bookbashuk Chapter 948 Children (7k)
Chapter 948 Children (7k)
Chapter 948 Children (7k)
"Tex, magic value 739 points, please enter the underground palace room 1083."
"Bajir, magic value 1906 points, please enter the underground palace room 1084."
When Masayuki and his three companions arrived at one of the registration points, many adventurers had already registered impatiently, and the line was very long.
Two goblins dressed as guards were wearing strange sunglasses. Whenever an adventurer stood on the test platform, they would press the button on the sunglasses and then report the adventurer's "magic value".
After checking that there were no errors, two more monsters registered them and invited them to enter the entrance to the deep underground palace.
Unlike the people who were tested before, the magic value of ordinary adventurers is mostly only in the hundreds or thousands, and some weak E-level adventurers even have only dozens of points.
Occasionally, there would be nearly ten thousand or even tens of thousands of strong men appearing, which would cause the people watching around to marvel at them, and there would always be passers-by who could recognize the name of the strong man being tested. So the strong man being tested would enjoy the respectful gazes of everyone, like a general who had won a battle, and would walk into the underground palace with his head held high.
Adventurers discovered that whether or not they could buy the skills was one thing, but why was the satisfaction that this kind of test brought so wonderful?
Of course, there are also some who are dissatisfied.
"1900 points?!" A rough roar suddenly echoed, "Are you kidding me? I'm a C+ level adventurer! That C level guy just now had 3200 points. How could I be lower than him? I'm almost half as much?!"
"That's right. I thought Brother Bagel would have at least 5000 points..."
“Are these broken glasses really accurate?!”
The noise echoed, and Gobda, who was in charge of maintaining order, walked over quickly and said, “This instrument was made by Lord Ji Xing himself, and has been repeatedly tested by us internally, and we can guarantee that there will be absolutely no problems.
You don't have to pay too much attention to the numbers. Magical essence only represents one aspect of combat power. There are many people who don't have much magical essence but are very strong in actual combat, so the adventurer level is only for reference."
This explanation slightly suppressed the confusion, but the unwilling Bagir kept chattering: "I don't believe it, it must be that I didn't pose correctly just now, do it again for me!"
Gobda was helpless. Here comes another idiot. Even if you are really tested less, isn't that a good thing? The content of this competition is the increase in the amount of magic essence within seven days!
Just as he was about to explain further, a sudden commotion broke out among the crowd.
"Hey, that's..."
"It can't be wrong, it's Master Masayuki!"
"What? The hero Masayuki-sama?!"
With a roar, the crowd dispersed, revealing the location of Zheng Xing and the other three. Everyone stared at the four people in the center with fanaticism and admiration.
"Master Masayuki is actually here to compete for the qualification to purchase skills? It's over, there are only ninety-nine spots left out of a hundred!"
"No, it's ninety-six. Those are the companions of Masayuki-sama..."
"What nonsense! Why would the hero need to buy skills like us? His own skills are already invincible!"
"That's right..."
No, I really want to buy it, Masayuki thought with a slightly stiff smile.
At this time, Crazy Wolf Xunlei laughed and said, "You are right. How could the brave hero Masayuki compete with everyone for the qualification to purchase skills? If he wants to buy, the skill merchant will take the initiative to deliver it to him!"
hey hey...
"We are just a little interested in this activity carried out in cooperation with the Demon King. In order to ensure everyone's safety, Master Masayuki is ready to go into the underground palace to take a look! Now it seems that everyone has doubts about the fairness of the event?"
He swaggered across the street, stood on the test bench, and waved to the two goblins in charge of the test: "Come on, let's see how much magic value you will give me."
He cut in line, but the adventurers who were cut in line had no objection, instead they looked at Xunlei expectantly. Gobda was a little annoyed with this guy, but thinking of Rimuru's order, he could only wave his hand to his subordinates and signaled them to go test.
The answer came out quickly - "The magic value of this adventurer is... 187533!"
wow——
"How many?"
"There are actually 180,000?!"
"Oh my god, you are worthy of being the hero's companion, Lord Wild Wolf Thunder. The most he has tested before was only over 13,000, right?!"
People were shocked and adored. Xun Lei, who wanted to take the opportunity to attack, was stunned. He scratched his head and muttered quietly, "Well, it's quite accurate."
Of course he didn't know whether it was accurate or not, but since his results were so good, he just believed it.
Gobda was a little surprised. This guy doesn't look that good, but his magic value is close to mine? He must be an A-rank adventurer... Um, wait, did they just say the hero is lucky?
