157 Fifth Beast King (1/2)
While the others were chatting about what they experienced so far, Lu An met with Tang Shaoyang in the chief house. The young man lowered his head, did not dare to meet with his boss' eyes.
Lu An narrated from the first fight against the Beast King where he lost two slaves, and the fight against the Wartusk that almost brought a total of three teams down with him.
”I have failed you, Boss! Because of my wrong instruction, two slaves died. If not for General Mengyao, three teams would be wiped out too. I lowered my guard…”
Still looking down, Lu An began mentioning all his negligence in the last two battles against the Beast King. He admitted all his mistakes in front of his Boss without hiding a single thing. He was ready to be scolded or even punished.
Tang Shaoyang tapped his shoulders before giving him a big hug, ”You have done well!”
Lu An had his eyes widened in surprise, he thought he would be scolded for sure. At least, for the fact that he had given up once. He saw the Boss returned to his seat with a big smile.
”You are not going to punish me?” Lu An blurted out the question that lingered in his head, ”I have failed you, Boss!” He once again emphasized that he was a failure.
”Hooo, were you expecting me to scold you or even punish you?” Tang Shaoyang with a brim of a smile while Lu An nodded his head in response, ”First of all, punishment will be carried out only after the battle is over. We are in the middle of battle, there is still a Beast King, A Guardian of Clarity Forest, and four more portals that await us. I can't punish you even you deserve the punishment, and you don't deserve to be punished,”
”Second, you just lack experience and you have learned from your mistake, and I do hope you will not repeat the same mistake! You admitted what you did wrong and you have realized it, I am proud of you. You are not just a jerk who tried to blame someone when a situation arises, you shoulder your responsibility well!”
”I am proud of you, Lu An! But don't get discouraged by just an accidental mistake. And you have to try to fix the weakness you have as well. Listen well, what makes a fine General is the experiences. You just experienced a failure, maybe you will experience more failures in the future, but I don't want you to crumble before failures, I want you to face and overcome them, so when I experience my failure, you will be my side to help me,” he ended his words with a smile, and it was a genuine feeling he had, an expectation for the young man.
Tang Shaoyang then took out the Mana Master skill book and threw the book toward Lu An. The young man caught the skill book unprepared but still managed to catch the book. When he got a hold of the book, the screen showed on top of it. He looked up to his Boss.
After learning the [Mana Mastery], he taught Lu An [Mana Perception]. After the young man learned the skills, he excused himself. Even without asking, Tang Shaoyang knew where and what he was going to do, ”Don't forget your meal!” Tang Shaoyang yelled at Lu An.
”Now, who should get to learn [Mana Mastery],” Tang Shaoyang tossed the skill book to the air and caught up again. Mana would be useful for someone with a class and skill, Wei Xi was the only advanced class that had not learned [Mana Mastery] in the group, ”Wei Xi, is it?” He smiled and got up.
The sun was ready to set as the sky tainted in dark yellow, ”Hah… Should have moved into one big group rather than splitting up,” he did not expect that the third portal was much harder than the second portal. The difficulty gap between the two portals was quite big.
Tang Shaoyang let out a sigh because today was uneventful for him. Aside from killing the stage-3 beast, he did not encounter anything particular. Shaking his head, he headed toward the house next to the chief house. He did not bother to knock as he barged inside.
Wei Xi was currently sticking out his tongue, the bitterness and also the shitness of the antidote was still crystal clear in his tongue. He raked his tongue with his nail to clear the disgusting antidote off his tongue. Then someone barged into his room, he was about to scold but froze when he saw it was his Boss.
'Yeah, only him who dare to do this to me, that makes sense,' Wei Xi thought to himself. He did not realize that he was still sticking his tongue out with his fingers on it.
Tang Shaoyang was about to yell to greet Wei Xi, but the words stopped in his throat when he saw what his subordinate was doing. With a frown on his forehead, he asked uncertainty, ”What are you doing?”