Chapter 203 The Catwoman Appears, the Xilin Clan
The ores and medicinal materials collected by Lu En are priceless.
823786 doesn't understand why she chose skills, thus giving up something more valuable.
Pei Hening admitted, "I don't have the means to store them. If I get my hands on the ores and medicine-making materials, I can't store them, which would be a waste."
823786 understood her concerns and said, "Don't you have a backpack? You can store things in your backpack."
Pei Hening's eyes widened. The backpack could actually store the ores and alchemy materials collected by Lu En?
"Teacher 823786, please recommend one to me."
823786 retrieved the apology gifts he had chosen long ago, which were a 250-gram piece of Qiaojian mineral and a piece of wind crystal.
Do you still need the invincibility skill?
Pei Hening shook her head: "No, thank you."
After getting the answer, 823786 gave her another 108-gram piece of Wunian ore.
Even if Pei Hening was clueless, she knew that the apology gift 823786 had chosen for her was a good one.
Just by looking at the two storage boxes containing the Qiaojian ore and the Wunian ore, you can tell that the contents are extraordinary.
The storage container for the wind crystal is a bottle of unknown material, shaped like a jade vase, with a white ribbon casually wrapped around it, covered in magical patterns. Around the ribbon are shimmering white and green magical specks.
Pei Hening stuffed the apologies into his backpack and found that each of them occupied a compartment.
"Teacher, is it alright if I offer three as an apology?"
823786 opened the door and walked out: "Take it if I give it to you."
Pei Hening followed it, and before leaving the storage room, she glanced back at the door closest to the inside, which might lead directly into the school.
823786: "Perfect timing, let's go find Rune."
It led Pei Hening to a magic circle, and upon activation—
"Huh?"
Pei Hening also noticed something was wrong; the magic circle was repelling the input of magic power.
823786: "..."
Is it really necessary to be so stingy? They won't even let us audit classes.
"...Wait a minute, let me check who's giving the lecture right now."
823786 checked the teachers currently teaching and selected a few names to tell Pei Hening: "Titien, Chi Lu, Jin Ling, Jing Jie, Richard—whose class would you like to attend?"
Pei Hening asked, "Are they only teaching human students?"
823786 shook his head: "No, Jin Ling and Richard teach students from the Sea Abyss Clan and the Xilin Clan, respectively."
Pei Hening blinked. It was the first time she had heard of the Xilin Clan, and she was very curious: "Can we audit Professor Richard's class?"
——
Have you ever seen a catwoman who can teleport?
This was Pei Hening's feeling when she first met the members of the Xilin clan.
When she and 823786 set foot on the floating island where Richard was giving his lecture, what came into view was a steel jungle suspended in mid-air and a steel cable one centimeter thick connecting the steel jungle.
The Xilin tribe member was trapped in a steel jungle, where several flying golems were shooting at her with guns.
She had barely regained her footing when a magic bullet shot towards her forehead, forcing her to teleport again.
Richard, with his long, silky purple hair and dressed in a black casual outfit, sat at the highest corner of the overpass, slowly sipping a bottle of wine with a straw.
823786 led her to Richard's side: "Professor Richard, I brought my students to observe your class."
Richard looked up at the two of them, his gaze finally settling on Pei Hening. He chuckled softly, "These are the students from West Asia? They've built a solid foundation."
At this moment, Pei Hening also got a clear look at Richard's appearance. He had a pair of very eye-catching blood-red eyes, and his features were thick and delicate, yet tinged with an indescribable evil aura, giving people a sense of danger.
Apart from a black earring on her left ear, she wore no other accessories.
823786 and Pei Hening also sat on the elevated road.
Pei Hening lowered her eyes to observe; it was very high, at least twenty meters from here to the ground of the floating island.
The next second, a pale, bony hand handed over a bottle of wine with a straw already inserted: "Yours."
Pei Hening looked up and met Richard's deep, blood-red eyes.
She didn't answer, but glanced at 823786 first. It was holding a bottle of light green liquid and drinking it with a straw.
"Take it."
Richard noticed what 823786 had said, and Pei Hening took the wine he offered, raised an eyebrow slightly, and turned her gaze toward her students.
Richard casually asked, "How did you come to the idea of coming here to watch?"
"I thought you would welcome us, Mr. Richard." 823786 paused, then said, "We are very sad that you said this."
Pei Hening: "..."
That sounds so familiar, so familiar, so familiar. It can't be something she said.
Richard finally turned his attention to 823786, looked it over from head to toe, and was shocked to see the changes in it.
Sicily once said that the souls of the dolls would awaken in this era, and he scoffed at it. Now... the status of 823786 tells him that this is indeed possible.
Few people know that Sicily uses his soul to create dolls, and he happens to be one of them.
After all, using souls to create dolls is too shocking and unethical, and would be eliminated by other beings as heretics.
Richard tentatively asked, "How heartbroken are you? Like transferring your personal assets to me?"
823786 stared at him blankly.
Pei Hening whispered, "So narcissistic."
"Exactly, that's right, so narcissistic."
Richard smirked, took a sip of his drink, and asked, "You're quite an interesting student. Would you like to study with my students?"
Pei Hening looked at the agile and explosive member of the Xilin tribe in the steel jungle and asked, "Teacher Richard, how long have your students been studying with you?"
Richard thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I forgot, one year? Two years? Or three years?"
Pei Hening pointed to herself and asked seriously, "I studied in West Asia for forty-seven days. Do you think it's appropriate for me to study with your students?"
Richard leaned against an overpass, smiling as he looked at Pei Hening. After laughing for a while, he said, "It's appropriate. What's inappropriate about it? After all, you won't be able to enjoy peace for very long. Growth is a lifelong process."
"Student, you are always welcome to come and learn from me."
823786 said, "Professor Richard, I will record your conversation with the student and relay it to Sicily."
Richard looked at the bottle of light green liquid in 823786's hand: "Then I am really sad, after all, I prepared a gift for you."
Pei Hening sensed Richard's probing of 823786 and frowned slightly: "Teacher Richard?"
Richard looked up at her, his blood-red eyes calm as still water.
"Clang—"
Before 823786 could speak, a huge collision sound came from the steel jungle.