Chapter 694 (2/2)
Sui Xiong could not help laughing. Clearly, the mathematical level of this “Lord of the Wolves” was a tragedy. It seemed like it could not even count from one to a hundred, let alone such a big number like 23,000.
“Ten ones add up to a ten,” he said. He used his tentacle to write a “one” in ancient elvish language in mid-air. Then with a wave, the “one” became ten ones. An equal sign appeared after them and was followed by a “ten” that was also written in ancient elvish language.
“Ten 10s make a hundred. Ten 100s make a thousand. Ten 1000s make ten million,” he said. As he spoke, three other lines appeared successively beneath the line that wrote “ten ones add up to a ten.”
To facilitate understanding for Kersemens, Sui Xiong used white to indicate “one,” green to indicate “ten,” blue to indicate “hundred,” purple to indicate a “thousand” and gold to indicate “ten thousand.” Five colors in four roles did look neat and tidy.
“There, that’s basically what it is,” he said. With that, he made a final wave of his tentacle and below the fourth row of that neat lineup, a fifth row appeared. A pair of golden “ten thousand” and three purple “thousands” appeared.
Kersemens looked carefully at this fifth line of words and symbols. Its head tilted, first to the left, then to the right. Its gaze was obviously getting distracted and signs of distress and helplessness.
Obviously, it was unable to understand these.
Poor kid, this is truly a mental patient!
Sui Xiong sighed and in a gentler tone, he said, “If you can’t figure it out, then forget it. In short, it has been a long, long time, so long that…” he said, then paused for a while. He had thought of saying, “What was once the sea has now become mulberry fields, and the fields have become the sea. The world has undergone a great change.”
But as he thought through it carefully, there seemed to have no such event occurring on the Main Plane. Then he thought of using the phrase “till the seas ran dry and the rocks crumbled.” However, there was no preceding occurrence to be found on the Main Plane either… Not true. Though the seas did not dry up, there were still rocks that crumbled!
So he smiled and said, “If you had placed a big rock outside at the time when you were sealed, by now, it might most probably have become mud.”
Kersemens was shocked. It looked at Sui Xiong who, in order to strengthen the power of his persuasion, had conjured a big rock. Then raising his right hand with nails that were sharp like knives, he slapped down on the rock.
That ordinary piece of rock was smashed to pieces right away, like a pile of ash.
“Just like that?”
Sui Xiong sighed and gave up on his intention to instill some popular science knowledge into this fellow.
“To make a long story short, it’s been a long, long time. The Elf Kingdom has perished. Almost all your enemies and the Elf God System are completely annihilated,” he said. “My name is Auscar, and I’m also known as the ‘Void Mask.’ I’m a… just a junior god that has inherited their legacies.”
“So… what do you want?” asked Kersemens. Somewhat dazedly, he asked, “Continue to keep me locked up?”
“I’ve no such intention,” said Sui Xiong. He shook his head and said, “Now, what I’m going to ask is, what do you intend to do?”
“If I can regain my freedom, I’ll summon my pack of wolves back and then move on with my life,” Kersemens said in a matter-of-course way.
“Your wolves are gone since a long time ago!” lamented Sui Xiong. “Haven’t I told you just now? It’s been a long, long time, so long that the rocks have turned to ash. Your wolves can’t live this long.”
“Turning rocks into soil, most of my friends can do that too,” Kersemens said with nonchalance. “Nothing great about it.”
He started to laugh as he spoke, “When rocks become soil, we can grow more grass, raise more rabbits and sheep, have more food… good, very good.”
Sui Xiong sighed helplessly. Transforming his tentacles into the shape of palms, he held his own face with those palms.
“This guy is not pretending to be a fool. He really is a fool!”