LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 644 - 357 Two Ladies, I'll Perform a Magic Trick for You_2
Chapter 644: Chapter 357 Two Ladies, I’ll Perform a Magic Trick for You_2
“Okay, the source of the corpses must be legal, you know. If you’re found to be grave robbing and stealing corpses, Lord Death Star will personally come to chat with you, understand?” The Red Hat Magician said.
Upon hearing the name Death Star, the Necromancer began to sweat, “No, no, I’ve performed here many times before, these old colleagues have been with me for over a decade, I would never think of grave robbing.”
The Red Hat Mage completed his inspection, hopped onto his broom and flew off. He passed by Ange’s party, saw the Death Star’s pass, and even paused to salute.
When the Skeleton Dance Team started their performance again, the Necromancer failed to notice an extra skeleton. A hatless Feiti blended in among the skeletons, bouncing joyously through half a day’s dance.
When the Necromancer cheerfully stepped on stage to collect his money, he suddenly exclaimed, “Eh, why is my reward so small?”
Feiti had grabbed a pocket full of silver and copper coins, and quickly scampered back. He handed a handful to Durken, another to Little Angel and Little Zombie, and a third to Ange.
“Where’s mine?!” Negris asked.
Feiti sneered, “Earn it yourself.”
The Giant Dragon’s competitive spirit instantly flared, “Damn it, you think I can’t make my own? Just you wait!”
Before the Bronze Dragon could come up with a money-making idea, Durken approached two attractive ladies, smoothly doffing his high hat and bowing.
“Lovely ladies, I wish you all the beauty and delicacy of lilies.” As he spoke, he held his hat in one hand, and with the other, he seemed to pluck something from the air and tossed it in.
With a fizzing sound, white smoke billowed out of the empty hat. When the smoke cleared, two bewitching lilies had appeared inside the hat.
Durken picked up the lilies and handed them to the beautiful ladies.
But the two ladies took the flowers with knowing smiles. One of them took out her hanky, draped it over the flowers and patted it down. When she lifted the handkerchief, the bouquet had vanished.
The other one gently stroked the flower, causing the pristine white blossom to assume a leaden grey metallic sheen, as it transformed into a metal lily.
After performing these tricks, the ladies smirked and asked him, “What grade are you? Space Magic or Alchemy? Don’t you recognize us? You dare flirt with teachers?”
Durken had overplayed his charm. The ancient witch was mistaken for a student. Durken was taken aback for a moment, and then he gritted his teeth, “Love knows no bounds.” He then took out two bottles of limited edition, deluxe 10ml essence.
A hundred milliliters of essence would cost thousands of demon crystals, which was extremely expensive. At least the teachers at Stellaris Magic Academy didn’t often splurge on a full bottle.
Lisa created a more affordable deluxe edition, with ten milliliters selling for a hundred and twenty demon crystals. The sales were even hotter. Durken had brought out the limited edition.
“Wow! The Goddess of Beauty Essence? The limited edition? For us?” The eyes of the two female teachers lit up in excitement.
“Of course. It would be a great honor for it to be applied to the beautiful faces of two ladies.”
“Hehe, you certainly have a way with words, but we don’t accept gifts from students.” The two teachers reluctantly declined.
“I’m not a student. Here, let me show you a magic trick.”
Durken walked off while chitchatting with the two teachers.
Negris sighed, “Two hundred demon crystals just spent like that? Regardless of whether he scored or not, this spendthrift.”
He looked back, “Hey, where did Ange and the others go?”
Ange and the others were crouched on the roadside, watching people play net ball.
“Ladies and gentlemen, come and have a try! The rewards are generous. Each time you toss the ball up in the air, you use magic to control the net to catch the ball as it falls. Whatever you catch, you win a prize. One silver coin for one try, one gold coin for eleven tries, one demon crystal for one hundred and twenty tries! Would you like to have a go, young lady?” The net ball vendor yelled tirelessly, directing his speech toward Little Angel.
Nowadays, Little Angel looked just like a little girl, the ideal age to have the most fun and also the main target market for net ball. If the child wanted to play, the adults would inevitably give in.
