Chapter 24 Classic Spot the Difference
Chapter 24 Classic Spot the Difference
After greeting her younger cousin, Jiang Shaoxu returned to the main group. She had been to the Ancient Capital Academy before and knew where the Thunder Element Martial Arts Arena was.
When she arrived, the most exciting competition had already ended.
Su Ming looked at the panting Jiang Shaoxu and said, "Where did you run off to? You missed the most exciting part."
"What's so exciting... what's so exciting?" Jiang Shaoxu gasped for breath, took the mineral water from Liu Qi's hand, and drank it all in one gulp.
"The second-place lightning mage challenged the first-place one. Both of them are mid-level mages. That lightning... wow, it's practically invincible!" Liu Qi said excitedly. That match had given him quite a shock.
"Oh..." Jiang Shaoxu responded absentmindedly.
"What's wrong with you?" Su Ming felt that Jiang Shaoxu was acting strangely after returning. What did she do on this trip?
Jiang Shaoxu turned her head away somewhat embarrassedly, not daring to face Su Ming directly. She even asked her brother to teach Su Ming a lesson, and she felt very sorry for him.
However, this is also the reason why Su Ming has been irritating him, and he deserves it.
Thinking this, Jiang Shaoxu felt much better. She was so happy to see Su Ming get his comeuppance soon.
"Are you going to join the main group? They're planning to visit all the departments in the ancient capital," Su Ming said, pointing to Lin Tian, who was calling out to people.
"Aren't you going?" Jiang Shaoxu asked doubtfully, judging from Su Ming's tone, he wasn't planning to go with the main group.
"Well, Liu Qi and I are going to wander around somewhere else to see if we can find anything."
Liu Qi nodded excitedly from the side.
Haha, what kind of thing could you possibly find here? This is an ancient capital and academy, not some desolate wilderness.
but……
Jiang Shaoxu shook her head, "You guys go ahead, I won't join in the fun."
"Okay." Su Ming ran over to tell Lin Tian, and then left with Liu Qi.
Watching them leave, Jiang Shaoxu quickly took out her phone and sent a message.
After receiving a response, Jiang Shaoxu ran over and spoke to Lin Tian, then secretly followed behind the two of them.
The message was sent to her brother. Jiang Shaoxu wanted to see Su Ming get his comeuppance, so she couldn't stay with him. Originally, she planned to walk with Su Ming and have her brother tease her to force Su Ming to take action and get beaten up.
However, considering that the young man is not very bright and is likely to be exposed, it would be better to portray him as a spoiled brat.
"Where are these two going?" Jiang Shaoxu followed behind. Su Ming and Liu Qi walked around the academy without any clear purpose, wandering here and there as if they were really looking for treasures.
"Why isn't this guy here yet?" Jiang Shaoxu was a little angry. It had been so long, and she still hadn't seen the young man.
Ahead, Liu Qi asked with some confusion, "Boss, are we really going to search for treasures in the academy?"
This goal, well, Liu Qi felt it was a bit unreliable.
"Of course not, I'm waiting for someone."
"Who?"
"Who else could it be but Jiang Shaoxu?" Su Ming chuckled. "Or rather, the guy Jiang Shaoxu hired to beat me up."
Liu Qi was shocked. "Jiang Shaoxu hired someone to beat you up?"
Then Liu Qi sensed something was wrong, "How did you know, boss?"
"It's very simple, take a look at this." Su Ming took out his phone, which showed a message from a stranger.
"Su Ming, right? I heard you've been bothering Shao Xu. Don't you respect your cousin? I'm at the Ancient Capital Academy right now, I'm coming to find you soon, just you wait..."
"Uh... Boss, this..."
Liu Qi was a little stunned; something about those words felt off.
"I don't know this person, but he claims to be Jiang Shaoxu's cousin and says I'm harassing Jiang Shaoxu. You can tell by thinking about when Jiang Shaoxu left the team; she went to her cousin to complain." Su Ming smiled, not caring at all.
If nothing unexpected happens, Jiang Shaoxu is now following behind them.
"That doesn't make sense either. Doesn't Jiang Shaoxu really like you, boss? Why would he hire someone to beat you up?" Liu Qi was a little confused.
Su Ming was somewhat helpless. This guy was never very bright to begin with, and practicing magic every day had eventually caused problems.
It's not unusual for Jiang Shaoxu to find someone to teach him a lesson. He must be unhappy that he keeps getting thwarted by her. After realizing that she has Xiaoqing, she found that she couldn't beat him on her own and sought outside help.
That's normal.
