hotmtlnovel Chapter 613 33
Chapter 613 33
"Phew, looks like I'm close to becoming a 5th Circle Mage." Ardent could not stop the smile from blooming.
When he become a 5th Circle Mage, he will become the stronger human in the region, able to trample over 4th Circle Mage with ease.
"Time for the regular patrol then."
Ardent's schedule is busy, with the first few hours from waking up being patrolling few kilometers from the village. Then, he trained in the dungeon, before, completing another round around the village. The next day, rinse and repeat.
Of course, break and meal were included, with most of them spent with his family, or with Catlin. The latter were more common as Catlin acted like a housewife, taking lesson from her and his mothers.
'I'm not complaining though. It's nice to eat my future wife cooking, especially when she is good at it.'
His little daydream abruptly stopped when he sensed something in the distance. Lowering his altitude, Ardent Shadow Dive into the intertwined shadow of the trees, moving through the darkness and straight to what he sensed.
It took him a few minutes, not due to him being slow, but to the great distance from his previous location and his target. In fact, he moved faster than he ever did when he used Shadow Dive and Shadow Traversing before, the result of his training with one attribute for an entire day.
When he get close, he applied Dark Mantle as extra precaution, even if he did harbor the believe they did not sense him. Better be safe than sorry as they say.
In a reasonable distance from the camp, enough to not be at point-black distance, while being able to hear the newcomers talking to one another, Ardent listened.
"To think, Master Grulnar asked us to come to the middle of nowhere." one of them said.
After a lot of counting, helped by the fact it is close to night, so the foot traffic of the camp had slowed down, Ardent counted about 300 to 400 mercenaries, which he learned by listening to their talk.
As for their average strength, that's where it get worrisome. After all, when there are no Zero Circle Mage or regular, non Aura using mercenaries, which is because everyone is either a 1st Circle Mage or stronger, or 3rd Rank Aura User!
"The village will be overwhelmed." Ardent muttered. The Red Stone Bandit is bad enough with a large number of 1st Circle Mage compared to the village, but this new group, they could walk into the village and not noticed a single thing.
"And that's not counting the 2nd Circle Mage and above." and Ardent did not think he did not spot them because they are lacking in such combatants.
He looked at the larger tents, with personal that is not a combatant. Which were the only population of regular people in the camp.
"They should be servants and slaves. Taking care of the need of the higher-ups of the group." Ardent whispered to himself.
The rows of tents should be the residence of 2nd Circle Mage and above, plus 2nd Rank Aura User and their ilks.
"I should count them as well. I will kill them quickly, but maybe I can get them to fight with the other Mages for practice as well." the possibility of giving the Mages and Aura User of Slurom Village some much needed real life combat experience against stronger foes is good, but it can lead to horrible losses.
In the end, Ardent decided to not do so as the village could not afford another round of losses in their combatants.
"I should also get my strength to the next Circle, so I can let them go through the 2nd floor. Catlin should become a 3rd Circle Ice Mage in a week or so if she completed an entire run through the 2nd floor." The possibility is there, but Ardent will see if his fiance can handle the entire 2nd floor by herself.
"For now, I should count the number of 3rd Circle Mage, and see if there are any 4th Circle Mage." if the last one can be found in the group, only an ambush can took such powerhouse down.