Chapter 300 – Unspoken Concern (2/2)

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Elena blushed and didn’t say anything when she realized she had a slip of her mouth.

Of course, she would be worried about Lin Xiao when he made a bet with someone else, although she said that she wanted to see him make a fool of himself and kept making cynical remarks on the side, she actually helped him a lot in secret…

First, she told Lin Xiao about the hidden magic circle and the copper bloodwood, then she patiently used her magic radar to watch over Lin Xiao just in case something happened. She wasn’t able to relax until Lin Xiao succeeded in the end.

The demon king’s care was not easily noticeable, but was twice as warm. It was truly unexpected for Lin Xiao.

“Elena, y-you weren’t worried about me the whole time, were you?” Lin Xiao scratched his head with an unnatural expression.

“Who would be worried about you? I was looking forward to you losing!”

“If you’re not worried, then why were you watching out for me…”

“I was worried that you would lose money and I would be forced to eat potatoes with you!”

“Uh… what’s wrong with potatoes? Potatoes are the powerhouse of the different world, look at all those novels about potato politics, potato economy, don’t look down on potatoes!”

“Pervert, I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

A nice atmosphere was ruined by him, Elena flipped her eyes and ignored him.

“Elena, shouldn’t you be used to calling me master, it’s not good to keep calling me pervert, okay? Although I do indeed like it…”

“Since you like it, aren’t you just a pervert?”

“Oh… is that so? But I still feel like I can be helped.”

While the master-servant pair started flirting in front of everyone as usual, Lin Tian finally recovered and was squatting on the ground carefully inspecting the wood that fell out.

“What is this?”

Unlike his sister, Lin Tian knew quite a bit about magic theory and knowledge, especially about applications of magic circles. He even made some low grade magic tools before, so he could kind of be considered a self-taught magic tool artisan, so he could instantly see something fishy!

Inside the magic circle, there was a neat hexagram, the lines inside were twisted and there were a couple of small magic crystals embedded at the points, this was clearly used to dilute magic power!

“This wood doesn’t seem normal either… it has a strong magic affinity and it works well with the magic circle to absorb magic power. Hebrew, this is your doing, right!?”

When he finally realized the scheme, Lin Tian angrily asked Hebrew while holding the wood.

“Ah? I… Hey! What are you holding?”

Hebrew finally recovered after he heard Lin Tian shouting at him, then he noticed that Lin Tian was holding the copper bloodwood. He instantly got impatient and started barking angrily like a dog who had its tail stepped on.

“Damn kid, what are you doing? This is damaging office facilities, it’s punishable by fines! Give it back to me!”

“Hmph, still acting tough? Hebrew, this is your schemes right? You can’t trick me! You bastard purposely put this wood into the stone doll to increase its magic resistance so that we can’t pass the challenge, and then you’ll trick money from us!”

“B-bullshit… I didn’t do that!” Hebrew was already sweating, even if he was arguing with a loud voice, his voice was already beginning to quiver.

It wasn’t just Lin Tian that was angrily questioning him, what scared him more was that those people that were watching were all turning on him!

“Hehe, I can’t believe that kid blew the stone doll up, not bad. Now there’s solid evidence, so there’s no way out.”

“Yeah, someone finally got a hold of him, it’s over.”

“Isn’t he just reaping what he has sown? Tsk, someone should have dealt with him a long time ago.”

Those people were all alliance investigators and were only here to accept missions. They were too lazy to meddle in someone else’s business and didn’t want to offend anyone, so that’s why they weren’t helping the siblings and just watched the action from the side.

But similarly, when Hebrew’s schemes were exposed, they also wouldn’t help Hebrew. Rather, they would spread the word around around to make it even more lively!

No one knew how many old cases would be involved, but everyone knew… this time, Hebrew was completely finished.

Hebrew secretly clenched his fists and his eyes were filled with hatred.