novelonline Chapter 952: Chapter deduction, surprise (7k, asking for monthly tickets at the end of the month)
Chapter 952: Chapter deduction, surprise (7k, asking for monthly tickets at the end of the month)
Chapter 952 Kickback, Surprise (7k, asking for monthly ticket at the end of the month)
"Hinata, I'm really happy that you've changed like this. It seems I don't have to worry about you anymore. If you have time, come to Ingracia Kingdom more often to see the teachers and the children. Well, goodbye..."
Time passed quickly without anyone noticing. When the sun set and dusk was approaching, Izawa Shizue left these words and said goodbye to Hinata.
Hinata watched her leave and thought to himself that he was not a good student. He did not reflect on himself until he learned of your death, and he did not move on from the past until he opened his heart to you today.
"Goodbye, Teacher Jing." She said, "I will take good care of the children."
Jing paused and turned around. She didn't say anything that Hinata didn't need to worry about her because she was here, nor did she say anything that she would leave everything to him. She just smiled faintly and left Hinata with her back.
"I'm not sad. I was still uncertain at first, but now I'm sure that when a teacher like Jing chose to be devoured by Rimuru, she should have been smiling." Until Jing's back disappeared, Hinata turned to the side and said, "She found the destination she wanted, but I still want to thank you, Jixing, I understand what I want."
Not sad? If she wasn't sad, there must be something fishy going on. Ji Xing returned to her side and looked at the girl's cold face and smiled. Although she had gained a lot, her personality was still arrogant and not frank.
"You're welcome, let's go back."
"good……?!"
At the moment of answering, the calmness on the cold girl's face turned into shock, and she looked at the figure that appeared behind Ji Xing in disbelief.
“Lady Luminas?! What… happened to you?!”
"Go back? Go back where? Hinata, do you know this man?! You betrayed me?!" Luminas' voice was sharp and angry, and her tone even sounded like she had lost her mind.
"No, I... you..."
Hinata realized that Luminas probably didn't know about Jixing at this point in time, but what exactly happened now?
Luminas' beautiful silver-gray hair stood up like it had been struck by lightning, messier than a chicken coop. The originally gorgeous dress of the Night Demon Queen was torn into rags, revealing large areas of gray-stained snow-white skin, and even one of the fangs that represented vampires was broken!
Hinata's mind flashed a very impolite description, this is just like someone who has been humiliated... No, no, no, the only thing that can make Lady Luminas so embarrassed is...
She looked at Ji Xing questioningly, and then she found that Ji Xing's face was also a little pale, which made her feel strange again. It's not that she looked down on Luminas, but compared with the dragon species, Luminas should still be far behind. Even after the battle with the Burning Dragon, Ji Xing didn't show any weakness at all, so why did he look so exhausted now?
"Human! Don't run!" Luminas seemed to have gone mad and no longer cared about Hinata. She shouted angrily: "Human! Do you dare to do it again? This time I will definitely suck you dry!"
Huh? Wait, wait...
Hinata was shocked and wanted to ask, but she saw Ji Xing had waved his arm and took her away from this world, leaving Luminas burning with anger.
Because the distortion of time by the Lord of Science in the main timeline has not been cancelled, this if timeline did not break so quickly. Luminas looked at the empty ridges, with no reaction at all, and screamed like crazy: "I will never, never forgive you! ... Ji Xing!!"
She got Jixing's name from Hinata's address and engraved it into her bones and blood.
God knows what she went through that day.
At the beginning, she, Roy and Rey besieged Ji Xing. Roy and Rey were killed by Ji Xing again and again, and then resurrected by her. Ji Xing even gave her a "skill". She could see that Ji Xing was using her and his subordinates to practice moves.
At this time, her anger level had already reached its limit, and what happened next made her even angrier.
In order to reverse the defeat, she hinted that Roy and Rey should merge, or return to their 'original form'.
Well, the twin brothers were originally the same person, an extremely brutal original vampire. After she subdued them, their powerful strength was still difficult to control, so she used the authority and skills of the original vampire to split them into two.
After the fusion, Rey possessed a powerful strength second only to hers. He launched a sneak attack and received surprising feedback.
Ji Xing was knocked to the ground and her body was locked, so she frantically absorbed Ji Xing's energy, thinking that she had won. Until her own energy was almost restored, Ji Xing slapped her and threw her away.
Only then did she realize that the bastard had deliberately exposed his weakness in order to allow her to absorb some energy and recover her physical strength so that she could continue the battle and continue practicing on them.
