"Xi Xi."
"Xi Xi—"
"What do you want?" Having been called several times, Ye Chuan looked speechlessly at Count Kan Gong—this guy, Kaiaolen.
Does this little dragon man want a beating?
"Can I ask you for a favor?" Kaiaolen found Ye Chuan. It was only then that Ye Chuan noticed a blue-haired girl standing beside Kaiaolen. She looked about Ye Chuan's age, with a bit of baby fat on her cheeks.
Ye Chuan sized up the girl in front of him. After observing for a few seconds, he said to Kaiaolen,
"Not my type. Get one with bigger tits."
"Do you think this is a matchmaking session?!"
"I don't want a pet either."
"Y-you guy, why is your thought process completely different from everyone else's!" Kaiaolen seemed rendered speechless by Ye Chuan. He took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"She is my granddaughter, Elara. If possible, I hope you can teach her some magic."
The young girl named Elara seemed very shy. She hugged the magic staff in her hands and bowed her head, "P-please look after me!"
"Teach her?" Ye Chuan stared at the blue-haired girl. A few seconds later, he glanced at Kaiaolen. "Are you two related by blood?"
"What else?"
"Your hair isn't even the same color."
"She is my genuine granddaughter! She has a bit of Blue Dragon bloodline in her!"
"Oh." Ye Chuan didn't care if this granddaughter was a Blue Dragon or a Smurf. He just waved his hand. "Not interested. I'm very busy. Do you know how many things I have to do in a day?"
"Of course, I wouldn't ask you to teach for free. How about one gold coin a day?" Kaiaolen said.
"Hah? Is this a question of money?"
"Five gold coins."
"I told you, it's absolutely not about money. I'm busy," Ye Chuan said.
"Ten gold coins a day."
"One thousand succubus sessions a day? Alright, that works." Ye Chuan calculated the price and looked at the little girl named Elara again; she suddenly looked much more pleasing to the eye.
"Just how short of money are you?" Kaiaolen couldn't quite stand Ye Chuan's greedy nature.
However, thinking about it carefully, a mage with mysterious powers would be harder to deal with if he had absolutely no desires.
If things could be settled with just money, then looking at it from another angle, it wasn't a bad thing.
After giving Ye Chuan a few instructions, Kaiaolen left Elara there and turned to leave.
After all, he had things to do; preparing military forces and uniting with other territories to march on the Royal City would take some time.
"Elara... right?" Ye Chuan's gaze fell upon the little blue-haired girl in front of him. In contrast to his casual look, Elara shyly used her staff to hide her face.
"H-hello, Sir Teacher."
"What's your strength level?"
"Second-tier Water Mage."
"Chanting water magic?" Ye Chuan thought for a moment, but he couldn't immediately think of how to teach a girl magic.
He had already taken the money, though.
But there was no rush. Even if he really couldn't teach her magic, Ye Chuan decided he could just enhance her staff a few times.
That would count as an improvement anyway.
"Elara."
"Here!" The little girl responded nervously.
She had actually heard about Ye Chuan. It was said that a mage named Xi Xi was incredibly powerful, had caught many of those disguised human-skin monsters, and even taught appraisal magic to the mages of Miral.
Elara had always been very curious about the man before her.
"No need to be nervous. How about this: use all your strength and cast your strongest spell at me." Ye Chuan pointed at himself.
"Eh? Eh? Wouldn't that be inappropriate? Casting attack magic at my teacher," Elara said.
"Why? Do you think you can hurt me?"
"O-of course not. I understand."
Elara took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and raised her staff. She began to chant, and mana constructed a magic circle in front of her—
Finally, after ten seconds, Elara pointed her staff at Ye Chuan.
"Balala, Water Cannon!"
The magic circle erupted with blue light, and a jet of water shot towards Ye Chuan!
Ye Chuan felt the oncoming water magic. He didn't even bother to dodge; relying solely on the Power of Chaos, he completely swallowed up the water jet.
"Huh?" Seeing that Ye Chuan had blocked her magic without even chanting, Elara looked visibly surprised, and she unconsciously lowered her staff.
"The power is average. Even compared to ordinary Crystal... uh, Second-tier mages, the lethality of your move is too low," Ye Chuan said.
"Is this really the only level you're at?"
"I'm sorry, Teacher..." That single sentence made Elara's face turn red with shame. She hugged her staff and buried her head, not daring to talk back.
"Come here."
"Oh..."
"Take off your clothes first," Ye Chuan said.
"Eh? EHHH?!!" Elara's eyes widened, and she subconsciously hugged herself tight.
Although she had heard this man was improper, wasn't this a bit too improper?
"B-but we are outside. A-at the very least, shouldn't we be in a room?"
"I'm just checking your mana core."
"Oh... oh, is that so?" Elara relaxed. She lifted her clothes. Even though she understood what Ye Chuan was doing, doing something like this in front of a practically strange man made Elara's face turn as red as an apple.
Ye Chuan reached his hand in. "Hmm..."
"Oh, wrong spot. No wonder it felt different."
A few seconds later, Ye Chuan found the location of the mana core and did a simple check—
"Your mana core is decent. Logically speaking, your magic shouldn't be that weak."
Ye Chuan withdrew his hand. Elara seemed to lose all strength, collapsing onto the ground in a W-sitting position, clutching her staff.
Her disheveled appearance made it look as if she had just finished doing the deed with Ye Chuan.
"I... I don't know either..."
"Then circulate your mana. Let me look at your magic circuits."
"Y-yes..." Elara struggled to stand up. Seeing that Ye Chuan was genuinely checking her for issues, she began to gather the mana within her body.
Ye Chuan sensed it again, and finally discovered what was different inside this little girl's body.
Deep within Elara's body, there seemed to be a red force forcibly blocking several magic circuits.
A curse?
"Do you know what is inside your body?" Ye Chuan asked Elara.
Upon hearing this, Elara subconsciously shook her head. "I don't know... Everyone says they can't find anything wrong."
"I see." Ye Chuan wasn't in a hurry to lift the curse. He chose to go ask Kaiaolen first.
"You stay here. I'm going to find your grandfather. Don't wander off."
"Oh... oh?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
