Naturally, as soon as the covered man or woman walked into the inner chambers of Magus Sept he saw the confrontation between Fraser and the group consisting of Elise, Adrian, Nicholas and the blond girl named Elizabeth.

However, the covered person ignored the confrontation and simply walked towards a corner and sat down on the nearest couch.

As if finding something more interesting Elizabeth, the blond girl turned towards the covered figure and began to mock the figure:

“Oh, another one who just reached Apprentice Level 2? What are you hiding under your mask, your shriveled skin? I didn’t think Magus Sept would surround himself with grade 3 talents or under.”

However, the white masked figure didn’t react. Instead, it simply turned his head towards Elizabeth and waited.

There were no eyes or any sort of human feature that could be seen on the white mask. To describe the mask: It is a white mask without any features. It almost could be a white shield covering his face.

But on the first glance, the mask seemed to be melting into the body, as if the mask seemed to be part of the body.

While Elizabeth and the rest turned their attention towards the masked figure, Fraser began to move to the other corner and chose a couch for himself.

Just as Fraser sat down he could hear a pitched shriek. Looking up he could see how Elizabeth and the others slowly backing away from the white mask figure.

The four of them had a pale face and on Nicholas face a small trickle of sweat formed.

Frightened or threatened by something unknown the white masked figure unleashed the group stepped back and chose a couch for their group.

After choosing their couch the group whispered among themselves and clearly, the conversation topic was the figure with the white mask as they sneakily glanced towards the masked figures a few times.

‘So the first people I met at the Howling Abyss Academy are not fated to become friends with me. I should go and continue to meditate. Also, I need to plan my schedule for the paid lessons and create a few more basic explosion potions. My amount of magic crystals is easily spent as my best option to acquire knowledge is by attending those lessons which need a learning fee. After all, the AI can save the entire lesson and use it for the Database.’

As Nicholas, Adrian, and Elise clearly chose the side of Elizabeth and ridiculed him, Fraser no longer saw them as potential allies or friends. After all, he already received a lot of information from them and acquired enough information in order for him to stand alone in the Howling Abyss Academy.

Standing up Fraser walked towards the exit of the inner Chamber as his reason for coming to the chamber already got fulfilled. His reaction was normal for grade 3 talents or under and pushing the spirit outside of the body resulted in the reaction as well as the breakthrough to Apprentice Level 2.

Just as he reached the door a deep voice stopped him:

Stolen novel; please report.

“If I were you then I wouldn’t walk back towards your chamber. Let us talk.”

Fraser turned his head towards the masked figure and instead of trusting common sense which meant avoiding the masked figure he walked towards the figure and sat down on the same couch as the masked figure.

‘I believe the inner chamber act as a meeting place for his closest or most talented students. After all I don’t see a single child younger than me which if I am right meant that me creating a basic explosion potion within a month impressed Magus Sept. So I don’t think that the masked figure will kill and instead is one of the senior disciples of Magus Sept, even more, senior than Elise and Adrian which entered the Howling Abyss Academy in the same year.’

“You achieved Apprentice Level 2? Congratulation.” said the masked figure with his deep voice.

As this time the masked figure didn’t speak loud Fraser could see the group consisting of Adrian, Elise, Nicholas, and Elizabeth trying to hear the conversation.

However, as they chose the couch in the other corner they probably couldn’t hear it. So they tried to pretend as if they didn’t try to focus on listening.

With a simple “Thank you.” Fraser answered the masked figure before waiting.

“I am Emium, an older disciple of Mentor Sept. What is your name?” said the masked figure, still with a deep tone.

“I am Fraser, a disciple of Mentor Sept who joined the Howling Abyss Academy one term ago.” replied Fraser.

“Who are these guys over there?” asked the masked man without even glancing at the group.

“Why should I not go back to my chambers?” Fraser replied with a counter question.

The masked figure named Emium remained silent for a while before saying: “Mentor Sept has guarding duty. We as his students has to go with him. Thus it wouldn’t make sense to leave the inner chamber where the close students of Mentor Sept are gathering.”

Fraser copied Emium and remained silent for a while as well as if lingering the information for a while before digesting it.

“They are Elise, Adrian, Nicholas, and Elizabeth. Elise and Adrian are senior disciples of Mentor Sept and Elizabeth joined this term.”

Without even glancing at the group Emium remained silent and then turned his head towards another direction, effectively ignoring Fraser.

As the group realized that the conversation was pretty short they continued to whisper, but this time also peeking at Fraser while they whispered.

Time passed and soon the door opened once again.

Of course, Fraser and the group looked at the newcomers and remembered their forms. However, Emium simply continued to stare into space.

The newcomers were two women, one had blond hair and resembled one of those fantasy wood elves which were from tales. However, in Frasers memory, the woman looked like the typical wood elf. Blond hair, leather armor from beast skins, white and smooth skin, a bow strapped over her back and most importantly: a beauty.

The other woman looked like one of those bodybuilders, large muscles, large legs, tall, fearsome face expression and revealing clothes which showed her bulging muscles. Strapped on her back was a large two-headed ax.

While the two walked into the chamber they talked about something but stopped as soon as they saw the gazes directed at them. Silently the two chose a couch and sat down. The wood elf woman started to polish her wooden bow with an unknown tincture while the muscular woman started to sharpen her two-headed ax causing tiny sparks to fly from the whetstone.

However the two women didn’t neglect their surroundings, they would also glance at Fraser and Emium as well as Nicholas, Adrian, Elise and Elizabeth.

Apparently they found Fraser to be more interesting and thus stared at him way more often than they would stare at the other students in the room.

Quickly more and more weird looking figures started entering the chamber and taking couches.

Most of them were concealed like Emium and only a few revealed themselves, including the wood elf women, muscular woman, a muscular man who after greeting the muscular woman with “big sister” obviously was related to the muscular woman and a few other students yet Fraser only saved their Appearance with the AI and didn’t look at them now as Magus Sept arrived and walked into the middle of the room.