After work, start to speedrun the other world-Chapter 93 - 12 The Melancholy Knight

"The desire for power, isn’t that a basic human instinct?" Xi Mu replied as a matter of course. He pursued power not to uphold justice, nor because he had anyone he wished to protect, even less to realize some ideal.

Instead, it was because becoming stronger made him feel happy and satisfied, just as people feel pleasure when they eat sweets.

"That’s a perfectly valid reason," Hecate nodded slightly, accepting her apprentice’s explanation. She could understand a man’s desire for power, an impulse rooted deep within the soul, but she did not want her apprentice to become a person who only chased after power.

"Apprentice, power requires wisdom to wield," she said to Xi Mu with a smile, "If you really are in a rush to forge the Great Sword of Death, I can help you."

With her current abilities, she could quickly locate the meteorite needed to enhance the Great Sword of Death and find a suitable Forging Master to create it.

Xi Mu wouldn’t have to do a thing, he just needed to patiently learn magic knowledge from her, which was also a reward she granted to her apprentice.

After all, Xi Mu had paid a considerable price to become a witch for her, so as a teacher, she couldn’t begrudge him, not to mention helping him to forge the Great Sword of Death.

Even allowing Xi Mu to become the king of the Magic Kingdom wasn’t a problem.

Xi Mu: "..."

If he accepted Hecate’s offer and relied on his teacher’s generosity, he certainly could obtain the Great Sword of Death. This was the reward for helping Hecate become a witch, but the cost was to study magic knowledge with Hecate and miss out on opportunities for mass slaughter.

Without a doubt, this would slow down his leveling speed.

Therefore.

"Teacher, how about this?" he looked at Hecate’s puzzled gaze and slowly said:

"Just give me the study materials directly, I can study on my own while I travel. That way, I won’t delay my power improvement while also supplementing my knowledge."

Hecate was skeptical and asked, "Apprentice, you’re not going to deceive your teacher, are you?"

"...Teacher, how could I bear to deceive you?" Xi Mu earnestly spouted nonsense with an especially serious expression, "If you’re worried, you can come check my progress after a while."

In fact, he had no intention of actually studying, but that didn’t hinder him from pretending he was, after all, he already knew those contents.

A bit of bluffing later would do.

"..."

"..."

Seeing her apprentice’s earnest eyes, Hecate knew that even if she protested, it would be futile, and she shook her head gently.

"I’ll go prepare the study materials for you." With that, she disappeared into a burst of starlight.

Seeing this, Xi Mu closed his eyes again and began to rest.

As soon as he drank the continuous recovery Magic Potion, he would be ready to find a mount and then go look for the Magic Queen’s meteorite.

In this world, there are very few meteorites that could add ten points, and the Magic Queen’s meteorite happened to be one of those rare ones.

Of course, there were other meteorites that could add ten points, but since the Magic Queen had died the closest, it was convenient for him to obtain it with the utmost speed.

And at that moment.

Jed walked in the door, carrying a box full of Magic Potions and sat down next to Xi Mu, "The money for buying Magic Potions was provided by Princess Yasiraqi."

She helped Xi Mu up and took out a potion.

"Boss, come on... open up~"

"..." Xi Mu opened his mouth, downed the Magic Potion brought to his lips, and after drinking several bottles in succession, he finally regained his mobility.

He got out of bed and stretched his body.

"I’m going to take a shower."

"Before that, do you want to see the letter that Letixia sent?" Jed produced a letter and waved it at Xi Mu.

Xi Mu took the envelope, glanced at the grinning Jed, and sighed, "Jed, you’ve done quite a number of unnecessary things."

"Trying to die in peace, without worrying Letixia," Jed frowned and said with apparent dissatisfaction.

"Boss, are you a child?"

"If I die one day, help me return the Sword of Light to Letixia." Xi Mu took the letter and left.

Seeing this, Jed fell silent for a while and then sighed wearily. The people around her never seemed to come to a good end; her parents were like this, her companions were the same, and now her boss as well—none of them had a stable life.

"I hope the boss doesn’t die too soon." She lay back, shielding her eyes with her hand, her usual liveliness gone.

Some time later.

Xi Mu came out after his bath, drying his head with a towel, and looked toward the living room. Yasiraqi and Jed were sitting close together on the couch, and it seemed they were discussing him. However, as soon as they saw him come out, they immediately stopped their discussion.

Shaking his head, he sat down opposite them.

"What are you discussing so energetically?"

"Nothing very important," Jed shook her head and immediately laughed again, "But boss, you can try to guess what we were discussing?"

"I won’t guess." Xi Mu replied without hesitation. They were undoubtedly discussing his impending death. If he really guessed, he feared he might get trapped in a meaningless discussion.

So it truly wasn’t necessary.

"Boss, just take a guess~" Jed dragged out her plea pitifully, but Xi Mu remained unmoved and changed the subject.

"By the way, weren’t you curious about when you will be able to get married?" He asked with a light laugh, "You can try to ask the teacher later when she comes."

Jed made a face and said, "Now I don’t really want to know when I will get married anymore, otherwise I feel like it would... hurt my heart."

"If needed, I can introduce you," Yasiraqi offered, and then added as if joking,