Ch182 - As long as he put it on, he would be his (1/2)

13.11 – As long as he put it on, he would be his

translator: xiin

editors: alamerysl & BlueBug

The nurturer’s appearance was very cute, and the baby fat in his cheeks hadn’t faded away yet, giving him much more of a ‘cute nurturer’ look than Xue Ling. In a way, this was the second protagonist of the story, and also the protagonist gong’s younger brother, Mo Lan.

Compared to the protagonist, Mo Lan’s basic conditions seemed to be much better. After all, he was a nurturer, and although he was weak during childhood and had therefore been unable to enter Class S after awakening his spiritual powers, he was at the top of Class A. He had already taken the promotion test countless times in order to get into Class S, but had always failed.

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He was truly an indomitable person. He continuously persisted and finally achieved his wish, managing to barely cross the required threshold to enter Class S. And the one time he was successful was when he took the test along with the protagonist.

Which was exactly this particular test.

In the original story, Hao Songle had raised his spiritual powers to a certain level by virtue of the space he had obtained, and also took the test to enter Class S. It was exactly because they were tested together that Hao Songle met Mo Xi, who was still a Major in the First Fleet.

Mo Lan and Hao Songle became very good friends, and the story mentioned the person that he liked countless times, but he had always wanted to reach a certain status before confessing to the other party, and even by the time story ended, he seemed to have never achieved his goal.

And the person who Mo Lan had always liked, was Yin Jia.

Xue Ling obviously felt Mo Lan’s closeness to himself, but the reason why he didn’t want to talk about it at all was very simple.

Pay attention to him? Wasn’t it just another person who wanted to be his father? Ha-ha.

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Mo Lan was not an overly familiar person. Since Xue Ling ignored him, he brought his attention back to his own hands and began to prepare for the next promotion test.

He was one year older than Xue Ling and would reach adulthood next year. He hoped to work with the First Fleet when he became an adult, but the first prerequisite for becoming a Sculptor for First Fleet was that they had to graduate from Class S. There were many rounds of selection after that, and if he couldn’t even enter Class S, he would have no hope of getting in at all. That was exactly why Mo Lan had been persisting for so many years.

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He raised his head to look at the audience who were watching the test. His gaze swept around, and finally landed successfully upon a certain person’s figure…

He was here this time. Mo Lan needed to grasp this opportunity to successfully enter Class S. At the very least, he needed to leave a better first impression as that would help him with the implementation of his future plans.

Xue Ling had never once looked towards the auditorium. After the signal came to indicate that he could begin choose ores, he started to make his selection.

He remembered that there was a detailed description of this test in the original story. In order to set things up for the protagonist, one of the ores in this round contained an SS Grade energy crystal. The protagonist’s ability was not completely up to par; although he had managed to see the peculiarities in this ore and selected it, he had been unable to fully make the most out of the purity of the energy crystal during the purification and sculpting process. This was the main reason for his point deduction, but also the reason he was given extra points.

But, due to Xue Ling’s interference and existence, the protagonist never made it to this test. These stones were all judged by Xue Ling’s eyes, and in his gaze, the shape, size and purity of the energy crystals in these ores was very clear. So, the selection process did not take him too much time. He merely swept his glance over the entire scene, and then selected a few of the best ones.

He first picked up the ore that contained the SS Grade energy crystal. He planned to use the three energy crystals to build a set of things for Yin Jia, so he had chosen excellent materials. The remaining two stones were the ones with the highest level of purity amongst S Grade, and their shapes coincided with what Xue Ling wanted. After choosing the ores, he placed them into the grinding machine according to the regulations. By the time he turned to enter the second room, Mo Lan had only chosen one ore.

Xue Ling looked back at him, and Mo Lan met his gaze with a lovely smile that wasn’t lethal at all. Xue Ling raised his eyebrows before going on ahead. This child was not some powerful rival, and wasn’t much different from those on the Star Net who tried to please him in order to become his mother except that he was more inclined towards doing practical things, and had been working hard to be worthy of that person.

Xue Ling wanted to laugh when he thought about it, and finally looked up towards the place where Yin Jia sat in auditorium. Unexpectedly when he raised his head to look over, Yin Jia was also looking over. Xue Ling was dazed as he fell into that pair of deep eyes, and it took a lot of struggle to recover. He stuck his tongue out at Yin Jia, harrumphed, and then brought the energy crystals that had been processed.

With Yin Jia’s observation powers, he would be able to see everything clearly even from even further away. He had seen very clearly that the little nurturer had stuck his tongue out at him. His nose wrinkled in the process and he looked extremely cute. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Mu Xi leaned in from beside him and asked, “Marshal, how much did you displease the little cutie? Look, he has never given you any positive expressions at all.”

Yin Jia felt that this child did not necessarily dislike him; he was just overly awkward. He shook his head but didn’t reply, and continued to watch Xue Ling’s test.

On the other hand, the people who watched the live stream through the Star Net saw the little interaction between the two people thanks to the little recording robots. For a while, the female fans filled the entire screen with “AHHHHHHHHHHHH”, once again blocking the faces of the two people from view.

Another group of people whimpered and cried that the Lord Marshal was so indulgent, they also wanted to be the Marshal’s child! They wanted to know if the Marshal’s Palace still needed animals or pets, the type that could change forms.

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Xue Ling was totally unaware of the bloody storms taking place in the outside world. He was purifying all three energy crystals and, because of his own high requirements, he even directly purified the other two S Grade energy crystals into SS Grade energy stones. He did not have any intention of hiding his ability behind clumsiness during this test, nor did he plan to hide the space from Yin Jia. His relationship with Yin Jia was still fragile and weak, and Xue Ling was prepared to use the existence of the space in order to strengthen the relationship between them.

With a little secret that was only shared between the two of them, their relationship would naturally improve, and he would be able to take things slowly. In any case, the only nurturer who could get close Yin Jia right now was him. If Yin Jia didn’t like him, where else would he find someone to like?