Chapter 64: A New Discovery (1/2)

Chapter 64: A New Discovery (Part 10)

When he opened his eyes, Iron Cliff found himself lying inside a cave. Not far away from him, a crystal lamp was lit. Su Chen walked towards him.

“You’re awake? How do you feel?” Su Chen asked.

Iron Cliff sat up and rubbed the back of his head. “The bed is slightly small.”

Su Chen laughed. “Thankfully, you weren’t too injured; only some of your muscles were torn. This is my first time seeing pure physical strength resist an Origin Skill…… not bad.”

Iron Cliff laughed with some embarrassment.

into the air out of fright.

“Don’t be nervous, it won’t hurt you.” Su Chen waved his hand at Iron Cliff.

Perhaps out of habit, after running around outside for a bit, the metal-eating bug had automatically returned to the corner of the cave, unmoving.

Iron Cliff sat back down with some annoyance.

Su Chen handed him a bottle. “If you drink this, you will recover more quickly. But as a side-effect you might feel weak for a day, or you might have diarrhea. However, there shouldn’t be any big problems.”

“Okay.” Iron Cliff obediently received the medicine, gulping it down.

Upon seeing his quiet, obedient attitude, Su Chen suddenly asked, “Why did you help me?”

Iron Cliff replied straightforwardly, “You are my master. Of course I would fight for you.”

“But you aren’t my soldier; you’re just my servant. Fighting is not your responsibility. Also, if I died, then you would be free to go.”

Iron Cliff shook his head. “I didn’t think about it. I just thought that I should do it this way.”

“So there was no other reason? Such as ‘you like me as a master’, or ‘you feel like I treated you better than Black Hand’, or any other reason?”

Iron Cliff shook his head. “I’ve followed four masters. You are not the one that has treated me the best. My second master, who was female, treated me the best. She was very kind. She never made me work. She was always good to me.”

Su Chen let out a laugh. “You really don’t know how to flatter people. So why didn’t your previous female owner want you anymore?”

Some pain flitted across Iron Cliff’s eyes. “It’s not that she didn’t want me anymore. She died. In the midst of a battle, a despicable person mounted a sneak-attack and stabbed her in the back.”

“My condolences,” Su Chen said.

Iron Cliff lowered his head, sitting there without making a sound.

Seeing his quiet appearance, Su Chen’s heart was moved.

He said, “Do you want to become my soldier? Someone who specifically does battle for me?”

Iron Cliff was stunned. “I don’t have any Origin Energy power.”

“I can teach you.”

Iron Cliff shook his head. “I am very stupid. The previous three masters all taught me, but I just couldn’t learn it.”

“Was it that you couldn’t learn it well, or that you couldn’t learn at all?”

Iron Cliff thought for a moment, then replied, “It should be that I couldn’t learn well. The Cliff Race’s perception of Origin Energy is very low, and our cultivation speed is also very slow.

“But you can still learn, can’t you? It’s just that it’s somewhat slow.”

“But I don’t want to learn.” Iron Cliff lowered his head. “I hate battling, and I don’t like killing.”

Su Chen was stunned for a moment. It was a long while before he responded, saying, “You’re right. Killing is not a good thing, but only with enough strength can one control their own destiny and avoid being killed. Do you not want to become stronger? Do you not want to get revenge for your female master?”

Upon hearing the last sentence, Iron Cliff’s eyes began to flicker with energy.

But in the next instant, this spirit once again dimmed.

He lowered his head, saying with melancholy, “I couldn’t beat that person. He was very strong…… You couldn’t beat him either. Even if we combined forces, we couldn’t beat him.”

“But that’s only right now.” Su Chen grasped Iron Cliff’s shoulder. “If you trust me, I might have a way of increasing your speed of cultivation.”

Iron Cliff raised his head with amazement. What he saw was Su Chen’s eyes, filled with confidence.

Warmth began coursing through his heart. Iron Cliff slowly nodded his head. “Okay, I am willing to be your soldier. What do you need me to do?”

“Right now……” Su Chen laughed, “Sorry, although your previous female master didn’t make you work, I am not that generous, mostly because I have no one working for me. Help me dig out some ore; mine out all the starsilver ore inside this cave for me. Whenever you finish digging, we will return, and I will cultivate with you at that time.”

“Okay!” Iron Cliff nodded his thick, heavy head.

In the following days, Iron Cliff spent all his energy mining for ore.

Although this cave was where the metal-eating bug lived and ate,, its appetite was limited. Once the bug was full, it would not continue to eat, so its ore consumption rate was far less than that of the insatiable human race. For humans, as long as they could still find ore, they would continue to mine it incessantly.

Because of this, there was still quite a significant amount of starsilver ore that came falling out as Iron Cliff continued to mine.

Under these circumstances, that metal-eating bug actually became somewhat of a nuisance.