Chapter 2182 Flame of Ancient Verdant <TOC> Chapter 2184 Waiting
Translator: SumTLMan
Toby accepted the benefits offered by Dangros, and though he still showed a lack of enthusiasm for its flattery, responding only occasionally with calls.
However, even these few calls excited Dangros greatly.
Dangros couldn’t understand the meaning behind Toby’s calls, but each call from Toby elicited even more enthusiastic praises from Dangros.
In this way, a severed hand and a seabird communicated for a full ten minutes without any translation.
It was not until they arrived at a red archway that Dangros ceased its incessant chatter.
“This is the classroom where Mentor conducts lessons,” Dangros said, pointing ahead.
Angel stopped and looked towards the archway ahead. The door was open, revealing several rows of desks and chairs made from black stone.
“It really is a classroom,” Angel said, slightly surprised. He had initially thought he had misunderstood, assuming the classroom was a small room for one-on-one teaching between Magu and Dangros, dubbed a classroom because it was a place of learning. However, to his surprise, this classroom closely resembled those found in human academies.
Could it be that Magu’s body not only incorporates a residential area but also the functions of a school?
Is Magu transforming its body into a city for elemental creatures?
With these questions in mind, Angel followed Dangros into the classroom.
Angel had a basic overview of the classroom from the outside. Upon entering, he noticed two details he hadn’t observed from the outside.
First was the light in the classroom.
The classroom was spacious, roughly the size of a normal church’s prayer hall, but notably, the ceiling was very high, at least thirty meters, with a huge orange fireball at the highest point serving as the classroom’s light source.
Angel immediately noticed this “light” because he could feel a strong elemental fluctuation from it, the strongest fire elemental fluctuation he had sensed since entering Magu’s body.
Unless mistaken, this “light” was the elemental core that Magu mentioned earlier… directly using an elemental core as a “light” for illumination, it’s uncertain whether Magu did this intentionally or out of carelessness.
Besides the “light,” the second thing that caught Angel’s attention was at the front of the classroom.
The classroom was not empty. In the front rows, there sat a student of enormous stature.
Angel, seeing the vast size of the classroom from the outside, was already prepared for the presence of students. However, he was still surprised because this student was unlike what he had imagined.
This student was not a fire life form but a stone person composed of numerous rocks.
In other words, this was an earth elemental creature.
This was the first non-fire elemental creature Angel had seen in this region.
Dangros also noticed Angel’s gaze on the stone person and explained, “This is Little Inba from the Wild Stone Wasteland, also a student of Mentor Magu. It can create many stones, and the desks and chairs in the classroom were made by it.”
Angel: “Is this a Foreign Exchange Student from another region?”
Foreign exchange student? Dangros mulled over the term, understanding its meaning but puzzled by its coinage.
“Yes, you could say it’s a… foreign exchange student.”
During a conversation between Dangros and Angel, the stone creature Inba also heard its name mentioned. Its stone head swiveled 180 degrees to look behind itself.
Inba first looked towards Angel with a gaze full of suspicion for a good while before turning to Dangros, “I’ll say it again, don’t add a ‘little’ before my name. I am Inba, not Little Inba!”
Dangros ignored Inba’s protest and turned to explain to Angel, “There are two exchange students from the Wild Stone Wasteland, and they are brothers, both named Inba. To avoid confusion, ‘big’ and ‘little’ were added before their names. Big Inba is three times bigger than Little Inba, so he is called Big Inba, and this one is called Little Inba.”
Inba indignantly said, “You can call my brother Big Inba, but you can’t call me Little Inba. I am Inba, I don’t want ‘little’!”
Dangros “hmphed” and turned his head away, not paying any heed to Inba’s complaints.
Inba retorted, “Even if I’m smaller, I’m still dozens of times bigger than you!”
Dangros replied, “I just haven’t grown up. When I become a mature form, I’ll be as big as our ancestors!”
Inba countered, “Kalomaches didn’t grow hands like yours; no matter how much you grow, you can’t become it. Instead, you might end up looking like this… human next to you.”