As expected, Little Angel nodded excitedly, stuffed all the coins that Feiti had grabbed into the vendor’s hand, and handed the net to Ange.
A big spender, huh? Staring at the pile of change in his hand, the owner began counting excitedly. However, his excitement was soon replaced by surprise.
He looked up to see Ange skillfully controlling his net, catching every single ball that was shot into the sky.
A few minutes later, the owner returned all the money in tears, stuffed all his prizes into Ange’s arms, and then packed his belongings and fled.
Hosting a ‘netball’ game at a place like Stellaris Academy surely meant amping up the difficulty. He was confident that unless a Truth Mage came along, there would be no losses.
In the owner’s mind, Ange must have been a Truth Mage in disguise.
That day, everyone had a blast. Upon returning to the Mage Tower, they were greeted by an angry Auburnli.
“What’s wrong? Has something happened? Do you need help?” Negris hurriedly asked.
“No need, no need.” Auburnli quickly rubbed her cheeks and said: “I’m used to it. Every holiday there’s bound to be a bunch of troubles. As long as no one dies, it’s all good. I just caught two rapists, over a dozen murderers, an exterminator, and six slavers. I’ve dealt with all of them.”
Negris was dumbfounded. She had just said ‘as long as no one dies’, but she had immediately ‘dealt with’ over twenty people. Did they not count as people?
“What a shame. I searched the exterminator’s soul, and he wasn’t the only one. These sneaky pests won’t let me rest until I find them all. I came back to check on you guys, and now I must return to my shift,” Auburnli said.
Negris signaled to Ange to bring out one of the Insect Gods: “This problem is easy to solve. Take Hemel with you, let it help you find them.”
“Hemel? Hermorthos? The Insect God?” A surprised Auburnli was looking at the creature before her, which was as fat as a pig.
At this moment, Auburnli’s communicator rang. After picking it up and communicating briefly, she said with a bizarre expression:
“A young man and two of our female teachers started a fight at the bar. He was scratched by the women until his face bled and was called a fraud. He was caught by the patrol team… and he had my pass…”
Negris looked around, the only one who hadn’t returned was Durken, who also happened to be masquerading as a young man and had left with two female teachers…
“Kvada, what the hell is going on?!” Negris started cursing.
Auburnli let the patrol team release the young man and immediately left with Hemel to search for the remaining exterminators.
Not long after, Durken returned, his face scratched and looking miserable.
A group of gossips quickly surrounded him.
“What happened? Why did a fight break out? Why did they scratch you?” Negris asked with a gleam in her eyes, a flame of curiosity burning within her, much like the flame that could be seen in everyone else’s eyes.
With his face in his hands, Durken promptly turned around and fled.
The crowd was unable to catch up, but Auburnli had returned. Hemel had led her around in a large circle with no results, eventually returning to the drainage point beneath the Death Star Tower.
The drainage point was too small for Hemel to enter, so he simply spit into it.
After a while, a hoard of black fishes emerged frantically from the hole, their sharp teeth gnashing as they tried to devour Hemel’s saliva. The substance spat out by the Insect God exerted a deadly attraction on these strange fish.
Auburnli was outraged: “My fish! My fish have all turned into these strange creatures!”
“No, it’s fertilizer.” Ange ran over excitedly, squeezed past Auburnli, and poured a bottle of insecticide into the drainage point.
The already agitated fishes were driven further into frenzy by Hemel’s saliva, soon starting to tear each other apart.
Ange joyously gathered the dead fish bodies, clearing a larger space in the drainage point. The scent attracted more insect-fish which squeezed in frantically, it was like opening a pipeline composed of insect-fish.
Seeing Ange clean up so quickly, Auburnli, who was a bit worried previously, heaved a sigh of relief. But her relief was short-lived due to Negris’ comment.
“I wonder if there are any in the bay? There are going to be a lot of people at the ceremony tomorrow, and there’s also Bikini Beach, hope they haven’t been fed to the insect-fish.”