Chapter 289: Ruins to Maze

'The first transcendent,' Ren mused silently, 'this bozo is hard to forget.'

Remembering the time Ren had mentioned that there are about twelve sixteen-star individuals in the Grav Kingdom, he realized that the Hestia Empire also harbored such powerful mages. Eldric was one of them, just like Headmaster Amrose Nexus.

Ren activated his elemental vision for a moment but quickly turned it off, sensing nothing but feeling Eldric's gaze fixed upon him. Eldric emitted no mana presence; one could feel his aura but not his mana, so if he wanted, he could practically be invisible to everyone's senses here.

"Well, well, well," Eldric began, stretching his left arm wide as a staff materialized in his palm. It was a long wooden staff adorned with the skull of some dead mana beast, with a red stone embedded in the skull's head.