The same thing happened five times in one day! It was such a shame!
Of course, Luminas is not stupid. After discovering that Ji Xing was so "arrogant", she also had a secret plan. She was ready to wait for the right time to use the "Storm Inhalation" to directly drain Ji Xing, and then teach this bastard a lesson!
But it was the sixth time that Ji Xing was thrown to the ground by her. When she felt the time was right and bit Ji Xing's neck fiercely, Ji Xing's skin suddenly became harder than anything else. How could she, the ancestor of vampires, lose a tooth? !
So when she appeared in front of Hinata, she became what she is now, with a rage in her heart that almost burned the heaven and earth and everything.
This emotion also reached its peak when Jixing and Hinata disappeared, pushing her soul to undergo a transformation, and the sound of the world sounded in her mind.
《Confirmed. Conditions met. Unique skill 'Lustful' evolves into ultimate skill 'Lustful King Asmodeus'!》
The furious Luminas didn't care.
……
In the main timeline, Luminas, who went to the tomb to get close to Chronoa, suddenly felt an inexplicable anger in her heart.
She was stunned for a moment, frowned and looked around, muttering in confusion: "What's going on? Why did my mood suddenly become so bad? I just found out your true identity and saw you when you were a child. You were so cute..."
After thinking it over for a long time, she had no clue. She shook her head and said, "Maybe he remembered the time when the palace was blown away by the evil dragon. Damn evil dragon, next time I see him, I will suck him dry!"
Far away in the Monster Federation, Veldora, who was excitedly supervising the construction of the labyrinth, sneezed.
On the other side, on the ridge of the field.
"Hinata-sister, are you awake?"
The five kids gathered around him and asked questions, and Hinata confirmed his return.
"Sister Hinata, we harvested a lot of rice. Uncle Reynard said that the five of us are almost as good as a hundred-man team!"
"Hinata-sister, are you tired from preparing for the Paladin selection? How did you fall asleep?"
Some children seek credit, while others show concern.
Am I sleeping here? It's more like a dream, but... Hinata checked his condition and soon found something that was enough to prove the truth - the hero's egg!
She still has some qualities of a hero, having completed a training in a different time and space. Such skills are exaggerated, but she is more concerned about another thing now, and quickly looks at Ji Xing.
Ji Xing made a shushing gesture, “We had a sparring match, don’t tell her.”
Hinata was silent for a moment, well, she guessed so.
The five children looked surprised.
What kind of charades is this?
"Who did Teacher Ji Xing spar with?"
"That's not right. Aren't Jixing-sensei and Hinata-sensei here all day?"
"How strange... there must be a secret..."
Ji Xing smiled and changed the topic of the children: "How is it, are you happy today?"
"happy!"
"I'm just a little tired..."
“Can we eat the rice we harvest?”
"That's something your Hinata teacher will have to arrange. But even if we want to eat it, it'll take some time. The newly harvested rice has to go through several processes such as cleaning and shelling before it can become the rice we usually see." Ji Xing said.
"That's it..."
The children looked towards Hinata, who came back to his senses and made arrangements, "Reynard, make arrangements."
"Yes!"
"Haha, great!"
"Thank you, Uncle Reynard!"
Hinata looked at the children and was moved by their happy and innocent smiles. He understood more deeply the greatness of Jing's teaching and care for them. Without Teacher Jing, these children would be very miserable, right?
After a heart-to-heart talk with Jing, she felt that the children were more friendly, so she reached out and gently wiped Alice's dirty face. This was something she would never do before, and even scared Alice, but she immediately came up to her happily: "Hinata sister, is my face dirty?"
"A little bit." Hinata said, "I'll take you back. You need to clean up. You are great. I didn't expect that you could complete the first stage of the Paladin selection so well at your age."
She knew that what supported the children was more their interest, the novelty of what they had never seen before, and their "immortal"-like physical strength and power, rather than the patience and perseverance of ordinary people.
But she still praised: "What do you want to eat tonight? I'll take you there!"
"really?"
"Is anything okay?"
“I want to eat Sukiyaki!”
"No, I want tempura..."
"Eel rice is better."
Uh, are these all foods from before the time travel? Or rather, foods that were recreated by Rimuru.
Hinata was a little embarrassed, and Ji Xing said at the right time: "Can't you always eat those things in the Demonic Federation? When you come to the Holy French Empire, you naturally have to eat the specialties of the Holy French Empire.
