Are you okay, Xie Lan?" asked Xue Ning wanting to make sure.

"It's okay, don't worry," Fu Xie Lan replied while removing the dust and some dry leaves stuck to her clothes.

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"Who is he?" asked Wan Lie mumbling.

At the same time, the old man landed right in front of them with a big smile that could not leave his face.

"Hahaha, What's your name, kid?" asked the old man chuckling.

"Want to fight one more time?" he added with a big smile.

Hearing that, Fu Xie Lan frowned faintly, "Who are you?" asked Fu Xie Lan coldly.

"If I answer your question, do you want to fight me again?" replied the old man casually.

One of Fu Xie Lan's eyebrows raised, "I don't have time to play around with an old man like you," said Fu Xie Lan coldly.

"Oh come on, pity me. I haven't fought with someone as strong as you in a very long time," said the old man with a pleading expression on his face.

"That's none of my business," Fu Xie Lan replied immediately stepping past the figure of the old man.

"Xie Lan, where are you going?" shouted Xue Ning immediately following the girl, past the old man as if his existence was meaningless.

Fu Xie Lan did not answer and continued to walk towards the bonfire near the hut.

The air was getting colder, and she couldn't use the mana in her body arbitrarily to give her some warmth.

Seeing the two girls walk past him, the old man turned to Ju Xian instead.

"Want to fight with me?" he said looking at Ju Xian and Wan Lie in turn. The two men were confused and didn't know what to say, seeing Fu Xie Lan's seemingly normal behavior implying to them that the old man was not someone they should be wary of.

"You fight him," Wan Lie said to Ju Xian then immediately followed Fu Xie Lan and Xue Ning.

Ju Xian was surprised to hear Wan Lie's words addressed to him.

'Did the man tell him to serve that strange old man?' His eyes scanned the old figure in front of him.

'Why should I fight him?' thought Ju Xian as he ruffled his hair.

Hearing the words of the youth who passed beside him, the old man's smile broke out, and without waiting long, he had already attacked Ju Xian.

Ju Xian hadn't even said his approval or disapproval, and the old man had already struck his leg with a wand. Luckily, Ju Xian had quick reflexes so he could dodge the blow, and the next second, the fight broke out again, between a human with Ju Xian who incidentally is a second-rate mage.

"Come on, fight me, kid. Hahaha," shouted the old man, looking even more excited.

The night breeze was cold and refreshing at the same time, the flames that were moving erratically by the wind seemed to refuse to be extinguished and continued to maintain their flame, even bigger than before. sitting in a circle to warm themselves, Fu Xie Lan and Wan Lie seemed to not care about the fight that was taking place not far from where they were.

Unlike the case with Xue Ning, the girl's eyes never left the two people who were still fighting.

"Xie Lan, what happened?" asked Wan Lie suddenly. He felt a little strange with his mother. The reason was, what he knew all along was that the girl would never let go of someone who was looking for trouble with her, whether it ended in death or suffering, at least Fu Xie Lan gave them a little recompense.

Very different from this time, seeing his mother still acting as usual after being attacked by the old man made him feel unable to calm down.

"Why not just finish him off? After all, no one saw but us and this place still in the middle of the forest, to be honest, I hate those creatures, I hate them," Xue Ning said at length even though this was the first time she had met a human.

A story that was often told by her parents when they were still alive could not possibly fade from her memory, a story about an incident seven hundred years ago where humans became the masterminds in the bloody events in this world.

Fu Xie Lan who heard Xue Ning just sighed roughly.

"We need some information from him," she said later.

Instantly Wan Lie and Xue Ning were enlightened by Fu Xie Lan's attitude. True, before entering the territory inhabited by the human race, having a little information about it wasn't a bad thing.

"Do humans act like that? It's strange, he suddenly appears and invites anyone to fight with him," Xue Ning chirped after a few minutes of silence.

"Doesn't that seem arbitrary? Does he feel that he has become the strongest? And he can just challenge others," She added. Her eyes couldn't take their eyes off the battle between Ju Xian and the old man.

"I can't imagine how he would react if he found out that his opponent was a wizard."

"Xue Ning, watch your words!" Fu Xie Lan warned.

The girl turned her head, "Did I do something wrong, Xie Lan?" Xue Ning said in a slightly scared tone of voice, this was the first time that Fu Xie Lan had spoken to her in such a tone.

"Next time, don't mention the word wizard and the like if it's still in human territory," Fu Xie Lan replied. She had already warned the three of them before tearing up the teleportation paper that her Master Huang Bao had given her.

"S-sorry. I forgot," Xue Ning squeaked feeling very guilty, and after that, there was only silence, lost in each other's thoughts. The shadow of the bonfire is visible in everyone's eyes, what they are thinking, no one knows.

Suddenly someone was standing behind them, it was Ju Xian who was with the old man. Very different from the previous Fu Xie Lan, if previously the girl was not injured at all after the fight, but not Ju Xian. The man's forehead and elbows were bleeding a little, he fell several times and hit the tree trunks so hard.

Seeing the scene, Both Fu Xie Lan and the others immediately stood up. "What happened?" asked Xue Ning immediately.

"Hmm, your friend is very weak," said the old man and then looking for a sitting position that he thought was comfortable for his body.

In the Artland World, wizards without Mana can't do anything. Mana was the source of their strength, fighting without using any mana was tantamount to telling them to kill themselves.

In a fighting position, wizard usually keeps their distance, that's because they take them a few seconds to cast a spell without any disturbance.

Without any martial abilities, they were very weak. Because so far Wizards have only relied on Spells and Mana to fight. However, that doesn't mean that none of them have martial arts abilities. There are some magicians, but not many.