"Boss, are we really going to wait?" Liu Qi was a little scared. His cousin Jiang Shaoxu was at least a student at the Ancient Capital Academy, or even a teacher. They couldn't beat someone like that. Liu Qi could now unleash a fire spell, while his boss might not even be able to cast a spell.
"We were going to wait, but since my cousin Jiang Shaoxu sent out this message, and thinking about it carefully, he seems a bit off. We probably won't be able to wait," Su Ming said. "Let's go to the training ground and take a look."
Training grounds, as the name suggests, are places where students, after mastering higher-level magic, often cannot control it anymore.
Even if magic explodes, there's no need to worry. The training ground can withstand it, but other places might not.
Every tree and blade of grass on campus is public property, and you have to pay for any damage.
The training ground is always crowded; students who are learning new magic come here.
Su Ming and Liu Qi stood outside watching how the students inside went from being unable to control magic to skillfully mastering it.
Everyone here has a foundation, and after training for a period of time, mastering magic is not difficult.
Off-site, Jiang Shaoxu was getting annoyed, and her messages to the deliveryman went unanswered.
Knowing that the deliveryman was unreliable, Jiang Shaoxu reminded him several times, but it ultimately had no effect.
Jiang Shaoxu was very depressed. She looked up at the sky and sighed. Was it really that hard to make Su Ming suffer?
Jiang Shaoxu squatted on the ground when a shadow suddenly fell over her head. She looked up and saw a man with dyed red hair, dressed like a young punk, standing in front of her with a lip piercing and a smile. There were several other people dressed like that whistling beside him.
"Get out!" Jiang Shaoxu moved back and stood up angrily.
I was already in a bad mood, and these people just don't have any sense of propriety? They try to chat up any pretty girl they see; they're all just driven by lust.
"Miss, please don't say that. I just want to get to know you. My name is Wu Quan, a first-year student at the Ancient Capital Academy. I have already awakened my second major, so I can barely be considered one of the best among people. How about it? Are you interested in learning more?" Wu Quan whistled, with a confident smile.
As a first-year student, who hadn't been enrolled for long, he was already an intermediate-level mage. This was exceptional anywhere, though he couldn't yet control intermediate-level magic.
Looks and demeanor don't matter; he's a mid-level mage, a title that has an extraordinary power to attract any woman. None of the girls he's dated have ever refused him.
"Are you deaf? I told you to get lost!" Jiang Shaoxu showed no respect and turned to leave.
After being rebuked, Wu Quan was not about to let Jiang Shaoxu leave in style, so he turned around and blocked Jiang Shaoxu's way.
The others, seeing the outfit, all moved closer to this side.
"Brother Quan, your pride isn't working anymore. This girl actually took your virginity, hahaha." A man with dyed green hair and a dozen earrings laughed, his eyes full of greed.
"I actually like this kind of thing. It's interesting. The kind of thing where people like to curry favor with the powerful is no fun at all," the man with the purple hair said with a malicious smile.
"Young lady, I am a mid-level mage." Wu Quan was getting a little embarrassed and said in a deep voice.
Jiang Shaoxu wasn't wearing a school uniform. In fact, school uniforms were required for school management, but there were still a few things that bothered her.
Jiang Shaoxu was much more mature than people her age, and she always exuded a subtle and charming aura.
It wasn't that Jiang Shaoxu was deliberately dressed up in a flamboyant way; her clothes were very normal—just a plain white t-shirt, jeans, and white sneakers. But even the most ordinary clothes always had a different feel on Jiang Shaoxu.
It easily arouses people's most primal desires.
The students at the magic academy are, after all, just young people, and very few can resist Jiang Shaoxu's charm.
"Get lost, I don't have time to argue with you." Jiang Shaoxu tried to find another way out, but Wu Quan always stopped her first.
"A wind-type mage?"
"Exactly." Wu Quan nodded, his face full of confidence.
Seeing their posture, Jiang Shaoxu couldn't help but sigh. These people from the magic academy were all just a bunch of mediocre people.
They forcibly blocked people on campus in broad daylight.
"Are you really not letting me go? I have a very powerful background," Jiang Shaoxu reminded them, hoping that these people would know their place.
"Then why don't you call it out and see? Maybe I know someone in your background, hahaha..." Wu Quan didn't take it to heart.
Background? Ridiculous. Your master Quan is a powerful figure in the ancient capital's universities; no background matters.
The others laughed along with them. Everyone in this world has connections; they were people with connections too.
"Sigh," Jiang Shaoxu sighed helplessly, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly, word by word, "Su Ming, someone is plotting against me!!!!"
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