Let's eat the food that the Paladins eat. Now that you are here, why don't you all experience everything that the Paladins have for three days? If you behave well in these three days, I will give you a surprise when you leave the Holy Empire."
"……surprise?"
"Is it a skill?!"
The children's faces were full of anticipation, Ji Xing smiled but said nothing, but Chloe's face was slightly wrinkled. She was so happy that day that she almost forgot something important.
"Three consecutive days? What day is tomorrow, Teacher Ji Xing?" she asked.
The other children looked at her in surprise: "Chloe, are you tired? Today is August 8th, so tomorrow is of course August 9th!"
Chloe: “…What about the day after tomorrow?”
"August 8th!" Alice put her hand on Chloe's forehead in a daze. Does she have a fever?
Chloe was silent for a moment, then continued to ask, "So what happens after August 8th?"
"Of course it's June 6th! In three days it will be the founding festival of Rimuru-sensei's kingdom! Chloe, what's wrong with you?"
Chloe turned around and looked at her unaware companions and even Hinata, and remained silent.
Forget it, as long as I can go back.
……
In the next two days, the children continued to experience the Paladin selection assessment and the daily life of the Paladin and had a lot of fun.
Ji Xing also had a lot of fun.
During the two days of confusion, he continued to mobilize the power of the Lord of Science and opened two more branch timelines. This time he did not bring Hinata with him, so the number of monsters he gained experience from increased from three to four.
Luminas, Roy, Rey and Hinata Sakaguchi gave Ji Xing more feedback than on the first day. The cumulative feedback in three days was almost equal to what Ji Xing had accumulated in the first year!
The amount of his magic power nearly doubled, and his soul capacity also freed up more space, giving him enough power to continue evolving his ultimate skills. His progress in becoming a saint was also close to 100%, and he was almost becoming a spiritual life form like a dragon.
He even wanted to continue, but after all, it was the first time to use the power of science dominance. The only experimental site was the Holy Empire and its surroundings, and other places were not affected by the skill. Ji Xing currently did not have the ability to make the entire world scientific. He was worried that dividing the same world into 'time zones' would have additional effects, and he was also worried that the little girl Chloe would be completely confused.
So the skill was terminated as planned.
Although the skill is terminated, some things that have happened will not be changed back.
The date goes back to June 6th in the Holy Emperor Era, which is still two months away from this year's Paladin candidates, but a large number of those selected in the previous three days have already joined the Paladin ranks.
Time returned to normal, but no one was confused about the Paladin selections of the previous three days. This year, the Paladin selections of the Western countries were increased once more without a trace!
But some accidents still happened.
That morning, Ji Xing and Hinata came to say goodbye to Luminas. Well, Hinata was leaving too. She and Luminas had both received invitations to the Demon Federation's founding festival. They had originally wanted to go a day before that, but now that they were invited by five children, they thought it didn't matter if they went three days earlier.
"Please rest assured, I have already arranged the next tasks for the Paladins. I will go to the Demonic Federation first and wait for your arrival."
Sitting on the gorgeous throne, Luminas half lowered her head and did not answer, and the atmosphere gradually became a little weird.
The next moment, Ji Xing keenly caught a hint of malice. He was stunned at first, then he suddenly realized something and sighed in his heart.
Luminas raised her head, her heterochromatic eyes radiating a strange glow: "No problem, you go first, Hinata. But Jixing, are there still some details of our deal that have not been completed?"
As early as three nights ago, she reached a skills deal with Ji Xing.
She obtained two skills, and Rei, Roy, and her butler Gunda each obtained one. The reward was to "promote the business legitimacy of skill merchants in the western countries in the name of God."
It sounds a bit strange, but to put it simply, it means letting Luminas, a disguised but very respected god in the West, endorse itself.
Ordinary people would only regard Ji Xing as a "god's messenger" or "a person approved by God", one level lower than Luminas, but it didn't matter. They would give some of their reverence for Luminas to Ji Xing, which would be enough for Ji Xing to get all the starlight of ordinary people and help him light up the fifth star.
"Details? You mean..." Ji Xing asked while pretending to be confused even though he knew the answer.
"Of course it's the skills I'm missing! Do you want me to remind you one by one? Roy's 'Glory of the Dead'! Ray's 'Cell Splitting'! Or the skill that increases my magic power!"
Ji Xing laughed: "Do you want it?"
