Chapter 50: Corridor (1/2)

Bai Xue nodded after some hesitation; if not for Lu Yin, they wouldn’t have been able to protect even the entire capital, forget this single stone. Since they couldn’t understand it anyway, it didn’t matter. She left with President Lian in tow, leaving him alone.

Lu Yin picked up the stone and started examining it, feeling nothing outside of a heavy chill at first. Unable to glean anything after some time, he put it down and was about to leave when his gaze suddenly went cold and he used Roving Step to appear at a corner. A black shadow looked at him in shock, the air turning cold as they lifted their hand, but his gaze narrowed and he attacked with the Skybeast Claw. The shadow exclaimed and dodged urgently.

Lu Yin had only used the first form of the Skybeast Claw, so the shadow dodged with ease. However, this also exposed her frosty glare.

“Who are you? Why are you here?” Lu Yin asked. This girl was definitely a student, and while not comparable to Munoor, she could still match Raas.

“Jenny Auna of the Auna Family, you should have heard of me before,” she said proudly.

“Nope, never heard of you,” Lu Yin frowned, “Why are you here?”

Jenny sent an icy glare his way, “How dare you speak to me like that?!”

Lu Yin was annoyed; this girl had the same sense of superiority as Raas. The Auna Family was likely a good background, but he didn’t care, “I don’t care who you are. Since you’re here, you don’t need to leave.”

“Stop! I’m the daughter of Snow Mountain Auna, niece of the captain of the Ninth Imperial Squadron! You’re making a mistake!” Jenny was shocked as Lu Yin rushed towards her; she knew that she simply couldn’t match him, and when he grabbed her hand, she didn’t even resist much. She just glared at him, “I’ll warn you again, I’m not the same as Raas. The Auna Family can affect the decisions of the entire Empire, don’t make a mistake!”

Lu Yin’s face suddenly changed and he released the girl, dashing back to the stone at the same time that another figure tried to snatch it away. It was only when he grabbed a silky arm that he realized this was another girl, this one looking like an elf in her all-green attire. She turned around and kicked at him the moment he caught her, and when Lu Yin tried to pull her arm to break the attack, he was shocked to find that she was so shockingly powerful that he couldn’t even budge it. He reluctantly let go of her arm and dodged the kick, using the third form of the Skybeast Claw that could defeat those like Eddy, but even that proved completely useless as she shattered the attack with a direct punch. Her fist barreled right towards him with shocking strength, forcing him to activate the Cosmic Art, but when he saw the details he realized that she was making ten attacks in a row! Barely dodging the attack, he sent her a wary glance.

“You dodged it?!” the girl seemed shocked as well.

Right as he was about to speak up, another shadow moved out of a dark corner. All three of these people could hide their star energy to avoid gadget detection, proving just how strong they were, and the third person’s face dropped Lu Yin’s heart; this was Xia Luo, the same youth who’d given him such a strong sense of danger when he first landed outside the capital. Lu Yin clearly remembered that sensation, the same one he’d felt when he first met Silver.

Four people faced each other in the cramped basement, two boys and two girls. Jenny was the most astonished of them all, not having realized there were two other people in hiding, while the girl in green had a similar feeling towards Xia Luo.

“Your aim is this stone?” Lu Yin asked.