Chapter 115: Rankless Skill – Elegy
After a while of busying around, tonight’s matters came to an end. Su Jiu, along with two others and a fish, returned to the small tavern. On the way, they saw many people in enforcement uniforms moving about.
The group sat at an outdoor dining table near the glass window. It seemed the Old Man intended to prepare food for them and had a few things to discuss.
In the subsequent conversation, Su Jiu learned that it wasn’t that Ren’s support was slow. They were intercepted at the VIP entrance. Even the Night Watchers wouldn’t resort to violence without due cause, as it would lead to trouble.
Afterward, Ren and his group attempted to force their way through with the Dragon Hunters. They discovered that some warriors had come out of the geisha house and were setting sail from the port. Ren then instructed others to go inside, and two followed them, leading to the current situation.
“Before the Gaokao, I need to condense the Qi within my body, and that mental attack skill as well. I need to practice them.”
Recalling Ren’s previous fight, Su Jiu’s desire to become stronger grew even more intense. If they had a Battle General, even if they couldn’t fight back, they wouldn’t be chased like this!
“I didn’t expect that Erhua, that guy, is still alive?”
While she was looking through the skill files on her phone, Su Jiu discovered that Huang Erhua had been constantly sending her text messages, seemingly asking for an antidote. Su Jiu chuckled softly and swiped them away.
“Let her be scared for three days? Consider it a punishment.”
Then, immersing herself in the book about mental attacks, she realized it might be due to her being a vampire. In less than ten minutes, a familiar feeling surged into her mind.
Su Jiu felt her mind slowly emptying, and then the mental power gathered from the top of her head. 1/4, 1/3… until it was full. This was more like a process of charging up.
“According to the contents, this should be the process of mental concentration.”
She could feel her mind being squeezed as if by water. Her eyes inexplicably felt sore and swollen. Then, a flash of blood-red light flickered in her eyes, and her mental power suddenly poured out towards Yuan in front of her.
“Practicing Psychic Skills? Can Warriors even access this stuff? But if you’re a vampire, it’s normal.”
“It feels a bit tingly, pretty good as a massage.”
After being hit, Yuan turned her head to look at Su Jiu, muttering to herself with some curiosity, then shifted her gaze back to her own tasks. After all, the big cleanup today was quite busy.
“Sorry, sorry.”
Upon hearing the words “按扒衤三磷咎邻⒎鸠捂罢摩” (which appear to be garbled or censored characters in the original text), Su Jiu’s eyelids twitched. She snapped back to attention and hurriedly apologized. Seeing that the other person seemed unharmed, she inwardly thought that this examiner was indeed powerful.
Her gaze shifted slightly to the mermaid, Siren, hugging a small Siren in the corner. Su Jiu looked at the melancholic expression on its face with some sympathy and asked, “Little mermaid, what’s your name?”
“Ling Ling…” her voice was a bit hoarse.
She looked up at Su Jiu, then rested her chin on the little Siren’s head. Her gaze became dazed, and she stopped speaking.
“Let’s tease her a bit, and test the skill casually.”
After fiddling around for a while longer, confirming that she had learned it, Su Jiu glared at Ling Ling. Su Jiu’s eyes flashed red, and the other person’s body stiffened slightly.
“What are you doing?” Her voice was still hoarse, but at least there was some emotion.
After being momentarily stunned, the other person put down the cup and looked at Su Jiu with dissatisfaction. Su Jiu feigned innocence and waved her hand dismissively.
Seeing Su Jiu play dumb, Ling Ling decided to ignore her, and then… Su Jiu, with a blank expression, used the skill again to test her. The two were caught in a constant back-and-forth.
Having been a teacher for so many years, Su Jiu was skilled at treating children with a tendency towards depression, simply by attracting their attention.
“You can use External Qi. You seem to be at the Initial Stage Battle General level, right?”
Looking at the mist that appeared around the other person, Su Jiu suddenly stopped fooling around and asked.
Ling Ling nodded gently.
Seeing her nod, Su Jiu’s evaluation of this skill slightly increased. In a fight, that half-second of distraction often determined the course of the battle, a fact Su Jiu understood deeply.
