Chapter 216: What’s Owed Must Be Paid For

The rest of the entire afternoon Jace spent almost all of it lined up on the very top floor of the Sorcerer’s Sanctuary, a tower that was surely not expected to have so many apprentices here one day when it was first constructed.

Of course, it also had to do with the fact that the registration was so slow, with so many students just two old mages were busy there, and the processing was particularly abrasive.

It took so long to top off the shopping for the vestments that by the time they came out it was late afternoon and the clothes stores were closed.

Made a note to register and take down the list of classes, starting on Tuesday the 22nd, which was basically a full day of classes, Orcish, Dragon and Inscription, with one Orcish class in the morning on Wednesday, and classes in the afternoon of Wednesday and the morning of Thursday in the School of Protection.

This year his classes seemed to be concentrated on Tuesday through Thursday, meaning that four days of the week were devoted to practice time …… which, of course, amounted to free time.

Back at the house, he was about to get some money to buy some food, when Jace saw Griddle again, squatting on the edge of the canal in front of his house, hitting the water.

Jace asked from a distance, “Can you see how many you hit in the dark?”

“Why can’t you see.” Grider said, “Jace, come on, come on, compare who hit more, I just hit twelve, bull?”

With that said the dwarf handed Jace a piece of broken tile, pointed to the water and said, “Try it.”

Jace gave him a meaningful look. A stunt that he had practiced countless times in his last life, and he had a chance to show his face?

Shorty, you’re asking for it.

He crooked his body and lowered his hand, adjusting it to about 20 degrees from the surface of the water, and the familiar feeling returned.

An extremely standard horizontal throwing posture will tile thrown out, the tile first in the water surface bounced six or seven times, and then spun out a series of simply can not count the splash ultimately hit the opposite bank, came popping a crunch, even not far from those fishing grandpas are alarmed for a while.

“That’s …… how many …… ones.” Grider couldn’t even speak if he was shocked.

“Does that make sense?” Jace said, “It’s not a wide enough river, Grid, some day we’ll go to the Nafriti River and compete.”

“No comparison.” Greider frowned and said, “I sometimes really wonder what you’ve been doing for the last ten years or so …… Do you have forty eight hours in a day?”

Jace gave him a look and thought to himself, “I’m going to tell you the same thing I’m going to tell you about the time I went on a know-it-all technique searching spree practicing in order to hit the water and pretend I’m not?

The dwarf shook his head and said, “It’s so pointless, Jace Sesso, you’re such a pointless person. By the way, important things are forgotten, where is the dinner appointment, why don’t you come to me?”

“Who made a date with you.”

“You owe me a drink for the day you said yesterday, and you’re trying to play dumb and fool around?”

“Didn’t you say tomorrow or the day after, OK, OK, I owe you, go go go ……”

The two pushed and shoved each other to the Gilded Rose, and Jess just sat down and said, “This is the second time I’ve eaten here today.”

“Who was the first time with?” The dwarf asked.

“I’ll tell you if you take your own beard and promise not to tell anyone.”

“I swore on my beard to tell absolutely no one else, and besides I have no one else to tell …… Jess, I simply don’t have many friends in this town I can talk to like that.”

“Then guess.”

“I’ve sworn and you’re asking me to guess? That Varian Urien.”

“No, it’s Winressa Windwalker.”

“Okay, okay stop bullshitting and get on with it.”

“Really.” Jace said, “She’s come to Stormwind City, and she’s here specifically to find me, how about it Griddle Thunderfist, are you envious, Aurelia Windrunner doesn’t even know you yet, and her sister has already come to hook up with me.”

Grid frowned and asked, “Really?”

Jace laughed twice before pulling back down and saying, “Fake, not here to hook me up.”

“Who cares if she’s here to hook up with you, I mean really Winressa?” Grider asked, “What is she doing here?”

“Said it was about investigating that order, the one we both sold.” Jess replied.

Grid asked, “Didn’t that letter go all the way to the elves? Ah yes …… she is an elf, so Quel’thalas is planning to dig something out from that Talon-Blood Demon’s men, now we can’t get a good deal. I had been thinking about that person, think about it he has been helping Talon-Blood Demon, will he be hiding a lot of orc goodies?”

“Point taken.” Jace shook his head and said, “It wouldn’t have rattled us for miles to have a Windrunner on his tail.”

The wine waiter came up at that moment with a plate of sea-crab legs on the table, and a plate of cubes of cut bread, and both men’s eyes were fixed at the same time on her as she took a step away.

“You don’t give her clues.” Grid tapped the table and whispered, “If you don’t tell her important information, why don’t we go ahead and find it before she does? When the time comes, we’ll pick what we can give her and let her go back and deliver it, won’t that be the best of both worlds? You know orcish, she doesn’t!”

Jace said, “Saying that like the two of us could easily take him out, that’s Talon Bloodmage’s crony!”

“Didn’t you even defeat the Blood Demon himself?” Grid said.

“I can’t beat him without Winressa and Kefal.” Jace said, “And, Grid, don’t forget she’s the benefactor who cured your eyes, you’re counting her out so ……”

“That’s true, but the reason she helped me was because she didn’t want to be indebted to you!” Grider said.

Jess took a crab leg, thought for a moment at Grid’s words, and said, “But I’ve said all I needed to say in the morning!”

“You talk when she tells you to, huh?” Grider said unhappily.

Jace dropped the crab legs and said, “You didn’t tell me you were planning on killing that Death Knight, I’m so close to the start of the school year, I’m just thinking about learning magic and becoming an Archmage or something, how can I think about that as much as you do?”

“You can at least find me to discuss …… Besides if you don’t dare to kill that death knight, what kind of archmage are you!”

Grider said picking up that crab leg and snapping the shell right off with his fingernails, scooping out the meat and eating it.

“The point isn’t him personally.” Jace took another one and said, “Even if we can beat that guy, he must have a lot of help, orcs, or whatever, he was a high ranking member of the tribe before, is he now a loner all of a sudden? And I have a feeling ……”

The bartender placed two mugs of stout on the table and the two watched her leave again as Jace continued, “Do you think that the jackal scourge in the Red Ridge Mountains could have been instigated by that Death Knight? The purpose is to help the Horde retreat into the Dark Gate and distract the Stormwind Kingdom’s troops?”

“It’s not impossible, but you’re making an unfounded guess, aren’t you?” Grid said, “Then what do you think that death knight is doing in the Twilight Forest? You said last time that you thought the werewolf in the Twilight Forest was a death knight, but the Twilight Forest hasn’t had many jackals active since the Big Bang. If I had to guess, Raven’s Ridge is a big graveyard, so that Death Knight probably just went there to pull help. Speaking of which, those living corpses in Dalaran are really scary enough, much scarier than the ghouls in the Twilight Forest, the more human-like they are, the scarier they are.”

“It’s possible.” Jess said.

The dwarf asked again, “But if they can just bring the dead back to life, why don’t they kill one and bring one back to life, instead of running to the graveyard?”

“Wouldn’t killing someone attract attention?” Jace replied, “It’s not like the sheriff is going to check up on you if you just pull the dead man up out of his grave, especially since the big cemetery at Crow’s Ridge is all but unattended, and with the living dead running around it couldn’t have been a more perfect crime scene.”

“Indeed.” Grid nodded.

But with the two of them talking so much, Jace thought about what had happened in Dalaran that night, and suddenly a thought whipped through his head.

“Do you think the death knight went looking for a new body?”