After work, start to speedrun the other world-Chapter 136 - 33: The Ritual to Retrieve the Eyes_2
The Magic Potion that was concocted should have been bitter.
The white-haired girl lowered her head to glance at the cup, and then looked up at Ahtal’s gentle smile, wondering if there was something wrong with Ahtal’s sense of taste.
"After I recover tomorrow, I will leave." Xi Mu spoke, interrupting the girl’s train of thought, and the girl cast a glance at Ahtal with a cold look in her eyes that contained a hint of dissatisfaction, as if to say, "You know you’re bringing trouble to me."
After encountering danger, Ahtal had immediately ridden to her house, which obviously could cause her trouble, but considering that she and Ahtal were already allies,
she tacitly agreed to let Ahtal stay.
"It’s better to use the Sword of Light sparingly." She looked at the Sword of Light placed next to Xi Mu’s bed and reminded him in a cold voice,
"The more you use the Sword of Light, the more likely you are to draw the attention of the Flame Giant Surter and the easier it will be for you to fall into madness."
Having said that, she turned and left the bedroom.
Outside the door.
The white-haired girl looked down at the cup in her hand, and out of curiosity or some other reason, she gently touched the inside of the cup with her finger.
Then she licked her finger with her small tongue.
Bitterness surged up.
Her exquisite face scrunched up at that moment, and she quickly spat out her tongue, confirming that it was indeed very bitter, even though the man had said it was sweet.
Liar!
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The next day.
Xi Mu managed to get through the night unscathed, except for a few loud explosions from outside the city that disrupted his sleep, there were no notable incidents.
"Take your medicine." The white-haired girl stood at the bedside, handing Xi Mu a specially concocted Magic Potion, this time deliberately making it even more bitter.
In response, Xi Mu calmly took the cup and, under the girl’s watchful eye, he raised it to his lips as if to drink it,
but then he put down the cup and asked:
"Did anything happen last night?"
"Nothing." The white-haired girl lied with an expressionless face, for she had encountered an assassin who came to kill Ahtal last night and had casually sent him away.
As for why she didn’t kill him, that was because the assassin’s immortality was quite robust, to the point that being ground to mince wouldn’t kill him.
"Didn’t they chase after you?" Xi Mu nodded, then, under the expectant gaze of the white-haired girl, he downed the Magic Potion in the cup.
He showed no reaction, not even a frown.
The white-haired girl looked disappointed and then asked, "Is there something wrong with your sense of taste?"
Xi Mu smiled: "Should I have it checked?"
"You used a taste-blocking Magic Potion ahead of time, right?" The white-haired girl seemed to guess the truth, but Xi Mu just kept smiling and did not give an answer.
In fact, he had indeed taken a taste-blocking Magic Potion, because it wasn’t hard to guess the little mischief the white-haired girl was up to.
To get back at him for his deceit, she spitefully made the potion more bitter.
"Next time, I’ll concoct a spicy Magic Potion for you." The white-haired girl said emotionlessly as she turned to leave, seemingly without any emotional fluctuation.
However, the sound of her footsteps as she left was louder than usual.
Pleasure.
Xi Mu smiled, feeling no guilt for bullying the white-haired girl; rather, he felt pleased.
Normupdatesally, she did not show emotions, and it was only when she was slightly bullied that her emotions would clearly fluctuate.
This... who could resist teasing her a bit?
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Two hours later.
The white-haired girl pushed open the door, carrying a cup of spicy Magic Potion she had prepared for Ahtal to drink.
But she found that Ahtal had left earlier as if expecting her arrival.
"He ran off quite fast." She huffed lightly, then turned and left the bedroom, her footsteps a bit more light-hearted.
This time, the victory was hers.
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Outside the city.
At the gloomy creek side.
Xi Mu, riding a mare, looked toward the blind nun emerging from the forest and asked, "Can we find that dwarf from yesterday?"
"Lord Ash knows he’s still alive?" The blind nun seemed surprised, but then, thinking of Xi Mu’s teacher being the Destiny Witch, she felt it was normal.
She spoke softly.
"Lord Ash, please let me handle Haldi; you need enough rest now," she said.
"No need, take me to him." Xi Mu stretched out his hand to the blind nun, and after hesitating for a moment, she chose to take it.
With a strong pull, the blind nun was lifted onto the horse’s back.
"Lead the way."
"Ah... Yes... this way, please." The blind nun pursed her lips, feeling somewhat... unaccustomed to being held in Lord Ash’s arms.
This wasn’t a dislike.
It was purely a matter of inexperience; it was the first time she’d been held so closely by a man, even though Lord Ash had done so for the purpose of having her lead the way.
But could this mean Lord Ash wasn’t so resistant to her presence?
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Some ten minutes later.
On a hillside.
"Lord Ash, Haldi is hiding inside that stone house," the blind nun said, pointing to the stone house beside the river of lava.
Following her direction, Xi Mu saw the old stone house, its doors and windows shut tight, making it impossible to confirm if anyone was inside.
But he trusted the blind nun’s judgment.
After all, she was a woman who could communicate with Ragnarok, and apart from the instigators of Ragnarok, she was the being most favored by it.
Thus, she could trace the followers of Ragnarok by following its guidance in reverse.
In other matters, the blind nun might not be an expert, but when it came to things related to Ragnarok...
Her expertise was not to be questioned.
Pulling out the Sword of Light, Xi Mu aimed at the stone house across the river, without any hesitation, he released it, and a pillar of light pierced through the air, flying over the lava river, hitting the stone house directly.
The scene was like someone stabbing a cake with chopsticks forcefully, everything in its path was penetrated.
After that strike...
Xi Mu’s Magic Power was completely drained; he couldn’t even hold onto the Sword of Light, which fell from his hands.
The Sword of Light plunged into the ground.
The mare’s hooves scraped the ground, deeply wary of the blind nun, as Xi Mu was very weak now, and the Sword of Light had fallen to the ground.
If the blind nun had wanted to snatch the Sword of Light, she would have had a great chance of success.
The blind nun seemed to become aware of the change in atmosphere, as she looked at Xi Mu and subconsciously touched the bracelet given to her by the Destiny Witch Hecate.
This is Lord Ash testing my loyalty. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
It wasn’t a bad thing; it meant that Lord Ash was beginning to try to trust her, otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken such a huge risk to test her.
"Lord Ash, I am your nun," she said, bending down to pull the Sword of Light from the ground and offering it back to Xi Mu.
"Please believe that I will never betray you."
"What if I ask you to give up guiding me to become the instigator of Ragnarok’s destiny?" Xi Mu inquired, and before the blind nun could be troubled by the question, he changed the subject.
"You don’t need to answer now; after all, we don’t yet know each other well enough."
"Lord Ash is really gentle," the blind nun said softly, with a light laugh. If Lord Ash had forced her to make a choice at that moment, she might not have been able to produce a satisfactory response.
She gently lowered her head.
"I will contemplate that question thoroughly," she said.
"I look forward to your answer," Xi Mu said with a light chuckle, not really caring about what the blind nun was thinking at the moment. As long as she was troubled over whether to follow the destiny guided by Ragnarok or to stay loyal to him, that was enough for him.
He just needed to slowly guide the blind nun, increase his significance in her heart, and when the time came for him to fight the Flame Giant Surter to determine who would truly instigate Ragnarok, the blind nun, the eyes chosen by Ragnarok, could play a vital role in directing its gaze more firmly onto him.
Of course, this was contingent on him helping the blind nun retrieve her eyes; if he couldn’t help her regain her sight, then she would only be a role as a guide.
And for the battle between him and the Flame Giant Surter, she wouldn’t be much help.