She planned to take Blood Night Grass along with it during her cultivation later to see if she could prolong the duration of the distraction. As for control, unless it was a complete crushing victory, true control was difficult. This was also why the geisha house only recruited high school students.
Ren, holding his phone nearby, suddenly spoke, interrupting Su Jiu’s thoughts: “We’ve already contacted the Sirens from the deep sea. We’ll send her back together later. Their King seems to have something to give you.”
Hearing this, Su Jiu nodded. Seeing the color return to Ling Ling’s face, she stopped teasing her and leaned back on the sofa, waiting for the Old Man to arrive.
“Energy instant noodles with shredded Giant Squid meat.”
Just then, the Old Man came over with a large plate, smiling. On it were three bowls of ramen and one bowl of meat porridge.
“Is he a monster too…”
As Su Jiu took the ramen, she noticed Ren also had ramen in front of him. She was a little surprised but didn’t say anything, looking at the Old Man, waiting for him to say what he needed to.
Except for Ren, the others hadn’t touched their chopsticks.
Wiping his hands with the dry cloth hanging from his waist, the Old Man scanned the people around him, then his gaze landed on Su Jiu’s face. He gave his signature smile and said,
“Congratulations, you have officially become a Night Watcher. This is my personal gift of five thousand merit points, awarded to you for resolving the Siren crisis.”
Then, he took out his phone and showed the opened window to Su Jiu.
“Five thousand?! I remember a small Magic Crystal is only 500, and the Dragon’s saliva Dad traded for me was only 3000.”
Su Jiu’s heart skipped a beat. This was the first time she had seen so many merit points. This time, she definitely had to splurge at the merit store.
Without waiting for Su Jiu to thank him, the Old Man took out a worn notebook with “Elegy” written on it from his pocket and handed it to Su Jiu, saying with a serious expression, “This is something Ren risked altering the assessment level to get for you. The new one takes a long time to approve. You can use mine for now.”
Ren, standing beside them, lifted his face from the ramen and glanced at the Old Man before burying his head in the noodles again, looking even more like a glutton than Su Jiu.
“That life-risking ultimate skill? Elegy?” Su Jiu took the small notebook, feeling its weathered traces, and vaguely smelled the scent of the sea.
On the way, Su Jiu had already understood the general reason for getting involved in this mission, so she wasn’t too surprised.
Gently flipping the first page, the words “Heard & Li” gave Su Jiu the feeling that it was written by an elegant and beautiful lady.
Continuing to flip through, each page was filled with beautifully written cursive English notes that were very pleasing to the eye, giving a sense of beauty but also… desolation?
[Live on, for the people who need you.]
“Live on? But isn’t this a life-risking skill?”
Looking at these annotations, Su Jiu had an unprecedented feeling.
It was as if an elder from the era of war was constantly teaching her how to use it. She hoped her descendants would practice marksmanship, but she also didn’t want them to go to war – a conflicted sentiment.
Although she couldn’t understand it without Huo’s (E Huo) assistance, she could still feel the gentleness.
As if thinking of something, Su Jiu suddenly thought of the Night Watcher’s manual, and was surprised – was it the same handwriting?
“Do you still remember the text message from the Dragon Country Command? ‘We Night Watchers roam in the mournful cries of dusk, and return in the elegies of dawn.'”
“The words ‘Elegy’ are taken from here.”
The Old Man’s expression was very solemn. His remaining eye was now filled with solemnity, and he continued in a deep voice, “This skill is a rankless skill, and it’s also very direct and brutal – burning life to gain power!”
Hearing “burning life,” Su Jiu’s body trembled slightly. She lowered her head and touched the notes again. “Burning life? Then this person—”
And then the Old Man’s words made her heart shake even more.
“By our standards as Night Watcher elites, a Battle King burning their life can rival a War God!”
“A Monarch rivaling a War God?!”
Su Jiu came back to her senses. Her Ice Cicada Transformation (Ice Cicada Transformation) with a large amount of life force, could she exploit a bug? If she could, then the Ice Cicada Transformation would become the form with the strongest burst among the three forms.
