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"He overdid it..." Great Sage Hellison Valestia murmured with a stern face. He mumbled to himself as he watched Merlin being carried away on a stretcher.
"Great Sage."
"I'm sorry. If it weren't for Winley, I wouldn't have intervened."
"Tsk tsk... So naive..."
Confidence was a virtue for a magician, but excessive pride was never right.
"That was a neat and quiet approach, even making him understand it himself."
Realizing he had fallen completely for a mere 4th Circle illusion magic, Merlin would have lost the foundation of his pride that relied on his talent.
"He probably can't use magic anymore."
"There was a case like that before. He met a mage superior to himself, could not shed his pride, and was almost on the brink of breaking his mana loop."
"Are you talking about yourself, Great Sage?"
At Davey's question, Great Sage Hellison Valestia gave a bitter smile. "It's unfortunate. Being at a critical point in life. For a magician, a broken mana loop signifies death."
Davey and Great Sage Hellison Valestia approached the old man who had collapsed while following Merlin.
"Look here, my friend..."
"Oh... Great Sage..." The old man looked at Hellison with a devastated expression. "It's all my fault... I did not raise that poor boy properly..."
The man murmured dejectedly and looked at Davey. "I apologize, Prince Davey. Because of that boy's greed, I've caused you trouble."
Merlin had intended to kill Winley to lure out the Great Sage into the arena. If this was known, his life as...
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