50 Trouble is Brewing (1/2)
As soon as all of them had assessed their rooms and felt content with what they saw, they all went down to the restaurant.
They had spent a month and a half on the road. All they had eaten were dried strips of meat or roasted Fierce Beast meat that had been bland because they had not had any spices to liven it up.
”I apologize, but we do not have tables that fit a full fifty-three experts in one sitting. You will have to split up in groups,” the innkeeper said with a smile on his face and all of them split up into groups.
Shen Mu, Luo Zhirou, and Xue Wei all stayed together at a small table in the corner while the others moved about and found seats for themselves. It was a large restaurant, and it could comfortably hold more than five hundred guests at once.
Everyone was eager to start eating, and fortunately there were a whole ten waitresses within the restaurant, not counting the one behind the counter dealing with drinks.
The main topic within the inn was the loss of face that the young master had suffered and the emergence of a new genius.
Although Xue Wei's current strength was not overwhelming, the fact that he had reached it in such a short amount of time was shocking, and no one knew just how much strength he had.
”I bet his cultivation base is incredibly unstable and that he is a paper tiger in reality!” one of the guests in the restaurant said loudly. He too was a ninth layer Ordinary Warrior, but he seemed to be around fifty years old.
”Old Wu, you are just jealous!” another voice called out with laughter. ”You spent forty years just to reach the ninth layer of the Ordinary Warrior rank, but he spent merely half a year! I get why you are jealous, but don't forget the facts.”
”This youngster managed to cause one of the children to collapse from a glance alone! Tell me, could you even make a mortal collapse from a glance alone?”
The man known as Old Wu was silent. He simply could not respond as he knew that he did not have the strength to make anyone collapse without touching them.
”Don't you think it was exaggerated?” someone else asked hesitatingly. ”I cannot imagine that even an Earth Warrior can make someone collapse from a single glance – only at the Sky Warrior realm might one be able to compress their Qi to pull off such a feat.”
”They say he has a special physique! I heard that it was something about him having the strength of a thousand men at the same level!” someone exclaimed. As soon as the words had left his mouth, Xue Wei almost choked on the drink he had ordered.
It was not only him, everyone from Tiankong City had strange and rather amused expressions on their faces, but no one spoke up to talk about him.
”I saw the young man; he was a true dragon amongst men! Even his clothes, although travel-worn, had the aura of being worn by someone outstanding!”
Xue Wei was completely stunned with every additional thing that was being said by these experts. He had suddenly been placed up there as a real genius, one that the kingdom had never before seen, and this made him stunned but also uncomfortable.
”If people honestly believe that I am that strong, then I will be killed fast. No one wants to allow for such a perverse genius to be born; even the royal family will be against my rise as I will be able to threaten them later on.”
Xue Wei wanted to correct them, but he knew that even if he corrected the ones within the restaurant, it was worthless. The rumors had long since spread through the entire Inner City, and they were just getting more and more colorful the further they went.
”Oh well, although the commoners might believe in this.” Xue Wei sighed as he leaned back in the chair. ”I know that those that truly matter will not believe it so easily. They will make tests and examinations and ask that young master about what truly happened. When they hear how simple it was, they will leave me be... I hope.”
”If all goes wrong, they have to reconsider since my uncle is Xiao Lei. Would they want to cause problems for the best Primordial Beast Hunter of the kingdom, who is revered and respected by the public as their number one figure?”
Thinking like this, Xue Wei felt a bit better, but he was still rather uncomfortable with the conversations he heard within the restaurant. The stories were getting out of control, and some of them even claimed that this young hero who had emerged was a direct descendant of one of the heavenly War Gods of the dark era.
It was common knowledge that the War Gods were all the ancestors of the Wayfarers; and if he were a descendant from one of these War Gods, then he would be a wayfarer, but wayfarers never participated in the war, so why would he be there?
Xue Wei shook his head as he gave up thinking about all the strange rumors that were beginning to spread.
Instead, a slight smile rose on his face as the first set of dishes were brought to their table by an attractive woman. This woman glanced at Xue Wei clearly with curiosity, but she dared not say anything. As a result, she just hurried to place the plates in the middle of the table, curtseyed to them, and scurried away with a face as red as the fire in the fireplace.
Xue Wei chuckled but said nothing as he looked at the dishes. He had not had real food for so long, and he was salivating as he looked at the dishes in front of him.
He had expected plain dishes considering the food was included in the room's rental fee, but the dishes in front of him were anything but simple.