Elena moved her lips and spoke extremely quietly and mocked Lin Xiao.
If he wanted to successfully get certified and help Yao Zi, then he had to use at least sixth-level magic. That means he would reveal his own strength, and with so many people watching, the news would surely spread quickly, which would be contradictory to his low-profile approach of dealing with things.
Or perhaps, think of a way to expose Hebrew’s schemes?
No, he still didn’t have enough evidence. Hebrew was the manager here, so he had quite a bit of authority, if he rashly had a falling-out with him, he would just end up like Lin Tian and Yao Zi.
Elena raised her eyebrow when she saw Lin Xiao caught in a dilemma, she was clearly very happy.
It seems like just this was too difficult for him, so that’s all he amounted to, as expected of a perverted good-for-nothing!
Elena was only focusing on hitting him when he was down, yet she forgot that he actually came here to get certified to help her. So she should have been trying to help him think of an idea instead of mocking him.
“Tsk, you disobedient maid, I’ll take care of you when we get home!”
When he saw her ridiculing gaze, he revealed a lecherous gaze to threaten her, then focused on the problem at hand.
The stone doll was stuffed with copper bloodwood, the two together amplified its magic resistance, forcing him to use at least sixth-level magic, but…
“Hehe, I have an idea.”
Lin Xiao confidently laughed and ignored Elena’s amazed look and started the challenge!
“Kid, I’m warning you, you only have one try. If you can’t do it, you half to wait half a month before you can try again.” Hebrew ‘kindly’ reminded him from the side.
Earlier, Hebrew heard from the siblings that this kid was about as strong as they were and was also a fifth-level magician. So Hebrew was sure that he couldn’t knock it over.
But… where did his confidence come from?
Even the fifth-level ice comet had no way of knocking it over and Lin Xiao wasn’t an idiot so he should know that he had no choice, but why was he still so calm?
Could he have hidden his true strength?
“Un, Hebrew, you don’t have to worry, I’ll do my best.” Lin Xiao nodded and didn’t want to waste any time.
His casual attitude made Hebrew feel even more strange.
“Don’t think you can just pay after failing to deal with it! Let me tell you, I’m only asking for funds for renovations, they’re not bribes… that money has nothing to do with me!” Hebrew nervously revealed himself even without anyone asking for it.
“Oh? Is that so? It seems like you’re a good selfless manager.” Lin Xiao causally shrugged off Hebrew’s confession.
“Of course not.”
“Lin Xiao, you have to do your best!”
“Eh?”
While Hebrew was chattering away, Lin Xiao turned to look at Yao Zi who was cheering for him and also Lin Tian who was next to her, and he suddenly had an interesting idea.
“Hebrew, how about we make a bet?”
“A bet? What do you mean?”
“I bet that I can use fourth-level magic to complete the challenge and knock over the stone doll, do you believe that?”
“Fourth-level magic? Impossible! Damn brat, don’t be conceited, copper bloodwood amplifies the refined magic stone’s magic resistance, so even fifth-level magic can’t knock it over, let alone fourth-level… uh, wait, no, no!”
“Hehe, I don’t know what copper bloodwood is, and what about fifth-level magic not being able to knock it down… Hebrew, what were you just saying? I didn’t hear you, can you repeat yourself?” Lin Xiao caught him and asked with a smile.
“Uh… n-nothing, you misheard.”
Hebrew was sweating from his smile.
This kid really doesn’t know his place! He thinks he’s actually that strong? He just has a beautiful maid, what use is that, can he eat that? No matter how beautiful your maid is, it can’t change your incompetence!
Even saying something like only using fourth-level magic, what a joke!
“How about it? Do you agree?”
“Okay kid, I agree! I want to see how you’ll use fourth-level magic to do it…” Hebrew coldly snorted and asked with interest, “Since it’s a bet, what’s at stake?”
“If I can do it, not only do you have to certify me, you also have to certify those two.” Lin Xiao pointed at the siblings that were spacing out on the side.
“Lin Xiao? Y-you….”
She never expected him to actually be willing to help them. Although she did want to ask him to help, she didn’t have anything so why should he help her, she couldn’t sell her sex appeal, right?
Thinking about that, Yao Zi was overwhelmed with sadness… even if she was willing to do that, he probably wouldn’t even want it. Compared to Lin Xiao’s maid, her appearances weren’t even worth mentioning, she would probably just be a country girl to Lin Xiao.
“Oh, so you want to be a hero and stand up for them?” Hebrew smiled with disdain and thought about how this guy was still just a bratty kid who enjoys the limelight and acting cool. So he relaxed his vigilance and calmly responded, “Then, what if you lose?”
“If I lose, not only will I give you all forty gold coins, I’ll give you my entire salary for the coming year.”
“Entire salary? … Hahaha!” Hebrew was stunned and couldn’t hold back his laughter.
A year’s salary, that’s a whopping 480 gold coins!
That wasn’t a small amount, it was far more than a year’s salary for Hebrew.
Was there something wrong with his head? He actually wagered a full year’s salary for two people he didn’t know, so he was either an idiot, or he actually had the strength to back it up!
Peh!
No matter how strong he was, how could he knock over something that an ice comet couldn’t even shake? Something that against the norm was simply just a delusion.
Hebrew quickly concluded that he was just an idiot, he probably got attracted to that Yao Zi girl and wanted to show off in front of her and made such an irrational decision.
“Since you want to give money away for free, I obviously won’t disagree, hehe.” Hebrew had a smug smile and agreed to Lin Xiao’s bet.
“Okay, then it’s a deal! Now…”
“Lin Xiao, n-no!”
Just as Lin Xiao was getting ready, Yao Zi loudly stopped him.