Is that a brave man?
Looking at the blond boy who was surrounded by the crowd not far away, Gobda did not feel any sense of oppression from him.
Is he really a hero? He looks stupid.
With doubts in his heart, he stepped forward and asked Xunlei: "Do you want to join the underground palace test? If you want to join, please go there to register."
"Uh, wait a minute." Xun Lei, who was receiving worship, came back to his senses and remembered that he was not here to do such a thing. He turned around and said, "Lord Masayuki! Would you like to try? Let's go into the underground palace and take a look together!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and Zheng Xing, who was still dizzy, had a bad feeling in his heart.
Wait, if I test...
"Lucky! Lucky!"
"Brave! Brave!"
There was no time to refuse, as a boiling wave of cheers almost shook the town, and people's eyes were fixed on Masayuki, worshipping him fanatically.
The hero's companions are worth 180,000, so the hero himself must be worth a lot more? 500,000? Or even 1 million? How strong would he be?
"It's over, I'm going to be exposed!" This was the only thought in Masayuki's mind.
Everyone knows their own business. Although his magic power is ahead of that of ordinary adventurers due to the enhancement he received as a visitor from another world, it is only average and cannot be as powerful as Thunder!
I want to refuse, but I am powerless to refuse.
The atmosphere was already so tense that he could not find an excuse not to go on stage. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, hoping that the instrument was really inaccurate!
He climbed onto the test bench.
The onlookers held their breath and watched the two goblin guards conduct the test. Then the two men looked at each other and did not speak for several seconds.
"Hey, why aren't you talking?"
“Are you frightened by the astonishing amount of magic energy of Masayuki-sama? Hahaha!”
"Hurry up and tell me the numbers!"
"Uh..." The tall Gobzang said weakly, "It's... 12435 points."
"……what?"
Then the surroundings became quiet again.
How much? More than twelve thousand?!
"Are you kidding me?!"
"How could the hero's magic power be only over 10,000? His companions have 180,000!"
“That’s right! Who ordered you to do this? I know. It must be the Demon King Rimuru who ordered this to damage the reputation of the hero! Does Master Jixing know about this?!”
It's over, I'm really exposed! Looking at the adventurers who were "fighting for justice" for me, Zheng Xing's eyes almost went dark. My skills don't work well with this kind of equipment. I shouldn't have relied on luck!
“Hahahaha…” At this time, the laughter of Crazy Wolf Xunlei echoed, instantly suppressing the boiling crowd: “Master Masayuki has controlled the fluctuations of his own magic element? You are really amazing! Do you think that if you change 12345 to 12435, it will seem more natural and we won’t notice it?!”
"..."
Huh——?!
This was so far-fetched that even Masayuki himself found it hard to accept, so he forced a smile, but this smile was interpreted as the embarrassment of being "exposed".
"I see?!"
"As expected of you, Master Masayuki. You suppressed your own stats? How did you do that?!"
"Master Masayuki must be afraid that the real value will hit us! Wuwuwu——He is too gentle, Master Masayuki!"
"But... if we can actively suppress the value, then wouldn't this test be meaningless? Isn't that unfair?"
"Do you think anyone can evade the detection of that instrument like Lord Masayuki did? At least I can't think of a way! Besides, didn't his companions say long ago that they were just worried that the underground palace set up by the Demon King was not safe, so they came to explore the way and had no intention of competing for the purchase qualification at all!"
"Oh! Long live Lord Masayuki!"
Seeing the atmosphere change and become more enthusiastic, Masayuki breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know what was going on, it seemed like he had survived another disaster?
But it’s really tiring to keep pretending like this.
Masayuki wore an idol-like smile, welcoming the cheers of the adventurers, and heard Xunlei shouting, "Bonnie, Qiu, you guys come too!"
The two men refused: "No, let's meet you and Masayuki outside the underground palace."
Masayuki nodded repeatedly. He was actually very panicked inside and thought this was the safest arrangement.
……
"As expected of a hero, you are able to suppress your own magic fluctuations just like you, Ji Xing, and you can suppress it to a level of just over 10,000."
Rimuru, who had watched the whole farce from a distance, was amazed: "Even I couldn't detect his level at all. I once thought he was just a guy with nothing but good looks. What do you think, Ji Xing, how strong do you think he is? Can he be stronger than you... No, can he be stronger than Hinata?"
