Chapter 84 – Aiko doesn’t like crowded spaces…

Chapter 84 – Aiko doesn’t like crowded spaces...

Aiko was kicking around watching Mei Refine Pills.

*Munch*

Sometimes Mei would give her a small marble that tasted really great. It was like those bonbons that were liquid inside. It wasn't overly sweet, but it had a refreshing taste each time.

Aiko stared at Mei focusing, each single Pill took her hours to make.

'I don't think I have the patience to do that, but then again, watching it and doing it are too different things.' Aiko thought. From watching it she would definitely not have the patience to slowly prepare everything as everything was just too complicated, but maybe doing she could change her mind.

'There is not much to do anyway, maybe I should visit Alchemy Peak...' Aiko was interested in those tasty marbles.

...

Mei exhaled. "We should go now." She spoke gently.

Aiko's face twisted, but she didn't say anything. She watched Mei clean her place, leaving with her.

"This will be such a bother." Aiko sighed. She would need to recover her Beast Core Energy, but eating was expensive. Mei already ran out of ingredients and the rest is stored in Grandmaster's place.

"Who told you to eat so much." Mei poked Aiko's inflated cheek.

"I'm not talking about food." Aiko swatted Mei's hand pouting again.

Mei giggled but didn't say anything. She knew that Aiko didn't like gatherings, but this one was necessary for them.

'I made a bet that more than half of the Elders would get kicked out.' Mei licked her lips. She calculated it was around 70%, but if the Patriarch did something she would lose, so she put up a lower number just in case.

They arrived at a large plaza, different to the test Aiko was taking as that one was inside a building.

There were 20 mats for test takers and likewise, 20 Human Elders were watching over the mats.

'This place is big...' Aiko stared around, the audience seats were arranged in a circular motion. The North were where all Elders, including the Fox ones, were. The East was for Human Inscription Cultivators. The West was for Fox Inscription Cultivators and lastly the South. That place didn't have normal seats, but low tables with chairs similar to that of the North side.

The South side was much smaller but had a more lavish decorum. It seemed like only those that had some kind of Token could sit there.

"That is for [Inscription Master]s and above." Mei explained to the curious Aiko.

She already learned some of her body language, the happier she was the more her tail swished around, when she was sad the tail was like a corpse, unmoving. If she was curious her tail tip would make a slow circling motion.

Aiko nodded. "Can we go there, it's less stuffy." Aiko grabbed Mei to drag her there.

"Do you have the Token for that?" Mei smiled seeing the distressed Aiko.

"I don't have it, but I passed!" Aiko defended herself, still trying to pull Mei towards the South side.

"Why not visit the East si-"

"No." Aiko immediately flatly denied that and Mei was startled.

"Why not?" Mei narrowed her eyes smiling.

"They are too chummy." Aiko gestured a hugging motion.

"You don't like it?" Mei giggled.

"They smell bad." Aiko simply said, unaware that almost everyone in there was watching her.

"Is that so?" Mei's eyes turned crescent moon shape. It was a good thing for her since she didn't need to care about Human Cultivators appealing to her.

"And they don't feed me well." Aiko grabbed her stomach. "I'm hungry." Aiko's eyes shined at Mei.

Mei felt burdened once again as her storage rings dwindled in good meat.

"I don't have anything." Mei was honest at first, but now she also learned how to lie with a straight face. Can you blame her? Aiko's consumption increased by more than 10 times once she got this pseudo-human form.

Aiko pouted, trying to drag Mei there.

"We can't go there." Mei smiled gently.

"Hmpf." Aiko pouted her ears twitching in displeasure.

"I don't believe that!" Someone suddenly yelled attracting everyone's attention.

"Young miss..." The old servant was wiping his sweat, it was difficult to manage youngsters...

"I don't believe that little whore is already [Inscription Master]!" That shrieking girl pointed at Aiko and everyone followed the line of sight.

"Since you have 'injured' the girl you will have to duel now." The Patriarch said slowly.

"Eh?!" Aiko was shocked. She was so upset that she wanted to throw more rocks at that shitty brat.

Unfortunately, her rocks crumbled with the wave of the Patriarch's hand.

Aiko looked away pouting.

"I believe that a prize is necessary." Mei spoke gently, but everyone heard her.

Aiko's ears twitched. 'Treasures?'

"Yes, yes, it's only natural for there to be a prize." The Fox Elders noticed that twitch and pushed that motion forward.

"Indeed, since you were insulting our guest it's only natural that there is a prize." The Patriarch agreed and he smiled with glee seeing his Elder's distorted face.

"Meat, Spirit Stones and treasures." Aiko shamelessly counted on her fingers and then nodded.

The gallery laughed at that cute, yet shameless display.

"But that is only if you win, you don't have anything to appeal to us." The Elder snorted.

Aiko pulled out Spirit Crystal and the whole place quietened.

"Seriously? Spirit Crystal, that is too good for those two! Why can't we challenge the little one, why does it have to be that bit-"

"Why am I so poor."

"I want to challenge her, no way will I allow the Elder to get Spirit Crystal!"

The gallery was in uproar. Most of them cried since they were only either [Inscription Apprentice]s or [Inscription Adept]s they had a long way ahead to become [Inscription Master]s.

The others were already [Inscription Master]s so they wanted to rush forward and steal this duel for themselves. Spirit Crystals were incredibly rare and precious, no way in the underworld would they allow Tao Xuefeng to get the Spirit Crystal!

"The purest Meat! A pile of Spirit Stones! Treasures!" Aiko counted again, ignoring the animated gallery.

The Elder had his eyes glued on the Spirit Crystal. 'I need that one to promote to [Inscription Emperor]...' His eyes shined with greed.

"Very well, we agree." The Elder said hastily.

The Patriarch shook his head.

Mei smiled gently.

The Fox Elders frowned.

The Gallery was in uproar yet again.

The place was cleaned with only two test tables in front of each other but with a 5-meter distance in between.

Aiko happily sat down, her tail moving left and right.

Tao Xuefeng also sat down.

The Elders bought Inscription Pens and Inscription Ink in front of them.

Aiko checked her stuff and then checked her opponent.

"Why does she have higher quality Pen and Ink?" Aiko frowned.

Tao Xuefeng smiled like a snake.

The others also saw that, but nobody dared to raise the issue, on the other side the Foxes were trying to raise an issue but were suppressed by the Human side.

It was 200 Foxes vs around 1,000 Humans.

Aiko frowned seeing nobody doing anything about this, but luckily she stored a few rocks in her rings.

*Swish**Crash*

[[Mischievous Cub] Activated! Force increased!]

[[Trickster] Activated! Accuracy increased!

*Shatter*

Aiko smashed her Pen and Inscription ink to pieces, the Ink splattered everywhere while the pieces of the Pen flew somewhere far away.

Aiko snorted and returned to check her table.

The girl was stunned, but that didn't last long as she roared. "You dare to destroy my things!? Do you know how much it cost!"

"Why should I care, you failed to protect your stuff." Aiko cutely tilted her head and stifled laughter spread from the gallery.

This was just too much for them, they didn't expect this little Fox to be so vengeful!