Xiaoya was very fast; the little leopard moved like a ghost through the flickering lights.
Lu Shi was glad that her Shadow Cloak was at level 10, otherwise she might not have been able to catch up with this agile leopard.
The two shadowy figures moved for nearly ten minutes before arriving at a small hotel not far from the resettlement community.
This small hotel was very dilapidated; before the resettlement community was built, it was just a farmhouse. It was only after a large influx of people from N County that it was converted into a small hotel.
The environment was rather ordinary, and there weren't many people around.
Lu Shi couldn't even see anyone at the front desk, and didn't know where they were.
Xiaoya ran straight up to a balcony on the second floor.
Lu Shi also flew up.
The room was lit, and a man and a leopard were hidden in the shadows on the balcony.
Looking into the house, they found that inside were Teacher Wu, who had "rolled" out of the resettlement community during the day, and four students with bruised and swollen faces.
They were speaking respectfully to a plump woman wearing a veil.
The woman held a bundle of white incense sticks in her right hand, fiddling with them as she casually listened to Teacher Wu and the others talking.
Xiaoya, who had been hiding, revealed herself, staring at the incense and candles, an unknown liquid dripping from the corner of her mouth, and tried to rush in.
Lu Shi quickly hugged Xiao Ya and tapped its head hard to signal it not to move. Xiao Ya shook its head, seemingly trying to restrain itself.
The man and the leopard once again went into stealth mode.
"Yunshui, I had no other choice but to invite you here." Teacher Wu lowered his head and asked the plump woman for instructions.
"Wu Mingtian, you really are a good-for-nothing! Your performance in the city is a complete disaster. I finally managed to introduce you to a good, undeveloped place, and you still managed to mess it up." Yunshui lifted Wu Mingtian's chin with her left hand, her eyes flashing with anger.
“Yunshui, you know I also want to make something of myself so I can be worthy of you. But, recruiting students here, it’s not easy to fool ordinary people. Plus, I was…” Wu Mingtian put on a pitiful look, staring at the woman with a wronged expression.
"So, you want me to use the beast-attracting incense to lure some magical beasts in and teach those ordinary people in the resettlement community a lesson?" Yunshui fiddled with the white incense candle.
"Hmm, wait for the arriving monsters to kill some people. Then I'll appear to save them. They'll be completely obedient to me." A cold glint flashed in Wu Mingtian's eyes.
"But what if those N County mages who are blocking you today attack the magical beasts first? How will you deal with that?"
"So, I'd like to ask Yunshui for your help in dealing with them. I've inquired about them. Feng Tianxiao used to be a very powerful high-level mage. But he's old now, and he was seriously injured in N County before, so he can't cast a single spell. Those six kids are all low-level mages, easily defeated. Only the woman we encountered today is a bit strange. I can't sense any magical fluctuations when she casts spells, and I can't distinguish which are her magic systems and which are magical artifacts."
"Such a formidable woman, and you want me to deal with her? Wu Mingtian, you're really good to me!" Yunshui emphasized the word "good."
"Yunshui, no matter how powerful that woman is, she can't compare to you! Besides, that woman is extremely beautiful, so beautiful that everyone who sees her will be captivated. I know, Yunshui, you hate vixens like that the most. Help me deal with her, okay?" Wu Mingtian shook the woman's hem with his intact left hand, as if he were pleading, but it was disgusting to look at.
"Look, she even hurt my hand like this." As she spoke, she stretched out her right hand in front of Yunshui.
Yunshui gently lifted Wu Mingtian's right hand, carefully examined the burn mark, and chuckled. Then, she tapped Wu Mingtian's forehead with her left hand and gently scolded, "You! I'll spoil you this once."
As he spoke, he waved to the four students.
“You four, come here. Take the beast-attracting incense sticks and place them around the resettlement area. After lighting them, come back quickly. This place is desolate. The patrolling military mages have already come tonight, and they won't arrive until tomorrow morning at the earliest. So, we have one night.” Wang Yunshui handed the four students a handful of white incense sticks in his right hand.
"Yes." The four students respectfully accepted the white incense and candles, opened the door, and left.
Lu Shi's eyes flickered. Ignoring the inappropriate content about to unfold between the man and woman in the room, she dragged Xiao Ya away from the balcony.
She watched the four students leave the small hotel and walk towards the resettlement community, and quietly followed them.
“You know, we do all the dirty and hard work, and Teacher Wu only knows how to enjoy himself.”
"Be careful what you say. If Teacher Wu can get on the good side of the Wang family, then we can also curry favor with him. Wouldn't that be great?"
"What's so great about it? I have a friend who works with Teacher Miao Miao and earns over ten thousand yuan a month. Look at us, we have to come to this godforsaken place to recruit the lowest-class students from these small towns."
"Sigh, it's getting harder and harder to fool ordinary people these days; money is hard to earn!"
"If you ask me, why bother with fulfilling a magician's dream? Just force ordinary people to pay money, and if they don't, rob them."
"We can't do that. If the court finds out, the higher-ups won't be able to withstand the pressure."
"These ordinary people, why does the Tribunal protect them? Aren't ordinary people just born to be slaves to us magicians?"
The four students chatted excitedly as they walked.
Unbeknownst to them, a shadow was lurking nearby.
Lu Shi stared at the four students who were walking towards her, listened to their conversation, and let out a cold laugh.
The laughter attracted the attention of four students, who all looked up.
But there was nothing there, only a roadside tree swaying in the wind, like a vengeful ghost dancing.
The invisibility of a level 10 Shadowmeld is beyond their ability to see through.
"Is there a ghost? I heard that there are undead monsters in the central region that are like ghosts."
"Don't fucking scare yourself, we're magicians."
As he spoke, a red light rose from a student's hand, drawing a star map, and he threw a fireball at the tree.
But then, a terrifying scene unfolded.
The fireball that was thrown bounced back and hit the student again.
"ah!"
This caused several people to exclaim in surprise and hurriedly help their classmate put out the fire.
This is the first time Lu Shi has depicted spatial magic.
【reflection】
It was quite novel to bounce the fireballs shot at by the students back.
But Xiaoya seemed to finally reach her breaking point.
Awooo...
The little leopard let out a roar and pounced on the incense and candles in a student's hand.
With a single open mouth, it caught the incense stick in its mouth and then disappeared from the spot.
The four students quickly spotted only a dark shadow.
The student stared at his empty hand and cried out in fear, "Is there really a ghost?"
"Let's go back."
"Yes, find Teacher Wu and Lord Wang."
The four students turned back in fear and ran back towards the hotel.
"Since you're already out here, you might as well stay."
Lu Shi appeared before the four of them, revealing a sweet smile.
Appearing alongside her was the spatial wave blade, which had been sketched out over a long period of time.
The semi-circular wave blade, carrying unstoppable force, swiftly sliced through the bodies of the four students.
Cut in two with one stroke.
Four bodies, broken into eight pieces, lay scattered on the ground. The four students didn't even utter a sound until they died.
"If you don't treat ordinary people like human beings, then don't blame me for not treating you like human beings either."
Lu Shi stared at the corpse on the ground, her emotions completely unmoved.
They were well aware that the demonic beasts they attracted after lighting the beast-attracting incense would inevitably cause numerous deaths and injuries to ordinary people in the resettlement community.
Treating human life as worthless is a recipe for certain death.
[Four low-level human mages were killed, their total soul weight was 134g, and they have been automatically absorbed.]
...
The soul weight of a novice mage is indeed a bit low.
However, I hope those two fooling around in the room will give me more.
Lu Shi looked up towards the hotel, her eyes blazing with uncontrollable killing intent.
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