The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 990

Someone piped up, "Huh? Johnny, look over there. That's the idiot who blocked our way before standing next to Barry! Birds of a feather, huh? No wonder they're friends. Haha!"

The man named Johnny was an extremely composed and handsome young man. He didn't respond at all and continued walking.

Beside him was a stunningly beautiful woman with an air of nobility and a

disdainful look in her eyes.

"You're right. Just compare our status to theirs. Even talking to them will tarnish our dignity. Let's go."

Once the trio left, Felix asked Barry, "Do you have a grudge against them?"

Barry gave a bitter smile. "Not really. I would never provoke them. During the last Intermediate Alchemy Assessment, that guy tripped when he was coming up the mountain, probably because he was distracted.

"I laughed at him just like everyone else did. Ever since then, he's held a grudge. He picks on me whenever he gets the chance."

He added nervously, "By the way, take my experience as a lesson-we can't afford to mess with those people."

explanation, Felix learned that the three individuals were from the prominent Brennan family in Denverville. The talkative guy was Colin, and

because Johnny has exceptional alchemy talent and was taken in as a disciple by a chief steward at Harmony

whole family benefited from Johnny's success. It's funny how fate works. After Johnny, his cousin Josie also turned out to have impressive alchemy talent. She's here to take the Intermediate Alchemy Assessment; Johnny and Colin

chuckled. "You know quite a lot. Are you

I have an uncle working in the city defense forces. Colin would've already made my life miserable if I

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ville as

the Transcendent Realm, heered

have

fulfill his promise

the mountaintop stood Harmony Clinic, a vast

magnificent but also uniquely

were made of enormous cyan-colored

sight—a true

for the assessment had no idea that someone was watching their entrance at the top of the

Whitwell, that's Felix

man with white hair, pointing toward