CH 367

“Teach? What a joke! Who can teach her?”

Although Yao Zi shouldn’t have awakened and improved that quickly, which meant that she most likely got guidance, but the problem was, who can teach her?

As the wizard’s bloodline possessor, Yao Zi was innately gifted in magic so magic top her was different from normal people. Thus, normal people wouldn’t be able to guide her effectively.

Of course, that wasn’t definite.

If there had to be one person that could help her, then that could only be a teacher from Loran Academy, grand magician, Woos.

He may be old but he specialized in magic theory and had a unique understanding of magic origins and compositions. If he taught her, then it was possible for her to awaken early…

But that was rejected.

As far as the apostle knew, Woos never came into contact with Yao Zi. He was Loran Academy’s teacher and Yao Zi was just a poor student from a second-rate academy, the only time they met was at the academy tournament, so where would he have the chance to teach her?

“Could it be someone else?” The subordinate thought for a while then quietly spoke, “The siblings aren’t acting by themselves this time, they have three other teammates.”

“Who?”

“The little princess from Great Qin Empire, ShenDai Ying, and a student from Loran Academy, Lin Xiao… oh right and a maid, I think called Elena.”

“Maid?”

The apostle was confused by what he said. Was one of those three Yao Zi’s teacher?

ShenDai Ying didn’t know magic, so she was ruled out, that maid was impossible as well, so that only left Lin Xiao.

“Lin Xiao… who is he?”

“I don’t know, he had no influence, no background, a normal excelling student in Loran Academy. He’s good friends with Caesar and Rosie and it seems he knows Saintess Snow as well. He has above-average talent, is easygoing and lazy. There’s nothing else special about him.”

“So, why do you think he could be her teacher?”

“Uh… I think he’s concealing his true strength. Based on previous signs, I think we should do a detailed investigation…”

“Nonsense! Do you think we don’t have enough trouble? And you want to go investigate an insignificant broke student?”

“Yes! I-I apologize…” The subordinate quickly admitted his mistake, but he still felt upset.

Honestly speaking, he suspected that Lin Xiao was fishy.

Yao Zi was a dumb girl, if no one was giving her directions, she wouldn’t be able to do anything no matter how much innate talent she had. Let alone, being able to put on that show. So he suspected that Lin Xiao kid was behind the scenes.

But the apostle thought that his guess was delusions and rejected his suggestion, so he could only leave it be.

Of course, those two had no idea what a valuable opportunity they had just missed. They overlooked this wolf in sheep’s clothing… If the apostle could foresee the future, he definitely would do whatever it took to kill him, and if he couldn’t, he would block him from heading towards Gotham Kingdom and prevent him from sabotaging their great plan!

But unfortunately, there are no ‘ifs’ in reality, Lin Xiao’s usual low profile and laziness was his best protection, compared to Snow who was high-profile and eye-catching.

“Rather than Lin Xiao, you should pay more attention to Snow.”

“Saintess Snow just arrived at Nighttown a couple of days ago, I heard she rushed over after hearing about what happened at wailing canyon… could she have noticed something?”

“Hmph, she should have long been aware, but it’s too late! Our plan is in motion and she has no chance to stop us!”

“You’re right… but there’s still one other thing, Adele went missing.”

“Oh?”

From their information, none of the investigators met her. What was strange was that they found signs of fighting in her cave, but they couldn’t tell who did it and where Adele went.

“Forget it, she’s already poisoned, even if the soul snatching curse was removed, she’s dead within the month.” The apostle was confident, but he didn’t know that a certain loli also knew black magic and could save Adele.

But as for what he meant by poisoned, Snow had no way to know to yet.

“Those investigators are nothing to worry about, let them come if they want to die… focus on Snow, don’t let her do as she pleases!”

“Yes, your highness apostle!”

“Punish the enlightened and illuminate the world!”

The two yelled their strange phrase and got ready to leave but that apostle suddenly noticed something.

