Chapter 191: The duel[1]
"Harry." Nathan said, finally getting closer to Harry. "How are you doing, you good?"
"Huh... yeah." Harry replied, still not sure why Nathan asked him how he was doing all of a sudden. He wanted to question why he did, but he later decided not to, feeling that it would come off as weird.
"I didn’t see you in school yesterday, well, given what happened, it was expected." Nathan suddenly said, causing Harry’s brows to raise in confusion.
"What happened?" Harry asked, his gaze drifting to Nathan.
For a moment, Nathan’s eyes flashed with surprise at Harry’s question, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"What did you mean by what happened, don’t you know about the rifts that suddenly opened around Vernil?" Nathan asked.
"Ohh." Harry said, finally understanding what Nathan was referring to. From what Terry said, a large number of rifts opening up at the same time was very rare, so it was only natural that the incident wouldn’t be a secret.
"Although the casualties weren’t much, and there were reportedly no deaths, a few of those casualties were students from this academy." Nathan said, pausing for a second before continuing: "They were unfortunate enough to be caught up in the mana beast attacks, and I heard a few of them got critical injuries."
’Yeah, guess everybody wasn’t as lucky as those close to the restaurant.’ Harry thought. The situation wouid have been the same or even worse in the restaurant, it he hadn’t put down three of the mana beasts.
"I heard you witnessed one yourself, I didn’t even expect you to be back to school so soon..." Nathan said, his voice slurring slightly at the end.
"Yeah, but luckily for me, the AMO arrived before anything serious happened." Harry replied.