<h4>Chapter 483: Leena</h4>
The battle escted in the jungle once Sein appeared, surpassing any prior conflict in intensity.
Although Sein had exhausted considerable mana in his travel over the past two weeks, his focus and mana reserves remained impressive, fueled by a newfound eagerness forbat.
This drive, emerging from his deepest consciousness, made Sein exceptionally fierce on the battlefield.
With Sein’s arrival, the three knights from the Ylli Knight Alliance faced significant disruption in their pursuit of the female ck mage.
Under normal circumstances, any rational ck magician would have seized the opportunity to escape. After all, this was the perfect time to flee with someone else diverting the enemy’s attention.
ck mages were never renowned for their virtuous character. Only a select few of the better ones among them managed to avoid bing targets of major divine towers and knightly orders.
Contrary to expectations, the female ck mage did not flee upon seeing Sein. Instead, a flicker of emotion shed through her eyes.
Sein, now with his verdant me body activated, looked dramatically different from hisst appearance in Port Allen.
Nevertheless, the female ck mage recognized him instantly.
No, she had already recognized Sein the moment he appeared.
Only those deeply interconnected could perceive the subtlest traces of each other, despite changes in appearance or demeanor.
The aura surrounding the tall female ck mage inexplicably intensified, fueled by an unknown source of newfound strength.
Behind her, a vast expanse of umbra elemental particles materialized.
The elemental energy surrounding her mirrored Sein’s appearance in his verdant me body form.
One was cloaked in the intense, scorching verdant mes, while the other was shrouded in oppressive dark energy.
Despite Sein’s intervention, the female ck mage did not retreat. Instead, she conjured five umbra energy balls and hurled them at the three knights before her.
With Sein directly engaging the most formidable, ck-armored knight, she dealt with the two lesser knights.
Once the target, she now, with Sein''s assistance, turned the tide and began to gradually overpower her adversaries.
“What are you? A mage? Your constitution is absurd!” the ck-armored knight eximed in astonishment.
With his verdant me body activated, Sein’s constitution soared to an astonishing 400 points.
His other stats had also surged past 800 points, allowing him to wield strengthparable to that of a peak Rank One mage.
The scorching verdant me elemental energy overwhelmed the alchemy armor of the ck-armored knight facing Sein.
Ayer of dark battle qi shield manifested around him.
Surprisingly, this knight wielded the rare umbra-elemental battle qi.
Yet, Sein’s verdant mes tore through the knight’s shield as effortlessly as light piercing the darkness, leaving new scars on his armor.
Taking a deep breath, the ck-armored knight stared at Sein as ifmitting his face to memory before shouting to hisrades, "Let’s withdraw!"
Continuing the battle offered no advantage to the three knights.
The potential for death and injury was too high a price for either side, especially since their exploration of the Knight Continent was primarily for training.
Jeston, a knight of the Ylli Knight Alliance, was not prepared to jeopardize his life or hisrades’ at this early stage of the trial.
At Jeston’smand, the other two knights also retreated. Neither Sein nor the female ck mage pursued them.
Jeston likely still had other trump cards up his sleeve to defend his life should the need arise.
Sein, driven by his convictions, would not hesitate to eliminate a few experts from the Ylli Knight Alliance.
However, the reality was that not everything was within his control, especially since the female ck mage was not in good shape.
Her current burst of power was not sustainable for a long period.
As Jeston and hisrades disappeared into the distance, Sein, surrounded by the glow of his verdant mes, finally let out a sigh of relief.
That was the first time Sein had faced an expert from the Magus World of the same rank aside from ck mages.
Battling such beings came with its unique set of constraints and challenges.
For the time being, Sein had aligned himself with the female ck mage.
From a moral standpoint, it was not wrong tobel Sein a ck mage at this point.
Even so, Sein harbored no regrets.
The scorching verdant mes around him gradually died down. Therge crystal on the tip of his Verdant me Heart Rod caught the light onest time before he stowed it away.
Turning to the female ck mage, he found her gaze already on him.
The jungle around them bore the scars of the previous confrontation.
Yet, the flying elemental particles on the battlefield around them did nothing to disrupt the intensity of their mutual stare.
Compelled by an unknown force, Sein stepped forward, cautiously removing his mask, and ventured, “Leena?”
The moment he took off his mask and revealed his face, the tall, ck-haired female mage in front of him lunged forward and embraced him.
Despite her differing height, appearance, and hair color from the Leena in Sein’s memory, he was certain that it was her!
The two, separated for nearly forty years, were finally back in each other’s arms.
Though Leena’s appearance had changed, the familiar rhythm of her heartbeat brought Sein back to his time at Mystralora City.
He remembered how he embraced Leena’s petite body on the bed in the dark room, feeling as if he had the entire world in his arms.
Since leaving the underground world, Sein had not been truly living.
Despite his constantly growing power and knowledge, he felt hollow, like a robot endlessly researching in hisboratory.
When bouts of depression and anxiety overwhelmed him, his only scey in fleeting encounters.
Selina, Eileen, and Marie held no significant ce in his heart, notpared to Leena.
To Sein, Leena was a unique and unchanging presence in his life.
Now, with her back in his life, Sein was ready to open uppletely.