Chapter 32: The Pressure Brought by Hughes

“Who would look for me at this time?”

In the training room, Hughes frowned as he could only vaguely hear Otis’ voice. Then, he said to Blair on the other end of the phone, “Blair, I have something to do here. I’ll call you next time.”

After saying that, he waited for Blair to hang up the phone before he stood up and left the training room.

When he walked downstairs, he saw Otis standing on the stairs and looking at him with adoring eyes. He excitedly said, “Big brother Hughes, there are two great beauties here who are looking for you!”

Otis had been training at home, and strolling around the academy for the past twenty days. The reason being, he wanted to get to know some pretty girls who studied here as well.

However, in this short period of time, he could not even get the contact information of a single girl!

And Hughes, who came a day later than him, got to know two girls at once, and two beauties at that!

How could he not feel adoration? Maybe I should ask Hughes to teach me how to get girls instead of bringing me to the catacombs. Otis had thought to himself while possessing a fiery gaze aimed at Hughes.

Hughes was already used to Otis’ expression and ignored him.

“Alice, Elise, I knew it was the two of you with just a guess.”

Looking at the two graceful figures on the sofa, Hughes smiled slightly.

Although he had been in Lach Academy for more than twenty days, he spent most of his time hunting demon beasts in the catacombs.

He had not spent much time socializing with other students.

Only Alice and Elise could be called great beauties, and their relationship had changed to the point where they could just drop by anytime.

“Then you are really smart.”

Alice smiled mischievously and pointed at the watermelon that Elise had brought over. “This is the watermelon we bought today. It’s quite sweet, so I thought I’d bring it over to give you a taste.”

“Thank you.”

Hughes did not stand on ceremony and directly went to a seat not far from Alice. He called Otis over and introduced him to Alice and Elise. “This is my roommate, Otis.”

After that, he said to Otis, “They are one year above us. They are specially recruited students just like us. They live behind us. You have met the one on the left. Her name is Alice, and the one on the right is Elise.”

“Hello.”

Alice and Elise nodded at the same time.

“Hello.”

In front of the two strange beauties, Otis naturally could not stop staring at them. After greeting them, he took the watermelon from the table and walked into the kitchen. “I’ll go cut the watermelon.”

Seeing Otis leave, Alice also relaxed. Lying on the back of the sofa, she looked at Hughes and said, “Hughes, were you advancing just now?”

Looking into Alice’s clear and lively eyes, Hughes felt that if he were to lie, he would feel a strong sense of guilt.

Moreover, there was no need to hide things like advancing. Therefore, he laughed and said, “You’ve already noticed it. You’re really a smart girl.”

“You’ve really advanced?”

Elise, who was at the side, widened her eyes. Her mouth was open in the shape of an o. Clearly, she was extremely shocked.

At first, they were just guessing. They had not expected Hughes to be able to advance so soon!

“It has only been twenty days since he became a mage, but he has already become an elemental mage. What a terrifying talent!”

Alice said in a daze.

Even in the Lach Academy, which had gathered the most talented mages in the entire country, most mages would become elemental mages at the end of their first year of university.

Even mages with extraordinary talent would only become elemental mages in the second semester of their first year of university.

For someone like Hughes, who had only spent twenty days to become an elemental mage, it was simply unheard of!

Moreover, she also thought of something even more terrifying. During these twenty days, Hughes would often go to the catacombs to hunt demon beasts!

Although the speed of meditation would increase after actual combat, for someone who spent most of their time on actual combat, the time spent on meditation and cultivation would definitely be far inferior to that of an ordinary student.

However, even so, Hughes still managed to advance into an elemental mage!

If he spent all his time on meditation and cultivation, how terrifying would the speed of his advancement be? Thinking of this, Alice suddenly stood up and said, “Hughes, I still have to go back to meditate and cultivate. I won’t disturb you further.” After saying that, she turned around and left.

“Yes, me too. Goodbye, Hughes!” Elise also quickly stood up and followed Alice, leaving Hughes’ villa.

“It seems that I’ve provoked you.” Looking at their graceful backs, Hughes chuckled.

It could be seen from their previous battle results in the catacombs that Alice and Elise had very strict requirements for themselves.

Now, the two of them were actually lagging behind an ordinary person without any background or influence. Naturally, they felt very anxious.

“Unfortunately, if the two of you want to catch up to me, I’m afraid it will be a little difficult.”

The corners of Hughes’ mouth curled up, revealing a brilliant smile.

Through this period of thinking, he had already known about the elemental talent of Alice and Elise as a mage.

Alice had an s-rank water elemental talent, while Elise had an s-rank wind elemental talent.

Among ordinary mages, the two of them could already be considered as the favored ones.

However, compared to Hughes, who had an SS-grade light magic talent and an SS-grade dark magic talent, they were still inferior.

Therefore, even with the disadvantage of his meditation technique, his advancement speed was still faster than the two of them.

Moreover, he also had the help of the system.

Under such circumstances, Alice and Elise’s level as mages would never be able to catch up to him.

“Eh, where are the two of them?”

Otis walked out of the kitchen with a plate of watermelons in his hands.

“They had something to do, so they went back first.”

Hughes casually picked up the watermelons on the plate and took a bite.

Mmm, iced watermelon, not bad indeed!

Soon, the watermelon was finished by Hughes and Otis.

After eating the watermelon, Hughes lay on the sofa downstairs for a while, then returned to the training room on the second floor.