Chapter 68 (1/2)
Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
Sui Xiong originally did not want to interfere with the battle between Ray and Steele. In fact, he hadn’t noticed it at all.
After Steele fell asleep, her heaven-sent ability was activated so that she snuck into Ray’s dream like a Night Witch. This process was quiet and made no noise, so Sui Xiong didn’t notice it because he was concentrated on his research.
But then these two were fighting fiercely and noisily in Ray’s dream. They were almost demolished the house. For Sui Xiong, who was good at soul perception, their fighting was almost like a fly—no, a hundred flies—buzzing noisily beside his ears.
He tried to be good-tempered and didn’t want to do anything. He thought, Maybe I should just endure it and forget it. After all, fighting in a dream could not really hurt anyone, and this way his companions could work out some of their stress and interpersonal tension. He was also very curious about Ray’s secretive past. But the two of them really went too far. In particular, when at last Ray was demolishing the house angrily, it was almost like he was playing drums right next to Sui Xiong’s ears. He would have been deaf already if he still had ears.
He finally couldn’t stand it any longer, so he took action angrily to draw the two people out of Ray’s dream.
“You two bastards! I work hard to keep watch and serve as a guardian for you because I want you to sleep in peace. But you fight fiercely even when dreaming…Why can’t you sleep in peace?!”
Inside the shelter, the floating jellyfish waved his tentacles in anger and roared at his companions.
Even though she’d behaved outrageously in the dream, Steele was now very well-behaved. Saying nothing, she bowed her head and stood there obediently, waiting for her punishment. This woman wasn’t particularly wise, but after getting along with Sui Xiong for some time, she could already see his character. The jellyfish god preferred a soft approach but used force if necessary. If you replied defiantly after making a mistake, then you were definitely courting death. But if you honestly admitted your mistake and received the penalty obediently, Sui Xiong would only give you a small punishment as a warning: he’d rather admonish you than seriously punish you.
On the contrary, Ray was both ashamed and furious because Steele had just spied on his dream. If Sui Xiong had not stopped him and he hadn’t been suspicious of Steele’s suddenly improved fighting skills, he might have already drawn his sword in anger. In that case, any piece of cut flesh that weighed more than 250g meant that his ability as a swordsman was insufficient!
Sui Xiong scolded them for a while, but soon found they had become enemies, as Steele regretfully kept her head down and Ray clenched his teeth with a murderous look. Sui couldn’t help but sigh deeply.
“Once the members of a team lose morale, it becomes difficult to lead the team!”
However, after this incident, he also felt strongly that this woman Steele should be properly punished!
As a Chinese saying went, “rabbits don’t eat the grass by their burrows”. How could she offend a companion in her team?
He thought, Ray must be thinking,”How dare you offend me while I regard you as my companion?” This kind of thing can be funny, but it’s actually distressing when it’s happening to my team!
Brainstorm and think of a solution. Or…use your imagination, and think of a solution.
Anyway, he had to come up with a reliable solution no matter what he did! He meditated for a moment, then suddenly inspiration struck.
“I’ve got it!” He couldn’t help but laugh, “Ray, do not be so angry, because I have a way to help you vent your anger, and then you’ll be satisfied!”
“As for you, Steele, you must behave yourself, or you will face the combined punishment of several offenses!”
After saying these words, he concentrated on putting his own ingenious idea into action.
Above the Ashes Woods in the remote northwest, the mountain-size floating jellyfish fumbled in his storage room and finally found what he was looking for.
They were the remaining bones of the huge unicorn whale that Sui Xiong had killed. As it was a legendary creature, even a piece of its bone was soaked in highly concentrated magic. Also, Sui Xiong had infiltrated and enhanced them with magic, so these bones had become excellent magical material.
They could contain and conduct magic very well. Above all, they were highly suited to Sui’s magic and greatly raised his success rate when making complex magic formations.
After he selected his materials, up next was the design. What Sui Xiong wanted to make seemed simple, but in fact, it was quite complicated. In particular, as Steele was partly a holy spirit, she had particularly good magic resistance, and she also had several extraordinary methods so that ordinary methods were of no use to her. To design this thing was really not easy!