Chapter 302 – It’s Hard to Be an Honest Person

But even if he was going to die, he still had to get one thing straight… why wasn’t Lin Xiao scared?

The fire red aura was still blazing and the scorching hot temperature evaporated the ice in the air. Clouds of billowy white steam rose while letting out a hissing sound.

Thankfully Lin Tian was lying on the ground, otherwise he would’ve been scared and fell straight down.

But… Lin Xiao wasn’t afraid at all, instead he started chatting with his maid about what they were going to eat for lunch.

Bro, are you a reincarnation of someone who starved to death? Why are you thinking about eating at a time like this!?

Within the steam, Hebrew clenched his fists as he approached Lin Xiao step by step, his gaze filled with a thick killing intent.

“H-hurry and run…”

Lin Tian wanted to push his sister away and quickly run, but Yao Zi wouldn’t leave and just clenched his hands with teary eyes.

“Sis… no one can help us… run!”

The people standing by the door were long gone, who knew if they left for help or just didn’t want to get involved. Anyways, they had no hope of defeating Hebrew, even if Lin Xiao could do tricks with fourth-level magic, there was no way he could defeat a sixth-level warrior that was going all out!

“Don’t be scared… Lin Xiao can do it, he can beat that bastard!”

“I-impossible… sis, I don’t believe him…”

“Don’t worry… it’s okay, believe in him!”

Yao Zi tightened her grasp on her brother’s hand, like she wanted to transmit her trust of Lin Xiao into him. At the same time, she looked at the black-haired youth that was flirting with his maid with eyes full of expectations.

Even if her wizard’s pupils haven’t awakened, but she knew that he definitely could beat Hebrew!

He probably wouldn’t even get injured if ten sixth-level warriors attacked him at the same time…

“Okay, then I’ll just play for a bit before eating.”

Lin Xiao stopped chatting with Elena and watched Hebrew as he slowly got closer. He shook his head in annoyance and finally brought out some motivation.

Snap.

There was a clear snapping sound and another huge ice comet appeared out of thin air and sped towards Hebrew.

“Eh? Brother, what is that?”

“Chantless instant cast!?”

The person who exclaimed was Yao Zi, but she didn’t understand what it was, and it was the heavily injured Lin Tian that told her.

“Only magicians sixth-level or above can grasp advanced casting techniques, how was he able to do it?”

Another huge ice ball devoured Hebrew, and instantly exploded into a mist of ice just like last time. Then it was evaporated by Hebrew’s scorching aura.

Snap.

Another clear snapping sound.

Boom.

No matter how strong of a defensive power Hebrew has, he couldn’t advance at all. He could only raise his arms up and get beat one-sidedly.

When the hell was he going to stop? Was his magic power unlimited?

Hebrew complained but he was pretty much right on the money.

If it was just fifth-level magic, with Lin Xiao’s strength as a seventh-level magician, he could continue casting non-stop for an entire day and only just be a bit tired. Hebrew’s aura would never last that long and would quickly be worn down.

Of course, Lin Xiao wasn’t in the mood to play with him for an entire day and quickly stopped the pointless bombardment.

“Hehe, not bad brat.”

When Lin Xiao stopped, Hebrew was finally able to take a breather and he looked at that youth with a serious gaze.

The continuous magic bombardment along with the surrounding temperature drops had sobered him up, but unfortunately it was too late.

“Chantless instant cast… was that why you were so confident?”

No wonder Lin Xiao wasn’t afraid and was able to stay so calm. It turned out he had such a powerful casting technique.

Just with a snap he could skip the chanting and magic circle and fire off ice comets like a cannon, leaving Hebrew with no room to fight back.

Indeed, Lin Xiao was incredibly strong for his age, at just sixteen he was a first-rate genius in all of Eileen, but alas…

“It’s still not enough!”

Hebrew roared and concentrated his battle aura into his right arm!

The successive ice comets already exhausted a lot of his battle aura, and his body temperature was also dangerously low because of the ice magic, so he couldn’t use the scorching hot aura to envelop his body, otherwise, he might harm himself, so instead, he chose to attack!

