Mar-Dule couldn’t be careless with these flames. He wasn’t so invincible that he could just stand still and let an attack from an Earth Expanse Realm cultivator hit him without any protection. He would just burn to death.

Mar-Dule laughed and then yelled.

“Now this is the Yoon-Jae I know!”

Mar-Dule then formed a hand seal and tapped the air in front of him. A two-meter black rune with intricate symbols quickly formed in front of him.

The Metal Aether Energy in the surroundings entered this rune causing it to shine with a dark glow.

Bang!

The terrifying flames from Yoon-Jae slammed into this rune, but they were successfully blocked.

As the flames parted around his rune and spread to the surroundings, Mar-Dule noticed something when he glanced at the crimson flames shooting past him.

He realized that despite the terrifying heat of the flames, they weren’t harming the surroundings. The grass on the ground was merely swaying, it was as if these flames were the wind rather than flames that could melt the strongest of steel in an instant.

Mar-Dule sucked in a cold breath when he saw this.

‘Even his control of the Spell is this terrifying. I really can’t slack off just because of my superior cultivation base.’

Mar-Dule formed another hand sign before tapping the black rune with a finger.

The intricate symbols within them started to shift. As they shifted, the black rune slowly became a red color. It then went from blocking the flames to absorbing them.

Mar-Dule’s one tap had transformed a Metal-type Rune for defense into a Fire-type Rune for attacking.

During these four months he wasn’t just going around bullying those in the Academy, he had been diligently studying Blackmsithing and his Rune Techniques.

If there was someone in this generation that could be called the number one Runemaster, then he had a great chance of having that title!

Mar-Dule felt pride swell in his heart. However, he was conveniently forgetting about two people.

His twin sister and Sol. When he did his face darken.

‘Those two are monsters. If Byeong-Ho and Hua-Yin are in another realm in terms of talent, then those two are definitely within that realm.’

After the Fire-type Rune absorbed all of Yoon-Jae’s fire, Mar-Dule waved his hand at the rune, and it stopped its attack before dissipating into red specs of light; the Fire Aether Energy within returned to the surroundings.

After having his attack easily resolved, Yoon-Jae gave Mar-Dule another glare before snorting.

Mar-Dule suddenly sensed something above him, and he abruptly snapped his head upwards. However, he was too late. Yoon-Jae’s snort was a trigger for the bubble of water floating above his head to drop.

With a loud splash, Mar-Dule was drenched.

A layer of frost covered the grass in the surroundings while Mar-Dule shivered uncontrollably. This water was terrifyingly cold, so much so his teeth immediately started chattering.

“Da-Damn it.”

Mar-Dule cursed causing a puff of cold breath to be released. Suddenly, he turned and dived into the large pool by the side head-first.

After entering the pool with a loud slash, Mar-Dule instantly felt better as the hot water caressed his body and heated up him up.

“Provoke me again and next time I’ll simply drop a block of ice on top of your head and crush you to death.”

Yoon-Jae said before he entered the pool as well.

Mar-Dule’s head popped out of the water and looked at him before snickering.

‘I guess he’s still sensitive about his size.’

However, a little bit of fear twinkling in his eyes.

‘He can even multicast as well. But a Water Spell? Perhaps he could learn Water-type Spells because he has his Ice Innate Dharma, they’re not that different in terms of nature just of a different state.’

As Mar-Dule analyzed Yoon-Jae’s current abilities, he allowed his body to float in the water while his gaze fixed on the morning sky that was beginning to brighten up.

After a few minutes, his body suddenly bumped into the shore.

Mar-Dule decided to climb out of the water and sit on the poolside with his feet inside. He then flipped over his hand and took out some dakkochi he had been saving.

Immediately after the dakkochi was out, it sent an aroma that permeated the surroundings.

Yoon-Jae’s nose twitched, but he didn’t say anything.