The King of Wisdom: 《……》
Ji Xing did not answer, and the King of Wisdom Raphael was hesitant to speak. This gave Rimuru a familiar sense of déjà vu and he looked surprised.
"Wait, it can't be..."
"That's the one that won't."
"..." Rimuru was speechless for a few seconds, then looked at Masayuki again, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "I was made nervous for nothing, really..."
She shook her head, not caring whether Masayuki was a 'parallel import' or not. She looked at the adventurers who were tested and arranged to sit in the underground palace voluntarily, and breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. Looking at the current trend, at least we can ensure that the town will not be overwhelmed by tourists during the opening ceremony, and buy about half a month for expansion.
But Ji Xing, selling a hundred skills at once, won't that put pressure on you? Do you want me to arrange for Gavial and the others to go in as well, to take up some spots, so that you can have some buffer?"
“If you want your subordinates to acquire skills, just tell them,” Ji Xing said with a smile.
So the beautiful monster princess smiled shyly: "So it's okay, right?"
"Ah, fair play, in seven days your subordinates may not necessarily improve more than these fanatical adventurers." Ji Xing said, stretching his hand backwards, and Cagalli's figure turned from illusory to substantial, holding the book in both hands.
The book was completely black, with mysterious runes imprinted on the front. There were no words on it, but it looked somewhat extraordinary at first glance, and it made Cagalli's temperament even more extraordinary.
Looking at the secretary and then at Shion who was acting carefree beside him, Rimuru quickly concealed his envy and disgust and asked curiously, "I haven't seen Shivana and Cagalli much recently. What are they busy with? What is this book?"
"General outline of the skill book."
Ji Xing handed the book to Rimuru, "There are 500 skills in here that I can sell. Shyvana and Cagalli have tested them personally and divided their strengths from E-level to A-level according to the level of the adventurer, so that it will be easier to sell."
There are of course more than 500 skills in League of Legends, but the skills of many heroes, especially ADCs, are not suitable for selling, so Ji Xing deleted and subtracted some, and added some ninjutsu and ghost techniques to make it a whole number of 500.
Rimuru's eyes lit up and he immediately flipped through the books. There were 85 of the weakest E-level skills, but each had its own miraculous effects. For example, the transformations of Neeko that Milim bought were all included in it, but they were unenhanced versions that were easily exposed.
Level D and C have a certain combat power, such as Yasuo's Steel Flash, Forward Slash, and even Garen's "Critical Strike". The acceleration and silencing effects are simply the nemesis of magicians in reality.
Most of the B-level ones are "ultimate skills", which consume a lot of power and are also astonishing. As for the small number of A-level ones, they are more passive skills, because the effects of some of them are very outrageous in reality.
For example, Garen's passive 'Tenacity'.
As long as you stay out of combat for a few seconds, your health will immediately begin to recover by a percentage. Even the most serious injuries can be healed within two minutes. It's truly a magical skill!
It can't be considered an ultimate skill, but it can only be compared to the top-level unique skills.
"too exaggerated……"
After reading the introductions to these skills, Rimuru finally had a solid understanding of how outrageous Ji Xing was, who had mastered all the skills. No, Ji Xing was strong because he was strong in himself, and these outrageous skills became the embellishment of his strength.
Even if a weakling gets these skills, he can use them to fight the devil, right?
"In this competition, 51st to 100th place can only buy E-level skills, 21st to 50th place can buy D-level skills, 11th to 20th place are C-level, 4th to 10th place are B-level, and the top three can buy A-level skills."
Ji Xing said, "As for the future... Since you want equipment to drop when you kill monsters in your maze, it's only natural that you also get skill books, right?"
Rimuru was startled: "Skill book?!"
Yes, this is indeed a classic setting in traditional games. With Ji Xing around, it is indeed possible to achieve it... The explosion of equipment will probably attract a large number of adventurers. When they find that killing monsters can cause skill books to drop, then...
No, in this case, the expansion of Rimuru Town would have to be even bigger. Should we just think of a way to build a modern metropolis?!
Rimuru suddenly felt some happy distress. From the "tourist attraction" to here, she vaguely felt that she had become a worker again, being urged by her boss Ji Xing to move forward faster.
Although I am the leader of the Federation...
"What are your plans?" she asked.
"The drop rate can't be too high, it has to be as exaggerated as one in a hundred thousand, and the monsters can only drop D-level and E-level skills." Ji Xing said, "Other skills are carried by the bosses on each floor, and Cagalli will make the specific numerical plan."