Inba’s words hit a sore spot for Dangros, who prided itself on being a descendant of Kalomaches and hated when others said it didn’t resemble Kalomaches. Dangros, infuriated, rushed over to Inba and started scratching him, but Inba’s body was made of stone, and he felt no pain.
“Do you know I’m human? Have you seen humans?” Angel looked at Inba.
Inba replied, “I’ve never seen humans, but Mentor Magu described them to us, and you look just like one.”
Dangros, who had been scratching, stopped at this: “Mentor Magu talked about humans?”
Inba replied irritably, “Of course, he did. You were only interested in playing and didn’t listen.”
After saying this, Inba stood up, brushed Dangros off, and said, “You’re here to see Mentor Magu, right? He just had me tidy up the classroom. Since you’re already here, I’ll leave.”
As Inba was leaving, he gave Angel a few more curious looks, seemingly intrigued by the appearance of humans.
Dangros watched Inba leave, grumbling, “Next time, I’ll gather all my minions to beat you up and see if you dare to talk nonsense!”
Although Inba had already left the classroom, his voice still carried back, “I’ve heard that Duroche is about to gain spiritual light. Without its help, you won’t even scratch my surface. Let’s see who beats whom then!”
Inba’s words accurately hit another of Dangros’s sore points. It rampaged around the classroom in anger, but Inba was already gone.
Finally, Dangros’s anger subsided somewhat.
Angel then asked, “From what you said earlier, are there many exchange students in the classroom?”
Dangros, still angry but mindful of Toby’s presence, reluctantly replied, “No, only Inba and his brother are exchange students.”
“Why?”
Dangros explained, “Because the Wild Stone Wasteland is an ally of ours, they send exchange students here. Other regions either ignore us or are hostile, so they don’t come. Plus, they have their own sages, but I think none of them are as smart as Mentor Magu.”
Angel nodded, understanding a bit more.
Even though there’s no concept of countries here, there are ideas of tribes. Tribes have different stances toward each other.
However, Angel was still somewhat surprised. He initially thought elemental creatures lived in a more tribal and primitive ecology. Now it seems they also have their own civilizations and living philosophies.
The existence of this classroom perhaps represents a corner of the civilization of flame beings.
However, this classroom looks too similar to the academies of the outside world. Angel conjectures that perhaps this Mentor Magu has visited the outside world?
“Speaking of which, why hasn’t Mr. Magu appeared yet?” Angel looks at the empty classroom, puzzled.
Dangros hesitates for a moment before saying, “Could it be that he has fallen asleep?”
Without caring whether this guess is correct, Dangros opens his mouth wide and shouts as loudly as he can: “Mentor Magu, Mentor Magu! Are you there?”
After shouting for about two or three minutes, a coughing sound reaches their ears: “Stop shouting, I’m here, I’m here.”
Angel turns around to see, not far from the archway outside, a red-bearded old man in a red robe, leaning on a cane, walking in.
The newcomer looks like a human, but upon closer inspection, one would realize that his red beard is actually blazing flames, and the cane he leans on is a translucent red flame solid. Even the red robe he wears conceals leaping flames.
Moreover, it seems like he is walking, but his feet are actually merged with the ground.
This is not a human, nor even the true body of the newcomer, but merely a shape formed by flames.
He is the master of this lava lake and Dangros’s Mentor, Magu.
Magu, leaning on his cane, slowly enters the classroom. Dangros immediately jumps off the table, hopping and leaping in front of Magu, grabbing Magu’s flame beard and swinging like a swing.
Magu looks at Dangros with a smile, not stopping him, appearing as a loving elder.
“Mentor Magu, why have you just arrived? Did you fall asleep again?” Dangros swings while asking.
Magu’s expression stiffens: “What do you mean ‘fell asleep’? I was just taking a brief rest.”
“Isn’t that the same as sleeping?”
“Nonsense, resting is resting. How can it be the same as sleeping?” Magu catches Dangros, correcting him seriously.
