Minor name change:
Su Bang -> Jin Xifeng
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Qin Shaoqing who had been wondering around the alleyways managed to find himself in a desolate place.
"How did I end up here?" He looked around, seeing thousands of cargo containers stacked on each others he concluded he walked into a loading bay of sort.
"These dark alleyways is getting more and more complicated." Before Qin Shaoqing could turn around and go back he heard a womenly cry in the distance.
'I smell trouble. Which mean money!' Qin Shaoqing without hesitation ran towards the direction of the cry.
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Tingyun, a name famous in Luofu as the ambassador of the sky-faring commission.
With sharp wit and beautiful figure she attract eyes from every direction wherever she goes.
'Why did it come to this.' Tingyun silently laments, looking around, she found herself surrounded by her guards as they are desperately trying to fend off these assassins.
It was supposed to be a normal day like any other. Morning breakfast, self-care, and go to have a meeting with another commission like she usually do.
But when she boarded the Whistling Flames ship, she noticed one of her guard seemed to be suspicions, and before she could alert her most trusted aid they noticed their disguise was seen through and attacked right away revealing half of her escorts to be assasins going after her life.
Even worse this area is restricted to any outsiders and an outbreak of mara-struck made patrolling Cloud knights leave their post, essentially isolating them from any outside help.
Seeing her last guard has fallen her face began to pale. The fast heartbeat on her chest drummed in her ear as she feared this will be the last moment of her life.
"Tsk, I told you she would notice you, now you've ruined the original plan." One guy complained to the man that was noticed by Tinyun
"Yeah yeah whatever, we still completed the mission, just throw her corpse in the ship and send it off, nobody will notice a difference."
Their casual words about murder made Tingyun panicked.
She was only an ambassador with no way to fight back, no matter how sharp witted she is she couldn't get away from the grip of death.
"Was this a planned?" Tingyun asked not knowing if it was from curiosity before death or to stall for time.
"He he, getting curious are we? Sure I'll spill just because I pity you." The man paused to add suspense before continuing "Yes indeed, the stellaron was planted by our Lord Ravager Phantylia, and coincidentally she wants you dead so she can take over your position."
"How enviable, the position of ambassador of Sky-Faring commission, how much money should one spend to get in that position. You should be thankful our Lord Ravager Phantylia has taken over it, savior that satisfaction."
"Ugh, here you go again with the theatrics, end her quickly before anyone investigate the source of her scream."
"Tsk, shut up, this place is forbidden for outsiders anyway and the cloud knight is busy taking care of that stellarons nobody will hear her." The man who was in the bad moon after being ruined of his theatrics raised his blade like a guillotine for Tinyun's life.
Out of instinct, she dodged to the side with all of her strength, barely managing to evade the blade that aimed for her vital part but unfortunately the blade struck her arm deeply.
"Ugh." Tingyun held the urge to scream in pain, the last thing she want was to be seen as a flailing women helplessly moaning in pain.
Feeling the blood flowing down her entire arm, she looked up to see the blade was raised once more.
"Is this how I die?" Tingyun muttered before closing her eyes in acceptance.
"He he, accepting death? good, I hope you realize everything will lead onto destruction." Before he could bring down his blade, a man suddenly appeared beside him out of nowhere. "Geez, you guys sure don't know how to treat women."
Before he could dash away in surprise Qin Shaoqing jabbed his elbow in a friendly gesture. "Calm down, it won't hurt." Before he could ask what he was saying, he felt a sudden coldness assault him as green flame enveloped him whole.
"W-what who are you!!" The other assassins looked at Qin Shaoqing in surprise and took a battle ready stance.
Tingyun who heard, saw the man who was about to cut her down was in Heliobus's flames before collapsing out of sheer coldness.
"Oh, me? I'm jus- ugh..." Before Qin Shaoqing could introduce himself he felt overwhelmed by a certain emotion. "..Is.. this sadness?" Qin Shaoqing felt wetness in his cheek, putting his hand on his face he saw tears rolls down his face.
His mind raced to what caused this before settling looking over the description of the skill again.
[Ghostly Flames: (This ability still bears all previous abilities.) A flame that reacts to strong emotions, the stronger the emotion, the larger and colder the flames. This system strongly recommends avoiding this ability at all cost.]
'This system strongly recommends avoiding this ability at all cost? Heh so this is the effect?' Qin Shaoqing wiped his tears and cursed his system silently.
The flame now fed with intense emotion, grew larger and reached Tingyun.
Not being able to fully process the strange string of events she noticed too late. In a panic she tried to get up but staggered letting the flame catch up to her.
"Ah!" Tingyun closed her eyes but after a moment of nothing happening she saw the flames were actively avoiding her, moreover she felt a sense of security within these flames.
Her mind now calmed a little directed her gaze to the man who just saved her.
His hair flutter from the dancing flames around him, striking red eyes glistened as they became moist from his tears and his broad shoulders revealed the robust build he possessed even with the slim clothes he wore to hide it.
Qin Shaoqing who felt overwhelmed by emotions constantly tried to suppressed it and push the overwhelming sadness he was feeling.
The assassins who saw Qin Shaoqing preoccupied with himself tried to rush to kill him but the flames enveloped them completely before they could reach him.
Seeing this, they became cautious and tried throwing their knife but Qin Shaoqing who saw this caught it with his hand.
"Ahem, it seemed I was caught by emotions." Qin Shaoqing dropped the knives in his hand and made a gesture to the flame "Consume them." With one command the raging flame came alive and instantly became a wave that rushed towards the assassins.
Without being able to react, they were consumed and drained of their Yang, leaving only a cold husk.
Upon seeing the enemy's death Qin Shaoqing quickly disabled the skill and the overwhelming sadness suddenly disappeared along with the flames. Leaving only him and the foxian women who was absentmindedly staring at him.
Both of them stared at each other for a few seconds before Tingyun noticed their current situation and blushed in embarrassment, an ambassador skilled at speaking, never said a word of thanks to their savior is plain embarrassing.
'Cute.' Qin Shaoqing noticed Tingyun's ears lowered when she became embarrassed and couldn't help how they would react to other emotions.
Don't get Qin Shaoqing wrong, he was a pure earthling with the closest thing to a foxian was a headband with animal attached to them. Such inorganic thing couldn't compare to a real Foxian.
"A-Ah, Benefactor" Tingyun tried to stand up again but without realizing her high heels had broken somewhere along the line failed to gain balance and fell forward.
"Oup, careful there lady." Qin Shaoqing caught Tingyun with his body
'Hmm, large' Qin Shaoqing commented in his mind as his gaze drifted downward a little.
With the help of Qin Shaoqing Tingyun finally regained her balance.
"I'm so sorry Benefactor, I'm not usually this clumsy haha." Tingyun made a quick excuse before hurrily took off her high heels, leaving her barefoot.
Qin Shaoqing who naturally saw Tingyun overwhelmed by the situation gave her some time to reorganize her mind.
"Huff, thank you again Benefactor, if it was not for you I would have died by those evildoers hands. Let me introduce myself, I am Tingyun, the Ambassador of The Sky-Faring commission."