"Oh, thank you for your hard work. There is still a week left before the trial operation of the underground maze. We have to hurry up." Rimuru said to Cagalli.
"No problem on my end." Cagalli was completely capable and feminine.
Rimuru nodded. His workload had indeed increased. Alas... Just then, familiar footsteps were heard, and Rimuru was a little scared.
"Shunai, what's wrong again?"
The pink-haired ghost princess who walked in was startled, then nodded, "It was Miss Xixing who asked for help. The children heard about the competition in the underground palace and they all wanted to participate. She couldn't persuade them anymore."
"Oh, I see." Rimuru breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there were no other difficult problems.
……
The children Shuna was talking about were a special group, the product of a 'failed' summoning.
Just like the Kingdom of Falmus summoned Jixing, many kingdoms regarded summoning people from other worlds as combat power and trump cards, but some kingdoms did not have the foundation to complete the summoning ceremony, nor did they obtain the complete summoning method. In the abridged version of the summoning, they only called some children.
These children were also visitors from other worlds. They were also semi-materialized by the power of the world when traveling through the world, and gained a huge improvement. However, their rudimentary physiques could not keep up with the daily increase in their magic power, and they often did not live past the age of 10.
Five of these children were taken care of by Yuuki and lived in the Free School of the Kingdom of Ingracia. However, after the battle between Jixing and Zhuoyanlong, Yuuki led his people to flee to the Eastern Empire, and these children were naturally taken in.
All their problems have been solved by Rimuru through summoning elves and contracting elves, so they can grow up without worries. However, with an average age of only 11, these children can be really troublesome when they start to make trouble.
Fortunately, after Ji Xing's education and the lessons of society, Taguchi Shogo, Tachibana Kyoya and Mizutani Nozomi have become "sensible". In the past month or so, they have been acting as guardians and housekeepers of the five children. With the same background, they have taken good care of them, but they occasionally encounter difficulties.
Like today.
"Why can't we join? We also want to buy Teacher Jixing's skills!"
"Yes! We are making the fastest progress and will definitely be able to defeat those adventurers!"
The naughty Sanqi Kenya and Sekiguchi Ryota kept pulling at Taguchi Shogo's pants, and the blonde girl Alice Lund also grabbed the corner of Mizutani Kisei's clothes, making both of them sweat on their foreheads.
Even the relatively sensible and obedient Gale Gibson and Chloe Oberle stared at Kyoya Tachibana with their big eyes, making the squinting-eyed Kyoya Tachibana lack a lot of momentum.
They really wanted to use their original unruly skills to educate the children, but they didn't dare to. On the one hand, they were afraid of Ji Xing, and on the other hand... they really couldn't beat these children.
Yes, in order to make their magic and body no longer unbalanced, Rimuru helped each of them to contract an A-level spirit. So even though they are just children, they all have A-level combat power, and even the swords among them have the qualifications of a hero.
He can barely fight in a one-on-one fight, but in a three-on-five fight he will just get beaten up badly and have no place to cry.
After more than ten minutes of persuasion and endurance, they finally waited for their savior, and the children's attention was diverted away from them.
"Rimuru-sensei!"
"Teacher Ji Xing!"
When the children had just arrived in the town, Rimuru was busy, so he asked Ji Xing to take care of them for a few days. He was familiar with Ji Xing, or he could easily do things like taking care of children.
The two little girls cheered and rushed over. Chloe threw herself into Rimuru's arms, while Alice asked Ji Xing for a hug and sat on his shoulders.
The three boys were too embarrassed to do so and just stood there looking at him with envy.
Ji Xing smiled and patted Alice, saying, "Okay, Rimuru and I have been tricked by you naughty guys again. If you have something to say, just say it directly, haha."
The 10-year-old girl's face flushed with guilt. She stiffened her neck and said, "What do you mean by cheating? Really, it's obviously Teacher Ji Xing, you're going too far! Why do the five of us have to get first place in the next test to get your skills, but those adventurers have a hundred chances!"
"Yeah, it's not fair!" Jian Ye immediately followed suit: "We want to enter the underground palace too!"
"We're going too!"
Yes, in order to encourage children to learn, Ji Xing also gave out interesting skills as rewards.
He raised his eyebrows and said, "It is roughly estimated that there will be 10 adventurers entering the underground palace this time. The chance of picking 10 out of 100 is one in a thousand. What about you? One out of five people will get my skills. Isn't that fair? It seems that you need to take a few more math classes."
