The extremely embarrassing maid outfit stayed on Li Chi for a full twenty minutes.
It was only after Ying Guang was completely satisfied that he was finally allowed to take it off.
Before Li Chi left, Xing Yao called out to him.
White magical power gathered at the tip of Xing Yao’s finger.
He lightly tapped Li Chi’s forehead, transmitting the power straight into the boy’s brain.
In Li Chi’s vision, it felt as if Xing Yao had thrown a flashbang at him.
His eyes were suddenly blinded by a vast expanse of white.
『Hellfire』
A high-tier magic transformed into a stream of flowing light and drilled into his brain in an overbearing manner.
Li Chi nearly vomited on the spot.
He felt his brain buzzing, as though countless bugs had burrowed inside and were wriggling and gnawing away madly.
After quite a while, the rather disgusting and uncomfortable headache finally subsided.
“Mm-hmm. It looks like your current mental strength can only support learning one at a time… But that’s fine. Go home and familiarize yourself with it first. When the time is right or your magic power and mental strength become strong enough, I’ll transmit the remaining nine to you.”
Xing Yao noticed Li Chi’s unusual reaction and immediately saw through his condition.
It was nothing more than insufficient mental strength combined with the overly massive magic he had transmitted, causing Li Chi to feel unavoidable pain.
The sensation was like trying to stuff a watermelon up one’s nostril—ripping apart his mental space.
Fortunately, with Xing Yao standing guard, although Li Chi had felt the pain earlier, the only side effect now was a bit of dizziness.
[Hey, hey, hey! That guy seems to have stuffed something incredible into you!]
That voice appeared again, but it only said one sentence before falling silent once more.
According to Xing Yao, when he transmitted the magic earlier, it should have produced an enormous amount of magic power.
Otherwise, Li Chi’s spirit wouldn’t have suddenly “played dead” and stirred again.
But according to the spirit, what Xing Yao had given him was something extraordinary.
The effects of this magic must be ridiculously powerful.
Just hearing the name made it sound incredibly impressive.
It was a bit chuunibyou, but that was no big deal.
He could just avoid shouting the name when using the magic in the future.
“Thanks…”
Li Chi mobilized his body’s cells, doing his best to restore his body to its optimal state.
Soon, the fatigue throughout his body vanished.
Xing Yao watched this scene without a change in expression, though a ripple stirred in his eyes.
“Impressive ability. Its effects are almost beyond most healing magics in the world.”
Li Chi gave a slight bitter smile.
Was this ability impressive? Of course it was, but he had just discovered one flaw.
Even after restoring his body’s condition, the mental exhaustion simply could not be eliminated.
This meant that his complete mastery of his cells could not be applied to the mental level.
Although he could alter his brain, he could not shape his soul.
After all, these were two different concepts…
Moreover, Li Chi’s cellular healing could only be used on himself and could not treat others.
However, this was compensated for by the bio-electric current in his Dark Fang form, which he had previously thought useless.
Li Chi felt a bit troubled.
His physical body was already strong enough, but his mental strength had always been neglected.
If the opponent directly ground his bones to dust, he could still regenerate from a single remaining cell.
But if they directly controlled his brain, what then?
Li Chi shared his discovery with Xing Yao, but this time the guy didn’t give him a direct answer.
“You should ask Black Dragon about this issue. That guy might have a solution.”
It was clear that Xing Yao wasn’t unaware—he was just being lazy.
Li Chi had gone through all that trouble to satisfy his granddaughter’s curiosity, and now that he was done, the old man wanted to kick him out?
If not for those high-tier magics worth a billion, Li Chi might have torn off all pretenses and slapped him.
This was just too insulting.
Of course, this was all just Black Crystal’s imagination as she had been eavesdropping at the door for a while.
Li Chi naturally wouldn’t do something like that.
After all, he himself was the culprit behind making Xing Yao’s granddaughter’s mind even stranger, though Black Crystal didn’t know that.
“Creak!”
The office door was suddenly pulled open from the inside.
Magical Girl Black Crystal, who had been leaning against it eavesdropping, instantly lost her balance and toppled forward uncontrollably.
At that moment, Black Crystal felt as if she had slammed into an extremely solid iron door.
The impact hurt several times more than falling flat on the ground.
“Ouch!”
The girl couldn’t help crying out.
She even felt like her face had swollen from the bump.
“I’m telling you, you didn’t see anything earlier, right.”
Li Chi looked expressionlessly at the peeping tom who had fallen against his chest and threatened her.
Whatever had happened earlier, this girl had definitely seen it.
He absolutely could not let her spread it around!
Otherwise… his innocence would be gone for good.
“What? What happened earlier?”
In her eyes, a terrifying blood-red aura had appeared around Li Chi.
She felt that if she told the truth, the boy in front of her might dismember her on the spot in the next second, so she immediately played dumb.
So scary! Is this his true strength?!
“Aren’t you pretty smart?”
Seeing that he had the upper hand in the aura department, Li Chi put on the demeanor of a superior.
The long, straight black-haired magical girl nodded frantically like a pecking chicken, terrified of displeasing him and having him call Xing Yao over to eliminate her on the spot.
Li Chi turned to look at Xing Yao behind him and found that the guy had somehow already reclined on a lounge chair.
He had even put on an eye mask printed with magical girl designs and looked quite comfortable.
Figures.
This guy was probably the same type as Black Dragon.
Not even bothering with goodbyes, Li Chi decided to leave this troublesome place right away.
Being forced into a maid outfit was something he never wanted to experience a second time in his life.
This was way too damn embarrassing!
Fortunately, only three people had seen it, and two of them were basically on his side, so there was still room to salvage the situation.
Absolutely! Absolutely! Absolutely no one else could ever know about this!
Seeing Li Chi leave without looking back, Black Crystal hesitated for a moment as she glanced at Xing Yao, who was already snoring on the lounge chair inside the office.
Three seconds later, with her idol filter completely shattered, she followed after Li Chi.
On the way, the two remained silent.
Li Chi was pondering his mental strength issues.
At present, this seemed to be his only weakness.
One careless mistake, and he could trip up badly because of it.
As for Black Crystal, she had even forgotten to release her transformation and continued walking down the street in her magical girl form.
She was currently rebuilding her worldview.
Her idol, the titan of the magic world, the renowned President Xing Yao, had actually engaged in workplace harassment against a boy?
Forcing him to wear an extremely embarrassing maid outfit?!
If someone else had told her, Black Crystal would never have believed it.
But she had witnessed the entire “workplace bullying” process with her own eyes.
Even if it was to satisfy his granddaughter’s curiosity, he shouldn’t have gone that far!
“I’m asking you, aren’t you going home?”
Li Chi’s voice suddenly snapped her out of her thoughts.
Black Crystal looked around and realized she had unconsciously walked all the way to a park quite far from her house.
A little farther ahead was Li Chi’s home.
“Sorry, I was thinking about something earlier.”
Perhaps because the earlier events had hit her too hard, Black Crystal still didn’t dare meet Li Chi’s eyes.
“What is it?”
Seeing that Li Chi’s tone was no longer as fierce as before, Black Crystal finally dared to turn her head slightly.
She looked at him with a complicated expression.
“So even those big shots… have these kinds of little quirks…”
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