auslait of Senlang Castle, like other nobles, was eager to understand what precisely Greywell was up to, so after discussing with his supporting Transcendent forces, they decided to send someone over to have a look.

Sirius was the one assigned to come over.

Lynch nodded: “Hello, my name is Legolas Silvanas, an apprentice archer.”

“Such a long name.” The nearby girl stuck out her tongue. Noticing Lynch’s gaze coming over, she hurriedly said: “Sorry, I didn’t mean anything bad, I was just… just…”

Lynch shook his head: “It’s okay.”

Seeming not very adept at conversation, the girl shyly said: “Uh… I’m Hilia, Hilia Zeli, an apprentice priest of the Light Church, currently undergoing the First-level Priest examination.”

Don’t be fooled by the little priest’s seemingly simple demeanor; she’s not someone simple either.

Three years ago, during the regular Transcendent screening held in Feiyan City, she was detected to have Extraordinary Talent, a quite superior Fourth-class Talent, and upon discovery, she was immediately contested by several Transcendent forces within Feiyan City—

Lynch is very focused on cultivating Transcendent power within the Witch Domain; he’s openly stated to his apprentices that those capable of nurturing excellent apprentices would receive substantial rewards.

After a series of considerations, she was eventually assigned to the Light Church, personally nurtured by the Red-clothed Archbishop Saul.

Lynch had arranged his seven apprentices separately, with Alya and Saul in charge of the Church; Mila of Alchemy and Regga of Fu Wenxue were placed in the Alchemy Workshop; Magic Farm was entrusted to Flora of Plantology and Lena.

Additionally, a Minstrel Association was established, led by Kali of Bloodline Study, to utilize the Spiritual Field of vampires well suited to Spiritual Series spells.

And the city’s Wizard Tower was now jointly managed by them.

The Light Church, Alchemy Workshop, Magic Farm, Minstrel Association, Wizard Tower, Lynch precisely divided his Transcendent power among these based on different powers, optimizing resources for targeted cultivation to yield precisely needed talents.

After six years of operation, Lynch’s Transcendent force has grown to over two hundred, already a considerable Transcendent influence.

Lynch nodded again: “Hello.”

Regarding the first discovered Fourth-class Talent within his forces, he was undoubtedly familiar, having followed her closely, and her eventual assignment to the Light Church was a decision he personally made.

“Looks like you all already know each other, then no need for my introduction, right?” At this point, Erin walked over: “So, is everyone here?”

Sirius glanced around, pouting: “Haven’t seen Triss yet, she’s actually late…”

Just as he said this, a cool female voice interrupted: “Who did you say was late?”

From the shadow nearby, a figure emerged.

This was a girl, again looking around their age, with dark blue hair tied into a neat single ponytail with a dark red ribbon, her fitted dark green soft leather home accentuating the emerging sharp lines of youth, waist-side three throwing knives and grappling hook gleamed matte, her profession was discernible at a glance.

Lynch raised an eyebrow, a hint of displeasure in his eyes.

Though the girl before him appeared well-concealed, Lynch easily detected the hidden Spiritual Field surrounding her, likely at a High-level Apprentice stage, clearly her apparent profession did not match her true identity.

None of the Transcendent forces within his Witch Domain included the girl before him, several hundred people he could easily remember.

So evidently, this Transcendent disguised as a thief in front of him came from some other Transcendent force.

’Another disruptor, I suppose?’

The number of active Transcendents in the Jade Land isn’t small, and with the commotion he’s caused here, it’s long attracted the attention of more than one force in this region, countless investigations conducted overtly and covertly over the years.

After all, what with establishing farms and running professionals here, exhaustively spending resources and seemingly squandering Magic Stone as though without cost, he’s obviously extremely wealthy.

Countless secret forces are itching to know, what’s the background of this outsider.

Is he a hungry wolf? Or a fat sheep?

Sirius scanned his team members one by one, even more proud.

As a noble, he certainly wasn’t some run-of-the-mill product from a country militia corps, he received family inheritance, trained rigorously at the castle since childhood, having condensed Fighting Spirit at an early age, undeniably a genius!

’Witness the moment my team sees me release Fighting Spirit, they’ll be shocked!’

Haha!

Low-key! Low-key!

Pretending to be an ordinary swordsman, mingling with these adventurers as one of them, and then revealing his identity at the opportune moment, astonishing everyone present, haha, it’s practically just like legendary tales.

Just imagining that scene made Sirius unable to contain his joy.

He urgently declared, “Then let’s set off!”

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