The children were a little nervous. Hmm, is that the case? No matter what, our initial goal is to get Mr. Rimuru and Mr. Jixing to come and see us!
They argued for a few more sentences, and Rimuru saw the clues. He tapped Chloe's head lightly and said helplessly: "The teacher is preparing for the opening ceremony recently. Guests from various countries will arrive soon. He is really busy. Can I play with you after the opening ceremony is over?"
Seeing this, the children also felt a little guilty. Chloe whispered, "I know, teacher."
"But it doesn't matter." Rimuru suddenly changed the subject and said, "Jixing has nothing to do during this period, so how about letting him play with you?"
Hahaha, a perfect sellout on my part! Ji Xing, you should get busy too!
"No problem." The next moment, she heard Ji Xing's natural response: "I'm just about to go to the territories of various demon kings to let them choose skills. Take the children for a stroll. Teleporting won't be a problem."
"Oh!" the children cheered.
Rimuru's expression was weak. "Go, go to the territories of various demon kings? I think... forget it. Is it safe?"
"Rimuru-sensei!"
"Oh, really!"
"We are going to..."
The children's complaining voices made Rimuru's mouth twitch. Looking at Ji Xing who was smiling, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
You are amazing. Even the counterattack has no effect.
But she was really worried about letting the children run to some demon king's territory, so she sighed and said, "We can only go to Luminas and send the children back, Jixing."
Compared to those demon kings whose tempers were hard to figure out, Rimuru felt more at ease with Luminas, who he had met twice and seemed to have a cold exterior but a warm heart.
What's more, Luminas had witnessed the battle scene between Ji Xing and the Burning Dragon with her own eyes.
Ji Xing spread his hands to the children, indicating that there was nothing he could do: "Go back and pack your things, then we will just go to the Holy French Empire for a tour."
The children pouted at Rimuru, snorted, and ran off to prepare things.
Rimuru sighed for the third time.
……
Holy Empire, Ruberios.
In some dark corner, there is an unknown tomb buried deep inside.
In the tomb, there was a beautiful black-haired girl who was completely naked and frozen in an ice coffin. The person facing the girl was also naked and lying on the ice coffin. It was the Night Demon Queen Luminas.
She looked intoxicated, with an enchanting smile on her face, her fair skin stained with bright red, and she sighed with emotion: "Ah, so beautiful..."
This ice coffin is the 'Holy Ark', a collection of pure holy spirit power. Therefore, whenever Luminas touches this ice coffin, scars similar to burns will appear on her body.
Although she possesses great power as a demon king, even she cannot destroy this ice coffin and will be hurt by the power of the ice coffin, but Luminas doesn't care at all.
Her dream is to free the sleeping girl in this ice coffin, and she often comes here to "play" with the ice coffin. Just when her interest is getting higher and higher, the Emperor Rey comes to report.
"I'm very sorry to spoil your fun, but I have something to report to you."
"What the hell... it's Rei." Luminas looked up unhappily: "What's the matter?"
"The skilled merchant Ji Xing just used teleportation to come to the church, and brought five children with him. He is now touring the church under the guidance of Hinata."
"..." Luminas was silent. The battle more than a month ago was still vivid in her mind. To be honest, she didn't want to see Ji Xing.
Because Ji Xing had offended her, but she couldn't do anything to Ji Xing. After watching the battle, even if she didn't want to admit it, she knew that there was a guy in the world who she couldn't afford to offend.
"You're here to sell your skills, right?"
She snorted, "What's with the five kids? Where's Sivana?"
"I didn't see the Dragonblood Warrior." Ray lowered his head and said, "According to his explanation, the five children are all summoners. They are now staying with the Demon King Rimuru. He brought them here because he was bored."
"…Tsk, what does he think my church is? Is it a tourist attraction for everyone to see, like the battle between him and the Burning Dragon?"
Luminas looked unhappy and glanced reluctantly at the girl in the ice coffin. She turned around and put on luxurious clothes.
"Let's go."
When she and Ray arrived at the Holy Church, they saw Hinata introducing the training and selection of paladins to the children, and the five children listened with great interest and seemed very interested.
"As expected of a Hyuga, you still train a young Paladin at this time."
With Luminas's keen eyesight, she easily discovered the extraordinaryness of the five children. Just as she was about to turn her gaze to Ji Xing, she suddenly stopped at Chloe.
"Why does this child...seem..."
(End of this chapter)