Chapter 327: Enticement: Part 1
Two streams of dark powers, one red one green moved like a living jet stream back to their master’s body.
From afar, it was like two puffs of colored smoke quickly shrinking before disappearing.
Lin Sheng was impa.s.sive and slightly regretful, he threw the maid in his hand away to be grabbed by Sharmika.
Sharmika’s expression was twisted as he stepped forward and grabbed the red-dressed maid by her thin waist before taking about ten meters back.
“Professor Auldmandiller, is this the way the Soul Fortress treats their guests?” he quickly asked accusatively.
“Both me and my servant had no intention to attack you, and from the beginning, it was your students who struck first! You will need to give a proper response to my family!” he shouted with a stern look.
Auldmandiller looked at Lin Sheng behind him. The latter did not seem to mind as he looked at his opponent who was yelling in a frenzy as if it had nothing to do with him.
“Baron Sharmika, let me ask you, why every member of my workshop is laying on the floor wounded when you stepped in? The professor was no slouch, and could easily see through the charade.
“Heh, you can see who struck first through the surveillance,” Sharmika responded without a hint of fear.
The moment the words came out of his mouth, Shurkadie, Marguerite, and Milla who had approached from afar were speechless.
If they were to think of it, the first to strike was indeed the people of the Soul Fortress.
“This b.a.s.t.a.r.d did it on purpose! He provoked us!” Milla roared.
There was no way that Auldmandiller did not realize that Sharmika did it on purpose, but things as they were had his hands tied. Behind Sharmika was no ordinary family, but an ancient n.o.ble bloodline with Palatinates as their members.
“So how about both of us take a step back, Baron Sharmika? I’m sure that Olro does not want this incident to go out and be common knowledge across Miga?”
Auldmandiller tried to p.r.i.c.k the pain spot of the latter.
Sharmika sneered as he knew that it was useless, but he had to try to p.i.s.s his opposition off at least.
He once again looked coldly at Lin Sheng and Marguerite.
“Very well, I’ll remember this.”
He did not say anything else, as his seemingly calm voice went away. Sharmika brought his slightly recovered maids in huge strides past Auldmandiller and out of the exit.
Auldmandiller shook his head and looked at Lin Sheng.
“Are you alright?”
“I’m fine.” Lin Sheng nodded.
“Follow me.” Auldmandiller sighed as he pulled a faint red test tube out of his pocket, and gently pressed against it.
*Crack.*
The test tube broke and from inside a large number of red light spots quickly flew around like a living thing.
Some of these light spots flew into Lin Sheng’s body while the rest over to the front of the Soul Fortress into the wounded students.
Lin Sheng’s body suddenly felt warm and comfortable, and he realized that this was probably the professor healing their wounds.
“Everyone come to the main hall,” Auldmandiller calmly said, but his voice rang out loud in everyone’s ears like a loudspeaker.
The light spots entered the bodies of Milla, Margaret, and the rest and their wounds had slightly recovered, allowing them to slowly get up.
The group very quickly gathered in the main hall of the Soul Fortress on the first floor.
Just like the first day of school, aside from Auldmandiller, everyone stood at attention in the middle of the hall.
Lin Sheng, Marguerite, Milla, and Shurkadie, the four of them stood at the front.
“Now, Marguerite, do you have anything to say?” Auldmandiller looked on helplessly at Marguerite.
The student he had taken a liking to, was after all the main reason for this ruckus. He knew very well from the surveillance.
Margaret looked worn and gloomy.
“It was my fault, I’ll repay everyone later, and I’m thankful that everyone stood up for me at that key moment. Thank you, thank you very much.”
She first bowed towards her professor, before taking a few steps forward, and turned to the rest of the student and bowed.
“I’ll settle the matter of your graduation process later. Go back tomorrow then. This is not a place you should be staying any longer.” Auldmandiller sighed.
Margaret kept silent and only lowered her head. Auldmandiller may look stern, but he was truly helpless in this situation.
He paused for a moment, before admonishing Shurkadie and the rest who struck first, and Milla who had sealed the fortress.
As for Lin Sheng, he gave his usual praise and did not mention the issue where Lin Sheng had wounded Sharmika and his maid.
With that, Margaret was sent back, Milla was scolded, while Shurkadie and the rest were punished.
Lin Sheng was the only one who escaped any admonishment and got praised instead.
Auldmandiller then reminded the students to learn from Lin Sheng, and outright said that if he was not around, the management rights of the Soul Fortress falls to Lin Sheng.”
“If I’m not around and you’re unable to decide on what to do when trouble is afoot in the workshop, look for Lin Sheng.”
With this, as to who was the leading student after Marguerite’s departure was now set in stone.
The incident opened their eyes to the gulf between them and their genius-level peers, and the gulf between them and an ace like Lin Sheng.
The meeting was soon dismissed, as Auldmandiller had only come back for a while as he had work to do, after some words of encouragement, he prepared to leave again.
Before he left, he called Lin Sheng to a corner.
“Let me on to this, how much dark power do you have now?” His face was serious as he asked with a heavy voice.
Lin Sheng pondered for a bit.
“Two thousand!”
Auldmandiller was speechless. “Do I look like a fool to you?” he asked as he pointed at himself.
“Five thousand?” Noticing his expression, Lin Sheng carefully added a little more.
“Heh.” Auldmandiller did not want to drag things out, and he just patted him on the shoulder. “How far in the twenty-thousands?”
“Twenty… thousand and five hundred,” Lin Sheng finally answered honestly. “This is the truth, and it’s actually closing in on thirty thousand….”
Auldmandiller’s hand froze. He was actually just pulling Lin Sheng’s legs.
He swore, he had only given out a rough number, and never thought that…
After a moment of silence…
He patted Lin Sheng hard on the shoulder. “This matter, we will never be able to hide it. The princ.i.p.al will know of this, and you better be prepared.”
“Be prepared?”
“The development of your dark powers is almost the same as the Palatinates back then. This is already at the Suncrown’s level. My Soul Fortress will not be able to hold you,” Auldmandiller said honestly.
Something then struck Lin Sheng. He had gone through the information in the library and knew that in the history of dark power’s development, there were people reaching twenty thousand units of dark power at his age…
But he had never thought that this was the mark of the Palatinates in their youth.
“If nothing goes wrong, the princ.i.p.al will guide you himself. And that, the upper echelon will let you choose, either to stay in Baine or to head to Suncrown.
However, to be frank, while Suncrown is a very good and powerful place, but I personally suggest that you stay in Baine.
The compet.i.tion in Suncrown is just too strong, and with your abilities, you don’t have to try to force yourself through the gauntlet. Since you are a student of Baine University, and the princ.i.p.al himself is a Palatinate, he will definitely do his best to guide you.” Auldmandiller was serious in his suggestion.