"I want you to die!" Luminas flew into a rage and knocked Ji Xing to the ground like teleporting. She madly absorbed his energy and bared her fangs, but she suddenly stopped before biting Ji Xing's neck.
Hinata was stunned.
This scene made her feel vaguely familiar, yet also like she had never seen it before. What happened?
"Ultimate skills can partially immunize against the effects of my skills. The stronger the skills, the deeper the immunity. It turns out that there are no ultimate skills originally. Awakening an ultimate skill in a branch world will also affect the main world. You should pay attention to this in the future."
Ji Xing said, “Luminas, did you finally sort out everything after yesterday’s end?”
“…How dare you ask me so calmly!” Luminas said angrily: “I was cursing the evil dragon two days ago! I didn’t expect you to have such a weird skill!”
"Well, if the same scene is repeated many times, can it speed up the progress of the main world's 'awakening'?" Ji Xing thought: "No, the more important thing is whether the object in the main world has awakened the ultimate skill?"
The sound of the world echoed, and Luminas in the main world was promoted to the King of Lust due to the accumulated anger of her unique skill.
She paused and gritted her teeth: "It seems that I still have to thank you properly?!"
"You're welcome."
"I… wuwuwu?!"
She was about to continue to roar, but Ji Xing's arm suddenly pushed into her mouth. She tried it lightly, but found it was not too hard, so she bit it hard.
The sharp vampire teeth pierced Ji Xing's arm fiercely, and the blood was sucked by her. She finally got her wish and sucked wildly. Soon her eyes opened wide and her eyes were shining.
She found that Ji Xing's blood was damn sweet, more fragrant than any blood she had ever sucked, and even this energy... was permanently increasing her strength and magic? !
Before she could appreciate the details, Ji Xing took his arm away from her mouth again, picked her up and threw her back to her seat. With a turn, Luminas's anger dissipated a lot, and she licked her lips in satisfaction while sitting in her seat.
"you……"
"Dragon blood, pure dragon blood."
So it tastes like dragon blood?! Luminas clenched her fists. No, the blood of an evil dragon doesn't smell this good. This guy is even more dragon-like than a dragon!
If I could drink more...
"50 ml each time. Giving you blood of this quality will permanently deplete my strength."
"100ml!"
"About 80."
"make a deal!"
Hinata stared blankly at the two people completing a dirty py deal in front of him, still not understanding what was going on.
Luminas added: "The skill you used won't affect my true self, right? Don't be too harsh on the fake one."
She sold her timeline self without a care, and chose to get the power kickback from Ji Xing. Luminas, who has the ability to control life and death, is indeed the best monster spawning point, and Ji Xing is happy to be free and make a deal with her.
If I get ten portions of power at a time, giving one portion to Luminas won't have much of an impact.
Oh, it seems Hinata's ultimate skill is about to awaken, we can discuss it then.
He turned around and said, "Let's go."
Hinata: "...Yeah."
Luminas watched the two disappear, then licked the blood from the corner of her mouth, savoring it carefully.
“This guy has become even stronger. If he was only able to defeat the Scorching Dragon before and was not much different from Guy and Milim, now he might be the strongest in the world… He is really a monster, and his skills are more unreasonable than the other.”
……
Outside the town of Rimuru in the Demonic Federation, on the edge of the Jixing and Scorching Dragon battlefield scenic area.
The light of the transmission expanded, and Jixing, Hinata and their five children descended upon the place.
The five children were still reluctant to leave the Holy French Empire, but of course they were also happy to go home. Looking around, they were startled.
"Teacher Ji Xing, why don't we just go back to the town?"
Hinata was also confused, but Jixing smiled and said, "Did you forget? I said that if you perform well in the three days of the Paladin selection, I will give you a surprise."
The children looked at each other and pursed their lips.
"of course I remember!"
"But shouldn't surprises come suddenly? Why would you call someone aside and tell them 'I'm going to give you a surprise'?"
"That's right, we discussed it for a long time last night, but you still pretended to have forgotten it! Teacher Ji Xing has no sense of ceremony at all!"
And I was disliked. Ji Xing shook his head with a smile: "Then don't jump up next time."
The five children looked serious.
They said they disliked it, but in fact they were full of anticipation. Five pairs of eyes stared at Ji Xing, guessing what kind of surprise it would be.
The next moment, they only felt a strong magical glow emanating from Ji Xing's body, and a slight sense of oppression appeared on the peaceful Ji Xing.
