Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 41 The Night Before
Dark room.

A man with his face wrapped in cloth and wearing a blue cloak stood facing a wall, which was covered with densely packed text and pictures. A man in a grey cloak behind him was respectfully reporting to him.

"Master Deacon, our recent actions seem to have been noticed by Bo City."

“Many believers are surrounded by unfamiliar faces.”

"Oh? Did you notice?"

The deacon's tone remained unchanged.

"It seems that there are still some smart people in Bo City."

"Should we put our actions on hold?"

"Delay?"

The deacon repeated it, then suddenly jumped up, grabbed the priest's head with his strong palm, and smashed him to the ground.

"Oh!"

The dull sound echoed in the confined space, and heavy leather shoes stepped on the priest's face.

"This appetizer is our gift to Lord Saran. It is our honor. No matter what happens, we cannot stop our plan."

"Understand?"

"Lord Saran has already absorbed all the attention of those idiots in the Inquisition. The ten-year great cause, and now these local snakes in Bo City standing in our way are just a small setback in the process of achieving the great cause."

"Are you going to ask me to tell Lord Saran that we are so useless that we can't even handle a group of local natives?"

Bang!
The deacon loosened his shoes and kicked the ignorant priest away.
"The destruction of Bo City is inevitable, but the grand ceremony we are waiting for is unstoppable!"

"The little episode before us will only serve as an embellishment to the grand scene."

"Yes, my lord!"

……

The night before the coming of age ceremony.

"Boss Zhankong, why are you calling me so late at night?"

Li Yu yawned, half asleep and half awake, and said:

"Tomorrow I'm going to watch the fight between Mo Fan and Mu Yuang."

He was looking forward to seeing what kind of shock the thunder and fire systems would bring to the audience.

Then, Zhankong directly declared that his daydream was shattered.

"I'll need you for something tomorrow. As for the duel, don't worry, it won't happen."

"Can't fight?"

Li Yu suddenly woke up and opened his eyes wide.

"why?"

"You just need to remember to keep everything confidential and go somewhere to help catch some people tomorrow."

"Catch someone? A magician?"

"Nonsense, if he wasn't a magician I would have called the police directly."

"Then shouldn't we go to the Magic Association, Hunter Union, and Inquisition to capture the magician? At the very least, Boss Zhankong, your military magicians are not just there to do nothing, right?"

“Don’t talk nonsense to me.” Zhan Kong’s tone on the phone was obviously angry.
"Just asking if you're going?"

"Go, of course!"

This was a rare opportunity to catch someone, and he had to experience it to the fullest.

Zhan Kong hung up the phone. At an opportune moment, there was a knock on the door and several elite mages walked in.

"Military commander!"

After entering the room, several people saluted Zhankong, who also returned the salute.

"I think you have made your decision."

Zhan Kong looked at his subordinates in front of him. Each of them had a determined look in his eyes, without any timidity or fear. As a representative of everyone, Jun Qianshan, the commander-in-chief of the joint investigation team, spoke up:
"Arresting the Black Church is the unshirkable responsibility and obligation of military mages like us."

"Then you should also know how bloody and horrific the Black Church's means of revenge are."

“Military Control Commission, you don’t need to test our resolve. Now that we are here, we have already thought of all the consequences.

We have no family and have been living in the army. If we still have to worry about the consequences and fear the revenge of the so-called Black Church, how can we be worthy of our sacrificed comrades? How can we be worthy of our military robes? How can we be worthy of the lives lost under the atrocities of the Black Church? "

Jun Qianshan hammered heavily on the wizard robe on his body, his resolute face full of bloodiness, and his eyes met with Zhankong's.

half an hour.

"In that case..."

Zhankong raised the document in his hand.
"As my subordinates and the strongest backbone of the entire Bo City, you need to undertake the most dangerous and arduous tasks."

"Is there a problem?"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

The loud voice echoed in Zhankong's ears. It proved that even if the terror brought by the Black Church was deeply rooted in people's hearts, there were still a group of people who would stand up when necessary.

Similar scenes not only appeared in the Snow Peak Mountain Inn, but also in the Hunter Alliance and the Magician Association.

The mages, who had already prepared themselves mentally, stayed up all night, waiting intently for the arrival of the next day.

……

Mu's Manor.

Standing at the highest point of the villa, Mu Zhuoyun, looking at the brightly lit Mu Manor below, waited for his precious daughter to arrive.

"After tomorrow, you should hurry back to the academy."

Mu Zhuoyun didn't even turn his head and spoke directly to Mu Ningxue behind him.

Without saying anything else, Mu Zhuoyun knew why his daughter came.

If it was any other time, Mu Zhuoyun might be angry because his family sided with that little bastard Mo Fan, but he would not be like that now. He just wanted Mu Ningxue to leave the vortex of Bo City as soon as possible.

If Mu Zhuoyun was not worried that his daughter's failure to return home would alert the people of the Black Church to something unusual, he might have simply let Mu Ningxue stay in the imperial capital.

Tomorrow, everything may end, or it may just be the beginning.

Yu Ang's betrayal was undoubtedly a stab in the back for Mu Zhuoyun. The Mu family, which already had a dominant position in Bo City, was likely to see its reputation reversed due to the appearance of this Black Church member.

Therefore, as the head of a clan, Mu Zhuoyun was bound to clash with the Black Church.

But wealth and honor are achieved through risk. As long as he successfully participates in resolving the crisis of the Black Church, the Mu family will still be the same Mu family, and its reputation will even be further enhanced because of this achievement.

But he also had to guard against the possibility of the Black Church's revenge if the plan failed. The cruelty of the Black Church had been deeply rooted in people's minds through long-term propaganda. It was not a story made up by humans, but a lesson taught to the world by countless tragic deaths.

To Mu Zhuoyun, Mu Ningxue was the most important person to him, and a place like the Imperial Capital Academy, where there were so many powerful people, was where his daughter should be.

In order to make his daughter obedient, Mu Zhuoyun said a few more words.

"Don't worry, I won't make things difficult for that little bastard Mo Fan tomorrow, nor will I let Yu Ang make things difficult for him."

Mu Ningxue, who had been listening to Mu Zhuoyun's words without saying a word since she arrived here, felt a strong sense of disobedience in her heart. If her father was really such an easy-going person, how could she have found this place?

and……

"Why do you want me to go back to school?"

Mu Ningxue's cold voice rang beside Mu Zhuoyun's ears.

Since she went to the Imperial Academy, Mu Zhuoyun never urged her to go home every time, until she took the initiative to mention the return journey.

"Did something happen?"

"Nothing will happen." Mu Zhuoyun showed his fatherly authority in front of Mu Ningxue for the first time in a long time.
"Just remember, don't stray too far from me tomorrow, and you will go straight back to the academy after tomorrow."

"tomorrow?"

"I understand."

Mu Ningxue's personality prevented her from getting to the bottom of the matter. If she just waited one more night, she would be able to figure out everything.

(End of this chapter)