After continuously casting that much magic, it must have put quite a burden on him, right?

Now was the perfect opportunity! Hebrew planned to use this chance to let that arrogant brat suffer!

“Explosive punch!”

Hebrew kicked off the ground and shot his body towards Lin Xiao like a bullet. His fist lead the way like he wanted to pierce a hole through Lin Xiao’s body!

“Hebrew, do you still remember about elemental relationships?”

“What?”

Hebrew heard him ask something strange.

“If ice magic was used to drastically lower the temperature and then fire magic was used, what do you think will happen?”

“…”

When Hebrew saw his crafty gaze, he suddenly realized the danger and wanted to escape!

But it was too late.

Snap.

Another clear snapping sound, but to Hebrew, it was like the grim reaper.

Instantly, a fire started, and a terrifying dragon’s roar came from within!

When he heard that, Lin Tian face became deathly pale. He stared at the huge dragon that was born from the fire and managed to squeeze out a few words.

“Advanced sixth-level magic, dragon’s fury!?”

Under Lin Xiao’s control, a huge dragon head crawled out from another dimension and opened its mouth, and bit down on Hebrew’s body!

“Aaaaaaaahhh!!!”

From the shock in the difference of temperatures, from first ice code to flaming hot, Hebrew’s body was severely burned. His skin started peeling off and his clothes also began burning to ash.

The fire began revolving around and all the steam lingering in the air was swallowed by the dragon and in the blink of an eyes, no more water vapor remained, the only thing left was the dragon’s fury!

Roooooaaar!!!

The dragon roared again and the illusory dragon head suddenly exploded, sending Hebrew, who was caught between its maws, flying out like a sandbag. He fell onto the ground with a plop, his clothes tattered and body swollen, he tried struggling like a turtle trying to turn itself over. After struggling for a while, he finally resigned himself to a series of painful groans and stopped moving.

“Damn… damn it…”

Hebrew cursed, but he still couldn’t change his wretched outcome.

Only now, Hebrew realized that even if it was the sixth-level magic dragon’s fury, that youth still hasn’t shown his true strength. If he got serious, then not just the illusory dragon head, he could probably even summon the genuine inferno dragon into this realm!

If that was the case, he would have been dead long ago, but…

“Damn, you naive fools, you stinking brats, who do you think you are? Do you think you’ll be heroes just because you become investigators?”

Hebrew, aware of his end, pointlessly struggled and vented pointlessly.

“Demons and the like, who the hell cares? Isn’t it fine to live comfortably? Even if you become investigators and kill enemy after enemy and destroy the demons, what’s the point?”

While speaking, Hebrew spat out some blood and almost choked, but he still muttered on.

“How could being a hero be as good as being rich!?”

“The alliance spends so much money on you guys every year, it’s not worth it… rather than you heroes who’ll die sooner or later, why not just give it to me so I can live comfortably!”

Although he said that, when he remembered about all the money he embezzled that he hasn’t spent much of yet, it was too late to regret.

“Lin Xiao… young investigators like you guys will die sooner or later, so give up, you can’t become heroes!”

“Uh, I say uncle… it seems like you’re misunderstanding something, I never said I wanted to be a hero.”

Lin Xiao walked next to Hebrew, crouched down and leaned over, and calmly started chatting with him.

“Y-you don’t want to be a hero? Then why are you becoming an investigator? And why… are you going against the demons?”

“No, I’m not going against them, I’m helping them.”

Lin Xiao awkwardly pursed his lips and spoke in a volume so that no one else could hear.

“Honestly, you’re right… I don’t want to be a hero, how could being a hero be as good as being rich? But I came here to help her?”

“Her?”

Following Lin Xiao’s gaze, Hebrew saw that indifferent silver-haired red-eyed beauty.

This brat was playing with him, right!

“Puh!”

Hebrew burned with anger and he spat out a large mouthful of blood before his eyes shut and he went limp.

“Uh… strange, why don’t you believe me when I’m telling you the truth?”

Lin Xiao blinked a couple of times before helplessly sighing.

It’s really hard to be an honest person these days…