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sword he wouldn’t be able to do anything.

“Lin Xiao, w-what should we do? While they still haven’t noticed us, we can still escape! So let’s… hm? Lin Xiao? Lin Xiao!?”

While Tom was worrying by himself, when he looked back, he saw that Lin Xiao was leisurely walking over with Yao Zi!

What were they doing? Were they committing suicide!?

“I guess we shouldn’t bother the demon king for something as trifling as this.”

Lin Xiao glanced back at the carriage that Elena was hiding in and then looked at Yao Zi.

“Yao Zi, let me teach you something new today.”

“Something new? Okay!”

“There’s something called multicasting, you’ve never heard of it, right?”

“No, I haven’t.” Yao Zi shook her head.

“Sigh, I knew it… you really are a diamond in the rough.” Lin Xiao smiled and shook his head, he knew that Yao Zi practically knew nothing about magic theory so he explained in a way that anyone could understand, “Multicasting, to put it simply, is casting the same magic multiple times at once.”

“Oh! I get it, it sounds strong!”

“That’s right, it is… I taught you seventh-level magic, flaming meteor, do you still remember?”

“Yep!”

“Okay!”

Lin Xiao snapped and a normal fireball flew towards the ants.

Boom! The large fireball exploded in the center of the horde, and even though it only burnt one ant all the surrounding ants became vigilant and started probing around with their antennae.

“That was a normal one, now it’s multi-casting.”

There was another snap, and a fireball flew towards the ants, but this time there were ten fireballs!

A group of unlucky ants were struck by the scorching fireball and were burnt to a crisp.

After being attacked again, the ants started moving and a chilling chirping sound began reverberating through the air, like they were calling something.

As expected, the ground began trembling and the ground suddenly collapsed with even more ants surging out. The more frightening thing was the white and fat ant that was as big as a building.

“That’s probably the queen ant… yuck, how disgusting.”

Lin Xiao felt like retching and didn’t want to watch anymore, so he turned back towards the carriage and spoke as he walked.

“Yao Zi, did you get it? If you did hurry up and use a meteor shower to flatten them, we need to be on our way.”

Lin Xiao beckoned the others onto the carriage and when he got to Tom he asked him a question.

“Hey, where does this road lead to?”

“Link village, a small village on the borders of the plague zone, but it’s probably deserted by now… he, wait, what are you thinking? Why did you purposely anger the ants? Now we can’t run!”

“Run? We don’t need to, I already taught multicasting to Yao Zi so she can take care of it herself and I don’t need to do anything.” Lin Xiao lazily shrugged and grabbed ShenDai Ying’s hand to jump onto the carriage.

“Hah? Was that teaching? Who can learn anything from that?”

He felt like between himself and Lin Xiao, one of them was surely crazy. Multicasting is such a complex technique, how can he expect her to learn it just by showing her once?

Even if she does possess the wizard’s bloodline, she can’t learn something just by seeing it once, right?

“Hehe, don’t worry, she’ll definitely learn it. After all, I already broke it down for her to see.”

Magic power was a mysterious and intangible substance.

To others, he just snapped and threw ten fireballs, but Yao Zi could ‘see’ all his minute movements.

In order to let Yao Zi learn faster, Lin Xiao purposely cast it twice so she could see the difference between how the magic power was being used. He also specifically chose to multiply it by ten times, anything too less would be too easy and she may not grasp it, anything more would be too complex and she might not be able to clearly differentiate the magic power.

Teacher Lin already did his best to guide her, now everything else was dependent on Yao Zi.

“Can she really learn it… no, wait!”

Tom suddenly felt something off as he looked at Yao Zi.

This is something he should have realized earlier, why was Lin Xiao able to teach Yao Zi multicasting. Even Yao Zi didn’t know it, so how did he?

As he thought about that, he suddenly felt a sense of dread. He felt his neck getting cold, even though Lin Xiao was just lazily chatting with ShenDai Ying, to him, Lin Xiao was already equivalent to a monster!

So in the end, Yao Zi wasn’t the strongest, but her teacher, Lin Xiao, was the one hiding his strength?

“What are you waiting for? Get on.”

“O-oh! I’ll take the other carriage…”

He sat on the carriage that still smelled of pig blood for a while before being able to regain his composure.

He felt very lucky to be able to rope Lin Xiao in.

Compared to Lin Xiao, those investigators under Claire were just a common mob. With Lin Xiao and Yao Zi, Caesar will be saved no matter how strong those monsters are!

While he was thinking, he suddenly heard a deafening rumble.

“Seventh-level magic, flaming meteor?”

He looked up and noticed that the sky was already covered with numerous meteors.

“One, two, three… twenty-eight, Twenty-nine… what, there’s almost thirty of them? My god! She was actually able to learn it?”

He foolishly counted them one by one and already lost track by the end, he had to bite his tongue to keep calm while tightening the reigns of the startled horses.

Yao Zi actually did it! The meteors wrapped in the fires of hell fell from the skies and ruthlessly fell towards the dense groups of ants. The foolish ants didn’t even realize their imminent doom, when the first meteor sank into the white and fat queen causing it to explode disgusting liquid, they couldn’t run even if they wanted to.

Was this the power of multicasting?

He then looked left and right like he was looking for someone, then sighed regrettably because he couldn’t find them.

He was curious what kind of expression Claire would have if she were here and saw this.

E-ranked investigators that she looked down on called a destructive meteor shower to easily exterminate the bloodsucking ant colony that was too strong for her.

“If she saw this, with her personality, her worldview will probably collapse…”

He shook his head as he imagined her arrogant, headstrong, and self-opinionated expression.

“Fortunately, we won’t meet her again…” He chased away his complicated thoughts and followed after Lin Xiao, avoiding the craters and numerous burnt lumps of charcoal.

Next stop, borders of the plague zone, Link Village!

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Claire didn’t know anything about what kind of crazy things that Lin Xiao and them were up to because she has been busy for the entire day in the office.

Actually, there was no need for her to work so hard. There was a lot of work that she doesn’t have to personally attend to and that she can hand over to the others. But it was like she ate something wrong today and was stricter than usual.

The manager could understand her resent, she was competing with those crazy E-rank investigators.

When has the leopard queen ever been talked back to? What was more infuriating was that he even insulted her in public, how could she swallow that?

But it couldn’t be helped, he already left so she could only curse him internally and take out her anger on her work…

“Hmph, you think you can take the ants head-on… your corpses won’t even be left behind.”

Claire quietly complained while roughly organizing the files and almost tearing some of them apart.

The manager didn’t dare say anything, pretended that he couldn’t hear her, and helped to make the final preparations before they set out.

In a moment, Claire would take the small road under the guise of the night to avoid the ants.

Suddenly, the earth started trembling and a deafening rumbling sound echoed above them and startled everyone.