Chapter 26 - Meeting Old Friends

Chapter 26 Meeting Old Friends

Before coming here, Kelly already had a rough understanding of this competition. After all, Reyer had first-hand information.

The competition was divided into an elimination round, a point-based competition, and a third round of free-for-all.

In the elimination round, it was a standard 1v1, and the losers were eliminated. In the points competition, they had to form teams to deal with their opponents.

As for the third free-for-all round, it was up to oneself to decide whether to form a team or not during the battle. The ranking would be determined according to how long one took to get eliminated.

“Looks like this is a little disadvantageous for me. After all, I’m alone now. It’s a little difficult to find some companions to cooperate with me at the last minute.”

The two of them arrived at Reyer’s mansion in Naka City.

Even Kelly did not expect Reyer to have a home here, and it was no less luxurious than the previous mansion.

Now, he was even more certain that Reyer definitely had some extremely prominent identity that was hiding from him. Otherwise, how could he be in this state?

Upon hearing Kelly’s answer, Reyer only smiled indifferently.

“With your strength, do you need others to cooperate with you? In my opinion, you alone are an army.”

Layer patted Kelly on the shoulder. After a year together, the two of them didn’t seem like a teacher-student relationship.

On the contrary, they seemed more like friends, and Reyer knew that Kelly was definitely more outstanding than he had imagined. Although he had learned a lot in the past year, he still understood that Kelly still had some trump cards that he had not revealed.

Hearing Reyer’s words, Kelly only smiled awkwardly. He had collected a lot of items in a year.

The reason why he had to come back to participate in the competition this time was because winning this competition also came with a key reward.

“Immortal Armor!”

These things were especially important to Kelly and could help him complete many challenges in the future.

Currently, Kelly has collected equipment across all his four main classes: Knight, Assassin, Mage, and Summoner. Therefore, Kelly was quite confident in his own strength.

During their conversation, Reyer was playing with a red-headed parrot.

This little guy was found in the process of training. After Kelly accidentally found a high-level pet egg, he directly gave it to Reyer as a gift. This made Reyer extremely happy. He had always treated this guy as his little treasure.

“By the way, there’s a very important gala tonight. You have to go with me. After all, we’re new here and have to show our faces.”

“With your status, you’ll definitely attract a lot of attention.”

Kelly sighed helplessly. He wanted to keep a low profile, but it was very difficult to keep a low profile around Reyer.

At night, Kelly and Reyer arrived late, but when the people at the banquet realized that it was Kelly and Reyer, they were shocked.

In particular, Reyer’s identity shocked them. After all, no one expected this person to appear in Naka City.

Kelly knew that wherever Reyer went, he would be the focus of everyone’s attention.

However, he was also very curious about Reyer’s identity to be able to attract so much attention.

When everyone saw Kelly, they immediately guessed that Kelly’s identity should be the legendary disciple of Reyer.

After not seeing him for a year, Kelly looked even more robust than before. He did not look like a mage at all. He looked like a warrior who fought in close combat.

There were many familiar faces. When Lillian saw the two of them, she immediately came forward to greet them.

“I didn’t expect to see Miss Lilian here. I’m afraid you came all the way here to see Kelly.” Upon seeing Lilian, Reyer teased with a smile.

Lillian blushed. She didn’t know how to respond to Reyer at this point.

Not only had Kelly changed in a year, but Lillian had also become more beautiful and slender than before.

She had thought that Kelly would use this opportunity to praise her. After all, the two of them were considered old friends.

However, Lilian did not expect that Kelly, who was standing at Reyer’s side, would only say coldly, “Teacher, today is a grand banquet after all. I think Miss Lilian only participated in this banquet to represent the family. It has nothing to do with me.”

Looking at Kelly’s distant expression, Lillian was a little annoyed with herself. Why couldn’t she control herself and have to come here?

Wasn’t this asking for trouble?

Kelly in front of him was clearly insensitive!

At this moment, another middle-aged man slowly walked up to Kelly and sized him up. Then, he smiled and chatted with Reyer. A moment later, the middle-aged man left with Lillian, and Reyer introduced them to Kelly. “See, the guy I was talking to just now is Lilian’s little uncle, the patriarch of the Violet family, Robert!”

Reyer said with a smile, but from his eyes, it could be seen that the two of them were old acquaintances.

Moreover, it seemed that something unpleasant had happened before. “Uncle, this Kelly is too much!” Lillian was a little angry. “I didn’t provoke him. Why does he seem to hate me?”

Robert had long known about Kelly and had heard Lillian mention him many times not long ago. But he had not expected the two of them to meet under such conditions. “This young man is more shrewd than you think. The reason why he did this is only to cut ties with us. I’m afraid he has an even bigger secret.”

Robert said seriously, “Lillian, you have to try to be friends with him. This little guy has unparalleled strength. At the same time, he also has an outstanding teacher like Reyer.”

“This is someone our family has to rope in!” On the other side, Kelly was also complaining about Reyer’s unwillingness to step up and help him send Lillian away at the critical moment.

Seeing Kelly’s serious expression, Reyer retorted, “You’re clearly just a teenager, but you have a heart that’s dozens of years old. Come on, shouldn’t you be in love now?”

“Besides, I think Lillian is not bad. It would be good if she could be your teammate.” Seeing how serious Reyer was, it was obvious that he wasn’t joking. Kelly pursed his lips, somewhat unwilling.

Reyer felt depressed when he saw this. He really did not know where this kid got his courage from.

You don’t even think the heir of the Violet family is qualified?