Chapter 309 – Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Yao Zi shook her head with uncertainty and rejected the idea.

“Magic circle? No, you just have to remember how I cast it, remember the flow of magic power and try imitating it!” Lin Xiao patted Yao Zi’s shoulder with confidence and took some distance from her. They both faced a large area of grassland and prepared for the experiment.

“Lin Xiao, are you sure she can do it?”

Elena stood next to him and quietly asked.

Although there were precedents, but Elena couldn’t understand how Yao Zi could have an imitation ability. If she could learn magic just by seeing it once, wouldn’t that be too much of a fantasy?

“Elena, let me ask you something. What exactly is magic?”

“Um… I guess controlling the magic power in the environment and changing its form for achieving things like attacking and defending?”

“That’s right, magic is essentially controlling and changing magic power, any magic is like that… if I remember correctly, Yao Zi can see the flow of magic that other people can’t see… right?”

“Yes.” Elena nodded.

So far that was the only useful things that Yao Zi’s wizard’s bloodline exhibited. Lin Xiao dubbed it as the wizard’s pupils.

Magic power was something intangible, normal people had no way of observing it, they could only meditate to perceive its existence, even the Demon King Elena could only rely on her magic power radar to perceive it. But Yao Zi was different, her eyes could actually see the physical movement of the magic power.

With her eyes, she could see through the nature of magic, so in her case, she can skip all the other unnecessary steps and directly imitate the magic power.

“I’m starting!”

Lin Xiao raised one hand and signaled Yao Zi to get ready. Then he extended the hand forward and started casting with the grassland as his target.

“Fourth-level magic… wind blade!”

The light green magic collected on his palms and slowly rotated in midair. Lin Xiao was purposely slowing the speed of the magic circle formation so that Yao Zi could clearly see it. Yao Zi was also cooperative and seriously stared at Lin Xiao’s hand like an obedient student receiving guidance from her teacher, afraid of missing a single detail.

Soon the circle disappeared and a translucent wind blade shot forward with a whoosh.

The wind blade shot forward cutting through all the weeds and cut a sharp path like someone used a sharp sword there.

“Did you get it?”

Yao Zi nodded.

“Okay, then give it a try!”

“O-okay… wind blade!”

Yao Zi copied what Lin Xiao did and started casting. First was the chant, then the circle, then…

“Uh, I think it was like this… no wait, it might have been like that… this should be… ah!”

Yao Zi was still frantically trying to remember Lin Xiao’s movements, then when she got distracted, the circle exploded with a bang and startled herself.

“Uh… you idiot, who told you to copy my movements?”

“Eh? D-didn’t you want me to imitate you?”

“Fool, I told you to imitate my magic, not my movements!” Lin Xiao painfully shook his head, “Forget the circle, forget the chant, just focus on controlling the magic power, reproduce the process!”

“Reproduce… the process?”

Yao Zi muttered to herself then stared at her hands in a daze.

“I still don’t get why you believe in her so much. Not using circles or chanting, that’s just instant cast magic… how could she grasp that?” Elena poked Lin Xiao’s back and asked.

“Everything lies in research… how would I know the answer if I don’t try?”

“Oh, so you tricked her here to this desolate location to teach her hands on?”

“Hands on? Uh… wouldn’t that be sexual harassment?” Lin Xiao turned and noticed that Elena’s attitude was strange, her eyes were even colder than usual, like he did something wrong to make her angry.

Strange, he didn’t do anything, why was she acting so weird.

“How am I teaching her hands on? Look how far am I from her!” Lin Xiao opened his arms and gestured the distance between them to show that he wasn’t harassing her.

“Hmph, is that so?” Elena squinted, she hugged her chest and said with disdain, “Lin Xiao, don’t think that I can’t see through you. You specifically brought her here and kept teasing her and now you’re posing as a teacher… tell me, are you interested in her?”

“Hah? No! I’m just simply interested in her bloodline!”

“Just that? I don’t believe it.”

“Uh… well it’s not just out of interest for that. She’s also important, getting on good terms with her will surely prove to be useful in the future.” Lin Xiao replied honestly.

“Getting on good terms? Hmph, you finally said the truth… You scum that falls for every girl you see. Are you not afraid of me telling ShenDai Ying?”

“Don’t! I didn’t, really!”

Honestly speaking, Yao Zi was really beautiful, she had a good figure and she was naive and it made one want to get closer to her. But if you had to ask whether Lin Xiao was interested in her, then that was impossible.

Not to mention anything else, if ShenDai Ying knew he was secretly fooling around with other women, then maybe she’ll really take a sword to Yao Zi.

“Yao Zi looks dumb and cute but she seems interested in you, like she relies on you… I don’t know what she’s thinking, she actually dared to come out alone with a pervert like you. Is she not afraid of being violated? Or… could she be looking forward to something like that? How disgusting.”

“Uh, Elena? You…”

When he heard her malicious speculations, something didn’t feel right.

Elena rarely had a negative opinion of anyone, that’s because she was the arrogant demon king, all humans were mere bugs in her eyes, so there were no differences between mere bugs. But it wasn‘t the same with Yao Zi.

Other than Lin Xiao, there was only one other person that Elena hated so much, and that was ShenDai Ying.

In that case…

“Elena, don’t worry, I’m really not interested in Yao Zi. Don’t worry, you’ll always be my favorite maid, even if Yao Zi wants to be my maid, I wouldn’t accept her!”

It was meant to comfort her, but he never thought that his words would light that dangerous firecracker and instantly cause her to explode.

“Hah? W-w-w-who wants to be your favorite maid? Idiot, Did you think I was jealous… Is that foolish woman worthy of me being jealous? Don’t be too full of yourself… if you keep teasing me, I’ll kill you, pervert!”

Elena blushed and kept cursing at him, when she took a look at him, she found that he was actually slightly smiling. It was like he was saying, ‘Okay, okay, stop it, I get it.’ with a arrogant high and might appearance. That pissed her off even more, so she endured the rebound and raised her leg to kick him.

“Owww, hey, stop it, you know I hate pain!”

“I know, that’s why I kicked you!”

“Tsk… Elena, are you being disobedient again? Don’t forget, this is the middle of nowhere, no one will come to save you no matter how much you scream!” Since persuading didn’t work, he could only threaten her.

“Hmph, you perverted scum, what do you dare to do this time? I… ah! Why did you suddenly hug me? … M-my body isn’t for you to tease! … A-again, pervert… ah! S-stop… stop!”

As expected the most effective way to make the demon king obediently shut up was to control her weakness.

“Sigh, Elena, aren’t you just asking for it every time?”

Lin Xiao sighed and easily hugged her from behind while resting his chin on her shoulder and gently whispering his declaration of victory next to her ears.

Thinking about it, it’s been a while since he teased Elena, she has been pretty obedient lately so he didn’t have a chance to take advantage of her, so how could he easily let this opportunity go?

He enjoyed the demon king’s shy reluctance as well as her faint breaths and soft body. Lin Xiao felt his brain fill with blood and all the excitement made him lose his reason!

They all say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, the long-awaited intimacy made him exceptionally exicted.

“Elena, I want to…”

“What do you want? What do you want to do? No! Stop thinking about it! Pervert! … Mhm… stop, stop hugging me…”

“Elena, this is my life’s request! I…”

Just as Lin Xiao was about to say what he wanted, Elena suddenly shouted.

“Watch out!”