My Muscle System in the Mage World

The reason for the first elder's horror dates back to the previous fight.

When the first elder and Aiken were fighting Noah, they were evenly matched until they felt a powerful presence that shook their mental space.

"Who dared to hurt William?"

These words were filled with rage and accompanied by a terrifying power that made their hearts tremble.

The first elder and Aiken chose to escape at that moment without even daring to look back, while Noah bowed.

"Noah, go and look for William, and you too, go help him."

Lord Sky's voice rang in their ears.

The first elder, who was running away, abruptly froze on the spot with a horrified expression.

Aiken didn't even look at the first elder and immediately fled in relief.

"You bastard—" the first elder cursed as he looked into his mental space, only to find it completely sealed, rendering all his spells inaccessible.

"It's useless now. The metal demon inheritance you have taken is actually one of my inheritances that I gave you," the voice of Lord Sky rang in his ears again.

The first elder was stunned on the spot as a bitter expression crossed his face.

"So everything I did was under the calculation of the lord? Sigh."

"Let's return." Noah's cold voice suddenly woke him from his reverie.

"What happened to you?" Noah asked with a puzzled expression.

"Nothing, nothing." The first elder's mood was extremely sour.

"Alright, we will go."

There was no fruit falling from the sky; the chance encounter that the first elder had thought to be his opportunity to reach the top was nothing more than a scheme.

Thinking of this, there was still some unconcealed horror in his eyes.

This scheme was so elaborate and profound that he hadn't even dared to guess it previously.

The wind was rustling as a figure tore through it, travelling at a speed faster than sound, making him appear deceptively slow.

After images of the shadow were left as he ran through the village, leaping over the huge wall of the academy and reaching the outer area.

Even then, the shadow didn't stop and continued out of the village.

"Luckily they haven't chased," the shadow muttered, looking back with barely perceivable eyes filled with horror.

Naturally, this was Aur, who was running away because he felt like his life depended on it.

"Damn it," Aur cursed. He had wanted to destroy those remaining traces of vitality and nip William in the bud, but if he hadn't dodged in time, he would have died right there and then.

Besides, if he had chosen to remain there, his intuition told him he would definitely die because he could sense the deep, cold gaze of a person staring at him, just from perceiving those two presences.

Aur's mind darted back to when he had seen the faint outline of their faces and could tell that they were Noah and the first elder.

The same first elder who should have been fighting with Noah.

These thoughts made countless ideas arise in his mind, but with the danger of death looming, he didn't dare to delay.

In his vision, the first elder should have easily murdered Noah. Even if it deviated from the future, it shouldn't have caused such a change.

But what Aur didn't know was that because of him capturing William, the entire plan had changed.

Previously, Lord Sky's plan was to use the First Elder to dethrone Noah, making him a slave as the village leader, which would have made things much more convenient for him.

After all, he was hidden, and if he abruptly killed the village leader, many things would become complicated.

This was the careful scheme of Lord Sky. However, because of Aur's action of almost depleting William's vitality, everything was completely set back due to the butterfly effect.

Of course, Aur was ignorant of these schemes.

Nor did he care, because he was finally leaving these villages for good. Whether he was the lord or trash, it didn't matter; if he couldn't find Aur, would it?

"However, this little trip back to the village wasn't entirely fruitless…" Aur's eyes shone with a golden glow as he looked at the slightly dimming Golden Words, which were suspended in the air as if levitating.

"A treasure."

Just then, he heard a deep, cold voice again.

"Don't you want the treasure, you brat?"

Aur remained silent, a sneer playing on his face.

"Do you think I am stupid?" he muttered to himself, refusing to respond to Asmodeus no matter what.

Aur knew that Asmodeus had ulterior motives, and he had no intention of falling into any traps.

If he even talked with Asmodeus, he might end up like William, sold out without even realising it, an old monster was an old monster they are not something he could underestimate neither did he dare to underestimate.

The holy magic book remained entirely silent. Neither Lily nor the other personalities spoke with Aur.

"Hey, holy magic book?" Aur suddenly said, a light smile on his face.

There was still no reply from the Golden Word, except for Asmodeus's futile nickering to Aur, which Aur fully ignored turning a deaf ear to it.

Asmodeus suddenly fell silent, realising that his tactics were ineffective against Aur.

"Holy magic book, please talk to me." Aur still said in a gentle tone.

"This bastard..." Asmodeus grumbled, eyeing the burly youth from the Golden Words.

At this time, inside the holy magic book, there was a little girl who was crying.

"Sister, William is dead," Lily cried.

"It's fine, Lily. For now, we should move on, and besides, he isn't exactly dead."

"What do you mean, big sis?" Lily stopped her sobbing and looked at her big sis with twinkling eyes.

"That trace of ever-growing vitality wasn't removed by Aur, so he might be able to live."

"You are right, sister."

"Good, up to that time, we still need to appease these demons to remain alive."

Lily was aggrieved but eventually agreed.