Chapter 412: Visit (2/2)

Once again, Spicy_Gourd was asking him if he found anything else. Alex quickly replied no, and got back to the assignments.

He went to his classes and returned back before finishing the last bit of assignment he had left for this one subject. Afterward, he logged back into the game.

The first thing he did after entering the game was checked his nails.

”Damn, it's been nearly a day and they still haven't fallen off,” he thought. He was starting to believe that his hypothesis about the nails being permanent was close to being true.

He had a few more tests to do with the pill, however. Aside from the duration of the nails, he still needed to learn about the durability of the nails and the length of the nails with the different Harmony pills.

He also needed to know if eating a pill after already consuming one had any extra effects. If it did, he needed to know what.

With all of these things to do, he decided to go to the place with the swine once more.

Just then, his nameplate vibrated inside his storage bag.

'Hmm?' he took it out and scanned it with his spiritual sense. There was a message for him on the nameplate to go to the elder's hall and find the Grand Elder as soon as possible.

'GrandMaster wants to see me? Why?' he wondered and quickly went down the sect leader's mountain. He made his way through the sect valley as he reached the Elder's Hall.

'Where's grand m— Oh, there he is,' he thought and quickly walked up to the grand elder who had been standing in front of the doorway.

”Good Afternoon, Grandmaster,” Alex greeted the Grand Elder.

”Oh, you are fina— What's wrong with your hands?” he asked, seeing the 9 long nails on his hands.

”Oh, it's a new pill I'm testing. It grows your nail and makes them harder,” he explained.

”You made a new pill?” the Grand Elder said in surprise. The elders around them also stopped to see why the Grand Elder had just exclaimed.

”Ahem, tell me about that later. For now, come with me,” He said and brought Alex back in. They walked through the hallways past a few doors. ”There, go into the room,” he said.

Alex nodded and opened the door. Just as he did that, Spiritual sense suddenly went past him, making him stand on the spot. He was too scared to open the door now.

However, his willingness didn't seem to be a factor, as the person on the other side opened the door without waiting for him to do so.

Immediately, a wave of fragrant perfume hit his nose as two slender hands wrapped around his neck. ”Junior brother, you are alive!!”

Luo Mei hugged Alex the moment she saw him and didn't let go. Alex looked past her and saw that Wen Cheng was standing a few meters behind her.

”Master! Sister! You guys returned?” he said in surprise.

”Haha, that's all you can say after terrifying us to death?” Wen Cheng asked with a dry laugh.

”Umm… I wasn't at fault though, Master. Someone kidnapped me,” Alex said. He then turned towards Luo Mei who was crying while hugging him and said, ”It's okay, sister. I'm alive and fine. I was just stuck in the formation that disoriented me, and I could leave it.”

”Sniff Sniff! I'm just glad you're okay,” Luo Mei said with watery, red eyes.

”Yes, I did hear it from Elder Chang that you were kidnapped by someone that you didn't recognize?” Wen Cheng asked.

”Oh, that…” Alex quickly checked his surroundings with his spiritual sense and then sent it to Wen Cheng. A few words appeared in his mind that completely shook Wen Cheng to the very core.

”So that did happen! We were right,” Wen Cheng said.

”You guys guessed it?” Alex asked in surprise. Luo Mei looked at the two in confusion as she couldn't pick up any hints from the conversation.

”We knew he was after you, so once he went missing, it wasn't very hard to guess. Still, we couldn't make any accusations without evidence, so we had to sit around doing nothing but hope you were alive,” Wen Cheng said.

”About him, by the way,” Wen Cheng continued, ”did he…?”

Alex nodded.

”How?” Wen Cheng asked.

”He overexerted his mental strength in my spiritual sea and died,” Alex said. He didn't mention anything about the dark shape he saw or the yellow fog.

”I see… serves him right,” Wen Cheng said as he gritted his teeth. ”I'm just angry I didn't get to kill him on my own,” he said.

Luo Mei couldn't continue listening to the cryptic conversation and asked who they were talking about, but Wen Cheng replied with the ”it's better if you don't know it” reply.

”By the way, where were you?” Wen Cheng asked.

Alex quickly calculated where he should have been based on how long the caravan took to reach that one city and answered.

”That brings up the question I've been wanting to ask for a while, Master,” Alex said.

”Did you guys not search for me very hard?”