Chapter 80: Little Tricks Won't Work

Chapter 80: Little Tricks Won't Work

Aurora seemed quite surprised when she saw Evelyn take an immediate interest in the array disc containing the 'Searing Soul' cultivation technique.

She thought that she would have to at least nudge her in the right direction, or maybe even tell her outright for her to make the right choice, but this girl's instincts and luck were both incredibly good!

The platinum blonde was already familiar with all the cultivation techniques in the tower of solitude, and it wouldn't be wrong to say that 'Searing Soul' was the one that suited this little girl the most.

After all, to be the chosen of the Lotus Throne, a child had to be born with over a thousand points in soul value. It was an absurdly impossible requirement, which was why the academy had no hopes of such a person ever being born naturally.

Of course, as Aurora grew up, she realized that her creators were simply greedy. Greedy for knowledge, for power, and perhaps most of all, for having an actual right to speak in this world, on par with the other two thrones.

'Which is a foolish notion. If simply being picked by the Lotus Throne meant anything, would this little girl be so vulnerable? As long as the other two come to know of her existence, she's doomed. Even I can crush her effortlessly'

Given that the two current thrones seemed to hate each other so much, there was no way they would allow a third one to grow when they could so easily prevent it.Ne/w novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

But although she already knew all of this, along with the fact that this was the most suitable technique for the pink-haired girl, Aurora did not reveal it to Evelyn.

Instead, the platinum blonde tilted her head curiously. "Are you interested in this one?"

Evelyn thought that the teachers must have some way of knowing which array disc contained which technique even without activating it. After all, it wouldn't make sense for Aurora to be able to find all the best ones otherwise, right?

Of course, she had no intention of revealing her innate ability to see the status of both objects and people. The pink-haired girl smiled. "I just feel like this might be the right one for me?"

Aurora didn't probe her any further, simply giving her a nod. "Alright. Go with your 'feelings' then. Remember, you can only keep the array for six months at most, after which you will have to return it to the elder in the tower of solitude."

Evelyn kept nodding along as Aurora explained a few more minor details on how to use the array discs. Apparently, the higher the grade of the cultivation technique array, the more spirit stones it needed to be activated.

Of course, with Cecilia's 'Mister Chonkers', there was no need to worry about any funds for now.

Aurora's presence in the tower of solitude had definitely brought her a great deal of benefits. Evelyn didn't know if she would have been able to find a suitable high-grade technique within fifteen minutes if she had been alone.

And to make matters worse, among these tens of thousands of techniques, she could only realistically check a hundred and thirty or so, since each time she used her probe skill, it consumed one point of spirit power.

But at the same time, Aurora's help also made some matters complicated.

After getting out of the tower of solitude, Evelyn had wanted to immediately return to the White Lily Palace to celebrate with her friends and get started on learning their cultivation techniques.

After all, this was their first step to a brighter future.

Unfortunately, Aurora did not escort her away from the class, instead only patting her head and telling her to be a good girl from now, and not be too naughty.

Evelyn's lips twitched as she watched the platinum blonde walk away.

Thankfully, even with Aurora gone, the elder in charge didn't ask her to take out her array disk so he could put any restrictions on it. Evelyn assumed that he must have convinced himself that Aurora already must have put on the restrictions, and busied himself with explaining how to pick the cultivation arrays as well as how to use them to the rest of the students.

With Evelyn's previous incident of being expelled, and then coming back with a teacher to expel the teacher back, the students felt extremely curious about her, and many approached her to ask questions.

"What's your name?"

"How did you know that teacher?"

"What did you get from the tower?"

Though Evelyn didn't feel the need to answer them at all, there was no need to make enemies everywhere. As some of these students were spirit physiques just like her, they could also prove to be useful in the future.

Of course, there was no need to answer all their questions accurately either, except for her name.

"She found me while I was leaving the class and asked what was wrong, and then"

"I don't know"

"We'll only know which technique we got after we start the array, right?"

The children's excited discussions only paused when someone entered the tower or came out. Whenever they exited, the elder would cast some sort of technique on their array disc, making it briefly glow red before letting them leave to join the rest of the students.

It was almost evening by the time they were done, and Evelyn breathed a sigh of relief. 'It's finally over'

She didn't know what Aurora intended by leaving her here to waste time, but she could only forgive her after thinking about all the favors she had already granted.

Evelyn rolled her eyes. 'She probably wants me to socialize and be a good girl, right? It's a bit too late for that, but fine, I'll pretend to be a 'good girl' if that's what she wants.'