Chapter 194 Gift

Chapter 194 Gift

Adam's face was full of grievances as he looked at the rolled-up scroll in his hands. He wanted to cry. He was given such a great opportunity, but he ended up wasting it.

He looked at the Joker and asked meekly, "Sir Joker... can I get another try? Please?"

"Fafafa!" The Joker laughed out loud seeing the youth's pitiful look. He severely admonished him, "Who told you to run your mouth without even thinking? You could have first gone through the library to see what books could benefit you, yet you didn't."

"Please!" Adam clasped his hands. "Just give me one more chance."

"Shoo!" The Joker waved his hand as if swatting an annoying fly away. "If you ask again, I'll take back that scroll."

Adam opened his mouth but ended up swallowing his words. He cursed inwardly, Damn it!

Who would have thought that Mathias the Free had such little attainments in the School of Illusion? And the only research about illusion magic in the entirety of the Soaring Library would be just this single scroll.

Without even opening the scroll, Adam knew what the content inside of it would be. It was sure to be something related to the illusion runic formation that was present in all the testing rooms in the House of Cards.

With a heavy heart, he put away the scroll inside his earring.

"Not even going to take a look at it?" The Joker asked, smiling tauntingly.

"Hmph, I already know what's on it," Adam pursed his lips and stomped away.

Seeing the youth throwing such a tantrum, the Joker couldn't help but chuckle. Ah, you're still a kid after all.

...

Edward's body was riddled with injuries as he valiantly fought the merfolk. In the past three months, he realized that no matter how many of them he killed, they would always spawn endlessly.

So he decided to just charge through them and only kill the ones in his way of reaching the other island.

After countless trials and errors, he was finally able to come up with a plan to fight the merfolk and advance at the same time.

Today, his plan would finally come to fruition.

After killing the last of the merfolk with his bare hands, Edward finally managed to reach the other island. Now, all he needed to do was climb the steep cliff and the reward would finally be his.

About half an hour later, Edward was finally able to climb the cliff with sheer willpower alone. He had already exhausted all his strength fighting the merfolk.

He crawled toward the spear hovering at the center of the island. The weapon was surrounded by streaks of blue lightning and looked very dangerous.

"Don't push it." The Joker rolled his eyes. "Those books are far more valuable than a chunk of iron, and you know that as well.

"Tsk, so stingy."

The pair continued to watch the Magi on the floating screens. By now, the vast majority of them had completed their tests and already received their rewards.

"Is it time?" Adam glanced at the Joker, his tone laced with a hint of sadness.

"It seems so, fafafa!"

Adam remained silent for a while. The next moment, he waved his hand, and a large wooden barrel appeared in front of him. "Here's my parting gift to you."

The barrel contained Adam's Tears. He had managed to brew quite a lot of them during his stay in the secret plane. When he left this place, he would sell all of them to Edward's father, Viktor, later.

"Oh, what's this?" The joker curiously asked, staring at the barrel.

"It's wine. I brewed it myself." Adam then stuck his hand out. "Where's my parting gift?"

"Fafafa!" The Joker laughed out loud. "You sure are one greedy young lad."

The next moment, a strange item appeared out of nowhere in his hands. He flipped it, showing it to the youth.

It was an ivory playing card—The Joker!

Adam took it from the man and looked at it. "What does this do?"

"It's your key to the secret plane."

"What?!" The youth gasped in shock. "You mean I can enter this place whenever I want?"

"Whenever you're around the portal to the secret plane, inject mana into my calling card," the Joker began. "After I sense it, I will directly teleport you inside."

"Whoa!" Adam's eyes shone bright like the stars. "Thank you so much!"

"It was nice getting to know you, lad." The Joker smiled warmly.

"Hehe, you too, you too!" Adam chuckled. "Let's meet again soon, okay?"

"Fafafa! If fate wills it, we most definitely will. Remember to always smile. Farewell!"

SNAP!