“Who!?”

He shouted and raised a finger, shooting out a ray of blackish-purple light.

The narrow beam of light was extremely destructive and passed freely through the dense canopy leaving behind a narrow hole. Everything that the light toughed instantly withered and decayed into dust.

“What? There was someone eavesdropping?”

The subordinate quickly ran over and tried to catch who was eavesdropping.

The apostle’s death finger was powerful and quick, there was no way of avoiding it. Even if they aren’t dead, they would be heavily injured.

Their secrets can’t be revealed so he had to catch them and interrogate them.

But when he got there, he didn’t see anyone and just found a piece of strangely shaped wood.

“Strange, why is there a piece of wood here?”

The piece of wood was accurately hit and the areas surrounding the hole was quickly stained black and corroded. In a couple of breaths of time, the entire piece of wood turned into a pile of ash.

“Hm? What’s this?”

In that pile of ash, he noticed a thin strand of black hair, it didn’t look like it came from an animal or demonic beast, but from a human.

Just as he was going to pick up that strand of hair and report it to the apostle, it also similarly turned to ash when he touched it and could only return empty-handed.

“Wood? Forget it… let’s go!”

The apostle didn’t understand either, but he knew that they couldn’t stay there any longer. He raised a hand and out came a black mist that enveloped the two of them. After that, they disappeared along with a gust of wind.

“What, that scared me…”

A certain girl hidden in the trees finally breathed out a sigh of relief.

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After several days, Lin Xiao’s team also officially passed through Gotham Kingdom’s borders and were only a couple of days away from the capital.

There was a very different feeling when they stepped onto that land.

Gotham Kingdom was not like Lombard Kingdom, the land wasn’t as fertile, the weather was unpredictable and there were frequent sandstorms. This resulted in a relatively small population, so their economy also wasn’t as developed. On the way, Lin Xiao never saw a single prosperous town, even if it was located on a major traffic route, the scales of the city weren’t even a tenth of Winterless City. This made Lin Xiao suspect that he came to the slums, the entire country was permeated with a sense of ruin.

Not just that, everyone Lin Xiao had met all this way were mercenaries, investigators, military personnel, and other than that, terrified local residents.

With such chaos within their borders, even if the information was blocked and the plague hadn’t reached this far yet. But with all the people passing through and heading west, they could sense that trouble was approaching.

It was probably war.

“Sigh, how pitiful…” ShenDai Ying gazed at the beggars squatting by the roads.

The internal turmoil and plague might have not directly affected them, but it has spilled over into their lives. If the investigators could stop the spread of the plague, then that perhaps could help them.

Just like her, the siblings also felt heavy and were more resolved in completing the mission to help these innocent people!

But, this wasn’t particularly touching for Lin Xiao and Elena.

As for Lin Xiao… to put it nicely, he was mature and rational, and not so nicely, he had a heart of stone. To him, he would rather get a good sleep rather than pity them. If he really wanted to help them, he should maintain his rationality, that way they can quickly complete the mission and help them out.

As for Elena… she was also like ShenDai Ying and had a soft feminine side, but she wasn’t a human so she just felt some sympathy.

“Let’s stay here today.”

Lin Xiao brought everyone to an old inn in the town to get some rest. They had to continue traveling tomorrow and they were almost at the capital where the real battle would begin. They still didn’t know what dangers would await them and had to prepare.

He may have rejected Snow’s suggestion, made a bet and angered her, but he wasn’t actually that confident. It wasn’t going to be that easy to beat that brat.

The town was quiet, and Lin Xiao who usually immediately fell asleep when he hit the bed unexpectedly had insomnia.

He walked onto the inn’s balcony and held onto the railings as he stared at the empty roads.

“Hey, why aren’t you asleep?”

“Hm?”

Lin Xiao turned around and saw a maid standing in the corridor.

What made him curious was that she had an inexplicable expression.