Hinata's pupils slightly changed. This is...
《Confirmed. Conditions met. Unique skill 'Heroic Soul User' evolves into ultimate skill 'King of Souls Hayakawa Riseboshi'!》
《Confirmed. Conditions met. Unique skill 'Soul Burial' evolves into ultimate skill 'Death God Yono Mashi'!》
With sufficient soul energy, Ji Xing nurtured two unique skills together, allowing them to enter the ranks of ultimate skills.
In this way, seven skills accumulated from Ji Xing’s thirteen worlds have become ultimate skills, exceeding the remaining number of unique skills!
Moreover, his gains this time can barely evolve another ultimate skill with a weakness, but there is no need to rush and he can wait until the need arises.
The acquisition of two ultimate soul-related skills made the world look different in Ji Xing's eyes. He looked at the battlefield between himself and the Burning Dragon, and saw many phantoms that he had not seen before.
It was a fire-attributed monster that was being born under the influence of their remaining magic essence. Its body had not yet taken shape, but its soul had already begun to take shape.
The power of the God of Death gave Ji Xing the power to accurately reincarnate souls, purify souls, and directly attack souls. He could even reach into the "Underworld" to salvage the last bit of true spirit that had long since naturally dissipated.
The power of the King of Souls allows Ji Xing to capture the long river of history, pursue the "heroic spirits" remembered in it, and summon them to fight.
Not only the history of the past, but even the future history after a certain period of time! With the same time attribute, it unexpectedly strengthened the master of science, which was a pleasant surprise.
He felt it for half a minute, then looked down and saw the children's staring eyes.
"...Teacher Ji Xing, where's the surprise?"
Ji Xing smiled: "The surprise is that I, the teacher, have become stronger again! Are you surprised?"
"..."
Chloe rolled her eyes, Alice pouted, and the sword jumped up more directly.
"No, no! This is too shameless. I'm going to tell Mr. Rimuru!"
"Okay, okay, here comes the surprise."
Ji Xing stretched out his hand in the long river of time and space, swam upstream and grabbed a "heroic spirit". With the two ultimate skills working at the same time, the summoned hero was no longer a phantom that could only fight for him for a short time, but a soul life form containing a wisp of true spirit!
Same status as Cagalli.
The body of a beautiful, gentle woman with black hair and black eyes quickly took shape.
“Eh…Huh?!”
“Rimuru-sensei? No, that’s not it…”
There were a series of surprised hisses, and then there was silence. The children stared at her in a daze, their eyes slightly red, their throats moving, and they swallowed hard.
It's not just the kids.
Hinata's heart was also churning, and she murmured, "Teacher Jing? This time... it's not the if timeline anymore... Even something like this...?!"
The 'heroic spirit' summoned by Ji Xing was Jing Ze Jing Jiang. After half a minute of silence, Jing Ze Jing Jiang opened his eyes with a little confusion.
"here it is……"
"Teacher Jing!"
The children's calls interrupted it. Jing paused for a moment and said in surprise: "Tenya? Ryouta! Garu! Alice! Chloe?!"
She called out each name accurately, and said with joy and confusion: "You... seem to have grown up a lot. I remember I..."
"Ms. Jing," Jixing said, "I'm sorry to disturb your sleep. The children missed you very much, and so did Hinata."
"Hinata..." Jing then noticed the 'college student' next to her and wanted to ask Ji Xing the reason, but Alice threw herself into her arms and made her stagger.
"Teacher Jing! Wuwuwu..."
If one child cries, all the children will cry.
They surrounded Jing and Jing quickly comforted her: "You've really grown up, Alice. You've grown taller and heavier, and..."
Ji Xing looked at Hinata and said, "I can just give her the different memories from the if timeline. You can also talk to her again. Maybe you can gain more insights?"
Hinata didn't answer, her mind was in turmoil. She felt that the things she experienced in the past few days with Ji Xing were more exciting than the past ten years.
……
after an hour.
"You're back, Jixing... The kids are all fine... Hey, why are your eyes swollen? Did you cry? Why? Um... mirror?"
Rimuru looked around in confusion, then found a mirror - a woman who looked exactly like him, and scratched his head.
Two seconds later, she scratched her head again.
“…Huh?!!”
Rimuru's jumping made Shizuka smile, and the children laughed and shouted together, "Teacher Rimuru, surprise!"
The surprise came before me.
It's the end of the month, give me two monthly tickets.