Chapter 19

1

Late at night, I picked up a clock and glanced at it. It was a little past 3 am. Perhaps I had slept too much on the plane. I couldn't fall asleep at all.

At this time, I was still alone, but not in the master bedroom. I was in a single room. If I didn't give the master bedroom to the two girls, Zi Sirou would get angry. So, I moved to the single room before they came back. Otherwise, I would imagine the scene of them arguing in the corridor late at night.

Unable to sleep, I sat on the edge of the bed, holding two masks in my hands. I hung the masks on the hanger and looked at the golden mask with my eyes fixed on it. I took off my glasses and used my colored pupils to see through the mask. There were indeed some patterns and lines that could form a Magic array inside, but no matter how I looked at it, I couldn't make it complete. So, I first sketched the patterns from the hawk mask on a piece of paper. No matter how I looked at it, whether horizontally or vertically, it still felt incomplete, or perhaps it was only half of it.

"It looks somewhat familiar." I looked at the patterns on the paper with a slanted glance. The patterns within the patterns seemed like Dragon Clan Magic, with some similarities to the formations in the Dragon’s Covenant. But seeing it from a Dragon Clan perspective, it only resembled the outline and lacked some of the symbolic representations of Dragon Clan Magic.

Since I couldn't figure out anything, I began to sketch the patterns from the snake mask. When I was about halfway through, the streetlight outside the second floor flickered.

Because it was late at night, I didn't turn on the lights. I relied on the light from the streetlight to sketch. The flickering light immediately caught my attention.

"Crack!" The decorations on the town's lamppost made some discordant sounds.

I secretly leaned against the window. The town outside was originally empty, but with the sound, several figures quickly appeared on the lamppost.

"What are you snakes doing here?"

There was no light on the streetlight, but upon careful observation, they were "Humble Ones". The earliest arrival was the "Humble One" from the hawk faction, who questioned the snakes that arrived later.

"We, the snakes, would observe the truce until we find the outsider."

"I suggest we be more cautious about our own backs."

"Whatever you say, as long as we find the person who killed our 'Leader', the war can start again at any time!"

Who is this "Leader"? It seems they are referring to me, the person I killed on the plane. They are the "Leader".

"That outsider is ours, so you better back off."

The hawk faction "Humble One" kicked down the decorations on the lamppost, then walked down the streets of the sleepy town at night. It seemed that even if he made a lot of noise, no one dared to stop him. It was evident that they were not easily offended by the government in this country, not to mention the ordinary people in the small town.

"Let's see who is more capable." The snakes floated up from the lamppost and scattered.

"These snakes are weak when it comes to talking. It's not exciting to provoke them." The snake faction's "Humble One" kicked the fallen decorations again, kicking them into the dark alley like a soccer ball.

"That's how they are. Their Magic is all soft, just like a limp snake." Another snake faction member arrived at the side of his companion in a second, coming down from the lamppost.

His movements and Magic were more satisfying than those of the snake faction.

"Nevermind them. The residents here said an outsider has been here tonight. Take a few people and investigate." The hawk faction's member disappeared onto the lamppost, leaving only the apparent leader, the "Humble One". He stood alone by the lamppost, took off his mask, revealing a young man in his twenties. He took out a cigarette and smoked under the lamppost, blowing smoke rings.

"These people are quite fiery."

Guffy's voice suddenly appeared behind me.

"Is Zi Sirou asleep?"

"The little girl falls asleep after a few lullabies."

"You should go to sleep too."

"But I haven't used the little whip I ordered!"

"Hey, shouldn't you be doing this at a more appropriate time?"

I leaned against the window, and there stood Guffy with a small whip, wearing only a very thin black nightgown.

"Shhh!" I reached out and pulled Guffy into my arms, using her small whip to lift the curtain by the window, obscuring us from view.

"Qin Yang, do you plan to stay up all night watching these men?"

"When he uses magic, I will definitely be able to see where their magic comes from."

"Do you really suspect their magic is not their own?"

"I'm certain, only magic used by the same person will be exactly the same."

The "Humble One" on the street finished smoking a cigarette and discovered a homeless man's skeleton in the dark alley behind him. I didn't understand why the skeletons in this town were scattered everywhere with no one to collect them, perhaps it was because of the homeless people, no one would bother, or maybe these were the skeletons of outsiders that the locals didn't want to deal with.

The "Humble One" grabbed the homeless man's skull and put on another completely different golden mask. After putting on the mask, the eagle head on the forehead of the mask suddenly moved, and the skull also moved. He should be interrogating this skeleton. Sometimes, obtaining information from something dead is more objective than asking a living person.

"Do you see that?" Guffy leaned out to secretly observe this person, her mature body leaning against mine, which was quite distracting.