After sliding off the first two slices of meat into his mouth, Mar-Dule eagerly chewed and swallowed. He glanced over at Yoon-Jae to see that was seated cross-legged at the side of the pool in meditation.

He smiled derisively and yelled.

“Don’t think of getting any, bastard Yoon-Jae!”

“I don’t want any.”

Yoon-Jae opened his eyes and glared at Mar-Dule before closing his eyes and going back to his meditation.

Mar-Dule glared back at him before he looked away and turned his attention back to the sky.

Suddenly, his nose twitched. Mar-Dule was about to turn to continue eating his dakkochi, but a pungent smell suddenly smacked him in the face. It had completely drowned the delicious aroma of the dakkochi. However, when he turned his head to the side to investigate the smell, he caught sight of something that caused his entire body to go stiff and his eyes to widen.

A person who had a head full of hair that cascaded down to the ground as he squatted, had suddenly appeared next to him.

Mar-Dule didn’t know if this person was male or female as his pitch-black hair was completely covering not just their face, but a good portion of their body.

However, from the portion visible it could be seen that he didn’t have any close on. His skin also looked to be coated in dirt that had been there for a long time, as evidenced by the pungent smell wafting from his body.

Currently, this freakish figure had its mouth wide open about to snatch Mar-Dule’s dakkochi. In fact, it seemed like they had already taken off a few leavings only two remaining.

“What tha?”

Mar-Dule was so dumbfounded by the sight that it rendered him speechless.

The figure paused with their mouth over his dakkochi when they realized they had been caught, but after grinning the figure’s mouth went as wide as a whale before chomping down on the dakkochi in Mar-Dule hand.

Mar-Dule instinctively snatched his hand away in fear that this person would bite his hand off by accident.

Mar-Dule then watched as this person chewed his stolen food not caring that he had caught some of the stick on the dakkochi as well.

However, Mar-Dule soon snapped out of it and roared.

“Bastard! Who are?! How dare you eat my food?!!”

Yoon-Jae who was meditating some meters away heard Mar-Dule’s roar and his eyes flew open. Upon seeing the strange figure covered in hair, he slowly stood up with a serious expression on his face.

Even though Yoon-Jae was cultivating he always had his senses on high alert. However, this person appeared completely undetected.

No, even now as Yoon-Jae looked at this person he couldn’t sense their presence. It was like this person was merely an apparition than an actual living creature.

Mar-Dule had also realized this, but it freaked him out even more because even with his abnormal senses he hadn’t detected this person at all, even when the dakkochi in his hand was being eaten.

If not for the strong smell, he wouldn’t have known this person had appeared beside him.

Mar-Dule shivered.

If this person had wanted to kill him, Mar-Dule would have killed without knowing it.

Instantly, the Shadow Sect appeared in his mind. Perhaps the Emei Sect found out about his relationship with Hua-Yin and sent assassins after him!

However, doubt rose in Mar-Dule’s heart. Especially when this person lifted his hand and scratched his cheek.

Yoon-Jae and Mar-Dule immediately noticed a familiar black bracelet around his wrist.

“Ah, I’m sorry, I was really hungry after not eating for a few weeks. When I was flying over, I smelt food and just acted without thinking.”

This strange person’s voice was that of a male, but it sounded hoarse, like he hadn’t spoken for a long time. Truly one would think he was some zombie that had crawled out of its grave after reviving.

However, after seeing that familiar black bracelet and mannerisms, it caused the approaching Yoon-Jae’s footsteps to falter while Mar-Dule’s eyes went wide with shock.

“Sol?!”

“Sol?!”

Both of them couldn’t help but cry out in surprise.

Sol stood up and swept back his massively long bangs from his face.

Yoon-Jae and Mar-Dule saw a pair of golden pupils with a dark hue around their edges, twinkled with happiness while gazing at them.

Sol’s face was coated in dirt, but he flashed a radiant smile as he laughed and said.

“Haha, why are you guys so surprised to see me? Didn’t you see the message I sent? I’m back from my seclusion.”

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