370 Teacher Zero (1/2)
It was late and Zero was tired. After a week of tutoring Princess Dorothy, he was starting to understand the difficulties of a teacher. Hua Tuo must be the world's best teacher and Zero found himself respecting his shifu even more now that he understood how difficult it was to be a teacher.
Initially, Princess Dorothy would cling onto Zero's every word and did her best to cultivate. Zero didn't seem to see anything wrong with it until he found out that the princess had been doing more than what he was telling her to do in not a good way.
The doctor kept finding it weird that while the princess' soul cultivation progress was getting better, the girl was looking more and more haggard even though she should be getting better after a few days. It took Zero a week to find out the cause and when he did, not even King Darius dared to speak to Zero.
The story about how Zero's murderous aura leaked out after he found out Princess Dorothy was secretly training herself in magic while practising soul cultivation became known overnight throughout Rocket Mountain. Nobody knew that the elven healer was a powerful person but after the incident of Zero's anger shaking the ground and collapsing mines, the chancellor immediately whistled to a different tune and ordered that whatever Zero wanted, everybody should do their best to please him.
Magic and qi cultivation often cannot go hand in hand. Zero taught the princess qi cultivation because she had weak chakra channels. When he found out that the princess was trying to match Fae King Vivian's ability to use magic freely, he lost his self-control for a moment and allowed his emotions to get the better of him before he managed to reel it back. Unfortunately, the damage was done and Princess Dorothy became mentally scarred by Zero's wrath. Truen wasn't around to do damage control so Zero had to figure out what to do about the situation. He didn't like everyone walking on eggshells around him all the time.
The patients that came to see Zero were also more quiet and humble. In fact, Zero was able to leave the clinic earlier than he expected. Initially, he thought that some of the patients weren't able to come to the clinic due to certain circumstances so he closed it early and went around making house visits.
Their reactions to seeing the powerful healer made Zero stunned. So far, he had never had this sort of treatment where others would fall onto their knees and put their heads to the ground to beg mercy from him as if trying to appease an angry god. He felt alienated and sad that the trust and image he worked so hard to create was shattered so easily. Truen was right. He should have listened to his best friend's rules about not using overly powerful magic.
Troubled, Zero decided to give his shifu a call. Right now, he could use a little advice.
”Have you gotten yourself in trouble again so quickly? Didn't you just finish with Magnus Hilda's strange sleeping spores?”
Zero grimaced. That was right. According to the time flow between the abyss and Earth, it shouldn't be too long since he settled Magnus Hilda's plague even if that was a few months ago.
”Sorry, shifu. Sorry for all the trouble I've caused you so far but I don't think I'll ever stop causing trouble...”
Hua Tuo laughed at his disciple's honesty. ”Yes, you should be. Then again, it's not anything I haven't expected when I took you in as my student. So, what did you get yourself into this time?”