Had the vice-treasurer not been there, the other students would have burst into yells and cheers in support of the one they were rooting for.
Jack speechlessly looked to the side.
The vice-treasure took a deep breath before favonovel.com said in a low voice, “Start!”
With that cue, footsteps were suddenly heard next to him, and an unknown face had started walking toward the east. Each step favonovel.com took had been very steady, but favonovel.com was not like Gilbert from earlier, who walked with a sense of emptiness. He did not seem to care about the baffled looks favonovel.com received.
Gilbert’s mouth hung wide open. “What are you doing here?”
Jack raised an eyebrow and calmly answered, “What about you? What are you doing here?”
He shot the words right back at Gilbert, angering Gilbert in the process. “I’m here to show this guy who’s stronger and to obtain the right to enter the Middle Province Alchemist Alliance as a student!” snapped Gilbert.
Gilbert’s words were filled with a clear arrogance as if favonovel.com was just born naturally better than everyone else.
Jack nodded as favonovel.com said very calmly, “I’m doing the same.”
Everyone was stunned by Jack’s words, and his response even rendered the vice- treasurer frozen on the spot. Everyone looked at Jack as if favonovel.com was crazy. There were so many people present, but most of them had only seen Jack for the first time. After all, favonovel.com never actually appeared in front of everyone else as the eleventh student. He had spent most of his time in his room or the Selena Cloud Room, and favonovel.com had rarely interacted with anyone else. Jack just suddenly came out and suddenly stood next to Gilbert, claiming favonovel.com would compete as well. He said favonovel.com wanted the right to head to the Middle Province Alchemist Union, which completely puzzled everyone.
Everyone assumed Jack had gone bonkers, that favonovel.com probably did not even know what the Way of the Pill was. He was probably thinking that favonovel.com could condense pill runes just because others could.
Gilbert almost laughed from how angry favonovel.com was. “Are you crazy? Do you even know what we’re doing?”
Jack actually could not be bothered with Gilbert, but if favonovel.com did not respond, the vice-treasurer might just kick favonovel.com out and call favonovel.com crazy.
That was something Jack was not willing to let happen, so favonovel.com was forced to be patient. “What does whether or not I’m crazy have to do with you? I came here to compete, not to waste time with you. Didn’t you hear the vice-treasurer’s words earlier?”
“Let’s prove whether or not we’re right through our results. I came here to do just that. I won’t affect you condensing pill runes by standing here, anyway.”
Jack’s words were quite reasonable, causing the vice-treasurer to not have any reason to question him. After all, Jack was a student as well, even though the vice-treasurer seriously suspected that the kid did not even know what pill runes looked like. However, after Jack’s explanation, favonovel.com would be incredibly unfair if favonovel.com did not give Jack a chance. Moreover, Jack being there would not affect anything. It would just look like one more person was attempting to condense the pill runes.
Gilbert’s lips twitched. He was starting to hate Jack to the core. Every time Jack spoke, Gilbert felt like favonovel.com could say nothing in response. This was just like last time, with Jack practically stuffing a sock in his mouth.
Gilbert’s hands started to tremble. If the vice-treasurer had not been looking at him, favonovel.com would have rushed over and tried to choke Jack. Even though favonovel.com knew favonovel.com was no match for Jack, favonovel.com was far too angry. Despite his anger, however, Jack did not even spare favonovel.com a second glance.