“Alright, alright, it’s a rest.” Dangros nods along with Magu, but his gaze drifts away, clearly disbelieving.
Magu, regardless of whether Dangros is sincere or pretending, places Dangros aside and turns to look at Angel: “You must be the human that His Highness mentioned, right?”
Angel: “Did His Majesty already speak to you about me?”
“He didn’t tell everything, just mentioned through the flames a moment ago that you had questions to consult with me.” After saying this, Magu turns his head towards Dangros: “Did you hear that? I was not just resting, I also received a message from His Highness.”
Dangros pouts, naturally resistant to the title “His Highness.”
Magu gestures for Angel to sit down, his gaze briefly passing over Toby, revealing a probing look.
Angel pats Toby, and Toby, understanding Angel’s intention, flies down from his head. With a light sweep in mid-air, the small seabird immediately transforms into a gigantic griffin.
Toby shakes his neck fur, flinging out a large amount of flames.
These flames do not ignite the surrounding air but merge into the ground, silently disappearing.
Toby circles in mid-air and then slowly lands next to Angel, quietly lying down on one side.
Dangros looks at Toby’s powerful body, his eyes bursting with a longing flame. It attempts to approach Toby, and Toby does not reject but presses Dangros under its claw when Dangros tries to grab Toby’s fur.
Dangros, being pressed like this, actually does not struggle and even makes a comfortable sound, leaving Angel somewhat speechless.
Magu examined Toby with a complex look in his eyes, filled with reminiscence and emotion, before finally speaking, “Indeed, a descendant of Kalomaches… However, the flames carry a ferocity, yet its own emotion remains calm, contrasting with the feeling given by the flames.”
Angel smiled, “The nature of Toby’s flames is inherently furious.”
Or rather, Toby’s griffin form is essentially furious. But this relates to Toby’s transformation secret, which Angel did not elaborate on. Now, letting this group of elemental creatures mistake Toby for a descendant of Kalomaches seemed more appropriate than explaining that Toby’s transformation into a griffin is merely one of its forms.
“Fury within the flames, huh? That’s not uncommon among the fire beings of the fire domain. However, the flames of Kalomaches were the flames of creation and destruction, a type of flame that strives for balance in all things,” Magu said.
Angel: “Kalomaches and Toby are ultimately different.”
Magu nodded, “Indeed.”
Magu looked at Toby with an evident fondness.
Angel also noticed this look and, recalling what Magic Fire Midir said about Magu’s good relationship with Kalomaches, asked, “Mr. Magu, could you tell us about Kalomaches?”
After pondering for a moment, Magu nodded, “Even if you hadn’t asked, I would have mentioned it… Toby and it are of the same kin; perhaps one day, Toby could bring news of Kalomaches to its true descendants.”
As he mentioned true descendants, Dangros, pressed under Toby’s claw, struggled a bit as if wanting to say something, but before it could speak, it was pressed down even tighter, silencing any words.
“The story of Kalomaches revolves around guardianship and waiting…”
When Magu reached this point, he fell silent for a long time. Angel thought Magu was reminiscing, so he silently waited for two minutes, only to hear——
“Zzzzz…”
Looking up, Angel saw Magu sitting in a chair, his hands on his cane, head resting on the top of the cane, eyes closed, snoring away.
The corner of Angel’s mouth twitched as he turned to look at Toby beside him.
Toby raised his head and let out a furious roar, flames shooting towards the ceiling.
The loud noise awakened Magu from his slumber, who looked around in confusion.
“Cough, I was reminiscing, do you believe me?” Magu stroked his fiery beard and said.
“Of course,” Angel smiled and nodded, not exposing Magu’s lie.
Magu’s gaze shifted slightly, “Shall we continue?”
“Please.”
Magu nodded and resumed, “Kalomaches possessed the fairest flames of creation and destruction, and for this reason, it was left by its master, Mr. Feng, in the Tidal Realm as the pivot for equality among all sides…”
Chapter 2182 Flame of Ancient Verdant <TOC> Chapter 2184 Waiting