"You go over there." I pointed to the other side of the window.

"Why?"

"It's easy to be spotted if we both stand together."

"Is that true or false?"

"Just go over there... This person's magic circuit is very strange, guess what I see."

"I'll use my Grimoire to see for myself!" Guffy wanted to take out her Grimoire.

"Hey, if you take out your Infinite Loop, it will reveal our location." Guffy probably didn't know that her Infinite Loop could penetrate through walls.

I kept my eyes on that person's magic. His magic circuit was very slow, which was abnormal for a magician who used this kind of magic. It had to be fast enough to support the magic. But his magic was only supporting the operation of the mask. The magic he used was transported from a distance, along with the formed magic, directly to the body of the "Humble One". The mask served as a transit station, and the "Humble One" was the terminal user.

I explained everything I saw with my colored pupils to Guffy. The only thing Guffy didn't understand was who would be so bored as to directly give magic and formed magic to others. This selfless act was detrimental to the creator of magic and had no benefits.

"If we can crack the golden mask, then anyone can use this transported magic, right?"

"Not exactly. Based on the current situation, only Thunder Element Magic users can become the 'Humble One'. It seems that Thunder Element Magic can expand the range of the mask's reception. The stronger the magic power, the stronger the magic that can be transported. As long as they are within the range, whether there are ten or a hundred of them, the magic will be the same."

"Leave them alone, they definitely won't be able to find us. Hurry and go to bed!" Guffy calmly laid on the bed, lifting up her black lace nightgown.

"They won't find us?"

"I and Zi Sirou went around outside for a few rounds, the messages we left are all outside of town, and we've confirmed that no one knows we're here. Don't worry about them."

"Oh."

"What's with the 'oh', come on!"

I sat next to Guffy, gently kissing her forehead.

"There's no need for anything when we have each other." I caught a whiff of the fresh scent from Guffy's black lace nightgown, playing with her silver hair. It felt really good, just like the last time, which wasn't that long ago for me.

2

The next day, the three of us sat nicely in the hotel restaurant on the first floor.

Zi Sirou forcefully scraped her knife and fork on the empty plate, making a "click clack" sound. She had been repeating this action all morning, with an angry expression matching her movements.

"One is a principal, the other is a student, what were you two doing with a midnight raid?" Zi Sirou stared at us from the corners of her eyes, as I and Guffy sat in front of her like guilty children.

"If I didn't have the habit of checking my photos in the middle of the night, you two wouldn't have... Principal, you're a teacher, and you actually went after Qin Yang, a little brat!"

Last night, when I was playing with Guffy's silver hair, perhaps I got too caught up and forgot about the time to proceed to the next step. Zi Sirou interrupted us when she barged in.

"Why do you have the habit of checking photos at night?"

Zi Sirou's habit was really strange.

"As a reporter, I always capture photos that people don't want others to see. People who sneakily take photos often come out at night." Zi Sirou continued to scrape her plate with her knife and fork.

"Hehe, don't keep scraping it, you've already worn out the knife!" I placed the food from my plate onto Zi Sirou's plate, signaling her to carry on with her breakfast.

"You two should eat more. Once you enter the pyramid, I can finish my job as a tour guide."

"Principal, you still haven't answered me. Why did you go to Qin Yang's room?"

"He led me in." Guffy suddenly pointed at me.

"Huh?"

Guffy's response scared me so much that I even dropped the bread from my mouth. Clearly, I was the one doing something serious, and Guffy came in to disturb me. In the end, those "humble ones" really couldn't find us, but what exactly did that skeleton find out from us, and the position where the skeleton was placed, it was possible to see us entering the hotel.

"Miss Guffy, it was late yesterday, I didn't have a chance to greet you. It's been years since we last met!" The hotel manager placed the food on the table, courteously greeting Guffy.

"Aunt Guffy!" The little girl from yesterday also came over with food, standing beside us.

"Mm, you've grown taller. Did your dad feed you enough?"

"Don't say that, if her mother finds out, she'll kill me. How dare I not feed her enough." The hotel manager placed his palm on the girl's head, as she obediently stood by, enjoying her father's large hand.

"Has Sagmu's mother still not returned?"

"It's been two years. She sends messages back regularly, so I know she's doing well."

"Hotel manager?" Hey, what are those two talking about?

"Oh, sorry, my wife is doing business out of town."

"Powerful Woman!"

The curator pulled out a stack of stuff and gave it to Guffy, saying it was information about the recent situation near the pyramids. After Guffy looked through the data, he noticed significant changes, the most important of which was that the sandstorms near the pyramids had not stopped in the past thirty years. There were even sandstorms so severe that not even trade caravans dared to enter the vicinity of the Rotama Pyramid.